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Name: Massimiliano Cannata
Job Title: Professor in enginering geomatics
Company: University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
Address: Campus Trevano, Canobbio, Switzerland
Country: Switzerland
City: Canobbio
Local Chapter: Italiano
Coordinate: 46° 1' 36.49" N, 8° 57' 41.35" E
Languages: English, Italian

Experience:

Massimiliano received his PhD in Gedoesy and Geomatics after his master degree in environmental engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Since 2007 he's the head of the geomatic division within the Institute of Earth Sciences (www.ist.supsi.ch) in Switzerland.

He participated in the community since it's inception at various levels. He's a former director of the Open Source Geospatial foundation (OSGeo) and member of the project steering committee of the projects and ZOO (http://www.zoo-project.org). From 2006 to 2016 he was also PSC member of the GIS GRASS (http://grass.osgeo.org). He's group lead the developement of the istSOS project (http://istsos.org) implementing open standards for sensor observation services. Co-chair of the UnitedNation committee and of the Open Geoscience committee.

Name: Mauricio Miranda
Job Title: Geospatial Software Architect
Company: Independent Consultant and FOSS4G Preacher
Country: Argentina
City: Mendoza
Local Chapter: Argentinia
Instant Messaging: Jabber: maurimiranda AT gmail DOT com
Social Media: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mauriciomiranda
Phone: +54-9-2615052948
Coordinate: 32° 54' 53.60" S, 68° 50' 0.06" W
Languages: Spanish, English

Experience:

Mauricio has been a Board Member of the Spanish Local Chapter since 2011, and is very active inside the community, leading and pushing the community in Argentina and Latin America, among others. He organizes and manages meetings and events in Latin America with the aim to spread the word with newcomers and privative software users.

Name: Marco Bernasocchi
Company: OPENGIS.ch GmbH
Country: Switzerland
City: Laax
Instant Messaging: https://twitter.com/mbernasocchi
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/mbernasocchi/, https://fb.com/mbernasocchi
Website: http://berna.io
Coordinate: 46° 48' 40.10" N, 9° 15' 33.41" E
Languages: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Romansh

Experience:

Name: Martin Davis
Job Title: Software Developer
Company: OpenGeo
Country: Canada
City: Victoria
Local Chapter: British Columbia Chapter
Website: http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.ca/
Coordinate: 48° 25' 42.00" N, 123° 21' 53.74" W

Experience:

Name: Simeon H.K. Fitch
Job Title: VP of R&D and Engineering
Company: Astraea, Inc.
Address: 105 Monticello Ave
Country: USA
State: Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Local Chapter: North America
Website: https://astraea.earth
Email: fitch@astraea.io
Coordinate: 38° 1' 40.36" N, 78° 28' 58.91" W

Experience:

Project History:

• GeoRust Core Team Member
• Project Lead for RasterFrames
• Committer on GeoTrellis
• Contributor to GeoMesa.

My current focus is in building the next-generation methodologies and technologies for distributed processing of geospatial data "at scale" using resource-efficient, environmentally-conscious tooling. I'm a co-founder and VP of R&D and Engineering at Astrea, Inc., where lead a team of software engineers delivering modern geospatial applications to multiple commercial verticals.

Name: Hugo Mercier
Job Title: Senior software engineer
Company: Oslandia
Country: France
City: Nantes
Local Chapter: Francophone OSGeo Chapter
Website: http://oslandia.com
Email: hugo.mercier@oslandia.com
Coordinate: 47° 12' 0.11" N, 1° 32' 47.76" W
Languages: french, english

Experience:

Name: Micah Wengren
Job Title: Information Architect/Physical Scientist
Company: NOAA
Address: 1315 E West Hwy
Country: USA
State: Maryland
City: Silver Spring
Coordinate: 38° 59' 32.28" N, 77° 1' 49.44" W

Experience:

Micah works for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and has been a user and supporter of open source geospatial software since the mid-2000's. Micah has worked to integrate GeoServer and GeoNode into NOAA geospatial data publishing workflows. He led a project to enable better multi-user, enterprise deployment for GeoServer with NOAA and OpenGeo in 2012, and contributed code to GeoNode to prototype a data discovery portal as an add on to the NOAA GeoServer hosting system. Since then, Micah has worked primarily in the open data field, supporting the NOAA Data Catalog (https://data.noaa.gov) and the Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS) Catalog (https://data.ioos.us). Micah currently works for the NOAA IOOS office helping manage the data publishing framework for IOOS' ocean observation and forecast data throughout the coastal United States, Pacific Islands and Great Lakes.

