\title{GRASS-News Editorial}
\author{by the GRASS-News staff}
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\textbf{Dear \textit{former}  \emph{GRASS-News} readers}, 

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As you may have noticed from the joint logo and title on the front page, 
this is the last issue of GRASS-News in its current format. GRASS is 
currently in the incubation process as an OSGeo member project, and as 
part of the integration with OSGeo we've agreed with the OSGeo publicity 
committee to broaden the scope of the newsletter to cover other OSGeo 
projects. Many articles have already covered use of GRASS along with 
utilities from other OSGeo projects, and we're confident that this 
widening of coverage can only add to the usefulness and relevance of the 
articles in the GRASS-News.
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As a result, from the next issue onwards the newsletter will be known as 
OSGeo-News. Rather than have less GRASS-specific content, we anticipate 
the GRASS content will remain the same, and the frequency and/or size of 
the newsletter will increase to accomodate wider OSGeo material! To this 
end we need your contributions!

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Thank you for your interest in the past  and looking forward to OSGeo-News volume 1 
with some very interesting GRASS articles included!

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Your GRASS-News staff


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