User:Aross

Andrew Ross
Director of Ecosystems, Eclipse Foundation

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Ross is Director of Ecosystems at the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting a large community of more than 270 open source projects. He is also one of the founders of the LocationTech working group, a network of business and technology partners focusing on open source location technologies. Andrew is an award winning software architect and technology leader with 20 years experience.


 * OSGeo Experience OSGeo_charter.png OSGeo_user.png


 * 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
 * Conference Chair for Geocamp 2008, 2009, 2010
 * Recorded and hosted videos from FOSS4G 2009, FOSS4G 2011, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec
 * Long time active member in the Ottawa Chapter Local Chapter


 * Other relevant experience:
 * Freeseer project lead and committer
 * FOSSLC founder and President
 * Director of LocationTech


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


 * Spoken Languages: English


 * Profile last updated: 31 July 2012