OSGeo Advocate

Introduction

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the OSGeo foundation. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

Advocates

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Africa:South Africa

Gavin Fleming

OSGeo Member
Name:	Gavin Fleming
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Asia:Japan

Nobusuke Iwasaki

Nobusuke Iwasaki

Senior Researcher, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences

Location: Tsukuba, Japan

Nobusuke Iwasaki is researcher of land use change and rural planning and extensively using FOSS4G. Also, he is one of the main organizers of FOSS4G-Japan event and proactively commits promotion and dissemination of FOSS4G, especially academic sector. He strongly contributes some academic project which aims utilization of satellite image and FOSS4G for beginners and non-specialist user. The major his product is Historical Agro-Environmental Browsing System (HABS), which is commended the first Cyber Japan Award.

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo Japan Chapter Board member since 2008
• member of GIS Assosiation of JAPAN
• member of FOSS4G special interest group in GIS Assosiation of JAPAN

Contact

Email: wata909 AT gmail DOT com

Skype: wata909

Profile last updated

2013-07-11

Asia:Korea

OSGeo Member
Name:	Sanghee Shin
Job Title:	C.E.O. and President
Company:	Gaia3D, Inc.
Address:
City:	Seoul
State:
Country:	South Korea
Local Chapter:	Korea
Email:	endofcap@gmail.com
Phone:	+82-2-3397-3475
Instant Messaging:	Skype: endofcap
Website:	http://www.gaia3d.com/
Language(s):	Korean; English
Personal Description :	Sanghee Shin is a business man who is managing & running Gaia3D, Inc., a geospatial software company in Korea. He established OSGeo Korean Chapter in 2008 and was elected as a Charter Member of OSGeo Foundation in 2011. He also co-founded KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial), an alliance of commercial open source GIS companies in Korea and has served as chair person of KAOS-G since 2013. He organised International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul as a chairperson. He was elected as Board of Directors, OSGeo. He has actively promoted open source, open standard and open data in Korea and around Asia. He enjoys giving talks about open source GIS and open source business. You can find more at his blog and Facebook
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[[Info::Sanghee Shin is a business man who is managing & running Gaia3D, Inc., a geospatial software company in Korea. He established OSGeo Korean Chapter in 2008 and was elected as a Charter Member of OSGeo Foundation in 2011. He also co-founded KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial), an alliance of commercial open source GIS companies in Korea and has served as chair person of KAOS-G since 2013. He organised International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul as a chairperson. He was elected as Board of Directors, OSGeo. He has actively promoted open source, open standard and open data in Korea and around Asia. He enjoys giving talks about open source GIS and open source business. You can find more at his blog and Facebook| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Sanghee Shin

Sanghee Shin

Board Member of OSGeo, C.E.O. and President, Gaia3D, Inc.

Location: Seoul, South Korea and Cambridge, U.K.

Sanghee Shin is a business man who is managing & running Gaia3D, Inc., a geospatial software company in Korea. He established OSGeo Korean Chapter in 2008 and was elected as a Charter Member of OSGeo Foundation in 2011. He also co-founded KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial), an alliance of commercial open source GIS companies in Korea and has served as chair person of KAOS-G since 2013. He organised International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul as a chairperson. He was elected as Board of Directors, OSGeo. He has actively promoted open source, open standard and open data in Korea and around Asia. He enjoys giving talks about open source GIS and open source business. You can find more at his blog and Facebook

OSGeo Experience

• Chair of International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
• Founder and representative of OSGeo Korean Language Chapter since 2008
• Charter member of OSGeo Foundation since 2011
• Korean Translator of QGIS
• Organizer of annual FOSS4G Korea conference
• Co-organizer of GeoSpatial Open Source Winter/Summver School in Korea
• Representative of KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial) since 2013
• Member of steering committe of Korea GeoSpatial Forum since 2012
• Numerous presentations about open source GIS and OSGeo

Contact

Email: endofcap AT gmail DOT com or shshin AT gaia3d DOT com

Phone (work): +82-2-3397-3475

Skype: endofcap

Spoken Language(s)

Korean, English

Profile last updated

22nd, November, 2015

Asia:Malaysia

OSGeo Member
Name:	Tuong-Thuy Vu
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Address:	Semenyih, Malaysia
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Australia

OSGeo Member
Name:	Cameron Shorter
Job Title:	Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
Company:	Government (NSW, Australia)
Address:
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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URIs of the form "cameron shorter AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

              More at http://cameron.shorter.net/resume.html

OSGeo Member
Name:	Nathan Woodrow
Job Title:	Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist
Company:	Digital Mapping Solutions
Address:
City:	Warwick
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Country:	Australia
Local Chapter:	Aust-NZ
Email:	woodrow.nathan AT gmail DOT com
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Instant Messaging:	Skype: madmanwoo
Website:	http://nathanw.com/
Language(s):	English
Personal Description :	Nathan is a active core developer and promoter of QGIS. He is an advocate of using open source solutions in local government, promoting its use to save money, add flexibility in workflows, and allow greater freedom from vendor lock in.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Nathan Woodrow

Nathan Woodrow

Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist at Digital Mapping Solutions

Location: Warwick, Australia

Nathan is a active core developer and promoter of QGIS. He is an advocate of using open source solutions in local government, promoting its use to save money, add flexibility in workflows, and allow greater freedom from vendor lock in.

Nathan can be found at:

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Google+

LinkedIn

@NathanW on FreeNode IRC

OSGeo Experience

• Developer on the QGIS project
• Nathan's QGIS and GIS Blog

Contact

Email: woodrow.nathan AT gmail DOT com

Skype: madmanwoo

Profile last updated

11/07/2013

Canada

OSGeo Member
Name:	Daniel Morissette
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Address:	Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
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Europe:France

Gérald Fenoy

Founder and CEO of GeoLabs SARL.

Location: Lattes, France.

OSGeo Experience

• ZOO-Project Developper and PSC Chair,
• Creator of the original french web site for PostGIS,
• Provide training, use and develop (WEB-)GIS applications based on OSGeo Libraries / Applications,
• Active in the OSGeo Senegal Local chapter,
• Provide Gentoo packaging and patches for proj, geos, postgis, pgRouting, mapserver and gpsbabel,
• Active at all FOSS4G international events since 2006.

Contacts

Phone: +33670082539

Skype: gfenoy

Mail: gerald DOT fenoy AT geolabs DOT fr

IRC: djay

Nicolas Bozon

Nick at Abikocho station

Principle, Cartogenic.

Nicolas Bozon is an open source enthusiast and specializes in designing user interfaces and experiences for mapping and web applications. Nicolas runs Cartogenic, a geospatial consutling company located in Lyon, France. He is also a researcher in geomatics and environmental sciences, and currently pursues a post-doctoral fellowship in Osaka, Japan.

OSGeo Experience

• Co-founder and PSC member of ZOO-Project, the Open WPS platform
• Charter Member of OSGeo
• Member of the Marketing Committee of OSGeo

Academics

• Post-doc fellowship (JP, 2011/2013)
• PhD Maths/GIS (FR, 2006/2009)
• Master GIS (FR, 2005)
• Undergraduate Env Sc (QC, 2002/2004)
• Undergraduate Geo (FR, 2000/2002)

Contact

Email: nicolas dot bozon at gmail dot com

Linkedin profile

Skype: nicboz1

IRC: nbozon

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Europe:Germany

OSGeo Member
Name:	Arnulf Christl
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Address:	Tharpaling, Germany
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Peter Baumann
Job Title:	Professor of Computer Science
Company:	Jacobs University
Address:
City:	Bremen
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	aumann followed by @ followed by rasdaman . com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype: pefrabau
Website:	http://www.rasdaman.com/
Language(s):	German; English; Spanish
Personal Description :	Peter Baumann is Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University where he is leading the Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group. His main areas of interest are large-scale multi-dimensional array databases, generally on "Big Data in Science". His group develops and maintains the rasdaman Big Data Analytics engine which is in OSGeo incubation. The spinoff, rasdaman GmbH, he has founded specifically to add industry support for the rasdaman technology next to the academic research part.
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URIs of the form "aumann followed by @ followed by rasdaman . com" are not allowed. [[Info::Peter Baumann is Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University where he is leading the Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group. His main areas of interest are large-scale multi-dimensional array databases, generally on "Big Data in Science".

His group develops and maintains the rasdaman Big Data Analytics engine which is in OSGeo incubation. The spinoff, rasdaman GmbH, he has founded specifically to add industry support for the rasdaman technology next to the academic research part.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann

Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Founder and CEO, rasdaman GmbH

Location: Bremen, Germany

Peter Baumann is Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University where he is leading the Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group. His main areas of interest are large-scale multi-dimensional array databases, generally on "Big Data in Science". His group develops and maintains the rasdaman Big Data Analytics engine which is in OSGeo incubation. The spinoff, rasdaman GmbH, he has founded specifically to add industry support for the rasdaman technology next to the academic research part.

LinkedIn profile

OSGeo Experience

• Principal Architect of rasdaman
• co-editor: ISO 9075 SQL Part 15: MDA (Multi-Dimensional Arrays) candidate standard
• chair: OGC Web Coverage Service Standards Working Group (WCS.SWG), Coverages Domain Working Group (Coverages.DWG), Big Data Working Group (BigData.DWG)
• editor: of most of the OGC coverage standards, candidate standards, and Best Practices, among them: GMLCOV, the OGC Unified Coverage Data Model, Web Coverage (WCS) suite, Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) coverage query language
• external expert for Data Specification and Download Services on coverages, EU INSPIRE
• co-chair: Research Data Alliance Big Data Analytics Interest Group, Geospatial Interest Group
• delegate, DIN NIA (German representative in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 / WG3: SQL)
• council member, Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
• founding member and secretary, CODATA Germany
• member, advisory board, GDI-HB (state geo data infrastructure for Bremen)
• expert,ODBMS (Object Database Management Systems) expert panel

Contact

Email: user name baumann followed by @ followed by rasdaman . com

Skype: pefrabau

Spoken Language(s)

German, English, Spanish

Profile last updated

20 July 2013

Europe:Italy

OSGeo Member
Name:	Margherita Di Leo
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Address:	Ispra, VA, Italy
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Luca Delucchi
Job Title:	GIS Technician
Company:	Fondazione Edmund Mach
Address:
City:	San Michele all'Adige
State:
Country:	Italy
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com
Phone:	+39 0461615570
Instant Messaging:	Skype: lucadelu
Website:
Language(s):	Italian; English; French
Personal Description :	Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor. He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board. He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19
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URIs of the form "lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor.

He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board.

He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

He is involved in the following projects:

• GRASS GIS: developer and Italian translator
• QGIS: I developed and contributed to some plugin (OGR2Layers, QuickMultiAttributeEdit)
• ZOO-project: beta tester and documentation
• pyModis: main developer library to download and works with MODIS data
• From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member of GFOSS.it (Associazione Italiana per il Software Geografico Libero), the Italian OSGeo local chapter. From November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board.
• Actively participating in OpenStreetMap and promoting OpenStreetMap in Italy organizing a lot of events
• Since 2011, he has been an OSGeo Charter Member
• OSGeo-Live, helping in documentation and Italian Translation

He know and use the following Free and Open Source Project:

• Desktop
  • GRASS GIS
  • QGIS
• Database
  • PostGIS
  • Spatialite
• Web Server
  • MapServer
  • GeoDjango
  • ZOO-Project
  • IstSOS
• Web client
  • OpenLayers
  • Leaflet
• Other tools
  • Mapnik
  • mkgmap

Spoken Language(s)

Italian (mother tongue), English, a little bit of French

Profile last updated

2021 April 7

Europe:The Netherlands

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jeroen Ticheler
Job Title:	Director
Company:	GeoCat
Address:	Veenderweg 13
City:	6721WD Bennekom
State:	Gelderland
Country:	The Netherlands
Local Chapter:	Nederlands
Email:	jeroen.ticheler@geocat.net
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	GeoCat
Language(s):	Dutch, English
Personal Description :	Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. Jeroen is Project Officer for the GeoNetwork opensource project. He served on the OSGeo Board in 2007 & 2008 and is a Charter member since the early days of OSGeo.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

Jeroen Ticheler

Jeroen studied Tropical Forestry at the Wageningen University with specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing. Upon graduation in 1997 he worked on Participatory Soil Fertility Management in Africa at the Royal Institute for the Tropics of The Netherlands (also: Tropenmuseum) until he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO in 1999.

At the FAO Jeroen worked on satellite data processing for early warning systems for food security and for desert locust control. He founded the GeoNetwork opensource project in 2001 allowing the agency to catalog its geographic data assets. He participated in writing the United Nations SDI (UNSDI) Reference Architecture as Task group manager Interoperability in the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group UNGIWG. He frequently participated in ISO TC211 and OGC meetings in the past.

