Jeff McKenna









Jeff is the President Emeritus of OSGeo, and has his own consulting company based around FOSS4G, Gateway Geomatics. He has been actively contributing to OSGeo since its formation.


 * Winner of the 2016 Sol Katz Award, for longtime leadership in the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities
 * named as the President of OSGeo, Dec '12, retired in Dec '15
 * named to the OSGeo Board of Directors, Sept '09 (served until Feb '12), re-elected Aug '12, again re-elected Aug '14
 * one of the 3 original founders of the global FOSS4G event
 * Founder of the Sol Katz Award, and managed that from 2005-2015
 * Founding and Charter member of OSGeo
 * Founding chair of the UN committee for OSGeo
 * Founder of the UN GGIM working group for OSGeo
 * Co-chair of the Geo for All Advisory Board
 * involved in the creation of the  Code of Conduct committee for OSGeo
 * Founding member of the Open GeoScience committee for OSGeo
 * FOSS4G conference committee chair (2006-2012)
 * FOSS4G Workshop committee member (2004-2011)
 * Developer of MS4W
 * One of the founding developers of OSGeo4W
 * MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC) member
 * MapServer documentation lead
 * founding co-chair of the Ottawa Chapter of OSGeo
 * ZOO-Project Project Steering Committee (PSC) member
 * ZOO-Project documentation contributor
 * mentor for the pycsw Project for the OSGeo Incubation process
 * mentor for the istSOS Project for the OSGeo Incubation process
 * founding member of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of OSGeo
 * 2011-2012 vice president of the Nova Scotia Geomatics Association
 * member of the Open Geospatial Consortium from 2010-present
 * member of the QGIS Community

contact:
 * email: jmckenna(at)osgeo(dot)org
 * Twitter: @mapserving
 * IRC username - jmckenna on freenode.net
 * Skype username - jeff_mckenna
 * Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmckenna