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
  • finally working again: https://grass.osgeo.org/about/mirrors/ --> Indian mirror
• Info: FOSDEM 2023 - OSGeo geospatial devroom was not (!) accepted this time
• Next meeting: please schedule it for 2hs

Minutes

• Single window
  • switch default to single window layout in main (​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2646)
  • Michael will build new binaries for testing on Mac
  • please test and report problems on mac
• Linda's proposal
  • participating PSC members are fine with it, we need to initiate the voting
• Student grants and what to improve for next time
  • highlight mentorship part of the program
  • prepare a list of contacts (people in academia) and directly approach them to let their students know
  • make a simple flyer for them to distribute
• RFCs
  • Anna will move drafts from wiki to a PR
  • Michael suggest using GitHub projects for managing RFCs
  • find a place to link accepted RFCs to make them more accessible
• Social media
  • Twitter/Fediverse
    • we need more content: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Marketing#Ideasforupcomingorrecurrentposts
    • send content to Vero & Markus directly to be sent from GRASS account, alternatively post from individual account and then it gets retweeted
  • YT videos
    • create playlists of tutorials from other channels, FOSS4G talks
    • update handle, image, name of the channel
    • need to change the phone number to actually access it (Vaclav, Markus)

• Google Scholar profile - Anna will take over
  • bulk upload ?
  • asking for updates from the community
  • content defined as whatever would cite a DOI of GRASS GIS in an ideal world, so publications using/developing GRASS or addons

• SEO - good progress, kudos to Markus
• Wingrass addons - try to add compilation to addon repo CI as a starting step?
• Releases
  • 8.2.1, 7.8 release now.
  • 8.2.2 and 8.4.0 milestones created.
  • 8.3.0 scheduled for the beginning of 2023.
• QGIS: maintenance of GRASS parts and from GRASS community - a separate meeting needed
• Promotional-related reimbursements: Write up the two-phase procedure as a document in the grass-promo repo.
• We need a new treasurer, ask Moritz to summarize procedures.
• Schedule the meetings for more than 1 hr. We do tangible work during the meetings too, so we need more time.