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[[ Mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]]
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After 23 years of activity in geography, GIS and remote sensing, both in academia and in a private company, Moritz has moved to other horizons and now works on social inequalities and their reproduction through school. Even though he now is pretty removed from GIS work, he continues to follow GRASS GIS development and remains available should the need arise. |
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[[ Thomas Starnes | Mr Thomas Starnes ]]
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Name: Mr Thomas Starnes Experience: |
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Spatial analyst committed to wildlife conservation and humanitarian causes. Interests in remote sensing, drones, AI, open data and data sharing. |
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[[ Msilikale05 | Msilikale Msilanga ]]
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Name: Msilikale Msilanga Experience: |
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Msilikale Msilanga is a spatial planner by professional from Tanzania but have more experiences from Europe and Latin America based on the same field. He has been working at the World Bank since 2011 as the Geospatial consultant before he went to have his Masters for two years. Now he is back at the World Bank supporting the open data team and more mapping projects in Tanzania Zambia and Mozambique. For more than five years, he has been working with the local communities in Dar es salaam helping them to map their own areas using OSM. Through these maps which are mostly in the informal settlements, more issues facing the community has been identified and more projects have been identified one of them being Ramani Huria. He is currently a Co-chair for FOSS4G 2018 which will be conducted in Dar es Salaam in 2018. |
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[[ NathanW | Nathan Woodrow ]]
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Name: Nathan Woodrow Experience: |
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Nathan is a active core developer and promoter of QGIS. He is an advocate of using open source solutions in local government, promoting its use to save money, add flexibility in workflows, and allow greater freedom from vendor lock in. |
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[[ Bakaniko | Nicolas Roelandt ]]
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[[ Nikos Alexandris | Nikos Alexandris ]]
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Name: Nikos Alexandris Experience: |
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- Contributed GRASS-GIS Add-Ons:
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[[ Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando ]]
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Name: Nimalika Fernando Experience: |
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Nimalika has moved to Open source GIS in 2006 as a novice user and application developer in her research studies related to web-mapping. Since then she has been involved in adopting OSGeo tools in teaching, research and spreading the use of them (particularly QGIS, MapServer, PostgreSQL, OSM ) in Sri Lanka. She is interested in integrating open source GIS solutions in solving locally important problems and linking different organizations with OSGeo products. she is an academic with more than 14 years experience. At present she is a Phd candidate at Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
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[[ Nobusuke Iwasaki | Nobusuke Iwasaki ]]
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Name: Nobusuke Iwasaki
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[[ Nuno Oliveira | Nuno Oliveira ]]
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Name: Nuno Oliveira Experience: |
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Nuno earned his BS and MS in Software Engineering from University of Minho. He started is career in the telecommunications industry by developing solutions for managing and monitoring telecommunications infrastructures. Currently he works at GeoSolutions were he develops advanced solutions for GIS challenges using open source software. In the last years he focused on distributed systems, big data technologies and GIS. He contributes to several open source projects and is a commiter of GeoServer, MapStore and GeoTools. |
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[[ Nyall Dawson | Nyall Dawson ]]
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Name: Nyall Dawson Experience: |
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Nyall has been a core developer with the QGIS project since 2013. During this time he has contributed over 5000 commits to the project, and today is one of the most active developers on the project. Nyall's contributions to QGIS cover a wide range of areas - from improvements to the map rendering and symbology engines, enhancements to labeling and print layout functionality, right through to optimisations of the underlying spatial processing algorithms utilised by QGIS. He is dedicated to making QGIS a unique tool capable of creating cartographic effects which to date have not been available in GIS software applications. Nyall is currently the proprietor and lead developer at North Road Consulting, an Australian spatial development consultancy which predominantly focus on investing in and promoting use of open source GIS applications. |
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[[ Olivermay | Oliver May ]]
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[[ Olt | Oliver Tonnhofer ]]
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Name: Oliver Tonnhofer Experience: |
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[[ Pablodab | Paolo Dabove ]]
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Name: Paolo Dabove Experience: |
