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= PSC Meeting 2021-05-11 =

== Participants ==

* Vero Andreo (PSC chair)
* Helena Mitasova
* Martin Landa
* Anna Petrasova
* Vaclav Petras
* Moritz Lennert
* Michael Barton
* Huidae Cho
* Markus Neteler (minutes)

== Agenda ==

The topics proposed are:
* GRASS 7.8.6 and 8.0.0 release
* Sponsoring
* Marketing / presence in social media
* RFC Python version (?)
* FOSS4G GRASS presentations
* GSoC
* ... your suggestions here

== Minutes ==

* GRASS GIS 8 release schedule
  * we are at a very good point
  * lots of conferences upcoming where GRASS GIS 8 will be advertised in talks and demo sessions
  * Martin to provide basic "WinGRASS" instructions on the Wiki, Vero happy to beautify them
  * please update https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8/NewFeatures80
* GRASS GIS 7.8.6 release schedule
  * almost RC1 stage, just the g.extension troubles on Windows to be solved (several PRs pending)
  * advanced draft: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.8.6-News
* Management of addons
  * idea: turn addons into pip-installable packages, change g.extension accordingly
* Reorganizing addons repo
  * idea: change directories to branches (g6, g7, g8), keep main branch only for backward compatibility
  * start with moving GRASS GIS 6 related addons to a separate branch
  * the question is how to maintain G7 and G8 addons in parallel (backport cherry picking, ...)
  * importantly, changes in `g.extension` are needed
  * Vaclav and Martin will work on that
* Sponsoring
  * Two options: !OpenCollective (https://opencollective.com/) or NUMFocus (https://numfocus.org/; originally founded by numpy etc).
  * it would be ideal if OSGeo takes the role of being the fiscal host
  * !OpenCollective: The OSGeo treasurer has already registered the GRASS GIS project under the hood of OSGeo on !OpenCollective:
    * OSGeo would take 5% of donations - perhaps 0% - to be checked by Moritz
    * https://opencollective.com/osgeo
    * https://opencollective.com/osgeo/projects/grass
    * we need to define the cash flow (which bank account shall be registered: OSGeo US or OSGeo Europe?)
    * the fiscal host defines which means of payment are allowed (Stripe, etc)
    * we need admin access to set our logo and more styling (through the OSGeo treasurer)
  * NUMFocus: an alternative (e.g., GDAL is currently requesting to be hosted there)
* RFC C/C++ version:
 * [wiki:RFC/7_LanguageStandardsSupport RFC 7: Language Standards Support]: C and C++ Language (Adopted)
* Draft RFC Python version support:
  * [wiki:RFC/8_LanguageStandardsSupport RFC 8: Language Standards Support]: Python
* Current request on grass-web to make `i.segment` a stand-alone software
  * could be through conda but that's not complete: packaging is tricky
  * it would be great to reach `pip install grass` at some point
  * they might better write to grass-dev rather than grass-web
* Marketing / presence in social media
  * postponed to the next meeting
* Upcoming conferences:
  * FOSSGIS GRASS GIS 8 presentation: 50min of demo session
  * FOSS4G GRASS presentations and workshops
* [[GSoC]] 2021
  * 3 students have signed up, update coming soon on May 17th, 2021