Steering Committee Members
All members of the SteeringCommittee are listed below. Members are encouraged to add a brief self-description.
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Andreas Hocevar (ahocevar) first showed up on the OpenLayers radar while helping with the integration of OpenLayers into MapBuilder in 2006. Since then, he has been contributing improvements to vector rendering and styling, support for commercial mapping APIs, performance improvements, and more. He lives in Graz, Austria, and is a member of OpenGeo
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Eric Lemoine (elemoine) has been enjoying hacking in OpenLayers since the very first day he joined Camptocamp France. Before playing with OpenLayers Eric was mainly involved in Operating System development (Linux network stack and drivers) and had no notion of JavaScript, OpenLayers made him realize how misunderstood JavaScript is.
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Tim Schaub (tschaub) -- Committee Chair Tim contributes from the boonies. He has been developing custom web mapping applications for a number of years and is now a full time member of OpenGeo.
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Bart van den Eijnden (bartvde) -- Bart is passionate about open source and open standards. He is a contributor to several front-end libraries such as OpenLayers and GeoExt. He is also a power user of server packages such as MapServer and GeoServer. In 2005 Bart started his own consultancy focussing on open source geospatial in The Netherlands, working mainly as a contractor to the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. In 2011 Bart joined OpenGeo.
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Frédéric Junod (fredj)
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Marc Jansen (marcjansen)
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Chris Schmidt (crschmidt) hadn't even used the Google Maps API until 6 months before he helped release OpenLayers. Now enjoys cartography and long walks on the beach, alongside debugging Javascript and creating new and innovative ways to confuse browsers into doing what he tells them to.
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Paul Spencer (pagameba) Paul ( DM Solutions Group ) is a long time (at least long in this industry) developer of open source web mapping stuff, originally working with MapServer to build MapLab. Projects since then include Chameleon, ka-Map, ms4w, OpenEV, and more recently on MapGuide.
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Erik Uzureau (euzuro) Erik participated in the OpenLayers project as a developer thanks to the generous support of MetaCarta from 2006-2009, and continues to follow the project from a distance.
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Schuyler Erle (schuyler) is a long time Free Software hacker. He's cowritten a couple books on digital cartography. He began developing OpenLayers for MetaCarta. Schuyler is generally regarded as the loose cannon on deck.
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Cameron Shorter (camerons) acts as a bridge between OpenLayers and Community Mapbuilder. He is also Geospatial Systems Architect at Lisasoft in Sydney, Australia.
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John Frank (jrf, postshift) is Founder and CTO of MetaCarta. He wanted OpenLayers in early 2005 and started working with Phil Lindsay to make it real. After several ground-up rewrites, the team finally got it right in early 2006.