#3474: Change the GRASS GIS start up to more beginner friendly --------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: hellik | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: critical | Milestone: 8.0.0 Component: Startup | Version: svn-trunk Resolution: | Keywords: wxGUI, startup CPU: All | Platform: All --------------------------+----------------------------
Comment (by cmbarton): Replying to [comment:1 veroandreo]: > Thanks Helli for opening this ticket and hopefully triggering some discussion on this matter. We already discussed about it in the autumn 2017 community sprint (https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_GIS_Community_Sprint_Autumn_2017). > > Just to illustrate, here are some statistics about the GCI "Install GRASS GIS and download NC dataset" beginner task: > > As of today (02/01/18), there are 8 students working on this task and 17 have completed the task so far. > > However, 24 students have abandoned the task and 15 ran out of time (they had 3 days to complete it). From these students, we get comments such as: > - "once i open the grass gis console...it opens another application called layer manager" > - "why is it so hard to do this?" > - "I don't know how to add dataset of north carolina ...what to do next? how to add map of north carolina" > - "how do you open it after you extracted it" > - "I've downloaded the software and also the data base, but the map doesn't seem to open in app, I'm kind of stuck here" > - "However, I can't seem to be able to see anything upon opening it. The UI opens fine, but I can't see a map or anything after selecting the North Carolina dataset." > > Of course, some might reflect a lack of understanding of a GIS, but they are doing pretty well in OSGeo tasks and such comments I have heard not only from high school students. IMHO, to make GRASS GIS easier for new- comers and first-time users is really beneficial for us, we cannot get more users and future developers if they feel it is that hard to display a map. I've taught quite a few beginning GIS classes with GRASS now. I've also done some short training sessions with QGIS. Most (all?) of the comments above would apply equally to QGIS. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3474#comment:4> GRASS GIS <https://grass.osgeo.org>
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