In 2007 he founded GeoCat. A commercial company providing Enterprise products, SAAS and services around OSGeo software. Working with a team of core developers that contribute and give back is at the heart of what GeoCat does. GeoCat is a strong supporter and sponsor of the OSGeo Foundation and the related FOSS4G conferences and events ever since.

OSGeo Member
Name:	Barend Köbben
Job Title:
Company:	University of Twente – Faculty of Geo–Information Science and Earth Observation
Address:
City:	Enschede
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Country:	The Netherlands
Local Chapter:	OSGeo.NL
Email:	b.j.kobben@utwente.nl
Phone:	+31-(0)53 4874 253
Instant Messaging:	Skype: barendkobben
Website:	http://barendkobben.com/
Language(s):	English; Dutch; German; French
Personal Description :	Barend Köbben holds a MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography. He is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation. His teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualisation. He participates in the research activities of the Research Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing). His main research interests are automated mapping in a services environment, animated vector map services, and VaaS (Visualisation as a Service). He was involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands, India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia. He is Map Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Geografie (Journal of the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, ISSN 0926-3837).
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URIs of the form "+31-(0)53 4874 253" are not allowed. [[Info::Barend Köbben holds a MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography. He is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation. His teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualisation.

He participates in the research activities of the Research Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing). His main research interests are automated mapping in a services environment, animated vector map services, and VaaS (Visualisation as a Service). He was involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands, India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia. He is Map Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Geografie (Journal of the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, ISSN 0926-3837).| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Barend Köbben

University of Twente – Faculty of Geo–Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)

Department of Geo–information Processing

Hengelosestraat 99, PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands

http://barendkobben.com/

52° 13′ 24.675″ N, 6° 53″ 7.641′ E (52.223521,6.885456) – OpenStreetMap | Google Maps

Barend Köbben holds a MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography. He is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation. His teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualisation.

He participates in the research activities of the Research Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing). His main research interests are automated mapping in a services environment, animated vector map services, and VaaS (Visualisation as a Service). He was involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands, India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia. He is Map Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Geografie (Journal of the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, ISSN 0926-3837).

OSGeo Experience

• Treasurer of the Dutch Language OSGEO Chapter OSGEO.nl.
• Teaching short courses and workshops in Open Source GIS & WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source geospatial applications and data, and using the OSGEO LIve system.  
• Member of the Organising Committee and Academic Track Chair of FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham (UK).

Contact

Email: b.j.kobben@utwente.nl

Phone (work): +31-(0)53 4874 253

Skype: barendkobben

Twitter: @barendkobben

Spoken Language(s)

English, Dutch, German, limited French.

Profile last updated

10 August 2013

OSGeo Member
Name:	Just van den Broecke
Job Title:	Open Source Geospatial Professional
Company:	Just Objects B.V.
Address:	Amstelveen, The Netherlands
City:	Amstelveen
State:
Country:	The Netherlands
Local Chapter:	Dutch
Email:	just@justobjects.nl
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype: justb4
Website:	https://justobjects.nl/
Language(s):	Dutch; English; German; French
Personal Description :	Just van den Broecke is a software consultant/architect with ample experience in various projects and products involving and integrating OSGeo and other Open Source software. Since 2011 Just is heavily involved in the OSGeo Dutch Language Local Chapter, first as initiator/trailblazer, currently as chairman on the board of the OSGeo.nl Foundation. He is a regular speaker at various OSGeo-related conferences on OSGeo-subjects ranging from highly technical like the OSGeo Live DVD and specific software/standards to Open Source and Open Data in general. He became OSGeo Charter Member in 2013.
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[[Info::Just van den Broecke is a software consultant/architect with ample experience in various projects and products involving and integrating OSGeo and other Open Source software.

Since 2011 Just is heavily involved in the OSGeo Dutch Language Local Chapter, first as initiator/trailblazer, currently as chairman on the board of the OSGeo.nl Foundation. He is a regular speaker at various OSGeo-related conferences on OSGeo-subjects ranging from highly technical like the OSGeo Live DVD and specific software/standards to Open Source and Open Data in general. He became OSGeo Charter Member in 2013.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

Just van den Broecke

Just van den Broecke

Open Source Geospatial Professional at Just Objects B.V. and former member (2011-2023) of the Dutch OpenGeoGroep

Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands

Just van den Broecke is a software consultant/architect with ample experience in various projects and products involving and integrating OSGeo and other Open Source software. Since 2011 Just is heavily involved in the OSGeo Dutch Language Local Chapter, first as initiator/trailblazer, currently as secretary of the board of the OSGeo.nl Foundation. He is a regular speaker at various OSGeo-related conferences on OSGeo-subjects ranging from highly technical like the OSGeo Live DVD and specific software/standards to Open Source and Open Data in general. He became OSGeo Charter Member in 2013.

Read more details on his homepage/blog and LinkedIn profile.

OSGeo Experience

• Trailblazer for setting up the Dutch Language OSGeo Chapter (2011) and Chairman of the Board (until 2023) of the OSGeo.nl Foundation
• Presenter at FOSS4G 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and FOSS4G-EU 2017, 2028, 2024. Chairing two sessions at FOSS4G 2013.
• (Co-)organized several OSGeo.nl Days: 2012-2017 and FOSS4G-NLs 2017-2023
• Organized and chaired the OSGeo Open Source Seminar at the Geospatial World Forum 2012
• Presented OSGeo at the Geospatial World Forum Open Source Seminar 2012 and 2013
• Keynote speaker at First OSGeo.nl Conference 2012
• Implementation of INSPIRE using OSGeo software in INSPIRE-FOSS project
• Initiator and core developer for the Dutch NLExtract ETL project
• Initiator and lead for the Heron Mapping Client
• Initiator and lead for the Stetl ETL Framework
• Committer for GeoNetwork Opensource
• Contributions to OpenLayers, GeoWebCache, OpenLayers Editor, GeoExt, GXP, MapProxy and Wegue
• Member of the GeoPython GitHub Community. Developer and Provider GeoPython Workshop.
• Core developer GeoHealthCheck Project
• Core developer and PSC pygeoapi Project, plus Developer/Provider Diving into pygeoapi workshop, developer/maintainer pygeoapi demo site.
• Owner/developer map5.nl map services a.o. based on map5topo map
• Owner/developer [1] a.o. based on NLExtract
• Owner/developer [2] a.o. hosted GeoHealthCheck
• Working experience in various projects promoting and deploying OSGeo software like the Dutch National SDI PDOK and the Dutch Kadaster .
• Regular mapper/contributor OpenStreetMap.
• Regular speaker at MapTime Amsterdam.

Contact

Email: just A-T justobjects.nl

Mastodon: https://mapstodon.space/@justb4

Spoken Language(s)

Dutch (1st), English (2nd), German, French (modeste), Spanish (un poco)

Profile last updated

November 22, 2024

OSGeo Member
Name:	Bart van den Eijnden
Job Title:	Front-end software engineer
Company:	OSGIS/OpenGeo
Address:
City:	Utrecht
State:
Country:	The Netherlands
Local Chapter:	OSGeo.NL
Email:	bartvde AT osgis DOT nl
Phone:	+31 6 42233115
Instant Messaging:	Skype: bartvde
Website:
Language(s):	Dutch; English; German
Personal Description :	Bart is passionate about open source and open standards. He is a contributor to several front-end libraries such as OpenLayers and GeoExt. He is also a power user of server packages such as MapServer and GeoServer. In 2005 Bart started his own consultancy focussing on open source geospatial in The Netherlands, working mainly as a contractor to the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. In 2011 Bart joined OpenGeo. See also [3].
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In 2005 Bart started his own consultancy focussing on open source geospatial in The Netherlands, working mainly as a contractor to the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. In 2011 Bart joined OpenGeo. See also [4].| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Bart van den Eijnden

Front-end software engineer, OSGIS/OpenGeo

Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands

Bart is passionate about open source and open standards. He is a contributor to several front-end libraries such as OpenLayers and GeoExt. He is also a power user of server packages such as MapServer and GeoServer. In 2005 Bart started his own consultancy focussing on open source geospatial in The Netherlands, working mainly as a contractor to the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. In 2011 Bart joined OpenGeo. See also [5].

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo Board member (as of September 7th 2013)
• Member of the GeoExt PSC
• Contributor to OpenLayers
• Charter member since 2006
• Technical reviewer of Web Mapping Illustrated by Tyler Mitchell

Contact:

Email: bartvde AT osgis DOT nl

Phone +31 6 42233115

Skype: bartvde

Spoken Language(s): Dutch, English, German

Profile last updated: 7 September 2013

Europe:Spain

OSGeo Member
Name:	Lluís Vicens
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Girona
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
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Pedro-Juan Ferrer

OSGeo Member
Name:	Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
Job Title:	Project Manager
Company:	CARTO
Address:	Valencia, Spain
City:	Valencia
State:
Country:	Spain
Local Chapter:	OSGeo-es
Email:	pferrer@osgeo.org
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Pedro-Juan Ferrer

Project Manager, Geographica.gs

Location: Valencia, Spain

Pedro-Juan is a Cartographer and Project Manager that works in a Location Intelligence company. He has been collaborating with different NGOs in spreading the word of the Open Knowledge, Open data and FOSS (and FOSS4G)

Member of geomatic blog

LinkedIn profile

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo Charter Member since 2012
• OSGeo Spanish-speaking Local Chapter Charter Member and Liaison Officer since 2008
• PostGIS power user
• OSGeo-Live translator into Spanish

Contact

Email: pferrer@osgeo.org

Snail-mail: Carrer Chera 3, esc 1, pta 7, 46017 Valencia

Skype: geovehrka

Spoken Language(s)

English, Spanish

Profile last updated

2018-10-17

OSGeo Member
Name:	Micho Garcia
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Vigo, Spain
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
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OSGeo Member
Name:	María Arias de Reyna Domínguez
Job Title:	Software Engineer
Company:	Red Hat
Address:
City:	Sevilla
State:	Spain
Country:	Spain
Local Chapter:	OSGeo-es
Email:	delawen@osgeo.org
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://delawen.com
Language(s):	Spanish; English
Personal Description :	María (aka Délawen) is currently focusing on her work around Open Source and Middleware at Red Hat. She participates actively in OSGeo-ES initiatives and Geoinquietos Sevilla (a little local group part of a broader network of microchapters). Also, she never misses the Girona's Sig Libre Conference. Read more! Presidenta Emerita OSGeo (not a formal title) Current member of Spanish Chapter Board (since 2012) OpenStreetMap evangelizer. Open Data believer. FLOSS Evangelizer, in general. Debian fan.
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[[Info::María (aka Délawen) is currently focusing on her work around Open Source and Middleware at Red Hat. She participates actively in OSGeo-ES initiatives and Geoinquietos Sevilla (a little local group part of a broader network of microchapters). Also, she never misses the Girona's Sig Libre Conference. Read more!

• Presidenta Emerita OSGeo (not a formal title)
• Current member of Spanish Chapter Board (since 2012)
• OpenStreetMap evangelizer. Open Data believer.
• FLOSS Evangelizer, in general.
• Debian fan.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

             

OSGeo Member
Name:	Agustín Diez Castillo
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	València
State:
Country:	Spain
Local Chapter:	OSGeo-es
Email:	adiez AT uv DOT edu
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Agustín is a GIS specialits at the University of Valencia, Spain. Agustín teaches Geographic Information Systems in the Master program of the Departament de Prehistòria i Aruqeologia.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Agustín Diez Castillo

Location: València, Spain

Agustín is a GIS specialits at the University of Valencia, Spain. Agustín teaches Geographic Information Systems in the Master program of the Departament de Prehistòria i Aruqeologia.

