\title{GRASS GIS}
\subtitle{Project Steering Committee Report 2007}
\maketitle

This report is a summary of activities undertaken by the \href{http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/PSC}{GRASS-PSC}\footnote{GRASS-PSC: \url{http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/PSC}}. It is expected that portions of this document will be included in the OSGeo Annual Report, and this document is not meant to be entirely inclusive. 

\section*{Report Period}

\begin{description}
	\item  [Period covered by report:]  Nov 2006 - Dec 2007
	\item  [Contact name:] Markus Neteler 
	\item  [PSC Members:] Michael Barton, Dylan Beaudette, Hamish Bowman, Massimiliano Cannata, Brad Douglas, Paul Kelly, Helena Mitasova, Scott Mitchell, Markus Neteler, Maciej Sieczka 
\end{description}

\section*{Formation Motion}

The GRASS-PSC was formally convened on September 11, 2006, with \href{http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/PSC}{Markus Neteler} being appointed chair. David Sampson is acknowledged for pushing on the formation of the GRASS-PSC. Guidelines for the operation of the PSC and its formal connection to the GRASS project were extensively discussed for a number of months and formally adopted on 6 April 2007. 

\section*{2006 Activities}

\begin{itemize}
	\item  20 Dec 2006: GRASS GIS / OSGeo Newsletter Published - The first combined GRASS-News / OSGeo-News volume is available 
	\item  12 Dec 2006: GRASS 6.2.1 released - This release fixes several bugs discovered in the 6.2.0 source code 
	\item  GRASS-PSC: CVS write access to S. Pallecchi (granted, 12 Dec 2006) 
	\item  GRASS-PSC: PSC Chair motion (chair: M Neteler, 9 Dec 2006, see related email message\footnote{PSC Chair motion: \url{http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2006-December/000143.html}}) 
	\item  GRASS-PSC: CVS write access to R. Antolin (granted, 8 Dec 2006) 
	\item RFC 2: Legal aspects of code contributions (adopted 8 Dec 2006)\footnote{RFC 2: \url{http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/rfc/rfc2_psc.html}}
	\item  06 Dec 2006: GRASS 6.2.1RC1 released - This release fixes several bugs discovered in the 6.2.0 source code 
	\item  31 Oct 2006: GRASS 6.2.0 released - The stable version is published: Source code available now, packaged installers for major platforms are currently being built and will follow shortly 
	\item  24 Oct 2006: GRASS 6.2.0RC3 released - The last release candidate 
	\item  06 Oct 2006: GRASS 6.2.0RC2 released - Approaching the final release 
	\item  26 Sep 2006: GRASS 6.2.0RC1 released - The first release candidate 
	\item  18 Sep 2006: GRASS 6.2.0beta3 released - The last beta version 
\end{itemize}

\section*{Early to Mid 2007 Activities}

\begin{itemize}
	\item  Summer: participation in Google Summer of Code 2007 (Under the OSGeo umbrella) with two projects\footnote{GRASS SoC projects: \url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SoC_Report_2007\#GRASS}}(now in the main release) 
	\item  GRASS-PSC: CVS write access to P. Marcondes for PT translations (granted, 2 June 2007) 
	\item  26 Jul 2007: GRASS 5.4.1 released - Courtesy release containing several bug fixes for legacy users 
	\item  16 Jul 2007: GRASS 6.2.2 released - This release fixes several bugs discovered in the 6.2.1 source code 
	\item  29 May 2007: GRASS 6.2.2RC1 released - Bugfix release candidate 
	\item RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines (extensively discussed and adopted 6 April 2007)\footnote{RFC 1: \url{http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/rfc/rfc1_psc.html}}
	\item  Italian GRASS and GFOSS Users Meeting - GRASS and GFOSS Users Meeting, Palermo (Italy), 14-16 Feb 2007 
	\item  12 Feb 2007: New GRASS bug and wish tracker - Gforge based 
	\item  10 Feb 2007: GRASS GIS 6.2.1 winGRASS/Cygwin binaries available - download package 
\end{itemize}

\section*{Mid to Late 2007 Activities}

\begin{itemize}
	\item  OSGeo ``incubation'' process (\href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Incubation_Progress}{GRASS Incubation Progress}\footnote{GRASS Incubation Progress: \url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Incubation_Progress}}): almost completed, waiting for mentors approval to reach graduation 
	\item \href{http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Migration_to_OSGeo}{Migration to OSGeo source code}\footnote{GRASS Migration: \url{http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Migration_to_OSGeo}} and bug tracker infrastructure (after many years successful hosting by Intevation GmbH) 
	\item  30 Nov 2007: GRASS 6.3.0RC3 released - Technology preview release candidate 3 
	\item  27 Nov 2007: GRASS 6.2.3 released - This release fixes several bugs discovered in the 6.2.2 source code 
	\item  20 Nov 2007: GRASS 6.3.0RC2 released - Technology preview release candidate 2 
	\item  24 Oct 2007: GRASS 6.3.0RC1 released - Technology preview release candidate 
	\item  21 Oct 2007: GRASS 6.2.3RC1 released - Bugfix release candidate 
	\item  24-27 Sep 2007: progress report, workshop and several talks presented at FOSS4G 2007\footnote{FOSS4G 2007 event: \url{http://www.foss4g2007.org/}}
	\item  19 Sep 2007: OSGeo Journal Volume 2 Published - The second volume of the new Journal 
	\item  15 Aug 2007: test version of a new data set (Spearfish replacement) released 
\end{itemize}

\section*{User statistics}

End of 2007, more than 4000 subscribers were counted in the various GRASS mailing lists. 

 \begin{figure}
  	\centering
  	 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{annual_report/projects/grass_map.jpg}
	 \caption{Registered GRASS users}
	 \label{ref:grass_map}
  \end{figure}
		  
\section*{Future strategy}

Establish GRASS as GIS backbone, especially for other OSGeo projects. 
