[GRASS-PSC] PSC Candidate Statement - Edouard Choinière

[Edouard Choinière]

Dear community,

I’m Edouard Choinière and honoured to be nominated for a position on the GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee. I’ve been following GRASS development for a couple years now but started to actively participate since the last year. I’m passionate about open-source, but geospatial and weather data always had a bigger place in my heart. A small part of my work now involves handling geospatial data. I’ve studied robotic engineering at Université de Sherbrooke (Québec), where software engineering is part of the degree. It prepared me to be confident enough to participate in open-source projects, finally being able to be giving back. Since then, I also started to help maintain Megalinter, where we package linters for 60+ languages, 20+ formats, and 20+ tooling formats in an integrated fashion, allowing me to have contact with the practices in each of these ecosystems.

At its core, robotic engineering is a cross-discipline work, where ideas from one field end up helping another; this is exactly what I feel I bring to the GRASS project. Coming from other backgrounds, I tend to see differently the situations.

My main priorities as a member in the Project Steering Committee would be
* Focusing on solutions to problems
* Aiming for more efficient processes in the project’s development and maintenance (GitHub-wise).
* Having a greater experience on Windows, starting with better testing and parity with Linux feature support, then Hi-DPI support.
* Respect of other languages in our i18n decisions and work, as not only English grammar should guide our development.

Thanks again for my nomination,
Edouard Choinière