OSGeo Experience

• Member of Spanish Local Chapter OSGeo-es since 2008
• OSGeo Charter Member since 2008

Contact

Email: adiez AT uv DOT edu

Twiter: agustindiez

Spoken Language(s)

Spanish (native speaker), English, French and Catalan

Jorge Sanz

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jorge Sanz
Job Title:	Data Engineer
Company:	Elastic
Address:
City:	València
State:	Valencia
Country:	Spain
Local Chapter:	OSGeo-es
Email:	jorge@jorgesanz.net
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://jorgesanz.net
Language(s):	Catalan; Spanish; English
Personal Description :	Jorge is Charter Member of OSGeo since 2008 and member of the Spanish Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES) since its foundation., has been member of the OSGeo Board of Directors in the 2013-2015 term and been part of the gvSIG Technical Steering Committee. He helps on some OSGeo.org systems, participates actively on OSGeo-ES initiatives and Geoinquietos Valencia (a little local group part of a broader network of microchapters). Further details at his OSGeo wiki complete profile page or at linkedin.
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[[Info::Jorge is Charter Member of OSGeo since 2008 and member of the Spanish Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES) since its foundation., has been member of the OSGeo Board of Directors in the 2013-2015 term and been part of the gvSIG Technical Steering Committee. He helps on some OSGeo.org systems, participates actively on OSGeo-ES initiatives and Geoinquietos Valencia (a little local group part of a broader network of microchapters). Further details at his OSGeo wiki complete profile page or at linkedin.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

• OSGeo Charter Member since 2008
• Current co-admin of the OSGeo planet
• Member of the News Queue Team
• Member of the Marketing Committee

Past experience

• Co-admin of the Nabble archives and mailing lists
• Coordinator of Spanish translation of the OSGeo Live documentation (2010-2015)
• Member of the Board of Directors (2013-2015)
• OSGeo-es Board of Directors Member (2008-2012)
• Packager of gvSIG Desktop at the OSGeo Live project (2010-2014)
• gvSIG TSC member (2009-2015)
• Incubation Committee member (as gvSIG contact) (2008-2012)
• Translator of OSGeo.org website into Spanish (2007-2008)

Profile last updated

May 2020

Europe:United Kingdom

OSGeo Member
Name:	Ian Edwards
Job Title:	Technical Director
Company:	MyAcorn Limited
Address:
City:	Exeter
State:
Country:	United Kingdom
Local Chapter:	OSGeo UK
Email:	ian.edwards (#) myacorn.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Ian's GIS career has spanned academia, business and government, including research positions at the universities of Cambridge and Exeter, director of a GIS company and also working for the UK government as a lead software engineer at the Met Office. Ian is an honorary fellow of the University of Exeter, and continues to be a regular speaker at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Ian Edwards

Ian Edwards

Technical Director, MyAcorn Limited (UK)

Location: Exeter, United Kingdom

Ian's GIS career has spanned academia, business and government, including research positions at the universities of Cambridge and Exeter, director of a GIS company and also working for the UK government as a lead software engineer at the Met Office. Ian is an honorary fellow of the University of Exeter, and continues to be a regular speaker at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

OSGeo Experience

• Chair OSGeo UK, 2012-15
• Member FOSS4G Local organising committee, 2013
• Contributor OSGeo Live
• Former chair OSGeo Website committee

Contact

Email: ian.edwards (#) myacorn.com

Profile last updated

15 March 2016

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jo Cook
Job Title:	Data Officer
Company:	Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Address:
City:
State:
Country:	UK
Local Chapter:	OSGeo UK https://uk.osgeo.org
Email:	jo.k.cook@gmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	https://www.archaeogeek.com
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Data Officer at Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
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[[Company::Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative| ]] [[Website::https://www.archaeogeek.com| ]] [[Info::Data Officer at Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

OSGeo Experience

• Board Member (2011-2012)
• Charter Member (2010-present)
• UK Local Chapter Founder and Chair (2007-2021)
• Deputy-chair of FOSS4G 2013
• Chair of FOSS4GUK 2016
• Incubation Committee (2018-present)
• Google Season of Docs administrator and mentor (2019)

Contact

Email: jocook AT astuntechnology.com

Twitter

Profile last updated

28th October 2024

United States

OSGeo Member
Name:	Eli L Adam
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Newport, Oregon
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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Landon Blake (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor)

Landon Blake

Owner, Redefined Horizons

Location: Stockton, California, United States of America

Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization.

• Web Page: [6]
• Blog: [7]
• Twitter: [8]
• LinkedIn: [9]

OSGeo Experience

• Volunteer Editor of the OSGeo Journal
• Board Representative for the OSGeo California Chapter

Contact

Email: sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com

Phone (Home): 209-464-2612

Phone (Cell): 209-298-7521

Skype:

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07 14 2013

Past OSGeo Advocates

This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

Africa:Ghana

OSGeo Member
Name:	Henry Addo
Job Title:	Software Developer
Company:	Ushahidi
Address:
City:	Accra
State:
Country:	Ghana
Local Chapter:	Africa Local Chapter
Email:	henry@ushahidi.com
Phone:	+233 26 2109717
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://careers.stackoverflow.com/eyedol
Language(s):	English
Personal Description :	Henry Addo is an open source software developer. He is an active contributor to the open source community and develops core features for the Ushahidi platform, a free and open source software for crowdsourcing information through multiple channels including SMS, the web, email and twitter and visualizing the information on a map.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

 

Henry Addo

Henry Addo

Software Developer, Ushahidi

Location: Accra, Ghana

Henry Addo is an open source software developer. He is an active contributor to the open source community and develops core features for the Ushahidi platform, a free and open source software for crowdsourcing information through multiple channels including SMS, the web, email and twitter and visualizing the information on a map. ...more.

OSGeo Experience

• Maintains the Ushahidi platform for OSGeo Live DVD.

Contact

Email: henry@ushahidi.com

Phone: +233 26 2109717

Twitter: @eyedol

Languages spoken

English.

Profile last updated

05 July 2012

Africa:South Africa

OSGeo Member
Name:	Frank Sokolic
Job Title:
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Address:	Durban, South Africa
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Tim Sutton
Job Title:
Company:	Kartoza (Pty) Ltd.
Address:
City:	Somerset West
State:
Country:	South Africa
Local Chapter:	Africa Local Chapter
Email:	tim (A T) gis.org
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Personal Description :	Tim is a GIS practitioner, QGIS Developer and Free Software advocate. You can find out more about Tim at kartoza.com. Tim has been involved in the QGIS project since 2002 and currently serves as Chair of the QGIS Project Steering Committee. Tim is also the developer team lead for InaSAFE - an open source contingency planning tool for disaster managers implemented as a plugin for QGIS. Tim has created numerous other free software projects - you can find more at Tim's Github Page. Tim is also actively creating FOSSGIS related docker images to the docker public repository - see the Kartoza docker repository for more details.
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URIs of the form "tim (A T) gis.org" are not allowed. [[Info::Tim is a GIS practitioner, QGIS Developer and Free Software advocate. You can find out more about Tim at kartoza.com. Tim has been involved in the QGIS project since 2002 and currently serves as Chair of the QGIS Project Steering Committee. Tim is also the developer team lead for InaSAFE - an open source contingency planning tool for disaster managers implemented as a plugin for QGIS. Tim has created numerous other free software projects - you can find more at Tim's Github Page. Tim is also actively creating FOSSGIS related docker images to the docker public repository - see the Kartoza docker repository for more details.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Tim Sutton

Tim Sutton

Kartoza (Pty) Ltd.

Location: Somerset West, South Africa

Tim is a GIS practitioner, QGIS Developer and Free Software advocate. You can find out more about Tim at kartoza.com. Tim has been involved in the QGIS project since 2002 and currently serves as Chair of the QGIS Project Steering Committee. Tim is also the developer team lead for InaSAFE - an open source contingency planning tool for disaster managers implemented as a plugin for QGIS. Tim has created numerous other free software projects - you can find more at Tim's Github Page. Tim is also actively creating FOSSGIS related docker images to the docker public repository - see the Kartoza docker repository for more details.

• QGIS Board Chair
• OSGEO Charter Member

Contact

Email: tim (A T) gis.org

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

Asia:India

OSGeo Member
Name:	Ravi Kumar Vundavalli
Job Title:	Director (retired)
Company:	Geological Survey of India
Address:	Bandlaguda Hyderabad 500068
City:	Rajahmundry
State:
Country:	India
Local Chapter:	India
Email:	ravivundavalliATyahooDOTcom
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype:ravivundavalli
Website:	https://www.cerg.in/indiangeoparks
Language(s):	English; Telugu; Hindi; Oriya; Bengali
Personal Description :	Evangelist of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). FOSS GIS teacher. Trained more than a hundred Geologists of Geological Survey of India, as head of it's training division at Hyderabad, India. Currently developing FOSS GIS for transparent administration in India. 'mana-rajahmundry.org', is a website developed for society with various themes like roads, toilets, schools, drainage etc. A similar website is being prepared for the City of Mysuru, http://www.mana-rajahmundry.org/namma-mysuru/. Being a Geologist mapping the districts of Godavari, Andhra Pradesh for Free Geological Geospatial data. GeoheritageIndia.org, which will generate GIS related locations of Geological significance, is in the making. Present Interest: 'Crowd-sourcing', with Android smart phones, for various societal needs is present endeavour. Open Data Kit (ODK) and OSMAND are used for 'Mobile-GIS', with training workshops. Building specific forms/questionnaires for crowd-sourcing Geospatial data is also in progress. As A Geologist: Experience from mapping Western Himalayas, Sikkim Himalayas, Glacier Mapping and Water Budgeting of Zemu Glacier, North Sikkim started career in early seventies. Mapping eastern Ghats and the Bauxite contained there in Odisha State, is a favorite memory while Exploring Deep-Seas for Poly-Metalic nodules, and near shore Placer Minerals (Monazite, Ilmenite, Garnet)of Bay of Bengal, Off Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coasts is a more recent thrust.
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URIs of the form "ravivundavalliATyahooDOTcom" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

Ravi Kumar Vundavalli

Ravi Vundavalli

Location: Rajahmundry, India

Evangelist of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). FOSS GIS teacher. Trained more than a hundred Geologists of Geological Survey of India, as head of it's training division at Hyderabad, India. Currently developing FOSS GIS for transparent administration in India. 'mana-rajahmundry.org', is a website developed for society with various themes like roads, toilets, schools, drainage etc. A similar website is being prepared for the City of Mysuru, http://www.mana-rajahmundry.org/namma-mysuru/. Being a Geologist mapping the districts of Godavari, Andhra Pradesh for Free Geological Geospatial data. Present Interest: 'Crowd-sourcing', with Android smart phones, for various societal needs is present endeavour. Geopaparazzi and OSMAND are used for 'Mobile-GIS', with training workshops. Building specific forms for crowd-sourcing Geospatial data is also in progress.

OSGeo Experience

• Charter member since 2006, the first charter of OSGeo.
• Served OSGeo Board from 2009 to 2011.

Contact

Email: ravivundavalliATyahooDOTcom

Skype:ravivundavalli

Spoken Language(s)

English,Telugu, Hindi,Oriya, Bengali

Profile last updated

27 Oct 2015

Asia:Japan

OSGeo Member
Name:	Yoichi Kayama
Job Title:	Researcher and Programmer
Company:	Aero Asahi Corporation
Address:
City:	Tokyo
State:
Country:	Japan
Local Chapter:	Japan
Email:	yoichi.kayama AT gmail DOT com
Phone:	+81-49-244-4874
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yoichi_46/
Language(s):	Japanese; English
Personal Description :	Yoichi Kayama is a software engineer and researcher who has conducted research and program development related to geographic information for more than 20 years. Since OSGeo.JP　was formed, he has been supporting the Japanese FOSS4G event held annually in Tokyo and Osaka. He co-authored a FOSS4G handbook, he was engaged in the Japanese localization of QGIS, and he has taught how to use QGIS in a number of workshops.
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URIs of the form "yoichi.kayama AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

Yoichi Kayama

Yoichi Kayama

Researcher and Programmer, Aero Asahi Corporation.

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Yoichi Kayama is a software engineer and researcher who has conducted research and program development related to geographic information for more than 20 years. Since OSGeo.JP　was formed, he has been supporting the Japanese FOSS4G event held annually in Tokyo and Osaka. He co-authored a FOSS4G handbook, he was engaged in the Japanese localization of QGIS, and he has taught how to use QGIS in a number of workshops.

LinkedIn profile Facebook twitter blog

OSGeo Experience

• Board member of OSGeo Japan Chapter since 2016
• Auditor of OSGeo Japan Chapter since 2008
• Charter member of OSGeo Foundation since 2011
• GUI Japanese Translator of QGIS
• Manual Japanese Translator of QGIS
• Japanese Translator of OSGeoLive
• member of GIS Assosiation of JAPAN
• member of FOSS4G special interest group in GIS Assosiation of JAPAN

Contact

Email: yoichi.kayama AT gmail DOT com

Phone (work): +81-49-244-4032

Spoken Language(s)

Japanese, English

Profile last updated

06 July 2012

Asia:Philippines

OSGeo Member
Name:	Emmanuel "Maning" Sambale
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Manila
State:
Country:	Philippines
Local Chapter:	Phillipines
Email:	emmanuel.sambaleATgmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/
Language(s):	English; Filipino
Personal Description :	As an OSGeo member, Maning would like to Strengthen the OSGeo-PH Local Chapter and promote OSGeo in the Philippines through training and material development. His area of focus is Mindanao Island.
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URIs of the form "emmanuel.sambaleATgmail.com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

 

Emmanuel "Maning" Sambale

Location: Philippines

As an OSGeo member, Maning would like to Strengthen the OSGeo-PH Local Chapter and promote OSGeo in the Philippines through training and material development. His area of focus is Mindanao Island.

