Peter Mooney is a tenure track lecturer (~ assistant professor) at the Department of Computer Science in Maynooth University in Ireland. He has been working with spatial data and open source geospatial software for almost two decades now. Peter is recognised as one of the foremost experts in Europe on Crowdsourcing Geographic Information(CGI) and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). He has carried out extensive research on OpenStreetMap and other forms of VGI. He is particularly interested in how VGI can be integrated with other sources of geospatial data. He is author or co-author of over 40 peer-reviewed journal publications and over 100 conference publications. In his teaching, research work and public engagement he is a passionate advocate for the use of free and open geospatial data and, of course, free and open software for geomatics. Peter is co-chair of the Irish OSGeo Local chapter and European Co-Chair for GeoForAll. He is a member of the OSGeo Marketing Committee. He has been involved in the academic and scientific committees for all major GIS conferences both in Europe and globally.