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Aurélio Pires is a Software Engineer and works as a senior GIS consultant in Portugal. +
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Baovola is a Computer Scientist by training. She works at the National Geographic and Hydrographic Institute of Madagascar as an Information System Officer. In 2017, she studied GIS in Brussels. She is a promoter of Open Source and Open Data. She has established the new OSGeo Madagascar Chapter during the FOSS4G 2018. +
Barry is a research fellow in CHICAS, a group of statisticians, epidemiologists, and geneticists at Lancaster University. He has used GIS for over 25 years, and open source exclusively since Y2K. He has served on FOSS4G and OSGeoUK conference committees and contributes to spatial software in R and QGIS. +
I am Arun Thakur, a Performance Live engineer at SLB and a 2023 Graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics. I will be working on implementing the Brandes Betweenness Centrality algorithm from the BGL to pgRouting. +
Former contributor to and committee member of GeoTools, GeoServer, and OSGeo Live. Former OSGeo Charter Member. Retired from all OSGeo activities. +
Ben Webb is a software developer with the Internet of Water (IoW) project at the Lincoln Institute’s Center for Geospatial Solutions. Ben is working to develop core CGS and IoW software for water data management exchange to support state and federal agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations, addressing key climate resilience, conservation, and water management outcomes. Most recently, Ben has been helping develop the second version of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Information System, wis2box, with a focus on reducing the technology barriers for UN member states to share data about weather, climate, and water. A graduate of Colby College with a B.A. in computational biology, he is used to seeking answers to complicated questions by developing software and common data standards. +
Bianca Federici is Professor of Geomatics at the University of Genoa (Italy). She teaches in several courses related to surveying techniques and GIS, with special focus on FOSS solutions. Her research mainly concerns the analysis of geospatial data in GIS and remote sensing for environmental analysis, as well as surveying and monitoring of natural and built environments.
She is currently a member of the executive committee of GFOSS.it. She was co-chair of the FOSS4G 2022 international conference, she organized or participated in the organization of the Italian GRASS GIS Users Meeting in 2007 and 2013, the Italian OSMit2010 Conference and several Italian FOSS4G conferences since 2017. She has been a member of their scientific committees. +
Second year student of B.Tech at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Plan to implement Sloan sparse matrix algorithm to pgRouting as part of Google Summer of Code 2025. +
David Bitner is the founder of dbSpatial and a consultant specializing in open source geospatial application and database development. David is an OSGeo Charter Member and a member of the Sahana Software Foundation Board of Directors. David has served on several conference committees and was the chair of the 2013 FOSS4GNA event in Minneapolis. +
Software architect and Java developer of software that includes geospatial algorithms or integrates with GIS systems. I mainly focus on integrating systems using messing frameworks and Java libraries. User of PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoTools, JTS, QGIS and OpenLayers. Commiter of Hibernate Spatial. +
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Cameron Green is a MSc Geoinformatics student in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria and has actively been involved in OSGeo initiatives and open source technologies since 2017. In 2017, he was selected for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science Undergraduate Mentorship Bursary Program under Prof Serena Coetzee and Dr Victoria Rautenbach. The mentorship bursary was awarded based on academic merit and commitment. Through the program, he assisted with various administrative and technical tasks in the departments. At University, he joined the environmental society, called The Greenline Society. He served on the Executive Council for three years as the Marketing and Publications Manager (2015), Vice-Chairperson (2016) and Chairperson and Residence Director (2017). As part of the Executive Council, he had various responsibilities, such as organised and participated events and coordinating marketing. He is currently the president of the University of Pretoria YouthMappers chapter, and has been instrumental in the arrangements of various mapathons that were held at the University of Pretoria and with school learners in Pretoria.
He was a DST/NRF intern in the Centre for Geoinformation Science under the supervision of Prof Serena Coetzee in 2018. As part of his duties, he was a teaching assistant for GIS310 (Advance GIS), GMT320 (Geoinformatics project) and GIS 311 (Geoinformatics). His main task was to manage and coordinate the practical sessions for the GIS 310 group of 120 students. For GMT 320, he assisted with administration and logistical arrangements with the community of Alaska informal settlement and presents practicals to the students. Through the internship and his honour’s project, he was involved in the Frontiers of Engineering Seed Funding project with King's College London. The aim of the project was to improve the process for collecting volunteered geographic information by interacting with hackathons. For the project, he assisted with the arrangement of mapathons and the development of a wiki for reporting on the process. Additionally, he coordinated with postgraduate students at King's College London to analyse the quality of the data. During this time, he was a facilitator in a UN OpenGIS online course on QGIS and a mentor in the annual Google Code-in.
