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.

• Tim Schaub (tschaub) 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.

•  Cameron Shorter (camerons) acts as a bridge between OpenLayers and  Community Mapbuilder. He is also Geospatial Systems Architect at  Lisasoft in Sydney, Australia.

• 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.

• Erik Uzureau (euzuro) -- Committee Chair
  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.