On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Margherita Di Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Members of the PSC, > > since the GRASS Community Sprint is approaching, I've been asked by Luca > Delucchi, who is in charge to collect the donations for the event, to > prepare an e-mail to be sent to the main companies that make extensive use > of GRASS for their work (he is currently listing their email addresses) in > order to ask whether they would be willing to sponsor the event. We thought > that such email should be sent on behalf of PSC by one member (I could do > that if it's OK for you). Please find below the content of the email we are > proposing to send and please feel free to propose any modification.
Hi Madi, thanks for helping with the organization of the GRASS community sprint! Two small comments below: > > ---%<--- > > The GRASS GIS team will organize a GRASS Developer and Power User Meeting, > aka 'GRASS Community Sprint' from 2-7 Feb, 2013 [1]. The Community Sprint is > a get-together for GRASS project members and supporters and related OSGeo > projects a get-together for members and supporters of GRASS and related OSGeo projects > to make decisions and tackle larger problems. For this meeting, we > welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project and the > interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics, Sextante, gvSIG, OGC > Services (esp. WPS) and more. This includes developers, documenters, bug > reporters, translators and others. > > The outcomes of past editions include wxGUI bugfixing, GRASS 7 time series > and 4D data management, translations, implementation of new modules and lots > of bughunting, testing, and bugfixing. For interoperability, the new > QGIS-Sextante-GRASS interface was completely overhault and updated. > Developers also had discussions on broad topics like GRASS GIS usage mobile > devices, creation of a visual guide to GRASS GIS usage and much more. See > [2,3] for details. > > The third GRASS Community Sprint is a great occasion for you to support the > development of GRASS. With your contribution you'll enable more developers you will enable Markus M _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
