2006-Present GEOS is a project of the OSGEO foundation and is continually improved and funded by mandy FOSS4G developers as well as corporations all over the world. Developers and Project Steering Committee (PSC): Active: Martin Davis (mtnclimb at gmail.com )(PSC) - Architecture Sandro Santilli (strk@kbt.io) (PSC Chair) - Bug Fixing / Maintenance Paul Ramsey (pramsey@cleverelephant.ca) (PSC) - Coordination / Build Regina Obe (lr@pcorp.us) (PSC) - QA / Windows / Coordination Howard Butler (howard@hobu.co) (PSC) - OS Platform support and testing Dale Lutz (dale.lutz@safe.com) (PSC) Daniel Baston (dbaston@gmail.com) - Bug Fixing / New functionality Kurt Schwehr ( schwehr@gmail.com ) - Bug Fixing / Test hardening Vicky Vergara (vicky@georepublic.de) - Refactor / Test development Not Active: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz@loskot.net) - Unit testing Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) - VStudio porting Dave Blasby (dblasby@gmail.com) - PostGIS Connectivity Yury Bychkov (me@yury.ca) - Initial Porting Sean Gillies (sgillies@frii.com) - Scripting Interface Fernando Villa (fvilla@zoo.uvm.edu) - GNU Build System Norman Vine (nvine@cape.com) - Porting / C++ Expertise - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2003-11-06 Initial development of GEOS was funded by: Vivid Solutions Inc (www.vividsolutions.com) Refractions Research Inc (www.refractions.net) British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute (www.asi.bc.ca) GEOS is based on algorithms originally developed in Java by Martin Davis (mbdavis@refractions.net) in the JTS Topology Suite (www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2004 to 2006 Continued development of GEOS funded by Refractions Research Inc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2006 Continued development of GEOS funded by Refractions Research Inc. Inclusion of new JTS functionality in JTS 1.5 to 1.7 funded by Safe Software and Autodesk. Improved robustness of geometric operations for GEOS 3.0.0 funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the State Survey of Bavaria. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -