OSGeo Advocate

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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.

OSGeo Advocates

This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:

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:
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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:

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OSGeo Member
Name: Jody Garnett Jg16.jpg
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Address:
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:

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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

Europe

OSGeo Member
Name: Arnulf Christl
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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:
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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.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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Profile last updated
January 2022
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
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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: 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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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

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:
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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:

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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

Pedro-Juan Ferrer

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

LinkedIn profile

OSGeo Experience

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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: Lluís Vicens
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Address: Girona
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OSGeo Member
Name: Suchith Anand Suchith anand.jpg
Job Title: Consultant
Company:
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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
OSGeo Member
Name: Jo Cook Dec 2017.jpg
Job Title: Data Officer
Company: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Address:
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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 and Roles:

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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
Company:
Address:
City: Worthing
State: W. Sussex
Country: United Kingdom
Local Chapter: [[|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
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:

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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: 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 Experience
Profile last updated
17 April 2020
OSGeo Member
Name: Argyros Argyridis Arargyridis.jpg
Job Title: PhD Student
Company: Remote Sensing Laboratory, NTUA
Address:
City: Athens
State:
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:
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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.

OSGeo Experience

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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: Anne Ghisla Aghisla-profile-pic.jpg
Job Title:
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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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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: Andrea Aime
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OSGeo Member
Name: Margherita Di Leo
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OSGeo Member
Name: Victor Olaya Volaya.jpg
Job Title: Developer
Company: Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX
Address:
City: Auch
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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: 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
Phone:
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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: 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
Phone:
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Website:
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: Vasile Crăciunescu Vasile craciunescu.jpg
Job Title: Researcher
Company: Romanian National Meteorological Administration
Address: Bucharest, Romania
City: Bucharest
State:
Country: Romania
Local Chapter: Romanian
Email: vasile AT geo-spatial DOT org
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website: http://ro.linkedin.com/in/vasilecraciunescu
Language(s):
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: 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

Canada

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
OSGeo Member
Name: Daniel Morissette
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United States

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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Brian M Hamlin

OSGeo Member
Name: Brian M Hamlin BrianPortrait1.jpg
Job Title: Project Director
Company: California Open Data ECN
Address:
City: Berkeley
State: CA
Country: USA
Local Chapter: California Chapter
Email: maplabs AT- light42 DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
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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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
dbb

Location: Berkeley, CA USA

"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my abilities as a speaker, investigator, coder and event organizer 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 conference 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

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Contact
Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
IRC: darkblue_b dbb
Profile last updated
04 July 2012

Mark Lucas

Mark Lucas
Job Title
Principal Scientist, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
Location
Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA

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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.

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  • Current member of Board of Directors
  • Founding member of Board of Directors
  • OSGeo Charter Member
  • OSGeo Incubation committee
  • OSGeo Advocate
  • OSSIM Program Steering committee
  • OSGeo Advocate


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: Ragi Yaser Burhum
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Address: San Francisco, USA
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OSGeo Member
Name: Alex Mandel, Phd OSGeo compass300.png
Job Title: Geospatial Scientist
Company: Geography, University of California, Davis
Address:
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
Language(s):
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

Alex

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: 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

Latin America

OSGeo Member
Name: alex borrell
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Address: Zapopan, Mexico
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OSGeo Member
Name: Mauricio Miranda
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Address: Dorrego, Mendoza, Argentina
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OSGeo Member
Name: Stefan Steiniger Ssteinig.jpg
Job Title: GIS/c Researcher
Company: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Address:
City: Santiago de Chile
State:
Country: Chile
Local Chapter: Sudamerica
Email: sstein AT geo DOT uzh DOT ch - and temporary: - ssteiniger AT uc DOT cl
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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

Asia

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| ]]

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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

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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: 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.

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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

Africa

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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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

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.png OSGeo exboard.png 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.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.

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 Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

OSGeo coder.png OSGeo committee.png Developers and Committee Members

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.

OSGeo translate.png 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:

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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.