GRASS Congress

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Hi Everybody,

Coming straight to the point, it's time to organize a GRASS Congress and thats
what I'm planning to do in Mainz / Germany (Mainz fits quite good in geographic
terms, because it´s situated directly on 50°N).

What do you think about the idea? I changed a few words about it with one
of our Professors and he sounded quite positive about it. All the organisation
over here shouldn't be a problem, but you are needed for filling it with
contents. It should be for Users and Programmers equal, but everything is open
about what and how.

I talked about it with Markus and he was very interested in it. Please send
your opinion about it.

Best wishes,

Rainer

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On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 02:53:20PM +0100, Rainer Trusch wrote:

Coming straight to the point,

How German. :slight_smile:

it's time to organize a GRASS Congress and thats
what I'm planning to do in Mainz / Germany
(Mainz fits quite good in geographic
terms, because it´s situated directly on 50°N).

What do you think about the idea?

I like it, we should do it.

I changed a few words about it with one
of our Professors and he sounded quite positive about it. All the organisation
over here shouldn't be a problem, but you are needed for filling it with
contents. It should be for Users and Programmers equal, but everything is open
about what and how.

I talked about it with Markus and he was very interested in it. Please send
your opinion about it.

  Bernhard

--
Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
Free Software Projects and Consulting (intevation.net)
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)

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How about including Baylor University in all these big
plans everyone has? Oh well, again we fund this and
are last to know.

Bruce

Rainer Trusch wrote:

Hi Everybody,

Coming straight to the point, it's time to organize a GRASS Congress and thats
what I'm planning to do in Mainz / Germany (Mainz fits quite good in geographic
terms, because it´s situated directly on 50°N).

What do you think about the idea? I changed a few words about it with one
of our Professors and he sounded quite positive about it. All the organisation
over here shouldn't be a problem, but you are needed for filling it with
contents. It should be for Users and Programmers equal, but everything is open
about what and how.

I talked about it with Markus and he was very interested in it. Please send
your opinion about it.

Best wishes,

Rainer

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Hi Bruce,

How about including Baylor University in all these big
plans everyone has? Oh well, again we fund this and
are last to know.

Bruce

I'm sorry, if Baylor feels left by side, but it wasn't my intention. You are
not the last. I was talking with Markus about it, because we have bit of
contact and I did a posting in the German list, but there isn't much traffic.

I think it's time to do such a thing and someone has to do a move. There are no
special plans about size or whatever. I went for the list, if there is any
interest in it. If not, it won't happen and in case someone feels more suited to
it, it's fine. But at least something should go on in that direction.

Perhaps I should have told you before. I'm sorry again.

What is your opinion about the idea? Has Baylor any plans about such a thing?

Best regards

Rainer

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I think that the best would be to take advantage of
some other (RS,GIS,Geography, Ecology...) meeting and organize a one-day
conference for Grassers. BUt, if this is not possible, I think that your
idea would be a very good sub-optimal (and perhaps
more likely) solution.

Thanks for your commitment: it will be a lot of work!

Agus

Dr. Agustin Lobo
Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n
08028 Barcelona SPAIN
tel 34 93409 5410
fax 34 93411 0012
alobo@ija.csic.es
http://pangea.ija.csic.es/alobo

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Rainer Trusch wrote:

Hi Everybody,

Coming straight to the point, it's time to organize a GRASS Congress and thats
what I'm planning to do in Mainz / Germany (Mainz fits quite good in geographic
terms, because it´s situated directly on 50°N).

What do you think about the idea? I changed a few words about it with one
of our Professors and he sounded quite positive about it. All the organisation
over here shouldn't be a problem, but you are needed for filling it with
contents. It should be for Users and Programmers equal, but everything is open
about what and how.

I talked about it with Markus and he was very interested in it. Please send
your opinion about it.

Best wishes,

Rainer

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Dear Grass community,

Rainer Trusch's idea of having such a gathering sounds wonderful and comes in an
excellent moment. Very good timming Rainer, indeed :)))

I could help us and other guys working in developping countries to grasp the real
dimension and potential of Grass as a GIS alternative tool down here.

An international open source alternative to the comercial GIS junck "tide" here in
Brazil - after many years of closed market - is very important. More on if it has a
strong and organized international community behind it.

We've being using mostly ARC/info, MGE and Envi in NT environment, with all the
altready known commercial and "black box" constraints to our research and
development aims.

Last year we started exploring Linux and Grass as open source alternatives more
adequate for our research, development and teaching purposes with very promissing
perspectives for a Grass community expansion.

One of the main cornerstones for widening Grass use is to have a Spanish /
Portuguese Grass international version, as Red Hat and ARC/info are doing. In spite
I'm away for so many years from home, my mother language - French - would be very
nice too ;)))

Instituto Ecos may be interested on doing the job (people translating Red Hat to
Portuguese and Spanish are also based down here in Curitiba) as an NGO (development
and incentive of GIS and remote sensing use is one of our institutional aims). And
international funding for this may not be difficult to find in the context of well
designed project.

We actually have research and development projects funded by international
cooperation institutions in Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina and worked in Bolivia,
Colombia and Angola. In this context, we would also like to cooperate on
developping a strong Grass community here in South America, but need some starting
assistance form you all (ideas, strategy, experiences, etc.). The possibility of
gathering in a Congress may give us this opportunity.

Comments are very much welcome.

Dr. Daniel Dupré
Instituto Ecos
ecos@netbank.com.br
R. Mons. Ivo Zanlorenzi 847/4
Curitiba-PR
Brazil
80.740-590
Tel. +55 (41) 339 1461
Fax. +55 (41) 339 3080

Rainer Trusch wrote:

Hi Everybody,

Coming straight to the point, it's time to organize a GRASS Congress and thats
what I'm planning to do in Mainz / Germany (Mainz fits quite good in geographic
terms, because it´s situated directly on 50°N).

What do you think about the idea? I changed a few words about it with one
of our Professors and he sounded quite positive about it. All the organisation
over here shouldn't be a problem, but you are needed for filling it with
contents. It should be for Users and Programmers equal, but everything is open
about what and how.

I talked about it with Markus and he was very interested in it. Please send
your opinion about it.

Best wishes,

Rainer

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Hello Daniel

On Nov 9, 2:01pm, Daniel Dupré wrote:

One of the main cornerstones for widening Grass use is to have a Spanish /
Portuguese Grass international version, as Red Hat and ARC/info are doing. In
spite
I'm away for so many years from home, my mother language - French - would be
very
nice too ;)))

There are two main steps to turn GRASS multilingual. The easiest step is to
change tcltkgrass so that all hardcoded text that appears in the GUI is
represented by variables. Then all you need is a file for each language you
want to support with the translated text for each item per line. You tell
tcltkgrass which language to use and it loads the file into the variables. We
actually did this on an attempt to re-write tcltkgrass for Thai purposes back
before the current tcltkgrass was released. Needless to say, when it was
released, we stopped developing our own. Unfortunately, I have not had the time
to implement this on the current version.

The hard step is to change the text in the graphics monitors. This requires
that the GRASS font system be changed to use X fonts instead of its own built
in fonts. I have no idea what this would entail in terms of how the code will
need to be changed, but I believe it would be fairly extensive. I have been
hoping that this change would take place soon.

Of course, changing messages printed by grass programs is another story.

--
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey) e-mail: jhickey@hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand

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of us who do. ---Anonymous

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