Currently, he is working as a research assistant in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria. In the 2019 edition of Google Code-in Cameron was a mentor and administrator for OSGeo during this time where he coordinated directly with the participants, mentors and Google to ensure the smooth running of the competition. During his time at the University, he has assisted with and lead workshops where various open source geospatial topics were covered. He has also participated in a number of community outreach and engagement programs. At his university, Cameron is always assisting students with learning open source software and develops material for open source GIS applications that students use and works not only with Geoinformatics students but also students from other degrees. Later this year (2020), Cameron will again be a facilitator in a UN OpenGIS online course on PostGIS.
His current research is an international collaboration between the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Swedish STINT. The focus of this study was to build a collaborative data library for the sharing of fine-grained spatial and non-spatial data. This was achieved by building and configuring a customized GeoNode instance.
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. +
Candan Eylül Kilsedar obtained her BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Sabancı University in 2012 and her MSc degree in Informatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2014. She worked as a research fellow in the GEOlab of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA) at Politecnico di Milano from January 2015 to June 2020, during which time she contributed to various projects, mainly on the urban environment. Some of her projects are available at https://github.com/kilsedar. She obtained her PhD degree with honours on using free and open-source software for multidimensional visualisation and processing of open urban geospatial data at Politecnico di Milano in 2020. She served as the president of PoliMappers from November 2016 to December 2018 and later served as one of its faculty advisors until June 2020. From June 2020 to March 2025, she worked in Directorate D (Sustainable Resources), Unit D.1 (Forests and Bioeconomy) and Unit D.6 (Nature Conservation and Observations), Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation (KCEO) Team of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Currently, she is working as a researcher in the SDG11Lab of DIST at Politecnico di Torino. +
She obtained a Bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering at Medellin University 2006 and an MSc degree in Environmental and Geomatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2012. She was a lecturer at San Buenaventura University in Colombia since 2007 till 2017, working and teaching in the fields of environmental planning and Geographical Information Systems GIS. She finished a PhD in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering at the Hydroinformatics Lab Politecnico di Milano on May 2017. Her work activity is focused on Spatial Data Infrastructures SDI, architecture and design of Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Web Services, Environmental Big Geo-data and Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications FOSS4G. She is a Charter member of OSGeo organization and a member of the organizing committee of FOSS4G Europe 2015.
In May, 2018 she has joined the JRC in Unit E.1 where she is working on the NEEDS OF THE COPERNICUS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICE (CEMS)
Here she is getting expertise to work with large spatial datasets (both physical geographical and socio-economic) and different data formats (e.g., netcdf, ASCII, binary, shapefiles), as well as with GIS (e.g., ArcGIS), Web GIS (e.g. OpenLayers and similar javascript libraries), geospatial web services (e.g. WMS, WPS), python, statistical (e.g. R) and/or image processing software, and spatial/relational database management systems (e.g. ORACLE). +
Head of Data, Professional Services - at CARTO, https://carto.com/ +
I am Chetan Mahajan, a grad student in GeoComputational Systems and IoT Research Group, at Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, IIT Bombay. I will be contributing to istSOSμ support for STAC as a part of GSoC 2024. +
I am an employee at Regional Center of Geo-Informatics and Space Technology, Lower Northern Region, Naresuan University (GISTNU) and I also studying a master degree of Geographic Information Science (GISci) at Naresuan University, Thailand. I studing at Asst.Prof.Dr.Sittichai Choosumrong laboratory. Regarding my working at GISTDA@NU and my topic on my master degree is I am using FOSS4G with my works and my research. Belong to my works at GISTDA@NU, I contribute FOSS4G by giving workshop on QGIS, Openlayers etc. and many participants were attended.
Belong to my study, I doing research based on Open Source Software using FOSS4G, Openlayers, MapServer ,GeoServer, pgRouting, GRASS, ZOO-Project etc.
I have created QGIS community group in Thailand with more than 4,500 members are joining. We usually promote OSGeo in Thailand not only giving workshop but also conducting FOSS4G Thailand conference as a committee member.
Sometime I used to have skype meeting with Prof.Venkatesh Raghavan laboratory at Osaka City University (OCU) in Japan to discusses and share about my works and OCU student works.
I had submitted my proposal title "Bringing pyModis to the web throught ZOO-Project" and it had been accepted on Google Summer of Code 2016. (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/projects/5493393094344704/)
I also used to attend FOSS4G Thailand on December 2015 and now I am focusing only using FOSS4G on my works because FOSS4G is a very powerful tools for my project. +