Name: Michael Smith
Job Title: Physical Scientist
Company: US Army Corps of Engineers
Country: USA
State: New Hampshire
City: Hanover
Local Chapter: North America
Coordinate: 43° 42' 12.08" N, 72° 17' 18.86" W

Experience:

Michael Smith is a Physical Scientist with the Remote Sensing GIS Center of Expertise at the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory of the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been working as a GIS Specialist for 25 years with the last 13 years very involved with Open Source Geospatial.

Name: Michele Tobias
Job Title: GIS Data Specialist
Company: University of California Davis DataLab & Library
Country: United States
State: California
City: Davis
Local Chapter: California
Coordinate: 38° 32' 22.99" N, 121° 44' 56.85" W

Experience:

Name: Mike Saunt
Job Title: Managing Director
Company: Astun Technology Ltd
Address: 17 West Street
Country: United Kingdom
State: Surrey
City: Epsom
Local Chapter: OSGeo UK
Social Media: https://twitter.com/skepticmike
Website: http://astuntechnology.com
Email: mikesaunt@astuntechnology.com
Phone: +44-1372-744009
Coordinate: 51° 20' 3.05" N, 0° 16' 15.25" W

Experience:

I've been using Open Source GeoSpatial software since 2003, originally with TAB2TAB. In 2005 I setup Astun Technology with the goal of being the leading Open Source GeoSpatial business in the UK.

Working as part of a wide community of developers and users has enriched Astun, so we want to put something back. Astun is committed to supporting the community whether through sponsorship of the OSGeo Foundation or providing support to local chapters such as OSGeo:UK and the events they organise such as the FOSS4G:UK conference and QGIS User Groups.

I believe that the community needs to be well funded to be sustainable and in 2017 Astun contributed in excess of £10,000 to various Open Source projects as sponsorship and / or funding code development. Astun also contributed over 90 man days of our staff’s time in helping with events, code sprints, hacks and other activities.

Name: Mikel Maron
Job Title: Community Team Lead
Company: Mapbox
Address: 1509 16th St NW
Country: USA
State: DC
City: Washington
Local Chapter: North America
Social Media: http://@mikel
Website: http://groundtruth.in/
Email: mikel@mapbox.com
Coordinate: 38° 53' 37.68" N, 77° 0' 52.56" W
Languages: English

Experience:

Mikel leads the Community Team, building diverse collaborations centered on amazing mapping tools and open data, to make positive change on complex, global problems.

As Presidential Innovation Fellow at the US State Department Mikel drove OpenStreetMap adoption across federal agencies. He is co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, co-founder of Map Kibera and GroundTruth Initiative and Board member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. He holds a master’s degree in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from the University of Sussex, and bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz.

Name: Milena Nowotarska
Job Title: Founder
Company: GISTRA
Address: Cyfrowa 6
Country: Polska
City: Szczecin
Local Chapter: Poland
Website: http://gistra.pl
Coordinate: 53° 27' 1.01" N, 14° 32' 11.22" E
Languages: Polish, English

Experience:

Name: Dimitar Misev
Job Title: Postdoc researcher
Company: Constructor University / rasdaman
Country: Germany
City: Bremen
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS e.V.
Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitarmisev
Website: https://dimitarmisev.com/
Coordinate: 53° 9' 58.69" N, 8° 38' 59.75" E
Languages: English, Macedonian

Experience:

Name: Matthias Kuhn
Job Title: Developer
Company: OPENGIS.ch
Address: Landoltstrasse 105
State: Schweiz
City: Bern
Email: matthias@opengis.ch
Coordinate: 46° 45' 28.80" N, 7° 37' 40.80" E

Experience:

Name: Moritz Lennert
Job Title: Secrétaire général
Company: Changements pour l'égalité
Country: Belgium
City: Brussels
Local Chapter: Belgium
Website: https://changement-egalite.be
Coordinate: 50° 48' 46.30" N, 4° 22' 55.88" E
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch

Experience:

After 23 years of activity in geography, GIS and remote sensing, both in academia and in a private company, Moritz has moved to other horizons and now works on social inequalities and their reproduction through school. Even though he now is pretty removed from GIS work, he continues to follow GRASS GIS development and remains available should the need arise.

Name: Malena Libman
Job Title: Geographic Information Sistems Tech
Company: Instittuto Geográfico Nacional
Address: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Country: Argentina
City: Buenos Aires
Local Chapter: Sudamerica
Instant Messaging: @malenilla
Social Media: http://@malenillavv
Email: malena.libman@gmail.com
Coordinate: 34° 34' 20.44" S, 58° 26' 24.98" W
Languages: spanish, english

Experience:

Member of Geoinquietos Argentina, Geochicas OSM and Argentine Cartographic Center. Working in Open Data and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure to spread the word of FLOSS.

Name: Markus Metz
Country: Germany
City: Berlin
Email: markus.metz.giswork@gmail.com
Coordinate: 52° 26' 52.67" N, 13° 17' 0.39" E

Experience:

GRASS GIS developer, focussing on efficient processing of large datasets, e.g. hydrological modelling, image segmentation, vector network analysis.

Name: Andrea Antonello
Job Title: Tech lead
Company: HydroloGIS
Address: Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italia
Country: Italia
City: Bolzano
Local Chapter: Italiano
Social Media: http://twitter.com/themoovida
Website: http://www.andreaantonello.com/
Email: andrea.antonello@gmail.com
Coordinate: 46° 29' 50.51" N, 11° 20' 56.34" E
Languages: Italian, German, English

Experience:

Name: Msilikale Msilanga
Job Title: GeoSpatial Consultant
Company: World Bank
Address: Manzese Tip Top - Dar es Salaam
Country: Tanzania
City: Dar es Salaam
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS e.V.
Instant Messaging: msilikalemsilanga
Social Media: https://twitter.com/msilikale05
Website: http://msilikalemsilanga.wordpress.com
Email: msilikalemsilanga@gmail.com
Coordinate: 6° 48' 58.79" S, 39° 16' 35.90" E
Languages: Swahili, English, Spanish

Experience:

Msilikale Msilanga is a spatial planner by professional from Tanzania but have more experiences from Europe and Latin America based on the same field. He has been working at the World Bank since 2011 as the Geospatial consultant before he went to have his Masters for two years. Now he is back at the World Bank supporting the open data team and more mapping projects in Tanzania Zambia and Mozambique. For more than five years, he has been working with the local communities in Dar es salaam helping them to map their own areas using OSM. Through these maps which are mostly in the informal settlements, more issues facing the community has been identified and more projects have been identified one of them being Ramani Huria. He is currently a Co-chair for FOSS4G 2018 which will be conducted in Dar es Salaam in 2018.

Name: Michael Smith
Job Title: Physical Scientist
Company: US Army Corps of Engineers
Country: USA
State: New Hampshire
City: Hanover
Local Chapter: North America
Coordinate: 43° 42' 12.08" N, 72° 17' 18.86" W

Experience:

Michael Smith is a Physical Scientist with the Remote Sensing GIS Center of Expertise at the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory of the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been working as a GIS Specialist for 25 years with the last 13 years very involved with Open Source Geospatial.

Name: Matthew Travis
Job Title: GIS Officer
Company: Dartmoor National Park Authority
Address: 1 Bedford Grove
Country: United Kingdom
State: Devon
City: Ivybridge
Local Chapter: OSGeo UK
Email: matt.travis1@gmail.com
Coordinate: 50° 23' 24.72" N, 3° 55' 13.44" W

Experience:

Open Source advocate currently helping Dartmoor National Park with all things spatial. I have experience with an open source stack consisting of: QGIS, PostGIS, Leaflet, & Geoserver

I also help to run the UK QGIS user group; specifically in the South West. Looking to hold more meet ups around open source tools in general. If you're interested please get in touch.

