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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| Name: | Argyros Argyridis |  |
| Job Title: | PhD Student | |
| Company: | Remote Sensing Laboratory, NTUA | |
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| City: | Athens | |
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| Country: | Greece | |
| Local Chapter: | Greek | |
| Email: | arargyridis at gmail dot com | |
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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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
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
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| Name: | Manuel Grizonnet |  |
| Job Title: | Image processing engineer | |
| Company: | CNES | |
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| City: | Toulouse | |
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| 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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Manuel Grizonnet
Location : Toulouse, France
Manuel works at CNES (French Space Agency) and is a many years (9 years) contributor to the Open Source library for remote sensing image processing Orfeo ToolBox.
- OSGeo Experience
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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.
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| Name: | Astrid Emde |  |
| Job Title: | GIS-Consultant | |
| Company: | WhereGroup | |
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| City: | Cologne | |
| State: | Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
| Country: | Germany | |
| Local Chapter: | FOSSGIS | |
| Email: | astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org | |
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| 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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URIs of the form "astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org" are not allowed. [[Info::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.| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
- Profile last updated
- January 2022
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| Name: | Vasile Crăciunescu |  |
| 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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URIs of the form "vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org" are not allowed. [[Info::Vasile is a researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, working in the RS & GIS Laboratory. Currently is in charge of the activities related to rapid mapping, air quality data integration, SDI and webmapping. Vasile is a FOSS4G promoter and use his free time to further develop geo-spatial.org, a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and free geographic datasets.| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Vasile Crăciunescu
Researcher, Romanian National Meteorological Administration
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Vasile is a researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, working in the RS & GIS Laboratory. Currently is in charge of the activities related to rapid mapping, air quality data integration, SDI and webmapping. Vasile is a FOSS4G promoter and use his free time to further develop geo-spatial.org, a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and free geographic datasets. ... more.
- OSGeo Experience
- Responsible on the organization of a local series of workshops called FOSS4G for geodata analysis
- Leader of Romanian Local Chapter OSGeo Romania since 2011
- OSGeo CRO 2015-2018
- OSGeo Conference Committee Chair 2019 - 2022
- Chair of the FOSS4G-CEE 2013
- Chair of the FOSS4G 2019
- Contact
- Email: vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org
- Skype: vasile.craciunescu
- Twiter: vcraciunescu
- Spoken Language(s)
- Romanian, English
- Profile last updated
- 21 September 2022
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| Name: | Andrea Aime | |
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| Address: | Reggiolo | |
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| Name: | Karel Charvat |  |
| Job Title: | Chair of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty | |
| Company: | Czech Center for Science and Sociaty | |
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| City: | Prague | |
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| Country: | Czech Republic | |
| Local Chapter: | Chech | |
| Email: | charvat AT ccss DOT cz | |
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| 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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URIs of the form "charvat AT ccss DOT cz" are not allowed. [[Info::Karel is former president of EFITA, currently a member of Board of Seniors of EFITA, Chair of Czech
Centre of Science and Society (CCSS), actively participating on various EU projects and geospatial communities. His current field of activities is OpenData (combination of OpenStreetMap with public administration data), finding business strategies for Open Source software and promotion of Open GIS solutions, such as Geoportal4everybody.
Karel was chair of first FOSSG4-CEE event in Prague 2012.| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Karel Charvat
Chair of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Karel is former president of EFITA, currently a member of Board of Seniors of EFITA, Chair of Czech Centre of Science and Society (CCSS), actively participating on various EU projects and geospatial communities. His current field of activities is OpenData (combination of OpenStreetMap with public administration data), finding business strategies for Open Source software and promotion of Open GIS solutions, such as Geoportal4everybody.
Karel was chair of first FOSSG4-CEE event in Prague 2012.
