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<p>[Online version of this announcement: <a
href="https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2021_02_05_new_grass_psc/">https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2021_02_05_new_grass_psc/</a>]
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<h3 id="new-grass-gis-project-steering-committee" style="box-sizing:
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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">New
GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee</h3>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">By
the end of last year, the GRASS GIS project called for PSC members
election. A total of<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:
border-box;">13 GRASS GIS contributors</em><span> </span>were
nominated by the community to cover the nine PSC positions.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
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font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">After
the election itself, the new GRASS GIS PSC is composed of the
following nine members ranked by number of votes:</p>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Markus Neteler (95)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Anna Petrášová (88)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helena Mitášová (86)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Martin Landa (83)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Verónica Andreo (76)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moritz Lennert (74)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Václav Petráš (68)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Michael Barton (58)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Huidae Cho (56)</li>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
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font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">For
completeness, all relevant candidacy communications, as well as
details about the voting process, have been published at:<span> </span><a
href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020"
class="ext" target="_blank"
title="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--grass-color);
text-decoration: none !important; background-color: transparent;
cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020</a></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
1rem; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8;
font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">On
behalf of the GRASS GIS project, we would like to thank<span> </span><em
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hernán De Angelis</em><span> </span>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,<span> </span><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">CONGRATS to
everyone!</strong></p>
<h3 id="new-psc-chair-person" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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text-decoration-color: initial;">New PSC chair person</h3>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
1rem; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8;
font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">There’s
yet one more change to report. GRASS GIS PSC has a new chair
person:<span> </span><a href="https://veroandreo.gitlab.io/"
class="ext" target="_blank" title="Veronica Andreo"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--grass-color);
text-decoration: none !important; background-color: transparent;
cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Veronica
Andreo</strong></a>. 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!</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
1rem; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8;
font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We
want to acknowledge and thank<span> </span><a
href="https://www.mundialis.de/neteler/" class="ext"
target="_blank" title="Markus Neteler" style="box-sizing:
border-box; color: var(--grass-color); text-decoration: none
!important; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;
transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Markus Neteler</strong></a><span> </span>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!</p>
<h3 id="psc-roles-tasks" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top:
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text-decoration-color: initial;">PSC roles & tasks</h3>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
1rem; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8;
font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In
addition to the chair role, in the first<span> </span><a
href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC" class="ext"
target="_blank" title="PSC" style="box-sizing: border-box;
color: var(--grass-color); text-decoration: none !important;
background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all
0.2s ease 0s;">PSC</a><span> </span>meeting, we have defined
some basic areas/tasks and PSC members responsible for them:</p>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Treasurer - Moritz</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Release manager - Markus,
Martin</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Infrastructure manager -
Markus</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Translation manager - Huidae</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Website & Marketing
manager - Michael, Vero</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Github manager - Vaclav</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
1rem; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8;
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font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Of
course, <span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: bolder;">everyone is invited to join and contribute</strong><span> </span>in
these and other areas:<span> </span><a
href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles" class="ext"
target="_blank"
title="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--grass-color);
text-decoration: none !important; background-color: transparent;
cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles</a>.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
1rem; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8;
font-family: open_sansregular; font-style: normal;
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em
style="box-sizing: border-box;">The GRASS Development Team, Feb
2021</em></p>
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