Tyler Mitchell

Hi, welcome to my users page. I was OSGeo's Executive Director (2006-2011) and continue to be interested in partnering with others to keep moving open source geospatial technology to the forefront. One way I'm doing this is to get quality book/training material into the marketplace. After my book (Web Mapping Illustrated) was published in 2005, the need for such support material has become even clearer - business, government and academia (as well as professionals in general) all need high quality material that is reliable in the long term. Learn more about the company I'm building through Locate Press.

I'm always interested in learning about how you are using open source geospatial software and what kinds of additional support you may need. While I am available for consulting work, my primary focus has been on connecting the right individuals and companies together as a support service. I am also available for speaking and custom training opportunities.

If you would like to meet sometime, drop me an email (info@locatepress.com) or check out my upcoming events list to see if I'll be near by. I'm normally operating out of my office in Williams Lake, BC, Canada

Events I'm planning to be at the following events. If you are there too, please look me up: GISRUK - Lancaster University, April 2012 - Invited keynote. Helping with workshops and delivering talk. Interviews, Articles & Presentations Article in the Technology Innovation Management Review, Beyond Technology: Enabling Communities Through Social Interoperability, August 2011 Video presentation at OSGIS Nottingham, June 2011 (slide animations failed in recording, but contact me if you want full quality source) 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)

Company: LocatePress.com Blog: spatialguru.com Book: WebMappingIllustrated.com Old OSGeo Blog: osgeo.org/tyler Contact: info@locatepress.com Phone: +1-250-303-1831 Skype: spatialguru Find me on LinkedIn.com too {{#umSetParam: -121|52|Williams Lake, Canada|Tyler Mitchell|Tyler Mitchell}}

Past Events Here are some of the events that I spoke at or represented OSGeo at since it started: FOSS4G 2011, Denver, Sept 12-16, 2011 Rendez-vous OSGeo Quebec, Chicoutimi, Canada, June 14-15 OSGIS, Nottingham, UK, June 21-23, 2011 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 attend 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