Name: Junyoung Choi
Job Title: Research Fellow
Company: Seoul Institute of Technology(SIT)
Address: Maebongsan-ro 37
Country: Korea
State: Seoul
City: Mapo-gu
Local Chapter: Korea
Instant Messaging: Skype:Choi-jun-young
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/junyoung.choi.50159
Coordinate: 37° 34' 33.90" N, 126° 53' 26.00" E
Languages: Korean, English, Basic French(DELF A2), Basic Japanese(Reading)

Experience:

Name: Nathan Woodrow
Job Title: Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist
Company: Digital Mapping Solutions
Country: Australia
City: Warwick
Local Chapter: Aust-NZ
Instant Messaging: Skype: madmanwoo
Social Media: https://twitter.com/madmanwoo, https://plus.google.com/109990125267312011029, http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanw
Website: http://nathanw.com/
Coordinate: 28° 12' 45.77" S, 152° 1' 55.83" E
Languages: English

Experience:

Nathan is a active core developer and promoter of QGIS. He is an advocate of using open source solutions in local government, promoting its use to save money, add flexibility in workflows, and allow greater freedom from vendor lock in.

Name: Nikos Alexandris
Country: Italiano
City: Cadrezzate;
Instant Messaging: skype nikos.alexandris
Social Media: https://github.com/NikosAlexandris, https://gitlab.com/NikosAlexandris, https://twitter.com/#!/NikAlexandris
Website: http://nikosalexandris.net/xpress
Languages: Ελληνικά, Deutsch, English, Français

Experience:

- Contributed GRASS-GIS Add-Ons:

• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/i.fusion.hpf.html
• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/i.landsat8.swlst.html
• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/i.nightlights.intercalibration.html

• Talks in FOSSCOMM 2014, in Greek, about "Προ-Επεξεργασία Δορυφορικών Εικόνων Υψηλής Ανάλυσης με το GRASS-GIS, Παράδειγμα Χρησιμοποιώντας Εικόνες QuickBird2", Lamia, Greece

(Feb - Mar. 2014)

• Talks about GRASS-GIS in TERI University, Delhi, India

• Talks about GRASS-GIS in Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

• Held a workshop titled "Processing High Resolution Satellite Imagery with GRASS-GIS, An Example Using QuickBird2 Imagery" in Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

Name: Nimalika Fernando
Company: OSGeo Lab of SLIIT , Sri Lanka
Country: Sri Lanka
City: Colombo
Social Media: http://mrt.academia.edu/NimalikaFernando, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nimalika-fernando/13/828/53b
Coordinate: 6° 54' 10.60" N, 79° 51' 39.87" E
Languages: Sinhala, English

Experience:

Nimalika has moved to Open source GIS in 2006 as a novice user and application developer in her research studies related to web-mapping. Since then she has been involved in adopting OSGeo tools in teaching, research and spreading the use of them (particularly QGIS, MapServer, PostgreSQL, OSM ) in Sri Lanka. She is interested in integrating open source GIS solutions in solving locally important problems and linking different organizations with OSGeo products. she is an academic with more than 14 years experience. At present she is a Phd candidate at Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Name: Bandara
Job Title: Student
Company: Osaka City University
Country: Sri Lanka
City: Osaka
Coordinate: 34° 35' 30.84" N, 135° 30' 19.44" E
Languages: English, Sinhalese, Japanese

Experience:

Name: Nobusuke Iwasaki
Job Title: Senior Researcher
Company: National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
Country: Japan
City: Tsukuba
Local Chapter: Japan
Instant Messaging: Skype: wata909
Website: http://cse.niaes.affrc.go.jp/niwasaki/
Coordinate: 36° 6' 43.20" N, 140° 4' 26.40" E

Experience:

Name: Nuno Oliveira
Job Title: Software Engineer
Company: GeoSolutions
Country: Portugal
City: Celorico de Basto
Local Chapter: Portugal
Instant Messaging: Skype: nmcarvalhooliveira
Social Media: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nuno-oliveira-geo
Website: http://www.geo-solutions.it/
Email: nmco51845@gmail.com
Coordinate: 41° 23' 28.83" N, 7° 59' 55.20" W
Languages: English, Portuguese, French

Experience:

Nuno earned his BS and MS in Software Engineering from University of Minho. He started is career in the telecommunications industry by developing solutions for managing and monitoring telecommunications infrastructures. Currently he works at GeoSolutions were he develops advanced solutions for GIS challenges using open source software. In the last years he focused on distributed systems, big data technologies and GIS. He contributes to several open source projects and is a commiter of GeoServer, MapStore and GeoTools.