OSGeo Experience

• Charter member since 2011.
• Contribute to Open Street Map
• Personal blog

Contact

Email: emmanuel.sambaleATgmail.com

Spoken Language(s)

English, Filipino

Profile last updated

07 25 2012

Australia

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jody Garnett
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Victoria
State:
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	British Columbia Chapter
Email:	jody.garnett@how2map.com
Phone:
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Website:	https://how2map.com/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	A mapish developer working at GeoCat. Active with OSGeo and LocationTech communities working on a wide range of free and open source geospatial goodness!
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

               

Jody Garnett

Jody Garnett

Victoria, Canada

A mapish developer working at GeoCat. Active with OSGeo and LocationTech communities working on a wide range of free and open source geospatial goodness!

Serves on the Project Steering Committee of GeoServer and GeoTools projects. Outreach to new projects as a member of both the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and LocationTech.

OSGeo Experience

• @jodygarnett@fosstodon.org
• How 2 Map (open source spatial blog on blogger)
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Direct open source participation:

• GeoServer - the open internet gateway for geographic data: Project Steering Committee
• GeoTools - the Java GIS Toolkit : Project Management Committee

Activities outside the "Java Tribe":

• Incubation Committee (OSGeo) Chair
• Victoria GeoGeeks (Victoria)
• Slideshare - presentations from events world wide
• LocationTech (Eclipse Foundation Industry Working Group)
• FOSS4G 2009 organizational committee
• FOSS4G 2007 organizational committee
• Board_of_Directors (OSGeo) - Prior Chair
• GeoRabble - (Brisbane and Sydney)
• OSGeo Aust-NZ Open Source Geospatial Chapter

Jody is available for speaking engagements, workshops and hands on training. He is comfortable presenting on a range topics including open source, open development, OGC standards and the opportunities available to your organisation.

Contact

Email: jody.garnett@how2map.com

Profile last updated

Nov 2023

Canada

OSGeo Member
Name:	Andrea Ross
Job Title:	Director
Company:	LocationTech
Address:
City:	Ottawa
State:	Ontario
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	Ottawa Chapter
Email:	andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://42aross.wordpress.com/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Andrea Ross has worked with open technologies and open communities for most of the last 20 years. Her roles during that time involved developing healthcare, telecom, database, and geospatial systems. Currently, as Director of Ecosystem Development for the Eclipse Foundation, nurturing open communities is what she does for a living. Andrea is a founder and inaugural Director of LocationTech.
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URIs of the form "andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross

• Director of Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation
• Director, LocationTech

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Ross is Director of Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting a large community of open source projects. She is also one of the founders of LocationTech, an ecosystem of R&D collaborators focusing on open source location aware technologies. Andrea is an award winning software architect and technology leader with more than 20 years experience.

OSGeo Experience

• Charter member since 2008
• Conference Chair for FOSS4G NA 2015
• Conference Producer for FOSS4G NA 2015 and FOSS4G NA 2016
• FOSS4G bid team member for Washington D.C. 2014, Ottawa 2017, Philadelphia 2017
• Conference Chair for Geocamp 2008, 2009, 2010
• Sponsor for FOSS4G 2009, 2013, 2014, Code sprint 2015, GDAL/OGR, OSGeo itself for a few years and many other things.
• Recorded and hosted videos from FOSS4G 2009, FOSS4G 2011, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G 2013, FOSS4G NA 2015, and FOSS4G NA 2016.
• Led team to develop Ingres' OGC compliant geospatial support in the core DBMS which included contributions to multiple OSGeo projects
• Also led team to add support for Ingres geospatial in Mapserver, Geoserver, GDAL/OGR, ESRI's ArcGIS, and other software
• Long time member in the Ottawa Chapter Local Chapter

Other relevant experience

• Producer & helpful elf for FedGeoDay, a 1 day conference focused on open source geospatial use in the U.S. Federal Government.
• Co-founder & helpful elf for the LocationTech Tour, a global series of federated events open & welcoming to all open source geospatial technologies & initiatives
• Co-founder & helpful elf for various intern programs such as UCOSP, Open Academy, etc. Approximately 200+ interns worked on open source geospatial projects.
• Frequent speaker at various events around the world encouraging people to get involved in the ecosystem

Contact

Email: andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org

Twitter: @42aross

LinkedIn: aross

Blog: 42aross

Spoken Languages

English

Profile last updated

10 October 2015

OSGeo Member
Name:	Geoff Zeiss
Job Title:	Director Utility Industry Program,
Company:	Autodesk
Address:
City:	Ottawa
State:	Ontario
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	Ottawa Chapter
Email:	geoff.zeiss@autodesk.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Geoff has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include streamlining the infrastructure management workflow, open source geospatial, and converged BIM/CAD/GIS/3D solutions.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Geoff Zeiss

Director Utility Industry Program, Autodesk

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include streamlining the infrastructure management workflow, open source geospatial, and converged BIM/CAD/GIS/3D solutions.

OSGeo Experience

• Spoken at a number of events about open source geospatial and OSGEO including URISA, Location Intelligence, FOSS4Gs, GITA and military open source software conferences.
• In 2005, worked with others including DMSolutions to help initiate the formation of OSGEO.
• A Charter Member and served on the OSGEO Board of Directors for two years.

Contact

Email: geoff.zeiss@autodesk.com

Phone (work): 613 755 5070

Skype: geoffzeiss

Profile last updated

12 June 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Martin Davis
Job Title:	Software Developer
Company:	OpenGeo
Address:
City:	Victoria
State:
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	British Columbia Chapter
Email:	mtnclimb AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.ca/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Martin Davis has been an open source geospatial developer for over 10 years, primarily in Java. He has a particular interest in geometric algorithms, and is the maintainer of the widely-used JTS Topology Suite as well as assisting with the GEOS port. His other interest is in making spatial processing more accessible. He is is the designer or lead developer for the JUMP, JCS Conflation Suite, Proj4J and JEQL software projects.
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URIs of the form "mtnclimb AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Martin Davis has been an open source geospatial developer for over 10 years, primarily in Java.

He has a particular interest in geometric algorithms, and is the maintainer of the widely-used JTS Topology Suite as well as assisting with the GEOS port. His other interest is in making spatial processing more accessible. He is is the designer or lead developer for the JUMP, JCS Conflation Suite, Proj4J and JEQL software projects.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

Martin Davis

Martin Davis

Software Developer, OpenGeo

Location: Victoria, Canada

Martin Davis has been an open source geospatial developer for over 10 years, primarily in Java. He has a particular interest in geometric algorithms, and is the maintainer of the widely-used JTS Topology Suite as well as assisting with the GEOS port. His other interest is in making spatial processing more accessible. He is is the designer or lead developer for the JUMP, JCS Conflation Suite, Proj4J and JEQL software projects.

• Blog: lin.ear th.inking
• Website: Tsusiat Software

OSGeo Experience

• Contributor to GeoTools
• Contributor to GeoServer
• Contributor to GEOS
• PSC member of MetaCRS
• Lead Developer for Proj4J
• 2011 Winner of the Sol Katz Award

Contact

Email: mtnclimb AT gmail DOT com

Skype: mdavis111

Profile last updated

21 Sept 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Paul Ramsey
Job Title:	Geospatial Architect
Company:	Boundless
Address:
City:	Victoria
State:	British Columbia
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	British Columbia Chapter
Email:	pramsey AT cleverelephant DOT ca
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Paul Ramsey is a senior developer and architect at Bouldess, a commercial open source company. He is a founder and core developer of the PostGIS spatial database. Paul regularly keynotes at geo-spatial conferences, including most recently FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G NA 2012, ILGISA 2012, and ASPRS.
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URIs of the form "pramsey AT cleverelephant DOT ca" are not allowed. [[Info::Paul Ramsey is a senior developer and architect at Bouldess, a commercial open source company. He is a founder and core developer of the PostGIS spatial database.

Paul regularly keynotes at geo-spatial conferences, including most recently FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G NA 2012, ILGISA 2012, and ASPRS.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

Paul Ramsey

• Geospatial Architect, Boundless

Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Paul Ramsey

Paul Ramsey is a senior developer and architect at Bouldess, a commercial open source company. He is a founder and core developer of the PostGIS spatial database. Paul regularly keynotes at geo-spatial conferences, including most recently FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G NA 2012, ILGISA 2012, and ASPRS.

OSGeo Experience

• Core Developer, PostGIS
• Committer, MapServer and GDAL
• Conference Chair for FOSS4G 2007and FOSS4G North America 2012
• Lead editor of the Tile_Map_Service_Specification.
• OSGeo Board of Directors, 2006-2008
• 2008 Sol Katz Award

Contact

Email: pramsey AT cleverelephant DOT ca

Twitter: @pwramsey

LinkedIn: [10]

Blog: [11]

Spoken Languages

English

Profile last updated

October 8, 2014

Europe:Czech Republic

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jáchym Čepický
Job Title:
Company:	MapTiler , OpenGeoLabs.cz
Address:	Liban, Czechia
City:	Liban
State:	Královéhradecký kraj
Country:	Czechia
Local Chapter:	Czechia
Email:	jachym cepicky ch
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
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:	Karel Charvat
Job Title:	Chair of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty
Company:	Czech Center for Science and Sociaty
Address:
City:	Prague
State:
Country:	Czech Republic
Local Chapter:	Chech
Email:	charvat AT ccss DOT cz
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	Czech; Russian; English
Personal Description :	Karel is former president of EFITA, currently a member of Board of Seniors of EFITA, Chair of Czech Centre of Science and Society (CCSS), actively participating on various EU projects and geospatial communities. His current field of activities is OpenData (combination of OpenStreetMap with public administration data), finding business strategies for Open Source software and promotion of Open GIS solutions, such as Geoportal4everybody. Karel was chair of first FOSSG4-CEE event in Prague 2012.
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Centre of Science and Society (CCSS), actively participating on various EU projects and geospatial communities. His current field of activities is OpenData (combination of OpenStreetMap with public administration data), finding business strategies for Open Source software and promotion of Open GIS solutions, such as Geoportal4everybody.

Karel was chair of first FOSSG4-CEE event in Prague 2012.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Karel Charvat

Karel Charvat

Chair of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Karel is former president of EFITA, currently a member of Board of Seniors of EFITA, Chair of Czech Centre of Science and Society (CCSS), actively participating on various EU projects and geospatial communities. His current field of activities is OpenData (combination of OpenStreetMap with public administration data), finding business strategies for Open Source software and promotion of Open GIS solutions, such as Geoportal4everybody.

Karel was chair of first FOSSG4-CEE event in Prague 2012.

OSGeo Experience

• Chairman of the FOSS4G-CEE 2012
• Chairman of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty
• Former Chair of Czech association of Geoinformation

Contact

Email: charvat AT ccss DOT cz

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=73516853

Spoken Language(s)

Czech, Russian, English

Profile last updated

02 July 2012

Europe:France

Gérald Fenoy

Founder and CEO of GeoLabs SARL.

Location: Lattes, France.

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo Board member from 2013-2015
• ZOO-Project Developper and PSC Chair,
• Creator of the original french web site for PostGIS,
• Provide training, use and develop (WEB-)GIS applications based on OSGeo Libraries / Applications,
• Active in the OSGeo Senegal Local chapter,
• Provide Gentoo packaging and patches for proj, geos, postgis, pgRouting, mapserver and gpsbabel,
• Active at all FOSS4G international events since 2006.

Contacts

Phone: +33670082539

Skype: gfenoy

Mail: gerald DOT fenoy AT geolabs DOT fr

IRC: djay

OSGeo Member
Name:	Gérald Fenoy
Job Title:	CEO
Company:	GeoLabs
Address:	1280 Avenue des platanes, 34970 Lattes, France
City:	Lattes
State:
Country:	France
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:	gerald.fenoy@geolabs.fr
Phone:	+33670082539
Instant Messaging:	Skype: gfenoy / IRC: djay
Website:	http://geolabs.fr
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Jean-Roc Morreale
Job Title:	Informations System Administrator
Company:	Departmental Center of Archeology, Conseil Général du Pas de Calais
Address:
City:	Arras
State:
Country:	France
Local Chapter:	Francophone OSGeo Chapter
Email:	jrmorreale (a) osgeo.asso.fr
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	French; English
Personal Description :	Jean-Roc is an archaeologist specialized in the long-term conservation and exploitation of field data, this task is made much easier when using open data formats and free software. For this reason, he started to localize Quantum GIS and participate as board member of the french OSGeo chapter to the promotion and the diffusion of free and open GIS tools into the labs but also into the public administration.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Jean-Roc Morreale

Jean-Roc Morreale

Informations System Administrator Departmental Center of Archeology, Conseil Général du Pas de Calais

Location : Arras, France

Jean-Roc is an archaeologist specialized in the long-term conservation and exploitation of field data, this task is made much easier when using open data formats and free software. For this reason, he started to localize Quantum GIS and participate as board member of the french OSGeo chapter to the promotion and the diffusion of free and open GIS tools into the labs but also into the public administration.

