PSC Meeting 2025-02-14
Participants
- Anna Petrasova
- Helmut Kudrnovsky
- Huidae Cho
- Linda Karlovska
- Nicklas Larsson
- Paulo van Breugel
- Vaclav Petras
- Veronica Andreo
Agenda
The topics proposed are:
- Communication means related:
- Further mailman transition to discourse.osgeo.org (grass-user, grass-psc, ...): plans?
- Close "Gitter" channels in favor of discourse.osgeo.org?
- Closure of grass-web? Archive https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-web and update related web entries to point to discourse
- Budget:
- GRASS GIS Budget 2025
- Application to NumFocus submitted.
- Tutorials:
- Status of new GRASS GIS tutorials at https://grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/: who maintains it and how to get further content into it
- Releases:
- Release of GRASS GIS 8.4.1 GH milestone
- related discussion
- GRASS GIS 8.4.1RC1: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.4.1RC1 (please test it)
- NSF Grant:
- Latest updates on NSF POSE are in the timeline.
- Upcoming events:
- March: FOSSGIS 2025
- "Stand des GRASS GIS Projekts: Neuigkeiten und Perspektiven" has been shrunk to a 5min talk :( (see conf program). MN finds this ridiculous and complained to the FOSSGIS organizers but nothing...
- May: Dev Summit in Raleigh
- FOSS4G Europe 2025 Mostar - anyone presenting?
- Others...
- March: FOSSGIS 2025
- Marketing related:
- Report on first experiences with our paid Publer account
- rgrass maintenance shift from Roger Bivand to Steven Pawley incl. new rgrass URL -> news on website + social media
- Code signed and notarised GRASS GIS 8.4 Mac binary -> news on website + social media
- new OSGeo subdomain for GRASS GIS tutorials: https://grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/ -> news on website + social media
- new GRASS logo and branding feedback
- Other:
- CMake support: current status and discussion on how to proceed
- Contribution Licence Agreement? See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2024-December/002960.html
Minutes
- Communication:
- Migration of user and psc lists to Discourse: the ticket was created, we are waiting for OSGeo budget to be approved as we depend on SAC
- Closing Gitter: It is mostly used during code sprints and has proved to be handy. In any case, we agreed, we should only keep channels that we can maintain since we have pretty limited manpower to check all channels. We agreed to go back to this topic once all our mailing lists are migrated to Discourse.
- grass-web: We agreed on closing it, but we need to wait until grass-user is migrated to Discourse.
- Budget:
- It was submitted in December, we are waiting for OSGeo response.
- NumFocus: Proposal submitted by NCSU folks, waiting for results.
- Tutorials page:
- POSE folks working on it, the site is now up and running
- The contribution and testing workflows need to be clarified ( #19) before the announcement.
- Once the announcement is ready (volunteers?), we post on social media.
- We agreed that the grass-website GitHub team will also manage grass-tutorials
- Release 8.4.1:
- We bumped issues to 8.4.2
- All: please review and test.
- GSoC 2025:
- Page created https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GSoC_Ideas_2025
- All: Add your ideas and volunteer to mentor
- Linda presented a doc with GUI ideas for Student grants or GSoC. Some include:
- Shortcuts in the GUI
- More enhancements to the History panel
- Drag and drop in GUI
- Jupyter within the GUI
- Linda will move the content of the doc linked above to issues grouping tasks that can then be assigned to students as tests or altogether become a project in GitHub and/or a project for students' grants or GSoC
- POSE:
- Migration of html documentation:
- Almost done, but it’s complicated, addons and deployment need to be finished
- As with tutorials, we should write an announcement and then post on social media.
- Publer:
- VA presented the analytics from Publer website, the most active and engaging social network seems to be LinkedIn.
- GRASS logo:
- Drop the GIS part? VP sent the motion on this to PSC. All: Please vote.
- NCSU POSE folks hired Sarah White to work on it
- Vashek presented an analysis of GRASS logos in the wild, our logo is complex and the trend is going towards simpler logos.
- Presentation was shared with PSC
- There will be a “proposal” with the new logo so PSC votes on it.
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