PSC Meeting 2025-05-09

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Helmut Kudrnovsky
• Huidae Cho
• Linda Karlovska
• Markus Neteler
• Paulo van Breugel
• Vaclav Petras
• Veronica Andreo

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Hosting of GRASS server at OSL, Oregon State University. See: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/.
• Financial Sponsoring via NumFocus. Status update.
• Conda update
• GRASS Developer Summit Raleigh 2025, NC.
  • Remote participation?
  • Schedule
• Status of new docs: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-devel/manuals/
• Status of doc and macOS uploads.
• Status of new branding.
  • The main logo on wiki needs server-side update. Current file is https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/w/skins/common/images/grasslogo_wiki.png?3fa1b. (Also, this goes to mapping relation with OSGeo SAC.)
    • 7th May 2025: markusN has updated the logo on the wiki
• Wiki status
  • The Main Page needs a major update and, more importantly, a complete change of approach
  • Ohloh_Project Widget is broken: Widget:Ohloh_Project used in Software requirements specification
    • 7th May 2025: markusN has been updated from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets, error messages here disappeared but the widget is not rendered yet. More time to be spent.
    • VP: Consider if we actually want Widget:Ohloh_Project or Widgets.
  • There is no favicon.
    • 7th May 2025: markusN has added the favicon on the wiki
• Website
  • we have notable SEO issues on the website which penalize our search engine ranking.
• GSoC.
• Shall we consider applying to Outreachy, too? See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2025-March/010525.html.

Minutes

• From previous meeting:
  • mailman migration to discourse:
    • The grass-user mailing list has been migrated to Discourse. We can now close grass-web that receives spam mostly.
    • Markus will disable it and put into read-only mode
    • Anna will remove it from the website
    • We should add a “Contact us” something to the website → improve website footer
    • For now we keep grass-psc list on mailman, but we are considering merging it to developer in discourse as subscribers are pretty much the same (that is, close down the mailing list). We also keep grass-announce on mailman.
    • We decided to change the grass-stats and grass-translation mailing lists to read-only mode to reduce channel confusion. Markus will do this as he has permission.
  • tutorials contributing guide: a [PR] is there, but it seems useless. Vero volunteers to work on it; we are still trying to figure out the workflow (i.e., what to commit and so on).