From 04561a3ff48ef2d7db4f5faefa9cd99464373039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Neumann Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 17:23:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated 2018 PSC Election Candidates (markdown) --- 2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md b/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md index 4d07896..3380f65 100644 --- a/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md +++ b/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md @@ -59,4 +59,14 @@ I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore **Motivation:** I love the QGIS community and have been looking for more ways to contribute and be of service. I also feel the outgoing PSC did an incredible job. For me it was a great honor just to be nominated. I hope that the fact that I am not a developer, rather a power user and educator/trainer, means I might bring a different viewpoint to the PSC. That of a small business offering QGIS services but not directly working on QGIS. Since I’m a North American (I’d rather not be considered an American at the moment) I would also represent a different part of the world. +--- + +**Candidate name:** Andreas Neumann + +**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** I'am a geographer (specialized in cartography and GIS) and long time QGIS user (since about 2005). In my main job I am a GIS project manager at the Canton of Zug in Switzerland and partially a developer of smaller Python plugins or Python code useful for our inhouse projects. Prior to working in Zug, I was the responsible GIS manager at the City of Uster and Switzerland, and prior to that I was working as a research assistant and PhD student at the Cartographic Institute at ETH in Zurich. + +Regarding QGIS, I helped to introduce QGIS in public authorities, companies and NGOs in Switzerland and co-founded the Swiss QGIS user group. Since a few years I manage the financial resources of the QGIS.ORG project. Together with the PSC colleagues I helped establish "QGIS.ORG" as a legal entity in Switzerland. + +**Motivation:** I appreciate being involved with and working with the QGIS and FOSS4G community and love seeing the progress of the project(s) as a whole. Happy to contribute a small bit to the success of the project. I'd like to continue my work on the PSC and board, as I think it makes sense to have some continuity, esp. with legal and financial issues. I do believe that FOSS4G software enables certain groups in our society with high-quality decision making or documentation tools that otherwise wouldn't be available to them, because they couldn't afford them. As an employee of a public authority I like the ability to influence future directions of the software and to get changes in the software in a reasonable amount of time (compared with some proprietary alternatives where a small customer can't influence future directions of the software development). As a side-effect we help spending tax money wisely. + --- \ No newline at end of file