OSGeo Advocate
Introduction
OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the OSGeo foundation. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.
OSGeo Advocates
This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:
Australia
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| Name: | Cameron Shorter |  |
| Job Title: | Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant | |
| Company: | Government (NSW, Australia) | |
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| City: | Sydney | |
| State: | NSW | |
| Country: | Australia | |
| Local Chapter: | Aust-NZ | |
| Email: | cameron shorter AT gmail DOT com | |
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| Website: | http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/ | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Personal Description : | Cameron has a breadth of practical experience with the numerous facets of Geospatial Open Source and OGC Standards. He has chaired a FOSS4G conference; served on the OSGeo Board, co-founded and co-coordinates the OSGeoLive project; co-authored OSGeo Software Incubation criteria; and consults to governments and industry on Open Source, Open Standards and Spatial Data Systems. | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
More at http://cameron.shorter.net/resume.html
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| Name: | Jody Garnett |  |
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| City: | Victoria | |
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| Country: | Canada | |
| Local Chapter: | British Columbia Chapter | |
| Email: | jody.garnett@how2map.com | |
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| Website: | https://how2map.com/ | |
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| Personal Description : | A mapish developer working at GeoCat. Active with OSGeo and LocationTech communities working on a wide range of free and open source geospatial goodness! | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Jody Garnett
Victoria, Canada
A mapish developer working at GeoCat. Active with OSGeo and LocationTech communities working on a wide range of free and open source geospatial goodness!
Serves on the Project Steering Committee of GeoServer and GeoTools projects. Outreach to new projects as a member of both the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and LocationTech.
- OSGeo Experience
- @jodygarnett@fosstodon.org
- How 2 Map (open source spatial blog on blogger)
Direct open source participation:
- GeoServer - the open internet gateway for geographic data: Project Steering Committee
- GeoTools - the Java GIS Toolkit : Project Management Committee
Activities outside the "Java Tribe":
- Incubation Committee (OSGeo) Chair
- Victoria GeoGeeks (Victoria)
- Slideshare - presentations from events world wide
- LocationTech (Eclipse Foundation Industry Working Group)
- FOSS4G 2009 organizational committee
- FOSS4G 2007 organizational committee
- Board_of_Directors (OSGeo) - Prior Chair
- GeoRabble - (Brisbane and Sydney)
- OSGeo Aust-NZ Open Source Geospatial Chapter
Jody is available for speaking engagements, workshops and hands on training. He is comfortable presenting on a range topics including open source, open development, OGC standards and the opportunities available to your organisation.
- Contact
- Email: jody.garnett@how2map.com
- Profile last updated
- Nov 2023
Europe
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| Name: | Arnulf Christl | |
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| Address: | Tharpaling, Germany | |
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| 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 | |
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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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[[Name::Jeroen Ticheler| ]] [[Website::GeoCat| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Jeroen Ticheler
Jeroen studied Tropical Forestry at the Wageningen University with specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing. Upon graduation in 1997 he worked on Participatory Soil Fertility Management in Africa at the Royal Institute for the Tropics of The Netherlands (also: Tropenmuseum) until he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO in 1999.
At the FAO Jeroen worked on satellite data processing for early warning systems for food security and for desert locust control. He founded the GeoNetwork opensource project in 2001 allowing the agency to catalog its geographic data assets. He participated in writing the United Nations SDI (UNSDI) Reference Architecture as Task group manager Interoperability in the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group UNGIWG. He frequently participated in ISO TC211 and OGC meetings in the past.
In 2007 he founded GeoCat. A commercial company providing Enterprise products, SAAS and services around OSGeo software. Working with a team of core developers that contribute and give back is at the heart of what GeoCat does. GeoCat is a strong supporter and sponsor of the OSGeo Foundation and the related FOSS4G conferences and events ever since.
