[GRASS-PSC] Elections results and new GRASS GIS PSC

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Moritz, can you also tweet this from the @GRASSGIS account?

thanks,

-jeff






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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: MapServer Consulting and Training Services
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/



On 2021-02-09 3:16 p.m., 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/
> 
>