[GRASS-PSC] GRASS PSC elections 2026 — Nomination of Brendan Harmon

[Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS PSC election 2026]

Dear members of the GRASS community,

Brendan Harmon has accepted a nomination by Vaclav Petras:

Brendan Harmon is an associate professor of landscape architecture at 
Louisiana State University where he specializes in spatial science, 
computational design, and robotics. He authored the addons r.sim.terrain 
and r.earthworks, both described in peer-reviewed papers. He wrote seven 
tutorials for the GRASS tutorials website, including a series on terrain 
modeling with r.earthworks and getting started with GRASS for Conda. His 
"GIS for Designers" course, which prominently features GRASS, is also 
listed there, with a YouTube playlist of 12 videos with thousands of 
views. He maintains two global datasets based on Natural Earth, a basic 
one downloadable through GUI and a full one on the GRASS website co- 
maintained with Paulo van Breugel, and has more datasets on Zenodo. He 
contributed a color table, images, and citation file updates to the main 
and website repos. He is an active tester, reporting bugs and requesting 
features, recently many for GRASS on Conda. His work resulted in 38 pull 
requests and 51 issues across the GRASS repositories. He took part in 
the GRASS Developers Summit in 2025. Brendan brings a designer and 
educator perspective to the community.

-- 
Hernán De Angelis

Chief Return Officer (CRO)
GRASS election 2026