PSC Meeting 2023-11-10

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Helena Mitasova
• Veronica Andreo
• Huidae Cho
• Martin Landa
• Michael Barton
• Vaclav Petras

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Review ​past minutes and action points
• Call for student grants
  • Topics, dates, mentors, potential candidates
• Budget status
  • treasurer report (treasurer travelling back from BIDS conf)
  • Reimbursements procedure
  • Start thinking on budget for 2024
• Past 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)
• Future events
  • FOSS4G-Asia 2023 Seoul (Nov 28 - Dec 2)
  • FOSSGIS 2024: MN may submit a "State of GRASS GIS" talk
  • Next GRASS GIS virtual sprint
  • Next GRASS GIS in-person sprint
• Releases
  • Release procedure too slow due to always waiting for CI. A release takes > 5 hs.
  • Zenodo DOI not working. Who knows the Zenodo credentials?
• RFCs
  • ​PR 2816 RFC: Python Language Support is adopted but not yet merged
  • Number RFC files in the source code? (Overall, RFC procedure seems to be missing.)
  • Pending: ​PR 2815 RFC: Release Procedure
  • Pending: ​PR 2813 RFC: Errata
• Accounts
  • ​Grass-Development-Team registered on Codeberg.org (report on ​grass-psc)
• PRs
  • Complains about too many open PRs
  • GRASS: 124, GDAL 10, QGIS 43, PROJ 3, OSGeoLive 0, torvalds/linux 309, apache/spark 232, apache/sedona 1
• Renaming Location to Project
  • ​GitHub OSGeo Project 2, ​Issue #3121, 5 PRs
  • ​Document about Renaming location to project
    • To be send to grass-dev and grass-user by VP
• Extras
  • MN tries to change the grasswiki authentication from local system (spammed to death) to OSGeo-LDAP (like wiki.osgeo.org). Trac-SAC ticket is pending
  • mailman: strk wants to change the mailman behaviour and strip off the [Listname] prefix and email footer. See Trac-SAC for details (DKIM and DMARC).

Minutes

• We reviewed last minutes and set new action points
  • Ask Michael Smith to remove Moritz from OpenCollective and check his duplicate account
• Student grants:
  • We'll offer USD 4k, max per stipend/project is USD 1K, but it can be less.
  • Yann Chemin offered himself as mentor.
  • Michael Barton will add a couple of ideas to the ​wiki.
  • News item about student grants was merged, so the call is on.
  • All: spam it around.
• Budget:
  • Martin will ask Angelos if those participating of the Vienna code sprint can be reimbursed directly from OSGeo money.
  • Budget for 2024:
    • Code sprint in Prague before/after FOSS4G Europe. We would need less money than in 2023, because POSE money might cover part of it.
    • Travel money to other conferences.
    • Student grants.
    • Swag.
  • Set up a call with Markus to do the number crunching.
• Past events:
  • FOSS4G-NA: People willing to pay for the t-shirt but not add more money to it.
  • OSGeo code sprint in Vienna.
• Future events:
  • FOSS4G Asia: Huidae will attend.
  • FOSS4G Europe, July 2024.
  • Code sprint in Prague before/after FOSS4G Europe 2024.
• Releases:
  • Vashek: check on Zenodo to get the DOI working again for new releases.
  • Release procedure agenda item was postponed.
• RFCs:
  • Python Language support was merged, the rest was postponed as they require more time to discuss.
• Accounts:
  • We don't know who is behind ​https://codeberg.org/Grass-Development-Team. It's empty.
• PRs:
  • Too many open PRs, this is not motivating for newcomers that invest time in creating the PRs.
  • Martin did a comprehensive analysis of open PRs status in this ​doc
  • We discussed the need to set up some rules to deal with open PRs while maintaining code quality, eg. if you create a PR and have writing access to the repo, you are automatically responsible for that PR, if you get an approval and no request for changes, go ahead and merge; for those without writing access, we should split topics, and take care of reviews or assign reviewers, set a period to wait for a response from PR author to merge or close the PR, etc.
  • All: think and write up rules for managing PRs in this ​issue.
• Location --> Project:
  • Send executive summary of Vashek’s location document to mailing list and link the full thing to get more feedback.
• Swag shop:
  • Red bubble: base price does not include their fees, it helps with marketing, people can search keywords and they are offered options.
  • Smtg with spring: easier pricing system, but no way people can reach your store with keywords: ​https://my-store-9f5dbe.creator-spring.com/listing/gdal
  • ​https://qgis.myspreadshop.net/
  • Vero: Check with Ariel what they used for FOSS4G 2021, since RB does not deliver to South America.
    • They used different options (​https://2021.foss4g.org/attending/merchandise.html): FlashCookie (Only Argentina), RedBubble and CafePress (most of the world).
  • Try to set up a store.
• Extras:
  • grasswiki authentication: Anna pinged Regina and Vicky in the ​SAC-trac ticket.
    • mainly working now (on staging server)
  • mailman issue: postponed, more context needed.
• Create a news item with GRASS yearly recap and do a end of year virtual toast as the last couple of years.