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= PSC Meeting 2023-08-11 =

== Participants ==

* Anna 
* Vaclav
* Markus
* Michael
* Huidae
* Helli
* Vero

== 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 [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2023#Report_and_press_release 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, [https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023/talk/KLVT3W/ State of GRASS GIS, Martin Landa] (done, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olRSbZ1UpJI&t=1475s video], [https://ctu-geoforall-lab.github.io/grass-gis-talk-foss4g-2023/foss4g2023.html slides] [https://github.com/ctu-geoforall-lab/grass-gis-talk-foss4g-2023 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)
  * [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023 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?
  * [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2993 PR 2993 wxGUI: Rename location to project (2023)]
  * [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_at_OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2022#Discuss_naming_and_presentation_of_GRASS_GIS_data_hierarchy GRASS GIS at OSGeo Community Sprint 2022]
  * [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup Proposals for a new GRASS GIS startup mechanism (2018-2020)]
  * [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2018-June/088531.html grass-dev: a proposal to rename "location" (2018)]
  * [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2018-March/087870.html grass-dev: Brainstorm about new GRASS GIS startup (2018)]
  * [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html grass-dev: New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7? (2015)] (Turned into redesign and rename discussion)
* Review and update Open Collective
  * People in [https://opencollective.com/grass?slug=grass#category-ABOUT Our team]
    * only Martin is missing.
  * Item in [https://opencollective.com/grass/contribute 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 [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ Google Scholar profile].
* RFCs
  * Merge [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/3120 PR 3120 RFC: Version Numbering is adopted]
  * Merge [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2816 PR 2816 RFC: Python Language Support]
  * Number RFC files in the source code? (Overall, RFC procedure seems to be missing.)
  * Pending: [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2815 PR 2815 RFC: Release Procedure]
  * Pending: [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2813 PR 2813 RFC: Errata]
== Minutes ==

* Location is becoming project
  * We are doing the rename
  * Create issue for the overall rename (VP)
  * Review the roadmap (MB)