Michael Terner

• Joined the geo ranks 30+ years ago in the dark ages of GIS on VAX and Prime computers running ARC/INFO v3.0.

• Undergraduate degree from Tufts University, 1985

• Seven years in State Government (1985-1991) and first Manager of MassGIS.

• Masters of City Planning from MIT, 1992

• Executive Vice President and co-founder of AppGeo, 1991 - 2018.

• Open source activity started in 2009 in work on National Broadband Map and accelerated after seeing Paul Ramsey's Keynote Speech at MN GIS-LIS Conference in 2009 when it became clear it would be an enduring part of our services practice.

• First FOSS4G Conference, Denver 2011.

• Sat on Program Committee for FOSS4G North America, Washington DC, 2012; Minneapolis, MN, 2013; and St. Louis, MO, 2018.

• Co-chair for Global FOSS4G Boston 2017.

• OSGeo Charter Member (nominated, 2017)

• Sponsorship Director for Global FOSS4G Dar es Salaam 2018

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