User:Aross

Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross

Director of Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation Director, LocationTech

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Ross is Director of Ecosystems 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 ofLocationTech, a network of business and technology partners focusing on open source location technologies. Andrea is an award winning software architect and technology leader with more than 20 years experience.

OSGeo Experience

• 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
• Conference Chair for Geocamp 2008, 2009, 2010
• Conference Chair for FOSS4G NA 2015
• Conference Producer for FOSS4G NA 2015 and FOSS4G NA 2016
• Sponsor for FOSS4G 2009, 2013, 2014, Code sprint 2015, and more.
• Recorded and hosted videos from FOSS4G 2009, FOSS4G 2011, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, FOSS4G 2011, FOSS4G 2013, FOSS4G NA 2015
• Long time member in the Ottawa Chapter Local Chapter

Contact

Email: andrea DOT ross AT eclipse DOT org

Twitter: @42aross

LinkedIn: aross

Blog: 42aross

Spoken Languages

English

Profile last updated

10 October 2015