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2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md

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**Motivation:**
My goal is to continue my work on the PSC. At the monthly meetings, I aim to be a voice of our user community, being a power user myself, as well as a moderator on GIS.stackexchange.org where I get a good overview of the issues users encounter on a regular basis.
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**Candidate name**: Alessandro Pasotti
**Introduction / main QGIS related activities**: I am an open source software developer and I live in Italy. By education I'm an agronomist with some limited topography and pedology background, but I turned to the dark side early in my career and I started programming any kind of device that has a chip inside as soon as their price dropped low enough. I started using Linux in 1994 and after some real work as an R&D data analyst for a big pharmaceutical company I started my own small business that was making map-based web applications for the touristic market (there was no Google Map and such at that time) and it is for this reason that I discovered GRASS, Mapserver, PostGIS and finally QGIS when I needed a GIS viewer.
Over the years I've made minor contributions to several open source projects and I created a bunch of QGIS Python plugins, but it is from the QGIS Lisbon Hack-Fest in 2011 that I really got involved within the community and my first big contribution was a new website for the fast growing set of QGIS Python plugins (the one that it is already in production today at https://plugins.qgis.org ).
5 years ago I re-started to write some C++ code and I'm now a QGIS core developer and a proud member of this amazing community. During the last two years I've been professionally employed to work on QGIS sponsored by the same well-known American company where worked Giovanni but I'm now back to my own (Q)GIS-centered small business trying to team up with other community members.
**Motivation**: (shameless copied from Giovanni's one because I feel exactly the same) Help keep up the good things going! Personally I think that the actual PSC did an amazing job and I would have re-elected it entirely. I accepted with enthusiasm when I was asked I was available to eventually fill this hole.
**Unauthorized campaign advertising**: do not vote for me! Giovanni is your man :)