07-03, 09:15–09:30 (Europe/Tallinn), Destination Earth (Van46 ring)
We would like to briefly introduce OSGeo to you and trigger your interest in contributing to our mission. While our geospatial projects thrive, OSGeo also faces challenges. These include community involvement, our relationship with other FOSS foundations, financial health of the foundation, professionalisation of both OSGeo as a foundation and FOSS4G conference organisation, stricter requirements around information and IT security and the need for an OSGeo Europe foundation. All examples where OSGeo needs your involvement as a community member. We would like to kick start a round of discussions during this conference and follow up on those topics during Bird of a Feather sessions and online through existing or ad-hoc committees.
Codrina Ilie is a technical geographer, an open source GIS/RS power user, actively working as a project officer to support geospatial data services development at Terrasigna. In her 12 years of activity, Codrina has essentially focused on using open source GIS and RS solutions for data management, processing and visualization.
As an advocate for free and open source software for geospatial, since 2010 she has been a volunteer trainer in the Romanian geospatial community, geo-spatial.org. Since 2013, Codrina has been a Charter Member and today serves the community as an OSGeo Board of Directors member, within her third term.
CEO/Owner of GeoCat BV and GeoCat Canada Ltd. – Chair and founder of the GeoNetwork opensource – OSGeo Board of Directors.
GeoCat was founded by Jeroen in 2007. Jeroen studied Tropical Forestry at Wageningen University specialising in GIS and Remote Sensing. Following graduation in 1997, he worked for the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome for nine years. Jeroen held various positions for the FAO in GIS/remote sensing and established the GeoNetwork opensource project. The FAO GeoNetwork is the first implementation based on this software, releasing a large quantity of geospatial data to the public.
Today GeoNetwork opensource is widely used as geospatial catalogue application with implementations from smaller projects to national and international level catalogs including National Geospatial & Open Data Registries and the INSPIRE GeoPortal in the EU.
Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. Jeroen is Project Officer for the GeoNetwork opensource project. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board, and did so in 2007 & 2008. He is a Charter member since the early days of OSGeo.
Besides everything geospatial Jeroen loves travel, carpentry, working on his overland truck, study Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology, and walk, work and live outside.