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.

Australia

OSGeo Member
Name:	Cameron Shorter
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:
Instant Messaging:
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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URIs of the form "cameron shorter AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

More at http://cameron.shorter.net/resume.html

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jody Garnett
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Victoria
State:
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:

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.

OSGeo Experience

@jodygarnett@fosstodon.org
How 2 Map (open source spatial blog on blogger)
Twitter
LinkedIn

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":

Incubation Committee (OSGeo) Chair
Victoria GeoGeeks (Victoria)
Slideshare - presentations from events world wide
LocationTech (Eclipse Foundation Industry Working Group)
FOSS4G 2009 organizational committee
FOSS4G 2007 organizational committee
Board_of_Directors (OSGeo) - Prior Chair
GeoRabble - (Brisbane and Sydney)
OSGeo Aust-NZ Open Source Geospatial Chapter

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:Germany

OSGeo Member
Name:	Arnulf Christl
Job Title:
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Address:	Tharpaling, Germany
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Astrid Emde
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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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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URIs of the form "astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org" are not allowed. [[Info::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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Profile last updated: January 2022

OSGeo Member
Name:	Dimitar Misev
Job Title:	Postdoc researcher
Company:	Constructor University / rasdaman
Address:
City:	Bremen
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	misev AT rasdaman DOT com
Phone:
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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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URIs of the form "misev AT rasdaman DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::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.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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

OSGeo Experience

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:	Stefan Tzeggai
Job Title:	CTO
Company:	wikisquare, empirica-systeme GmbH
Address:
City:	Tübingen
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	tzeggai@empirica-systeme.de
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	stefan.tzeggai@chat.empirica-systeme.de
Website:	https://www.empirica-systeme.de/
Language(s):	German; English; Spanish
Personal Description :	Steve is a Java developer. Since 2007 he has run wikisquare, a company specialized on free Java software, GIS, and statistics. Since 2008 he has been the main developer of the AtlasStyler SLD editor. In 2011 he participated in the foundation of empirica systeme GmbH, a company specialized in observing and mapping the German real estate market.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Stefan Tzeggai

OSGeo Experience

Core developer of AtlasStyler, an OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) / SE 1.1 editor based on Swing and Geotools.
Core developer of Geopublisher is an atlas authoring system which simplifies the creation of multimedia atlases for online and offline use.
Minimal development but power-user of Geotools and Geoserver.

Contact: Business contact mailto:tzeggai(æ)wikisquare.de; XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/StefanAlfons_Tzeggai; LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanalfonskrueger; Twitter for AtlasStyler and Geopublisher: http://twitter.com/geopublishing

Spoken Language(s): German, English, Spanish

Profile last updated: 11 November 2015

OSGeo Member
Name:	Thomas Baschetti
Job Title:
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Address:
City:	Osnabrück
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	info AT thomas-baschetti.de
Phone:	+49 541 259190
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://thomas-baschetti.de/
Language(s):	German; English
Personal Description :	Thomas is a freelancer doing all kind of GIS and database stuff, especially helping people to migrate from proprietary to free software, connecting different systems and getting things to work.
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URIs of the form "info AT thomas-baschetti.de" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Thomas Baschetti

Location: Osnabrück, Germany

Thomas is a freelancer doing all kind of GIS and database stuff, especially helping people to migrate from proprietary to free software, connecting different systems and getting things to work.