Name: Nyall Dawson
Job Title: Lead Developer/Proprietor
Company: North Road Consulting Pty Ltd
Country: Australia
State: QLD
City: Brisbane
Local Chapter: Aust-NZ
Social Media: https://twitter.com/nyalldawson
Website: https://north-road.com/
Email: nyall@north-road.com
Coordinate: 26° 41' 35.54" S, 153° 6' 33.12" E
Languages: English

Experience:

Nyall has been a core developer with the QGIS project since 2013. During this time he has contributed over 5000 commits to the project, and today is one of the most active developers on the project. Nyall's contributions to QGIS cover a wide range of areas - from improvements to the map rendering and symbology engines, enhancements to labeling and print layout functionality, right through to optimisations of the underlying spatial processing algorithms utilised by QGIS. He is dedicated to making QGIS a unique tool capable of creating cartographic effects which to date have not been available in GIS software applications.

Nyall is currently the proprietor and lead developer at North Road Consulting, an Australian spatial development consultancy which predominantly focus on investing in and promoting use of open source GIS applications.

Name: Oliver May
Job Title: Product owner
Company: Flemish government agency: Digitaal Vlaanderen
Country: Belgium
City: Gent
Local Chapter: Belgium
Email: oliver.may@geomajas.org
Coordinate: 51° 3' 13.50" N, 3° 43' 24.32" E
Languages: Dutch, English, French

Experience:

Name: Oliver Tonnhofer
Job Title: Software Engineer
Company: Omniscale
Country: Germany
City: Oldenburg
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS e.V.
Website: http://omniscale.de/
Coordinate: 53° 8' 15.86" N, 8° 13' 1.96" E
Languages: English, German

Experience:

Name: Paolo Dabove
Job Title: Associate Professor
Company: Politecnico di Torino - Department of Environment, Land, and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
Address: Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24
Country: Italiano
City: Turin
Local Chapter: Italiano
Instant Messaging: Skype: pablodab
Email: paolo.dabove@polito.it
Phone: +39-0110907662
Coordinate: 45° 3' 44.86" N, 7° 39' 44.82" E
Languages: Italian, English

Experience:

Paolo has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino since 2021. His principal research interests are in quality control of GNSS positioning, monitoring techniques with Geomatics instruments, low-cost INS and GNSS systems for mobile mapping, and indoor positioning for navigation purposes. Paolo Dabove has over 60 scientific papers in international and Italian journals and proceedings and also has five book chapters in international books. He has been the President of the GFOSS.it association, the Italian OSGeo Local Chapter, since February 2020.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-523X Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ewFGj3kAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao

Name: Brent Wood
Job Title: Programme Leader for Environmental Information Delivery
Company: NIWA
Country: New Zealand
City: Wellington
Local Chapter: Aust-NZ
Instant Messaging: Skype: pcreso
Coordinate: 41° 16' 55.20" S, 174° 58' 8.40" E
Languages: English

Experience:

Brent Wood has worked in fisheries/marine/environmental research for 40 years, and for almost half of this time he used Open Source tools for spatial data management, analysis and visualisation. He has been a NZ Open Source Society Council member for several years, as well as an active Wellington Linux User Group member and Installfest organiser. He has been a regular presenter at FOSS4G since 2009, and was a finalist in the 2010 NZOSA awards for a web mapping portal using Silverstripe, Postgis. mapserver and Geonetwork which provided public access to research data and reports.

Brent manages the NIWA QGIS Users Group, which is currently acting as the NZ QGIS User Group, and is an active participant in the Wellington Postgres Users Group (with a focus on Postgis). He is also interested in the use of R as a GIS/spatial analysis & mapping tool. His platform of choice is Linix, and has several years experience is setting up and using Linux based GIS workstations.

Name: Peter Baumann
Job Title: Professor of Computer Science
Company: Jacobs University
Country: Germany
City: Bremen
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS e.V.
Instant Messaging: Skype: pefrabau
Social Media: http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbaumann
Website: http://www.rasdaman.com/
Coordinate: 53° 10' 4.04" N, 8° 39' 14.00" E
Languages: German, English, Spanish

Experience:

Name: Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
Job Title: Project Manager
Company: Geographica SL
Address: Valencia, Spain
Country: Spain
City: Valencia
Local Chapter: Capítulo Local de la comunidad hispano-hablante
Email: pferrer@osgeo.org
Coordinate: 39° 27' 25.20" N, 0° 23' 35.52" W

Experience:

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)

Name: Pedro Pereira
Job Title: IT and GIS Technician
Company: CMGuimarães
Country: Portugal
City: Guimarães
Local Chapter: Portugal
Email: pedromap@gmail.com
Coordinate: 41° 26' 38.87" N, 8° 17' 34.22" W

Experience:

Pedro is a Geographer and works as a IT and GIS Technician in the Municipality of Guimarães - Portugal.

