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 * Bobby H. Braswell
 * Complex Systems Research Center
 * OpenLayers, MapServer, and GDAL/OGR user
 * (43.056, -70.775)
 * I am a researcher at the University of New Hampshire, USA
 * Chris Holmes
 * The Open Planning Project, GeoServer
 * Incubator, Board, GeoTools
 * (40.72,-74.00)
 * I come from the Java side of the OSGeo fence, getting my start in GeoServer, where I was lead developer for a couple years, and GeoTools, where I still serve on the PMC. My time is made possible by The Open Planning Project (TOPP), a great non-profit in New York that has been the lead supporter of GeoServer for years now.  I spent the last year in Zambia on a Fulbright Scholarship, looking at the potential for open source software to help implement spatial data infrastructures in developing countries.  It was a bit of a failure, but I learned a ton, and I see a lot of potential for open source in developing countries, towards truly open spatial data infrastructures.  I'm back at TOPP, in a new role as VP of Strategic Development, helping to grow the organization, and figuring out how to make our geospatial stuff self sustaining.  Once that's rolling, I hope to reinvest extra revenue in to figuring out and building a truly open geospatial web.  And just like apache and linux are the bedrock that the World Wide Web rests on, so too do I believe that the geospatial web necessarily must be built on a foundation of OS Geo software.  My continuing thoughts on all of this can be found at http://cholmes.wordpress.com
 * Michael P. Gerlek
 * LizardTech
 * Promotion and Visibility Committee (chair)
 * (47.673166,-122.530143)
 * Manager of LizardTech's Engineering department, where we do MrSID and JPEG 2000 stuff and play with with the next generation of technologies for supporting raster data GIS workflows. No, our products are not open source -- but we do very much support and use open source and open standards. (I think there is room in the world for both the open and closed development models, and I have a strong interest in helping "closed" companies understand the value of, and contribute to, the open software world.) User:mpg
 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Independent
 * GDAL/OGR, MapServer, Incubator, Board
 * (45.45,-77.25)
 * Lead developer of GDAL/OGR and freelance geospatial software developer.
 * Jason Birch
 * City of Nanaimo
 * Web Site, Promotion & Visibility
 * (49.155, -124.005)
 * I am a long-time GIS/IT/'Net junkie, and am currently working for the City of Nanaimo's IT department as a Sr. Applications Analyst (GIS Specialist).  I am excited about what I see happening in the open source geospatial world, with OSGeo as a catalyst. User:Jasonbirch
 * Howard Butler
 * Hobu, Inc
 * Web Site Committee,
 * (42.00, -93.00)
 * MapServer hacker, MTSC member. GDAL hacker.  ESRI ArcSDE hack.  Purveyor of Windows binary builds  User:hobu
 * Markus Neteler
 * ITC-irst, CEA, GDF Hannover
 * GRASS GIS, Board, Public Geodata Com., Education Com., Promotion & Visibility Com.
 * (46.06714, 11.15113)
 * Developer of GRASS GIS, researcher at ITC-irst + CEA, Trento, Italy and co-founder of GDF Hannover User:neteler
 * R. Paul Warriner
 * Town of Orchard Park
 * Fundraising Committee, Web Site Committee
 * (43.17, -78.69)
 * Network Coordinator, old oil field hand (really, I do know what a christmas tree is).
 * GRASS GIS, Board, Public Geodata Com., Education Com., Promotion & Visibility Com.
 * (46.06714, 11.15113)
 * Developer of GRASS GIS, researcher at ITC-irst + CEA, Trento, Italy and co-founder of GDF Hannover User:neteler
 * R. Paul Warriner
 * Town of Orchard Park
 * Fundraising Committee, Web Site Committee
 * (43.17, -78.69)
 * Network Coordinator, old oil field hand (really, I do know what a christmas tree is).
 * Network Coordinator, old oil field hand (really, I do know what a christmas tree is).
 * Bart van den Eijnden
 * OSGIS
 * Chameleon,
 * (52.0768396070808, 5.12454)
 * Freelancer working with several open source GIS tools, mainly Chameleon, Mapserver and Geoserver.
 * Freelancer working with several open source GIS tools, mainly Chameleon, Mapserver and Geoserver.
 * Simone Giannecchini
 * blog ,GeoSolutions
 * GeoServer, GeoTools
 * (gotta look for it :-))
 * I have been working as a freelance consultant in the GIS and Image Processing field since early 2004, mainly in scientific and military environment. I am PMC member of GeoTools and active developer of GeoServer. I am also providing some patches for the JAI and ImageIO SUN libraries for image processing in Java.
 * I have been working as a freelance consultant in the GIS and Image Processing field since early 2004, mainly in scientific and military environment. I am PMC member of GeoTools and active developer of GeoServer. I am also providing some patches for the JAI and ImageIO SUN libraries for image processing in Java.

I am a big GDAL fan, I have been involved in the last year in an effort for putting GDAL behind ImageIO for widening the number of supported formats. The goal is to make this formats avalaible through GeoTools to the GeoServer. If you are interested in supporting or joining this effort, please, drop me a few lines at simone.giannecchini-at-geo-solutions.it or simboss1-at-gmail.com User:simboss I would like to see free software adopted everywhere. I don't dislike proprietary software per se, but the attitude it usually inspires. Warsaw University, Dept. of Geology
 * Helena Mitasova
 * North Carolina State University
 * GRASS GIS, Curriculum project
 * (35.77, -78.69)
 * Researcher at NCSU (geospatial technology, environmental modeling, sustainable development), Developer of GRASS GIS. User:Helena
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Mapgears
 * MapServer, GDAL/OGR
 * (48.42, -71.04)
 * Involved in MapServer, GDAL/OGR and most MapTools.org projects, mostly around webmapping and data access and distribution. User:dmorissette
 * Tamas Szekeres
 * MoD ED Co.
