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OSGeo Member
Name:	Peter Batty

Job Title:	Co-founder and CTO of Geospatial Division
Company:	Ubisense
Address:	Denver, CO, US
City:	Denver
State:	CO
Country:	US
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	peter AT ebatty DOT com
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Personal Description :	Peter has worked in the geospatial industry for 25 years and has served as CTO for two of the world's top 200 software companies, Intergraph and Smallworld (now part of GE Energy). In recent years he has worked extensively with open source systems and new generation web mapping applications such as Google Maps. More details at LinkedIn.
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[[Info::Peter has worked in the geospatial industry for 25 years and has served as CTO for two of the world's top 200 software companies, Intergraph and Smallworld (now part of GE Energy). In recent years he has worked extensively with open source systems and new generation web mapping applications such as Google Maps.

More details at LinkedIn.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Peter has worked in the geospatial industry for 25 years and has served as CTO for two of the world's top 200 software companies, Intergraph and Smallworld (now part of GE Energy). In recent years he has worked extensively with open source systems and new generation web mapping applications such as Google Maps. More details at LinkedIn.

OSGeo Experience

Chaired the FOSS4G conference in Denver in 2011. It was the largest FOSS4G to date with over 900 attendees from 42 countries
Has spoken at many conferences around the world on trends in the geospatial industry, including open source geospatial
Served on the OSGeo board from 2011 to 2013
Has developed applications using a variety of OSGeo software, including PostGIS, MapFish and OpenLayers
Is a member of the OSGeo Conference Committee
Was the OSGeo Board Liaison for the FOSS4G 2013 conference in Nottingham, UK
Writes a Blog

Other interests

When not doing geo things, keen traveler and photographer. See photos at Peter Batty photos and also check out the Peter Batty travel and photography blog

Contact: Email: peter AT ebatty DOT com; Skype: pmbatty; twitter @pmbatty

Spoken Language(s): English

Profile last updated: 1 February 2015

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jáchym Čepický

Job Title:	Gamekeeper
Company:	OpenGeoLabs.cz
Address:
City:
State:
Country:	Czech Republic
Local Chapter:	Czech
Email:	jachym.cepicky@gmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype: jachymc; hangout
Website:	http://les-ejk.cz/
Language(s):	Czech; German; English
Personal Description :	Jáchym is active in various Open Source GIS projects as a user and developer. He was member of GRASS GIS development team. He is author of PyWPS project. He is helping a little with development of OWSLib and OpenLayers and contributing here and there to various open source software for geospatial. He was chair of at FOSS4G-CEE 2012 in Prague and attends various conferences (including FOSS4G) on regular basis. Ex-member of OSGeo Board of directors Board_of_Directors 2012-2015 OSGeo Secretary since 2013. Open people minds and open technologies for better geospatial world. Open source, open data, open standards, open minded people.
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[[Info::Jáchym is active in various Open Source GIS projects as a user and developer. He was member of GRASS GIS development team. He is author of PyWPS project. He is helping a little with development of OWSLib and OpenLayers and contributing here and there to various open source software for geospatial. He was chair of at FOSS4G-CEE 2012 in Prague and attends various conferences (including FOSS4G) on regular basis.

Ex-member of OSGeo Board of directors Board_of_Directors 2012-2015

OSGeo Secretary since 2013.

Open people minds and open technologies for better geospatial world. Open source, open data, open standards, open minded people.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

OSGeo Member
Name:	Michael P. Gerlek

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Address:	Haymarket, Virginia, USA
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Personal Description :	Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) has been in the geospatial industry for too many years and has been involved with OSGeo since its inception. He currently works at RadiantBlue in the Washington, DC area.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)

mpg

Location: Haymarket, Virginia, USA (38.84N,77.625E)

Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) has been in the geospatial industry for too many years and has been involved with OSGeo since its inception. He currently works at RadiantBlue in the Washington, DC area.

OSGeo Experience

involved with OSGeo since founding in 2006
the original OSGeo T-shirts guy
served terms on the Board of Directors and leading the Visibility Committee
occasional speaker, workshop presenter, etc
author or editor of many articles on open source
former employee of LizardTech, Flaxen Consulting, and OneOcean/ClipCard
co-founder of CUGOS, the Seattle-area chapter of OSGeo

Contact: Email: mpg AT flaxen DOT com; LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mpgerlek; Twitter: twitter.com/#!/mpgerlek

Profile last updated: 2 March 2015

OSGeo Member
Name:	Mark Lucas

Job Title:	Principal Scientist
Company:	RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
Address:
City:	Melbourne Beach
State:	Florida
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	Southeast US
Email:	mlucas17 AT mac DOT com
Phone:	321 266 1475
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	English; Spanish
Personal Description :	Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. ... more.
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[[Info::Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. ... more.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Mark Lucas

Principal Scientist, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

Location:Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA

Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. ... more.

