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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 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 ===

New ideas:

- Post PSC meeting minutes
- advertise translations in Transifex (what about 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

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.in.usgs enhancements:

{{{#!td
  - 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/grass7/manuals/addons/r.in.usgs.html
}}}


NCSU course:

{{{#!td
  - 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:

{{{#!td
  - 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 page:

{{{#!td
  - We have the GRASS GIS 8 branch! Have you tested it? Which feature do 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 GIS + UAV + SDM for Rare Plant Monitoring

{{{#!td
  - A GRASS GIS hourly solar insolation model has been 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)
}}}

FOSS4G 2021 videos template post:

{{{#!td
  - Did you miss the talk about #topic in GRASS GIS @foss4g 2021?? The video is online now!
  - Get your popcorn and enjoy the amazing #somethingrelatedtothetopic in #GRASSGIS with #author and the #grassgis dev team!
  - youtube link
}}}
== See also ==

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