GIS represents one of the last great frontiers (along with BI) where the data volume lets everyone work on real computer science.

This is a great field, and as long as you are not in europe there is enough public data to make things interesting for the open source developer.

(I actually like any form of programming in the large, distributing computing, design, ...)

Here are a couple of the open source projects I am known to work on:

And some organizations that suffer my involvement:

Contact:

•  jodygarnett
• jody.garnett@lisasoft.com

Blog at How 2 Map

How 2 Map (Documentation and Discussion from around the Java GIS world.)
Out in the World
OSGeo Branding
OSGeo Templates through the Years
CCIP Part 2 - Configuring GeoServer
Stepping outside my Comfort Zone for CCIP

Blog at Java.net

Jody Garnett's Blog
How 2 Map Starting up an industry specific blog - GeoHack
Community 1 Maven 0 Eclipse -1 I cottoned on to the current blog fest on the merits of Maven. I have been running with Maven since version 1.0; but mostly I recommend going into Maven (or any build system) with a couple of friends, nothing wastes time like a build system.
Java at FOSS4G wrap up Article GeoTools was really well represented at this years Free and Open Source Geospatial conference.
FOSS4G 2007 2 days and counting The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference is ramping up and Java should be everywhere. I have the privileged of working with a number of people doing presentations this year - and it has been great watching the GeoServer project (running Java EE) catch up to the long time king of the hill MapServer (written in C).
JSR-275 And why GeoTools does not care yet The deadline for JSR0275 is coming up on July 8th, as one of the top users of the JSR108 (which was withdrawn) you would think GeoTools would care about what is going on ... here is why we don't: Java 1.4