User:Aross

Andrea Ross

 * Director of Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation
 * Director, LocationTech

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Ross is Director of Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting a large community of open source projects. She is also one of the founders of LocationTech, an ecosystem of R&D collaborators focusing on open source location aware technologies. Andrea is an award winning software architect and technology leader with more than 20 years experience.


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 * Charter member since 2008
 * Conference Chair for FOSS4G NA 2015
 * Conference Producer for FOSS4G NA 2015 and FOSS4G NA 2016
 * FOSS4G bid team member for Washington D.C. 2014, Ottawa 2017, Philadelphia 2017
 * Conference Chair for Geocamp 2008, 2009, 2010
 * Sponsor for FOSS4G 2009, 2013, 2014, Code sprint 2015, GDAL/OGR, OSGeo itself for a few years and many other things.
 * Recorded and hosted videos from FOSS4G 2009, FOSS4G 2011, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G 2013, FOSS4G NA 2015, and FOSS4G NA 2016.
 * Led team to develop Ingres' OGC compliant geospatial support in the core DBMS which included contributions to multiple OSGeo projects
 * Also led team to add support for Ingres geospatial in Mapserver, Geoserver, GDAL/OGR, ESRI's ArcGIS, and other software
 * Long time member in the Ottawa Chapter Local Chapter

Other relevant experience
 * Producer & helpful elf for FedGeoDay, a 1 day conference focused on open source geospatial use in the U.S. Federal Government.
 * Co-founder & helpful elf for the LocationTech Tour, a global series of federated events open & welcoming to all open source geospatial technologies & initiatives
 * Co-founder & helpful elf for various intern programs such as UCOSP, Open Academy, etc. Approximately 200+ interns worked on open source geospatial projects.
 * Frequent speaker at various events around the world encouraging people to get involved in the ecosystem


 * Contact:
 * Email: andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org
 * Twitter: @42aross
 * LinkedIn: aross
 * Blog: 42aross


 * Spoken Languages: English


 * Profile last updated: 10 October 2015