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The OSGeo Journal is written, edited, and published by volunteer members of the OSGeo Foundation.  
This journal would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of our volunteers. 

We would like to recognize the hard work of the following volunteers on Volume 6 of the OSGeo, and 
want to give them our sincere thanks for their efforts.

\section{Daniel Ames}

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Dr. Daniel P. Ames is an Associate Professor of Geosciences at Idaho
State University, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA. He directs the Geotechnologies graduate program which offers 
MS and PhD degrees in Geographic Information Science and Engineering and Applied Science, respectively. 

His research program is centered on the open source MapWindow GIS project (www.MapWindow.org), integrated 
environmental modeling (www.iemHUB.org), and hydroinformatics (www.HydroDesktop.org) under funding from 
the US EPA, NOAA, NASA, DOE, FEMA, and various commercial entities. He can be reached by e-mail at 
amesdani@isu.edu.

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\section{Landon Blake}
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Landon Blake is a licensed land surveyor interested in the
intersection between GIS and land surveying. He is an advoccate of
open source software and open technology standards. He is a charter
member of the OSGeo and a volunteer programmer and administrator of
the JUMP Pilot Project.

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\section{Scott Mitchell}

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Scott Mitchell is co-director of Carleton University's Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory 
in Ottawa, Canada, and an Assistant Professor in Carleton's Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.  His research is directed at spatial analysis in support of environmental decision making, especi
ally in
agricultural and protected landscapes.  Open source geospatial software and open standards provide valuable 
tools to enable his group's work, as well as transparent and accessible means to develop and share new 
algorithms and datasets. The lab's web site is http://www.glel.carleton.ca, and Scott can be reached at 
scott.mitchell at glel.carleton.ca.


\section{Tyler Mitchell}
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Tyler Mitchell is the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and Editor in 
Chief of the OSGeo Journal.  He serves on OSGeo committees, speaks regularly at events and works closely with members to further the OSGeo mission.  His book, Web Mapping Illustrated (O'Reilly, 2005) was one of the first books addressing open source mapping technologies, in particular MapServer, PostGIS and GDAL/OGR.

\section{Barry Rowlingson}

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Barry Rowlingson is a Research Associate in the School Of Health
and Medicine at Lancaster University in the UK. His research is in
the field of spatial statistics, mostly applied to disease outbreak
modelling and prediction. He has contributed to several open-source projects, most notably
the R statistical software system and Quantum GIS.

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\section{Jorge Sanz}
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Jorge Sanz is a consultant in Geospatial technologies at Prodevelop
(Valencia, Spain). He received education and training in surveying,
cartography and geodesy at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Nowadays he is the coordinator for the gvSIG Technical Steering
Committee and is in charge of the incubation process of gvSIG at
OSGeo. He is a Charter Member of the OSGeo Foundation, a member of the
OSGeo Incubation Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of
the Spanish language Local Chapter of the OSGeo Foundation.


\section{Micha Silver}
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Since 1996 Micha Silver has been doing network administration and GIS consulting 
for local government organizations in the Arava region of Israel, including the 
Arava Drainage Authority and the Dead Sea Arava Science Center. In day-to-day 
work he uses a mix of proprietary and open source software.


\section{Zachary Woolard}

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Zachary Woolard has a B.S. in Applied Geography.  He has worked for six years in both 
government and private sector jobs, doing a little bit of everything along the way.
His primary interests are open data standards, OSGeo in local government, and learning 
everything he can about databases, both open and proprietary.

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