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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.

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.

Advocates

Advocate Map

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Africa:Ghana

OSGeo Member
Name: Henry Addo Henryaddo.png
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:

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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.

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Contact
Email: henry@ushahidi.com
Phone: +233 26 2109717
Twitter: @eyedol
Languages spoken
English.
Profile last updated
05 July 2012

Africa:South Africa

Gavin Fleming

OSGeo Member
Name: Gavin Fleming
Job Title:
Company:
Address: Paarl
City:
State:
Country: [[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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OSGeo Member
Name: Frank Sokolic
Job Title:
Company:
Address: Durban, South Africa
City:
State:
Country: [[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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OSGeo Member
Name: Tim Sutton Timlinux.jpg
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
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
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:

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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.

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  • 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 Ravi.jpg
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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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.

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  • 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
OSGeo Member
Name: Chaitanya Kumar CH
Job Title:
Company:
Address: Bengaluru,India
City:
State:
Country: [[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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Asia:Japan

OSGeo Member
Name: Yoichi Kayama Yoichi.jpg
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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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

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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
OSGeo Member
Name: Daniel Kastl
Job Title:
Company:
Address: Osaka, Japan
City:
State:
Country: [[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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OSGeo Member
Name: Toshikazu Seto Seto.jpg
Job Title: Project Lecturer
Company: Center for Spatial Information Science at The University of Tokyo
Address:
City: Tokyo
State:
Country: Japan
Local Chapter: Japan
Email: tosseto AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: https://medium.com/tosseto-info
Language(s): Japanese; English
Personal Description : Toshikazu Seto is a researcher who has conducted research and analysis related to "GIS and Society". Since OSGeo.JP was formed, he has been supporting the Japanese FOSS4G event held annually in Tokyo and Osaka. He is also interested in community-building for FOSS4G and attends a wide range of activities related to Volunteered Geographic Information and OpenGeoData.
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Toshikazu Seto

Toshikazu Seto

Project Lecturer, Center for Spatial Information Science at The University of Tokyo

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Toshikazu Seto is a researcher who has conducted research and analysis related to "GIS and Society". Since OSGeo.JP was formed, he has been supporting the Japanese FOSS4G event held annually in Tokyo and Osaka. He is also interested in community-building for FOSS4G and attends a wide range of activities related to Volunteered Geographic Information and OpenGeoData.

Facebook twitter blog

OSGeo Experience

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Contact
Email: tosseto AT gmail DOT com
Spoken Language(s)
Japanese, English
Profile last updated
04 September 2017

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.

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Contact
Email: wata909 AT gmail DOT com
Skype: wata909
Profile last updated
2013-07-11

Asia:Korea

OSGeo Member
Name: Sanghee Shin Sanghee Shin.jpg
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:

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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

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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
OSGeo Member
Name: Heegu Park Hgpark southpark.jpg
Job Title: Marketing Director and Business Development
Company: Gaia3D Inc.
Address:
City: Suwon
State:
Country: South Korea
Local Chapter: Korea
Email: hgpark@gaia3d.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://www.gaia3d.com/
Language(s): Korean; English; some Spanish
Personal Description : Heegu Park is a member of OSGeo Korean Chapter and loves the spirit of Opensource. He is one of the LOC members of FOSS4G 2015 event.
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Heegu Park

Heegu Park

Marketing Director and Business Development at Gaia3D Inc.

Location: Suwon, South Korea

Heegu Park is a member of OSGeo Korean Chapter and loves the spirit of Opensource. He is one of the LOC members of FOSS4G 2015 event.

OSGeo Experience

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  • GIS Business Development and Marketing Director at Gaia3D
  • Lecturers Opensource GIS
  • Loves video games, music, and movies
Contact
email: hgpark@gaia3d.com(official), slhead@gmail.com(personal)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slhead
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heegu.park
Spoken Language
Korean, English, and a little Spanish
Profile last updated
09 September 2014

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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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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.

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Contact
Email: emmanuel.sambaleATgmail.com
Spoken Language(s)
English, Filipino
Profile last updated
07 25 2012

Asia:Malaysia

OSGeo Member
Name: Tuong-Thuy Vu
Job Title:
Company:
Address: Semenyih, Malaysia
City:
State:
Country: [[|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
Personal Description :
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Asia:Sri Lanka

OSGeo Member
Name: Nimalika Fernando OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title:
Company: OSGeo Lab of SLIIT , Sri Lanka
Address:
City: Colombo
State:
Country: Sri Lanka
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email: nimalikaf AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s): Sinhala; English
Personal Description : Nimalika has moved to Open source GIS in 2006 as a novice user and application developer in her research studies related to web-mapping. Since then she has been involved in adopting OSGeo tools in teaching, research and spreading the use of them (particularly QGIS, MapServer, PostgreSQL, OSM ) in Sri Lanka. She is interested in integrating open source GIS solutions in solving locally important problems and linking different organizations with OSGeo products. she is an academic with more than 14 years experience. At present she is a Phd candidate at Curtin University, Perth, Australia
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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Nimalika

Nimalika has moved to Open source GIS in 2006 as a novice user and application developer in her research studies related to web-mapping. Since then she has been involved in adopting OSGeo tools in teaching, research and spreading the use of them (particularly QGIS, MapServer, PostgreSQL, OSM ) in Sri Lanka. She is interested in integrating open source GIS solutions in solving locally important problems and linking different organizations organizations with OSGeo products.At present she is a Phd candidate at Curtin University, Perth, Australia


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Trainer of Open source GIS products

Initiated OSGeo Lab of SLIIT , Sri Lanka

Involved in organizing first FOSS4G Sri Lanka event in 2014

Presenter of OSGeo related topic in different forums

Organizing committee member FOSS4G 2015, FOSS4G Asia 2016


Contact

Email: nimalikaf AT gmail DOT com


Spoken Language(s)

Sinhala (mother tongue), English


Online

Academia.edu: [1]

LinkedIn: [2]


Profile last updated

01-03-2017

Australia

OSGeo Member
Name: Cameron Shorter Camerons444x535.jpg
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
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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OSGeo Member
Name: Nathan Woodrow NathanW.jpg
Job Title: Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist
Company: Digital Mapping Solutions
Address:
City: Warwick
State:
Country: Australia
Local Chapter: Aust-NZ
Email: woodrow.nathan AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
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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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:

Twitter
Google+
LinkedIn
@NathanW on FreeNode IRC
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Contact
Email: woodrow.nathan AT gmail DOT com
Skype: madmanwoo
Profile last updated
11/07/2013
OSGeo Member
Name: Jody Garnett Jg16.jpg
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City: Victoria
State:
Country: Canada
Local Chapter: British Columbia Chapter
Email: jody.garnett@how2map.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
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:

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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.

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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":

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

New Zealand

OSGeo Member
Name: Brent Wood OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Programme Leader for Environmental Information Delivery
Company: NIWA
Address:
City: Wellington
State:
Country: New Zealand
Local Chapter: Aust-NZ
Email: pcreso at pcreso dot com, b.wood at niwa dot co dot nz
Phone:
Instant Messaging: Skype: pcreso
Website:
Language(s): English
Personal Description : Brent Wood has worked in fisheries/marine/environmental research for 40 years, and for almost half of this time he used Open Source tools for spatial data management, analysis and visualisation. He has been a NZ Open Source Society Council member for several years, as well as an active Wellington Linux User Group member and Installfest organiser. He has been a regular presenter at FOSS4G since 2009, and was a finalist in the 2010 NZOSA awards for a web mapping portal using Silverstripe, Postgis. mapserver and Geonetwork which provided public access to research data and reports. Brent manages the NIWA QGIS Users Group, which is currently acting as the NZ QGIS User Group, and is an active participant in the Wellington Postgres Users Group (with a focus on Postgis). He is also interested in the use of R as a GIS/spatial analysis & mapping tool. His platform of choice is Linix, and has several years experience is setting up and using Linux based GIS workstations.
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Brent Wood

Brent Wood

Programme Leader for Environmental Information Delivery, NIWA.

Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Brent Wood has worked in fisheries/marine/environmental research for 40 years, and for almost half of this time he used Open Source tools for spatial data management, analysis and visualisation. He has been a NZ Open Source Society Council member for several years, as well as an active Wellington Linux User Group member and Installfest organiser. He has been a regular presenter at FOSS4G since 2009, and was a finalist in the 2010 NZOSA awards for a web mapping portal using Silverstripe, Postgis. mapserver and Geonetwork which provided public access to research data and reports.

Brent manages the NIWA QGIS Users Group, which is currently acting as the NZ QGIS User Group, and is an active participant in the Wellington Postgres Users Group (with a focus on Postgis). He is also interested in the use of R as a GIS/spatial analysis & mapping tool. His platform of choice is Linix, and has several years experience is setting up and using Linux based GIS workstations.

In 2016 Brent won the "People's Choice" Award in the NZ Open Source Awards for "services to Open Source Geospatial in New Zealand". This was accepted on behalf of the wider OSGEO community, rather than Brent as an individual.

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  • Experienced QGIS user
  • Experienced Postgis user
  • UMN Mapserver user
  • Geonetwork user

Outside of the OSGEO umbrella, Brent is also an experienced user of Generic Mapping Tools, a powerful open source spatial data analysis and mapping toolset.

Contact
Email: pcreso at pcreso dot com, b.wood at niwa dot co dot nz
Skype: pcreso
Spoken Language(s)
English
Profile last updated
30 Nov 2015

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Canada

OSGeo Member
Name: Andrea Ross Andrea6.jpg
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:
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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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Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross

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.

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  • 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: Daniel Morissette
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OSGeo Member
Name: Geoff Zeiss GZeiss 200.jpg
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:
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Website:
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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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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.

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  • 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
creator of the FOSS4G ribbon logo, used in all FOSS4G events of all sizes around the world since 2004, a symbol of the flow of ideas and innovation, and sharing within the Open Source geospatial community
Reunion of the 3 original founders of the global FOSS4G event (from left to right: Markus Neteler, Jeff McKenna, Venka Raghavan); photo taken at FOSS4G Europe, July 2017, in Paris
With the OSGeo family at FOSS4G Europe, July 2017, in Paris
Receiving the 2016 Sol Katz Award, at FOSS4G Bonn, on 2016-08-26.
With Venka at FOSS4G Seoul, Sept 2015. Two of the founders of FOSS4G.
With the ZOO family at FOSS4G Europe, July 2014
Having a sushi lunch at FOSS4G Tokyo 2008
Memories of meeting the "boy genius" at FOSS4G 2006 (pic is from OpenLayers sprint 2007)

Jeff McKenna is one of the 3 original founders of the global FOSS4G event, which has spread all across the globe, and he has traveled to over 500+ FOSS4G events of all sizes (which means he has almost 1,000 FOSS4G t-shirts). He is the President Emeritus of OSGeo, and has his own consulting company based around FOSS4G, GatewayGeo. He has been actively contributing to OSGeo since its formation.

  • one of the 3 original founders of the global FOSS4G event
    • creator of the FOSS4G branding logo, a symbol of the flow of ideas and innovation, and sharing within the Open Source geospatial community
  • Winner of the 2016 Sol Katz Award, for longtime leadership in the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities
  • named as the President of OSGeo, Dec '12, retired in Dec '15
  • named to the OSGeo Board of Directors, Sept '09 (served until Feb '12), re-elected Aug '12, re-elected Aug '14, re-elected Oct '17
  • Founder of the Sol Katz Award, and managed that from 2005-2015, 2017+
  • Founding and Charter member of OSGeo
  • Founding chair of the UN committee for OSGeo
  • Founder of the UN GGIM working group for OSGeo
  • Member of the Geo for All Advisory Board
  • Member of OSGeo's Google Summer of Code 2017 & 2018 Administrative teams
  • Founding member of OSGeo's Google Code-in 2017 Administrative team, and also part of 2018 admin team
  • involved in the creation of the Code of Conduct committee for OSGeo
  • Founding member of the Open GeoScience committee for OSGeo
  • FOSS4G conference committee chair (2006-2012)
  • FOSS4G Workshop committee member (2004-2011)
  • Developer of MS4W
  • One of the founding developers of OSGeo4W
  • MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC) member
  • MapServer documentation lead
  • founding co-chair of the Ottawa Chapter of OSGeo
  • ZOO-Project Project Steering Committee (PSC) member
  • ZOO-Project documentation contributor
  • mentor for the pycsw Project for the OSGeo Incubation process
  • mentor for the istSOS Project for the OSGeo Incubation process
  • founding member of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of OSGeo
  • 2011-2012 vice president of the Nova Scotia Geomatics Association
  • member of the Open Geospatial Consortium from 2010-present
  • member of the QGIS Community

contact:

email: jmckenna(at)osgeo(dot)org
Twitter: @mapserving
IRC username - jmckenna on Libera.​Chat
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmckenna


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OSGeo Member
Name: Martin Davis Martin davis.jpg
Job Title: Software Developer
Company: OpenGeo
Address:
City: Victoria
State:
Country: Canada
Local Chapter: British Columbia Chapter
Email: mtnclimb AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
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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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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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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.

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Contact
Email: mtnclimb AT gmail DOT com
Skype: mdavis111
Profile last updated
21 Sept 2012
OSGeo Member
Name: Paul Ramsey Paul ramsey.jpg
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
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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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Paul regularly keynotes at geo-spatial conferences, including most recently FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G NA 2012, ILGISA 2012, and ASPRS.| ]]

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Paul Ramsey

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.

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Contact
Email: pramsey AT cleverelephant DOT ca
Twitter: @pwramsey
LinkedIn: [3]
Blog: [4]
Spoken Languages
English
Profile last updated
October 8, 2014
OSGeo Member
Name: Simon Mercier Simonmercier 162x162.jpg
Job Title: VP
Company: Mapgears Solutions
Address:
City: Quebec city
State:
Country: Canada
Local Chapter: Québec Chapter
Email: smercier AT mapgears DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://simonmercier.net/
Language(s): English; French
Personal Description : Simon is the co-founder of Mapgears Solutions and is responsible for all operations in the Quebec city office. Passionate about maps, he actively follows the latest in geomatic technologies and also has great interest in Open Data. In his career, Simon has been promoting the use of OSGeo software (Ministère de la Sécurité Publique du Québec, Spatialytics, MGeospatial, Mapgears).
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URIs of the form "smercier AT mapgears DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Simon is the co-founder of Mapgears Solutions and is responsible for all operations in the Quebec city office. Passionate about maps, he actively follows the latest in geomatic technologies and also has great interest in Open Data. In his career, Simon has been promoting the use of OSGeo software (Ministère de la Sécurité Publique du Québec, Spatialytics, MGeospatial, Mapgears).| ]]

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Simon Mercier

Simon Mercier

VP at Mapgears Solutions

Location: Quebec city, Canada

Simon is the co-founder of Mapgears Solutions and is responsible for all operations in the Quebec city office. Passionate about maps, he actively follows the latest in geomatic technologies and also has great interest in Open Data. In his career, Simon has been promoting the use of OSGeo software (Ministère de la Sécurité Publique du Québec, Spatialytics, MGeospatial, Mapgears).

OSGeo Experience

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I sit on the OSGeo-Québec Local Chapter board since 2010. I have also been on the steering committees of several events in Quebec to promote OSGeo foundation (Rendez-vous OSGeo-qc 2010, 2012, 2013 Geomatics ) and an the Quebec GeoHack co-founder (2013,2014)

Contact
Email: smercier AT mapgears DOT com
Blog: http://simonmercier.net
Lionkedin: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/simonmercier/
Twitter: @simonmercier
Skype: simonomercier
Spoken Language(s)

English, French

Profile last updated

23 july 2014

Europe:Austria

OSGeo Member
Name: Stephan Meißl
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Address: Wien
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Europe:Belgium

OSGeo Member
Name: Dirk Frigne
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Address: Gent, Belgium
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OSGeo Member
Name: Johan Van de Wauw Johan-van-de-wauw.jpg
Job Title: Data Scientist
Company: Gisky
Address:
City: Ghent
State:
Country: Belgium
Local Chapter: Belgium
Email: johan DOT vandewauw AT gmail DOT com
Phone: +32486025381
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://blog.gisky.be/
Language(s): Dutch; English; French; Spanish; German
Personal Description : Johan is working as a freelance Senior GIS Consultant and Data scientist. Recent projects include implementing web and mobile gis systems and their backends, mostly based on open source components.

He is a contributor to SAGA GIS, Debian and Ubuntu GIS and the OSGEO live dvd and blogs infrequently at http://blog.gisky.be

Johan is a fan of open source GIS software and has given different presentations about it:

At Fosdem 2014 I was also present at the OSGEO booth. In 2015 I organised the geospatial development room.
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He is a contributor to SAGA GIS, Debian and Ubuntu GIS and the OSGEO live dvd and blogs infrequently at http://blog.gisky.be

Johan is a fan of open source GIS software and has given different presentations about it:

At Fosdem 2014 I was also present at the OSGEO booth. In 2015 I organised the geospatial development room.| ]]

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Johan Van de Wauw

Johan Van de Wauw

GIS Consultant, Gisky Ghent, Belgium


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Johan is working as a freelance Senior GIS Consultant and Data Scientist. Recent projects include implementing web and mobile gis systems and their backends, mostly based on open source components.

He is a contributor to SAGA GIS, Debian and Ubuntu GIS and the OSGEO live dvd and blogs infrequently at http://blog.gisky.be

Johan is a fan of open source GIS software and has given different presentations about it:

At Fosdem 2014 I was also present at the OSGEO booth. In 2015 I organised the geospatial development room.

Languages Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German

Contact johan DOT vandewauw AT gmail DOT com +32486025381 http://be.linkedin.com/in/johanvdw/

Profile last updated: june 2015

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OSGeo Member
Name: Pieter De Graef Pieterdg.jpeg
Job Title: Software Engineer
Company: Geosparc
Address:
City: Gent
State:
Country: Belgium
Local Chapter: Belgium
Email: pieter DØT degraef ÅT geosparc DØT com
Phone:
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Website: http://www.geosparc.com/
Language(s): Dutch; English; Java
Personal Description : Pieter De Graef is a software engineer at Geosparc. He is the PSC chair and core engineer of Geomajas. Pieter is a frequent user and contributor of various OSGeo projects.
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Pieter De Graef

Pieter De Graef

Software Engineer, Geosparc

Location: Gent, Belgium

Pieter De Graef is a software engineer at Geosparc. He is the PSC chair and core engineer of Geomajas. Pieter is a frequent user and contributor of various OSGeo projects.

OSGeo Experience

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  • User, advocate and contributor of/to (geospatial) open source software
  • Speaker at FOSS4G (Cape Town, Sydney, Barcelona, Denver, Nottingham), OSGeo Gent and FOSSDEM conferences
  • Maintainer of Geomajas on the OSGeo LiveDVD


Contact
Email: pieter DØT degraef ÅT geosparc DØT com
Spoken Language(s)
Dutch, English, Java (lots of it)
Profile last updated
24 July 2014
OSGeo Member
Name: Moritz Lennert Moritz speaking.jpg
Job Title: Secrétaire général
Company: Changements pour l'égalité
Address:
City: Brussels
State:
Country: Belgium
Local Chapter: Belgium
Email: mlennert at club point worldonline point be
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: https://changement-egalite.be
Language(s): English; German; French; Spanish; Dutch
Personal Description : After 23 years of activity in geography, GIS and remote sensing, both in academia and in a private company, Moritz has moved to other horizons and now works on social inequalities and their reproduction through school. Even though he now is pretty removed from GIS work, he continues to follow GRASS GIS development and remains available should the need arise.
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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 Karel charvat.jpg
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.| ]]

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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.

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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
OSGeo Member
Name: Martin Landa MartinLanda.jpg
Job Title: academic stuff
Company: Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
Address:
City: Prague
State:
Country: Czech
Local Chapter: Czech
Email: landa.martin AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa
Language(s): Czech; English
Personal Description : Martin contributes to various Open Source GIS projects as a user and mainly as a developer. He is member of GRASS PSC and GRASS development team. Beside the GRASS project he also contributes to GDAL and QGIS.
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Martin Landa

Martin Landa

Employed at Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Location: Czech Republic

Martin contributes to various Open Source GIS projects as a user and mainly as a developer. He is member of GRASS PSC and GRASS development team. Beside the GRASS project he also contributes to GDAL and QGIS.

OSGeo Experience
  • Member of GRASS Development Team since 2006
  • Member of GRASS PSC since 2012
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Contributed to:
Contact
landa.martin AT gmail DOT com
web: http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa
Spoken Language(s)
Czech, English
Profile last updated
31 July 2014

Europe:France

Gérald Fenoy

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Founder and CEO of GeoLabs SARL.

Location: Lattes, France.

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  • 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
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OSGeo Member
Name: Jean-Roc Morreale Jrmorreale.jpg
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
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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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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 Manuel Grizonnet.png
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
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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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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.

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  • 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
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OSGeo Member
Name: Victor Olaya Volaya.jpg
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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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.

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  • 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.
OSGeo Member
Name: Thomas Gratier OSGeo compass300.png
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Address:
City: Nantes
State:
Country: France
Local Chapter: Francophone OSGeo Chapter
Email: thomas.gratier AT webgeodatavore DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging: Skype : gratierthomas
Website:
Language(s): French; English
Personal Description : Thomas works in Geospatial since 2006. After studies in Geography and Urban planning, focused on GIS analysis and data extraction, he switched to GIS development and in particular web mapping.

He enjoys JavaScript, PHP and Python and server side OSGeo tools like MapServer, TinyOWS, ZOO Project or GeoServer but he also use a lot QGIS for analysis.

At the moment, I'm working as a freelancer in Geospatial under the WebGeoDataVore banner
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He enjoys JavaScript, PHP and Python and server side OSGeo tools like MapServer, TinyOWS, ZOO Project or GeoServer but he also use a lot QGIS for analysis.

At the moment, I'm working as a freelancer in Geospatial under the WebGeoDataVore banner| ]]

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Thomas Gratier

Thomas Gratier


Location: Nantes, France

Thomas works in Geospatial since 2006. After studies in Geography and Urban planning, focused on GIS analysis and data extraction, he switched to GIS development and in particular web mapping. He enjoys JavaScript, PHP and Python and server side OSGeo tools like MapServer, TinyOWS, ZOO Project or GeoServer but he also use a lot QGIS for analysis.

At the moment, I'm working as a freelancer in Geospatial under the WebGeoDataVore banner

Feel free to contact me if you need my services.

OSGeo Experience

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Thomas is a member of the OSGeo-FR association and has been involved into the organization comittees of the FROG 2013 event and the successfull 3-day FOSS4G-FR 2014 that took place in May 2014.

He contributes to several of our projects, mainly focused on translation :

  • parts of the OSGeo-Live DVD, which he presented as well as OSGeo4W during a session at FOSS4G-FR
  • French translation of TinyOWS documentation
  • French translation of ZOO Project
  • French translation of MapServer Project
  • French translation of Addok

Contributions around QGIS:

Presentations:

Other contributions to Open Source software:

Thomas is involved into other user forums such as GeoRezo, and has redacted tutorials and press reviews for GeoTribu.net.

He is also the co-writer for the book OpenLayers 3 Beginner’s Guide edited by Packt Publishing.

Contact
Email: thomas.gratier AT webgeodatavore DOT com
Skype : gratierthomas
Twitter : ThomasG77
Github profile
Spoken Language(s)
French, English
Profile last updated
1 November 2014

Europe:Germany

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

Anne Ghisla

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

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  • 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: Arnulf Christl
Job Title:
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Address: Tharpaling, Germany
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OSGeo Member
Name: Astrid Emde Ae.JPG
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.| ]]

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OSGeo Member
Name: Christian Mayer Cm.jpg
Job Title: CEO and Software Engineer
Company: meggsimum
Address:
City:
State: Palatinate
Country: Germany
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS
Email: chris #AT# meggsimum #DOT# de
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://www.meggsimum.de/
Language(s): German; English
Personal Description : Chris is involved in the development of several OpenSource Projects. He is one of the co-founders of the GeoExt Mobile (GXM) and SHOGun projects and a committer for GeoExt, GeoExt 2 and GeoExt 3. Furthermore he blogs about tech and is a frequent speaker at international and German conferences (where he shares his love for OpenSource).
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Christian Mayer

Christian Mayer

CEO and Software Engineer, meggsimum

Geomatic Engineer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, Surveyor

Location: Palatinate, Germany

Chris is involved in the development of several OpenSource Projects. He is one of the co-founders of the GeoExt Mobile (GXM) and SHOGun projects and a committer for GeoExt, GeoExt 2 and GeoExt 3. Furthermore he blogs about tech and is a frequent speaker at international and German conferences (where he shares his love for OpenSource).

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  • Core Developer of the GeoExt Project
  • PSC member of the GeoExt project
  • Speaker at FOSS4G & FOSSGIS conferences
  • Blog (mainly German)
Contact
Email: chris #AT# meggsimum #DOT# de
Twitter: @geofootballer
Spoken Language(s)
German (native), English (fluent)
Profile last updated
24-09-2015
OSGeo Member
Name: Franz-Josef Behr FJ Behr Portrait.jpg
Job Title: Professor
Company: Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Address:
City: Stuttgart
State:
Country: Germany
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS
Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
Phone: +49 721 45 39 80-1, +49 173 895 7311
Instant Messaging: Skype: fjbehr
Website: http://www.gis-management.de/
Language(s): German; English
Personal Description : Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

He joined Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences as a full time professor of spatial information processing in 2002. He is teaching software development, Internet Technology and Internet GIS as well as Database design, XML technologies and scientific writing.

Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research.

He published two GIS text books, more than 60 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education. He conducted workshops in India (IIITM-K, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Anna University, Tirunelveli) and Egypt (National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo) and organised scientific conferences in Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaba, India (2013), Stuttgart, Germany (2014) and Kish, Iran (2017).

He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards (HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab). He is co-founder and head of the Applied Geoonformatics for Society and Environment conferences which will take place in Windhoek this year.

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization (DIN-Board NA 005-03-03 AA „Kartographie und Geoinformation“, comparable to CEN/TC 287 and ISO/TC 211). In the field of cartography he serves as co-chair of the ‘Commission on SDIs and Standards' of the International Cartographic Association (ICA).

In 2013 and 2016 he was co-chairing the Academic Track of the international FOSS4G conferences. Since 2016 he is Member of the SDI Advisory Board, State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In spring 2018 he was Erudite-Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.
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He joined Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences as a full time professor of spatial information processing in 2002. He is teaching software development, Internet Technology and Internet GIS as well as Database design, XML technologies and scientific writing.

Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research.

He published two GIS text books, more than 60 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education. He conducted workshops in India (IIITM-K, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Anna University, Tirunelveli) and Egypt (National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo) and organised scientific conferences in Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaba, India (2013), Stuttgart, Germany (2014) and Kish, Iran (2017).

He is head of the Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards (HFT ICA-OSGeo-Lab). He is co-founder and head of the Applied Geoonformatics for Society and Environment conferences which will take place in Windhoek this year.

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization (DIN-Board NA 005-03-03 AA „Kartographie und Geoinformation“, comparable to CEN/TC 287 and ISO/TC 211). In the field of cartography he serves as co-chair of the ‘Commission on SDIs and Standards' of the International Cartographic Association (ICA).

In 2013 and 2016 he was co-chairing the Academic Track of the international FOSS4G conferences. Since 2016 he is Member of the SDI Advisory Board, State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In spring 2018 he was Erudite-Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.| ]]

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Franz-Josef Behr

Full time Professor of spatial information processing at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.

Franz-Josef Behr

Until 2002 Dr. Behr worked as a senior consultant, supporting the introduction of Geographical Information Systems, the design and implementation of spatial databases and GIS applications for municipalities and power supply companies. Hence he has a strong background in computer science, especially geospatial IT and consultancy work regarding GI system introduction.

At Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences his teaching comprises programming, DBMS and data modeling, GIS, XML technologies, Internet technology, web services etc.). Interoperability and open standards are important for him, currently also topics like disaster mapping and crowd sourcing. Free and Open Software/standards/data are applied in teaching and research. He published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers and gave numerous presentations at international conferences. He is very interested in continuing education and in internationalization of education.

OSGeo Experience
  • Founder of the open SUAS MapServer project, and some more open web services, i. e. geoweb.hft-stuttgart.de, opencts.org and opengeocoding.org.
  • Co-founder FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia
  • 2013: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Nottingham
  • 2014: Co-chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G in Portland.
  • Member of the LOC for FOSS4G 216, Bonn, Germany, chair of the Academic Track FOSS4G.
Contact
Email: franz-josef.behr AT hft-stuttgart DOT de
Phone (work): +49 721 45 39 80-1
Skype: fjbehr

He is member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data and co-founder of the AGSE conferences, an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries, and inititated FOSS4G_Southeast_Asia. AGSE took place in Stuttgart (2009), Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012), Ahmedaad, India (AGSE 2013), Stuttgart, Germany (AGSE 2014).

Further information
gis-management.de
gis-news.de
Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment
Spoken Language(s)
English, German
Profile last updated
19 Oct 2016
OSGeo Member
Name: Dimitar Misev DSC09330-2.JPG
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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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

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  • 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: Oliver Tonnhofer
Job Title: Software Engineer
Company: Omniscale
Address:
City: Oldenburg
State:
Country: Germany
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://omniscale.de/
Language(s): English; German
Personal Description : Oliver Tonnhofer is a software engineer at Omniscale. He is the creator of MapProxy and Imposm, user and contributor of various OSGeo projects.
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OSGeo Member
Name: Peter Baumann PeterBaumann.png
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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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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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

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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
OSGeo Member
Name: Stefan Tzeggai Stefan Tzeggai.jpg
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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[[Info::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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Stefan Tzeggai

Stefan Tzeggai
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  • 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 Thomasbaschetti.jpg
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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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.

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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 Tzotsos.jpg
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 Member
Name: Argyros Argyridis Arargyridis.jpg
Job Title: PhD Student
Company: Remote Sensing Laboratory, NTUA
Address:
City: Athens
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Country: Greece
Local Chapter: Greek
Email: arargyridis at gmail dot com
Phone:
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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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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.

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  • 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 Kotzinos.JPG
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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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.

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  • 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
OSGeo Member
Name: Nikos Alexandris
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Address: Trikala, Greece
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OSGeo Member
Name: Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis ChIossif.jpg
Job Title: Remote Sensing Tutor
Company: NTUA
Address:
City: Athens
State:
Country: Greece
Local Chapter: Greek
Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com
Phone: +30 210 772 2606
Instant Messaging: Skype: chiossif
Website: http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html
Language(s): Greek; English
Personal Description : Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural & Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[5] at NTUA[6]. He is known in the digital world as chiossif, an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while "teaching" (as he describes his patter) for freedom, love and peace on earth is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )
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URIs of the form "chiossif AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural & Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[7] at NTUA[8]. He is known in the digital world as chiossif, an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while "teaching" (as he describes his patter) for freedom, love and peace on earth is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )| ]]

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Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis

Chiossif

Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR

Location: ATH, GR

Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural & Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[9] at NTUA[10]. He is known in the digital world as chiossif, an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while "teaching" (as he describes his patter) for freedom, love and peace on earth is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )

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  • Instructor, user and coder of geo-Free as in Freedom-ware
  • Translator in Greek for OSGeoDVD
Contact
Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com
Phone (work): +30 210 772 2606
Skype: chiossif
Spoken Language(s)
Greek, English
Profile last updated
27 July 2014

Europe:Hungary

Zoltan Siki

Zoltan Siki

Teacher at the Budapset University of Technology.

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Zoltan Siki graduated in Surveying and Geoinformatics MSc. He gained his dr univ in Traffic simulation and modelling in GIS.

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QGIS Hungarian translator
Hungarian tutorials (QGIS, GRASS, OpenLayers, PostGIS, MapServer, GDAL/OGR) http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis
Organizer of Hungarian OSGeo meetings http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop, http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop2
teaching QGIS, GRASS, PostGIS
maintener of open source based GIS sytems at local municipalities (MapServer, p.mapper, OpenLayers)
main developer of Ulyxes open source project http://www.agt.bme.hu/ulyxes


Spoken languages

English; Hungarian.

Contacts

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 Lucadelu.png
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| ]]

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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: Andrea Aime
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Address: Reggiolo
City:
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OSGeo Member
Name: Massimo Di Stefano Epi.png
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Address: Eboli, Salerno, Italy
City: Eboli
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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.| ]]

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| 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.

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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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OSGeo Member
Name: Andrea Antonello Moovida.jpg
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:
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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.| ]]

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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.

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  • 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 Justvdbroecke-gwf2012.jpg
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.| ]]

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Just van den Broecke

Just van den Broecke

Open Source Geospatial Professional at Just Objects B.V. and 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.

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Contact
Email: just@justobjects.nl
Skype: justb4
Twitter: justb4
Spoken Language(s)
Dutch (1st), English (2nd), German, French (modeste)
Profile last updated
August 15, 2019
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 [12].
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URIs of the form "bartvde AT osgis DOT nl" are not allowed. [[Info::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 [13].| ]]

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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 [14].

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  • 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

OSGeo Member
Name: Paul van Genuchten
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Address: Wageningen, The Netherlands
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OSGeo Member
Name: Barend Köbben Picture Kobben.png
Job Title:
Company: University of Twente – Faculty of Geo–Information Science and Earth Observation
Address:
City: Enschede
State:
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).| ]]

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Barend Köbben

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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

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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: Milo van der Linden
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OSGeo Member
Name: Paul Meems Profile-small.jpg
Job Title: Product manager Open-Source GIS and Sr. GIS Consultant
Company: TopX Geo-ICT
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City: Hoogezand
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Country: The Netherlands
Local Chapter: OSGeo.NL
Email: p.meems AT topx-group DOT nl
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Instant Messaging: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/paulmeems/
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Language(s): Dutch; English
Personal Description : Paul Meems is a software consultant/developer with a lot of experience in various projects and products involving Open Source and proprietary software. Since 2004 Paul is involved in MapWindow Open Source GIS project. First as a user, later as a translator and forum manager. Currently Paul is the team manager of the development of MapWindow v5. In his team are developers from countries on different continents.
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Paul Meems

Paul Meems

Product manager Open-Source GIS and Sr. GIS Consultant at TopX Geo-ICT and active member of the MapWindow Open Source GIS community

Location: Hoogezand, The Netherlands

Intro: Paul Meems is a software consultant/developer with a lot of experience in various projects and products involving Open Source and proprietary software. Since 2004 Paul is involved in MapWindow Open Source GIS project. First as a user, later as a translator and forum manager. Currently Paul is the team manager of the development of MapWindow v5. In his team are developers from countries on different continents.


Read more details on his LinkedIn profile.

OSGeo Experience

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  • Presenter at the MapWindow Open Source GIS Users & Developers conference 2010, Orlando (USA)
  • Keynote speaker at the MapWindow Open Source GIS Users & Developers conference 2011, San Diego (USA)
  • Release and configuration manager of the MapWindow GIS project
  • Organized and chaired the MapWindow Open Source GIS Users & Developers conference 2012, Velp (The Netherlands)
  • Presenter at the Hungarian GIS Conference 2013, Debrecen (Hungary)
  • Organized and chaired the MapWindow Open Source GIS Users & Developers conference 2014, Debrecen (Hungary)
  • Committer for MapWindow Open Source GIS v4
  • Committer for MapWinGIS ActiveX Control
  • Initiator and core developer for MapWindow Open Source GIS v5
  • Used and is using several OSGeo products, like OpenLayers, PostGIS, Geoserver in custom applications
Contact
Email: p.meems AT topx-group DOT nl
Twitter: mapwindow_nl
Spoken languages
Dutch (1st), English (2nd)
Profile last updated
July 28, 2014
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:
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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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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: Gert-Jan van der Weijden Gert-jan wijzend.jpg
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Local Chapter: OSGeo.NL
Email: gert-jan@gisnederland.nl
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Website: http://www.gisnederland.nl/
Language(s): Dutch; English; German
Personal Description : After 10 years of working in software development & consultancy, I've been working as public servant at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning & the Environment (8 years) and at the municipality of The Hague (3 years), 1 year as asset engineer data at the drinking water supply company PWN and 3 years as a Geo-ICT consultant at Ordina. Since June 2019 I'm working as GIS specialist at the Amsterdam-Amstelland Fire Department.
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[[Info::After 10 years of working in software development & consultancy, I've been working as public servant at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning & the Environment (8 years) and at the municipality of The Hague (3 years), 1 year as asset engineer data at the drinking water supply company PWN and 3 years as a Geo-ICT consultant at Ordina.

Since June 2019 I'm working as GIS specialist at the Amsterdam-Amstelland Fire Department.| ]]

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Gert-Jan van der Weijden (Geejee)

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

After 10 years of working in software development & consultancy, I've been working as public servant at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning & the Environment (8 years) and at the municipality of The Hague (3 years) and 1 year as asset engineer data at the drinking water supply company PWN. Since August 2015 I'm working as a Geo-ICT consultant at Ordina

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Developing open source software is fun, to make sure it's being used is even more fun!

My last pieces of code (some small Mapserver contributions) date from somewhere around 2002. Since 2012 involved in the Dutch local chapter, since summer 2013 as chairman of the local board. Co-organizer of the 2013 "OSGeoNL dag" (the yearly dutch local meeting), with 125 participants. Members of the FOSS4G-2016 LOC.

Always looking for opportunities to coöperate with other geo-spatial organisations, including governmental and commercial organisations.

Small detail: Ten years ago I've been in the board of the Dutch ArcGIS user group for 5 years.


My personal blog (in Dutch): gisnederland

Spoken languages
Dutch
English
German
Un peu Francais
Contact
twitter: @gisnederland
email: gert-jan AT gisnederland DOT nl
Profile last updated
August 10, 2015

Europe:Portugal

OSGeo Member
Name: Giovanni Manghi Giovanni.manghi.jpg
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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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.

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OSGeo Experience

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  • 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
OSGeo Member
Name: Alexandre Neto
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OSGeo Member
Name: José Santos
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Europe:Romania

OSGeo Member
Name: Vasile Crăciunescu Vasile craciunescu.jpg
Job Title: Researcher
Company: Romanian National Meteorological Administration
Address: Bucharest, Romania
City: Bucharest
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Country: Romania
Local Chapter: Romanian
Email: vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org
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Website: http://ro.linkedin.com/in/vasilecraciunescu
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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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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.

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  • 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
OSGeo Member
Name: Florin Iosub [[File:
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Job Title: GIS Solutions Specialist
Company: Essensys Software
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City: Bucharest
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Country: Romania
Local Chapter: Romanian
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Website: https://ro.linkedin.com/in/floriniosub
Language(s): Romanian, English
Personal Description : Florin Iosub is Team Lead and GIS Solutions Architect at Essensys Software, member of geo-spatial.org board, the Romanian Local Chapter of OSGeo and OSGeo charter member. With over 10 years of professional experience in the GIS field gained as a result of participating in the implementation of numerous projects, he is very well acquainted with the best practice and state-of-the-art of GIS technologies in all related fields. At the same time, he is very determined in spreading the FOSS4G values and principles and involved in various volunteering initiatives.
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Europe:Spain

OSGeo Member
Name: Lluís Vicens
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Pedro-Juan Ferrer

OSGeo Member
Name: Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Pferrer.jpg
Job Title: Project Manager
Company: CARTO
Address: Valencia, Spain
City: Valencia
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Country: Spain
Local Chapter: OSGeo-es
Email: pferrer@osgeo.org
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Personal Description : 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)
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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

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  • 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
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Address: Vigo, Spain
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OSGeo Member
Name: María Arias de Reyna Domínguez Delawen.jpeg
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.| ]]

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OSGeo Member
Name: Agustín Diez Castillo
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City: València
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Local Chapter: OSGeo-es
Email: adiez AT uv DOT edu
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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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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.

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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 Jsanz.jpg
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.| ]]


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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:Switzerland

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OSGeo Member
Name: Marco Bernasocchi Mbernasocchi.jpg
Job Title:
Company: OPENGIS.ch GmbH
Address:
City: Laax
State:
Country: Switzerland
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email: marco (A T) opengis.ch
Phone:
Instant Messaging: https://twitter.com/mbernasocchi
Website: http://berna.io
Language(s): English; Italian; German; French; Spanish; Romansh
Personal Description : I am an open-source advocate, consultant, teacher, and developer. My background is in geography with a specialization in geographic information science. I live in Switzerland in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village where I love scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives me. I’m a very communicative person, I fluently speak Italian, German, French English, and Spanish and love travelling.

I work as director of OPENGIS.ch which I founded in 2011. Since 2015 I share the company ownership with Matthias Kuhn. At OPENGIS.ch we are core developers, senior architects, full-stack ninjas and GIS wizards. We love open-source and are committed to the sustainable growth of the tools we work on.

My first QGIS (to be correct for that time QuantumGIS) ever was “Simon (0.6)” during my BSc when the University of Zurich was teaching us proprietary products and I started looking around for Open Source alternatives. In 2008, when starting my MSc, I made the definitive switch to Ubuntu and I started working more and more with QGIS Metis (0.11) and ended up developing some plugins and part of Globe as my master's thesis. Since three years the University of Zurich invites me to hold two seminars on Entrepreneurship and Open Source. In November 2011 I attended my first Hackfest in Zürich where I started porting all QGIS dependencies and developing QGIS for Android under a Google Summer of Code. A couple of years and a lot of work later QField was born. Since then I’ve always tried to attend at least one Hackfest per year to be able to feel first-hand the strong bonds within our very welcoming community.

In 2013 I was lucky enough to have a release named after a suggestion I saved you all from having QGIS 2.0 - Hönggerberg and giving you instead QGIS 2.0 - Dufour

Besides my long story with QGIS as a user and passionate advocate, I have a long story as a QGIS service provider where we are fully committed to its stability, feature-richness and sustainable development. Furthermore, as a consultant, I am lucky enough to be sent now and then to spread the QGIS goodness in less fortunate countries.

You can find out more about Marco at berna.io
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URIs of the form "marco (A T) opengis.ch" are not allowed. [[Info::I am an open-source advocate, consultant, teacher, and developer. My background is in geography with a specialization in geographic information science. I live in Switzerland in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village where I love scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives me. I’m a very communicative person, I fluently speak Italian, German, French English, and Spanish and love travelling.

I work as director of OPENGIS.ch which I founded in 2011. Since 2015 I share the company ownership with Matthias Kuhn. At OPENGIS.ch we are core developers, senior architects, full-stack ninjas and GIS wizards. We love open-source and are committed to the sustainable growth of the tools we work on.

My first QGIS (to be correct for that time QuantumGIS) ever was “Simon (0.6)” during my BSc when the University of Zurich was teaching us proprietary products and I started looking around for Open Source alternatives. In 2008, when starting my MSc, I made the definitive switch to Ubuntu and I started working more and more with QGIS Metis (0.11) and ended up developing some plugins and part of Globe as my master's thesis. Since three years the University of Zurich invites me to hold two seminars on Entrepreneurship and Open Source. In November 2011 I attended my first Hackfest in Zürich where I started porting all QGIS dependencies and developing QGIS for Android under a Google Summer of Code. A couple of years and a lot of work later QField was born. Since then I’ve always tried to attend at least one Hackfest per year to be able to feel first-hand the strong bonds within our very welcoming community.

In 2013 I was lucky enough to have a release named after a suggestion I saved you all from having QGIS 2.0 - Hönggerberg and giving you instead QGIS 2.0 - Dufour

Besides my long story with QGIS as a user and passionate advocate, I have a long story as a QGIS service provider where we are fully committed to its stability, feature-richness and sustainable development. Furthermore, as a consultant, I am lucky enough to be sent now and then to spread the QGIS goodness in less fortunate countries. You can find out more about Marco at berna.io| ]]

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Marco Bernasocchi

Marco Bernasocchi

founder, OPENGIS.ch

Location: Laax, Switzerland

OSGeo Experience

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  • QGIS Chair
  • QGIS Plugins developer
  • QGIS developer
  • QGIS Android father
  • QField Developer
  • PostGIS Consultant


Contact
Email: marco (A T) opengis.ch
Spoken Language(s)
Italian, English, German, French, Spanish

Profile last updated: 10 October 2018

OSGeo Member
Name: Pirmin Kalberer OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Co-founder and Managing director
Company: Sourcepole
Address:
City: Zurich
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Country: Switzerland
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS
Email: pka AT sourcepole DOT ch
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Personal Description : Pirmin is an active Geospatial Open Source community member since 2002. He works for Sourcepole, a Swiss based commercial Open Source company.
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Pirmin Kalberer

Pirmin Kalberer

Co-founder and Managing director, Sourcepole

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Pirmin is an active Geospatial Open Source community member since 2002. He works for Sourcepole, a Swiss based commercial Open Source company.

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  • t-rex vector tile server
  • QWC2 / QWC Services
  • GDAL/OGR committer: Maintainer Interlis driver
  • QGIS committer
  • Creator of the first OSS GIS Live CD (GIS-Knoppix) and several FOSSGIS projects
  • OSGeo-Live contributions and UbuntuGIS packaging
  • Presenter and co-organzier at numerous conferences (FOSS4G, FOSSGIS, QGIS User conferences)
  • OSGeo Charter member
Contact
Email: pka AT sourcepole DOT ch
Phone (work): +41 44 440 77 11
Spoken Languages
German, English
Profile last updated
25 May 2023

Europe:Ukraine

OSGeo Member
Name: Alexander Bruy Alexbruy-profile-pic.jpg
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City: Zaporizhzhya
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Email: alexander DOT bruy AT gmail DOT com
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Personal Description : Alexander is a microelectronics engineer who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. He started with OSGeo4W and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on translation. Then he became QGIS contributor, later — core developer and translation team lead. Is a GFOSS enthusiast and a active member of both the international and Ukrainian OSGeo communities, in particular the QGIS one.
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Alexander Bruy

Alexander Bruy

GIS developer, tester and teacher

Location: Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

Alexander is a microelectronics engineer who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. He started with OSGeo4W and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on translation. Then he became QGIS contributor, later — core developer and translation team lead. Is a GFOSS enthusiast and a active member of both the international and Ukrainian OSGeo communities, in particular the QGIS one.


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  • OSGeo Charter Member (2014)
  • QGIS core developer
  • QGIS plugins developer
  • QGIS GUI/Website/Documentation translation team lead (Ukrainian)
  • OSGeo4W installer translator and package maintainer
  • GDAL tester and contributor
  • Co-founder of Ukrainian QGIS User Group
  • Co-founder of ICA-OSGeo Lab in Ukraine (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
  • OSGeo Google Summer of Code mentor in 2012 - 2015 (QGIS project)
Contact
Email: alexander DOT bruy AT gmail DOT com
IRC: alexbruy on freenode (#qgis, #gdal, ...)
Spoken Language(s)
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Profile last updated
21 September 2015

Europe:United Kingdom

OSGeo Member
Name: Ian Edwards IanEdwards.jpg
Job Title: Technical Director
Company: MyAcorn Limited
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City: Exeter
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Country: United Kingdom
Local Chapter: OSGeo UK
Email: ian.edwards (#) myacorn.com
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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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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

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  • 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 Dec 2017.jpg
Job Title: Data Officer
Company: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
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Country: UK
Local Chapter: OSGeo UK https://uk.osgeo.org
Email: jo.k.cook@gmail.com
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Website: https://www.archaeogeek.com
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Personal Description : Data Officer at Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
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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
OSGeo Member
Name: Ian Turton OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Software Engineer and Open Source GIS Trainer
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State: W. Sussex
Country: United Kingdom
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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.| ]]

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  • 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 StevenFeldmanPic.jpg
Job Title: Principal
Company: KnowWhere Consulting
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City: London
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Country: UK
Local Chapter: [[OSGeo:UK|OSGeo:UK]]
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Website: https://www.knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/
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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| ]]

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Contact
Email: via KnowWhere
via twitter


Spoken Language
English
Profile last updated
7th April 2021
OSGeo Member
Name: Suchith Anand Suchith anand.jpg
Job Title: Consultant
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City: Nottingham
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Country: United Kingdom
Local Chapter: OSGeo UK
Email: suchith_anand@yahoo.com
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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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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.

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  • 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
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Latin America:Brazil

OSGeo Member
Name: Felipe Costa Fotofelipe.jpg
Job Title: Programming Analyst
Company: Massmedia OÜ
Address: Tartu
City: Manaus
State: Tartumaa
Country: Estonia
Local Chapter: Brazil
Email: fsc7mail AT gmail DOT com
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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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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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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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  • 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 Ssteinig.jpg
Job Title: GIS/c Researcher
Company: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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City: Santiago de Chile
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Country: Chile
Local Chapter: Sudamerica
Email: sstein AT geo DOT uzh DOT ch - and temporary: - ssteiniger AT uc DOT cl
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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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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.

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  • 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: Ariel Nuñez
Job Title: Consultant
Company: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank
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City: Barranquilla
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Country: Colombia
Local Chapter: Sudamerica
Email: ingenieroariel AT gmail DOT com
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Language(s): Spanish; English
Personal Description : Ariel is an electronic engineer with experience in sensor networks and software development. He has contributed to many open source software projects centered around web development and GIS. His work in disaster risk reduction centers around the use of open source geospatial tools to improve resilience to natural hazards. He is doing a masters degree on Electronic Engineering and his research involves finding abnormal patterns using computer vision and machine learning.
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Ariel Nuñez

Consultant, , Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank

Location: Barranquilla, Colombia

Ariel is an electronic engineer with experience in sensor networks and software development. He has contributed to many open source software projects centered around web development and GIS. His work in disaster risk reduction centers around the use of open source geospatial tools to improve resilience to natural hazards. He is doing a masters degree on Electronic Engineering and his research involves finding abnormal patterns using computer vision and machine learning.

Contact
Email: ingenieroariel AT gmail DOT com
Skype : ingenieroariel
Twitter : ingenieroariel
Spoken Language(s)
Spanish, English
Profile last updated
22 July 2014

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Latin America:Ecuador

OSGeo Member
Name: Edwin Alberto Amado Barón
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Latin America:Mexico

OSGeo Member
Name: alex borrell
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United States

OSGeo Member
Name: Eli L Adam
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Address: Newport, Oregon
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OSGeo Member
Name: Alex Mandel, Phd OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Geospatial Scientist
Company: Geography, University of California, Davis
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City: Davis
State: CA
Country: USA
Local Chapter: California Chapter
Email: tech AT wildintellect DOT com
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Website: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/wildintellect
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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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Alex Mandel

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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

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Contact
Email: tech AT wildintellect DOT com
IRC: wildint(ellect)
Profile last updated
21 June 2012
OSGeo Member
Name: Anna Petrasova Anna Petrasova photo.jpg
Job Title: Geospatial Research Software Engineer
Company: North Carolina State University
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City: Raleigh
State: NC
Country: USA
Local Chapter: North America
Email: kratochanna AT gmail DOT com
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Language(s): Czech; English
Personal Description : Anna is an active GRASS GIS developer since 2011. She promotes free and open source geospatial software for research and education among students and colleagues and supports its users both in person and on mailing lists.
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Profile last updated
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OSGeo Member
Name: Brian M Hamlin BrianPortrait1.jpg
Job Title: Project Director
Company: California Open Data ECN
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City: Berkeley
State: CA
Country: USA
Local Chapter: California Chapter
Email: maplabs AT- light42 DOT com
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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| ]]

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Brian Hamlin

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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

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Contact
Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
IRC: darkblue_b dbb
Profile last updated
04 July 2012
OSGeo Member
Name: Doug Newcomb Newcombpic.jpg
Job Title: Cartographer
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City: Raleigh
State: NC
Country: USA
Local Chapter: North America
Email: gistinkerATgmail.com
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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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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.

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  • 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 FengPic.jpg
Job Title: President
Company: Spatial Front Inc.
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City: Potomac
State: Maryland
Country: USA
Local Chapter: North America
Email: amy AT spatialfront DOT com
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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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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.

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  • 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 Warmerda.jpg
Job Title:
Company: Planet
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City: Eganville
State: Ontario
Country: Canada
Local Chapter: California Chapter
Email: warmerdam@pobox.com
Phone: +1 (650) 701-7823
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Personal Description : Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.
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URIs of the form "+1 (650) 701-7823" are not allowed. [[Info::Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.| ]]

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Frank Warmerdam

Frank Warmerdam

Employment: Google

Location: Mountain View, California, USA

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

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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 Helena2011.jpg
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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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.

