add Régis's Bio

2018-PSC-Election-Candidates.md

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 **Motivation:** Being one of the core developers of InaSAFE I’ve worked very often with Tim and I admire his work and personality immensely and I’m fully aware that stepping in his shoes - or for that matter anyone of the current’s PSC shoes - will be very difficult, but I’m ready to to take on the challenge and try to do my best to help QGIS and its community to grow to become even more the reference [Open Source] GIS software.
 
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+**Candidate name: ** Régis Haubourg  ( @haubourg / regishaubourg.net)
+
+**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 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.
+
+
+**Motivation:**
+
+I am **deeply motivated** to be part of QGIS PSC and would like to help
+particularly in these specific areas.
+
+ - **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 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)
+
+- 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.
+