Hi GRASS community,
for those attending the Lausanne conference: there will be an
OSGeo booth. It would be cool to have GRASS represented as
well. Feel free to add yourself here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006#Staff_Plan
(several people are fine of course).
It could be an opportunity to show there your nice apps on your
laptop.
Best,
Markus
Markus Neteler wrote:
Hi GRASS community,
for those attending the Lausanne conference: there will be an OSGeo booth. It would be cool to have GRASS represented as
well. Feel free to add yourself here:http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006#Staff_Plan
(several people are fine of course).It could be an opportunity to show there your nice apps on your
laptop.Best,
Markus
Hi,
I want to take this chance to introduce myself unobtrusively in the wake of Markus' mail. My name is Arnulf Christl and I have volunteered and was appointed by the OSGeo board to be mentor for the GRASS incubation process (Markus plusoned me as mentor and my hope is that this gives me some rear cover).
I am completely ignorant of any GRASS code internals and have never much worked with it but am a fascinated supporter and know fairly much about its history. Therefore I proposed to split the mentor job and now there is 0.5 GRASS mentor to me. The better half of your mentor is Norman Vine who volunteered for the other 0.5. As a team my hope is that together we can be helpful to the GRASS incubation process.
My (debatable) value to the GRASS community might be my experience in leading the project Mapbender (a comparably tiny web environment) through the OSGeo incubation and graduation processes. As Mapbender was the first to graduate we also took part in shaping them and we learned a lot. If you have any questions regarding these processes, governance issues and OSGeo internals I am happy to help out. Mind me, I am not going to *tell you* to do anything as the mentor job is not entitled to do that and I know that you wouldn't listen anyway. But possibly I can suggest and collaborate on some issues. Both incubation and graduation are in a constant state of flux (to cite nhv) so there is a good chance that during the incubation of GRASS we come up with new requirements or need to amend existing ones.
Reading through your stack of PSC formation mails gave me an impression of how things are run and auto run in the GRASS community. I am very aware of the long history of GRASS and that we are going to experience some extra trouble when reviewing the code if only because of the sheer amount.
I would very much like to meet with some GRASS stakeholders (developers and organizers who later might make up part of the PSC) at the FOSS4G conference to discuss details and learn more about open issues. I will be available at the OSGeo booth most of the time. This is the only kind of thankless job that I am good at, so don't even bother asking me any internals of GRASS functionality. To that avail - answering GRASS internals - it would be great if some of you could volunteer (isn't that a great word) at the booth. If you feel like showing off some GRASS goodies at the booth feel free to be there.
If anybody plans to attend the EuroOSCON in Brussels, thats the next chance to show off GRASS at an OSGeo booth.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_EuroOSCON_2006
Contact me directly if you are interested.
Best regards,
Arnulf.
Hi,
this is a good occasion for the proposed GRASS-PSC
members to warm up with OSGeo 
Of course also for
all other interested folks.
cheers
markus
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:12:39AM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
Hi GRASS community,
for those attending the Lausanne conference: there will be an
OSGeo booth. It would be cool to have GRASS represented as
well. Feel free to add yourself here:http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006#Staff_Plan
(several people are fine of course).It could be an opportunity to show there your nice apps on your
laptop.Best,
Markus