diff --git a/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md b/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md index 5c8a388..302f41b 100644 --- a/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md +++ b/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md @@ -110,15 +110,22 @@ become even more the reference** [Open Source] GIS project. **Candidate name:** Régis Haubourg ( @haubourg / regishaubourg.net) + +| Targeted position | Location | Pic | +|---|---|---| +| PSC | [Grenoble, France](https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1&query=45.2601%2C5.7788#map=13/45.2604/5.7737&layers=C) | ![profile_rha](https://regishaubourg.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/portrait_zanzibar_small-e1586787100747.jpg) | + + **Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** I am currently chair of the French OSGeo local chapter, and main organizer of the QGIS-FR users days. -Passionate of outdoor sports, I live in the French Alps in a natural area close to the city of Grenoble. - -I studied agronomics, envrionnemental sciences, hydrology, geology, I discovered GIS by using it. As a DIYer enthusiast, I fell into coding my first GIS application for research application, and then for water management. -I spent eleven years managing GIS for a water basin agency, dealing with reference database production, deploying desktop and web GIS, teaching, training and supporting. I had the opportunity to fund several feature or fixes in QGIS and got definitly addicted to Free software contribution and community. -I am now a GIS expert at Oslandia, a full remote GIS open source company. I work daily with QGIS core committers and a very wide range of users, with a special focus on water network applications. Thanks to Oslandia's support, I am able to participate in most of the hackfest, FOSS4G and also PostgreSQL events. Yeah, I probably became a database admin nerd too :) +Passionate of outdoor sports and nature, I live in the French Alps in a moutain area close to the city of Grenoble. +I studied agronomics, environmental sciences, hydrology, geology, etc... I discovered GIS by using it. As a DIYer enthusiast, I fell into coding my first GIS application for research application linking GIS and fuzzy logic decision making to deal with coastal integrated management. +I spent eleven years managing GIS tools and databases for a water basin agency. I had the opportunity to be able to fund several feature in QGIS and got definitly addicted to Free software contribution and community. +I am now a GIS expert at Oslandia, a full remote GIS open source company. +I work daily with QGIS core committers and a very wide range of users, with a special focus on water network applications. +Thanks to Oslandia's support, I am able to participate in most of the hackfest, FOSS4G and also some PostgreSQL events. **Motivation:** @@ -127,8 +134,9 @@ I am **deeply motivated** in taking a role of QGIS PSC, where I think I can be o I am really aware of the current challenges we face these days, where the user base is now so huge, and their expectations growing faster than the contributing community. I would like to push forward those particular tasks: - gather more contributors everywhere - - get the new industrial actors to understand the basics of free software economics and contribution means + - get the new industrial actors to understand the basics of free software economics and - work on hardening our critical low level tasks, such as code reviewing, packaging, documentation + - keep having fun with such a nice community As a PSC member, I will always talk in the name of the QGIS project, and in the interest of the common good of the QGIS project.