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

Xmas

As Christmas present this year we give you the first release candidate of GRASS GIS 8!! Report any issues here: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues Merry Xmas and happy holidays everybody~~

End of year toast

On Wednesday Dec 29th at 20:00 UTC, GRASS GIS community will meet for the end of year toast (glasses, beers) Link will be published here: <thread link> Join us!!

New Year

A lot happen this year! Have a look at our 2021 summary: <link> Glasses up for a great 2022!

Discussion in GitHub & mailing lists

Do you have a question/topic you'd like to ask or discuss with the GRASS GIS community and devs? There are several channels available!! You can also search the archives for topics discussed in the past! GRASS GIS Discussion in GitHub: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/discussions grass-user mailing list: ​https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user grass-dev mailing list: ​https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev Full list of channels: https://grass.osgeo.org/about/community/ Remember, any channel you choose, be friendly, pro-active and follow the etiquette: ​https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mailing_list_etiquette

See also

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