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Table of Contents

  1. Participants
  2. Agenda
  3. Minutes

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
  • Pending RFCs (see wiki RFC list and ​PRs)
  • Social media channels - help needed
  • ​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 devroom was not (!) accepted this time
  • Next meeting: please schedule it for 2hs

Minutes

  • Single window
  • 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
    • 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.
  • Postponed:
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