Board Member Profiles

Peter Batty

Peter Batty

Co-founder and CTO of Geospatial Division, Ubisense

Location: Denver, CO, United States (originally from the United Kingdom)

Peter has worked in the geospatial industry for 25 years and has served as CTO for two of the world's top 200 software companies, Intergraph and Smallworld (now part of GE Energy). In recent years he has worked extensively with open source systems and new generation web mapping applications such as Google Maps. More details at LinkedIn.

OSGeo Experience

• Chaired the FOSS4G conference in Denver in 2011. It was the largest FOSS4G to date with over 900 attendees from 42 countries
• Has spoken at many conferences around the world on trends in the geospatial industry, including open source geospatial
• Served on the OSGeo board from 2011 to 2013
• Has developed applications using a variety of OSGeo software, including PostGIS, MapFish and OpenLayers
• Is a member of the OSGeo Conference Committee
• Was the OSGeo Board Liaison for the FOSS4G 2013 conference in Nottingham, UK
• Writes a Blog

Other interests

• When not doing geo things, keen traveler and photographer. See photos at Peter Batty photos and also check out the Peter Batty travel and photography blog

Contact

Email: peter AT ebatty DOT com

Skype: pmbatty

twitter @pmbatty

Spoken Language(s)

English

Profile last updated

1 February 2015

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OSGeo Member
Name:	Jáchym Čepický
Job Title:
Company:	MapTiler , OpenGeoLabs.cz
Address:	Liban, Czechia
City:	Liban
State:	Královéhradecký kraj
Country:	Czechia
Local Chapter:	Czechia
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Website:	https://cepicky.ch https://opengeolabs.cz
Language(s):	cz; en; de
Personal Description :	Data and Geocoding teams at MapTiler.com, Founder of opengeolabs.cz and gismentors.cz
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Mark Lucas
Job Title:	Principal Scientist
Company:	RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
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City:	Melbourne Beach
State:	Florida
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	Southeast US
Email:	mlucas17 AT mac DOT com
Phone:	321 266 1475
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Language(s):	English; Spanish
Personal Description :	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. ... more.
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Mark Lucas

Mark Lucas

Principal Scientist, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

Location:Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA

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. ... more.

OSGeo Experience

OSGeo experience

• Original founder of the OSSIM remote sensing project
• On the original organizing committee for the OSGeo, a founding member and board member.
• Recently returned to serve on the current Board of Directors

Contact

Email: mlucas17 AT mac DOT com

Phone (work): 321 266 1475 (USA)

Spoken Language(s)

English, Spanish

Profile last updated

07 JULY 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Anne Ghisla
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City:	Berlin
State:	Berlin
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
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Language(s):	Italian; French; English; German
Personal Description :	Anne is a natural scientist who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. She started with GRASS GIS and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on documentation. Then she started programming in 2008 thanks to Google Summer of Code, and became mentor and administrator for OSGeo in following years. She doesn't code much anymore, as she is now focused on connecting people and communities of different software projects. She helped Jorge Rocha with CRO duties for OSGeo elections in 2019 and 2020.
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Anne Ghisla

Anne Ghisla

Anne is a natural scientist who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. She started with GRASS GIS and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on documentation. Then she started programming in 2008 thanks to Google Summer of Code, and became mentor and administrator for OSGeo in following years. She doesn't code much anymore, as she is now focused in connecting people and communities of different software projects. She helped Jorge Rocha with CRO duties for OSGeo elections in 2019 and 2020.

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo Google Summer of Code administrator in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
• Member of Italian chapter GFOSS.it from September 2007 to November 2014
• OSGeo Board member from 2012 to 2015
• Currently dormant GRASS GIS core developer
• Co-founder of OSGeo Women Chapter
• CRO helper in 2019 and 2020

Contact

Email: a DOT ghisla AT gmail DOT com

IRC: aghisla on freenode (#osgeo)

Spoken Language(s)

Italian and French (mother tongues), English (fluent), German (improving :) )

Profile last updated

03-04-2020

OSGeo Member
Name:	Daniel Morissette
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Cameron Shorter
Job Title:	Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
Company:	Government (NSW, Australia)
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City:	Sydney
State:	NSW
Country:	Australia
Local Chapter:	Aust-NZ
Email:	cameron shorter AT gmail DOT com
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Website:	http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/
Language(s):	English
Personal Description :	Cameron has a breadth of practical experience with the numerous facets of Geospatial Open Source and OGC Standards. He has chaired a FOSS4G conference; served on the OSGeo Board, co-founded and co-coordinates the OSGeoLive project; co-authored OSGeo Software Incubation criteria; and consults to governments and industry on Open Source, Open Standards and Spatial Data Systems.
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              More at http://cameron.shorter.net/resume.html

OSGeo Member
Name:	Frank Warmerdam
Job Title:
Company:	Planet
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City:	Eganville
State:	Ontario
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	warmerdam@pobox.com
Phone:	+1 (650) 701-7823
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Personal Description :	Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.
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Frank Warmerdam

Frank Warmerdam

Employment: Google

Location: Mountain View, California, USA

Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.

OSGeo Experience

Contact

Email: warmerdam@pobox.com

Web: http://pobox.com/~warmerdam/

Phone: +1 (650) 701-7823

Spoken Language(s)

English

Profile last updated

17 August 2012