OSGeo Experience

Member of the Mapbender Team
Involved in the translation of OSGeo-Live Project.
active member of local Osgeo chapter in Germany FOSSGIS e.V.
User: Mapbender, MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS

Contact: Email: info AT thomas-baschetti.de; Phone: +49 541 259190

Spoken Language(s): German, English, very basic Italian

Profile last updated: 09 July 2012

Europe:The Netherlands

OSGeo Member
Name:	Milo van der Linden
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Address:	Vught, The Netherlands
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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
Phone:
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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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

Europe:Spain

Jorge Sanz

OSGeo Member
Name:	Jorge Sanz
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:

OSGeo Charter Member since 2008
Current co-admin of the OSGeo planet
Member of the News Queue Team
Member of the Marketing Committee

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
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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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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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

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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Europe:United Kingdom

OSGeo Member
Name:	Suchith Anand
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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
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
Phone:
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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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[[Company::Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative| ]] [[Website::https://www.archaeogeek.com| ]] [[Info::Data Officer at Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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
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
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
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:

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:	Steven Feldman
Job Title:	Principal
Company:	KnowWhere Consulting
Address:
City:	London
State:
Country:	UK
Local Chapter:	[[OSGeo:UK\|OSGeo:UK]]
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	https://www.knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Steven Feldman was Managing Director of GDC, a UK local government specialist and subsequently of MapInfo UK. He now mentors startups and advises businesses in the location space while focussing his spare time on Open Data and Open Source projects including the OSM-GB project at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute. Steven is currently a strategic advisor to Astun Technology, chairman of geo.me Solutions, past chairman of Exprodat Consulting and a board advisor at OpenCage Data. Steven was the Chair of the LOC for FOSS4G 2013. He is a recent past chair the Conference Committee and is active in OSGeo:UK, the UK local chapter Steven is a regular presenter on geo and open topics, some slide decks are here. He tends to tweet too much as @stevenfeldman
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[[LocalChapter::OSGeo:UK| ]] [[Info::Steven Feldman was Managing Director of GDC, a UK local government specialist and subsequently of MapInfo UK. He now mentors startups and advises businesses in the location space while focussing his spare time on Open Data and Open Source projects including the OSM-GB project at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute.

Steven is currently a strategic advisor to Astun Technology, chairman of geo.me Solutions, past chairman of Exprodat Consulting and a board advisor at OpenCage Data.

Steven was the Chair of the LOC for FOSS4G 2013. He is a recent past chair the Conference Committee and is active in OSGeo:UK, the UK local chapter

Steven is a regular presenter on geo and open topics, some slide decks are here. He tends to tweet too much as @stevenfeldman| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Contact: Email: via KnowWhere; via twitter

Spoken Language: English

Profile last updated: 7th April 2021

Europe:Greece

OSGeo Member
Name:	Angelos Tzotsos
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 and Roles:

OSGeo Experience

OSGeo-Live. PSC Chair, OSGeo Project Officer, Build manager and Core Developer.
pycsw. OSGeo Project Officer, PSC Member and Core Developer.
pygeoapi. PSC Member and Contributor.
GeoNode. Core Developer.
Orfeo Toolbox. Developer.
ZOO-Project. PSC Member and Developer.
QGIS. Contributor and Plugin Developer (DigitizingTools, MetaSearch, CadTools)
Data.gov USA open data catalog (based on CKAN and pycsw). Developer.
Geodata.gov.gr Greek open data catalog (based on PublicaMundi) . Scientific and Technical Coordinator, Core Developer.
OWSlib. Developer.
MapServer. Packager.
GRASS GIS. Packager.
openSUSE Official Member, Geospatial Package Maintainer.
UbuntuGIS. Member and Package Maintainer.
DebianGIS. Package Contributor.
Gnorasi (Orfeo Toolbox external project). Core developer.
MSEG. Personal project.
GIMED. Personal project.

Profile last updated: 17 April 2020

OSGeo Member
Name:	Argyros Argyridis
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:
Instant Messaging:
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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URIs of the form "arargyridis at gmail dot com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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
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:
Instant Messaging:
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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URIs of the form "kotzino at gmail dot com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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

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

Europe:Italy

OSGeo Member
Name:	Anne Ghisla
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Berlin
State:	Berlin
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Reggiolo
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Margherita Di Leo
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Ispra, VA, Italy
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Luca Delucchi
Job Title:	GIS Technician
Company:	Fondazione Edmund Mach
Address:
City:	San Michele all'Adige
State:
Country:	Italy
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com
Phone:	+39 0461615570
Instant Messaging:	Skype: lucadelu
Website:
Language(s):	Italian; English; French
Personal Description :	Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor. He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board. He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19
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URIs of the form "lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor.

