Board of Directors
OSGeo Foundation Board of Directors
The board is elected by the Charter members as outlined in the Board Election Procedure.
Period: September 2011 - August 2013
- Peter Batty - Denver, USA (US Central Time UTC - 6h)
- Jáchym Čepický (replacing Jo Cook)
- Michael Gerlek - Eagle, Idaho, USA (US Mountain Time Zone UTC -6h)
- Mark Lucas - Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA (US Eastern Time UTC -4h)
Period: August 2012 - July 2014
- Anne Ghisla - San Michele all'Adige, Italy (Central European Time UTC +2h)
- Jeff McKenna - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Atlantic Time UTC - 3h)
- Daniel Morissette - Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada (US Eastern Time UTC - 4h)
- Cameron Shorter - Sydney, Australia (Australian Eastern Time UTC + 10h)
- Frank Warmerdam - Mountain View, California, USA (US Pacific Time UTC - 7h)
Meeting timeslots
Board Member Profiles
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
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- 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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| Name: | Mark Lucas |  |
| Job Title: | Principal Scientist | |
| Company: | RadiantBlue Technologies Inc. | |
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| City: | Melbourne Beach | |
| State: | Florida | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Local Chapter: | Southeast US | |
| Email: | mlucas17 AT mac DOT com | |
| Phone: | 321 266 1475 | |
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| 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
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- 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
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| Name: | Anne Ghisla |  |
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| City: | Berlin | |
| State: | Berlin | |
| Country: | Germany | |
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| 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
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| Name: | Cameron Shorter |  |
| Job Title: | Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant | |
| Company: | Government (NSW, Australia) | |
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| City: | Sydney | |
| State: | NSW | |
| Country: | Australia | |
| Local Chapter: | Aust-NZ | |
| Email: | cameron shorter AT gmail DOT com | |
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| 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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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
More at http://cameron.shorter.net/resume.html
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| Name: | Frank Warmerdam |  |
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| City: | Eganville | |
| State: | Ontario | |
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| Personal Description : | Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee. | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
Frank Warmerdam
Employment: Google
Location: Mountain View, California, USA
Frank Warmerdam is a C++, Java and Python geospatial software developer, primarily known for founding the GDAL/OGR multi format geospatial data access and translation project. He is also active on the PROJ.4, libtiff, and libgeotiff projects, was a founding director of OSGeo, and is a Primary Administrator on the OSGeo System Administration Committee.
- OSGeo Experience
- Contact
- Email: warmerdam@pobox.com
- Web: http://pobox.com/~warmerdam/
- Phone: +1 (650) 701-7823
- Spoken Language(s)
- English
- Profile last updated
- 17 August 2012
Meetings
- Next meeting
- Board Meeting 2012-09-13 12.00 UTC
- Previous meetings
- Board Meeting 2012-08-20 20.00 UTC
- Board Meeting 2012-08-09
- Board Meeting 2012-07-12
- Board Meeting 2012-06-07
- Board Meeting 2012-05-10
- Board Meeting 2012-04-19
- Board Meeting 2012-03-22
- Face to Face Meeting Seattle 2012 2012-02-04 and 2012-02-05
Meeting Archive
2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - Earlier.
Documents
- Executive Positions and Director Responsibilities
- Board Election Procedure
- Election 2012: Board Election 2012 Results
- Election 2011: Board Election 2011 Results
- Election 2010: Board Election 2010 Results
- Election 2009: Board Election 2009, see 2009 section of Proposed Board Election Procedure
- Election 2008: Board Election 2008, see 2008 section of Proposed Board Election Procedure
- Executive Director (rough ideas), Executive Director Job Description
- Election 2007: Board Election 2007, see 2007 section of Proposed Board Election Procedure
- Foundation Sponsorship (adopted), Project Sponsorship (adopted), Local Chapter Sponsorship (idea)
- Conflict Of Interest Policy
Mailing list
The http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board mailing list is used for most public board discussions. There is also a private board mailing list used only for matters that are considered needful to be kept private.
Previous OSGeo Foundation Boards of Directors
- Board of Directors 2012 (Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2013)
- Board of Directors 2011 (Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2012)
- Board of Directors 2010 (Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2011)
- Board of Directors 2009 (Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2010)
- Board of Directors 2008 (July 2008 - Sept. 2009)
- Board of Directors 2007 (Aug. 2007 - July 2008)
- Interim Board of Directors 2006 (Feb. 2006 - July 2007)
An interim Board of Directors with 5 members was elected on February 4th, 2006, by the initial members of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. On March 18th, 2006, the board has been completed to now total nine members:
Potential FAQ
Q: What do board members do?
A: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Director_Responsibilities
Q: That doc doesn't say anything about meetings. How often to board members meet?
A: The foundation bylaws say the board meets after the after the annual members meeting and then at regular meetings on a schedule fixed by directors. In practice, the board schedules monthly meetings in addition to the annual face-to-face meeting after the AGM at the FOSS4G conference.
Q: How are board decisions made?
A: The bylaws (section 4.5) describe that a majority of members must be present for an event to be considered a meeting. At a meeting, each member present is given one vote. Strictly speaking (according to the bylaws) an affirmative vote by the majority of members present at a meeting constitutes a decision by the board. In practice, we don't consider a motion passed if there are any negative votes (TODO: document the +1, +0, -0, -1 voting procedure if needed).
Q: Is an IRC gathering a meeting?
A: The bylaws (section 4.4) say that an electronic medium may be used and an event will constitute a meeting if members can hear one another at the same time. In practice, we often have IRC meetings and then have a vote by voice if there are items that need voting on (TODO: document the convention on email voting if this is an alternative to voice voting).