Who we are

Paolo Cavallini cavallini@faunalia.it [CV]

Paolo Cavallini Paolo has a strong scientific and environmental background with a PhD in Zoology. He has written more than 30 publications in international journals as well as conference proceedings and popular papers. Since 1996, Paolo has worked in the private sector providing consultancy primarily for public administrations and agencies. He is now Managing Director of Faunalia, working with Free and Open Source geographic information systems (GIS), wildlife conservation and management, environmental impact assessments and nature conservation plans.

Paolo has strong links with the academic world, teaching and collaborating with various universities and museums, both in Europe and abroad and regularly reviews manuscripts for international journals.

Paolo initially approached Free and Open Source software in 2000, and soon after migrated all of Faunalia's computer infrastructure exclusively to Open Source software. He actively participates (as a power user, tester, and sponsor) in the development of several Open Source software projects, particularly in the GIS sector, and is among the initiators of the DebianGis project, a project that aims to make the Debian GNU/Linux distribution the best platform for GIS use.

Paolo writes articles on free GIS for Italian and international magazines. His main interest is environmental modelling, especially in the fields of nature conservation and animal ecology. Paolo has been Chair of the Italian Geographic Free and Open Source Software Association and finance and marketing advisor in the Quantum GIS Steering Committee.