Jeff McKenna

Receiving the 2016 Sol Katz Award, at FOSS4G Bonn, on 2016-08-26.

With Venka at FOSS4G Seoul, Sept 2015. Two of the founders of FOSS4G.

With the ZOO family at FOSS4G Europe, July 2014

Having a sushi lunch at FOSS4G Tokyo 2008

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

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