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Marco Bernasocchi 2020-04-13 18:46:42 +02:00
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2020-PSC-Election-Candidates.md

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| Board Chairperson<br>Board Vice-Chairperson<br>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**
**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** I am an open source
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
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