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GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 source code and selected binaries released

A second release candidate of GRASS GIS 6.4.3 with improvements and stability fixes is now available.

Source code:
 https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/
 https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.3RC2.tar.gz

Selected Binaries (more will be published)

To get the RC2 source code from SVN:
 svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20121218_grass_6_4_3RC2/

An announcement has been drafted at
 https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.3RC2-News

Key improvements of the GRASS 6.4.3 release include some new functionality (image processing tools), major speedup for some vector modules, fixes for the wxPython based portable graphical interface, improvements for the Python API, enhanced portability for MS-Windows (native support), and more translations.

Release candidate management at
 https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning

Please join us in testing this release candidate for the final release.

Thanks to all contributors!

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Jeff McKenna new President of the OSGeo Foundation

The OSGeo Board of Directors has named Jeff McKenna as its new President. The previous President, Frank Warmerdam, has stepped down, and the OSGeo Board is extremely grateful for his leadership. Mr. McKenna brings years of experience in the geospatial industry, and has been involved in the MapServer web mapping project since its early days. He was also one of the founding forces behind the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) international conference, and has dedicated himself to promoting the use of Open Source geospatial software through FOSS4G events all around the world.

Mr. McKenna explains, “I’m honored to be named as the new President of OSGeo. I plan to continue the wonderful work of our past presidents Frank and Arnulf. The OSGeo community is now thriving and vibrant, with FOSS4G regional events operating all across the world; I plan to continue spreading this passion for Open Source geospatial, and help introduce our knowledge to both decision makers and technical users.  Decision makers all around the world should be exposed to our experts through our communities, our regional events, our local chapters, and also through our professional service providers.  There is much work still to be done in spreading our knowledge of Open Source geospatial through all of these networks.”

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GRASS GIS Community Sprint, 2-7 Feb, 2013 in Genova, Italy

The GRASS GIS team will organize a GRASS GIS Community Sprint from 2-7 Feb, 2013 in Genova, Italy. The sprint is at the same time of the “XIV Meeting degli Utenti Italiani GRASS e Gfoss” at the University of Genova.

We would like to invite you to financially support this upcoming Community Sprint! The past sprints have been very successful as we expect for the upcoming one.

Important Web page:
https://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013

Please consider to donate:
https://grass.osgeo.org/donations/

Background info
The GRASS GIS Community Sprint is a great occasion for folks to support the development by actively contributing to the source code, manuals or likewise. The community sprint is a get-together for GRASS project members and supporters and related OSGeo projects to take 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-stats. Sextante. gvSIG, OGC Services and more. This includes developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators and other OSGeo supporters. Not only the “C Tribe” will be addressed but also Python or whatever the participants prefer.

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