[bitcoin-dev] Announcing Jonas Schnelli as GUI maintainer

[bitcoin-dev] Announcing Jonas Schnelli as GUI maintainer

[Wladimir J. van der Laan]

Hello,

I'd like to announce Jonas Schnelli as the new GUI maintainer of Bitcoin Core.

He's been very active in this area for the last year, as one example he
redesigned all the icons for 0.11.0, has visualized various network statistics,
and has been continuously improving the user experience. Something Bitcoin Core
very much needs, in my opinion.

Unofficially he has been giving direction in GUI matters for quite a while
already, so this only makes it 'official'.

He will be handling GUI related issues on the github tracker, and assisting on and
merging GUI-related pull requests.

Welcome Jonas to the team!

Wladimir

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Announcing Jonas Schnelli as GUI maintainer

[Jonas Schnelli]

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> I'd like to announce Jonas Schnelli as the new GUI maintainer of
> Bitcoin Core.
> 
> He's been very active in this area for the last year, as one
> example he redesigned all the icons for 0.11.0, has visualized
> various network statistics, and has been continuously improving the
> user experience. Something Bitcoin Core very much needs, in my
> opinion.
> 
> Unofficially he has been giving direction in GUI matters for quite
> a while already, so this only makes it 'official'.
> 
> He will be handling GUI related issues on the github tracker, and
> assisting on and merging GUI-related pull requests.
> 
> Welcome Jonas to the team!
> 

Thanks Wladimir!

My long term vision for bitcoin-core was always a more user friendly
UI without loosing the security and privacy features bitcoin-core offers
.
However, it has shown that this is relatively hard to achieve. Its
unclear to me, what role wallets (and related UIs) will play in the
future of bitcoin. I think it needs several years until something like
bitcoin can be used to "pay for every coffee in the world" [1].
But I'm happy to explore this path!

That was and is also the reason why I'm often focus on non-UI-related
changes that keep bitcoin healthy and form a more defined role for the U
I.

Short words to myself:
I'm a senior software developer, 35 years old, living in Switzerland
(UTC+1).

Thanks for the trust and I try to give my best to maintain and improve
the GUI.

[1] https://twitter.com/ronmckown/status/643101952763658240
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