Ionuț Șerban is a PhD student at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography and researcher in GIS and Remote Sensing department at Terrasigna, a Romanian rooted company. He is an active participant at OSGeo Romania events since 2013 and a board member of geo-spatial.org (OSGeo Romania local chapter) since 2017. He attended global FOSS4G conference in 2017. The experience gained in Boston helped him to better understand the relevance of such an event.