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He is a member of the Data Working Group and Membership Working Group, and occasionally contributes to the OSM Weekly.
----'''Eugene Alvin Villar''' is from the Philippines and has been mapping in OSM as [https://osm.org/user/seav/ seav] since 2007. Eugene has grown up loving maps and cartography (one of his favorite childhood books was a Grolier world atlas) and when he [https://www.vaes9.com/posts/osm_does_the_philippines learned that OSM was a crowdsourced project to map the ''whole'' world], he was immediately hooked. Aside from mapping, Eugene has also worked to collaborate with other Filipinos in building the local mapping community in the Philippines (which is one of the most active in Asia) by planning events, giving presentations, facilitating workshops, and organizing local conferences. He has been a member of the Foundation since 2016 and a member of the [[Local Chapters and Communities Working Group]] (LCCWG) which he chaired from 2019 until his election in 2020.
Eugene currently works as a senior software engineer for a [https://getmagic.com/ Silicon Valley-based startup] and before he got elected worked part-time doing OSM mapping for Kaart, a Bronze [[Corporate Members|Corporate Member]] of the Foundation. In his free time outside of OpenStreetMap, Eugene is also a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Seav very active contributor] the the Wikimedia projects such as the English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
* [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:seav user: seav on the wiki]
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