OSGeo Experience :

• member of the french chapter OSGeo-fr
• OSGeo-fr's board member 2010-2012
• promotion of the use of free gis software in state departments and communities
• translation of QGIS' UI and documentation
• helped organise the QGIS User Meeting in Paris in 2011 and the QGIS Hackfest in Lyon in 2012

Contact : jrmorreale (a) osgeo.asso.fr

Spoken Languages : French, English (with ze french touch)

OSGeo Member
Name:	Manuel Grizonnet
Job Title:	Image processing engineer
Company:	CNES
Address:
City:	Toulouse
State:
Country:	France
Local Chapter:	Francophone OSGeo Chapter
Email:	manuel.grizonnet AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	French; English
Personal Description :	Manuel works at CNES (French Space Agency) and is involved in the Open Source library for remote sensing image processing Orfeo ToolBox.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

Manuel Grizonnet

Manuel Grizonnet

Location : Toulouse, France

Manuel works at CNES (French Space Agency) and is a many years (9 years) contributor to the Open Source library for remote sensing image processing Orfeo ToolBox.

OSGeo Experience

• Part of the developers team of the ORFEO ToolBox library
• Contributor to the OSGeo Live project
• Occasional contributor to OSSIM and QGIS

Contact

Email: manuel.grizonnet AT gmail DOT com

Spoken Language(s)

French, English.

OSGeo Member
Name:	Nicolas Bozon
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Lyon, France
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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Personal Description :
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Victor Olaya
Job Title:	Developer
Company:	Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX
Address:
City:	Auch
State:
Country:	France
Local Chapter:	Francophone OSGeo Chapter
Email:	volayaf AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype: volaya1978
Website:	http://volaya.es/
Language(s):	Spanish; English; French; Russian
Personal Description :	Victor is the creator and main developer of the SEXTANTE library, a spatial data analysis library currently used by several open source GIS such as gvSIG or QGIS. He is also the main author of the Spanish Free GIS Book, a free (CC BY) book on the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

 

Victor Olaya

Victor Olaya

Developer, Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX

Location: Auch, France

Victor is the creator and main developer of the SEXTANTE library, a spatial data analysis library currently used by several open source GIS such as gvSIG or QGIS. He is also the main author of the Spanish Free GIS Book, a free (CC BY) book on the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems. ... more.

OSGeo Experience

• Editor and main author of the Spanish Free GIS Book
• Creator and main developer of the SEXTANTE library

Contact

Email: volayaf AT gmail DOT com

Skype: volaya1978

Spoken Language(s)

Spanish, English, French, Russian.

Europe:Germany

OSGeo Member
Name:	Arnulf Christl
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Tharpaling, Germany
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Astrid Emde
Job Title:	GIS-Consultant
Company:	WhereGroup
Address:
City:	Cologne
State:	Nordrhein-Westfalen
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	German; English; French; Spanish
Personal Description :	Astrid Emde is an active member of OSGeo and a Charter Member since 2010. She is involved in the OSGeoLive & marketing project project. She is also active in the german language OSGeo local chapter FOSSGIS e.V which organized the annual FOSSGIS conference. Astrid Emde is part of the Mapbender Team. She lead several workshops and presentations on Mapbender, MapServer, GeoServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and OWS, for example at FOSS4G, FOSSGIS or AGIT. She likes community meeting and organizes Hacking Events and loves to spread the spirit of OSGeo & FOSSGIS. She co-authored the german edition of Tyler Mitchell's book Web Mapping Illustrated. Astrid was the winner of the 2018 Sol Katz Award for her leadership and longtime efforts in the OSGeo and FOSSGIS communities.
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She is also active in the german language OSGeo local chapter FOSSGIS e.V which organized the annual FOSSGIS conference. Astrid Emde is part of the Mapbender Team. She lead several workshops and presentations on Mapbender, MapServer, GeoServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and OWS, for example at FOSS4G, FOSSGIS or AGIT. She likes community meeting and organizes Hacking Events and loves to spread the spirit of OSGeo & FOSSGIS. She co-authored the german edition of Tyler Mitchell's book Web Mapping Illustrated. Astrid was the winner of the 2018 Sol Katz Award for her leadership and longtime efforts in the OSGeo and FOSSGIS communities.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

               

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OSGeo Member
Name:	Dimitar Misev
Job Title:	Postdoc researcher
Company:	Constructor University / rasdaman
Address:
City:	Bremen
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	misev AT rasdaman DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	https://dimitarmisev.com/
Language(s):	English; Macedonian
Personal Description :	Dimitar Misev is a Postdoc fellow in Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany, with focus on array databases and Big Data. He is actively contributing to the development of rasdaman, a world-leading database engine for multi-dimensional raster data of unlimited extent.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Dimitar Misev

Dimitar Misev

Postdoc researcher, Constructor University

Location: Bremen, Germany

Dimitar Misev is a Postdoc fellow in Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany, with focus on array databases and Big Data. He is actively contributing to the development of rasdaman, a world-leading database engine for multi-dimensional raster data of unlimited extent.

LinkedIn profile

OSGeo Experience

• Core developer of the rasdaman project
• User support on the rasdaman mailing lists and maintenance of the wiki pages

Contact

Email: misev AT rasdaman DOT com

Spoken Language(s)

English, Macedonian

Profile last updated

15 Oct 2019

OSGeo Member
Name:	Stefan Tzeggai
Job Title:	CTO
Company:	wikisquare, empirica-systeme GmbH
Address:
City:	Tübingen
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	tzeggai@empirica-systeme.de
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	stefan.tzeggai@chat.empirica-systeme.de
Website:	https://www.empirica-systeme.de/
Language(s):	German; English; Spanish
Personal Description :	Steve is a Java developer. Since 2007 he has run wikisquare, a company specialized on free Java software, GIS, and statistics. Since 2008 he has been the main developer of the AtlasStyler SLD editor. In 2011 he participated in the foundation of empirica systeme GmbH, a company specialized in observing and mapping the German real estate market.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Stefan Tzeggai

Stefan Tzeggai

OSGeo Experience

• Core developer of AtlasStyler, an OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) / SE 1.1 editor based on Swing and Geotools.
• Core developer of Geopublisher is an atlas authoring system which simplifies the creation of multimedia atlases for online and offline use.
• Minimal development but power-user of Geotools and Geoserver.

Contact

Business contact mailto:tzeggai(æ)wikisquare.de

XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/StefanAlfons_Tzeggai

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanalfonskrueger

Twitter for AtlasStyler and Geopublisher: http://twitter.com/geopublishing

Spoken Language(s)

German, English, Spanish

Profile last updated

11 November 2015

OSGeo Member
Name:	Thomas Baschetti
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Osnabrück
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	info AT thomas-baschetti.de
Phone:	+49 541 259190
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://thomas-baschetti.de/
Language(s):	German; English
Personal Description :	Thomas is a freelancer doing all kind of GIS and database stuff, especially helping people to migrate from proprietary to free software, connecting different systems and getting things to work.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Thomas Baschetti

Thomas Baschetti

Location: Osnabrück, Germany

Thomas is a freelancer doing all kind of GIS and database stuff, especially helping people to migrate from proprietary to free software, connecting different systems and getting things to work.

OSGeo Experience

• Member of the Mapbender Team
• Involved in the translation of OSGeo-Live Project.
• active member of local Osgeo chapter in Germany FOSSGIS e.V.
• User: Mapbender, MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS

Contact

Email: info AT thomas-baschetti.de

Phone: +49 541 259190

Spoken Language(s)

German, English, very basic Italian

Profile last updated

09 July 2012

Europe:Greece

OSGeo Member
Name:	Angelos Tzotsos
Job Title:	Geospatial Software Developer, Remote Sensing Consultant, Senior Researcher
Company:	Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Address:
City:	Athens
State:	Attica
Country:	Greece
Local Chapter:	Greek
Email:	tzotsos@osgeo.org
Phone:	+30 693 2149344
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
Language(s):	Greek; English
Personal Description :	Angelos is a remote sensing expert with background in surveying engineering and software development. He is involved in numerous activities around free and open source software and has great experience in geospatial applications, geospatial data catalogues and metadata. His research involves remote sensing, machine learning, computer vision and object-based image analysis. He is currently the President of OSGeo and also serves at the OSGeo Board of Directors. He is an active advocate of OSGeo in Greece at related conferences. He is also an individual OGC member. His recent activity involved implementation of data.gov catalog service and implementation of the Greek national open data portal geodata.gov.gr.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

             

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo-Live. PSC Chair, OSGeo Project Officer, Build manager and Core Developer.
• pycsw. OSGeo Project Officer, PSC Member and Core Developer.
• pygeoapi. PSC Member and Contributor.
• GeoNode. Core Developer.
• Orfeo Toolbox. Developer.
• ZOO-Project. PSC Member and Developer.
• QGIS. Contributor and Plugin Developer (DigitizingTools, MetaSearch, CadTools)
• Data.gov USA open data catalog (based on CKAN and pycsw). Developer.
• Geodata.gov.gr Greek open data catalog (based on PublicaMundi) . Scientific and Technical Coordinator, Core Developer.
• OWSlib. Developer.
• MapServer. Packager.
• GRASS GIS. Packager.
• openSUSE Official Member, Geospatial Package Maintainer.
• UbuntuGIS. Member and Package Maintainer.
• DebianGIS. Package Contributor.
• Gnorasi (Orfeo Toolbox external project). Core developer.
• MSEG. Personal project.
• GIMED. Personal project.

Profile last updated

17 April 2020

OSGeo Member
Name:	Argyros Argyridis
Job Title:	PhD Student
Company:	Remote Sensing Laboratory, NTUA
Address:
City:	Athens
State:
Country:	Greece
Local Chapter:	Greek
Email:	arargyridis at gmail dot com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://users.ntua.gr/arargyr
Language(s):	Greek; English; French
Personal Description :	Argyros finished his master thesis on Rural and Surveying Engineering at NTUA. His research is regarding the development and investigation of computer vision techniques and artificial inteligence methods for remote sensing applications.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Argyros Argyridis

Argyros Argyridis

PhD Student, Remote Sensing Laboratory, NTUA

Location: Athens, Greece

Argyros finished his master thesis on Rural and Surveying Engineering at NTUA. His research is regarding the development and investigation of computer vision techniques and artificial inteligence methods for remote sensing applications. ...more.

OSGeo Experience

• Using applications such as Grass, QGis, Pogresql/postgis etc.

Contact

Email: arargyridis at gmail dot com

Spoken Language(s)

Greek, English, French

Profile last updated

27 June 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Dimitris Kotzinos
Job Title:	Faculty member
Company:	Department of Computer Science of University of Cergy Pontoise
Address:
City:	Cergy Pontoise
State:
Country:	France
Local Chapter:	Greek
Email:	kotzino at gmail dot com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://www.kotzinos.eu
Language(s):	Greek; English
Personal Description :	Dimitris's interests are in the areas of Web Information Systems, Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, Social Networks, etc. Dimitris is a frequent speaker at GI Conferences both national and international and also an organizer of events or special sessions dedicated to Open Geospatial Software/Data/Protocols.
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URIs of the form "kotzino at gmail dot com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

Dimitris Kotzinos

Dimitris Kotzinos

Faculty member at the Department of Computer Science of University of Cergy Pontoise.

Location: Cergy Pontoise, France

Dimitris's interests are in the areas of Web Information Systems, Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, Social Networks, etc. Dimitris is a frequent speaker at GI Conferences both national and international and also an organizer of events or special sessions dedicated to Open Geospatial Software/Data/Protocols. More information on Dimitris here.

OSGeo Experience

• Uses and teaches applications such as Geoserver, Mapserver, Mapbender, GeoTools, gvSIG, QGis, Pogresql/postgis etc.
• Founder of the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter
• Section Editor of the OSGeo Journal (at times) and here's A_proposal_for_the_OSGeo_Journal!

Contact

Email: kotzino at gmail dot com

Spoken Language(s)

Greek, English

Profile last updated

10 March 2015

Europe:Italy

OSGeo Member
Name:	Andrea Aime
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Reggiolo
City:
State:
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Anne Ghisla
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Berlin
State:	Berlin
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

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:	Luca Delucchi
Job Title:	GIS Technician
Company:	Fondazione Edmund Mach
Address:
City:	San Michele all'Adige
State:
Country:	Italy
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com
Phone:	+39 0461615570
Instant Messaging:	Skype: lucadelu
Website:
Language(s):	Italian; English; French
Personal Description :	Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor. He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board. He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19
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URIs of the form "lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor.

