Moritz Lennert wrote > [Online version of this announcement: > https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2021_02_05_new_grass_psc/ > <https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2021_02_05_new_grass_psc/>] > > > New GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee > > By the end of last year, the GRASS GIS project called for PSC members > election. A total of/13 GRASS GIS contributors/were nominated by the > community to cover the nine PSC positions. > > After the election itself, the new GRASS GIS PSC is composed of the > following nine members ranked by number of votes: > > * Markus Neteler (95) > * Anna Petrášová (88) > * Helena Mitášová (86) > * Martin Landa (83) > * Verónica Andreo (76) > * Moritz Lennert (74) > * Václav Petráš (68) > * Michael Barton (58) > * Huidae Cho (56) > > For completeness, all relevant candidacy communications, as well as > details about the voting process, have been published > at:https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020 > <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020> > > On behalf of the GRASS GIS project, we would like to thank/Hernán De > Angelis/who agreed to serve as Chief Returning Officer (CRO) and all > community members for their participation. Furthermore, we want to > acknowledge the contributions of former PSC members and all nominees. > The development of GRASS GIS is a collective effort and we are all part > of it regardless of our role. So,*CONGRATS to everyone!* > > > New PSC chair person > > There’s yet one more change to report. GRASS GIS PSC has a new chair > person:*Veronica Andreo* <https://veroandreo.gitlab.io/>. She works > as a > researcher in Argentina focusing on environmental drivers of > vector-borne disease outbreaks and works primarily with satellite > imagery and GIS-based time series analysis. For years, Vero has been > very active in the GRASS GIS project, especially with documenting > complex topics in a user friendly way, testing, development of the new > website, coding of addons, outreach, social media and more. She > regularly introduces GRASS GIS to new users and teaches introductory and > advanced courses and workshops. We thank Vero for accepting this > challenge! > > We want to acknowledge and thank*Markus Neteler* > <https://www.mundialis.de/neteler/>for his enormous efforts and > passionate work on pushing the GRASS GIS development for more than 20 > years. While Markus was re-elected as PSC member, he preferred to pass > on the position of chairperson to a new PSC member. Markus is one of the > long runners in the project, as he already started to discover the > software in 1993 as a student. In 1998, he set up a “European GRASS > site” at the University of Hannover, which evolved into an international > development team. From manual source code management, he was part of the > journey to a modern, GitHub-based development system including code > quality testing. Markus is known to be active in conferences, code > sprints, bug fixing, user support, infrastructure management, project > and release management, etc. He will continue to do so! > > > PSC roles & tasks > > In addition to the chair role, in the firstPSC > <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC>meeting, we have defined some > basic areas/tasks and PSC members responsible for them: > > * Treasurer - Moritz > * Release manager - Markus, Martin > * Infrastructure manager - Markus > * Translation manager - Huidae > * Website & Marketing manager - Michael, Vero > * Github manager - Vaclav > > Of course, *everyone is invited to join and contribute*in these and > other areas:https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles > <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles>. > > /The GRASS Development Team, Feb 2021/
congratulations to the new project PSC! let's keep GRASS GIS growing! :-) ----- best regards Helmut -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Grass-Users-f3884509.html _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user