He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board.

He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

He is involved in the following projects:

GRASS GIS: developer and Italian translator
QGIS: I developed and contributed to some plugin (OGR2Layers, QuickMultiAttributeEdit)
ZOO-project: beta tester and documentation
pyModis: main developer library to download and works with MODIS data
From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member of GFOSS.it (Associazione Italiana per il Software Geografico Libero), the Italian OSGeo local chapter. From November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. He still continue to be part of the board.
Actively participating in OpenStreetMap and promoting OpenStreetMap in Italy organizing a lot of events
Since 2011, he has been an OSGeo Charter Member
OSGeo-Live, helping in documentation and Italian Translation

He know and use the following Free and Open Source Project:

Desktop
- GRASS GIS
- QGIS
Database
- PostGIS
- Spatialite
Web Server
- MapServer
- GeoDjango
- ZOO-Project
- IstSOS
Web client
- OpenLayers
- Leaflet
Other tools
- Mapnik
- mkgmap

Spoken Language(s)

Italian (mother tongue), English, a little bit of French

Profile last updated

2021 April 7

OSGeo Member
Name:	Andrea Antonello
Job Title:	Tech lead
Company:	HydroloGIS
Address:	Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italia
City:	Bolzano
State:
Country:	Italia
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	andrea.antonello@gmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://www.andreaantonello.com/
Language(s):	Italian; German; English
Personal Description :	I'm an environmental engineer addicted to GIS development playing in the field of hydrologic and geomorphologic modelling with gvSIG and the Hortonmachine. Since 2005 I'm cofounder of HydroloGIS, were we mainly develop around and make advanced use of gvSIG, Hortonmachine and Geopaparazzi.
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[[Info::I'm an environmental engineer addicted to GIS development playing in the field of hydrologic and geomorphologic modelling with gvSIG and the Hortonmachine.

Since 2005 I'm cofounder of HydroloGIS, were we mainly develop around and make advanced use of gvSIG, Hortonmachine and Geopaparazzi.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Andrea Antonello

Tech lead, HydroloGIS

Location: Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italia

I'm an environmental engineer addicted to GIS development playing in the field of hydrologic and geomorphologic modelling with gvSIG and the Hortonmachine.

Since 2005 I'm cofounder of HydroloGIS, were we mainly develop around and make advanced use of gvSIG, uDig, Hortonmachine and Geopaparazzi.

OSGeo Experience

core developer of the Hortonmachine project.
core developer of the Geopaparazzi project.
plugin developer of the gvSIG desktop GIS.
loves (and goes regularly to) FOSS4G conferences and code sprints
does training courses on a regular basis

Contact: Personal page: http://www.andreaantonello.com; Email: andrea DOT antonello AT gmail DOT com; Twitter: themoovida

Spoken Language(s): Italian, German, English, Spanish

Profile last updated: 19 September 2018

redirect:Massimiliano Cannata

OSGeo Member
Name:	Massimo Di Stefano
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Eboli, Salerno, Italy
City:	Eboli
State:
Country:	Italy
Local Chapter:	GFOSS.it
Email:	epiesasha@me.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype : epifaniox
Website:	http://ccom.unh.edu/user/distefano
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Massimo Di Stefano, research data programmer at the Norwegian Metereological Institute. Massimo graduated from "Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"" (Naples, IT) with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, specializing in Marine Ecosystem and completed and completed his Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping - CCOM-JHC. A founding member of [https:// gfoss.it], the Italian community of users and developers of Geographic Free/Open-Source Software (GFOSS) and charter member of OSGeo, Massimo has spent more than 20 years developing Geographical Free and Open Source Software, with current development activities in GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS and OSGeo Live projects. For the past years, Massimo worked as Research Assistant III at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for the HABCAM project, and as Software Engineer on staff at the Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) on the ECO-OP project.
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[[Info::Massimo Di Stefano, research data programmer at the Norwegian Metereological Institute. Massimo graduated from "Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"" (Naples, IT) with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, specializing in Marine Ecosystem and completed and completed his Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping - CCOM-JHC. A founding member of [https:// gfoss.it], the Italian community of users and developers of Geographic Free/Open-Source Software (GFOSS) and charter member of OSGeo, Massimo has spent more than 20 years developing Geographical Free and Open Source Software, with current development activities in GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS and OSGeo Live projects. For the past years, Massimo worked as Research Assistant III at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for the HABCAM project, and as Software Engineer on staff at the Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) on the ECO-OP project.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

