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Note: We are trying to improve our project management process and spread the load more evenly between people who each have a specific area of responsibility. Therefore we are looking for people who are willing to invest some time to contribute and/or to coordinate particular tasks. Any contribution you have to make will be greatly appreciated (see below).

The work of the project management process is spread between people who each have a specific area of responsibility. To be able to contact someone about a particular aspect of Quantum GIS, this Project Organigram provides a list of different jobs and the e-mail. It is managed by the ProjectSteeringCommittee, a five member committee that provides technical guidance, community liaison, release management, and financial/marketing activities.

  • Chairperson: Gary Sherman < sherman[at]mrcc.com >
  • Release Management: Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com >
  • Technical Resources: Marco Hugentobler < marco[at]sourcepole.ch >
  • Community Resources: Otto Dassau < dassau[at]gbd-consult.de >
  • Finances and Marketing: Paolo Cavallini < cavallini[at]faunalia.it >

Release Management

QGIS Releases are managed by the Release Team (Release Manager and Release Assistants). Together with numerous contributors, they oversee timely, regular, stable releases of QGIS on the various supported platforms. The release team recruits and supports build managers to create packages for supported platforms and oversee the maintenance of the bug tracking system.

  • Release Manager (PSC Member) : Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com >
  • Release Assistants (roles as yet undefined)
    • Role Unspecified : Richard Duivenvoorde < richard[at]duif.net > (Netherlands)
    • Role Unspecified : Maning Sambale < emmanuel.sambale[at]gmail.com > ( Philippines )
    • Role Unspecified : Agustin Lobo < Agustin.Lobo[at]ija.csic.es > (Spain)
    • Role Unspecified : Anne Ghisla < a.ghisla[at]gmail.com > (Italy)

Packaging Team

  • Windows: Jürgen E. Fischer < jef[at]norbit.de >, Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com >
  • OSX Team: William Kyngesburye < kyngchaos[at]kyngchaos.com >, Tom Elwertowski < telwertowski[at]comcast.net >
  • Linux Team:
    • OpenSuSE RPM Maintainer: Otto Dassau < dassau[at]gbd-consult.de >
    • Fedora RPM Maintainer: Douglas E. Warner < silfreed[at]silfreed.net >
    • Ubuntu Deb Maintainer: Jürgen E. Fischer < jef[at]norbit.de >, Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com >, Jachym Cepicky < jachym.cepicky[at]gmail.com >
    • Debian Deb Maintainer: Jürgen E. Fischer < jef[at]norbit.de >, Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com > [Etch], Niccolo Rigacci < qgis[at]rigacci.org > [Lenny]
    • eBuild Maintainer
    • Bundle Maintainer

Testing Team

  • Ubuntu Linux: Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia < ricardo.garcia.silva[at]gmail.com >, Giovanni Manghi < giovanni.manghi[at]faunalia.pt >, Luís de Sousa < luis.a.de.sousa[at]gmail.com >
  • Debian Linux: Paolo Cavallini < cavallini[at]cavallini.it >, Pedro Venâncio < pedrongvenancio[at]gmail.com >
  • Windows: Giovanni Manghi < giovanni.manghi[at]faunalia.pt >, Pedro Venâncio < pedrongvenancio[at]gmail.com >, Duarte Carreira < dncarreira[at]gmail.com >, Andre Mano < andre.s.mano[at]gmail.com >
  • OsX: none (for the moment)

Technical Resources

The Technical Resources are managed by the Technical Manager and Technical Assistants. They recruit and support code maintainers and provide general oversight and guidance to the development effort.

Code Maintainers

Code Maintainers are responsible for discrete areas of the QGIS source code (core, gui, plugins, providers, tests) and ensure consistency and quality of code added into the SVN code repository.

