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Steering Committee Members

All members of the SteeringCommittee are listed below. Members are encouraged to add a brief self-description.

  • Schuyler Erle (sderle) 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Erik Uzureau (euzuro)
    Erik is a MetaCarta contractor. Hailing from the South Suburbs of Illinois, Erik studied Computer Science in Silicon Valley, then worked three years writing AJAX (before it was called AJAX) for European travel technology giant Amadeus on the Cote d'Azur. He has been working on OpenLayers since February of 2006.