[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Annual General Meeting - 2018

Wed Apr 11 10:39:59 PDT 2018

Congratulations to the new chair and vice-chair!

Regards
Régis

2018-04-11 1:09 GMT+02:00 Tim Sutton <tim at 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
> tim at qgis.org
>
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