From 0b09a83aadfb8c1bb3615a8587f7352c9704009c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Bernasocchi Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 18:25:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] updated Marco's bio --- 2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md b/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md index 60d3e49..feba423 100644 --- a/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md +++ b/2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md @@ -72,24 +72,55 @@ Regarding QGIS, I helped to introduce QGIS in public authorities, companies and --- **Candidate name:** Marco Bernasocchi (http://berna.io @mbernasocchi) -**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** 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, fluently speak Italian, German, French English and Spanish and love travelling. +**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** 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. +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 which. Couple of years and a lot of work later QField was born. Since then I’ve always tried to go at least to one Hackfest per year to be able to feel first hand the strong bonds within our very welcoming community. +**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 made saving you all from having QGIS 2.0 - Hönggerberg and giving you instead QGIS 2.0 - Dufour ;) +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** and as I mentioned above, with OPENGIS.ch 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**. +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:** -I remember as if it was yesterday a presentation at FOSS4G in Nottingham by a developer of a very large proprietary GIS company. I was sitting near Tim and in the middle of the super fancy presentation there was a white slide with black arial text reading: “Can QGIS do this?” Tim and I looked at each other and smiled very satisfied. +**Motivation:** -QGIS has grown exponentially since that presentation, and now, yes it can do that thing because the amazing QGIS community built it. One of my main vision is to help QGIS keep this incredible growth rate by being even more attractive to new community members and sponsors. +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. -Being one of the core developers of InaSAFE I’ve worked very often with Tim and I admire his work and personality immensely and I’m fully aware that stepping in his shoes - or for that matter anyone of the current’s PSC shoes - will be very difficult, but I’m ready to take on the challenge and to do my best to help QGIS and its community to **grow to become even more the reference** [Open Source] GIS project. - +Being one of the core developers of InaSAFE I’ve worked very often with +Tim and I admire his work and personality immensely and I’m fully aware +that stepping in his shoes - or for that matter anyone of the current’s +PSC shoes - will be very difficult, but I’m ready to take on the +challenge and to do my best to help QGIS and its community to **grow to +become even more the reference** [Open Source] GIS project. ---