== 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 ===

- PSC meeting minutes
- translations in Transifex (what about https://weblate.osgeo.org/ ?)
- promote/recall folks about mailing lists
- promote discussions in github
- OpenCollective: Our new money sponsoring pool is now at https://opencollective.com/grass
  - important: connect a goal with it

- 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/grass78/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

We have grass 8 branch! Have you tested it? Which feature 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 + UAV + SDM for Rare Plant Monitoring

A GRASS GIS hourly solar insolation model was 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)

- last post about foss4g 2021 videos: 

Did you miss the talk about #ESA #Copernicus Sentinel data processing and analysis in GRASS GIS @foss4g 2021?? The video is online now!
Get your popcorns and enjoy the amazing set of #grassgis tools for remote sensing with Guido Riembauer from @MundialisInfo, @VeronicaAndreo and the #grassgis dev team!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btk-S5jUAfk

== See also ==

- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material