[GRASS5] ANNOUNCEMENT: GRASS Developers Workshop - Trento Oct. 2001

GRASS GRASS developer
1

Dear developers,

the time has come to arrange a "GRASS Developers Workshop" later
this year. The ITC-irst intends to support the meeting and may offer
travel grants for a limited number of participants. The workshop
shall take place in Trento, Italy, end of October:

  GRASS Developers Workshop
  "MILESTONES FOR GRASS DEVELOPMENT"
  26-29. October 2001

  ITC-irst
  SSI - MPA group
  Via Sommarive, 18
  38050 Trento (Povo)
  Italy
  http://mpa.itc.it

Our idea is to arrange two main sessions surrounding a weekend. The
included weekend may support some of you to attend to the workshop.
ITC-irst can provide machines installed with the usual development tools for
coding sessions.

The draft sessions outline is available at:
http://mpa.itc.it/grassdev_meeting2001.html

In GRASS CVS site a short "milestones" paper is available describing the
needs for GRASS 5.1.0 which have been collected so far
(documents/grass51milestones.html). This document is also available online
at: http://grass.itc.it/grass51/index.html

Please update/correct/reorder/extend this document in case of errors or
missing issues.

OUR FIRST QUESTIONS FOR NOW
1. WHO is interested to participate in the meeting,
2. who needs partial/complete support for travel (amounts) and
    accommodation.

We know that not too much time is left 'till end of October but we don't
want to postpone this important meeting.

We will try to support this meeting, which I think it is urgent and crucial
under many aspects, and of course the financial background is limited. Any
additional support will be welcomed.

Please contact me (Markus) directly in terms of above questions.

Kind regards

  Markus Neteler

--
ITC-irst, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
     Project on Predictive Models for the Environment
Via Sommarive, 18 - 38050 Povo (Trento), Italia
tel +39 0461 314 -520 (fax -591) http://mpa.itc.it

2

Hi all,

concerning the proposed date of the developers meeting here at Trento:
Would it be a help to postpone it to mid/late November (around
24/25th November)? The proposed date is eventually to close for
some of you.

Please let me know.

Concerning fundings: Our budget here is really limited. Please
try to find additional fundings so that we are finally able to
support many developers. I have to get an idea about the
expected costs for those being interested to get their expenses
(partly) reimbursed, so please check for train connections/air
tickets.
I have added some information to reach this place, see at bottom
of
http://mpa.itc.it/grassdev_meeting2001.html

(please note that we devoted the sunday to "free time"... The
environment is quite nice here)

It would be great to welcome most GRASS developers here.

Kind regards

Markus Neteler

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Dear developers,

since the October date was too close, we have postponed the
meeting to

GRASS Developers Workshop
23. - 26. November 2001
ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
http://mpa.itc.it/grassdev_meeting2001.html

Beside the important GRASS 5.1 definition sessions it is a good opportunity
to meet each other. Several developers already wrote to me, please
confirm that you can participate even in November.

The program is still preliminary, depending on the participants
we shall work out a more detailed schedule.

In case you are interested in (partial) travel funds, please
tell me about the amount needed.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

  Markus Neteler