diff --git a/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md b/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md index a25e743..30720f9 100644 --- a/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md +++ b/2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md @@ -61,8 +61,25 @@ Regarding QGIS, I helped to introduce QGIS in public authorities, companies and |---|---|---| | Board Chairperson
Board Vice-Chairperson
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** + +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. + +I want to help QGIS and it's community thrive under the value proposition of: +> "Making the most amazing opensource GIS that provides users with value and that meets their needs by providing great functionality and usability, being cost-effective whilst being actively supported by a vibrant and knowledgeable community.” + +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 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. + +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:** I am an open source +**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** + +I am an open source advocate, consultant, teacher and developer. My background is in geography with a specialization in geographic information science. I live in Switzerland in a small Romansh speaking mountain village where I