User:Dmorissette

Daniel Morissette

Daniel Morissette

President, Mapgears

Location: Chicoutimi, QC, Canada

Daniel Morissette is a software engineer by trade, business man by experience, OSGeo advocate by the way and beer drinker by accident, with a strong focus on webmapping and geospatial data access and distribution software. He has been actively involved in the MapServer project since 2000 and has contributed to many other OSGeo projects and committees since the early days of the Foundation, including as a board director since 2010. He is president of Mapgears, whose team offers consulting, technical support and software development services in the open source geospatial software field, and more specifically Web mapping using MapServer and related OSGeo technologies.

More information about his OSGeo-related activities can be found in his blog.

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo Board Director since 2010 and Treasurer since 2011
• Developer and member of the MapServer PSC
• Developer and member of the GDAL/OGR PSC
• Member of the Incubation Committee
• Co-founder and chair of the Quebec Local Chapter
• Involved directly or indirectly in several other OSGeo projects

Other relevant experience

• MITAB project lead
• AVCE00 and E00Compr project lead
• One of the instigators and maintainers of the MapTools.org portal

Contact

Email: dmorissette AT mapgears DOT com

Twitter: @dmorissette

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmorissette

Blog: http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/

Spoken Languages

English, French

Profile last updated

5 July 2012