FOSS4G 2017
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Initial Proposal
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf
Local Organizing Committee
| Name | Organization | Sector | Title | Location | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Anderson | Amherst College; University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Academic | Academic Technology Specialist; Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation |
Amherst, Massachusetts | Chair of Program Subcommittee |
| Giovanni Zambotti | Harvard University | Academic | GIS Specialist | Greater Boston | |
| Patrick Florance | Tufts University | Academic | Associate Director of Geospatial Technology | Greater Boston | |
| Chris Barnett | Tufts University | Academic | Geospatial Developer | Greater Boston | |
| Guido Stein | AvidGeo & Applied Geographics, Inc. | Community | Founder & GIS Analyst | Greater Boston | Co-Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017 |
| Mike Foster | Maptime Boston & MIT | Community | Community Organizer & GIS Specialist | Greater Boston | Chair of Workshop Subcommittee |
| Aleda Freeman | MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts | Government | Web Mapping Services Manager | Greater Boston | Chair of Extracurricular Subcommittee; Member Program Subcommittee |
| Christian Jacqz | MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts | Government | Former Director of MassGIS | Greater Boston | Member Program Subcommittee |
| Carolyn Bennett | Boston Redevelopment Authority | Government | GIS Manager | Greater Boston | |
| Michael Terner | Applied Geographics, Inc. | Private | Executive Vice President | Greater Boston | Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017 |
| Will Mitchell | NBT Solutions, LLC | Private | Principal | Portland, Maine | On Sponsor Committee |
Community Committee
Past Activities
Program Related
Scientific Committee
FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track
Co-Chairs
- Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- VGI, Land Use/Cover, Commons-based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education
- Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University
- terrain modeling, visualization, GRASS GIS
Reviewers
- Andy Anderson, Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst (also Program Committee Chair)
- Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, HPC, Education
- Maria Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- GIS, Web Mapping, Collaborative Mapping, Geo-crowdsourcing
- Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- spatial data infrastructure, address data, standardization, open principles, GISc education, geovisualization
- Nimalika Fernando
- location based services, mobile GIS, route planning, indoor spatial data modelling & indoor navigation,web-GIS
- Mark Iliffe, N-LAB, University of Nottingham
- Volunteered Geographic Information, Systems Engineering, Crowd-Sorucing, OSM, Transport/Mobility
- Simone Lanucara
- Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic harmonization, Data harmonization, Big Data
- Steven Lehr, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Computer Engineering
- Machine Learning, Data Mining, Mapserver, PHP
- Peter Löwe
- Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS
- Jeff McKenna, OSGeo
- web mapping, databases
- Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education
- Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
- Natural resources management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Modeling with GIS, FOSS4G
- Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University, Japan
- Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Geospatial Web Services
- KS Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad
- Satellite image processing, WebGIS, Spatio-temporal data mining, Routing, GIS Education
- Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
- Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing ,Disaster Management, LBS
- Jorge Gustavo Rocha, University of Minho
- VGI, OpenStreetMap, Software development
- Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre
- Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, crowd-sourcing
- Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
- Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial BI, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying
- Tuong-Thuy Vu
- Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big data
- Mohammed Zia
- GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle-Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology
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