Jorge Sanz
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| Name: | Jorge Sanz |  |
| Job Title: | Data Engineer | |
| Company: | Elastic | |
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| City: | València | |
| State: | Valencia | |
| Country: | Spain | |
| Local Chapter: | OSGeo-es | |
| Email: | jorge@jorgesanz.net | |
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| Website: | http://jorgesanz.net | |
| Language(s): | Catalan; Spanish; English | |
| Personal Description : | Jorge is Charter Member of OSGeo since 2008 and member of the Spanish Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES) since its foundation., has been member of the OSGeo Board of Directors in the 2013-2015 term and been part of the gvSIG Technical Steering Committee. He helps on some OSGeo.org systems, participates actively on OSGeo-ES initiatives and Geoinquietos Valencia (a little local group part of a broader network of microchapters). Further details at his OSGeo wiki complete profile page or at linkedin. | |
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[[Info::Jorge is Charter Member of OSGeo since 2008 and member of the Spanish Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES) since its foundation., has been member of the OSGeo Board of Directors in the 2013-2015 term and been part of the gvSIG Technical Steering Committee. He helps on some OSGeo.org systems, participates actively on OSGeo-ES initiatives and Geoinquietos Valencia (a little local group part of a broader network of microchapters). Further details at his OSGeo wiki complete profile page or at linkedin.| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
- OSGeo Charter Member since 2008
- Current co-admin of the OSGeo planet
- Member of the News Queue Team
- Member of the Marketing Committee
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- 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
Pedro-Juan Ferrer
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| Name: | Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses |  |
| 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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
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)
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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
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| Name: | Jo Cook |  |
| 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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[[Company::Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative| ]] [[Website::https://www.archaeogeek.com| ]] [[Info::Data Officer at Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
- OSGeo Experience
- Board Member (2011-2012)
- Charter Member (2010-present)
- UK Local Chapter Founder and Chair (2007-2021)
- Deputy-chair of FOSS4G 2013
- Chair of FOSS4GUK 2016
- Incubation Committee (2018-present)
- Google Season of Docs administrator and mentor (2019)
- Contact
- Email: jocook AT astuntechnology.com
- Profile last updated
- 28th October 2024
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| Name: | Angelos Tzotsos |  |
| Job Title: | Geospatial Software Developer, Remote Sensing Consultant, Senior Researcher | |
| Company: | Open Source Geospatial Foundation | |
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| City: | Athens | |
| State: | Attica | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Local Chapter: | Greek | |
| Email: | tzotsos@osgeo.org | |
| Phone: | +30 693 2149344 | |
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| Website: | http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos | |
| Language(s): | Greek; English | |
| Personal Description : | Angelos is a remote sensing expert with background in surveying engineering and software development. He is involved in numerous activities around free and open source software and has great experience in geospatial applications, geospatial data catalogues and metadata. His research involves remote sensing, machine learning, computer vision and object-based image analysis. He is currently the President of OSGeo and also serves at the OSGeo Board of Directors. He is an active advocate of OSGeo in Greece at related conferences. He is also an individual OGC member. His recent activity involved implementation of data.gov catalog service and implementation of the Greek national open data portal geodata.gov.gr. | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
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- OSGeo-Live. PSC Chair, OSGeo Project Officer, Build manager and Core Developer.
- pycsw. OSGeo Project Officer, PSC Member and Core Developer.
- pygeoapi. PSC Member and Contributor.
- GeoNode. Core Developer.
- Orfeo Toolbox. Developer.
- ZOO-Project. PSC Member and Developer.
- QGIS. Contributor and Plugin Developer (DigitizingTools, MetaSearch, CadTools)
- Data.gov USA open data catalog (based on CKAN and pycsw). Developer.
- Geodata.gov.gr Greek open data catalog (based on PublicaMundi) . Scientific and Technical Coordinator, Core Developer.
- OWSlib. Developer.
- MapServer. Packager.
- GRASS GIS. Packager.
- openSUSE Official Member, Geospatial Package Maintainer.
- UbuntuGIS. Member and Package Maintainer.
- DebianGIS. Package Contributor.
- Gnorasi (Orfeo Toolbox external project). Core developer.
- MSEG. Personal project.
- GIMED. Personal project.
- Profile last updated
- 17 April 2020
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| Name: | Ian Turton |  |
| Job Title: | Software Engineer and Open Source GIS Trainer | |
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| City: | Worthing | |
| State: | W. Sussex | |
| Country: | United Kingdom | |
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| Email: | ian@ianturton.com | |
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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.| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
- Co-founder and developer of Geotools project
- Developed and taught a webmapping course based upon open source software at Penn State University
- Contact
- email: ian@ianturton.com
- twitter: @ijturton
- www: ianturton.com
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| Name: | Anne Ghisla |  |
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| City: | Berlin | |
| State: | Berlin | |
| Country: | Germany | |
| Local Chapter: | FOSSGIS | |
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| Language(s): | Italian; French; English; German | |
| Personal Description : | Anne is a natural scientist who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. She started with GRASS GIS and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on documentation. Then she started programming in 2008 thanks to Google Summer of Code, and became mentor and administrator for OSGeo in following years. She doesn't code much anymore, as she is now focused on connecting people and communities of different software projects. She helped Jorge Rocha with CRO duties for OSGeo elections in 2019 and 2020. | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Anne Ghisla
Anne is a natural scientist who got interested in GIS and open source programming during university. She started with GRASS GIS and QGIS, first met the OSGeo community by helping on documentation. Then she started programming in 2008 thanks to Google Summer of Code, and became mentor and administrator for OSGeo in following years. She doesn't code much anymore, as she is now focused in connecting people and communities of different software projects. She helped Jorge Rocha with CRO duties for OSGeo elections in 2019 and 2020.
