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 ​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
  • 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

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