He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board.

He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

He is involved in the following projects:

• GRASS GIS: developer and Italian translator
• QGIS: I developed and contributed to some plugin (OGR2Layers, QuickMultiAttributeEdit)
• ZOO-project: beta tester and documentation
• pyModis: main developer library to download and works with MODIS data
• From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member of GFOSS.it (Associazione Italiana per il Software Geografico Libero), the Italian OSGeo local chapter. From November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board.
• Actively participating in OpenStreetMap and promoting OpenStreetMap in Italy organizing a lot of events
• Since 2011, he has been an OSGeo Charter Member
• OSGeo-Live, helping in documentation and Italian Translation

He know and use the following Free and Open Source Project:

• Desktop
  • GRASS GIS
  • QGIS
• Database
  • PostGIS
  • Spatialite
• Web Server
  • MapServer
  • GeoDjango
  • ZOO-Project
  • IstSOS
• Web client
  • OpenLayers
  • Leaflet
• Other tools
  • Mapnik
  • mkgmap

Spoken Language(s)

Italian (mother tongue), English, a little bit of French

Profile last updated

2021 April 7

OSGeo Member
Name:	Margherita Di Leo
Job Title:
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Address:	Ispra, VA, Italy
City:
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Email:
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Massimo Di Stefano
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Eboli, Salerno, Italy
City:	Eboli
State:
Country:	Italy
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	epiesasha@me.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype : epifaniox
Website:	http://ccom.unh.edu/user/distefano
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Massimo Di Stefano, research data programmer at the Norwegian Metereological Institute. Massimo graduated from "Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"" (Naples, IT) with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, specializing in Marine Ecosystem and completed and completed his Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping - CCOM-JHC. A founding member of [https:// gfoss.it], the Italian community of users and developers of Geographic Free/Open-Source Software (GFOSS) and charter member of OSGeo, Massimo has spent more than 20 years developing Geographical Free and Open Source Software, with current development activities in GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS and OSGeo Live projects. For the past years, Massimo worked as Research Assistant III at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for the HABCAM project, and as Software Engineer on staff at the Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) on the ECO-OP project.
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[[Info::Massimo Di Stefano, research data programmer at the Norwegian Metereological Institute. Massimo graduated from "Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"" (Naples, IT) with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, specializing in Marine Ecosystem and completed and completed his Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping - CCOM-JHC. A founding member of [https:// gfoss.it], the Italian community of users and developers of Geographic Free/Open-Source Software (GFOSS) and charter member of OSGeo, Massimo has spent more than 20 years developing Geographical Free and Open Source Software, with current development activities in GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS and OSGeo Live projects. For the past years, Massimo worked as Research Assistant III at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for the HABCAM project, and as Software Engineer on staff at the Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) on the ECO-OP project.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

| Massimo Di Stefano

Massimo Di Stefano

Massimo Di Stefano, graduated from "Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"" (Naples, IT) with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, specializing in Marine Ecosystem. Massimo is now pursuing his Ph.D. at CCOM-JHC in Oceanography. A founding member of GFOSS.it, the Italian community of users and developers of Geographic Free/Open-Source Software (GFOSS) and charter member of OSGeo, Massimo has spent more than 10 years developing Geographical Free and Open Source Software, with current development activities in GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS and OSGeo Live projects. For the past four years, Massimo worked as Research Assistant III at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for the HABCAM project, and as Software Engineer on staff at the Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) on the ECO-OP project.

OSGeo Experience

• PhD Candidate in Oceanography at Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping CCOM - University of New Hampshire
• Software Engineer at RPI (Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Guest Investigator at WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• GIS Team member of GeofemEngineering
• Cartography and Geodesy Specialist
• Member of the OSSIM Dev-Team
• Promoting Free Software
• Ossim,Grass, and Qgis development
• gfoss.it Founder
• OSGEO-Google Summer Of Code
• Italian OSGeo Board Member
• Italian Osgeo Liason Officer (italiano)
• OSGeo-Live contributor
• Translating the OSGeo official site into Italian

Contact

epiesasha@me.com

IRC : epifanio

Skype : epifaniox

Location 1

41°31′27.12″N 70°40′11.28″W

Woods Hole, Massachussetts, USA

Location 2

40°37′1″N 15°3′23″E

Eboli, Salerno, Italy

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Daylight saving time: +1 hour (northern hemisphere summer time)

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Web logs and more

http://web.me.com/epiesasha/PlanetSasha/Project.html

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OSGeo Member
Name:	Andrea Antonello
Job Title:	Tech lead
Company:	HydroloGIS
Address:	Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italia
City:	Bolzano
State:
Country:	Italia
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	andrea.antonello@gmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://www.andreaantonello.com/
Language(s):	Italian; German; English
Personal Description :	I'm an environmental engineer addicted to GIS development playing in the field of hydrologic and geomorphologic modelling with gvSIG and the Hortonmachine. Since 2005 I'm cofounder of HydroloGIS, were we mainly develop around and make advanced use of gvSIG, Hortonmachine and Geopaparazzi.
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[[Info::I'm an environmental engineer addicted to GIS development playing in the field of hydrologic and geomorphologic modelling with gvSIG and the Hortonmachine.

Since 2005 I'm cofounder of HydroloGIS, were we mainly develop around and make advanced use of gvSIG, Hortonmachine and Geopaparazzi.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

Andrea Antonello

Andrea Antonello

Tech lead, HydroloGIS

Location: Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italia

I'm an environmental engineer addicted to GIS development playing in the field of hydrologic and geomorphologic modelling with gvSIG and the Hortonmachine.

Since 2005 I'm cofounder of HydroloGIS, were we mainly develop around and make advanced use of gvSIG, uDig, Hortonmachine and Geopaparazzi.

OSGeo Experience

• core developer of the Hortonmachine project.
• core developer of the Geopaparazzi project.
• plugin developer of the gvSIG desktop GIS.
• loves (and goes regularly to) FOSS4G conferences and code sprints
• does training courses on a regular basis

Contact

Personal page: http://www.andreaantonello.com

Email: andrea DOT antonello AT gmail DOT com

Twitter: themoovida

Spoken Language(s)

Italian, German, English, Spanish

Profile last updated

19 September 2018

Europe:The Netherlands

OSGeo Member
Name:	Just van den Broecke
Job Title:	Open Source Geospatial Professional
Company:	Just Objects B.V.
Address:	Amstelveen, The Netherlands
City:	Amstelveen
State:
Country:	The Netherlands
Local Chapter:	Dutch
Email:	just@justobjects.nl
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype: justb4
Website:	https://justobjects.nl/
Language(s):	Dutch; English; German; French
Personal Description :	Just van den Broecke is a software consultant/architect with ample experience in various projects and products involving and integrating OSGeo and other Open Source software. Since 2011 Just is heavily involved in the OSGeo Dutch Language Local Chapter, first as initiator/trailblazer, currently as chairman on the board of the OSGeo.nl Foundation. He is a regular speaker at various OSGeo-related conferences on OSGeo-subjects ranging from highly technical like the OSGeo Live DVD and specific software/standards to Open Source and Open Data in general. He became OSGeo Charter Member in 2013.
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[[Info::Just van den Broecke is a software consultant/architect with ample experience in various projects and products involving and integrating OSGeo and other Open Source software.

Since 2011 Just is heavily involved in the OSGeo Dutch Language Local Chapter, first as initiator/trailblazer, currently as chairman on the board of the OSGeo.nl Foundation. He is a regular speaker at various OSGeo-related conferences on OSGeo-subjects ranging from highly technical like the OSGeo Live DVD and specific software/standards to Open Source and Open Data in general. He became OSGeo Charter Member in 2013.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

Just van den Broecke

Just van den Broecke

Open Source Geospatial Professional at Just Objects B.V. and former member (2011-2023) of the Dutch OpenGeoGroep

Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands

Just van den Broecke is a software consultant/architect with ample experience in various projects and products involving and integrating OSGeo and other Open Source software. Since 2011 Just is heavily involved in the OSGeo Dutch Language Local Chapter, first as initiator/trailblazer, currently as secretary of the board of the OSGeo.nl Foundation. He is a regular speaker at various OSGeo-related conferences on OSGeo-subjects ranging from highly technical like the OSGeo Live DVD and specific software/standards to Open Source and Open Data in general. He became OSGeo Charter Member in 2013.

Read more details on his homepage/blog and LinkedIn profile.

OSGeo Experience

• Trailblazer for setting up the Dutch Language OSGeo Chapter (2011) and Chairman of the Board (until 2023) of the OSGeo.nl Foundation
• Presenter at FOSS4G 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and FOSS4G-EU 2017, 2028, 2024. Chairing two sessions at FOSS4G 2013.
• (Co-)organized several OSGeo.nl Days: 2012-2017 and FOSS4G-NLs 2017-2023
• Organized and chaired the OSGeo Open Source Seminar at the Geospatial World Forum 2012
• Presented OSGeo at the Geospatial World Forum Open Source Seminar 2012 and 2013
• Keynote speaker at First OSGeo.nl Conference 2012
• Implementation of INSPIRE using OSGeo software in INSPIRE-FOSS project
• Initiator and core developer for the Dutch NLExtract ETL project
• Initiator and lead for the Heron Mapping Client
• Initiator and lead for the Stetl ETL Framework
• Committer for GeoNetwork Opensource
• Contributions to OpenLayers, GeoWebCache, OpenLayers Editor, GeoExt, GXP, MapProxy and Wegue
• Member of the GeoPython GitHub Community. Developer and Provider GeoPython Workshop.
• Core developer GeoHealthCheck Project
• Core developer and PSC pygeoapi Project, plus Developer/Provider Diving into pygeoapi workshop, developer/maintainer pygeoapi demo site.
• Owner/developer map5.nl map services a.o. based on map5topo map
• Owner/developer [12] a.o. based on NLExtract
• Owner/developer [13] a.o. hosted GeoHealthCheck
• Working experience in various projects promoting and deploying OSGeo software like the Dutch National SDI PDOK and the Dutch Kadaster .
• Regular mapper/contributor OpenStreetMap.
• Regular speaker at MapTime Amsterdam.

Contact

Email: just A-T justobjects.nl

Mastodon: https://mapstodon.space/@justb4

Spoken Language(s)

Dutch (1st), English (2nd), German, French (modeste), Spanish (un poco)

Profile last updated

November 22, 2024

OSGeo Member
Name:	Milo van der Linden
Job Title:
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Address:	Vught, The Netherlands
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Paul van Genuchten
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Address:	Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Europe:Portugal

OSGeo Member
Name:	Giovanni Manghi
Job Title:	GIS/WebGIS Teacher, tester and developer
Company:	NATURALGIS
Address:
City:	Évora
State:
Country:	Portugal
Local Chapter:	Portugal
Email:	giovanni DOT manghi AT naturalgis DOT pt
Phone:	+351967058216
Instant Messaging:	Skype: toirao
Website:	http://www.naturalgis.pt/
Language(s):	English; Italian; Portuguese; Spanish
Personal Description :	Giovanni is conservation biologist with 10+ years of GIS experience, Italian but lives and work in Portugal. Is a GFOSS enthusiast and a active member of both the international and Portuguese OSGeo communities, in particular the QGIS (Quantum GIS) one.
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URIs of the form "giovanni DOT manghi AT naturalgis DOT pt" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Giovanni Manghi

Giovanni Manghi

GIS/WebGIS Teacher, tester and developer. I funded and was associate at Faunalia Portugal, but the company changed name in February 2015 and now is NATURALGIS http://www.naturalgis.pt/

Location: Évora, Portugal

Giovanni is conservation biologist with 10+ years of GIS experience, Italian but lives and work in Portugal. Is a GFOSS enthusiast and a active member of both the international and Portuguese OSGeo communities, in particular the QGIS (Quantum GIS) one.

naturalgis.pt

OSGeo Experience

• 2015 - present:
• 2009 - 2014: Funder and associate at Faunalia LDA (Portugal)
• Co-funder of the QGIS Portuguese community (http://www.qgis.pt/)
• OSGeo Charter Member 2011
• OSGeo Portugal (OSGeo local chapter) board member
• 2009 - present: Quantum GIS user, translator and tester
• 2nd SASIG organizer, Évora 2009 (Portuguese Congress about free and open source GIS Software)
• 1st Portuguese Quantum GIS Day organizer, Lisbon 2011

Contact

Email: giovanni DOT manghi AT naturalgis DOT pt

Web: http://www.naturalgis.pt/

Phone (work): +351967058216

IRC: gioman on freenode (#qgis, #grass, ...)

