Werner Macho completed his Master’s degree at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. There he spent a long period of time as a scientist working on a range of topics. Currently, he is completing his second Master’s degree in GIS Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria, while working at linfiniti.com in Swellendam, South Africa. Werner has been working with QGIS since 2007, when he searched for an open source GIS tool to aid in his work on floodwater protection plans. In the QGIS Project, he holds the position of Translation Team Leader, managing the translation of more than 45 languages. Werner also banned proprietary stuff from his computer in 1995, and he strongly believes in the power of coding open source and the GPL.

Nathan Woodrow is an open source developer working on the QGIS project, he also maintains a collection of his own personal open source projects. Nathan has been a core developer and an active member of the QGIS community for the last three years. Nathan maintains a QGIS blog at http://nathanw.net which showcases some of the upcoming features in QGIS, as well as tips and tricks for developers and users.

Nathan currently works for Digital Mapping Solutions (DMS) Australia, as a Technical Consultant and QGIS Specialist. At DMS Nathan provides support, training, custom development, and bug fixing for QGIS.