First of all, thanks for the nomination. After starting to use GRASS GIS as a student in 1993, in early 1998 I saw the need to set up a "European GRASS site" at the University of Hannover, which quickly developed into an international development team. Since 1998 I have maintained the various site installations (Hannover, Trento; then USA, mainly together with Martin Landa), fortunately today based on hugo. While in1998 I was still doing the source code management manually (the "patch by email" system, so to speak), then at the end of 1999 we switched first to CVS, then SVN and now finally to git/GitHub. I'm very happy about the git migration, as we are increasingly seeing new developers and more contributions. I also find the (automated) code quality tests great.
My project activities include presenting at conferences, some teaching, code sprint participation, bug fixing, user support, infrastructure management, co-maintaining the Twitter account, release management, project funding, etc. As before in my research group in Italy, also in my company mundialis we stick to open source software and donate in-kind development hours to OSGeo (i.e. developer hours leading to code contributions: new GRASS GIS addons, fixes and continuation and extension of actinia, originally developed by Sören Gebbert). I am co-founder of GRASS GIS e.V. (today FOSSGIS), GFOSS.it and OSGeo. I believe that the new PSC could benefit from different members taking on roles to better handle the tasks at hand, (see also the old page: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles) With my diverse interests, I would be interested in sharing my experience in project management (but not necessarily as the chairperson!), contact with business, infrastructure management, and financial matters. For sure I am happy to support new faces in the PSC, being elected or not. I would be happy to see as much as possible implemented from the PSC agenda, perhaps with frequent meetings to keep the pace. And more outreach and marketing, to highlight the powerful software and its beautiful community I enjoy for decades! Best wishes, Markus -- Markus Neteler, PhD https://www.mundialis.de - free data with free software https://grass.osgeo.org https://courses.neteler.org/blog _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user