Skype: toirao

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naturalgis

Twitter: https://twitter.com/naturalgis

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/naturalgis

Spoken Language(s)

English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Profile last updated

18 February 2015

Europe:Romania

OSGeo Member
Name:	Vasile Crăciunescu
Job Title:	Researcher
Company:	Romanian National Meteorological Administration
Address:	Bucharest, Romania
City:	Bucharest
State:
Country:	Romania
Local Chapter:	Romanian
Email:	vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://ro.linkedin.com/in/vasilecraciunescu
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Vasile is a researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, working in the RS & GIS Laboratory. Currently is in charge of the activities related to rapid mapping, air quality data integration, SDI and webmapping. Vasile is a FOSS4G promoter and use his free time to further develop geo-spatial.org, a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and free geographic datasets.
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URIs of the form "vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org" are not allowed. [[Info::Vasile is a researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, working in the RS & GIS Laboratory. Currently is in charge of the activities related to rapid mapping, air quality data integration, SDI and webmapping. Vasile is a FOSS4G promoter and use his free time to further develop geo-spatial.org, a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and free geographic datasets.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

Vasile Crăciunescu

Vasile Crăciunescu

Researcher, Romanian National Meteorological Administration

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Vasile is a researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, working in the RS & GIS Laboratory. Currently is in charge of the activities related to rapid mapping, air quality data integration, SDI and webmapping. Vasile is a FOSS4G promoter and use his free time to further develop geo-spatial.org, a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and free geographic datasets. ... more.

OSGeo Experience

• Responsible on the organization of a local series of workshops called FOSS4G for geodata analysis
• Leader of Romanian Local Chapter OSGeo Romania since 2011
• OSGeo CRO 2015-2018
• OSGeo Conference Committee Chair 2019 - 2022
• Chair of the FOSS4G-CEE 2013
• Chair of the FOSS4G 2019

Contact

Email: vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org

Skype: vasile.craciunescu

Twiter: vcraciunescu

Spoken Language(s)

Romanian, English

Profile last updated

21 September 2022

Europe:United Kingdom

OSGeo Member
Name:	Ian Turton
Job Title:	Software Engineer and Open Source GIS Trainer
Company:
Address:
City:	Worthing
State:	W. Sussex
Country:	United Kingdom
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:	ian@ianturton.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Employed by Astun Technology who provide support and train all types of OSGeo software. Ian will also undertake contract Java development using GeoTools and GeoServer (primarily). Ian was a software developer for Envitia Ltd. He spent the previous 20 years doing geospatial research at the University of Leeds and Pennsylvania State University, during this period he founded the GeoTools project with James Macgill. Find out more about Ian at GIS.stackexchange and LinkedIn.
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[[Info::Employed by Astun Technology who provide support and train all types of OSGeo software. Ian will also undertake contract Java development using GeoTools and GeoServer (primarily).

Ian was a software developer for Envitia Ltd. He spent the previous 20 years doing geospatial research at the University of Leeds and Pennsylvania State University, during this period he founded the GeoTools project with James Macgill.

Find out more about Ian at GIS.stackexchange and LinkedIn.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

• Co-founder and developer of Geotools project
• Developed and taught a webmapping course based upon open source software at Penn State University

Contact

email: ian@ianturton.com

twitter: @ijturton

www: ianturton.com

OSGeo Member
Name:	Steven Feldman
Job Title:	Principal
Company:	KnowWhere Consulting
Address:
City:	London
State:
Country:	UK
Local Chapter:	[[OSGeo:UK|OSGeo:UK]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	https://www.knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Steven Feldman was Managing Director of GDC, a UK local government specialist and subsequently of MapInfo UK. He now mentors startups and advises businesses in the location space while focussing his spare time on Open Data and Open Source projects including the OSM-GB project at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute. Steven is currently a strategic advisor to Astun Technology, chairman of geo.me Solutions, past chairman of Exprodat Consulting and a board advisor at OpenCage Data. Steven was the Chair of the LOC for FOSS4G 2013. He is a recent past chair the Conference Committee and is active in OSGeo:UK, the UK local chapter Steven is a regular presenter on geo and open topics, some slide decks are here. He tends to tweet too much as @stevenfeldman
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[[LocalChapter::OSGeo:UK| ]] [[Info::Steven Feldman was Managing Director of GDC, a UK local government specialist and subsequently of MapInfo UK. He now mentors startups and advises businesses in the location space while focussing his spare time on Open Data and Open Source projects including the OSM-GB project at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute.

Steven is currently a strategic advisor to Astun Technology, chairman of geo.me Solutions, past chairman of Exprodat Consulting and a board advisor at OpenCage Data.

Steven was the Chair of the LOC for FOSS4G 2013. He is a recent past chair the Conference Committee and is active in OSGeo:UK, the UK local chapter

Steven is a regular presenter on geo and open topics, some slide decks are here. He tends to tweet too much as @stevenfeldman| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

     

Contact

Email: via KnowWhere

via twitter

Spoken Language

English

Profile last updated

7th April 2021

OSGeo Member
Name:	Suchith Anand
Job Title:	Consultant
Company:
Address:
City:	Nottingham
State:
Country:	United Kingdom
Local Chapter:	OSGeo UK
Email:	suchith_anand@yahoo.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He volunteers for GeoForAll with a vision to make geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all and to enable a better future for everyone. He served as the founding chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial IG of Research Data Alliance. He serves in the Program Board of Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is reviewer for European and international research council applications, and many leading GIS journals . He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal on Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards , GIS Professional . Suchith is from India and now lives in Nottingham with his wife Sajini and their son Sanjay . They all are cricket fans and love travelling.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Suchith Anand

Suchith Anand

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU ...more.

OSGeo Experience

• Established Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
• Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
• Volunteer of OSGeo Education/GeoForAll
• Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives
• Founder and Chair of OSGIS conference series
• Invited speaker and presenter at United Nations and other International organisations
• Editorial Board member of journals
• Building synergies between OSGeo and other open education initiatives globally
• One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

Contact

Email: suchith_anand@yahoo.com

Profile last updated

25th May , 2018

Latin America:Argentina

OSGeo Member
Name:	Mauricio Miranda
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Dorrego, Mendoza, Argentina
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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Latin America:Brazil

OSGeo Member
Name:	Felipe Costa
Job Title:	Programming Analyst
Company:	Massmedia OÜ
Address:	Tartu
City:	Manaus
State:	Tartumaa
Country:	Estonia
Local Chapter:	Brazil
Email:	fsc7mail AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://lattes.cnpq.br/3609044175401060
Language(s):	Portuguese; English
Personal Description :	Felipe Costa works with FOSSGIS software since 2005. He has worked with webmapping using both Mapserver and Geoserver and has experience with I3Geo and Openlayers. He is also interested in geospatial metadata and has worked mainly with Geonetwork. Nowadays works at Fiocruz Amazônia after a time in Rio de Janeiro studying Geomatics at UERJ where he wrote his thesis was about Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC Webservices.
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URIs of the form "fsc7mail AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Felipe Costa works with FOSSGIS software since 2005. He has worked with webmapping using both Mapserver and Geoserver and has experience with I3Geo and Openlayers. He is also interested in geospatial metadata and has worked mainly with Geonetwork.

Nowadays works at Fiocruz Amazônia after a time in Rio de Janeiro studying Geomatics at UERJ where he wrote his thesis was about Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC Webservices.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

 

Felipe Costa

Felipe Costa

Programming Analyst, Fiocruz

Location: Manaus, Brazil

Felipe Costa works with FOSSGIS software since 2005. He has worked with webmapping using both Mapserver and Geoserver and has experience with I3Geo and Openlayers. He is also interested in geospatial metadata and has worked mainly with Geonetwork. Nowadays works at Fiocruz Amazônia after a time in Rio de Janeiro studying Geomatics at UERJ where he wrote his thesis was about Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC Webservices.

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OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)

• He has experience as user with the following softwares: Mapserver, Geoserver, Geonetwork, Postgis, Qgis and GvSig.
• He has some experience teaching and participating at conferences talking about Postgis, Qgis and Geoserver. He also contributes to the Brazilian FOSSGIS magazine.

Contact

Email: fsc7mail AT gmail DOT com

Skype: fsc0307

Spoken Language(s)

Portuguese, English.

Profile last updated

2 December 2015

Latin America:Chile

OSGeo Member
Name:	Stefan Steiniger
Job Title:	GIS/c Researcher
Company:	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Address:
City:	Santiago de Chile
State:
Country:	Chile
Local Chapter:	Sudamerica
Email:	sstein AT geo DOT uzh DOT ch - and temporary: - ssteiniger AT uc DOT cl
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	German; English; Spanish
Personal Description :	Stefan has been project (co-)leader of the OpenJUMP GIS project from 2005 to 2010 and is still a contributor. He has been writing 2-3 journal articles about FOSS4G to a scientific audience, to spread the word there (on desktop GIS, Landscape Ecology tools, SDI software, and FOSS4G for teaching). Since 2012 he is living in Chile and trying to promote FOSS4G there.
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URIs of the form "sstein AT geo DOT uzh DOT ch - and temporary: - ssteiniger AT uc DOT cl" are not allowed. [[Info::Stefan has been project (co-)leader of the OpenJUMP GIS project from 2005 to 2010 and is still a contributor. He has been writing 2-3 journal articles about FOSS4G to a scientific audience, to spread the word there (on desktop GIS, Landscape Ecology tools, SDI software, and FOSS4G for teaching). Since 2012 he is living in Chile and trying to promote FOSS4G there.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Stefan Steiniger

Stefan Steiniger

GIS/c Researcher with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, freelance GIS Programmer

Locations: Santiago de Chile, Chile

Stefan has been project (co-)leader of the OpenJUMP GIS project from 2005 to 2010 and is still a contributor. He has been writing 2-3 journal articles about FOSS4G to a scientific audience, to spread the word there (on desktop GIS, Landscape Ecology tools, SDI software, and FOSS4G for teaching). Since 2012 he is living in Chile and trying to promote FOSS4G there.

OSGeo Experience

• Used applications such as JTS Topology Suite, OpenJUMP, Sextante, QGIS, GeoNode, bits of GeoServer and PostGIS, etc. (and still learning...)
• Thinks he has generally a good overview of the FOSS4G software map (well.. just click the link)

Contact

Email: sstein AT geo DOT uzh DOT ch - and temporary: - ssteiniger AT uc DOT cl

Spoken Language(s)

German, English, Spanish

Profile last updated

7 July 2012

Latin America: Colombia

OSGeo Member
Name:	Edwin Alberto Amado Barón
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Quito
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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Latin America:Mexico

OSGeo Member
Name:	alex borrell
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Zapopan, Mexico
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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Personal Description :
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United States

OSGeo Member
Name:	Alex Mandel, Phd
Job Title:	Geospatial Scientist
Company:	Geography, University of California, Davis
Address:
City:	Davis
State:	CA
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	tech AT wildintellect DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://careers.stackoverflow.com/wildintellect
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Alex is a geographer with a background in natural resource sciences. He studies geospatial software development and applications working with many government agencies and other small organizations to implement geospatial solutions. He is an active advocate of OSGeo in the Western US at related academic conferences and local un-conferences.
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URIs of the form "tech AT wildintellect DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

Alex Mandel

Alex

Phd. Candidate, Geography, University of California, Davis

Location: Davis, CA USA

Alex is a geographer with a background in natural resource sciences. He studies geospatial software development and applications working with many government agencies and other small organizations to implement geospatial solutions. He is an active advocate of OSGeo in the Western US at related academic conferences and local un-conferences. Additional Information

OSGeo Experience

• Chair, System Administration Committee
• Member, Marketing Committee
• Member, California OSGeo Chapter
• Contributor, Ubuntugis
• Build co-coordinator for OSGeo-Live
• Teaches: Introduction to GIS, GIS Programming in Python, Open Source Cartography, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
• Uses: Python, QGIS, Inkscape, Postgis, Spatialite, Ubuntu, GDAL, GeoDjango, Openlayers, Geoserver, Geonode, R
• Presentation Archive on Scribd

Contact

Email: tech AT wildintellect DOT com

IRC: wildint(ellect)

Profile last updated

21 June 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Brian M Hamlin
Job Title:	Project Director
Company:	California Open Data ECN
Address:
City:	Berkeley
State:	CA
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	maplabs AT- light42 DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	blog.light42.com
Language(s):	English, basic German
Personal Description :	By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth in 2007. link As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international event a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and Gaia current: PostGIS maintainer on the Live; brought Marble, NaturalEarth, IRIS, netCDF data to the Live; SciPy stack maintainer
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URIs of the form "maplabs AT- light42 DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth in 2007. link As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international event a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and Gaia current: PostGIS maintainer on the Live; brought Marble, NaturalEarth, IRIS, netCDF data to the Live; SciPy stack maintainer| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

Brian Hamlin

dbb

Location: Berkeley, CA USA

"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my best abilities as an investigator, coder and communicator to further the development and deployment of Open Source Geospatial Software."

