<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="">Dear all</span><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Thank you all (Thomas, Andreas, Bernhard, Matthias, Marco B.) so much for your feedback regarding the statutes, and for doing so in such a short time frame. I have listed all the feedback below. Items with a dark black bullet have been dealt with. In most cases I have added a short comment prefixed with my name in bold for your reference. All the changes I have made are in the google doc with change tracking here:</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8TDT0pM/edit#" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8TDT0pM/edit#</a></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Tonight I plan to merge all of those changes, make a PDF and put it on loomio for adoption. I will be offline most of today, but I will check my email tonight for any last comments. PSC if you have any comments please let me know, otherwise can I assume you are all ok for me to put this document before the voting community for general vote?</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">QGIS Statutes</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Andreas</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 15px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Hi Tim,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Apparently, there has been some feedback (german user group?) about the charter.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Would you be able to share the feedback with me? I would like to review this feedback as well.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">--------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Some more issues:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Section 1:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">"The legally binding version of this document is translated in the german language." --> better:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">* Remove second points after "<a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a> Association". Or even better: the PSC should have its own iten number --> makes more sense. Perhaps PSC should be explained before "QGIS Board" because the QGIS Board says "A subset of the PSC" ... <b class="">Tim: Ok done (if I understood everything correctly)</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">* The sentence "QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) - The elected representatives of the QGIS community empowered with making day to day "decisions on behalf of the project." contradicts the definition of the board. The day to day decisions MUST be with the board - otherwise the whole PSC would be on the board. Only people registered in the trade registry can really do decisions (by law). The PSC can only have advisory status. So this sentence must be reworded that the PSC has "advisory character".</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I know this sounds like these three people on the board have a lot of power, but in practice we could have an internal rule (not in the charter) that the board has to honor/follow decisions of the PSC and of course from the voting members. <b class="">Tim: Ok makes sense to me</b></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Chair should also have its own item number.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">---------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">In section 5.2:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">* remove the empty bullet point. <b class="">Tim: Done</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">* Perhaps better re-order: Have the "QGIS User Group Voting Members" first before the "QGIS Community Voting members". Seems more logical to me, since it reads "For each user group voting member ..." Tim: Done</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I wonder if the role of the PSC needs to be better clarified in the charter? There are quite a few references to the PSC, but no real clarification what the PSC really is. <b class="">Tim: Done - I have added a special section for this</b></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Andreas</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 15px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Bernhard</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I admit I had not been active in discussing the current statutes, so I read the document for the first time now and the problems I address may be already present in the old version, too, and I assume there have been some discussions going on about some of them already. On the other hand my proposals thus are those of a non-biased outsider :-)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Proposal 1: Term "community"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: section 2 number 2. and the whole document</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: There is a definition of "QGIS User Community" as part of "QGIS Community" but there is no definition of "QGIS Community" itself, although throughout the document the term "QGIS Community" is used, even where "QGIS User Community" could have been used (section 5.5 second point "any active QGIS Community member"). Moreover the QGIS community (although unclear who belongs to it) is invited to attend the annual general meeting. I assume you meant both as synonyms but for me, as a first-time reader, this is very irritating. <b class="">Tim: OK I think that just dropping the term 'User' is good</b></li>
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</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: section 2</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: include a new number 2 like this: "QGIS Project - the development, maintenance and propagation of the GIS software QGIS and any other softwares in the official QGIS repositories as free software in the sense of the Free Software Foundation."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: a) needed to define "QGIS community" (see above) b) used in the definition of the "Chair"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Proposal 4: Term "QGIS Community voting members"</li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- referes to: section 5.1 number 1. and further</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: "QGIS Committers' voting members"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: I learnt that the "QGIS Community voting members" are neither nominated for nor elected by the QGIS community, as I would assume by the name, but the QGIS committers only. So they do not really represent the "QGIS Community" but the "QGIS Committers" (although they are recruited from the QGIS Community). I do not like my proposed term either, but the one currently used seems misleading. <b class="">Tim: This is not correct. Community voting members are nominated by the greater QGIS Community and elected by their fellow Voting Members.</b> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Proposal 5: State what the PSC is</li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: section 5 and further</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: rename section 5 to "QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC)", first sentence in section 5 should be something like "The PSC consists of voting members." <b class="">Tim: We propose that PSC are not voting members.