Name: Pedro Pereira
Job Title: IT and GIS Technician
Company: CMGuimarães
Country: Portugal
City: Guimarães
Local Chapter: Portugal
Email: pedromap@gmail.com
Coordinate: 41° 26' 38.87" N, 8° 17' 34.22" W

Experience:

Pedro is a Geographer and works as a IT and GIS Technician in the Municipality of Guimarães - Portugal.

Name: Stefan Steiniger
Job Title: GIS/c Researcher
Company: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Country: Chile
City: Santiago de Chile
Local Chapter: Sudamerica
Coordinate: 33° 26' 30.37" S, 70° 38' 25.10" W
Languages: German, English, Spanish

Experience:

Name: Peter Löwe
Job Title: Head of Research Infrastructure
Company: DIW Berlin
Country: Germany
City: Potsdam
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS e.V.
Instant Messaging: skype: peter.loewe
Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe/
Website: http://www.gisix.com
Email: ploewe@osgeo.org
Coordinate: 52° 24' 0.00" N, 13° 4' 0.00" E
Languages: German, English

Experience:

Name: Peter Mooney
Job Title: Senior Researcher
Company: Maynooth Unversity
Country: Ireland
Local Chapter: Ireland
Website: http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney
Coordinate: 53° 22' 47.36" N, 6° 35' 47.38" W
Languages: English

Experience:

Name: Pieter De Graef
Job Title: Software Engineer
Company: Geosparc
Country: Belgium
City: Gent
Local Chapter: Belgium
Website: http://www.geosparc.com/
Coordinate: 51° 2' 18.01" N, 3° 43' 13.75" E
Languages: Dutch, English, Java

Experience:

Name: Pirmin Kalberer
Job Title: Co-founder and Managing director
Company: Sourcepole
Country: Switzerland
City: Zurich
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS e.V.
Coordinate: 47° 22' 19.18" N, 8° 32' 29.50" E

Experience:

Pirmin is an active Geospatial Open Source community member since 2002. He works for Sourcepole, a Swiss based commercial Open Source company.

Name: Paul Meems
Job Title: Product manager Open-Source GIS and Sr. GIS Consultant
Company: TopX Geo-ICT
Country: The Netherlands
City: Hoogezand
Local Chapter: OSGeo.NL
Instant Messaging: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/paulmeems/
Social Media: https://twitter.com/mapwindow nl
Coordinate: 53° 9' 47.11" N, 6° 43' 35.00" E
Languages: Dutch, English

Experience:

Name: Paulo van Breugel
Company: HAS University of Applied Science
Country: The Netherlands
City: 's-Hertogenbosch
Local Chapter: Dutch
Social Media: https://pvanb.wordpress.com/
Website: http://ecodiv.earth
Coordinate: 51° 43' 20.68" N, 5° 14' 59.74" E
Languages: Dutch, English, Portugues

Experience:

My main research interests are forest and landscape ecology, biogeography, and conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and natural resources. I have worked for international research (Bioversity, ICRAF, ILRI) institutes in Syria, Brazil and Kenya. I am currently working as freelance researcher on ecology & biodiversity and GIS/spatial analyst.

Name: Paul Ramsey
Job Title: Geospatial Architect
Company: Boundless
Country: Canada
State: British Columbia
City: Victoria
Local Chapter: British Columbia Chapter
Coordinate: 48° 25' 40.80" N, 123° 21' 50.40" W

Experience:

Name: Rafael Moreno
Job Title: Associate Professor
Company: University of Colorado Denver
Address: 1200 Larimer St NC 3016-C
Country: USA
State: Colorado
City: Denver
Website: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno
Email: Rafael.Moreno@ucdenver.edu
Coordinate: 39° 44' 31.87" N, 105° 0' 16.58" W
Languages: English, Spanish

Experience:

Rafael Moreno received his B.S. in Forestry from the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico in 1982 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University in 1987 and1992 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at University of Colorado Denver (UCD). He teaches courses in GISscience and Technology, environmental science, land use planning and sustainability in natural resources management. He leads the FOSS4G lab at UCD. His current research concentrates on the analysis of fragmentation and anthropogenic pressure on forest areas, Decision Support Systems for forest management, and the use of FOSS/FOSS4G for creating local and Web-based spatial information systems.