By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth in 2007. link As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international event a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and Gaia current: PostGIS maintainer on the Live; brought Marble, NaturalEarth, IRIS, netCDF data to the Live; SciPy stack maintainer

OSGeo Experience

• Member, California OSGeo Chapter
• Developer Diplomat for OSGeo-Live
• Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
• Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
• Geo Web Log

Contact

Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com

IRC: darkblue_b dbb

Profile last updated

04 July 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Doug Newcomb
Job Title:	Cartographer
Company:
Address:
City:	Raleigh
State:	NC
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	gistinkerATgmail.com
Phone:
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Website:
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Personal Description :	Doug Newcomb has a BS and MA in Geography and is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in general and geospatial software specifically. Doug has used Linux (Red Hat, CentOS,Debian,Ubuntu) since 1996. Employed at various government environmental agencies since 1990. Specializes in use of GRASS with incomplete LiDAR data to derive landscape scale (statewide) forest canopy structure data.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

 

Doug Newcomb

Doug Newcomb

Cartographer

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Doug Newcomb has a BS and MA in Geography and is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in general and geospatial software specifically. Doug has used Linux (Red Hat, CentOS,Debian,Ubuntu) since 1996. Employed at various government environmental agencies since 1990. Specializes in use of GRASS with incomplete LiDAR data to derive landscape scale (statewide) forest canopy structure data.

OSGeo Experience

• Charter member since 2012.

Contact:

Email: gistinkerATgmail.com

Phone: 336-639-9545

Spoken Language(s)

English

Profile last updated

9 September 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Feng Amy Gao
Job Title:	President
Company:	Spatial Front Inc.
Address:
City:	Potomac
State:	Maryland
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	amy AT spatialfront DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	English; Chinese (Mandarin)
Personal Description :	Amy is the President of Spatial Front Inc, a fast-growing IT consulting company. She has extensive experience with the design and development of enterprise geospatial information systems. She has worked for all levels of US governments (federal, state, and local), companies from IBM to start-ups, and as Adjunct Professor in college. One of her latest projects - National Broadband Map, a high-profile project funded by Recovery Act - was built on an open source stack. She is enthusiastic about open source geospatial technologies and interested in using more and helping people learn more about them.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Feng Amy Gao

Feng Amy Gao

President, Spatial Front Inc.

Location: Potomac, Maryland, US

Amy is the President of Spatial Front Inc, a fast-growing IT consulting company. She has extensive experience with the design and development of enterprise geospatial information systems. She has worked for all levels of US governments (federal, state, and local), companies from IBM to start-ups, and as Adjunct Professor in college. One of her latest projects - National Broadband Map, a high-profile project funded by Recovery Act - was built on an open source stack. She is enthusiastic about open source geospatial technologies and interested in using more and helping people learn more about them.

OSGeo Experience

• Used technologies such as GeoServer, PostGIS, and Layers in multiple projects.
• Translated OSGeo-Live document from English to Chinese.

Contact

Email: amy AT spatialfront DOT com

Spoken Language(s)

English, Chinese (Mandarin)

Profile last updated

08 July 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Frank Warmerdam
Job Title:
Company:	Planet
Address:
City:	Eganville
State:	Ontario
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	warmerdam@pobox.com
Phone:	+1 (650) 701-7823
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

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

OSGeo Member
Name:	Helena Mitasova
Job Title:	Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Center for Geospatial Analytics
Company:	North Carolina State University
Address:
City:	Raleigh
State:	NC
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	hmitaso@ncsu.edu
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/
Language(s):	English; Slovak
Personal Description :	Helena has participated in the GRASS GIS development since 1991 and co-authored the first book on GRASS. She is an associate director for earth and environmental sciences applications at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, NC and she leads NCSU GeoForAll lab, one of the founding labs of the OSGeo research and education initiative. She published as the lead author or co-author over 100 publications on tools and applications of GRASS GIS. She co-developed methods for spatial interpolation, terrain analysis, hydrologic and erosion modeling and visualization. She received her PhD from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

Helena Mitasova

Helena Mitasova

Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Helena has participated in the GRASS GIS development since 1991 and co-authored the first book on GRASS. She is an associate director for earth and environmental sciences applications at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, NC and she leads NCSU GeoForAll lab, one of the founding labs of the OSGeo research and education initiative. She published numerous publications on tools and applications of GRASS GIS. She co-developed methods for spatial interpolation, terrain analysis, hydrologic and erosion modeling and visualization. She received her PhD from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

OSGeo Experience

• past member of the Board of Directors
• member of GRASS PSC
• past member of the OSGeo conference and education committees
• OSGeo charter member
• lead faculty for NCSU GeoForAll Lab
• development of graduate courses on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using GRASS GIS and other FOSS4G software, offered at NCSU by the Center for Geospatial Analytics
• research on terrain analysis, geospatial modeling and visualization at University of Illinois, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories and NCSU.

Contact

hmitaso@ncsu.edu

Spoken Languages

English, Slovak

Profile last updated

12 October 2023

OSGeo Member
Name:	Landon Blake
Job Title:	Owner
Company:	Redefined Horizons
Address:
City:	Stockton
State:	California
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com
Phone:	(209) 571-1765
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization. He serves as the Vice President of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter, is a member of the California Land Surveyors Association GIS Committee, and also serves as a member of the California Geodetic Control Working Group.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Landon Blake (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor)

Landon Blake

Owner, Redefined Horizons

Location: Stockton, California, United States of America

Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization. He serves as the Vice President of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter, is a member of the California Land Surveyors Association GIS Committee, and also serves as a member of the California Geodetic Control Working Group.

• Web Page: [14]
• Blog: [15]
• Twitter: [16]
• LinkedIn: [17]

OSGeo Experience

• Past Volunteer Editor of the OSGeo Journal
• Board Representative for the OSGeo California Chapter

Contact

Email: sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com

Phone (cell): (209) 298-7521

Phone (home): (209) 464-2612

Skype:

Profile last updated

08 13 2014

GIS Data Models

OSGeo Member
Name:	Mark Lucas
Job Title:	Principal Scientist
Company:	RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
Address:
City:	Melbourne Beach
State:	Florida
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	Southeast US
Email:	mlucas17 AT mac DOT com
Phone:	321 266 1475
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

           

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:	Michael Smith
Job Title:	Physical Scientist
Company:	US Army Corps of Engineers
Address:
City:	Hanover
State:	New Hampshire
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	michael.smith.erdc[at]gmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Michael Smith is a Physical Scientist with the Remote Sensing GIS Center of Expertise at the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory of the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been working as a GIS Specialist for 25 years with the last 13 years very involved with Open Source Geospatial.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

             

Mike Smith & Jeff McKenna collaborating on WMS Benchmarking

Michael Smith

Physical Scientist, US Army Corps of Engineers Location: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Michael Smith is a Physical Scientist with the Remote Sensing GIS Center of Expertise at the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory of the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been working as a GIS Specialist for 25 years with the last 13 years very involved with Open Source Geospatial.

OSGeo Experience

• Charter member since 2012
• Member of the MapServer Project Steering Committee
• Member of WMS Benchmarking Group
• Member of PDAL Project Steering Committee

irc

msmitherdc

email

michael.smith.erdc[at]gmail.com

Spoken Language(s)

English

Profile last updated

06 Nov 2017

OSGeo Member
Name:	Michael P. Gerlek
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
City:
State:
Country:	[[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
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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:	Ragi Yaser Burhum
Job Title:
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Address:	San Francisco, USA
City:
State:
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Local Chapter:	[[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Steve Lime
Job Title:	Data & Applications Manager
Company:	Minnesota DNR
Address:
City:	St. Paul
State:	MN
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	steve.lime AT state DOT mn DOT us or sdlime AT comcast DOT net
Phone:	1-651-259-5473
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Steve is one of the principle developers for MapServer and does a fair amount of web application development using MapServer/MapScript, PostGIS, GDAL, GEOS and OpenLayers.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

         

Steve Lime

Steve Lime

Data & Applications Manager, Minnesota DNR

Location: St. Paul, MN USA

Steve is one of the principle developers for MapServer and does a fair amount of web application development using MapServer/MapScript, PostGIS, GDAL, GEOS and OpenLayers.

OSGeo Experience

• Founder MapServer project, PSC chair
• Participated OSGeo Foundation initiation meeting
• Conference chair MapServer User Group (MUM) meetings in 2001 and 2003
• Recipient of OSGeo's 2007 Sol Katz Award
• Member of OSGeo incubation committee, past member of OSGeo conference committee
• Instructor at University of Minnesota (Geography Dept) in Web-based GIS
• Frequent presenter (papers/workshops) at local and international conferences (although not as much any more)

Contact

Email: steve.lime AT state DOT mn DOT us or sdlime AT comcast DOT net

Phone (work): 1-651-259-5473

Skype:

Profile last updated

04 Oct 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Stephen Woodbridge
Job Title:	Owner
Company:	iMaptools.com
Address:
City:	North Chelmsford
State:	MA
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	woodbri AT swoodbridge DOT com
Phone:	1-978-251-4502
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Stephen works on PointClouds, Vehicle Routing Problems, Mapserver, pgRouting, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers as well as other open source products. Stephen can be found at iMapTools.com where he provides geospatial products, consulting and advocates OSGeo and OpenSource products to his clients.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

       

Stephen Woodbridge

Stephen Woodbridge

Owner, iMaptools.com

Location: North Chelmsford, MA, USA

Stephen works on PointClouds, Vehicle Routing Problems, Mapserver, pgRouting, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers as well as other open source products. Stephen can be found at iMapTools.com where he provides geospatial products, consulting and advocates OSGeo and OpenSource products to his clients. Resume. LinkedIn Profile.

OSGeo Experience

• Mapserver PSC member and user. Stephen constructs mapfiles and manages client production environments that collectively serve billions map of draws per year.
• pgRouting PSC member, user and developer. Stephen prepares client data for use with pgRouting, has developed driving directions module, and has mentored Google of Summer Code students developing pgRouting.
• PAGC (Postal Address Geocoder) PSC member and user, tester and developer.
• A knowledgeable user of GDAL/OGR and OpenLayers as well as other Open Source projects.

Contact

Email: woodbri AT swoodbridge DOT com

Phone (work): 1-978-251-4502

Skype: stephen.woodbridge

Spoken Language(s)

English

Profile last updated

28 JUNE 2012

Understanding OSGeo roles

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

OSGeo Board Members

We only have 9 active OSGeo board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

OSGeo Charter Members

Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

Sol Katz Award

Every year, OSGeo presents the prestigious Sol Katz Award to one individual who has demonstrated leadership and contributed significantly to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.

Voted position in an OSGeo community

These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or board member of a Regional Chapter, or a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

Developers and Committee Members

This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

OSGeo Community Members

These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

OSGeo Translators

These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate

Anyone fitting one of the OSGeo Advocate categories, may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:

• Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
• Add a portrait photo of yourself using the Upload file link in left margin in each page.
• Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per User:Template, (copy and paste from the source so that you see comments in the template).
• You can then add your profile on this wiki page, under your Region:Country, names ordered alphabetically by First name, using the following:

 {{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

Annual Refresh of Advocate list

• The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

Expenses

This OSGeo Advocate list has been designed to help event organisors find local authoritative speakers. Events wishing to import keynote speakers should anticipate covering expenses of these speakers. Note that OSGeo is a volunteer driven organisation without paid positions of authority and OSGeo doesn't budget to cover travel expenses. Note also that unlike proprietary companies, a company promoting Open Source software don't earn license fees when a delegate is convinced to start using the free software.

When budgeting for keynote speakers expect to cover the following expenses:

• Travel, typically including:
  • airfare
  • visa
  • travel insurance (including overseas medical, trip disruption, lost luggage, etc)
  • meals during travel
  • transit costs to local and host airports
• Accommodation
  • standard 3 or 4 star hotel within walking distance of the event
  • high speed internet
• Per diem costs
  • 3 meals a day
• Speakers fee
  • typically $US 1000 per day. (Note that OSGeo volunteer speakers usually have a full time job and will be loosing wages for the duration of the event)

For a rough guide of travel costs refer to the US Department of State costs

Individual speakers may waive any of these costs if attracted to the event for other reasons, and final costs are to be negotiated with the selected speaker.

Other Resources

Links to other organizations running a similar process.

• http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585