Marketing campaign

To better advertise the capabilities of GRASS GIS and its friendly community, we plan a marketing campaign. Some ideas are

• (ideally) monthly blog post on the main site, with social media advertisements
• ask students of our courses to fix bugs, add examples to manuals or write small tutorials as assignements that we could then show off with
• pick some works of the students and create webinars or live streams
• ... add more

Ideas

• "feature of the month" with screenshots (use manual pages and Wiki material)
• advertise the mailing lists: purpose and where to subscribe
• newcomer level technical articles about
  • new forthcoming startup in GRASS GIS 8
  • data import/registration
  • from zero to hero
  • the new startup GUI
  • ...
• power user level technical articles about
  • writing examples for manual pages
  • translating messages in Transifex
  • ...
• dev level technical articles about
  • compiling the software
  • work done on removing compiler warnings
  • Python linting and formatting efforts
  • C linting and formatting efforts
  • ...
• edu related articles about
  • tutorials
  • curriculum (goal: enable academics to easier teach GRASS GIS)
  • ...
• present new add-ons and examples of workflows using them
• Nice tweet about ongoing code development: ​https://gitmemory.com/OSGeo/grass
• Twitter: identify more hashtags to widen up the potential followers
• ...

Twitter posts

• See old posts here: ​https://twitter.com/GRASSGIS

Ideas for upcoming or recurrent posts

New ideas:

• Post PSC meeting minutes
• advertise translations in Transifex (what about ​https://weblate.osgeo.org/ ?)
• promote/recall folks about mailing lists and where to enroll and that they are friendly
• show the list of open PRs with important bug fixes and cool improvements and invite folks to test and review
• promote GRASS GIS related talks at FOSS4G 2021:
  • State of GRASS GIS: The Dawn of a New Era: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk3X_Vzp8zg
  • A tool for machine learning based dasymetric mapping approaches in GRASS GIS: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te4-eWA7aTE
  • Sentinel processing in GRASS GIS: A growing toolset for downloading, preprocessing and multitemporal analysis of Copernicus Sentinel data: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btk-S5jUAfk (#grassgis #satellite #ESA #Copernicus #Sentinel)
  • I hated the way GRASS started so I changed it: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF0hrebqdtA
  • Cold war reconnaissance imagery reloaded: orthorectifying the 1960s in high resolution: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoDyN-PDqg (#archeology #forestchange #coastlines #grassgis @MundialisInfo ...)
  • News from actinia: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JopHVkK5Kfo (#cloud #hpc #grassgis @MundialisInfo ...)
  • HERMOSA: Supporting the UN decade on ecosystem restoration utilizing geo- and earth observation technologies: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6q8Fo9j3-E (#ecosystem #restoration #grassgis @MundialisInfo @UNEP ...)
• promote discussions in github: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/discussions
• OpenCollective: Our new money sponsoring pool is now at ​https://opencollective.com/grass
  • important: connect a goal with it

Tag cloud (collection, please expand):

• @grassgis @osgeo
• #gis #foss #foss4g #gischat
• #satellite #remotesensing #EO
• #opensource
• #mapping
• #community
• ...

Upcoming posts (may be recycled and posted again)

r.futures new validation modules:

The r.futures suite got two new modules for validation of the simulation results: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/r.futures.gridvalidation.html https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/r.futures.validation.html r.futures.* implements the FUTure Urban-Regional Environment Simulation (FUTURES), a model for multilevel simulations of emerging urban-rural landscape structure. Have a look at the submodels and their interactions here: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/r.futures.html (use this pic: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/r_futures_ncsmp.png)

r.in.usgs enhancements:

Do you use USGS data regularly?? Keep an eye on the user-convenience and caching improvements coming to r.in.usgs, an addon for downloading and importing USGS data such as NED (elevation) and NAIP (imagery) into #GRASSGIS https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/r.in.usgs.html

NCSU course:

Geospatial Computing and Simulations course at @NCSUgeospatial with a lot of GRASS-related content - an open education resource @Geo4All_: ​https://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/geospatial-simulations-course/topics/index.html (use this img: ​https://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/geospatial-modeling-course/img/grass_index.png)

General list of GRASS courses/materials by NCSU:

Have a look at the impressive list of #GRASSGIS courses @NCSUgeospatial: ​https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/geoforall/courses.html All materials are online and open. Enjoy!!

Invite folks to test release branch 8 and complete the wiki page:

We have the GRASS GIS 8 branch! Have you tested it? Which feature do you like most? Help us fill in the new features page: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8/NewFeatures80 We happily welcome text snippets and screenshots to highlight the new and exciting changes that will come with GRASS 8 as well as bug fixing, improvements, new modules, library changes, etc.

GRASS GIS + UAV + SDM for Rare Plant Monitoring

A GRASS GIS hourly solar insolation model has been calculated using a 1 m resolution LiDAR derived DEM to find the time window with the least shadow along the cliff face in order to flight the UAV over it. Cool approach, ah? Have a look at the full paper here: ​https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/5/4/110 (img link: ​https://www.mdpi.com/drones/drones-05-00110/article_deploy/html/images/drones-05-00110-g007.png)

FOSS4G 2021 videos template post:

Did you miss the talk about #topic in GRASS GIS @foss4g 2021?? The video is online now! Get your popcorn and enjoy the amazing #somethingrelatedtothetopic in #GRASSGIS with #author and the #grassgis dev team! youtube link

See also

• ​https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material