History

Agenda

  • Governance
    • Membership
      • Term of members - 1 year with rotating expiration
      • Term of chair - 1 year, elected by standing members of the psc
      • Requirements -
      • Process for electing a new member - community nomination and election
      • Fill the seat left by resignation - nominations to be opened immediately
      • Fill 2 positions 1 July
    • PSC Working Practice
      • Meetings - held on IRC, open to everyone but only PSC members have voice until the question/answer period
      • What we delegate
      • What we do
      • When is a vote of the PSC required
      • What issues require a community vote
    • Handling donations and funds
    • Working with commercial entites
      • Can we set up a more formal way to work with them - e.g. 'premier support channel' etc. with the agreement that they contribute to a QGIS support fund which can be used at PSC discretion.
  • OSGeo Incubation
  • Server hosting - should / could we move stuff to telascience or OSGEO (assuming they will have us...)
  • Vision
  • Development Strategy
    • Maintain stable API
    • Formalization of process
    • Use RFCs? prototype template: FeaturePlanNotice

Notes

PSC Roles

  • Chairperson: To support the activities and present a public face to the project. To issue press releases, conduct interviews, collaborate with PSC members and provide stability and guidance to the project.
  • Community Advisor: To further building of relations with the community. To ensure smooth running of the QGIS.org online experience including web sites, blog, mailing lists, forums etc. To achieve these aims he / she will recruit and advice 'managers' to curate these individual online services and provide oversight for their activities.
  • Technical Advisor: To provide oversight and guidance to the development effort. This will include recruiting and facilitiating 'managers' for discrete areas of the code based (core, gui, plugins, providers, tests) who will ensure consistency and quality of code added into the SVN code repository.
  • Financial and Marketing Adviser: To provide reporting and explore avenues of revenue for the QGIS project. To liase with business to secure funding for future efforts. To identify areas where funding is needing and put into place actions to secure this funding. To keep track of funding when its eventually managed by OSGEO or similar. To present the PSC with financial options for any initiative requiring funding.
  • Release Manager: To oversee timely, regular, stable releases of QGIS on the various supported platforms. To recruit and support build managers to create packages for supported platforms. To oversee the maintainance of the trac bug tracking system.