 * MapServer
 * (47.56, 19.08)
 * M.Sc.El.Engineer, Head of Development Department, GPS Division, MapServer contributor/hacker, mapscript C# maintainer, involved in various WEB mapping and desktop applications, GPS navigation and tracking systems. User:szekerest
 * Ari Jolma
 * TKK
 * GDAL/OGR, Curriculum project
 * (60° 16', 24° 47' 4'')
 * Professor at TKK, Finland (geoinformatics, environmental information systems, water resources systems), just another Perl hacker User:ajolma
 * Jeff McKenna
 * DM Solutions Group
 * MapServer
 * (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
 * MapServer documentation, MS4W maintainer, maptools co-maintainer. User:jmckenna
 * Ian Turton
 * workblog
 * GeoTools
 * (40.7932, -77.847)
 * GeoTools founder and developer, GeoVistaStudio benevolent dictator, GeoServer user. User:ianturton
 * David Blasby
 * The Open Planning Project, GeoServer, GeoTools
 * GeoTools
 * (varies)
 * Currently, I'm the Project Lead for Geoserver and am on the GeoTools Project Management Committee. I'm just starting a GeoWiki (Public Participation GIS) (please contact me if you're interested).  I was the orginal creator of PostGIS, and have contributed to several OS GIS projects, including JTS, JUMP, and Mapserver.
 * Andrey Kiselev
 * "Radar" R&D Centre (Russia)
 * GDAL/OGR
 * (60.04,30.33)
 * Freelance developer and contributor to GDAL/OGR project.
 * Helton Uchoa
 * Geolivre Community, Open 3D GIS Project
 * Web Site Committee and Public Geospatial Data Project
 * (-22.96, -43.11)
 * I'm a Geomatics Enginner and I work at OpenGEO Company as a GIS Specialist. I'm responsible for many GIS projects using FOSS and the OpenGIS Specifications in Brazil and I have some relevant papers and scientific articles presented in Brazilian and Latin-American conferences and published in scientific magazines. In last year, I have helped, as a teacher, introduce the GNU/FSF philosophy at the Transportation Engineering Department of IME (Military Institute of Engineering - IME, Brazil). I have worked in Geolivre Rio 2004 and 2005 as member of organization commitee. Now I'm working in Geolivre Conference 2007. User:Uchoa
 * Toru Mori
 * Orkney, Inc.
 * MapServer, GRASS GIS
 * (35.448, 139.642)
 * President of Orkney, Inc. Advocate of Open Geospatial tools in Japan and Asia. Promote open geospatial data. User:moritoru
 * Allan Doyle
 * EOGEO,MIT Museum,NASA Earth Science Data Systems Standards Process Group
 * Public Geospatial Data Project
 * (42.28, -71.24)
 * President of EOGEO and International Interfaces, long-time geo-interoperability interests, opensourced (is that a verb?) OpenMap, originator of OGC testbed idea, Web Mapping Testbed, WMS spec editor, worked on WMS Context, GeoRSS. more details. BlogUser:adoyle
 * Ned Horning
 * Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
 * Curriculum project
 * (43.9933, -73.0407)
 * Program manager for remote sensing/GIS. Promoter of open source geospatial tools in the global conservation community.
 * Paul Spencer
 * DM Solutions Group
 * MapServer, Chameleon, kaMap, MapLab, MS4W, OpenEV
 * (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
 * CTO of DM Solutions Group, designer/developer/contributor to many open source packages, especially based on MapServer. Recent interest/focus is on AJAX clients for mapping applications. User:pagameba
 * Mark Lucas
 * remotesensing.org
 * remotesensing.org and ossim
 * (27.9690219N, 080.5590534W altitude sea level + 5m)
 * CTO, original founder of ImageLinks and remotesensing.org. Board of Directors Open Source Software Institute and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research.  Member of Open Technology Development Tiger team for the Department of Defense (USA).  Lead a team of talented developers on the OSSIM and osgPlanet projects.  Previously spent 22 years in the United States Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office and the Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects organization working with various classified programs.  Prior to Radiant Blue Technologies, was a Lead Scientist for Intelligence Data Systems, Titan Corporation, and L3-Communciations. Personal Web site. User:mlucas17
 * Jo Walsh
 * Open Knowledge Foundation,Mapping Hacks, Public Geodata
 * Open Geodata committee
 * (42.368297,-71.108696)
 * Came to geospatial software through collaborative mapping on the semantic web work. Organising events to get geospatial hackers together with data-creating people and promote public access to state collected geodata. If you are in Europe please see Public Geodata and consider writing to an MEP about public domain data and "intellectual property rights" issues. If you collect GPS tracks, please consider uploading them to OpenStreetmap - my only real contribution to this project is to talk about it a lot. I co-wrote "Mapping Hacks" with Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, with a lot of contributions from OSGeo type of people. Last year wrote a lot of software using OSM and OpenGuides with Mapserver to provide a basis for collaborative local "portal" type services on community wireless networks. Now more interested in doing collaborative writing and research projects. User:JoWalsh
 * Dave McIlhagga
 * DM Solutions Group
 * Promotion and Visibility Committee
 * (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
 * President & CEO of DM Solutions Group. Active promoter of open source geospatial technologies. Led DM Solutions Group to become a major contributor and advocate of MapServer and development of key open source MapServer utilities including Chameleon, kaMap, MapLab, MS4W. Provided financial and resource support for setup of a key home for open source geospatial projects at MapTools. Led the organizing committee for OSGIS, the first Open Source Geospatial conference in North America which coincided with the second MapServer User Meeting. Spearheaded the integration of the two major open source geospatial conferences from North America and Europe/Asia, as the Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformations single international event to be held in Lausanne Switzerland. User:davemac
 * Pericles (Perry) Nacionales
 * University of Minnesota
 * Web Site Committee
 * (44.9873167, -93.1851500)
 * Promoter of open source geospatial technologies specially in the field of natural resources management and conservation, advocate of open and interoperability standards, MTSC member, author of MapServer Tutorial.
