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2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md

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| Board Chairperson<br>Board Vice-Chairperson<br>PSC member | [Laax, Switzerland](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1684097) | ![profile_128x128](https://www.opengis.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/casual_marco_500px-300x300-1-e1586785956573.jpg) |
**Vision**
**Vision:**
Serving as a pragmatic community conciliator - collecting thoughts from people with differing opinions and trying to find the high road through difficult issues - I want to focus my and the community's energies on our core product, QGIS.
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Sharing our work under an open-source license is part of the approach by which we achieve that value proposition as it allows broad collaboration with our developers and users community.
Even if I see FOSS as a very socially responsible way to develop software (and that is why at OPENGIS.ch about 95% of what we do lands in an open repo), to me, the main advantage is a technological one.
I see FOSS as a very socially responsible way to develop software, but even more, I see the immense technological advantage that writing open-source code brings. This is why I want our focus to be on allowing both pragmatic and ideological views to respectfully coexist and enrich each other.
I think that our community is thriving because we've always been very welcoming and balanced on approaching the differences between the more liberal and the more purist views of [F]OSS. Probably 99% of our users work/use daily a proprietary tool and whenever we are dismissive of it, we relegate them to some kind of second class status.
One of my main motivations to be part of the PSC and to make myself available as project Chair 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, the 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** to ensure that QGIS remains an attractive project for volunteers to contribute to and help QGIS and its community to **grow to become even more the reference** [Open Source] GIS project.
The fact is that most users are seeking QGIS' value proposition and not an ideology.
Therefore I want our focus to be on allowing both pragmatic and ideological views to respectfully coexist and enrich each other.
**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:**
**Background / main QGIS related activities:**
I am an open source
advocate, consultant, teacher and developer. My background is in
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committed to its stability, feature richness and sustainable
development. For that in 2019 we started our own QGIS sustainability initiative financed through our support contracts.
**Motivation:**
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 to help QGIS and its community to **grow to
become even more the reference** [Open Source] GIS project.
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**Candidate name:** Régis Haubourg ( @haubourg / regishaubourg.net)