All Members

Name	Affiliations	OSGeo Projects	(Lat,Lon)	About
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	(47.673166,-122.530143)	Engineer at LizardTech, doing MrSID and JPEG 2000 stuff and playing with with the next generation of technologies for supporting raster data GIS workflows. Yes, we're a closed-software shop -- but we 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, Promotion & Visibility	(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	Web Site Committee	(43.17, -78.69)	Network Coordinator, old oil field hand (really, I do know what a frac job is), started with remote data comm. from well sites in '84 as a truckdriver, turned computer jockey by Linux in '93, found ArcView 1.0 the same year (I think), and the rest is ..... (oh yeah, I did some of that Calculus, Organic Chemistry, and Thermo thingy stuff along the way). User:RPaulW
Bart van den Eijnden	OSGIS	Chameleon,	(52.0768396070808, 5.12454)	Freelancer working with several open source GIS tools, mainly Chameleon, Mapserver and Geoserver. User:bartvde
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
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	CCGIS, Geo-Consortium	Mapbender, UMN MapServer (Germany), Board, Promotion and Visibility Committee	(7.0707, 50.7342)	Mapbender PSC, Promoter of Free Software and Open Source :-) Business (...and Open Source Software!)
V.RaviKumar	Geologist	OSGeo member GRASS Blog	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	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