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: AFAIU the voting members _are_ the PSC. In section 4 you define three legal entities but further down only the "Board" is described any further (and the "financial auditors" are referred to in sections 7 and 8). In section 5 the new term "Voting members" is introduced but it is totally unclear how they connect to the rest. E.g. section 6.3 states that the PSC votes for the chairperson but from the statutes it is unclear how the PSC itself is constituted. <b class="">Tim: I added an explicit section defining the PSC.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to section 6.4</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: move 6.4 to the section dealing with the PSC or merge with 5.6</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: section 4 defines the PSC and the Board as separate legal entities, hence there should not be anything about the PSC in the section dealing with the board. <b class="">Tim: Thanks</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: section 6.5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: duplicate this subsection and have one in the section dealing with the board and one in the section dealing with the PSC</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: same as proposal 7 <b class="">Tim: Done thanks</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: subsections 5.4 and 5.5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: exchange subsections 5.4 and 5.5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: Throughout section 5 the QGIS Community voting members are named first and the QGIS User group voting members are named second but the election and eligibility sections reverse this order, seems inconsistent.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Proposal 10: exchange sections 5 and 6 or the order in section 4</li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: sections 4, 5 and 6</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: exchange sections 5 and 6 or the order in section 4</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: section 4 lists the Board first and the PSC second, hence the section on the Board should be first and the section on the PSC second, or the order in section 4 be adapted accordingly. <b class="">Tim: I am not sure this applies any more given the other revisions I have made.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Now this got quite a long list, sorry ;-)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Hope it helps nevertheless.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Thomas</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Hi Tim, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">being CC'd by Bernhard seems to mean he wants me to comment. Well, I try (with the QGIS-DE statutes in mind), sorry for being so late on this.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I think I can follow the points Bernhard raises. The main problem seems to be the institutionalised relation between community and managing board/steering committee. To me Bernhards equalization of voting members and PSC is a misunderstanding though, but I can imagine, why he thinks so (see the reasoning of his proposal 5). </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">You define the PSC as "The elected representatives of the QGIS community empowered with making day to day decisions on behalf of the project." (section 2), so it is a managing group - which someone has to establisch. This is done by voting of the so called voting members (see section 7), which is an attempt of personalising/institutionalising 'the community'. Refering to your legal entity diagram [1] from this post[2], this voting role or function is directed to the term 'PSC', but in the charter text it semms to be connected (only) to 'the board' and it is IMHO also missing in section 5.2!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Appart from the wording, if this realation is the case, then these two institution are the (main) "organs" of the association and have to be found in section 4 "<a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a> Legal entities" (is 'legal entities' the right term here?). But in section 4 the 'voting members' or 'the community' respectively are missing. <b class="">Tim: I changed section 4 to list only the Board and financial advisors.</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I think a lot could be done by checking the wording: IMHO the term 'board' can be skiped and replaced by 'PSC' or 'Chair, Vice-chair and Treasurer' (as they are components of the PSC), because all important aspects of the 'board' stem from the three function roles Chair, Vice-chair and Treasurer. [Otherwise one could also skip 'PSC' for 'board' vice versa, if you like.] <b class="">Tim: Discussed above - the board is a construct to limit the Verein registration documentation to a footprint of 3 individuals.</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">In german law it is only importand that (the members of) the association establishes the statutory roles of Chair, Vice-chair and Treasurer, which become registered, so that outside the world can leagly interact and do business with the now "embodied" legal entity <a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a>. And if the QGIS community wants to have a lager group of people to manage and organise the project (like the PSC as we see it nowadays) this is totaly up to them, i.e. it's an _internal_ issue. This means there is no legal need for an extra hierachical 'board'-level and I would expect this to be the same in swiss law. <b class="">Tim: Correct the hierarchical board / PSC is simply a construct to limit the number of times we need to amend the Verain registration.</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Along with Bernhards proposals, the consequence of the above would be:</li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- section 6 becomes "QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC)" plus an additional sentence about its general job.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Tim: I have added an explicit section for the PSC, perhaps not exactly what you were asking for here but it makes the division clearer between board and PSC.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""> (including the persons accepting the office of Chair, Vice-chair and Treasurer?)." <b class="">Tim: The Chair/VC/Treasurer should be elected by the PSC in our view of things.</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- section 4: <a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a> instituions/organs</li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">a) Voting Members</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">b) Project Steering Committee</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="color: #454545" class="">[1] <a href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/178003/19094738/026c5a50-8a92-11e6-8e83-97dbc30fe6df.png" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/178003/19094738/026c5a50-8a92-11e6-8e83-97dbc30fe6df.png</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="color: #454545" class="">[2] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2016-October/004802.html" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2016-October/004802.html</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I hope these late thoughts are still helpful.