Tyler Mitchell

Hi, welcome to Tyler Mitchell's user page. I work as Executive Director at OSGeo and am always interested in learning about anything you are using open source geospatial software for. If you would like to meet, my upcoming events list will tell you if I'll be near by. Otherwise, please drop me an email and introduce yourself. This page also follows some of my current tasks and thoughts.

Events I'm planning to be at the following events. If you are there too, please look me up: FOSS4G 2011 - Denver Interviews, Articles & Presentations Video presentation at OSGIS Nottingham, June 2011. Article in Open Source Business Resource journal: Reassuring End Users Of Open Source: The OSGeo Example, Mar 2009 My interview with Yves Jacolin, Oct 2009 GutsyGeeks radio interview 8/15/2009 (mp3) Mentioned in GIS Professional UK magazine article (0.2MB PDF) Quoted in Japanese software development gihyo.jp article My interview with Linux Journal Directions Mag interview with Paul Ramsey and I about FOSS4G 2007 gvSIG conference interview (1MB PDF) Workload and Tasks Recent and current items I'm working on (biggest time items highlighted)... Various tasks as OSGeo Secretary Helping journal volume 6 Reviewing insurance options with broker Replacing conference call system 501c3 application response in March Reviewing vision and effectiveness of organisation with this survey Completed 2009 finance reports Reviewing marketing communication strategy document and reading up on long term planning processes. Also been handling finances for invoicing, expenses and general bookkeeping and reporting. General ongoing communication.

My OSGeo Blog and personal site and my book: Web Mapping Illustrated (O'Reilly) Contact: tmitchell@osgeo.org Phone: +1-250-303-1831 {{#umSetParam: -121|52|Williams Lake, Canada|Tyler Mitchell|Tyler Mitchell}} Fun & Games: Book shelf -- BZFlag, Vegastrike -- Personality: INFP -- OSGeo Planet Widset

Discussion and Debate Here are a few items that have come up for consideration or debate and that can use some further discussion: Organisation Direction - developing a vision for 2008/2009, including expanded programmes, budgets, performance metrics, etc. Conference Committee developing policy for 3rd Party delivered, OSGeo-branded events (e.g. "Teach-in") making more decisions about, and supporting, the system to be used by FOSS4G events Committee has been pretty quiet, does it need a boost or more volunteers? Marketing develop promotional material for use at events. Pre-printing and maybe some professional polish needed. Next steps being discussed on marketing list. new logo is almost ready and to be slowly rolled out. Some recommendations against this change, though some strong support for it too. FOSS4G 2008 Various event planning to be started soon: OSGeo booth, AGM, Board meeting, ED face-to-face, OSGeo presentations and more Journal could use an associate editor to help run the system/process Past Events Here are some of the events that I spoke at or represented OSGeo at since it started: FOSS4G 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2010 OSGIS, Nottingham, UK, June 21-23, 2010 OSGeo Rendezvous Quebec - by video WAURISA, Tacoma, Washington, April 19-21, 2010 GIS In Action, Portland, Oregon, April 14-17, 2010 FOSS4G 2009 - Sydney, Australia - October 20-23, 2009 WhereCamp5280 - Denver, USA - August 14-15, 2009 Mil-OSS 2009 - Atlanta, USA - August 12-13, 2009 First Open Source GIS UK Conference - Nottingham, UK - June 22nd, 2009 For personal reasons I had to cancel attendance at a few events in 2008... FOSS4G 2008 - Cape Town, Sep. 29 - unable to attend Open Source World Conf - Málaga, Oct. 22 - unable to attend Mobile Augmented Reality and Geospatial - Quebec City, Canada, August 28-29, 2008 - unable to attend OSBootcamp / Geocamp - Ottawa, Canada, June 2-3, 2008 - unable to atend GeoTec Event - Ottawa, Canada, June 2-3, 2008 - unable to atend University of Edinburgh lecture - Edinburgh, May 4, 2008 1Spatial Conference and OSGeo UK Meetup May 2008 - London/Stansted, April 29-May 1, 2008 II Jornadas de SIG Libre, Girona, Spain, March 3-5, 2008 (invited keynote, video recorded) Including pre/post-event meetings with Local Chapter, gvSIG team, FreeGIS book team and others in Madrid and Valencia Kansai Open Forum, Osaka, Japan, 9 November, 2007 Including follow-up repeat of presentations in Tokyo, Japan, 12 November, 2007 I was even able to sign a few books at the O'Reilly.jp office III Encontro Nacional de Usuários MapServer (site offline), May 9-11, Brasilia, Brazil, 2007 (invited keynote) Various pre/post-event meetings as well FOSS4G 2007, Victoria, Canada, 24-27 September, 2007 (keynote, organiser, BOF, AGM) Location Intelligence, San Francisco, USA, 17-18 April, 2007 (booth, presentation in OSGeo session) Autodesk University conference, Las Vegas, USA, 27-30 November, 2006 (booth, BOF) FOSS4G 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland (booth, BOFs) Where 2.0 2006, San Francisco, USA (booth, BOFs) For other events that had or will have some OSGeo representation (presenters, attendees, workshops, etc.) events see this wiki page, this wiki category and the upcoming events list here on OSGeo.org