Thank you so much for all your efforts Tim! And Paolo and Marco,
congratulations with your new PSC jobs, and good luck of course! And to
all PSC members, nice having you around for another 2 years!
Regards,
Raymond
On 11-04-18 01:09, Tim Sutton wrote:
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!
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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.
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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 <http://OPENGIS.ch> which I founded in
2011. Since 2015 I share the company ownership with Matthias Kuhn. At
OPENGIS.ch <http://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.
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[1]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rsjw6MJGnEHV6czL2CtLVJmCl7MPMY57/view?usp=sharing
Regards
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*Tim Sutton*
Outgoing QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
t...@qgis.org <mailto:t...@qgis.org>
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