PSC Meeting 2023-05-12

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Vaclav Petras
• Helmut Kudrnovsky
• Markus Neteler
• Huidae Cho
• Michael Barton
• Martin Landa
• Veronica Andreo

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Open Collective: add PSC members as "Core Contributors"? see ​https://opencollective.com/osgeo/projects/grass ?
  • Suggested roles:
    • Admin --> PSC chair, treasurer
    • Core Contributor --> PSC members (also selected others?, heading says "Our team")
    • Accountant --> PSC chair, treasurer
• Sponsoring
  • Review new OC tiers and PR with perks
  • OC order
  • Researcher/thesis thank you with recognition on the page
• Releases
  • ​8.3.0 milestone
• GSoC
• FOSS4G "State of GRASS" talk
• ​Community meeting, Prague: organization, budget, reimbursements, etc.

Minutes

• GSoC:
  • The candidate student had applied to 2 different projects and he selected the other option (Chromium).
  • Next year we should promote the call more, esp. among computer sciences students.

• FOSS4G 2023 talk:
  • Some discussion can be done in Prague, push 8.3 release in Prague and present that at FOSS4G.
  • Format: recycle the grass-talk repo and update slides, use issues for tasks and create PRs.
  • Markus has the latest version of the repo and will share it with Martin.
    • ​Code - ​Preview

• ​GRASS GIS 40 years' Meeting in Prague
  • Martin is planning places to eat and drink.
  • Saturday, June 3rd: main social event - visit a brewery close to Prague.
  • Vaclav already ordered t-shirts.
  • Martin booked a room for the meeting, he'll ask IT for a wifi network for GRASS community.
  • Lunches: stay in the room and order, or go to the library. Apparently it is possible to book it, Martin will ask.
  • Online: jitsi within the sprint or community channel in ​gitter works, otherwise NCSU zoom.
  • Budget: we are Ok.
  • Reimbursements: Ask OSGeo to transfer the assigned amount to Open Collective right before the meeting. For FOSSGIS, Markus has asked them how to proceed, esp. 50% seed money for Martin as a local organizer: awaiting their answer.

• ​Open Collective:
  • Invite PSC members to join the team of Open Collective (Markus).
    • MN has invited all PSC members who are already registered at OC.
    • The remaining PSC members are kindly invited to register and notify MN.
  • Related: Add a footer to the emails in mailing lists with a link to Open Collective (Markus).

• Release:
  • Automatic release procedure - call between Markus and Vaclav to discuss this (done).
  • No blockers, some stuff bumped to 8.4.
  • cronjobs to be updated (the easy or the complex way, to be decided)
  • Release during Prague meeting?

• RFCs:
  • Python Language: ready, Vero sends out the motion (done).
  • Version Numbering: almost ready, Vaclav works on it and sends out the motion (done).