  • core library: Martin Dobias < wonder.sk[at]gmail.com >
  • gui library: Martin Dobias < wonder.sk[at]gmail.com >
  • app (dialogs): Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com >
  • raster: Peter Ersts < peter.ersts[at]gmail.com >
  • print composer: Marco Hugentobler < marco.hugentobler[at]sourcepole.ch >
  • PyQGIS: Martin Dobias < wonder.sk[at]gmail.com >
  • UMN mapserver export: Gary Sherman < sherman[at]mrcc.com >
  • delimitex text provider/plugin: Gary Sherman < sherman[at]mrcc.com >
  • OGR, postgres provider: Jürgen E. Fischer < jef[at]norbit.de >
  • wms provider: Jürgen E. Fischer < jef[at]norbit.de >
  • wfs provider and plugin: Marco Hugentobler < marco.hugentobler[at]sourcepole.ch >
  • wms server: Marco Hugentobler < marco.hugentobler[at]sourcepole.ch>
  • srs database: Richard Duivenvoorde < richard[at]duif.net >
  • f-tools: Carson Farmer < carson.farmer[at]gmail.com >
  • spatialite: Alessandro Furieri < a.furieri[at]lqt.it >
  • eVis plugin: Peter Ersts < ersts[at]amnh.org >
  • python plugins: Borys Jurgiel < info[at]borysjurgiel.pl >
  • georeferencer plugin: Manuel Massing < m.massing[at]warped-space.de >
  • GDAL tools: Giuseppe Sucameli < brush.tyler[at]gmail.com >
  • offline editing plugin: Mathias Walker < mwa[at]sourcepole.ch >
  • SQL anywhere plugin and provider: David DeHaan < Dave.DeHaan[at]sybase.com >
  • qgiswebclient: Andreas Neumann < a.neumann[at]carto.net >
  • mssql provider: Nathan Woodrow < madmanwoo[at]gmail.com >

Community Resources

The QGIS community resources are managed by the CommunityTeam (Community Manager and Assistants). With numerous contributors they keep contact to the community, take care of QGIS documentation and GUI translations, and ensure smooth running of the QGIS.org online experience including web sites, blog, mailing lists, forums etc.

QGIS Manual + Translation

The English QGIS manual (Master Document) and its translation is managed by the Community Assistant (Manual Team Lead) and supported by additional language specific teams. Information about the current documentation status and the translation process are provided at the DocumentationWritersCorner. Administration help for the Latex sources is provided by Stephan Holl, Werner Macho or Otto Dassau at the mailing list.

English Manual (Master Document)

  • Community Assistant (Manual Team Lead): Carson Farmer < carson.farmer[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Otto Dassau < dassau[at]gbd-consult.de >
    • Contributor : Anne Ghisla < a.ghisla[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Bishwarup Banerjee < bishwarup.banerjee[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Claudia A. Engel < cengel[at]stanford.edu >
    • Contributor : Stephan Holl < stephan.holl[at]intevation.de >
    • Contributor : Micha Silver < micha[at]arava.co.il >
    • Contributor : Pierre Chevalier < pierre.chevalier1967[at]free.fr >

Manual Translations

  • Community Assistant (Manual Team Lead): Carson Farmer < carson.farmer[at]gmail.com >
  • French Team Lead : Jean Roc MORREALE < jr.morreale at enoreth.net >
  • German Team Lead : Otto Dassau < dassau[at]gbd-consult.de >
  • Greek Team Lead : Dr. Nicolas Karanikolas (not confirmed)
  • Italian Team Lead : Paolo Cavallini < cavallini[at]faunalia.it >
    • Contributor : Giuseppe Patti < geognu[at]infinito.it >
    • Contributor : Simona Santini < simona_santini03[at]yahoo.it
  • Lao Team Lead: Anousak Souphavanh < anousak at gmail.com >
  • Lithuanian Team Lead : Kestas M < m.kestas[at]gmail.com >
  • Polish Team Lead : Robert Szczepanek < robert[at]szczepanek.pl >
    • Contributor : Andrzej Swiader < andrzej.swiader[at]uj.edu.pl >
  • Portuguese (BR) Team Lead: Arthur Nanni < comunidade[at]qgisbrasil.org >
    • Contributor : Rodrigo Sperb
    • Contributor : Sidney Goveia
  • Portuguese (PT_PT) Team Lead: Giovanni Manghi < giovanni.manghi[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Vânia Neves < vbneves[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Alexandre Neto < senhor.neto[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Zara Teixeira < zarafani[at]gmail.com >
  • Russian Team Lead: Denis Rykov < rykovd[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Maxim Dubinin < sim[at]gis-lab.info >
  • Spanish Team Lead : Mario Pisa < mario.pisa[at]gmail.com >
    • Contributor : Carlos Dávila < cdavilam[at]jemila.jazztel.es >

