[GRASS-user] Fwd: EGU Deadline / GRASS-Python submissions ?

[Markus Neteler]

Reminder - The abstract and short course submission deadline for EGU
2016 is 13 Jan 2016, 13:00 CET.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/sessionprogramme


Here are at least two sessions of potential interest:

EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna Austria, 17-22 April

ESSI2.8 : Quality-checked Software as a safe investment in Science:
Lessons from Open Source communities
Conveners: Peter Löwe (TIB Hannover), Massimiliano Cannata (SUPSI),
Margherita Di Leo (JRC), Raffaele Albano  (UNIBAS)
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/21740

Software development in community-driven global communities such as
OSGeo, R and others has evolved in a symbiotic relationship with
Science. Scientists benefit from software functionality developed by
their community-peers and can publish their code-contributions
likewise. This based on trust in mutual standards including software
quality, licensing and documentation within each global community. The
paradigm shift towards Open Science is a driver to adopt or extend
such best practices for the use within the Earth Sciences.
Further, while well established best practices exist within each
software community, there is a lack of inter-comparability on a higher
level which poses a challenge towards Science and the software
communities.
This session allows scientists to communicate their current
experiences and roads to the future for the interface between
scientific research and community-based software development.


ESSI3.5/GI1.5 - Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for
Geoinformatics and Geosciences
Conveners: Jens Klump (CSIRO), Dominik Reusser (PIK), Peter Löwe (TIB
Hannover), Markus Neteler (Fondazione Edmund Mach), Edzer Pebesma
(IFGI)
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20149

Software is critical to the success of science. Creating and using
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) fosters contributions from the
scientific community, creates a peer-reviewed and consensus oriented
environment, and promotes sustainability of science infrastructures.
Providing open access to source code also permits reuse of data,
reproducibility of science, and creates scientific transparency. Open
science is only possible when access to data is open, and data is
analysed using open source software. This requires taking
responsibility for software development, and adopting stewardship
practices for managing, processing and disseminating scientific data
products and related services.

This session will look at the growing role of Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS) in the geosciences with a special emphasis on the
interoperability among established and developing FOSS-tools within
geoinformatics. The session will be a forum for the latest advances in
FOSS-empowered research, for successful applications of existing FOSS
tools for geoscientific tasks, as for new developments in geoscience
related FOSS. This session will also discuss the publication and
citation of scientific free and open source software.