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 a former President 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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