On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:34 +0900 Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
> Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive > and kicking for the last 30 years. > > Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations > in the year 2033. > > Cheers and Kampai!! > > Venka Happy birthday GRASS! Congratulations to the generations of developers, translators, testers, users and enthusiasts that have build up such a long-lived open source project. I am always impressed by the fact that some developers are younger than the codebase! Long live to GRASS spirit - let it be a reference for younger projects! Best, Anne > On 7/31/2013 1:28 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: > > Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns. > > Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause.. > > It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with. > > It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated > > FOSS4G events Ravi > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org> > > To: GRASS-announce list <grass-annou...@lists.osgeo.org> > > Cc: GRASS user list <grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org>; OSGeo-discuss > > <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>; freegis-l...@intevation.de; GRASS > > developers list <grass-...@lists.osgeo.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, > > 2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of > > GRASS GIS! > > > > > > Press release > > 29 July 2013 > > Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development > > Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of > > GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is > > a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software > > suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image > > processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D > > visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and > > commercial settings around the world, as well as by many > > governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS > > GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend > > for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is > > a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) > > and can be freely downloaded at > > http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. Brief history In 1982, > > Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, > > began development on a new computer program based on a master's > > thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID > > -- the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty > > years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system > > titled "GIS Version 1 Reference Manual" was first published by J. > > Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at > > the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research > > Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further > > expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name > > Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS > > community was established the same year with the first annual user > > meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early > > mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in > > 1991 with the "Grasshopper" mailing list and the introduction of > > the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists > > archives for these early years are still available online. In the > > mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open > > GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become > > today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project > > coordination eventually shifted to the actual international > > development team made up of governmental and academic researchers > > and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run > > by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the > > first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). > > A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at > > http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS > > development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at > > the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today > > GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain > > experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which > > stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from > > 1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS > > 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? > > Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: > > * A new modern graphical user interface complete with > > integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, > > * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing > > libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new > > modules in a quick and simple way, > > * Fully-fledged topological vector support for editing and > > tools for topological analysis and data cleaning, > > * Hundreds of new modules to analyze raster and vector data > > of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an > > active community repository, > > * Support for massive data processing (e.g. relevant for > > LiDAR processing) and Large File Support (> 2GB, 64-bit files on > > 32-bit systems), > > * A codebase portable to all of today's major Operating > > Systems, > > * Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and > > field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 > > supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team > > of around twenty core programmers, plus numerous add-on > > contributors, testers, and translators. Overall, more than seventy > > core developers have worked on the code in the past thirty years, > > making over fifty-thousand modifications to the code. All the > > while, hundreds more have provided peer review and improvements to > > algorithms and documentation while using GRASS GIS in professional, > > educational, and research contexts. Where to next? Development on > > GRASS GIS continues with as much energy and interest as ever. > > Version 6.4.3 has been released as a birthday present. Parallel to > > the long-term maintenance of the GRASS 6 stable series, effort is > > well underway on the new cutting-edge major release, GRASS GIS 7, > > bringing with it many new features, modules, enhancements, and > > cleanups. As in the past, the GRASS GIS community is open to any > > contribution, be it in the form of programming, documentation, > > testing, financial sponsorship or any other form of support. -- > > http://grass.osgeo.org/ M. Neteler (GRASS GIS PSC Chair) and GRASS > > Development Team _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
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