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2018 PSC Election Candidates
On this page our PSC and Board candidates briefly introduce themselves and share a short motivation as to why they would like to serve on the board and what they would like to achieve.
Candidates please copy and paste the section below, adding your own details.
Candidate name:
Introduction / main QGIS related activities:
Motivation:
Candidate name: Giovanni Manghi
Introduction / main QGIS related activities: Italian native, I'm living and working in Portugal since 2002. I'm a wildlife biologist turned to GIS specialist and an "early" QGIS adopter (circa 2008). I make my living with my small company mainly with (but not limited to) GIS training. I also worked for 1.5+ years for a well known American company as a tester. I'm an OSGeo member, co-founder of the Portuguese QGIS user group and (co-)organizer of 2 Portuguese QGIS users (Coimbra 2014 and Porto 2016) meetings and 2 QGIS Developer meetings (Lisbon 2011 and Funchal 2018).
Within the QGIS project I'm known as the bug tracker maintainer (even if I'm not sure this "position" officially really exist) with thousands of replies/comments in tickets and countless hours spent doing bug triage/testing on multiple platforms and multiple QGIS versions. Because of my activity as trainer I'm also a prolific bug reporter, in fact I'm the most prolific one. From time to time I also like to do some simple contribution for the QGIS Processing toolbox.
Motivation: Help keep up the good things going! Personally I think that the actual PSC did an amazing job and I would have re-elected it entirely. As a spot as opened I accepted with enthusiasm when I was asked I was available to eventually fill this hole.
Candidate name: Anita Graser
Introduction / main QGIS related activities: I am a scientist, open source GIS advocate, and author. My background is in computer science with a specialization in geographic information science and I am currently working with the Center for Mobility Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. I’m teaching QGIS classes at UNIGIS Salzburg and, since 2013, I serve on the QGIS project steering committee. From 2015 to 2017, I served on the OSGeo board of directors. I’ve published several books about QGIS, including “Learning QGIS” (currently 3rd edition), “QGIS Map Design”, and “QGIS 2 Cookbook”. Furthermore, I develop tools such as Time Manager and pgRoutingLayer plugin for QGIS. As PSC Design Advisor, I take care of release name selection and preparing related graphics for installers, splash screens, and website.
Motivation: My goal is to continue my work on the PSC. At the monthly meetings, I aim to be a voice of our user community, being a power user myself, as well as a moderator on GIS.stackexchange.org where I get a good overview of the issues users encounter on a regular basis.