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  • 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: Kate Chapman OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Executive Director
Company: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Address:
City: Portland
State: Oregon
Country: United States of America
Local Chapter: PDX
Email: kate.chapman AT hotosm DOT org
Phone: +1 703 673 8834
Instant Messaging: Skype: kateachapman
Website:
Language(s): English; Indonesian
Personal Description : Kate is Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Her most recent projects have included working in Indonesia leading a team to train disaster managers in using open-source software to better plan for disasters and relaunching of the OpenAerialMap project. Kate has spoken about the benefits of open-source and open data for disaster response and risk reduction all over the world, including giving keynotes at Linux Conf Australia and FOSS4G in 2013.
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Kate Chapman

Kate Chapman

Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Kate is Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Her most recent projects have included working in Indonesia leading a team to train disaster managers in using open-source software to better plan for disasters and relaunching of the OpenAerialMap project. Kate has spoken about the benefits of open-source and open data for disaster response and risk reduction all over the world, including giving keynotes at Linux Conf Australia and FOSS4G in 2013.

OSGeo Experience
  • Keynote FOSS4G 2013
  • Workshop FOSS4G 2013 "Impact Modelling with OpenStreetMap and InaSAFE"
  • Participation in development of Curriculum on InaSAFE.org on using InaSAFE/QGIS/OpenStreetMap for Disaster Planning
  • Planning Volunteer FOSS4G North American 2013
  • Workshop FOSS4G 2011 "Using OpenStreetMap for Disaster Response and Planning"
  • OSGEO Booth Volunteer American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
Contact
Email: kate.chapman AT hotosm DOT org
Phone (mobile): +1 703 673 8834
Skype: kateachapman

Spoken Language(s): English, Indonesian (intermediate speaker)

Profile last updated
23 07 2014
OSGeo Member
Name: Kurt Menke KurtMenke.jpg
Job Title: GIS Specialist, Owner
Company: Bird's Eye View GIS
Address:
City: Albuquerque
State: New Mexico
Country: USA
Local Chapter: New Mexico
Email: Kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com
Phone: 1-505-265-0243
Instant Messaging: Skype: birdseyeviewgis
Website: http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com
Language(s):
Personal Description : Kurt Menke is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) who has been working in the field for 19 years. He works largely on spatial analysis in the conservation field. He received a Masters degree (MA) in Geography from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He is a long time advocate of FOSS4G. Recently he has authored Discover QGIS through Locate Press and co-authored Mastering QGIS through Packt Publishing. In 2015 he was part of the GeoAcademy team awarded the GeoForAll Educator of the Year award.
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Kurt Menke

Kurt Menke

GIS Specialist, Owner, Bird's Eye View GIS

Location

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Bio

Kurt Menke is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) who has been working in the field for 19 years. He works largely on spatial analysis in the public health and conservation fields. He received a Masters degree (MA) in Geography from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He is a long time advocate of FOSS4G. Recently he has authored Discover QGIS through Locate Press and co-authored Mastering QGIS through Packt Publishing. In 2015 he was part of the GeoAcademy team awarded the GeoForAll Educator of the Year award.

https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/staff/

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OSGeo Experience
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- Author Discover QGIS

- Co-author Mastering QGIS

- FOSS4G Practitioner for 15 years

- FOSS4G Educator for 9 years

- Have developed 4 college level semester long FOSS4G courses

- GST 101: Intro to GIT Using QGIS

- GST 102: Spatial Analysis with FOSS4G

- GST 103: Data Acquisition and Analysis Using QGIS

- GIS 2020: Introduction to Open Source GIS and Web Mapping

Contact
Email: Kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com
Phone (work): 1-505-265-0243
Skype: birdseyeviewgis
Spoken Language(s)
English
Profile last updated
09 27 2017
OSGeo Member
Name: Landon Blake Landon blake portrait.jpg
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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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.

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 MarkLucas.jpg
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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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.

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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 Msmitherdc.jpg
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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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.


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  • 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:
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Address: Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
City:
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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.

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  • 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
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
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Address: San Francisco, USA
City:
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Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
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OSGeo Member
Name: Steve Lime IMG 3830.JPG
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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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

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  • 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 Stephen.woodbridge.jpg
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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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.

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  • 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
OSGeo Member
Name: Vivien Deparday Photo id vdeparday.png
Job Title: Open Data and Geospatial Technology Specialist
Company: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank
Address:
City: Washington
State: DC
Country: USA
Local Chapter: North America
Email: vivien.deparday AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://athabasca.uwaterloo.ca/sdslab/vdeparday
Language(s): French; English
Personal Description : Vivien started to use and contribute to open source GIS in 2006 while working for GIS consulting company in France and then focused his master research on using open source tools for geovisualization. He is currently working at the World Bank promoting and spreading the use of open source software internally at the World Bank and in many countries around the world through the work of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative
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Vivien Deparday

Open Data and Geospatial Technology Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank

Location: Washinton, DC, United States

Vivien Deparday

Vivien started to use and contribute to open source GIS in 2006 while working for GIS consulting company in France and then focused his master research on using open source tools for geovisualization. He is currently working at the World Bank promoting and spreading the use of open source software internally at the World Bank and in many countries around the world through the work of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative


OSGeo Experience

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  • FOSS4G user and contributor since 2006 participating and presenting in code sprints, conferences, and user meetings
  • GeoNode. Core developer.
  • QGIS Plugin: InaSAFE. Developer, technical working group member
Contact
Email: vivien.deparday AT gmail DOT com
Skype : vivien.deparday
Twitter : vdeparday
Github profile
Personal page
Spoken Language(s)
French, English
Profile last updated
12 August 2014
OSGeo Member
Name: Charles Schweik Schweik2014.jpg
Job Title: Associate Professor
Company: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Address:
City: Amherst
State: Massachusetts
Country: USA
Local Chapter: North America
Email: cschweik AT pubpol DOT umass DOT edu
Phone:
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Website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
Language(s):
Personal Description : Charlie Schweik is a social scientist who studies commons-based peer production efforts generally, and teaches GIS in his university's Environmental Conservation and Public Policy and Administration programs. He is interested in building OSGeo and the GeoForAll effort toward true global collaboration in open source geospatial related research and education.
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Charlie Schweik

Charles Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts

Charlie Schweik is a social scientist who studies commons-based peer production efforts generally, and teaches GIS in his university's Environmental Conservation and Public Policy and Administration programs. He is interested in building OSGeo and the GeoForAll effort toward true global collaboration in open source geospatial related research and education.

For more information, see his website

OSGeo Experience

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  • Chair, OSGeo Education and Curriculum committee 2007-present
  • Co-founder, GeoForAll.org initiative
Contact
Email: cschweik AT pubpol DOT umass DOT edu
Skype: cschweik
Profile last updated
11 March 2015
OSGeo Member
Name: David Bitner OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Owner/Consultant
Company: dbSpatial LLC
Address:
City: Minneapolis
State: MN
Country: USA
Local Chapter: Twin Cities
Email: bitner@dbspatial.com
Phone:
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Website: http://dbspatial.com/
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Personal Description : David Bitner is the founder of dbSpatial and a consultant specializing in open source geospatial application and database development. David is an OSGeo Charter Member and a member of the Sahana Software Foundation Board of Directors. David has served on several conference committees and was the chair of the 2013 FOSS4GNA event in Minneapolis.
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David Bitner

David Bitner

Owner/Consultant, dbSpatial LLC

Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

David Bitner is the founder of dbSpatial and a consultant specializing in open source geospatial application and database development. David is an OSGeo Charter Member and a member of the Sahana Software Foundation Board of Directors. David has served on several conference committees and was the chair of the 2013 FOSS4GNA event in Minneapolis.


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Contact
Email: bitner@dbspatial.com


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23 September 2014

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.

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:
Profile last updated
07 14 2013

Past OSGeo Advocates

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

Understanding OSGeo roles

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

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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.png 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.

SolKatz.png 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.

OSGeo chair.png OSGeo psc.png 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).

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

OSGeo user.png 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.

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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.

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.

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