| Massimo Di Stefano

Massimo Di Stefano

Massimo Di Stefano, graduated from "Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"" (Naples, IT) with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, specializing in Marine Ecosystem. Massimo is now pursuing his Ph.D. at CCOM-JHC in Oceanography. A founding member of GFOSS.it, the Italian community of users and developers of Geographic Free/Open-Source Software (GFOSS) and charter member of OSGeo, Massimo has spent more than 10 years developing Geographical Free and Open Source Software, with current development activities in GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS and OSGeo Live projects. For the past four years, Massimo worked as Research Assistant III at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for the HABCAM project, and as Software Engineer on staff at the Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) on the ECO-OP project.

OSGeo Experience

PhD Candidate in Oceanography at Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping CCOM - University of New Hampshire
Software Engineer at RPI (Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute)
Guest Investigator at WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
GIS Team member of GeofemEngineering
Cartography and Geodesy Specialist
Member of the OSSIM Dev-Team
Promoting Free Software
Ossim,Grass, and Qgis development
gfoss.it Founder
OSGEO-Google Summer Of Code
Italian OSGeo Board Member
Italian Osgeo Liason Officer (italiano)
OSGeo-Live contributor
Translating the OSGeo official site into Italian

Contact

epiesasha@me.com

IRC : epifanio

Skype : epifaniox

Location 1: 41°31′27.12″N 70°40′11.28″W; Woods Hole, Massachussetts, USA

Location 2: 40°37′1″N 15°3′23″E; Eboli, Salerno, Italy

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Europe:France

OSGeo Member
Name:	Victor Olaya
Job Title:	Developer
Company:	Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX
Address:
City:	Auch
State:
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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URIs of the form "volayaf AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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
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:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
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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URIs of the form "manuel.grizonnet AT gmail DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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
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:
Instant Messaging:
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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URIs of the form "jrmorreale (a) osgeo.asso.fr" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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)

Europe:Romania

OSGeo Member
Name:	Vasile Crăciunescu
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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

Europe:Czech Republic

OSGeo Member
Name:	Karel Charvat
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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URIs of the form "charvat AT ccss DOT cz" are not allowed. [[Info::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.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

Chairman of the FOSS4G-CEE 2012
Chairman of Czech Center for Science and Sociaty
Former Chair of Czech association of Geoinformation

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
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:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
City:
State:
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Email:
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United States

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.

OSGeo Experience

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

When not doing geo things, keen traveler and photographer. See photos at Peter Batty photos and also check out the Peter Batty travel and photography blog

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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OSGeo Member
Name:	Brian M Hamlin
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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URIs of the form "maplabs AT- light42 DOT com" are not allowed. [[Info::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| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Brian Hamlin

dbb

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

OSGeo Experience

Member, California OSGeo Chapter
Developer Diplomat for OSGeo-Live
Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
Geo Web Log

Contact: Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com; IRC: darkblue_b dbb

Profile last updated: 04 July 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Mark Lucas
Job Title:	Principal Scientist
Company:	RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
Address:
City:	Melbourne Beach
State:	Florida
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	Southeast US
Email:	mlucas17 AT mac DOT com
Phone:	321 266 1475
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	English; Spanish
Personal Description :	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. ... more.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Mark Lucas

Principal Scientist, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

Location:Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA

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. ... more.

