User:Aross

OSGeo Member
Name:	Andrea Ross
Job Title:	Director
Company:	LocationTech
Address:
City:	Ottawa
State:	Ontario
Country:	Canada
Local Chapter:	Ottawa Chapter
Email:	andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org
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Website:	http://42aross.wordpress.com/
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Personal Description :	Andrea Ross is Director of Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting a large community of open source projects. She is also one of the founders of LocationTech, an ecosystem of R&D collaborators focusing on open source location aware technologies. Andrea is an award winning software architect and technology leader with more than 20 years experience.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

   

Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross

• Director of Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation
• Director, LocationTech

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Ross is Director of Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting a large community of open source projects. She is also one of the founders of LocationTech, an ecosystem of R&D collaborators focusing on open source location aware technologies. Andrea is an award winning software architect and technology leader with more than 20 years experience.

OSGeo Experience

• Charter member since 2008
• Conference Chair for FOSS4G NA 2015
• Conference Producer for FOSS4G NA 2015 and FOSS4G NA 2016
• FOSS4G bid team member for Washington D.C. 2014, Ottawa 2017, Philadelphia 2017
• Conference Chair for Geocamp 2008, 2009, 2010
• Sponsor for FOSS4G 2009, 2013, 2014, Code sprint 2015, GDAL/OGR, OSGeo itself for a few years and many other things.
• Recorded and hosted videos from FOSS4G 2009, FOSS4G 2011, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G 2013, FOSS4G NA 2015
• Led team to develop Ingres' OGC compliant geospatial support in the core DBMS which included contributions to multiple OSGeo projects
• Also led team to add support for Ingres geospatial in Mapserver, Geoserver, GDAL/OGR, ESRI's ArcGIS, and other software
• Long time member in the Ottawa Chapter Local Chapter

Other relevant experience

• Co-founder & helpful elf for the LocationTech Tour, a global series of federated events open & welcoming to all open source geospatial technologies & initiatives
• Co-founder & helpful elf for various intern programs such as UCOSP, Open Academy, etc. Approximately 200+ interns worked on open source geospatial projects.
• Frequent speaker at various events around the world encouraging people to get involved in the ecosystem

Contact

Email: andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org

Twitter: @42aross

LinkedIn: aross

Blog: 42aross

Spoken Languages

English

Profile last updated

10 October 2015