Administration for latex sources of master document and translations

  • Latex Manual Administrators :
    • Contributor Windows: ??
    • Contributor MacOS: ??
    • Contributor Linux: ??

QGIS GUI Translation

The QGIS GUI Translation is managed by the Community Assistant (GUI Translation Team Lead) and supported by additional language specific teams. Information about the current documentation status and the translation process are provided at the TranslatorsCorner.

  • Community Assistant (GUI Translation Team Lead): Werner Macho < werner.macho [at] gmail.com >

The detailed List of Translators can be found here

Wiki Users and Conference Corner

The QGIS Wiki Users and Conference Corner is managed by the Community Assistant (Users and Conference Corner Team Lead) and supported by numerous contributors. Information about current activities and the translation process are provided at the UsersCorner and ConferenceCorner.

  • Community Assistant (Users and Conference Corner Team Lead): Lars Stöwesand < lars[at]sai.uni-heidelberg.de >
    • Contributor :
    • Contributor :

QGIS Website and Website Translation

QGIS Website and Website Translation is managed by the Community Assistant (Website Team Lead) and supported by numerous contributors.

  • Community Assistant (Website and Website Translation Team Lead): Werner Macho <werner.macho[at]gmail.com>
    • Contributor : Otto Dassau <dassau[at]gbd-consult.de>
  • German Translation
    • Contributor: Horst Düster <Horst.Duester at bd.so.ch>
    • Contributor: Otto Dassau <dassau[at]gbd-consult.de>
  • French Translation
    • Contributor: Jean Roc Morreale <jr.morreale at enoreth. net>

QGIS Blog and Forum

QGIS Blog and Forum are managed by the Community Assistant (Blog and Forum Team Lead) and supported by numerous contributors.

  • Community Assistant (Website, Blog and Forum Team Lead): Stephan Reber <stephan.reber[at]gmx.de >

Press Material + Translation

QGIS Press Material and its translations are managed by the Community Assistant (Press Material Team Lead) and supported by additional language specific teams. Information about current activities and the translation process are provided at the Press Centre.

English Press Material

  • Community Assistant (Press Material Team Lead): Anita Graser < anitagraser[at]gmx.at >
    • Contributor : Otto Dassau < dassau[at]gbd-consult.de >
    • Contributor : Tim Sutton < tim[at]linfiniti.com >

Press Material Translation

  • Community Assistant (Press Material Team Lead): Anita Graser < anitagraser[at]gmx.at >
    • German Team : Otto Dassau < dassau[at]gbd-consult.de >
    • French Team : Sébastien Vial < sebastien.vial[at]gmail.com >
    • Portuguese (BR) Team: Christian Ferreira < christian.linux[at]gmail.com >
    • Portuguese (PT) Team: Giovanni Manghi < giovanni.manghi[at]faunalia.pt >

Finances and Marketing

QGIS Finances and Marketing are managed by the Financial Advisor and Assistants. They report and explore avenues of revenue for the QGIS project, interface with business to secure funding for future efforts, identify areas where funding is needed, put into place actions to secure this funding, keep track of funding as managed by OSGeo, and present the PSC with financial options for any initiative requiring funding.