PSC Meeting 2023-08-11

Participants

TBD

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Past events
  • Community meeting Prague 2023 aftermath
  • FOSS4G 2023, ​State of GRASS GIS, Martin Landa (done, ​video, ​slides ​slides source)
• Future events
  • FOSS4G North America 2023, Baltimore, MD, Oct 23-25 (3 talks, 2 workshops)
  • ​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, volunteer(s)?
• Call for student grants?
  • Determine topics.
    • Convert manuals to markdown and use readthedocs/mkdocs
    • Have some "technical writing" topics? Homogenization of man pages needed, more examples and screenshots (generated with notebook)
  • 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?
• Review and update Open Collective
  • what is the question?
• Add (and/or link) press release to the wiki
  • which wiki?
• Start collecting reports on physical artifacts
  • involve Peter Löwe
• Come up with an official way to add items to Google Scholar profile (​https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ).

Minutes

TBD