 * Norman Vine
 * Independent
 * (41:31:38N, 70:39:43W)
 * Independent software developer User:Nhv
 * Mike Adair
 * Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections
 * MapBuilder
 * (45.27, -75.75)
 * Contributor and member of MapBuilder PMC. Interested primarily in AJAX client technology for mapping, but also in the whole SDI stack. User:madair
 * Stefan F. Keller
 * University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR), Institute for Software
 * JavaWPS
 * (47.2240, 8.8181)
 * Promotor of open source and commercial technologies specially in the field of information retrieval, databases, GIS and visualization. Advocate of open and interoperability standards, member of national GIS standardization (e-geo, SNV) and umbrella (SOGI) organizations. Creator of geometa.info, one of the first search engines for geospatial services (WMS), metadata and online maps (Lucene-based); contributor of geo-webservices for german Wikipedia. User:Sfkeller
 * Arnulf Christl
 * WhereGroup, OGC Member
 * Mapbender, FOSSGIS, Board, Promotion and Visibility Committee
 * (50.7342N, 7.0707W)
 * Mapbender PSC, Free and Open Source Software Business advocate on a mission to reduce FOSSFUD.
 * V.RaviKumar
 * Geologist
 * OSGeo member ,[GRASS Indian exmple]
 * 17° N 79° E
 * A Geologist from India who is interested in FOSS software. GRASS in particular. Conducted a FOSS workshop at Hyderabad, India in May 2005. The workshop boosted our spirits with a large participation and good articles  on various FOSS software. An entire session was for GRASS, Qgis software.  Presently lecturing in various forums on the capability of GRASS and   allied FOSS GIS. With the help of Free Software Foundation India, trying  to spread awareness of GRASS GIS, GNU-Linux and FOSS. Countries like India have a lot to gain with the spread of FOSS.
 * David Hastings
 * UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
 * Member of original Grass Interagency Steering Committee, etc.
 * 13.75°N 100.5°E
 * A physicist/geophysicist/geological engineer who has used GRASS since 1987, and on the GRASS Interagency Steering Committee for the original public-domain package. I wrote the Linux Mini-HOWTO on GRASS-GIS (which is now woefully out of date); and taught short courses in scientific (as opposed to cartographic) GIS since 1980.  In 1994 I moved my teaching to the Web, developing the CyberInstitute Short-Course on GIS.  Currently, I'm at UN ESCAP.  Open-Source is a great capacity- building environment for software communities worldwide.  In developing countries, rather than being stuck merely teaching people to cut and paste stuff within a proprietary office suite, you can be part of the full development team, customizing the software to your community's needs, helping your country to have its own software development community - and hopefully making a satisfying living in the process.
 * Gary Sherman
 * Micro Resources, Quantum GIS
 * OSGeo Member
 * (-149.567, 61.32138)
 * Consultant, "Father" of Quantum GIS, long-time Linux user and Open Source proponent.
 * Astrid Emde
 * Mapbender, MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS
 * Mapbender Development
 * (7.0707, 50.7342)
 * Projects with MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Mapbender. Part of the Mapbender Developer Team. Courses for Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and WMS, WFS
 * Jeroen Ticheler
 * GeoNetwork opensource, InterMap opensource, Food and Agriculture Organization GeoNetwork
 * OSGeo member, GeoNetwork
 * 42.07420°N, 12.34343°E
 * I've initiated the development of the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog software and its embedded InterMap opensource Map Viewer. I hope to contribute possitively to the creation of a comprehensive, FOSS based toolkit for Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) that help people share and use geospatial data and information in an easy and cost effective way. I focus especially on the data sharing within the United Nations system and in countries under development. I promote free and open source software as an excellent option for more sustainable development in these countries, proving it works by applying and further developing it in my day to day work. OpenSDI is a forum to discuss foss and cots integration.
 * Dirceu Machado
 * Itaipu Tecnology Park
 * OSGeo member,GRASS
 * 59°S, -24°E
 * I'm a brazilian developer of open source GIS/WEB_GIS applications using PHP, JAVA and Python with Mapserver and PostGIS and also a user and enthusiast of Linux and BSD's OS. I'm excited with the idea of a community like this one and i wish to help in any way i can with development's (if necessary) and/or documentation translations to portuguese language. Actualy i'm working in a project to develop a GIS viewer and map generator (for printing purposes) in Python based on the idea of the JUMP Project.