Name: Rajat Shinde
Job Title: Ph.D. Student
Company: IIT Bombay
Address: IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai
Country: India
State: Maharashtra
City: Mumbai
Local Chapter: India
Instant Messaging: skype: rajatshinde2303
Website: http://home.iitb.ac.in/~rajatshinde
Email: rajatshinde2303@gmail.com
Phone: +91-9987088349
Coordinate: 19° 8' 0.24" N, 72° 54' 47.88" E
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi

Experience:

• Contributed as GSoC 2020 Org Admin for OSGeo
• Contributed as GSoC 2019 and GCI 2019 Mentor for OSGeo
• Contributed as GSoC 2018 Mentor for OSGeo
• Attended FOSS4G-Asia 2017 conference held at Hyderabad, India. Presented SPark- an open-source smart parking web-app using IoT and pgRouting.
• Added audio, video, and SOS input support for the MapMint4ME in the Google Summer of Code 2017 as a student.

Name: Ravi Kumar Vundavalli
Job Title: Director (retired)
Company: Geological Survey of India
Address: Bandlaguda Hyderabad 500068
Country: India
City: Rajahmundry
Local Chapter: India
Instant Messaging: Skype:ravivundavalli
Social Media: http://Ravi Kumar @jumpindia
Website: https://www.cerg.in/indiangeoparks
Coordinate: 17° 0' 1.94" N, 81° 48' 14.52" E
Languages: English, Telugu, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali

Experience:

Evangelist of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). FOSS GIS teacher. Trained more than a hundred Geologists of Geological Survey of India, as head of it's training division at Hyderabad, India. Currently developing FOSS GIS for transparent administration in India. 'mana-rajahmundry.org', is a website developed for society with various themes like roads, toilets, schools, drainage etc. A similar website is being prepared for the City of Mysuru, http://www.mana-rajahmundry.org/namma-mysuru/. Being a Geologist mapping the districts of Godavari, Andhra Pradesh for Free Geological Geospatial data. GeoheritageIndia.org, which will generate GIS related locations of Geological significance, is in the making. Present Interest: 'Crowd-sourcing', with Android smart phones, for various societal needs is present endeavour. Open Data Kit (ODK) and OSMAND are used for 'Mobile-GIS', with training workshops. Building specific forms/questionnaires for crowd-sourcing Geospatial data is also in progress. As A Geologist: Experience from mapping Western Himalayas, Sikkim Himalayas, Glacier Mapping and Water Budgeting of Zemu Glacier, North Sikkim started career in early seventies. Mapping eastern Ghats and the Bauxite contained there in Odisha State, is a favorite memory while Exploring Deep-Seas for Poly-Metalic nodules, and near shore Placer Minerals (Monazite, Ilmenite, Garnet)of Bay of Bengal, Off Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coasts is a more recent thrust.

Name: Remi Cresson
Job Title: Research engineer
Company: IRSTEA
Country: France
City: Montpellier
Local Chapter: Francophone OSGeo Chapter
Website: https://gitlab.irstea.fr/remi.cresson, https://github.com/remicres/
Coordinate: 43° 38' 43.08" N, 3° 52' 36.84" E

Experience:

Remi Cresson has received the M. Sc. in electrical engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG), France, 2009. He is with IRSTEA (french National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture), for research and development in the field of remote sensing image processing, including (but not restricted to) High Performance Computing and geospatial data infrastructures. Involved in open source projects:

• Member of the Orfeo ToolBox Project Steering Committee,
• Developper of the ZOO-Project WPS server
• User of QGIS, GDAL

Name: Randal Hale
Job Title: GIS Person
Company: North River Geographic Systems, Inc
Country: United States
State: TN
City: Chattanooga
Local Chapter: Southeast US
Social Media: http://www.twitter.com/rjhale, http://www.linkedin.com/in/randalhale/
Coordinate: 35° 2' 44.27" N, 85° 18' 34.85" W

Experience:

Randal Hale is the owner of North River Geographic Systems, Inc. He's been active in the QGIS Community by participating in beta testing and answering questions on the QGIS mailing list. He's also developed QGIS classes that target people active in the GIS Community.