PSC Meeting 2021-05-11

Participants

• Vero Andreo
• Helena Mitasova
• Martin Landa
• Anna Petrasova
• Vaclav Petras
• Moritz Lennert
• Michael Barton
• Huidae Cho
• Markus Neteler

Agenda

• GRASS GIS 8 release schedule
  • we are at a very good point
  • lots of conferences upcoming where GRASS GIS 8 will be advertised in talks and demo sessions
  • Martin to provide basic "WinGRASS 8" instructions on the Wiki, Vero happy to beautify them
  • idea: turn addons into pip-installable packages, change g.extension accordingly
• Reorganizing addons repo
  • idea: change directories to branches (g6, g7, g8), keep main branch only for backward compatibility
• Sponsoring
  • Two options: OpenCollective or NUMFocus (originally founded by numpy etc).
  • it would be ideal if OSGeo takes the role of being the fiscal host
  • OpenCollective: The OSGeo treasurer has already registered the GRASS GIS project under the hood of OSGeo on OpenCollective:
    • OSGeo would take 5% of donations - perhaps 0% - to be checked by Moritz
    • ​https://opencollective.com/osgeo
    • ​https://opencollective.com/osgeo/projects/grass
    • we need to define the cash flow (which bank account shall be registered: OSGeo US or OSGeo Europe?)
    • the fiscal host defines which means of payment are allowed (Stripe, etc)
    • we need admin access to set our logo and more styling (through the OSGeo treasurer)
  • NUMFocus: an alternative (e.g., GDAL is currently requesting to be hosted there)
• RFC Python version support:
  • RFC 8: Language Standards Support: Python
• Current request on grass-web to make i.segment a stand-alone software
  • could be through conda but that's not complete: packaging is tricky
  • it would be great to reach pip install grass at some point
  • they might better write to grass-dev rather than grass-web
• Marketing / presence in social media
• Upcoming conferences:
  • FOSSGIS GRASS GIS 8 presentation: 50min of demo session
  • FOSS4G GRASS presentations
• GSoC 2021
  • some students have signed up, update coming soon on 17th of May 2021
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