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

[Hernán De Angelis]

On 2021-02-09 21:09, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> 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! :-)
>
Yes!  Congratulations to the new PSC!

/H.