Watch how the community based GRASS GIS software development works! You can see how the individual contributors modify and expand the source code.

GRASS GIS 6.4 development visualization from 1999 to 2011 with Gource

The corresponding timeline is available at https://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html

Download the high resolution version from https://grass.fsv.cvut.cz/video/

Working in research or likewise? The ongoing Web evolution is bringing us new tools to reduce annoying work to minimum. Enjoy our link collection for saving quite some time when having to exchange documents, information or draft new documents quickly together from scratch…

Topics covered:

  • Tired of sending proposal or article drafts per email?
  • Writing proposals or tutorials online together (1): set up a Wiki
  • Doh – cannot I combine both and have a Wiki in my Dropbox public folder?
  • Writing proposals or tutorials online together (2): Realtime editing
  • Unable to remember these strange Etherpad/Titanpad links?
  • How to send large attachments without killing your partner’s inbox?
  • Need for phone conference but no headset available or desired?
  • Need to schedule meetings in different timezones?
  • Some bibliography to manage?
  • Got the document only as PDF but need Word/OpenOffice editable text version?
  • Cool Firefox browser addons for the scientific production and travelling researchers
  • Using PostgreSQL database and want to connect OpenOffice Base to it?
  • Need coordinates of addresses?

Enjoy at https://gis.cri.fmach.it/cool-science-2-0-tools/

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

27 Febbraio 2008

Trento Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via S. Croce, 77

La Fondazione Bruno Kessler è lieta di annunciare l’incontro: ”SI PUÃ’ FARE – Software Libero nelle Pubbliche Amministrazioni” , organizzato nell’ambito del progetto E-society della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, in collaborazione con il consorzio dei Comuni Trentini.

Siete invitati a portare il contributo della vostra presenza alla giornata, che metterà a confronto esperti internazionali con i temi dell’operare quotidiano della Pubblica Amministrazione, delle imprese e del mondo della formazione.

Saranno affrontate questioni relative ai formati dei dati, alle licenze d’uso, ai concetti di standard, interoperabilità e accessibilità, anche in relazione alla formulazione di bandi pubblici di fornitura. Ampio spazio sara` dedicato all’illustrazione e alla discussione di iniziative e progetti a carattere locale.

Programma
9:00 Apertura dei lavori

  • Introduzione del Presidente della Fondazione Bruno Kessler, ANDREA ZANOTTI
  • Saluto del Presidente del Consorzio dei Comuni Trentini, RENZO ANDERLE

9:15 Interventi

  • Progetto E-Society: Linee guida in materia di interoperabilità dei sistemi informatici e di Software Open Source, GIANLUCA SALVATORI, Assessore Ricerca e Innovazione Provincia autonoma di Trento.
  • Questionario Interoperabilità, ARIANNA DEMOZZI, Ufficio Statistica, Provincia Autonoma di Trento.
  • La questione dei formati aperti e gli standard, HUGO LEITER, Consorzio dei Comuni della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano.

10:45 Pausa caffè — dimostrazioni
11:15 Interventi

  • Caso di studio: L’Ospedale Classificato di San Pancrazio, MICHELE LANZA
  • Caso di Studio: Comune di Trento, ROBERTO RESOLI e GIACOMO FIORONI
  • Licenze d’uso e acquisizione di Software Libero, MARCO CIURCINA, Studio Legale.it
  • Caso di Studio: Comune di Predazzo, ALBERTO FELICETTI

13:00 Pausa Pranzo
14:30 Interventi

  • Caso di studio: Comune di Riva del Garda, GIACOMO CENINI
  • Software Libero e Pubblica Amministrazione, CRISTHOPHER GABRIEL, Truelite, Srl.
  • Strumenti Open Source per l’interoperabilità fra pubbliche amministrazioni: un’esperienza nell’ambito socio sanitario, MARCO PISTORE , Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

16:00 Pausa caffè — dimostrazioni
16:30 Interventi

  • Caso di studio: Comune di Storo, STEFANO BERTUZZI e GIOVANNI BERTI
  • Caso di studio: Software Libero e didattica, VINCENZO D’ANDREA, Università di Trento.
  • La comunità trentina del Software Libero: Linux Trent, DIAOLIN (Giuliano Natali).
  • CENTROS — il Centro di Competenza per il Software Open Source
  • BRUNO CAPRILE, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

17:30 Chiusura dei lavori

Alla giornata parteciperanno, con loro dimostrativi, le seguenti imprese:
AXIA Studio — https://www.axiastudio.it
MPA Solutions — https://www.mpasol.it/
OpenContent — https://www.opencontent.it/
OPEN IT — https://www.openit.it/
Posit SC– https://www.posit.it
Wildix — https://www.wildix.com/
Organizzazione : Cristina Moretto, moretto@fbk.eu –Tel. +39 0461 314520 Fax +39 0461 314591
Ulteriori informazioni sull’incontro https://centros.fbk.eu

Today, at the OSGeo board meeting the graduation of the GDAL, GRASS GIS and FDO projects from incubation was approved. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation’s goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. All OSGeo projects are undergoing an incubation process to ensure that projects that are able to become official part of OSGeo. The criteria are:

  • have a successfully operating open and collaborative development community
  • have clear intellectual properties oversight of the code base of the project
  • adopt the OSGeo principles and operating principles.

Projects are mentored through the incubation process, eventually the incubation committee is verifying if the project is ready for full status. The OSGeo Board of Directors accepts or rejects a project’s graduation from the incubator. Upon graduation, a member of the project’s PMC is selected to report to the foundation board periodically on project status.

A second release candidate of GRASS 6.3.0 is now available:

https://grass.itc.it/grass63/source/grass-6.3.0RC2.tar.gz

An initial announcement has been drafted at
https://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass630.html
(state April 2007, further fixes need to be merged in from
https://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.3_Feature_Plan
RC1 and RC2)

Key fixes include improved portability for MS-Windows (native support), hundreds of fixes, TclTk based portable graphical interface and much new functionality.

Release candidate management at
https://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.3_Feature_Plan

Please test, test, test…

Thanks to all contributors!

Markus

How nice: the development version of QGIS (in SVN) now comes with WFS support as Marco Hugentobler informs us. And it even works! Let’s see if the new plugin still gets included into the upcoming 0.8 binary release. Since QGIS 0.8 Preview 2 is already available, it will only reach the next release. But thanks to the GFOSS development model we can use it anyway…