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= PSC Meeting 2023-08-11 =

== Participants ==

* Anna Petrasova
* Helmut Kudrnovsky
* Huidae Cho
* Markus Neteler
* Michael Barton
* Vaclav Petras
* Veronica Andreo 

== Agenda ==

The topics proposed are:

* Past events
  * Community meeting Prague 2023 aftermath
    * Send press release to OSGeo.JP
    * Translate press release to German and send to FOSSGIS e.V.
    * Add (and/or link) press release to the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2023#Report_and_press_release meeting wiki page] (template section Report and press release)
    * State of reimbursements (do we need to nudge anyone?)
        * waiting for FOSSGIS e.V. treasurer: MN has written again to finanzen fossgis de
        * waiting for OSGeo treasurer
  * FOSS4G 2023, [https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023/talk/KLVT3W/ State of GRASS GIS, Martin Landa] (done, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olRSbZ1UpJI&t=1475s video], [https://ctu-geoforall-lab.github.io/grass-gis-talk-foss4g-2023/foss4g2023.html slides] [https://github.com/ctu-geoforall-lab/grass-gis-talk-foss4g-2023 slides source])
* Future events
  * FOSS4G North America 2023, Baltimore, MD, Oct 23-25 (3 talks, 2 workshops)
  * FOSS4G-Asia 2023 Seoul (Nov 28 - Dec 2)
  * [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023 OSGeo Community Sprint 2023], Nov 6-9 (OSGeo Annual Code Sprint, Vienna, Big Data from Space)
  * Next GRASS GIS virtual sprint
  * Next GRASS GIS in-person sprint
* Release 7.8.8 completed:
  * News item needed for web site: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/pull/377
* Call for student grants?
  * Determine topics:
    * Convert manuals to markdown and use readthedocs/mkdocs style
    * Have some "technical writing" topics?
       * homogenization of man pages needed
       * more examples and reproducible screenshots (generated with notebook, see https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2594)
       * improve intro pages in manual
       * write task oriented articles: vector cleaning, digitizing, raster cleaning, raster resampling
  * Emphasize mentoring.
* Releases and backports
  * Which branches are we backporting to?
    * 7.x is now frozen, given that 7.8.8 is out
    * supported: 8.2 + 8.3
  * What releases we are planning for which branch?
  * When to do 8.4.0?
* Community, sponsors, and support at the website (ideally, do the actual work)
* How to properly finish >5 years of discussion about location versus project?
  * [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2993 PR 2993 wxGUI: Rename location to project (2023)]
  * [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_at_OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2022#Discuss_naming_and_presentation_of_GRASS_GIS_data_hierarchy GRASS GIS at OSGeo Community Sprint 2022]
  * [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup Proposals for a new GRASS GIS startup mechanism (2018-2020)]
  * [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2018-June/088531.html grass-dev: a proposal to rename "location" (2018)]
  * [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2018-March/087870.html grass-dev: Brainstorm about new GRASS GIS startup (2018)]
  * [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html grass-dev: New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7? (2015)] (Turned into redesign and rename discussion)
* Review and update Open Collective
  * People in [https://opencollective.com/grass?slug=grass#category-ABOUT Our team]
    * only Martin is missing.
  * Item in [https://opencollective.com/grass/contribute Become a contributor]
  * About text which make case for sending money to GRASS GIS (not just for using it).
* Start collecting reports on physical artifacts
  * involve Peter Löwe
* Come up with an official way to add items to [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ Google Scholar profile].
* RFCs
  * Merge [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/3120 PR 3120 RFC: Version Numbering is adopted]
  * Merge [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2816 PR 2816 RFC: Python Language Support]
  * Number RFC files in the source code? (Overall, RFC procedure seems to be missing.)
  * Pending: [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2815 PR 2815 RFC: Release Procedure]
  * Pending: [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2813 PR 2813 RFC: Errata]

== Minutes ==

* Past events:
  * Community meeting Prague: 
    * Press release ready, MN created the news item, to be merged and sent to OSGeo, OSGeo.JP and FOSSGIS e.V..
      * online: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_08_13_grass_community_meeting_prague_june_2023_report
      * OSGeo.org: TODO
      * OSGeo.JP: TODO
      * FOSSGIS e.V.: reported translated and submitted by Markus on 14 Aug 2023
    * Reimbursements: OSGeo done, FOSSGIS done (Martin to confirm).
  * FOSS4G 2023: 
    * Create a news item with Martin's presentation - perhaps mention future presentations in FOSS4G Asia and FOSS4G NA?
* Future events: 
  * Asynchronous GRASS GIS code sprint during OSGeo code sprint at BiDS (Nov 2023), Vienna
  * GRASS GIS abstract at FOSS4G Asia 2023: https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-asia-2023/talk/review/QQYVB7F98BBTQQEWAD8V9HF38VUS88V7
* Student grants:
  * We agreed on adding topics to the [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants wiki] until August 31st.
* Releases:
  * 7.8.8: completed, EOL
  * 8.3.1: do not wait too long, release before FOSS4G NA?
  * 8.4.0: potential date April 8th :) (08/04)
* Location is becoming project
  * We are doing the rename
  * Created [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/3121 issue] for the overall rename (VP)
  * Review the roadmap (MB)
* Google Scholar profile:
  * Revise where to put a link to the GRASS GIS Google Scholar profile in the website with a note inviting people to add their published work using GRASS GIS to the profile via completing a form (TODO Anna). See [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/issues/149 this issue] for current status.
* Open Collective:
  * We removed the community meeting tier and re-organized the others.
  * We edited the About section inviting people to contribute.
  * Ask Michael Smith to to check his account (it is duplicated) and edit Moritz's role (inform him first).
* Community, Sponsors and support on the website (Vero)
  * Comment out mundialis and NCSU, undo the rename which leads to invalid html, re-base and push again.
  * Remove wiki from the pull down menu under support.
* GRASS GIS physical artifacts
  * involve Peter Löwe to create a catalog with physical and digital GRASS GIS historic items.
* GRASS GIS merchandising
  * Ask OSGeo board again about the status of the red-bubble account