Opengeo

Tim Schaub

Technical Lead

Tim has been working with web technologies since web browsers first made their splash, and began developing geospatial software in 2001.

He is currently chair of the Project Steering Committee of OpenLayers. He is also a founding PSC member of the GeoExt project.

As a member of the OpenGeo front-end team, Tim helps guide product development and pushes for enhancements on our core open source projects. He enjoys giving professional trainings and workshops while not working directly on project development.

His work has included extensive contributions on vector handling in OpenLayers, OWS Context and KML parsing for the OWS-5 testbed, and lead on the Community Almanac project for the Orton Foundation.

Education

  • MSc Geological Sciences, University of Washington, 1999
  • BSc Natural Science, BA Mathematics, University of Puget Sound, 1994

Did you know that Tim...

  • Has programming experience in C, Perl, Python, Visual Basic and PHP, but his language of choice is Javascript
  • Is one of the authors of the Introduction to OpenLayers Workshop.

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Open Source Projects

  • OpenLayers: Project Steering Committee Chair, committer
  • GeoExt: Founder, Project Steering Committee member, Committer
  • GeoScript: Co-founder

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