 * Kevin Yam
 * Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Land Information Ontario
 * OSGeo member
 * 43.709, -79.544
 * Program coordinator for information management within the Provinicial Ministry of the Environment. I focus especially on data sharing between government agencies, departments and local stakeholders, and I am a promoter of open source geospatial tools applicable to environmental monitoring and observing User:kevinyam
 * Colin Gowens
 * Geographer, GIS Professional
 * OSGeo member
 * 33.7518, -84.3920
 * User of GRASS, GDAL, OGR, PostGIS and Mapserver since 2002. The open source GIS software and community have proven tremendously valuable to my GIS endeavors.
 * David Bitner
 * Metropolitan Airports Commission, dbSpatial
 * OSGeo member, Geodata Committee
 * 44.844, -93.560
 * Active PostGIS and MapServer user. GIS application developer for airport authority and other freelance projects.  Serve on Regional/State committees (Minnesota) for Data Sharing and Enterprise Geospatial Architecture.  Member of Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group.
 * Tyler Mitchell
 * Spatialguru.com
 * OSGeo Executive Director, Promotion and Visibility Committee, Education Committee
 * 52.13, -121.13 (lat/lon)
 * MapServer, PostGIS, GRASS, GDAL user. O'Reilly Author, writer, promoter of Open Source GIS.
 * Rafael Medeiros Sperb
 * G10 - UNIVALI
 * OSGeo Member
 * -26.60, -48.70 (lat/lon)
 * Steven M. Ottens
 * Geodan
 * MapBuilder
 * 52.34, 4.91 (lat/lon)
 * Contributor and member of MapBuilder PMC. User:stvn
 * Stefano Maffulli
 * Politecnico di Milano
 * Promotion and Visibility Committee, International Outreach, Public Geospatial Data
 * 45, 9 (Lat,Lon)
 * Architect, worked within the GIS_Lab at University of Florence on research about sustainable development of historical cities. At Joint Research Center (Ispra) worked within the EU funded project CommonGIS.  Currently working with Politecnico di Milano as consultant on Methodologies and technologies for conservation and restoration of historical Venetian buildings
 * Dave Patton
 * CIS Canadian Information Systems
 * helping the Website Committee
 * 49.27N 123.15W
 * Self-employed computer consultant. Co-lead developer for Punt, an Open Source multi-language Windows desktop application that allows the user to view the terrain of any world in 3D.  Canadian Coordinator and co-administrator of the Degree Confluence Project  User:Dpatton
 * Jody Garnett User:Jive
 * GeoTools
 * Iccubation and limited Website Committee
 * missing
 * It seems all I do is email, must be due to GeoTools, GeoServer, GeoAPI and uDig. I am working at Refractions Research, Inc, a small consulting company with an open source habit.
 * Justin Deoliveira
 * The Open Planning Project, GeoTools, GeoServer
 * GeoTools
 * undeterministic
 * GeoTools module maintainer, GeoServer developer, and uDig committer. I have been kicking around the Java GIS world for approximately 3 years contributing as an active developer on said projects. For the last year or so I have been working for a non-profit company known as The Open Planning Project.
 * Dylan Beaudette
 * UCD
 * GRASS
 * Input lat/long here
 * Soils and Biogeochemistry M.S. student at University of California, Davis. Interested in the use and proliferation of OSS in the sciences, particularly soil science. GIS and geomorphologic analysis; presentation of USDA-NCSS digital soil survey information / soils education through visual example.
 * Stuart Eve
 * L - P : Archaeology
 * Mapserver (user), GRASS (user)
 * Input lat/long here
 * Involved in using web-based Open Source technologies to make archaeological data accessible to a wider audience. We use Mapserver in a number of applications, including Fasti Online
 * Paulo Marcondes
 * marcondes.org, Blog
 * GRASS (translator), OSGeo Member (?), OSGeo Brasil (proponent)
 * (-22.915,-42.229), Maidenhead: GG87vc
 * Working in the GRASS translation to portuguese (pt_br), somewhat involved (at least intelecutally) with Debian-GIS, involved in the local Debian User Group. My interests range from everything spatial to everything geospatial, GIS, GPS, Ham Radio, wardriving, etc. I have a B.S. in Geology (2001) Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. I do R&D in the oil industry in a non GIS arena, but plan migrating to the GIS arena in the near future. I'm also planning a M.S. in GIS sometime in the future (accepting suggestions).
 * Stefano Maffulli
 * Politecnico di Milano
 * Promotion and Visibility Committee, International Outreach, Public Geospatial Data
 * 45, 9 (Lat,Lon)
 * Architect, worked within the GIS_Lab at University of Florence on research about sustainable development of historical cities. At Joint Research Center (Ispra) worked within the EU funded project CommonGIS.  Currently working with Politecnico di Milano as consultant on Methodologies and technologies for conservation and restoration of historical Venetian buildings
 * Dave Patton
 * CIS Canadian Information Systems
 * helping the Website Committee
 * 49.27N 123.15W
 * Self-employed computer consultant. Co-lead developer for Punt, an Open Source multi-language Windows desktop application that allows the user to view the terrain of any world in 3D.  Canadian Coordinator and co-administrator of the Degree Confluence Project  User:Dpatton
 * Jody Garnett User:Jive
 * GeoTools
 * Iccubation and limited Website Committee
 * missing
 * It seems all I do is email, must be due to GeoTools, GeoServer, GeoAPI and uDig. I am working at Refractions Research, Inc, a small consulting company with an open source habit.
 * Justin Deoliveira
 * The Open Planning Project, GeoTools, GeoServer
 * GeoTools
 * undeterministic
 * GeoTools module maintainer, GeoServer developer, and uDig committer. I have been kicking around the Java GIS world for approximately 3 years contributing as an active developer on said projects. For the last year or so I have been working for a non-profit company known as The Open Planning Project.
