This page contains the agenda of the GRASS Project Steering Commitee.

Open issues

• Election 2016 (in preparation)
• Revisit PSC renewal
  • compare for example terms of the ​Geoserver PSC, especially regarding
    • Future PSC members
    • Stepping Down
    • Dissolution of PSC
• PSC: assign roles to the PSC members:
  • 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
  • translation manager: find new translators, merge similar messages, ...
  • GUI design manager: implement a toolboxes based GUI
  • education and outreach manager: make it easy to teach GRASS GIS
  • 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, ...
  • Designer: improve Website and fix mobile issues
  • trac bug report manager: cleanup tickets, followup with open questions, ...
  • Testing manager: overseeing the testing framework

Open Motions

These entries need a vote from the committee members.

• RFC 4: Release Procedure

Discussions

These entries do not need a formal vote.

• License issues of translation support through ​Rosetta - alternatively consider ​pootle (maybe on OSGeo infrastructure)
• discuss use of transifex for some languages

Resolved issues

• GRASS GIS - 30th birthday upcoming! MN is in contact with Jim Westervelt to identify the "precise" date. So we want to celebrate that all over the globe :) And on other planets, too, since we support extraterrestrial coordinate systems.
  • Prepare new promo material. Best would be to get designer(s) for it.
  • Better populate the ​GRASS GIS videos on YouTube - make it a channel?
• Revisit the license of the Web pages and manual pages. It may be appropriate to change to a Creative Commons license which are widely accepted now.
• Moritz Lennert suggests: have some reflection on release strategy and notably GRASS 7 release. Maybe we could at least envisage some form of technology preview release that would allow us to where we stand.
• Election 2012
• RFC1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines (Adopted)
• RFC2: Legal aspects of code contributions (Adopted)
• RFC 3: PSC Voting Procedures (Adopted)

Motions

• PSC Motions

Discussions

• GRASS on koders.com: recommendation to do so. Now available ​here
• Add GRASS to Canonical's Rosetta translation project?
  Unresolved issue: a translation is a derivative and non-original work, and Canonical demands BSD-style copyright assignment of translations submitted through them (but not translations coming from the project). Could a translation back to english from one of those be a end-run around our copyright and the GPL?
  Update 2007: It appears that Canonical changed their ​Terms of use of Rosetta