OSGeo Advocate

= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the OSGeo foundation. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= OSGeo Advocates = This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:

Brian M Hamlin


Location: Berkeley, CA USA

"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my abilities as a speaker, investigator, coder and event organizer to further the development and deployment of Open Source Geospatial Software."

By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth in 2007. link As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international conference a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and Gaia


 * OSGeo Experience OSGeo_coder.pngOSGeo_committee.pngOSGeo_user.png:
 * Member, California OSGeo Chapter
 * Member, Marketing Committee
 * Developer Diplomat for OSGeo-Live
 * Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
 * Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
 * Geo Web Log


 * Contact:
 * Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
 * IRC: darkblue_b dbb


 * Profile last updated: 04 July 2012

Mark Lucas
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. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map OSSIM projects for the NRO, the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for NGA. He was one of the authors of the Open Technology Roadmap for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the Open Source Software Institute, and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

Articles:


 * Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source
 * OMAR - Open Source Software for Geoint 3.0

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= Past OSGeo Advocates = This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members

 * We only have 8 active board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members

 * Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community

 * These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members

 * This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members

 * These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators

 * These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the OSGeo Advocate categories, may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
 * Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
 * Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per User:Template, (copy and paste from the source so that you see comments in the template).
 * You can then add your profile on this wiki page, under your Country, using the following:

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
 * The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Other Resources = Links to other organizations running a similar process.
 * http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585