OSGeo Experience

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
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	San Francisco, USA
City:
State:
Country:	[[\|{{{Country}}}]]
Local Chapter:	[[\|{{{LocalChapter}}}]]
Email:
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Alex Mandel, Phd
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
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
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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URIs of the form "tech AT wildintellect DOT com" are not allowed.

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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

OSGeo Experience

Chair, System Administration Committee
Member, Marketing Committee
Member, California OSGeo Chapter
Contributor, Ubuntugis
Build co-coordinator for OSGeo-Live
Teaches: Introduction to GIS, GIS Programming in Python, Open Source Cartography, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
Uses: Python, QGIS, Inkscape, Postgis, Spatialite, Ubuntu, GDAL, GeoDjango, Openlayers, Geoserver, Geonode, R
Presentation Archive on Scribd

Contact: Email: tech AT wildintellect DOT com; IRC: wildint(ellect)

Profile last updated: 21 June 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Stephen Woodbridge
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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

OSGeo Member
Name:	Feng Amy Gao
Job Title:	President
Company:	Spatial Front Inc.
Address:
City:	Potomac
State:	Maryland
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	amy AT spatialfront DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:
Language(s):	English; Chinese (Mandarin)
Personal Description :	Amy is the President of Spatial Front Inc, a fast-growing IT consulting company. She has extensive experience with the design and development of enterprise geospatial information systems. She has worked for all levels of US governments (federal, state, and local), companies from IBM to start-ups, and as Adjunct Professor in college. One of her latest projects - National Broadband Map, a high-profile project funded by Recovery Act - was built on an open source stack. She is enthusiastic about open source geospatial technologies and interested in using more and helping people learn more about them.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Feng Amy Gao

President, Spatial Front Inc.

Location: Potomac, Maryland, US

Amy is the President of Spatial Front Inc, a fast-growing IT consulting company. She has extensive experience with the design and development of enterprise geospatial information systems. She has worked for all levels of US governments (federal, state, and local), companies from IBM to start-ups, and as Adjunct Professor in college. One of her latest projects - National Broadband Map, a high-profile project funded by Recovery Act - was built on an open source stack. She is enthusiastic about open source geospatial technologies and interested in using more and helping people learn more about them.

OSGeo Experience

Used technologies such as GeoServer, PostGIS, and Layers in multiple projects.
Translated OSGeo-Live document from English to Chinese.

Contact: Email: amy AT spatialfront DOT com

Spoken Language(s): English, Chinese (Mandarin)

Profile last updated: 08 July 2012

OSGeo Member
Name:	Landon Blake
Job Title:	Owner
Company:	Redefined Horizons
Address:
City:	Stockton
State:	California
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:	sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com
Phone:	(209) 571-1765
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/
Language(s):
Personal Description :	Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization. He serves as the Vice President of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter, is a member of the California Land Surveyors Association GIS Committee, and also serves as a member of the California Geodetic Control Working Group.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Landon Blake (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor)

Landon Blake

Owner, Redefined Horizons

Location: Stockton, California, United States of America

Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization. He serves as the Vice President of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter, is a member of the California Land Surveyors Association GIS Committee, and also serves as a member of the California Geodetic Control Working Group.

Web Page: [1]
Blog: [2]
Twitter: [3]
LinkedIn: [4]

OSGeo Experience

Past Volunteer Editor of the OSGeo Journal
Board Representative for the OSGeo California Chapter

Contact: Email: sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com; Phone (cell): (209) 298-7521; Phone (home): (209) 464-2612; Skype:

Profile last updated: 08 13 2014

GIS Data Models

OSGeo Member
Name:	Michael P. Gerlek
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OSGeo Member
Name:	Doug Newcomb
Job Title:	Cartographer
Company:
Address:
City:	Raleigh
State:	NC
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	North America
Email:	gistinkerATgmail.com
Phone:
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Personal Description :	Doug Newcomb has a BS and MA in Geography and is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in general and geospatial software specifically. Doug has used Linux (Red Hat, CentOS,Debian,Ubuntu) since 1996. Employed at various government environmental agencies since 1990. Specializes in use of GRASS with incomplete LiDAR data to derive landscape scale (statewide) forest canopy structure data.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Doug Newcomb

Cartographer

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Doug Newcomb has a BS and MA in Geography and is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in general and geospatial software specifically. Doug has used Linux (Red Hat, CentOS,Debian,Ubuntu) since 1996. Employed at various government environmental agencies since 1990. Specializes in use of GRASS with incomplete LiDAR data to derive landscape scale (statewide) forest canopy structure data.

OSGeo Experience

Charter member since 2012.

Contact:

Email: gistinkerATgmail.com

Phone: 336-639-9545

Spoken Language(s): English

Profile last updated: 9 September 2012

Latin America:Mexico

OSGeo Member
Name:	alex borrell
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Zapopan, Mexico
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Latin America:Argentina

OSGeo Member
Name:	Mauricio Miranda
Job Title:
Company:
Address:	Dorrego, Mendoza, Argentina
City:
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Latin America:Brazil

OSGeo Member
Name:	Felipe Costa
Job Title:	Programming Analyst
Company:	Massmedia OÜ
Address:	Tartu
City:	Manaus
State:	Tartumaa
Country:	Estonia
Local Chapter:	Brazil
Email:	fsc7mail AT gmail DOT com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://lattes.cnpq.br/3609044175401060
Language(s):	Portuguese; English
Personal Description :	Felipe Costa works with FOSSGIS software since 2005. He has worked with webmapping using both Mapserver and Geoserver and has experience with I3Geo and Openlayers. He is also interested in geospatial metadata and has worked mainly with Geonetwork. Nowadays works at Fiocruz Amazônia after a time in Rio de Janeiro studying Geomatics at UERJ where he wrote his thesis was about Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC Webservices.
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Nowadays works at Fiocruz Amazônia after a time in Rio de Janeiro studying Geomatics at UERJ where he wrote his thesis was about Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC Webservices.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Felipe Costa

Programming Analyst, Fiocruz

Location: Manaus, Brazil

Felipe Costa works with FOSSGIS software since 2005. He has worked with webmapping using both Mapserver and Geoserver and has experience with I3Geo and Openlayers. He is also interested in geospatial metadata and has worked mainly with Geonetwork. Nowadays works at Fiocruz Amazônia after a time in Rio de Janeiro studying Geomatics at UERJ where he wrote his thesis was about Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC Webservices.

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OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)

He has experience as user with the following softwares: Mapserver, Geoserver, Geonetwork, Postgis, Qgis and GvSig.
He has some experience teaching and participating at conferences talking about Postgis, Qgis and Geoserver. He also contributes to the Brazilian FOSSGIS magazine.

Contact: Email: fsc7mail AT gmail DOT com; Skype: fsc0307

Spoken Language(s): Portuguese, English.

Profile last updated: 2 December 2015

Latin America:Colombia

Latin America:Chile

OSGeo Member
Name:	Stefan Steiniger
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

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:Korea

OSGeo Member
Name:	Sanghee Shin
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| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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

OSGeo Experience

Chair of International FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
Founder and representative of OSGeo Korean Language Chapter since 2008
Charter member of OSGeo Foundation since 2011
Korean Translator of QGIS
Organizer of annual FOSS4G Korea conference
Co-organizer of GeoSpatial Open Source Winter/Summver School in Korea
Representative of KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source GeoSpatial) since 2013
Member of steering committe of Korea GeoSpatial Forum since 2012
Numerous presentations about open source GIS and OSGeo

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

Asia:Japan

OSGeo Member
Name:	Yoichi Kayama
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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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OSGeo Experience

