Congratulations to the new chair and vice-chair!
Regards Régis 2018-04-11 1:09 GMT+02:00 Tim Sutton <t...@kartoza.com>: > Dear QGIS Community > > We recently held our 2018 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this > meeting are available [1] for all to view. > > As I have previously announced, I have decided to step down as chair of > the PSC this year, so this email is my last official act as QGIS Chair. > Thank you all for the kind words and deeds of support you gave me during my > time as project chair. I would like to welcome our new QGIS Board Chair: > Paolo Cavallini, and our new QGIS Board Vice-Chair and QGIS PSC Member, > Marco Bernasocchi. In case you are not familiar with Paolo and Marco, you > can find short introductions to them below. I am pleased also to say that > the project governance is in good hands with Richard Duivenvoorde, Jürgen > Fischer, Andreas Neumann and Anita Graser kindly making themselves > available to serve on the PSC for another two years. It is also great to > know that our project founder, Gary Sherman, continues to serve on the PSC > as honorary PSC member. Gary set the standard for our great project culture > and it is great to have his continued presence. QGIS has been growing from > strength to strength, backed by a really amazing community of kind and > collaborative users, developers, contributors and funders. I am looking > forward to seeing how it continues to grow and flourish and I am excited > and confident it will do so with Paolo acting as the project chair and > representative. Rock on QGIS! > > ————————— > > Paolo Cavallini: > > I got involved in QGIS long ago, first as an user, then more and more > deeply in various activities, initiating and supporting various plugins and > core functions (e.g. GDAL Tools, DB Manager), opening and managing bugs, > taking care of GRASS modules, handling the trademark registration, etc . I > acted as Finance and Marketing Advisor for several years. Currently I > manage the plugin approval process. > > Motivation: It's such a pleasure building up, in a truly cooperative and > democratic way, together with truly intelligent people, a tool that enables > people to freely do their job or pursue their interests, that I > cannot resist helping as much as I can. > > ————————— > > > Marco Bernasocchi (http://berna.io @mbernasocchi) > > I am an open source advocate, consultant, teacher and developer. My > background is in geography with a specialization in geographic information > science. I live in Switzerland in a small Romansh speaking mountain village > where I love scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of > freedom it gives me. I’m a very communicative person, I fluently speak > Italian, German, French English and Spanish and love travelling. > > I work as director of OPENGIS.ch which I founded in 2011. Since 2015 I > share the company ownership with Matthias Kuhn. At OPENGIS.ch LLC we (4 > superstar devs and myself) develop, train and consult our client on any > aspect related to QGIS. > > My first QGIS (to be correct for that time QuantumGIS) ever was “Simon > (0.6)” during my BSc when the University of Zurich was teaching us > propriertary products and I started looking around for Open > Source alternatives. In 2008, when starting my MSc, I made the definitive > switch to ubuntu and I started working more and more with QGIS Metis (0.11) > and ended developing some plugins and part of Globe as my Masters thesis. > Since three years the University of Zurich invites me to hold two seminars > on Entrepreneurship and Open Source. In November 2011 I attended my first > Hackfest in Zürich where I started porting all QGIS dependencies > and developing QGIS for Android under a Google Summer of Code. A couple of > years and a lot of work later QField was born. Since then I’ve always tried > to attend at least to one Hackfest per year to be able to feel first hand > the strong bonds within our very welcoming community. > > In 2013 i was lucky enough to have a release named after a suggestion I > saved you all from having QGIS 2.0 - Hönggerberg and giving you instead > QGIS 2.0 - Dufour > > Beside my long story with QGIS as user and passionate advocate I have a > long story as QGIS service provider where we are fully committed to its > stability, feature richness and sustainable development. Furthermore, as > WorldBank consultant I am lucky enough to be sent now and then to spread > the QGIS goodness in less fortunate countries. > > Motivation: > > One of my main motivation to be part of the PSC is to help QGIS keep this > incredible growth rate by being even more attractive to new community > members, sponsors and large/corporate users. To achieve this, key is > maintaining the right balance between sustainable processes (that guarantee > the great quality QGIS has been known for) and an interesting and > motivating grassroot project where community members can bloom and enjoy > contributing in their most creative ways. > > > ————————— > > > > [1] > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rsjw6MJGnEHV6czL2CtLVJmCl7MPMY57/view?usp=sharing > > > Regards > > > > > > --- > > *Tim Sutton* > Outgoing QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair > t...@qgis.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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