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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the first FRUGOS unconference - which was meeting of 20 or so open source GIS enthusiasits who live along Colorado's Front Range. Brian and Sean organized, while Tom played host. Peter and Sean both had nice writeups of the conference - so I won't repeat what they've said.

Instead, here is a list of attendees and what they do. The list is taken from my notes, so I'm sure I've messed up some details and missed a person or two. If so, let me know, and I'll fix any mistakes.

Gregor Allensworth-Mosheh

Gregor is one of the people behind HostGIS and gave a couple of interesting talks – both of which I sadly missed but Peter has the scoop on his blog.

Norman Barker

Norman, who is moving to Denver from England, is one of the main developers of hibernate support for PostGis.

Peter Batty

Take a look at Peter’s nice summary of the unconference. Peter and I have worked together for a number of years – including at Smallworld, GE and Ubisense. More recently Peter was the CTO of Integraph, but is now looking for a new gig. Check out his blog at http://geothought.blogspot.com/.

Tom Churchill

Tom hosted the meeting at is the founder of Churchill Navigation, which makes extremely cool software for the next generation personal navigation devices.

G Hussain Chinoy

Hussain is an active developer on NASA’s opensource WorldWind project. Besides giving a great demo of both the .NET and Java versions of WorldWind, he also provides a fascinating glimpse into the politics of WorldWind, NASA and OpenSource.

Scott Davis

Scott recently started his own consulting company, and has just finished Pragmatic GIS. Can’t wait to get my copy! His blog is at http://www.davisworld.org/blojsom/blog/.

Tom Gehring

Tom worked a number of years on IBM mainframes, and recently decided to change careers and get involved with GIS [Not sure if I have spelled Tom’s last name correctly].

Sean Gillies

Sean is one of the main organizers of Frugos, and works as a web developer for the University of North Carolina for their ancient world’s project. It sounds like a great project – mapping whatever information they can find about ancient Greece and Rome. Sean is a big Python user and has one of the best know GIS blogs - http://zcologia.com/news.

Chris Haller

Chris works part time at the University of Colorado medical center and part time at PlaceMatters. In his free time he’s works on a Social Mapping site called iCommunityTv that combines maps and multimedia. Check it out at http://blog.eparticipation.com/.

Chris Helm

Another Chris who is at the University of Colorado. Chris works with Bruce on GLIMS, which is a database of the world's glaciers based on reflections from a radiomter. GLIMS is a big Postgresql/PostGIS database with a MapServer front end. Output is done via OGR or KML.

Dan Moore

Dan is a Web developer and has done a fair bit of work with Google maps.

Jim Olsten

Jim has worked extensively with GIS for a variety of projects including NEPA impact studies, etc.

Trent Pigeno

Trent is a GIS/web developer, and works with Brian at the Timoney Group. Trent recently traveled to South America (I think it was Chile), where he did some volunteer GIS work, before returning to the states [Not sure if I have spelled Tom’s last name correctly].

Bruce Raup

Bruce works at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder. He is the technical lead for the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) database and is a heavy user of GRASS, OGR and his own Perl scripts.

Charlie Savage

Well you already know me since you’re reading this blog.

John Spinney

John works for OpenWave, which is one of the main providers of software and browser that run on mobile phones. John’s blog is at http://www.maperture.net/.

Brian Timoney

Brian is one of the main organizers of Frugos, and runs the Timoney Group in Denver, which does map consulting work based on open source software, with a focus on the petroleum industry. One of the interesting things Brian mentioned was that a number of their customers want to use Google Earth as a document management system.

Bill Thorp

Bill works for the National Park Service in Fort Collins, and is involved with cataloging and managing their numerous web services. You can see a nice picture of Bill at http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/contactsim/index.cfm - just scroll down a bit.

Eric Weisbender

Eric has the honor of being listed last! Eric is a GIS specialist for Western Area Power Administration, which is part of the Department of Energy. He’s a strong proponent of open source software, including PostGIS, OGR, Hibernate, etc.