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= PSC Meeting 2022-11-11 =

== Participants ==

- Anna Petrasova
- Helena Mitasova
- Huidae Cho
- Markus Neteler
- Michael Barton
- Vaclav Petras
- Martin Landa

== Agenda ==

The topics proposed are:

- Mini/student grants
  - Linda's proposal
  - Feedback from NC State students - VP
    - scope of work: time commitment expectations, student developer's time hourly rate; how much work for 1000 EUR?
    - mentoring: emphasize value of good coding mentorship (rather than just the money)  
- FOSS4G 2022 evaluation
  - R, [https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass rgrass] ([https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass/graphs/contributors contributors]), [https://github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess qgisprocess] ([https://github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess/graphs/contributors contributors])
- Pending RFCs (see [wiki:RFC wiki RFC list] and [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/labels/RFC PRs])
- Social media channels - help needed
  - Twitter: https://twitter.com/GRASSGIS
  - Fediverse: https://fosstodon.org/@grassgis
  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GRASS
  - GRASSGISNews (!YouTube, Gmail): https://www.youtube.com/c/GRASSGISNEWS/ (aka GRASS GIS Tutorials)
  - Please create content, see [wiki:PSC/Marketing Marketing page]
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ Google Scholar profile] name and access
- SEO issues with manual pages
  - MN has found the trick, will report:
    - all older manuals now contain a "canonical" URL in the metadata pointing to the latest stable version
    - viewport has been added for mobile devices
    - Google search console now reports a huge improvement since Oct 2022 :-)
- winGRASS: C addons broken since long
- Upcoming releases - what's missing?
  - G7.8.8 maintenance release - MN
  - G8.2.1 maintenance release - MN
  - G8.3 update release
- QGIS support for GRASS 8+ (Markus communication with Nyall)
  - Nyall wishlist
- Sponsors and Commercial support (website, under or next to Community)
- Promotional-related reimbursements
  - Lack of procedures for promotional-related reimbursement
  - Reimbursement for GIS Week materials for VP
  - Renewed [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-promo grass-promo repository]
- Update on Indian Mirror - MN
  - finally working again: https://grass.osgeo.org/about/mirrors/ --> Indian mirror
- Info: FOSDEM 2023 - OSGeo geospatial devroom was not (!) accepted this time
- Next meeting: please schedule it for 2hs

== Minutes ==

 - Single window
   - switch default to single window layout in main (https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2646)
   - Michael will build new binaries for testing on Mac
   - please test and report problems on mac
 - Linda's proposal
   - participating PSC members are fine with it, we need to initiate the voting
 - Student grants and what to improve for next time
   - highlight mentorship part of the program
   - prepare a list of contacts (people in academia) and directly approach them to let their students know
   - make a simple flyer for them to distribute
 - RFCs
   - Anna will move drafts from wiki to a PR
   - Michael suggest using !GitHub projects for managing RFCs
   - find a place to link accepted RFCs to make them more accessible
 - Social media
   - !Twitter/Fediverse
     - we need more content: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Marketing#Ideasforupcomingorrecurrentposts
     - send content to Vero & Markus directly to be sent from GRASS account, alternatively post from individual account and then it gets retweeted
   - YT videos
     - create playlists of tutorials from other channels, FOSS4G talks
     - update handle, image, name of the channel
     - need to change the phone number to actually access it (Vaclav, Markus)
     
  - Google Scholar profile - Anna will take over
      - bulk upload ?
      - asking for updates from the community
      - content defined as whatever would cite a DOI of GRASS GIS in an ideal world, so publications using/developing GRASS or addons

- SEO - good progress, kudos to Markus
- Wingrass addons - try to add compilation to addon repo CI as a starting step?
- Releases
  - 8.2.1, 7.8 release now.
  - 8.2.2 and 8.4.0 milestones created.
  - 8.3.0 scheduled for the beginning of 2023.
- QGIS: maintenance of GRASS parts and from GRASS community - a separate meeting needed
- Promotional-related reimbursements: Write up the two-phase procedure as a document in the grass-promo repo.
- We need a new treasurer, ask Moritz to summarize procedures.
- Schedule the meetings for more than 1 hr. We do tangible work during the meetings too, so we need more time.
- Postponed:
  - FOSS4G 2022 evaluation
    - R, [https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass rgrass] ([https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass/graphs/contributors contributors]), [https://github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess qgisprocess] ([https://github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess/graphs/contributors contributors])
  - Sponsors and Commercial support (website, under or next to Community)