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GRASS GIS Annual Report 2018
Reporting period: between OSGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2017 at FOSS4G 2017 Boston (August 14-19) and FOSS4G 2018 Dar es Salaam (August 27-September 2).
Primary use of this document a presentation at OSGeo AGM 2018.
Key accomplishments
Releases
Major features
pip install grass-session
- PROJ 5 support
Infrastructure or process changes
Community health and happiness
- GSoC
- 2017: 3 students accepted, 2 passed; 4 mentors; 2 managers for OSGeo
- 2018: 3 students accepted; 6 mentors
- GCI
- 2017-2018: 2 mentors; 2 managers for OSGeo; 90 tasks completed, 74 abandoned, 44 out of time; ~120 students
Areas for improvement
These are challenges faced by the project.
Opportunities to help
Anything for members to help with?
- help designing the new web site (Wordpress) at staging.grass.osgeo.org
- we are improving Python 3 compatibility - here assistance is appreciated
Requests and communication
Any formal request from the board, marketing or other committees? Did you make a budget request for 2018? How did it go? ... External correspondence? For example, a letter of recommendation for a GSOC student? Code donation? ...
- Budget for 2018 was defined, support by OSGeo requested and approved, see https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2018
Outlook for 2019
Any roadmap items to share with our members? Let the board know if there is anything to plan for in 2019...
Example: https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/GeoTools-Annual-Report-2017