User:Aross
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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, and many other events.
- 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
- Spoken Languages
- English
- Profile last updated
- 10 October 2015