User:Aross

Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross

Director of Ecosystems, Eclipse Foundation

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Ross is Director of Ecosystems at the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting a large community of more than 270 open source projects. He is also one of the founders of the LocationTech working group, a network of business and technology partners focusing on open source location technologies. Andrew is an award winning software architect and technology leader with 20 years experience.

OSGeo Experience

• 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
• Conference Chair for Geocamp 2008, 2009, 2010
• Recorded and hosted videos from FOSS4G 2009, FOSS4G 2011, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec
• Long time active member in the Ottawa Chapter Local Chapter

Other relevant experience

• Freeseer project lead and committer
• FOSSLC founder and President
• Director of LocationTech
• Director at the Eclipse Foundation

Contact

Email: andrew DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org

Twitter: @42aross

LinkedIn: aross

Blog: 42aross

Spoken Languages

English

Profile last updated

31 July 2012