Dear GRASS GIS community, I am honoured to be nominated for the PSC. I am a geographer (Dr.geog.) and self-taught programmer. My first introduction to GRASS was around autumn of 2004 (5.x time). I remember being fascinated by its 3D visualisation capabilities. I decided to get to know GRASS better although the learning curve at that time was really steep. Within recent years there has been a lot of work done to make GRASS user friendly, especially for inexperienced users. This is great as now getting started with GRASS requires little effort in comparison to "good ol' days".
As a member of PSC I plan to keep an eye on meeting power user requirements. We can not compete with QGIS (or a well known proprietary GIS) in terms of man and financial power and thus main focus of GRASS should be on its strengths – being a powerful and versatile geospatial data analysis toolset. Any user-friendliness improvements should not take away power from its power users. As a native speaker of large language (Latvian with ~1M native speakers), I am proud to have GRASS GIS in Latvian. As long as I will be involved with GRASS, I plan to keep an eye on GRASS being any language friendly. Māris Nartišs. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev