Re: [ANNOUNCE]: English GDF Hannover GRASS GIS tutorial, Version 1.2 released

Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2005 11:24 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> Hi Ben,

Hi,

> Am 12. Sep 2005 um 10:32:12 schrieb Ben Discoe:
> > > From: Stephan Holl

[...]

> > Can anyone tell me if there are plans to actually provide documentation
> > or a tutorial for GRASS?
>
> Note that many GIS users really like the command line interface,
> because it is much simple to teach, learn and combine for powerful
> applications that involve repetitive tasks.
>
> There is quite some material available from the GRASS project itself,
> I admitt it varies in quality: http://grass.itc.it/gdp/tutorials.php
>
> Just more people are needed. If you like what GDF does you can support
> them by ordering a printed copy of the Tutorial or contract them.
> So many people pay for proprietary software offerings,
> we need to get some money into the commercial Free Software business.
> This way we can employ more people to write even better tutorial materials.
> (Disclosure: My company Intevation also earns money with Free GIS
> software.)

Ben, it is just great to see, how much energy you already spent to think about 
possible improvements of GRASS and its documentation. A critical look from 
the outside is always helpful! 

In my opinion your next step now should be to put your ideas and comments into 
practice and help to make GRASS GIS a better software with a user-friendly 
documentation. As Bernhard mentioned, a financial support or your man power 
would be fantastic.

We and probably others on this list would be thankful and I am sure it would 
not be a problem to find a way to integrate your help or your money in the 
GRASS Project.

best,
  Otto 

> Best,
> 	Bernhard

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