[Qgis-psc] Nominations for the QGIS Board and a short announcement from your Board Chair

Yves Jacolin yjacolin at free.fr
Tue Feb 6 07:24:15 PST 2018


Thanks Tim for your work as a PSC member. You did an awesome work always
with quality and openness in mind.

Y.


Le 06/02/2018 à 16:16, Tim Sutton a écrit :
> Hi All
>
> It is nomination time again for the QGIS board! According to our
> charter [1] our Project Steering Committee and Board members shall
> serve for periods of two years at a time and then shall be eligible
> for re-election. In addition, new members for the Board and PSC can be
> nominated at these times. After the nominations, a vote will follow to
> decide how the PSC and Board will be made up for the next two years.
> If you are a QGIS Voting member (i.e. your name appears either here
> [2] as Community Voting Member or here [3] as Country User Group
> Voting Member), please take the time to make nominations. You should
> have already received an email invitation to the nominations form. If
> you have not, please contact me and I will resend it to you.
>
> On a personal note I would like to share that I will be standing down
> from the Board and PSC at the end of my tenure as chair. I will
> continue to participate in the QGIS community as a GIS Nerd :-) I am
> extremely honoured to have been able to serve as your first Board
> Chair. QGIS as a project has grown so much and we have many good
> processes in place to ensure that the project keeps growing and
> reaching more and more users with our special brand of Open Source GIS
> goodness. Standing down is not a decision I took lightly and being
> part of such an awesome community of developers, users, documenters,
> GIS Nerds has been a really awesome experience. From the humble
> beginnings of Gary Sherman starting QGIS 16 years ago and his
> subsequent generosity in opening up the source code to the world, QGIS
> is now being used in every corner of the world and in every sector of
> society. It has been great to be a part of seeing that happen, and I
> look forward to continuing the journey with you all under the new
> project Chair.
>
> Thank you all for the wonderful support you have shown me while I have
> served as Chair, now go out and use your votes to elect the next Chair
> who can lead QGIS on to bigger and better things!
>
> My very best regards
>
>
> Tim Sutton
>
>
> [1] https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/psc.html
> [2] https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/governance.html#community-voting-members
> [3] https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html#current-list-of-qgis-user-groups
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> *Tim Sutton*
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
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