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, FOSS4G conference for 2018, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The final version has been included here: ​Slides of OSGeo Annual General Meeting 2018

Key accomplishments

Releases

• 7.4.0, 7.4.1 (new stable version)
• 7.2.2, 7.2.3 (old stable version)
• 7.0.6 (4th year of support!)
• 4th year of support for the 7.0 series
• 5 releases since last OSGeo AGM

Roadmap

• 7.6.0 (fall/winter 2018)
• 8.0.0 (in planning)

Major Developments and features

• pip install grass-session ("using GRASS GIS from outside")
• simplified usage-from-outside in CLI: grass ... --exec v.clean ...
• PROJ 5 support
• QGIS 3 integration
• openEO cloud API integration (​http://www.openeo.org)
• GUI-based file-like management of data in different SRSs
• NULL (no data) compression
• Integrated Python editor
• File-like management of "grassdata"

Infrastructure or process changes

• initial work on git migration

Community health and happiness

Team & Sprints

• 1 new core dev: Stefan Blumentrath
• 3 new addon devs
• 4 new babies – a long-term plan ;-)

Community

• Code Sprint 2018 at Basecamp
• 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.

• skilled community members and developers are always welcome!

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

• ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/roadmap