User:The silentist
Real name: Jeffrey Warren [1]
I'm the founder of GrassrootsMapping.org and co-founder and Research Director for the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (http://publiclab.org). I design mapping and civic science tools and professionally fly balloons and kites.
I wrote the vector-mapping framework Cartagen (http://cartagen.org) and orthorectification tool MapKnitter (http://mapknitter.org), as well as open spectral database and toolkit Spectral Workbench (http://spectralworkbench.org).
I'm on the board of the Open Source Hardware Association, the board of the alternative education program Parts and Crafts in Somerville MA and an advocate of open source software, hardware, and data. I co-founded Vestal Design, a graphic/interaction design firm in 2004, and directed the Cut&Paste Labs project, a year-long series of workshops on open source tools and web design in 2006-7 with Lima designer Diego Rotalde.
http://publiclab.org/profile/warren
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