PSC Meeting 2023-08-11

Participants

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

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Past events
  • Community meeting Prague 2023 aftermath
    • Send press release to OSGeo.JP
    • Translate press release to German and send to FOSSGIS e.V.
    • Add (and/or link) press release to the ​meeting wiki page (template section Report and press release)
    • State of reimbursements (do we need to nudge anyone?)
      • waiting for FOSSGIS e.V. treasurer: MN has written again to finanzen fossgis de
      • waiting for OSGeo treasurer
  • FOSS4G 2023, ​State of GRASS GIS, Martin Landa (done, ​video, ​slides ​slides source)
• Future events
  • FOSS4G North America 2023, Baltimore, MD, Oct 23-25 (3 talks, 2 workshops)
  • FOSS4G-Asia 2023 Seoul (Nov 28 - Dec 2)
  • ​OSGeo Community Sprint 2023, Nov 6-9 (OSGeo Annual Code Sprint, Vienna, Big Data from Space)
  • Next GRASS GIS virtual sprint
  • Next GRASS GIS in-person sprint
• Release 7.8.8 completed:
  • News item needed for web site: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/pull/377
• Call for student grants?
  • Determine topics:
    • Convert manuals to markdown and use readthedocs/mkdocs style
    • Have some "technical writing" topics?
      • homogenization of man pages needed
      • more examples and reproducible screenshots (generated with notebook, see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2594)
      • improve intro pages in manual
      • write task oriented articles: vector cleaning, digitizing, raster cleaning, raster resampling
  • Emphasize mentoring.
• Releases and backports
  • Which branches are we backporting to?
    • 7.x is now frozen, given that 7.8.8 is out
    • supported: 8.2 + 8.3
  • What releases we are planning for which branch?
  • When to do 8.4.0?
• Community, sponsors, and support at the website (ideally, do the actual work)
• How to properly finish >5 years of discussion about location versus project?
  • ​PR 2993 wxGUI: Rename location to project (2023)
  • ​GRASS GIS at OSGeo Community Sprint 2022
  • ​Proposals for a new GRASS GIS startup mechanism (2018-2020)
  • ​grass-dev: a proposal to rename "location" (2018)
  • ​grass-dev: Brainstorm about new GRASS GIS startup (2018)
  • ​grass-dev: New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7? (2015) (Turned into redesign and rename discussion)
• Review and update Open Collective
  • People in ​Our team
    • only Martin is missing.
  • Item in ​Become a contributor
  • About text which make case for sending money to GRASS GIS (not just for using it).
• Start collecting reports on physical artifacts
  • involve Peter Löwe
• Come up with an official way to add items to ​Google Scholar profile.
• RFCs
  • Merge ​PR 3120 RFC: Version Numbering is adopted
  • Merge ​PR 2816 RFC: Python Language Support
  • Number RFC files in the source code? (Overall, RFC procedure seems to be missing.)
  • Pending: ​PR 2815 RFC: Release Procedure
  • Pending: ​PR 2813 RFC: Errata

Minutes

• Past events:
  • Community meeting Prague:
    • Press release ready, MN created the news item, to be merged and sent to OSGeo, OSGeo.JP and FOSSGIS e.V..
      • online: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report
      • OSGeo.org: TODO
      • OSGeo.JP: Done, sent to japan.osgeo gmail com, osgeojapan-board lists osgeo org, Nobusuke Iwasaki on Aug 14 (VP)
      • FOSSGIS e.V.: reported translated and submitted by Markus on 14 Aug 2023
    • Reimbursements: OSGeo done, FOSSGIS done (Martin to confirm).
  • FOSS4G 2023:
    • Create a news item with Martin's presentation - perhaps mention future presentations in FOSS4G Asia and FOSS4G NA?
• Future events:
  • Asynchronous GRASS GIS code sprint during OSGeo code sprint at BiDS (Nov 2023), Vienna
  • GRASS GIS abstract at FOSS4G Asia 2023: ​https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-asia-2023/talk/review/QQYVB7F98BBTQQEWAD8V9HF38VUS88V7
• Student grants:
  • We agreed on adding topics to the ​wiki until August 31st.
• Releases:
  • 7.8.8: completed, EOL
  • 8.3.1: do not wait too long, release before FOSS4G NA?
  • 8.4.0: potential date April 8th :) (08/04)
• Location is becoming project
  • We are doing the rename
  • Created ​issue for the overall rename (VP)
  • Review the roadmap (MB)
• Google Scholar profile:
  • Revise where to put a link to the GRASS GIS Google Scholar profile in the website with a note inviting people to add their published work using GRASS GIS to the profile via completing a form (TODO Anna). See ​this issue for current status.
• Open Collective:
  • We removed the community meeting tier and re-organized the others.
  • We edited the About section inviting people to contribute.
  • Ask Michael Smith to check his account (it is duplicated) and edit Moritz's role (inform him first).
• Community, Sponsors and support on the website (Vero)
  • Comment out mundialis and NCSU, undo the rename which leads to invalid html, re-base and push again.
  • Remove wiki from the pull down menu under support.
• GRASS GIS physical artifacts
  • involve Peter Löwe to create a catalog with physical and digital GRASS GIS historic items.
    • Example: GRASS 3.2 tape from 1989 (​photo), handed over to Markus Neteler at FOSS4G 2014, Portland, USA
• GRASS GIS merchandising
  • Ask OSGeo board again about the status of the red-bubble account