diff --git a/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md b/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md index 2bfb8cc..2aef92d 100644 --- a/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md +++ b/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md @@ -108,67 +108,30 @@ become even more the reference** [Open Source] GIS project. **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. + --- **Candidate name:** Paolo Cavallini