[QGIS-Developer] A toast to our community

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Dear community,


First of all, I would like to thank Paolo for his work during the last
two years as Chair and for the years before that, and years to come in
his role as PSC member. I’m looking forward to keeping up the good work
with him.


Secondly, I would like to thank all the community voting members for all
the great inputs during the discussion phase of the AGM and for the
fantastic participation in the voting process where we had more than an
80% turnout.


It is a pleasure to see that besides approving the more formal points
(annual report, financial report, budget and auditors), the AGM approved
all matters arising:


  *

    We now have two new honourable voting members: Harrissou Sant-anna
    and Nyall Dawson. Honourable members are specially designated voting
    members, whose position does not need to be affiliated with a
    country user group. Congratulations, and thank you, you are both
    such an inspiring example to our community!

  *

    Many QGIS users and contributors are geoscientists or geoinformatics
    specialists. As such, we need to act responsibly and serve as role
    models. Thanks to the approval of our new environmental policy,
    QGIS.ORG and the QGIS community committed ourselves to act
    responsibly regarding our actions and activities where it has any
    relevant influence on the environment. This will mainly affect our
    server infrastructure and our physical contributor meetings. The
    complete policy can be found in appendix 1 of our AGM minutes or on
    our website [1].


Beyond thanking Paolo as outgoing chair, I’d especially like to thank
Tim, Andreas, Anita and Jürgen for the great work they are doing in the
PSC and in general the incredible drive they have in helping to make
QGIS thrive. I’m sure that with the help of our new Vice-Chair
Alessandro Pasotti we’ll be able to take QGIS to even greater heights.
Welcome, Alessandro!


Last, but definitely not least, I’d like to thank every single member of
this amazing community for all your help documenting, coding,
translating, testing, designing, teaching, supporting and in general
spreading the QGIS love.


I never thought, when I first started using QGIS 0.6 in 2005 that 15
years later I would be given the honour of becoming the official face of
such an amazing heart.


Have a great week, rock on QGIS!


Marco Bernasocchi

Incoming Chair of the QGIS.ORG Board


[1]
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/environmentalpolicy.html

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Marco Bernasocchi

QGIS.org Chair
http://berna.io

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