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Bernhard</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: section 5.3</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: ?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: section 5.3 states (implicitely) that a voting membership last indefinitely until one of the three cases mentioned occurs. Case 2 reads "There is a motion and passed vote to remove the member" Who has the right of proposal? The board, the PSC or any voting member? Who decides? The board, the PSC or all voting members? Should be clarified.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Proposal 12: Definition of authorized representation of <a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- refers to: ?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- proposed change: ?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">- reasoning: Who represents <a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a> and is authorized to e.g. sign a treaty with third parties? Could be the chairperson (not advisible, if something happens to him/her there is no representation), any board member alone or any two of the board or all three board members. <b class="">(Tim: Added comment for Andreas to give his inputs in the doc)</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Now Thomas pointed me to the fact that there is a strict time plan because the SWISS authorities set some deadline for <a href="http://qgis.org/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">QGIS.ORG</span></a> becoming a "Verein". I understand that there are passages in the statutes that need not be in the German document and vice versa. Is the plan to fix the English statutes first and then translate relevant passages into German? Are these already in the statutes in a way accepted by SWISS authorities? Wouldn't it be easier to fix the German paper first, because it is the only legally relevant paper, and then translate the necessary parts into English and add what is needed? I CC this to Andreas for his opinion.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Denis:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Hi Tim,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">In 5.2, go for User Group Voting members first, as they are used in the definition of Community Voting members (currently first described).</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">In 7, missing a dot at the end of 1st sentence.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Still in 7, point 8: I would remove "definition" (of the statutes) and just keep revision. </li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Rephrase point 9 as the top sentence is "...deal with the following", so there should be no verb, right? maybe just: "any matter arising" ?</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I would raise 1/5 of the voting members for extraordinary meetings to at least 2/5. Otherwise, they can wait, no? It must be quite exceptional...</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">You do not speak about being represented there. It should be defined if it's allowed or not, and if allowed how many person you can represent.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">In 8, "The GM shall elect 2 financial auditors". Isn't it for a year only? Also, it's not listed in 7, I think it should.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">9.1 The protocol of the general meeting shall be provided by the board and sent to the voting members prior to each general meeting, <b class="">at least 15 days in advance.</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">9.3 missing dot at the end of first sentence.</li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Thanks a lot for your work Tim!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I hope you're doing well and to see you soon.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Best wishes from Switzerland,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Denis</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Andreas:</b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Here is again the URL of the relevant articles:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html#id-ni2-ni6-ni8" class="">https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html#id-ni2-ni6-ni8</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">see articles 60 to 79. It is worth a read and not too long.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">So we definitely need to keep the term "general meeting".</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">One more change we need to do:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #e4af0a" class=""><a href="https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html#a64" class="">https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html#a64</a></span> - article 64, item 3 says that 1/5th of the members is enough to request a general meeting. I added this change (in suggestion mode) and a comment why.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">I don't see a mention that the annual report is required by law - but I think it is a good thing to have. It also helps to keep track of the history and progress of the project in a condensed form. It doesn't have to be excessive, just the most important events that happened during past year, e.g. new user groups, new releases, meetings, major sponsors, key progress or key new functions in the software, etc. It would also be a good document to forward to our sponsors to justify their investment and document the progress the project made.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">From Tim:</b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">The reason I prefer to remove the double mandates is that PSC members will be putting forward proposals and budgets etc. and it seems like self-reinforcement if we vote on the issues we raise ourselves.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">TODO:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Tim Sutton</b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Co-founder:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kartoza</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Project chair:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://QGIS.org" class="">QGIS.org</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Visit <a href="http://kartoza.com/" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class="">http://kartoza.com</span></a> to find out about open source:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Desktop GIS programming services</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Geospatial web development</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">GIS Training</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Consulting Services</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Skype</b>: timlinux </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">IRC:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net" class="">freenode.net</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial</div>
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