Current 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

Steering Committee Alumni

  • 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.