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[[ Mikel | Mikel Maron ]]
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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. |
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[[ Milena Nowotarska | Milena Nowotarska ]]
Name: Milena Nowotarska |
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[[ Misev | Dimitar Misev ]]
Name: Dimitar Misev |
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[[ Mkuhn | Matthias Kuhn ]]
Name: Matthias Kuhn |
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[[ Mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]]
Name: Moritz Lennert |
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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. |
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[[ Mlibman | Malena Libman ]]
Name: Malena Libman |
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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. |
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[[ Mmetz | Markus Metz ]]
Name: Markus Metz |
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GRASS GIS developer, focussing on efficient processing of large datasets, e.g. hydrological modelling, image segmentation, vector network analysis. |
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[[ Moovida | Andrea Antonello ]]
Name: Andrea Antonello |
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[[ Msilikale05 | Msilikale Msilanga ]]
Name: Msilikale Msilanga |
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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. |
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[[ Msmitherdc | Michael Smith ]]
Name: Michael Smith |
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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. |
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[[ Mtravis | Matthew Travis ]]
Name: Matthew Travis |
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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. |
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[[ NOVACITE | Junyoung Choi ]]
Name: Junyoung Choi |
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[[ NathanW | Nathan Woodrow ]]
Name: Nathan Woodrow |
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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. |
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[[ Nikos Alexandris | Nikos Alexandris ]]
Name: Nikos Alexandris |
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- Contributed GRASS-GIS Add-Ons:
(Feb - Mar. 2014)
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[[ Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando ]]
Name: Nimalika Fernando |
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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 |
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[[ Niroshan Bandara | Bandara ]]
Name: Bandara |
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[[ Nobusuke Iwasaki | Nobusuke Iwasaki ]]
Name: Nobusuke Iwasaki |
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[[ Nuno Oliveira | Nuno Oliveira ]]
Name: Nuno Oliveira |
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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. |
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[[ Nyall Dawson | Nyall Dawson ]]
Name: Nyall Dawson |
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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. |
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[[ Olivermay | Oliver May ]]
Name: Oliver May |
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[[ Olt | Oliver Tonnhofer ]]
Name: Oliver Tonnhofer |
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[[ Pablodab | Paolo Dabove ]]
Name: Paolo Dabove |
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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 |
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[[ Pcreso | Brent Wood ]]
Name: Brent Wood |
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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. |
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[[ Pebau | Peter Baumann ]]
Name: Peter Baumann |
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[[ Pedro-Juan Ferrer | Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses ]]
Name: Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses |
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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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[[ Pedromap | Pedro Pereira ]]
Name: Pedro Pereira |
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Pedro is a Geographer and works as a IT and GIS Technician in the Municipality of Guimarães - Portugal. |
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[[ Pedromap | Pedro Pereira ]]
Name: Pedro Pereira |
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Pedro is a Geographer and works as a IT and GIS Technician in the Municipality of Guimarães - Portugal. |
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[[ Perriger | Stefan Steiniger ]]
Name: Stefan Steiniger |
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[[ Peter Loewe | Peter Löwe ]]
Name: Peter Löwe |
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[[ Peter Mooney | Peter Mooney ]]
Name: Peter Mooney |
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[[ Pieterdg | Pieter De Graef ]]
Name: Pieter De Graef |
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[[ Pirmin Kalberer | Pirmin Kalberer ]]
Name: Pirmin Kalberer |
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Pirmin is an active Geospatial Open Source community member since 2002. He works for Sourcepole, a Swiss based commercial Open Source company. |
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[[ Pmeems | Paul Meems ]]
Name: Paul Meems |
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[[ Pvanbosgeo | Paulo van Breugel ]]
Name: Paulo van Breugel |
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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. |
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[[ Pwramsey3 | Paul Ramsey ]]
Name: Paul Ramsey |
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[[ Rafael Moreno | Rafael Moreno ]]
Name: Rafael Moreno |
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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. |
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[[ RajatShinde | Rajat Shinde ]]
Name: Rajat Shinde |
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[[ Ravivundavalli | Ravi Kumar Vundavalli ]]
Name: Ravi Kumar Vundavalli |
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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. |
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[[ Remi.cresson | Remi Cresson ]]
Name: Remi Cresson |
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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:
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[[ Rjhale1971 | Randal Hale ]]
Name: Randal Hale |
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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. |
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[[ Robe | Regina Obe ]]
Name: Regina Obe |
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[[ Rorschach | Ben Hur Pintor ]]
Name: Ben Hur Pintor |
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Ben is an experienced senior consultant and long-time open geospatial advocate who has a wealth of experience as an educator, trainer, and leader in open data, data literacy, and open geospatial. He is the proprietor of BNHR—an open data and open geospatial consultancy in the Philippines—as well as the co-founder of the Civic Literacy Initiative and SmartCT. He supports and takes an active role in the open data and open geospatial communities in the Philippines both as an individual and through his organizations—co-organizing the Pista ng Mapa conference since 2019 and joining several local, regional, and international open geospatial conferences. Through BNHR, he supports the QGIS project as a QGIS certifying organization and as a QGIS Sustaining Member. He works to help build better, fairer, and safer societies through the advancement and use of free and open geospatial data and technologies. |
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[[ Sanand | Suchith Anand ]]
Name: Suchith Anand |
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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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[[ Sanghee | Sanghee Shin ]]
Name: Sanghee Shin |
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[[ Sarasafavi | Sara Safavi ]]
Name: Sara Safavi |
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Sara is a software developer with experience in web and geospatial development, and a frequent speaker in both the Python & geospatial tech communities. Sara is also an active community leader, and has been an organizer for PyLadiesATX, Austin Open Source GIS, and MaptimeATX. |
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[[ ScottC | Scott Clark ]]
Name: Scott Clark |
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I'm a program manager with a background in geospatial analysis and I advocate for the maximum use of open source software in all of the projects I'm responsible for. I've participated in open source projects for a few years now and have an interest in GeoNode, QGIS, GeoWave and GeoGig. One of the projects I worked on is GeoSHAPE (http://geoshape.org). I attend FOSS4G whenever I can for the great community and to keep up on the latest with open source geospatial software. |
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[[ Sdlime | Steve Lime ]]
Name: Steve Lime |
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Steve is one of the principle developers for MapServer and does a fair amount of web application development using MapServer/MapScript, PostGIS, GDAL, GEOS and OpenLayers. |
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[[ Seleneyang | Selene Yang ]]
Name: Selene Yang |
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[[ Siki | Zoltan Siki ]]
Name: Zoltan Siki Experience: |
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[[ Simonmercier | Simon Mercier ]]
Name: Simon Mercier |
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