PSC Meeting 2024-05-10

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Vaclav Petras
• Veronica Andreo
• Helmut Kudrnovsky
• Markus Neteler
• Helena Mitasova
• Huidae Cho
• Martin Landa

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Review past minutes and action points
• Motion: Approve Support Letter for LoC of FOSS4G 2025 Hiroshima (VP)
  • Should the letter say "Approved by PSC motion on May 10, 2024."?
• Google Summer of Code 2024: We got 4 students! Thanks to mentors!
• OSGeo credit card for OSGeo Weblate (VP and MN)
• Budget, ledger (VP)
  • Tracking community meetings
    • The project contributes from OC.
    • People contribute to project's OC (to the sprint through the project).
  • Tracking OSGeo budget
  • Tracking Open Collective contributions
  • Tracking Open Collective extras (payment processor fees, financial contributions to OC)
• Community meeting in Prague
  • GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024#Agenda agenda
  • GRASS_Community_Meeting_Prague_2024#Participation participants
  • funding
  • social activities?
• RFCs:
  • release policy
  • release procedure
• PR procedures and status of the too many open PRs
• Release 8.4
• Participation in upcoming conferences/workshops
• Update on POSE?
• Transition to discourse.osgeo.org
• ...

Minutes

• From previous meeting:
  • Markus' private credit card removed from weblate and replaced with that of OSGeo
  • Document GitHub teams and how to move people between teams - not done yet
• Approved Support Letter for LoC of FOSS4G 2025 Hiroshima
• GSoC 2024 discussed, there is a prepared news item to be released later this month
• Budget:
  • track money from OSGeo separately, in the past this hasn’t been tracked since it is not in our bucket
  • tracked in google drive, use OSGeo nextcloud folder as our archive; exporting ledger status once per year
• Community meeting 2024:
  • OSGeo and FOSSGIS e.V. approved our requests for funding, thanks to those involved!
  • Agenda is WIP, please review and invite people to join proposed discussions
  • Action: Martin will organize some social activities (i.e., 3 dinners out).
• Plan code sprint 2025 at NCSU - May seems to be good, more planning during community meeting
• Upcoming PSC elections
  • Who votes:
    • who has write access to GRASS repositories
    • who contributed to Transifex/Weblate
    • PR (merged?) contributors
    • we can't include financial contributors, we don't have their emails
    • folks mentioned in contributing files
  • We need to provide Hernan with a clean list so he get everything ready on time and there are no duplicates
  • See decisions made on 2021-02-03 about who votes and who will step down.
• RFCs on release policy and procedures
  • Action: all please provide comments about the content
• 8.4 release
  • go through 13 left PRs
  • goal: release before community sprint in June (Prague), create branch next week
• Discussion about supporting 7.8
  • officially we don't support it anymore, too old, but we accept bug fixes and help with release
  • potentially implement notification about old/newer version when you open GUI
  • g.extension in 7.8 needs a backport from 8.3 to re-enable the CI
• Move to discourse.osgeo.org - wait for QGIS to finish transition, Vero will ask Regis about their timeline (Done, awaiting for his answer)
• Forgot to mention:
  • Documentation work group met this week (Vero, Anna and 3 other community members) to discuss tutorials
• Postponed: PR procedures and status of the too many open PRs, POSE project update.

Next meeting

Will happen during GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2024