- OSGeo Experience
- OSGeo Google Summer of Code administrator in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
- Member of Italian chapter GFOSS.it from September 2007 to November 2014
- OSGeo Board member from 2012 to 2015
- Currently dormant GRASS GIS core developer
- Co-founder of OSGeo Women Chapter
- CRO helper in 2019 and 2020
- Contact
- Email: a DOT ghisla AT gmail DOT com
- IRC: aghisla on freenode (#osgeo)
- Spoken Language(s)
- Italian and French (mother tongues), English (fluent), German (improving :) )
- Profile last updated
- 03-04-2020
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| Name: | Victor Olaya |  |
| Job Title: | Developer | |
| Company: | Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX | |
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| City: | Auch | |
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| Country: | France | |
| Local Chapter: | Francophone OSGeo Chapter | |
| Email: | volayaf AT gmail DOT com | |
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| Instant Messaging: | Skype: volaya1978 | |
| Website: | http://volaya.es/ | |
| Language(s): | Spanish; English; French; Russian | |
| Personal Description : | Victor is the creator and main developer of the SEXTANTE library, a spatial data analysis library currently used by several open source GIS such as gvSIG or QGIS. He is also the main author of the Spanish Free GIS Book, a free (CC BY) book on the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems. | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Victor Olaya
Developer, Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX
Location: Auch, France
Victor is the creator and main developer of the SEXTANTE library, a spatial data analysis library currently used by several open source GIS such as gvSIG or QGIS. He is also the main author of the Spanish Free GIS Book, a free (CC BY) book on the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems. ... more.
- OSGeo Experience
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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.
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| Name: | Lluís Vicens | |
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| Address: | Girona | |
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Canada
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| Name: | Geoff Zeiss |  |
| Job Title: | Director Utility Industry Program, | |
| Company: | Autodesk | |
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| City: | Ottawa | |
| State: | Ontario | |
| Country: | Canada | |
| Local Chapter: | Ottawa Chapter | |
| Email: | geoff.zeiss@autodesk.com | |
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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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Geoff Zeiss
Director Utility Industry Program, Autodesk
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Geoff has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include streamlining the infrastructure management workflow, open source geospatial, and converged BIM/CAD/GIS/3D solutions.
- OSGeo Experience
- Spoken at a number of events about open source geospatial and OSGEO including URISA, Location Intelligence, FOSS4Gs, GITA and military open source software conferences.
- In 2005, worked with others including DMSolutions to help initiate the formation of OSGEO.
- A Charter Member and served on the OSGEO Board of Directors for two years.
- Contact
- Email: geoff.zeiss@autodesk.com
- Phone (work): 613 755 5070
- Skype: geoffzeiss
- Profile last updated
- 12 June 2012
United States
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| Name: | Alex Mandel, Phd | |
| 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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Alex Mandel
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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- Chair, System Administration Committee
- Member, Marketing Committee
- Member, California OSGeo Chapter
- Contributor, Ubuntugis
- Build co-coordinator for OSGeo-Live
- Teaches: Introduction to GIS, GIS Programming in Python, Open Source Cartography, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
- Uses: Python, QGIS, Inkscape, Postgis, Spatialite, Ubuntu, GDAL, GeoDjango, Openlayers, Geoserver, Geonode, R
- Presentation Archive on Scribd
- Contact
- Email: tech AT wildintellect DOT com
- IRC: wildint(ellect)
- Profile last updated
- 21 June 2012
Latin America
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| Name: | alex borrell | |
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| Address: | Zapopan, Mexico | |
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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:
OSGeo Board Members
- We only have 8 active board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.
OSGeo Charter Members
- Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.
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 Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).
Developers and Committee Members
- This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.
OSGeo Community Members
- These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.
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).
- 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 Country, 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.
Other Resources
Links to other organizations running a similar process.