OSGeo Experience

OSGeo experience

Original founder of the OSSIM remote sensing project
On the original organizing committee for the OSGeo, a founding member and board member.
Recently returned to serve on the current Board of Directors

Contact: Email: mlucas17 AT mac DOT com; Phone (work): 321 266 1475 (USA)

Spoken Language(s): English, Spanish

Profile last updated: 07 JULY 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Anne Ghisla

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City:	Berlin
State:	Berlin
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	a DOT ghisla AT gmail DOT com
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Language(s):	Italian; French; English; German
Personal Description :	Anne is a natural scientist who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. She started with GRASS GIS and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on documentation. Then she started programming in 2008 thanks to Google Summer of Code, and became mentor and administrator for OSGeo in following years. She doesn't code much anymore, as she is now focused on connecting people and communities of different software projects.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Anne Ghisla

Anne is a natural scientist who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. She started with GRASS GIS and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on documentation. Then she started programming in 2008 thanks to Google Summer of Code, and became mentor and administrator for OSGeo in following years. She doesn't code much anymore, as she is now focused in connecting people and communities of different software projects.

OSGeo Experience

OSGeo Google Summer of Code administrator in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
Member of Italian chapter GFOSS.it from September 2007 to November 2014
OSGeo Board member from 2012 to 2015
Currently dormant GRASS GIS core developer
Co-founder of OSGeo Women Chapter

Contact: Email: a DOT ghisla AT gmail DOT com; IRC: aghisla on freenode (#osgeo)

Spoken Language(s): Italian and French (mother tongues), English (fluent), German (basic)

Profile last updated: 27-09-2017

OSGeo Member
Name:	Daniel Morissette

Job Title:	President
Company:	Mapgears
Address:	Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
City:	Chicoutimi
State:	QC
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	Québec Chapter
Email:	dmorissette AT mapgears DOT com
Phone:
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Website:	http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/
Language(s):	English; French
Personal Description :	Daniel Morissette is a software engineer by trade, business man by experience, OSGeo advocate by the way and beer aficionado by accident, with a focus on Web Mapping using MapServer and related OSGeo technologies. He is president of Mapgears, has been actively involved in MapServer since 2000 and in several OSGeo projects and committees since the early days of the Foundation, including as a board director from 2010 to 2014.
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[[Info::Daniel Morissette is a software engineer by trade, business man by experience, OSGeo advocate by the way and beer aficionado by accident, with a focus on Web Mapping using MapServer and related OSGeo technologies. He is president of Mapgears, has been actively involved in MapServer since 2000 and in several OSGeo projects and committees since the early days of the Foundation, including as a board director from 2010 to 2014.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Daniel Morissette

President, Mapgears

Location: Chicoutimi, QC, Canada

Daniel Morissette is a software engineer by trade, business man by experience, OSGeo advocate by the way and beer aficionado by accident, with a focus on Web Mapping using MapServer and related OSGeo technologies. He is president of Mapgears, has been actively involved in MapServer since 2000 and in several OSGeo projects and committees since the early days of the Foundation, including as a board director from 2010 to 2014.

OSGeo Experience

OSGeo Board Director from 2010 to 2014 and Treasurer from 2011 to 2014
Developer and member of the MapServer PSC
Developer and member of the GDAL/OGR PSC
Member of the Incubation Committee
Co-founder and chair of the Quebec Local Chapter
Involved directly or indirectly in several other OSGeo projects
Recipient of OSGeo's 2009 Sol Katz Award

Other relevant experience

MITAB project lead
AVCE00 and E00Compr project lead
One of the instigators and maintainers of the MapTools.org portal

Contact: Email: dmorissette AT mapgears DOT com; Twitter: @dmorissette; LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmorissette; Blog: http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/

Spoken Languages: English, French

Profile last updated: 4 Sept 2014

OSGeo Member
Name:	Cameron Shorter

Job Title:	Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
Company:	Government (NSW, Australia)
Address:
City:	Sydney
State:	NSW
Country:	Australia
Local Chapter:	Aust-NZ
Email:	cameron shorter AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
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Website:	http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/
Language(s):	English
Personal Description :	Cameron has a breadth of practical experience with the numerous facets of Geospatial Open Source and OGC Standards. He has chaired a FOSS4G conference; served on the OSGeo Board, co-founded and co-coordinates the OSGeoLive project; co-authored OSGeo Software Incubation criteria; and consults to governments and industry on Open Source, Open Standards and Spatial Data Systems.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

More at http://cameron.shorter.net/resume.html

OSGeo Member
Name:	Frank Warmerdam

Job Title:
Company:	Google
Address:
City:	Mountain View
State:	California
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	warmerdam@pobox.com
Phone:	+1 (650) 701-7823
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://pobox.com/~warmerdam/
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Personal Description :	Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.
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[[Info::Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Frank Warmerdam

Employment: Google

Location: Mountain View, California, USA

Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.

OSGeo Experience

Contact: Email: warmerdam@pobox.com; Web: http://pobox.com/~warmerdam/; Phone: +1 (650) 701-7823

Spoken Language(s): English

Profile last updated: 17 August 2012

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