PSC Meeting 2023-05-12

Participants

• Anna
• Vaclav
• Helmut
• Markus
• Huidae
• Michael
• Vero

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. Spam the call more next year, esp. in computer sciences.

• FOSS4G talk:
  • Some discussion can be done in Prague, push 8.3 release in Prague and present that
  • Format: recycle the grass-talk repo and update slides, we use issues for tasks and create PRs
  • Markus has the latest version and shares it with Martin

• GRASS Meeting in Prague
  • Martin is planning places to eat and drink
  • Saturday: main social event - visit a brewery close to Prague
  • Vaclav ordered t-shirts already
  • Martin booked a room, he'll ask IT for a wifi network for GRASS community
  • Lunch: stay in the room and order, or go to the library (it is possible to book it, Martin will ask)
  • Online: jitsi within the community channel in gitter works, otherwise NCSU zoom
  • Budget: we are Ok
  • Reimbursements: ask OSGeo to transfer the assigned amount to opencollective right before the meeting. For FOSSGIS, Markus will ask them, esp. seed money for Martin as a local organizer.

• Open Collective:
  • Add a footer to the email with a link to opencollective (Markus)
  • Invite PSC member to join the team of OpenCollective (Markus)

• Release:
  • Automatic release procedure - call between Markus and Vaclav
  • No blockers, some stuff can be bumped to 8.4

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