Dear GRASS community, first of all I would like to thank Vero for nominating me for the next PSC term!
My GRASS story started around 2002 when I was studying at the university. Later in the year 2005 when I started studying for my PhD I used GRASS in my GIS and remote sensing lessons. It was fun, I taught students how to zoom and pan in a map window by GRASS command line tools like d.pan and d.zoom. It was an adventure:-) In 2007 and 2008 I had a chance to work together with Markus Neteler in Fondazione Bruno Kessler (thanks Markus for introducing me to the GRASS community, it was a great time in Trento!). I started developing a new generation of GRASS GUI which is called wxGUI. I became a core wxGUI developer for several years. When I returned to my university in Prague I continued in my GRASS mission. Plenty of students of mine contributed to GRASS development under my supervision. Let me name some of them - Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Stepan Turek, Matej Krejci, Tereza Fiedlerova, Ondrej Pesek, Linda Kladivova and others. I hope it was fun for them, at least the same as for me. I also helped to migrate GRASS source code from CVS to Subversion in 2008 and recently to Git (GitHub). I became a core GRASS depeloper, I contributed eg. to the vector library by adding support for PostGIS Topology. I am also maintaining UbuntuGIS PPA and WinGRASS packages. I was also several times involved in Google Summer of Code, I started as a student (oh, it's so long time ago:-) and later became a mentor or co-mentor. It was always fun to meet my GRASS friends on code/community sprints, oh, so nice social events! Such nice memories make me happier in these days of social distance. Unfortunately last year I didn't have so much time for contributing to GRASS. It doesn't mean that I forgot about you - a great GRASS community. GRASS still stays in my heart. There are nowadays many much more active people than me who were nominated to PSC. It's a good sign of a stable and mature GRASS community! Martin -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