 * Dylan Beaudette
 * UCD
 * GRASS
 * Input lat/long here
 * Soils and Biogeochemistry M.S. student at University of California, Davis. Interested in the use and proliferation of OSS in the sciences, particularly soil science. GIS and geomorphologic analysis; presentation of USDA-NCSS digital soil survey information / soils education through visual example.
 * Stuart Eve
 * L - P : Archaeology
 * Mapserver (user), GRASS (user)
 * Input lat/long here
 * Involved in using web-based Open Source technologies to make archaeological data accessible to a wider audience. We use Mapserver in a number of applications, including Fasti Online
 * Paulo Marcondes
 * marcondes.org, Blog
 * GRASS (translator), OSGeo Member (?), OSGeo Brasil (proponent)
 * (-22.915,-42.229), Maidenhead: GG87vc
 * Working in the GRASS translation to portuguese (pt_br), somewhat involved (at least intelecutally) with Debian-GIS, involved in the local Debian User Group. My interests range from everything spatial to everything geospatial, GIS, GPS, Ham Radio, wardriving, etc. I have a B.S. in Geology (2001) Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. I do R&D in the oil industry in a non GIS arena, but plan migrating to the GIS arena in the near future. I'm also planning a M.S. in GIS sometime in the future (accepting suggestions).
 * Involved in using web-based Open Source technologies to make archaeological data accessible to a wider audience. We use Mapserver in a number of applications, including Fasti Online
 * Paulo Marcondes
 * marcondes.org, Blog
 * GRASS (translator), OSGeo Member (?), OSGeo Brasil (proponent)
 * (-22.915,-42.229), Maidenhead: GG87vc
 * Working in the GRASS translation to portuguese (pt_br), somewhat involved (at least intelecutally) with Debian-GIS, involved in the local Debian User Group. My interests range from everything spatial to everything geospatial, GIS, GPS, Ham Radio, wardriving, etc. I have a B.S. in Geology (2001) Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. I do R&D in the oil industry in a non GIS arena, but plan migrating to the GIS arena in the near future. I'm also planning a M.S. in GIS sometime in the future (accepting suggestions).
 * Working in the GRASS translation to portuguese (pt_br), somewhat involved (at least intelecutally) with Debian-GIS, involved in the local Debian User Group. My interests range from everything spatial to everything geospatial, GIS, GPS, Ham Radio, wardriving, etc. I have a B.S. in Geology (2001) Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. I do R&D in the oil industry in a non GIS arena, but plan migrating to the GIS arena in the near future. I'm also planning a M.S. in GIS sometime in the future (accepting suggestions).
 * Anselm Hook
 * hook.org, maps.civicactions.net placedb
 * (-122.673,-45.5371), Portland Oregon
 * Both commercial and open source developer. Led engineering for platial.com and wrote placedb.org - also wrote maps.civicactions.net (an ajax tile map engine with a dataset behind it).  Also wrote a small java spinny globe at headmap.  Interested in providing fully open source map data (not simply applications or tools but actual content).  Primarily interested in social and environmental issues with an eye towards modelling near term outcomes of decision making.
 * Oscar Cantán
 * University of Zaragoza, Spain
 * Member
 * (41.666,-0.888)
 * Currently working on the development and implementation of geospatial interoperability standards. Specially interested in OGC catalog services specification (CSW, SRW) and metadata content standards (ISO 19119-19139).
 * Lorenzo Becchi
 * http://www.ominiverdi.org
 * OSGeo Member
 * moving
 * ka-Map developer. User:Ominiverdi
 * Christoph Baudson
 * http://www.mapbender.org
 * OSGeo Member
 * here, there and everywhere
 * Mapbender developer. See Christoph
 * Georg Lösel
 * http://www.grass-verein.de GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung
 * User (GRASS, QGIS); Free Geodata
 * 52,3625/9,7481
 * Georg Lösel
 * Reinhard Simon
 * [International Potato Center, Lima, Peru
 * Project lead: DIVA-GIS
 * NA
 * Reinhard Simon
 * Todd Jamison
 * http://www.observera.com
 * OSGEO Member; User: OSSIM, GDAL, MapServer; Contributor: OSSIM
 * (38.898489, -77.500484)
 * Chief Image Scientist and CEO of Observera, Inc. Observera worked on the original OSSIM library with ImageLinks and we have developed several projects using the OSSIM library and MapServer, including ALLEGRO (Land-cover / Land-use Classification) and the Change Detection WorkStation (CDWS), both for the US Army.  Expertise includes spectral, thermal, microwave sensors, photogrammetry, image registration, image processing, morphology, resolution enhancement, workflow automation, machine learning (e.g., neural nets, support vector machines, genetic algorithms), Geologic GIS and bunches of other stuff.  Glad to be a part of OSGEO.
 * Laurent Jégou
 * UTM Dept. Géo, Forum SIG, Portail SIG
 * User and wanabee Curriculum project contributor.
 * (43.6N, 1.4E)
 * Cartographer (conception, production, integration), cartography and GIS teacher for masters degrees, open source mapping software developper (.Net and Java), technology developpement monitoring.
 * Hardeep Singh Rai
 * Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab
 * (30.55N,75.54E)
 * Willing to see growth of GPL/OpenSource softwares in every field. Civil Engineer, in teaching profession since 1989. Presently Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department.
