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2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md

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**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:**
I learned GIS in 2001 during my studies on agriculture and environment.
Since then, I used GIS for **soil mapping**, **land survey** in remote
places of Peru, **hydrological pollutant modeling** to protect drinkable
**water** resources, **remote sensing** for integrated coastal management or
**network applications** for irrigation assessment.
I progressively got passionate by the open source side of GIS in 2004,
learning PostGIS, Mapserver and OGC standards. Then, I managed GIS data and software solutions in a **French water basin agency during 11 years**. I lead and achieved a **full Mapinfo migration** to PostGIS and QGIS, starting in 2008. I have been involved in QGIS feature and bugfixing funding and pushed to make QGIS a daily decision-making tool even for non-GIS trained workers.
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 discovered the QGIS community as an **extremely welcoming, open minded
and reactive community** and tried to get be a part of it as much as possible. I
became **OSGeo charter member** a few years ago too.
In 2016, I had the opportunity to join **Oslandia's** team to work mainly
(almost exclusively) on QGIS and PostGIS. This allowed me to participate
to QGIS and OSGeo/FOSS4G meetings and finally join this awesome
community in real life. Being surrounded by developers gave me the
ability to understand **deep architectural stakes** of the QGIS project. I
am now dedicating my time to project management, QGIS community
management, user testing, training, consulting, lots of SQL stuff, and
sometimes python code :).
As an individual volunteer, I do my best to help in various area such as QEP
reviews, issue management, documentation and translation, as well as an
active commitment in the French QGIS user group.
I believe that these experiences gave me the ability to fully understand
user's needs **AND** developer's language, while keeping the **"big picture"**
in mind.
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 waster 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 waster 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 :)
**Motivation:**
I am **deeply motivated** to be part of QGIS PSC and would like to help
particularly in these specific areas.
I am **deeply motivated** in taking a role of QGIS PSC, where I think I can be of better value than on technical contribution.
- **Better Developers / PSC coordination**. QGIS is a do-ocraty. I think we
can improve the role of the PSC by pushing stronger release policies and
better coordination of active forces. The QGIS 3 release feedbacks lead
to a lot of learnings and new ideas, from infrastructure to communication. Let's make them happen!
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:
- I want to find new ways of **extending the contributor's community** by
helping **fresh blood** contribute to the project.
The training certification system, discussion with big organizations betting on QGIS are great oppportunities.
I would also like to improve diversity in our community, which is currently a
bit oriented towards **bearded nerds male members** - including myself ;).
**To sum up things, more contributors, more diversity, more incomes to have happy and sustainable coding** (and documentation, and management and every contribution I forget here)
- gather more contributors everywhere
- get the new industrial actors to understand the basics of free software economics and contribution means
- work on hardening our critical low level tasks, such as code reviewing, packaging, documentation
- Regarding **OSGeo**, I strongly believe that QGIS is the current leading
force of OSGeo and want to keep that relationship strong.
- I support Nodebo's QGIS roadmap goal :
**"Conquer the ~~World~~ UNIVERSE !".**
Let's make Open Source GIS even more awesome !
A very important point is my constant attention to **clearly separate my
roles in different organizations, and not mix private interests with the
project's interests.**
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.
I do think that my experience in public administration is a strong
baseline to help me keep this straight.
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**Candidate name:** Paolo Cavallini