Announcing Jonas Schnelli as GUI maintainer

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

> 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