Linda’s path in her own words From enhancing first time user experience to Single-Window in GRASS GIS I started contributing to GRASS GIS in the summer of 2020 as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project “Creation of a new GRASS GIS startup mechanism”, which I applied for as a complete programming illiterate. Although I felt a bit clumsy at first, with the great help of my mentors, I managed to significantly improve the GRASS data catalog.