 * Paolo Cavallini
 * Faunalia
 * M. Agus Salim
 * Forest Spatial Information Catalog
 * User
 * Bogor, Indonesia [106.752E,6.5533S]
 * Working as GIS Assistant in Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Currently i am interested in exploring geospatial open source software capabilities and hope to involved more than a user in the future
 * Janusz Michalak
 * Polish Association for Spatial Information
 * (30.55N,75.54E)
 * Willing to see growth of GPL/OpenSource softwares in every field. Civil Engineer, in teaching profession since 1989. Presently Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department.
 * Paolo Cavallini
 * Faunalia
 * M. Agus Salim
 * Forest Spatial Information Catalog
 * User
 * Bogor, Indonesia [106.752E,6.5533S]
 * Working as GIS Assistant in Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Currently i am interested in exploring geospatial open source software capabilities and hope to involved more than a user in the future
 * Janusz Michalak
 * Polish Association for Spatial Information
 * User
 * Bogor, Indonesia [106.752E,6.5533S]
 * Working as GIS Assistant in Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Currently i am interested in exploring geospatial open source software capabilities and hope to involved more than a user in the future
 * Janusz Michalak
 * Polish Association for Spatial Information
 * Polish Association for Spatial Information
 * GRASS user
 * Warsaw, Poland (52.2118,20.9864)
 * Will be added later
 * Chris Tweedie
 * Dept. of Land Information
 * OSGeo Lurker
 * Perth, Australia [116.0043,-31.8869]
 * Deploying a statewide SDI for WA using largely OSGeo projects. General lurker i'm afraid, lots of ideas, not enough time~
 * The Sunburned Surveyor (A.K.A. - Landon Blake)
 * My Blog
 * OSGeo Lurker
 * Stockton, California
 * Project administrator and developer for The JUMP Pilot Project and the SurveyOS Project.
 * Rob Atkinson
 * 
 * Geoserver PSC, Geotools
 * Wollongong,Australia
 * SDI Architect. Involved in data standards and tools to deploy them, registry design, standards development (mainly OGC and ISO, INSPIRE.) Generally, enabling Observations and Measurements patterns in OS tools and other consistency/productivity/scalability requirements.
 * Mateusz Loskot
 * http://mateusz.loskot.net
 * GDAL/OGR hacker, FDO PSC and hacker, Warsaw Agricultural University
 * Warsaw,Poland (52.2373 21.0834)
 * A freelance geospatial software developer and contributor to various FOSS/GIS projects. Interested in mobile GIS solutions. Active member of various Open Source Software communities. User:mloskot
 * Asif Ahmed
 * http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/orise
 * Osgeo Member
 * Toronto, Canada
 * Mapserver user, Chameleon user, Coldfusion, .NET, C and Perl experience. Open source enthusiast.
 * Dongpo Deng
 * About me
 * OSGeo Lurker
 * Taipei, Taiwan(25.041N 121.614E)
 * A researcher for open geospatial techniques and data.
 * Ian Ibbotson
 * http://developer.k-int.com
 * Osgeo Lurker
 * Sheffield, UK (37.0625,-95.677068)
 * Information Retrieval / Information Repository Developer. Worked with USGS on combining text and spatial IR systems, on the GEO Z3950 profile, and on exposing GEO access points in the SRW/SRU protocol. Developer on UK Peoples Network cultural heritage / digital preservation amongst other projects with public information / spatial faceted data.
 * Josef Assad
 * Independent (for now)
 * Still figuring out where I can be most useful as an OSGEO slave
 * Cairo, Egypt (30.070877;31.220312)
 * Free software, open standards are my primary areas of interest.
 * Ben Discoe
 * Virtual Terrain Project (VTP)
 * Ahualoa, Hawai'i (20.0532,-155.5085)
 * After some years in the virtual reality field, i got the geospatial religion. With some support from Intel, i began what later grew into the VTP.  7 years after public launch, it is now a thriving community, educational website, and suite of open-source geovisualization software, which is likely to become an official OSGeo project at some point.
 * Emilio Mayorga
 * Rutgers, CAEE
 * New Brunswick, New Jersey (40.505,-74.399)
 * Post-doc researcher at Rutgers, working on global carbon and nutrients exports from rivers to the ocean, and very interested in pushing FOSS tools (geospatial and otherwise) and the open, community aspects surrounding them, into the Earth Sciences community. I'm doing more and more Python lately (and enjoying it), but previously have worked with Perl, C, the whole ESRI stack, Matlab, etc. In my recent, previous life, I was a lead GIS Analyst at a Washington state county; that 5-year experience strongly colored my perspective and interests. I've also worked with a small group compiling and redistributing environmental data (mostly geospatial) for Central America, where I've pushed a FOSSG stack (MapServer, GDAL, qgis). I hope to help out with the Public Geospatial Data Project, focusing on scientific datasets, developing countries, and practical implementations. User:Emayorga
 * Aarti Singh
 * Johns Hopkins - KGMU Collaborative Projects
 * OSGeo Member
 * Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (26.55, 80.59)
 * We're working on public health research and are using GIS tools to map our study area.
 * Dan Jacobson/積丹尼
 * (none)
 * Taiwan Chapter member
 * Dongshi, Taiwan 120.87 E, 24.18 N
 * House address planning, utility pole coordinates, bus routes. See http://jidanni.org/
 * Yves Jacolin
 * GeoRezo moderator for the Webmapping forum
 * Francophone Local Chapter / OSGeo Member / GRASS, QGIS and MapServer User
 * Suresnes, France (48.87N, 2.23E)
 * Translate and write documentation or how-to about GDAL-ORG, QGIS, GRASS, MapServer, ... Help in georezo.net forumsig.org OS and webmapping forum. Work on the creation of the francophone local chapter.