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Paolo has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino since 2021. His principal research interests are in quality control of GNSS positioning, monitoring techniques with Geomatics instruments, low-cost INS and GNSS systems for mobile mapping, and indoor positioning for navigation purposes. Paolo Dabove has over 60 scientific papers in international and Italian journals and proceedings and also has five book chapters in international books. He has been the President of the GFOSS.it association, the Italian OSGeo Local Chapter, since February 2020. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-523X Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ewFGj3kAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao |
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[[ Pmeems | Paul Meems ]]
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[[ Pwramsey3 | Paul Ramsey ]]
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Name: Paul Ramsey
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[[ Pvanbosgeo | Paulo van Breugel ]]
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Name: Paulo van Breugel Experience: |
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My main research interests are forest and landscape ecology, biogeography, and conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and natural resources. I have worked for international research (Bioversity, ICRAF, ILRI) institutes in Syria, Brazil and Kenya. I am currently working as freelance researcher on ecology & biodiversity and GIS/spatial analyst. |
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[[ Pedromap | Pedro Pereira ]]
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Name: Pedro Pereira
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File:Pedromap.png Pedro Pereira |
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Pedro is a Geographer and works as a IT and GIS Technician in the Municipality of Guimarães - Portugal. |
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[[ Pedromap | Pedro Pereira ]]
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Name: Pedro Pereira
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Pedro is a Geographer and works as a IT and GIS Technician in the Municipality of Guimarães - Portugal. |
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[[ Vehrka | Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses ]]
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Name: Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
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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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[[ Pedro-Juan Ferrer | Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses ]]
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Name: Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
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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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[[ Pebau | Peter Baumann ]]
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[[ Peter Loewe | Peter Löwe ]]
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Name: Peter Löwe Experience: |
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[[ Peter Mooney | Peter Mooney ]]
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Name: Peter Mooney Experience: |
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[[ Pieterdg | Pieter De Graef ]]
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Name: Pieter De Graef Experience: |
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[[ Pirmin Kalberer | Pirmin Kalberer ]]
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Name: Pirmin Kalberer
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Pirmin is an active Geospatial Open Source community member since 2002. He works for Sourcepole, a Swiss based commercial Open Source company. |
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[[ Rafael Moreno | Rafael Moreno ]]
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Name: Rafael Moreno Experience: |
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Rafael Moreno received his B.S. in Forestry from the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico in 1982 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University in 1987 and1992 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at University of Colorado Denver (UCD). He teaches courses in GISscience and Technology, environmental science, land use planning and sustainability in natural resources management. He leads the FOSS4G lab at UCD. His current research concentrates on the analysis of fragmentation and anthropogenic pressure on forest areas, Decision Support Systems for forest management, and the use of FOSS/FOSS4G for creating local and Web-based spatial information systems. |
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[[ RajatShinde | Rajat Shinde ]]
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[[ Rjhale1971 | Randal Hale ]]
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Name: Randal Hale
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Randal Hale is the owner of North River Geographic Systems, Inc. He's been active in the QGIS Community by participating in beta testing and answering questions on the QGIS mailing list. He's also developed QGIS classes that target people active in the GIS Community. |
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[[ Ravivundavalli | Ravi Kumar Vundavalli ]]
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Name: Ravi Kumar Vundavalli Experience: |
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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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[[ Robe | Regina Obe ]]
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[[ Remi.cresson | Remi Cresson ]]
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Name: Remi Cresson
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Remi Cresson has received the M. Sc. in electrical engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG), France, 2009. He is with IRSTEA (french National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture), for research and development in the field of remote sensing image processing, including (but not restricted to) High Performance Computing and geospatial data infrastructures. Involved in open source projects:
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[[ Sanghee | Sanghee Shin ]]
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Name: Sanghee Shin Experience: |
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[[ Endofcap | Sanghee Shin ]]
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Name: Sanghee Shin Experience: |
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[[ Iamrohith94 | Sankepally Rohith Reddy ]]
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Name: Sankepally Rohith Reddy
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Rohith Reddy is pursuing his Masters in Research in the Lab for Spatial Informatics at the IIIT Hyderabad, India. He is a developer, programmer and a researcher. |
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[[ Sarasafavi | Sara Safavi ]]
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Name: Sara Safavi
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Sara is a software developer with experience in web and geospatial development, and a frequent speaker in both the Python & geospatial tech communities. Sara is also an active community leader, and has been an organizer for PyLadiesATX, Austin Open Source GIS, and MaptimeATX. |
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[[ ScottC | Scott Clark ]]
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Name: Scott Clark
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I'm a program manager with a background in geospatial analysis and I advocate for the maximum use of open source software in all of the projects I'm responsible for. I've participated in open source projects for a few years now and have an interest in GeoNode, QGIS, GeoWave and GeoGig. One of the projects I worked on is GeoSHAPE (http://geoshape.org). I attend FOSS4G whenever I can for the great community and to keep up on the latest with open source geospatial software. |
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[[ Seleneyang | Selene Yang ]]
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[[ Metasim | Simeon H.K. Fitch ]]
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Name: Simeon H.K. Fitch
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My current focus is in building the next-generation methodologies and technologies for distributed processing of geospatial data "at scale" using resource-efficient, environmentally-conscious tooling. I'm a co-founder and VP of R&D and Engineering at Astrea, Inc., where lead a team of software engineers delivering modern geospatial applications to multiple commercial verticals. |
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[[ Simonmercier | Simon Mercier ]]
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[[ Perriger | Stefan Steiniger ]]
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Name: Stefan Steiniger Experience: |
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[[ Stefan A. Tzeggai | Stefan Tzeggai ]]
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[[ Stephen Mather | Stephen Vincent Mather ]]
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Name: Stephen Vincent Mather Experience: |
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Stephen has been working in GIS, Planning, and related fields since 1998, working for the last 9 years as the GIS Manager for Cleveland Metroparks. He has been interested in the application of computer vision to geospatial analyses since 2004, and has recently initiated the OpenDroneMap project (http://opendronemap.org), a project to bring together and extend a suite of open source computer vision software for use with UAS (drone) and street level images. In addition to managing Cleveland Metroparks GIS program and leading OpenDroneMap, Stephen works with the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and Karisoke Research Center (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International) to research mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Most of that work uses OSGeo tools. Stephen is also coauthor of the PostGIS Cookbook and blogs all his geospatial and ecological whims at https://smathermather.com. |
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[[ Woodbri | Stephen Woodbridge ]]
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Name: Stephen Woodbridge
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[[ Sdlime | Steve Lime ]]
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Name: Steve Lime
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Steve is one of the principle developers for MapServer and does a fair amount of web application development using MapServer/MapScript, PostGIS, GDAL, GEOS and OpenLayers. |
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[[ Stevenfeldman | Steven Feldman ]]
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Name: Steven Feldman
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[[ Steven Ottens | Steven Ottens ]]
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[[ Sanand | Suchith Anand ]]
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Name: Suchith Anand
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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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[[ Thomas Baschetti | Thomas Baschetti ]]
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Name: Thomas Baschetti Experience: |
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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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[[ Thomas G | Thomas Gratier ]]
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[[ Timlinux | Tim Sutton ]]
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Name: Tim Sutton
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[[ Tinacormier | Tina Cormier ]]
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Name: Tina Cormier Experience: |
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Tina is a remote sensing scientist who uses satellite imagery to gain insights into critical challenges facing society, and open source software is central to the work that she does. She actively promotes open source through talks, community events (e.g., maptime), and social media, and she is now working with the OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts as well as with the author of the lidR package to improve user friendliness. Sharing her open source experience has always been a part of her work as well; she has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to Nepal, as well as in her home country, the USA. Workshop topics have ranged from programming in R and using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source tools. |
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[[ Tina Cormier | Tina Cormier ]]
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Name: Tina Cormier Experience: |
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Tina is a remote sensing scientist who uses satellite imagery to gain insights into critical challenges facing society, and open source software is central to the work that she does. She actively promotes open source through talks, community events (e.g., maptime), and social media, and she is now working with the OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts as well as with the author of the lidR package to improve user friendliness. Sharing her open source experience has always been a part of her work as well; she has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to Nepal, as well as in her home country, the USA. Workshop topics have ranged from programming in R and using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source tools. |
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[[ Tomchadwin | Tom Chadwin ]]
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Name: Tom Chadwin Experience: |
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Author and maintainer of qgis2web, a QGIS plugin to create webmaps, I have worked for Northumberland National Park Authority for over twelve years, also spending time on secondment managing GIS and web joint working between all the UK National Parks. I have spoken at FOSS4GUK and regional QGIS user groups, and have made several (non-code) contributions to QGIS. I oversaw the migration of Northumberland National Park Authority from proprietary GIS to open source, and advocate its use whenever possible. I co-chaired FOSS4GUK 2018. |
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[[ Toozeer | Tommy Oozeer ]]
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[[ Tbarsballe | Torben Barsballe ]]
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Name: Torben Barsballe Experience: |
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Committer on the GeoTools, GeoWebCache, and GeoServer projects. |
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[[ Tosseto | Toshikazu Seto ]]
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Name: Toshikazu Seto Experience: |
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Toshikazu Seto is a researcher who has conducted research and analysis related to "GIS and Society". Since OSGeo.JP was formed, he has been supporting the Japanese FOSS4G event held annually in Tokyo and Osaka. He is also interested in community-building for FOSS4G and attends a wide range of activities related to Volunteered Geographic Information and OpenGeoData. |
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[[ Tkardi | Tõnis Kärdi ]]
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[[ Wenzeslaus | Vaclav Petras ]]
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Name: Vaclav Petras Experience: |
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[[ Vasile | Vasile Crăciunescu ]]
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Name: Vasile Crăciunescu
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[[ Veroandreo | Veronica Andreo ]]
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Name: Veronica Andreo Experience: |
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Vero holds a PhD in Biology and a MSc degree in GIS and Remote Sensing. She is mostly interested in GIS and remote sensing uses and applications for public health, environmental monitoring and disaster management. She is a GRASS GIS and FOSS4G enthusiast and a very active promoter of Osgeo/FOSS4G philosophy everywhere: in conferences, courses, workshops and so on. She is mainly involved in GRASS GIS community contributing tutorials, examples, general documentation, user support, translations, etc. |
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[[ Volaya | Victor Olaya ]]
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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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[[ Victoria Rautenbach | Victoria Rautenbach ]]
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Name: Victoria Rautenbach
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Victoria Rautenbach is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Victoria’s research focuses on spatial data visualization to support decision making. Her research spans two disciplines: Geographic Information Science (GISc) and Computer Science; multi-dimensional geovisualization, spatial data infrastructure, open source for geospatial software and geoinformation standards. Victoria is interested in web mapping development and the use of mapping to improve less fortunate communities, and has also been involved in various open data events in South Africa. |
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[[ Vidhan13j07 | Vidhan Jain ]]
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Name: Vidhan Jain
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[[ Vdeparday | Vivien Deparday ]]
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[[ Macho | Werner Macho ]]
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Name: Werner Macho Experience: |
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Werner is coming from water management, hydrology and hydraulics and has been involved in the QGIS project since 2008. Using mainly opensource software since the early 1990 and since about 2004 solving his geospatial problems with opensource GIS software, he tries to help and propagate free software wherever he can. Beside maintaining a few QGIS plugins he is also the translation team leader for QGIS Desktop software and trying to be a helping hand wherever problems arise. |
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[[ Yoichi | Yoichi Kayama ]]
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Name: Yoichi Kayama Experience: |
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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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[[ Siki | Zoltan Siki ]]
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