Board member of OSGeo Japan Chapter since 2016
Auditor of OSGeo Japan Chapter since 2008
Charter member of OSGeo Foundation since 2011
GUI Japanese Translator of QGIS
Manual Japanese Translator of QGIS
Japanese Translator of OSGeoLive
member of GIS Assosiation of JAPAN
member of FOSS4G special interest group in GIS Assosiation of JAPAN

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

Asia:India

OSGeo Member
Name:	Ravi Kumar Vundavalli
Job Title:	Director (retired)
Company:	Geological Survey of India
Address:	Bandlaguda Hyderabad 500068
City:	Rajahmundry
State:
Country:	India
Local Chapter:	India
Email:	ravivundavalliATyahooDOTcom
Phone:
Instant Messaging:	Skype:ravivundavalli
Website:	https://www.cerg.in/indiangeoparks
Language(s):	English; Telugu; Hindi; Oriya; Bengali
Personal Description :	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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Ravi Kumar Vundavalli

Ravi Vundavalli

Location: Rajahmundry, India

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. Present Interest: 'Crowd-sourcing', with Android smart phones, for various societal needs is present endeavour. Geopaparazzi and OSMAND are used for 'Mobile-GIS', with training workshops. Building specific forms for crowd-sourcing Geospatial data is also in progress.

OSGeo Experience

Charter member since 2006, the first charter of OSGeo.
Served OSGeo Board from 2009 to 2011.

Contact: Email: ravivundavalliATyahooDOTcom; Skype:ravivundavalli

Spoken Language(s): English,Telugu, Hindi,Oriya, Bengali

Profile last updated: 27 Oct 2015

Asia:Philippines

Maning Sambale

OSGeo Member
Name:	Emmanuel "Maning" Sambale
Job Title:
Company:
Address:
City:	Manila
State:
Country:	Philippines
Local Chapter:	Phillipines
Email:	emmanuel.sambaleATgmail.com
Phone:
Instant Messaging:
Website:	http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/
Language(s):	English; Filipino
Personal Description :	As an OSGeo member, Maning would like to Strengthen the OSGeo-PH Local Chapter and promote OSGeo in the Philippines through training and material development. His area of focus is Mindanao Island.
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

Emmanuel "Maning" Sambale

Location: Philippines

As an OSGeo member, Maning would like to Strengthen the OSGeo-PH Local Chapter and promote OSGeo in the Philippines through training and material development. His area of focus is Mindanao Island.

OSGeo Experience

Charter member since 2011.
Contribute to Open Street Map
Personal blog

Contact: Email: emmanuel.sambaleATgmail.com

Spoken Language(s): English, Filipino

Profile last updated: 07 25 2012

Africa:Ghana

OSGeo Member
Name:	Henry Addo
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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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.

OSGeo Experience

Maintains the Ushahidi platform for OSGeo Live DVD.

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 Members

We only have 8 active OSGeo board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

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.

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

Developers and Committee Members

This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

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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 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:

Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per User:Template, (copy and paste from the source so that you see comments in the template).
You can then add your profile on this wiki page, under your Country, using the following:

 {{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

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.

http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

OSGeo Advocate

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Australia

Jody Garnett

Europe:Germany

Dimitar Misev

Stefan Tzeggai

Thomas Baschetti

Europe:The Netherlands

Jeroen Ticheler

Europe:Spain

Europe:United Kingdom

Europe:Greece

Europe:Italy

Europe:France

Manuel Grizonnet

Europe:Romania

Europe:Czech Republic

Canada

Geoff Zeiss

United States

Peter Batty

Brian Hamlin

Alex Mandel

Stephen Woodbridge

Feng Amy Gao

Landon Blake (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor)

Latin America:Mexico

Latin America:Argentina

Latin America:Brazil

Felipe Costa

Latin America:Colombia

Latin America:Chile

Asia:Korea

Asia:Japan

Yoichi Kayama

Asia:India

Asia:Philippines

Maning Sambale

Emmanuel "Maning" Sambale

Africa:Ghana

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Understanding OSGeo roles

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