 * Jorge Sanz
 * Prodevelop, gvSIG project geomaticblog.net
 * OSGeo Member / Spanish Local Chapter
 * Valencia, Spain (40.396N,3.713W)
 * I'm working as GIS developer and power user :P. Free software fan since 2000 and enthusiastic GNU/Linux user. I'm translating OSGeo portal pages.
 * Chen Rongguo
 * IGSNRR, LREIS
 * OSGeo Member / China Local Chapter
 * Beijing, China (39N,116E)
 * Professor at Lreis, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
 * Gao Ang
 * IGSNRR, LREIS
 * OSGeo Member / China Local Chapter
 * Beijing, China (39N,116E)
 * Ph.D student at Lreis, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My homepage is Grid GIS.
 * Markus Lupp (Markus Müller)
 * deegree, lat/lon
 * OSGeo member, editor of the Topical Studies secion of the OSGeo journal
 * Hamburg, Germany (10.00, 52.74)
 * I am one of the founding members and managers of the deegree project. Besides this I am actively involved in the work of the OGC, e.g. as editor of Symbology Encoding and SLD profile of WMS specifications. For OSGeo, I serve es editor for the Topical Studies section of the OSGeo journal.
 * Bob Bruce
 * Handyside Web Programming Services
 * MapServer, QGIS user, co-creator of the mapping interface for www.TheMuralsofWinnipeg.com
 * Winnipeg, Canada (49.86059N, 97.104989W)
 * I am an advocate for open source geospatial software
 * Milo van der Linden
 * CTO 3DSite IT&C bv, the Netherlands
 * 3DSite
 * (51.516N,3.880E)
 * BSc in Geo-science, 10 years experience in GIS. Started my own company in jan 2007. Focus on 3D GIS, Google Earth, Fleet management, Routing and Navigation. Open Sourcing with: MapWindow GIS, OpenStreetMap, OGR/GDAL, QuantumGIS, dotProject, Blender. Developer in VB6, VB.NET and C#
 * Kevin Flanders
 * PeopleGIS Inc.
 * MapServer, home of MapsOnline...a municipal online mapping service
 * Concord, MA USA (42.459N, 71.3518W)
 * PeopleGIS has built MapsOnline and other related products on open source software for over five years, working with many people on this list.
 * Andrew Turner
 * HighEarthOrbit, Mapufacture
 * OSGeo Lurker
 * Ann Arbor, MI, US (42.2774N x 83.7611W)
 * Neogeographer - interested in helping GIS be usable and creatable by non-geo-savvy users. Helps develop Mapstraction, and GeoPress web mapping and publishing tools. Active contributor to the GeoRSS Community.
 * Wolf Bergenheim
 * none. I'm a free OS coder
 * GRASS as a developer and GSoC 2007 Mentor. PostGIS user
 * 60.237N 24.823E (Espoo Finland)
 * I'm an independend student of geoinformatics and OpenSource. Interested in developing GRASS and helping to add more features to the already rich feature set. I'm prepared to develop modules for GRASS on commission / request.
 * Peter Rushforth
 * Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections
 * OGR user
 * Ottawa, Ont, Canada
 * Interested in GML / XSLT processing.
 * (51.516N,3.880E)
 * BSc in Geo-science, 10 years experience in GIS. Started my own company in jan 2007. Focus on 3D GIS, Google Earth, Fleet management, Routing and Navigation. Open Sourcing with: MapWindow GIS, OpenStreetMap, OGR/GDAL, QuantumGIS, dotProject, Blender. Developer in VB6, VB.NET and C#
 * Kevin Flanders
 * PeopleGIS Inc.
 * MapServer, home of MapsOnline...a municipal online mapping service
 * Concord, MA USA (42.459N, 71.3518W)
 * PeopleGIS has built MapsOnline and other related products on open source software for over five years, working with many people on this list.
 * Andrew Turner
 * HighEarthOrbit, Mapufacture
 * OSGeo Lurker
 * Ann Arbor, MI, US (42.2774N x 83.7611W)
 * Neogeographer - interested in helping GIS be usable and creatable by non-geo-savvy users. Helps develop Mapstraction, and GeoPress web mapping and publishing tools. Active contributor to the GeoRSS Community.
 * Wolf Bergenheim
 * none. I'm a free OS coder
 * GRASS as a developer and GSoC 2007 Mentor. PostGIS user
 * 60.237N 24.823E (Espoo Finland)
 * I'm an independend student of geoinformatics and OpenSource. Interested in developing GRASS and helping to add more features to the already rich feature set. I'm prepared to develop modules for GRASS on commission / request.
 * Peter Rushforth
 * Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections
 * OGR user
 * Ottawa, Ont, Canada
 * Interested in GML / XSLT processing.
 * Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections
 * OGR user
 * Ottawa, Ont, Canada
 * Interested in GML / XSLT processing.


 * David Percy
 * Portland State University Geology Department Geospatial Data Manager
 * FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Committee
 * Portland, OR, USA (45.51238, -122.682500)
 * Interested in web mapping and most things to do with GIS, databases, and networking, especially related to Earth Science. I work with a large portion of the geologic mapping community in the United States at the state and federal levels to bring geologic maps into some semblance of interoperability. This effort is also internationalized via the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information. We use almost all open source GIS software for this effort. See the National Geologic Map Database for progress.
