Proposal: assign roles to the PSC members

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Note: a PSC member with a certain role can also delegate another community member to share the workload

Needed roles:

• treasurer
  • oversee funding model, crowdfunding and sponsoring
  • Financial management: set up a non-profit entity
  • Get in more ​http://grass.osgeo.org/donations/ - approach potential sponsors, develop sponsoring program
• release manager
  • get the timing right in accordance to RFC/4_ReleaseProcedure
  • follow procedure which is documented in doc/howto_release.txt
  • follow yet undocumented extra tricks (inviting package managers to create new package etc)
• translation manager
  • find new translators, cleanup similar messages in source code, ...
• education manager
  • proactively enlarge visibility of GRASS GIS (events, press releases, articles, ...)
  • make it easy to teach GRASS GIS: collect material, advertise teaching material, ...
• press and marketing manager
  • develop use cases and ​Case studies, write short articles, CMS: add user quotes on first page why people use GRASS? Refresh start page, ...
• documentation manager
  • improve manual, add more examples, screenshots, ...
• designer
  • prepare flyers etc.
  • improve Website and fix mobile issues
• trac bug report manager
  • cleanup tickets, followup with open questions, ...
• testing manager
  • oversee the testing framework
• GUI design manager
  • perform functionality checks
  • implement a toolboxes based GUI ?