\title{Editorial}
\author{by Tyler Mitchell}
\maketitle

\textbf{Dear \emph{GRASS} and other \emph{open source} users}, 

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It is my pleasure to introduce the future expansion of GRASS-News.  The next edition will be morphed into a broader Open Source Geospatial Newsletter covering projects from the OSGeo Foundation and beyond. The aim is to bring relevant news and articles to a larger audience by widening the focus and changing the name.

GRASS-News has always covered more than just GRASS.  It has also shown itself to be a high quality production that we can be proud of reading or even printing to share with friends. With the potential of reaching a larger audience, as well as maintain a single high quality newsletter, the editors have decided to re-brand it as an OSGeo-News production.  I have always been encouraged by the content, layout and ideas represented by the GRASS-News volumes and hope to see it continue.


\section{Call For Articles}

\textbf{\textit{You can help}} by providing articles or papers for publication.
The next edition of this newsletter will have articles that cover several other open source projects in various topics:

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\item OSGeo-related news items
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\item GIS
\item Remote Sensing
\item Web-based mapping and GIS
\item Geostatistics / spatial statistics
\item Geospatial data access
\item and more...
\end{itemize}


\noindent  Do you have layout and design skills?  You can help by applying your skills to make OSGeo-News even better.  Translators into different languages are also needed. You can help by volunteering as:

\begin{itemize}
\item Editor 
\item Layout Designer
\item Reviewer
\item Translator
\item etc.
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\noindent Please take a moment to thank the editorial staff and contributors of GRASS-News who have made a great newsletter.  I am encouraged to see their interest in making the publication applicable to even more people.  I look forward to seeing the next edition.

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 Tyler Mitchell

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\begin{footnotesize}\address{Tyler Mitchell \\
Executive Director\\
OSGeo \\
\url{http://osgeo.org}\\
\email{tmitchell AT osgeo.org}
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