 * Interested in web mapping and most things to do with GIS, databases, and networking, especially related to Earth Science. I work with a large portion of the geologic mapping community in the United States at the state and federal levels to bring geologic maps into some semblance of interoperability. This effort is also internationalized via the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information. We use almost all open source GIS software for this effort. See the National Geologic Map Database for progress.


 * Laurent Pierre
 * [Electricité de France R&D]
 * Montrouge, 92, France (48.812, 2.317)
 * Interested in web mapping, SVG, spatial databases.
 * Montrouge, 92, France (48.812, 2.317)
 * Interested in web mapping, SVG, spatial databases.


 * Gavin Fleming
 * Geoinformation Society of South Africa FOSS SIG chair, Senior GISc and sustainable development researcher at Mintek
 * FOSS4G 2008 conference chair, OSGeo Africa Chapter chair
 * Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa (-26.0896, 27.9782)
 * I use and promote FOSS GIS for sustainable development and in particular in mining, environmental and related fields.
 * Scott Mitchell
 * Carleton University
 * GRASS PSC, Ottawa Local Chapter, Education/Curriculum
 * Ottawa, ON, Canada (45.381, -75.699)
 * See my user page for more information.
 * Mark Leslie
 * LISAsoft
 * MapServer, GeoTools
 * Sydney, NSW, Australia (-33.864575,151.194353)
 * Broad spectrum open source geospatial developer.
 * Daniel Hirner
 * BC Electoral Boundaries Commission
 * Our site using Google Maps API
 * Vancouver, BC (49.260470,-123.113940)
 * Production Manager (GIS)
 * Julia Harrell
 * NC DENR
 * OSGeo Lurker
 * Raleigh, NC, US (35.78686 N, -78.63868 W)
 * GIS Coordinator for NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Advocate of Open Source GIS Software.
 * Darryl Woodley
 * Township of Esquimalt
 * MapGuide 6.5 user
 * | Victoria, BC (48.429984, -123.413500)
 * I am the lead GIS person on staff for the Township of Esquimalt. We are currently running MapGuide 6.5 on our intranet only. I am not too involved in the nuts and bolts of our GIS as our staff level requires us to contract out most of the GIS work.
 * David Zhou
 * GIS DataBse Consultant
 * Vancouver ,BC
 * I am GIS DataBase Consultant in the Maxwell Geoservices Company.
 * Miguel Montesinos
 * Prodevelop
 * gvSIG / Spanish-speaking Local Chapter
 * Valencia, Spain (39.479N,0.369W)
 * Working with GIS since 1994. For too many years with privative and closed GIS technology, and working and promoting FOSS4GIS for a few years. CTO of Prodevelop. Member of the Project Management Committee (~PSC) of gvSIG. Member of the Technical Management Committee of gvSIG. gvSIG Mobile development Project Manager. Member of Project Management Institute. Active member of OpenStreetMap community. User:Mmontesinos
 * Vancouver ,BC
 * I am GIS DataBase Consultant in the Maxwell Geoservices Company.
 * Miguel Montesinos
 * Prodevelop
 * gvSIG / Spanish-speaking Local Chapter
 * Valencia, Spain (39.479N,0.369W)
 * Working with GIS since 1994. For too many years with privative and closed GIS technology, and working and promoting FOSS4GIS for a few years. CTO of Prodevelop. Member of the Project Management Committee (~PSC) of gvSIG. Member of the Technical Management Committee of gvSIG. gvSIG Mobile development Project Manager. Member of Project Management Institute. Active member of OpenStreetMap community. User:Mmontesinos
 * Valencia, Spain (39.479N,0.369W)
 * Working with GIS since 1994. For too many years with privative and closed GIS technology, and working and promoting FOSS4GIS for a few years. CTO of Prodevelop. Member of the Project Management Committee (~PSC) of gvSIG. Member of the Technical Management Committee of gvSIG. gvSIG Mobile development Project Manager. Member of Project Management Institute. Active member of OpenStreetMap community. User:Mmontesinos


 * Dirk Frigne
 * MAJAS
 * AJAX based webmapping applications. I am working on MAJAS wich is a platform I want to introduce as a client server solution for web mapping applications. The server side is JAVA. The client side is javascript. Intention to start the Belgium Local Chapter
 * Gent, Belgium (51° 08' N 3° 47'E)
 * In his professional life, Dirk Frigne is founder and CEO of DFC Software Engineering. He has extensive software development experience as a developer, architect, project manager and has been involved with the development and implementation of numerous IT infrastructures using a variety of technologies on multiple platforms. In an IT career spanning more than 20 years, Dirk understands that leadership and team building are the keys to successful IT and development projects. His key skills are situated in CAD and GIS related domains. Recently Dirk has been appointed to project manager for the open source project “Generic GIS for e-Government”. He is also a regular contributor and editor of the VI Matrix journal and CAD Magazine. Furthermore, Dirk is secretary of FLAGIS, the Flemish association for geographic information systems.
 * In his professional life, Dirk Frigne is founder and CEO of DFC Software Engineering. He has extensive software development experience as a developer, architect, project manager and has been involved with the development and implementation of numerous IT infrastructures using a variety of technologies on multiple platforms. In an IT career spanning more than 20 years, Dirk understands that leadership and team building are the keys to successful IT and development projects. His key skills are situated in CAD and GIS related domains. Recently Dirk has been appointed to project manager for the open source project “Generic GIS for e-Government”. He is also a regular contributor and editor of the VI Matrix journal and CAD Magazine. Furthermore, Dirk is secretary of FLAGIS, the Flemish association for geographic information systems.