PSC Meeting 2022-11-11

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Helena Mitasova
• Huidae Cho
• Markus Neteler
• Michael Barton
• Vaclav Petras
• Martin Landa

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Mini/student grants
  • Linda's proposal
  • Feedback from NC State students - VP
    • scope of work: time commitment expectations, student developer's time hourly rate; how much work for 1000 EUR?
    • mentoring: emphasize value of good coding mentorship (rather than just the money)
• FOSS4G 2022 evaluation
  • R, ​rgrass (​contributors), ​qgisprocess (​contributors)
• Pending RFCs (see wiki RFC list and ​PRs)
• Social media channels - help needed
  • Twitter: ​https://twitter.com/GRASSGIS
  • Fediverse: ​https://fosstodon.org/@grassgis
  • Facebook: ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/GRASS
  • GRASSGISNews (YouTube, Gmail): ​https://www.youtube.com/c/GRASSGISNEWS/ (aka GRASS GIS Tutorials)
  • Please create content, see Marketing page
• ​Google Scholar profile name and access
• SEO issues with manual pages
  • MN has found the trick, will report:
    • all older manuals now contain a "canonical" URL in the metadata pointing to the latest stable version
    • viewport has been added for mobile devices
    • Google search console now reports a huge improvement since Oct 2022 :-)
• winGRASS: C addons broken since long
• Upcoming releases - what's missing?
  • G7.8.8 maintenance release - MN
  • G8.2.1 maintenance release - MN
  • G8.3 update release
• QGIS support for GRASS 8+ (Markus communication with Nyall)
  • Nyall wishlist
• Sponsors and Commercial support (website, under or next to Community)
• Promotional-related reimbursements
  • Lack of procedures for promotional-related reimbursement
  • Reimbursement for GIS Week materials for VP
  • Renewed ​grass-promo repository
• Update on Indian Mirror - MN
• Info: FOSDEM 2023 - OSGeo geospatial dewvroom was not (!) selected this time

Minutes