[GRASS-PSC] PSC Meeting minutes - May 13th, 2022

[Anna Petrášová]

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 4:01 AM Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
wrote:

> Hi !
>
> Le 13 mai 2022 23:21:07 GMT+02:00, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> >Dear all,
> >
> >Here are the PSC meeting minutes of our meeting today, May 13, 2022:
> >https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Minutes/PSC_Meeting_20220513
>
> Thanks for those minutes!
>
> A few remarks:
>
> - No GSoC students: do we have an idea about why so few applications? Any
> ideas on how to improve that?
>

We got 2 applications, in one case the student never engaged anybody and in
the other the student didn't pass the test Vashek gave them. There were
couple of email threads on the general mentor list that noted lower
engagement this year with possible reasons varying from low stipend, covid,
changed rules, and badly designed GSoC page. On the other hand, the GSoC
administrators reported higher number of applications than usual. So I
don't know. I believe the best case for us is when a student personally
connected to a GRASS dev/community member applies. We should also think
about how to reach a CS community, but GSoC stipend might not be as
competitive as it used to be, so the student motivation needs to be about
joining open source community, not just money.


>
> - Sponsorship rules : please be aware that AFAIK such rules are
> country-specific, so what counts as compensation for money received and
> what that means in terms of the money being subject to VAT will have to be
> checked on a case-by-case basis.
>
> - In the email announcing that I wasn't able to attend I suggested two
> points, but they don't seem to have been covered:
>
>    1) Did you discuss any form of communication strategy about the student
> grant results with a specific eye on motivating donations ?
>
>    2) If we want to claim the money budgeted for GRASS GIS in the OSGeo
> budget, we need an official decision of the PSC. Did you discuss this?
>
> I would also like to ask if anyone else would like to take over the role
> of treasurer. It's not a very time-consuming job, but I need to reduce my
> mental load. An important issue is to consolidate the reorganization of our
> accounts (currently we have money left in the €-based PayPal money pool
> linked to my personal PayPal account and a $-based account at
> Opencollective), knowing that we have interactions in both currencies.
>
> Moritz
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