- OSGeo Experience
- Chairman of the FOSS4G-CEE 2012
- Chairman of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty
- Former Chair of Czech association of Geoinformation
- Contact
- Email: charvat AT ccss DOT cz
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=73516853
- Spoken Language(s)
- Czech, Russian, English
- Profile last updated
- 02 July 2012
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
| OSGeo Member | ||
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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
- OSGeo Experience
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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
| OSGeo Member | ||
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| Name: | Stephen Woodbridge |  |
| Job Title: | Owner | |
| Company: | iMaptools.com | |
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| City: | North Chelmsford | |
| State: | MA | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Local Chapter: | North America | |
| Email: | woodbri AT swoodbridge DOT com | |
| Phone: | 1-978-251-4502 | |
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| Personal Description : | Stephen works on PointClouds, Vehicle Routing Problems, Mapserver, pgRouting, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers as well as other open source products. Stephen can be found at iMapTools.com where he provides geospatial products, consulting and advocates OSGeo and OpenSource products to his clients. | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Stephen Woodbridge
Owner, iMaptools.com
Location: North Chelmsford, MA, USA
Stephen works on PointClouds, Vehicle Routing Problems, Mapserver, pgRouting, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers as well as other open source products. Stephen can be found at iMapTools.com where he provides geospatial products, consulting and advocates OSGeo and OpenSource products to his clients. Resume. LinkedIn Profile.
- OSGeo Experience
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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
Latin America
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| Name: | alex borrell | |
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| Address: | Zapopan, Mexico | |
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| Address: | Dorrego, Mendoza, Argentina | |
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Asia
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| Name: | Sanghee Shin |  |
| Job Title: | C.E.O. and President | |
| Company: | Gaia3D, Inc. | |
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| City: | Seoul | |
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| Country: | South Korea | |
| Local Chapter: | Korea | |
| Email: | endofcap@gmail.com | |
| Phone: | +82-2-3397-3475 | |
| Instant Messaging: | Skype: endofcap | |
| Website: | http://www.gaia3d.com/ | |
| Language(s): | Korean; English | |
| Personal Description : | Sanghee Shin is a business man who is managing & running Gaia3D, Inc., a geospatial software company in Korea. He established OSGeo Korean Chapter in 2008 and was elected as a Charter Member of OSGeo Foundation in 2011. He also co-founded KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial), an alliance of commercial open source GIS companies in Korea and has served as chair person of KAOS-G since 2013. He organised International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul as a chairperson. He was elected as Board of Directors, OSGeo. He has actively promoted open source, open standard and open data in Korea and around Asia. He enjoys giving talks about open source GIS and open source business. You can find more at his blog and Facebook | |
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[[Info::Sanghee Shin is a business man who is managing & running Gaia3D, Inc., a geospatial software company in Korea. He established OSGeo Korean Chapter in 2008 and was elected as a Charter Member of OSGeo Foundation in 2011. He also co-founded KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial), an alliance of commercial open source GIS companies in Korea and has served as chair person of KAOS-G since 2013. He organised International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul as a chairperson. He was elected as Board of Directors, OSGeo. He has actively promoted open source, open standard and open data in Korea and around Asia. He enjoys giving talks about open source GIS and open source business. You can find more at his blog and Facebook| ]]
OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Sanghee Shin
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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- Chair of International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
- Founder and representative of OSGeo Korean Language Chapter since 2008
- Charter member of OSGeo Foundation since 2011
- Korean Translator of QGIS
- Organizer of annual FOSS4G Korea conference
- Co-organizer of GeoSpatial Open Source Winter/Summver School in Korea
- Representative of KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial) since 2013
- Member of steering committe of Korea GeoSpatial Forum since 2012
- Numerous presentations about open source GIS and OSGeo
- Contact
- Email: endofcap AT gmail DOT com or shshin AT gaia3d DOT com
- Phone (work): +82-2-3397-3475
- Skype: endofcap
- Spoken Language(s)
- Korean, English
- Profile last updated
- 22nd, November, 2015
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.
OSGeo Translators
- These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.
Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate
Anyone fitting one of the OSGeo Advocate categories, may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
- Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
- 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.