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**Candidate name:** Kurt Menke (@geomenke)
**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** I’m a consultant, QGIS certified educator and author based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. For the last 10 years I have operated my own small (me) GIS consultancy, Bird’s Eye View (http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/). I primarily work for non-profits on ecological conservation and public health issues. I have been doing GIS for 20 years and was an early QGIS and FOSS4G adopter. I began using MapServer, GRASS and PostGIS for web apps in the early 2000’s.
**I’m a consultant, QGIS certified educator and author based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. For the last 12 years I have operated my own small (me) GIS consultancy, Bird’s Eye View (http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/). I primarily work for non-profits on ecological conservation and public health issues. I have been doing GIS for 20+ years and was an early QGIS and FOSS4G adopter. I began using MapServer, GRASS and PostGIS for web apps in the early 2000’s. I am a co-founder of the QCooperative, an umbrella organization offering QGIS support services.
I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. I co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum (https://fossgeo.org/) and then published it as "Discover QGIS". Prior to that I co-authored "Mastering QGIS" and am currently working on the 3rd edition. QGIS is my day to day tool for spatial analyses and cartography. I regularly teach everything from conference workshops to full semester courses (at my local colleges and universities). In 2015 I was part of the GeoAcademy team awarded the GeoForAll Educator of the Year award. I am an Osgeo Charter Member, a GeoForAll lab and GeoAmbassador. I recently helped revive the QGIS-US user group. I have also been involved with QGIS Certifications, helping approve QGIS organizations.
I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. In 2014 co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum (https://fossgeo.org/)> Since I have authored/co-authored six QGIS books. The most recent being Discover QGIS 3.x and QGIS for Hydrological Applications. QGIS is my day to day tool for spatial analyses and cartography. I regularly teach everything from conference workshops to full semester courses (at my local colleges and universities). In 2015 I was part of the GeoAcademy team awarded the GeoForAll Educator of the Year award. I am an Osgeo Charter Member, a GeoForAll lab and GeoAmbassador. I recently helped revive the QGIS-US user group. I help manage the QGIS Certification Program.
**Motivation:** I love the QGIS community and have been looking for more ways to contribute and be of service. I also feel the outgoing PSC did an incredible job. For me it was a great honor just to be nominated. I hope that the fact that I am not a developer, rather a power user and educator/trainer, means I might bring a different viewpoint to the PSC. That of a small business offering QGIS services but not directly working on QGIS. Since I’m a North American (I’d rather not be considered an American at the moment) I would also represent a different part of the world. I am interested in facilitating the ongoing adoption of QGIS in more and more sectors.
**Motivation:** First I’d like to say it is a great honor to be nominated. I feel the community is what makes QGIS such a special project. For me it has always been a welcoming collaborative and supportive environment and it has given me so much. I would like the opportunity to be give back and be of service at this level. I am not a developer, rather a power user and educator/trainer. I run a small business offering QGIS services but not directly developing QGIS. I am based in the southwestern U.S. For these reasons, I feel I will bring a unique perspective to the PSC. I am interested in facilitating the ongoing adoption of QGIS in more and more sectors.
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