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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 assignments 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)
- "Did you know that ... "
- advertise the mailing lists: purpose and where to subscribe
- grass-user
- grass-dev
- grass-announce (a low traffic list)
- newcomer level technical articles about
- new startup in GRASS GIS 8: why is it cool
- single windows GUI settings
- data import/registration
- how to best generate COG files with r.out.gdal
- from zero to hero
- ...
- power user level technical articles about
- invite folks to provide examples for manual pages
- invite folks to translate messages in Transifex
- ...
- dev level technical articles about
- compiling the software -> point to grasswiki installation page
- work done on removing compiler warnings: explain how that's done with compiler flag using
- Python linting and formatting: teach black and flake8
- C linting and formatting efforts: teach indentation script
- ...
- 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 our posts here: https://twitter.com/GRASSGIS
- handle:
@GRASSGIS
- hashtag:
#GRASSGIS
- handle:
Fediverse / Mastodon posts
- See our posts here: https://fosstodon.org/@grassgis
- handle:
@grassgis
- hashtag:
#GRASSGIS
- handle:
Ideas for upcoming or recurrent posts
New ideas:
- Pick interesting GRASS GIS commands, by using the respective manual screenshots: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/graphical_index.html
- Candidates (importantly, not only fancy commands but also common ones everyone is familiar with!):
G82:r.geomorphon
G82:r.in.lidar
G82:r.path
G82:r.sim.water
G82:r.stream.extract
G82:r.topidx
G82:r.viewshed
G82:r.volume
G82:r.water.outlet
G82:v.clean
G82:v.clip
G82:v.cluster
G82:v.decimate
G82:v.hull
G82:v.kernel
G82:v.lidar.edgedetection
G82:v.mkgrid
G82:v.net.alloc
G82:v.net.path
G82:v.net.salesman
G82:v.vect.stats
G82:i.vi
G82:r3.flow
G82:r3.in.lidar
G82:wxGUI.gcp
G82:wxGUI.iscatt
G82:wxGUI.vnet
- Candidates (importantly, not only fancy commands but also common ones everyone is familiar with!):
- Post PSC meeting minutes
- advertise translations in
TransifexWeblate: 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
- Promote addons. For example r.nasadem as a great way to get elevation data.
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 (done)
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NCSU course (done)
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General list of GRASS courses/materials by NCSU (done)
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Invite folks to test release branch 8 and complete the wiki page (we did a similar one for GRASS 8 RC1)
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GRASS GIS + UAV + SDM for Rare Plant Monitoring (done)
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FOSS4G 2021 videos template post (done, but could be recycled in future FOSS4G)
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Xmas (we didn't use this one)
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End of year toast (done)
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New Year (we didn't use this one)
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New discussion forum in GitHub & mailing lists (done)
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Tangible Landscape and GRASS GIS for Geography Education (done)
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Student's projects/work in the context of GRASS mini grants
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New bugfixing releases: 7.8.7 and 8.0.1 (done)
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PSC meeting minutes (done)
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New rgrass version (done)
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r.in.usgs enhancements (done)
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Invitation to participate in GSoC (done)
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Huidae's workshop (done)
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Isaac's videos (done)
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Paulo's post (done)
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r.viewshed.exposure (done)
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GRASS GIS 8.2 RC1 out (done)
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New addon: r.boxplot (done)
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GRASS GIS 8.2 RC2 out (done with RT of Vashek's tweet)
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Students grants results: Linda (done)
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Students grants results: Caitlin (done)
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GRASS 8.2 is out! (done)
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GRASS GIS at the ODSE (done)
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Workshops at FOSS4G (done)
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Talks at FOSS4G (done)
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GRASS GIS 39 b-day (done)
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How to switch to Single-window? (done)
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New edition of the student grants (sep 19th - done)
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New edition of the student grants (sep 22nd - done)
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Soeren cyberdeck with raspberry pi and GRASS (done)
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Open bugs (done)
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Open PRs (done)
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Addons - Open bugs (done)
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Addons - Open PRs (done)
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GRASS GIS 8.2.1 released (done)
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How to import raster/vector data into GRASS GIS? (done)
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USGS course using GRASS (done)
New startup in GRASS GIS 8+ (to be crafted and posted)
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New info bars (to be crafted and posted)
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How to create locations in GRASS GIS? (to be posted)
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How to connect GRASS and R? (to be posted)
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How to use GRASS from Jupyter Notebooks? (to be posted)
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Thank you note to donors and sponsors (to be posted)