Markus Neteler

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* Since 2015: founder of the mundialis company in Bonn (Germany) with focus on remote sensing and massive satellite data processing.
* Chair of the GRASS PSC
* My freelance activities
* My blog
* Contact me at or 'neteler*osgeo.org'
; Bio
Markus Neteler, PhD, is a Geographer and Open Source GIS enthusiast. After 15 years working as a researcher in Italy (remote sensing for environmental risk assessment, epidemiological GIS modelling, vector-borne diseases, biodiversity, and Free Software GIS development) he joined in 2015 the startup mundialis (www.mundialis.de) as a partner and general manager focusing on remote sensing and big geodata processing. Markus is project coordinator of GRASS GIS and founding member of FOSSGIS.de, GFOSS.it, and OSGeo.org. He is author/co-author of two books on GRASS GIS and over 80 papers on GIS applications. He is founding-member of the OSGeo Foundation and served on its board of directors between 2006-2011. In 2006, he was honored with the international Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.
; OSGeo Experience
; Misc
... roughly in temporal order:
* co-founder of mundialis, Germany - 2015
* Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M. and Metz, M. (2012): GRASS GIS: a multi-purpose Open Source GIS. Environmental Modelling & Software, 31: 124-130 (DOI)
* Sol Katz Award in 2006
* Board of Directors member of OSGeo.org (2006-2011) and of several committees (GRASS GIS PSC, SAC, geodata, ... since 2006)
* co-founder of GDF Hannover, Germany - 2003
* co-founder and member of:
** GFOSS.it, Italy - 2007
** OSGeo.org - 2006
** FOSSGIS.de (formerly GRASS-Anwender-Vereingung e.V. - GAV), D-A-CH - 2000
* First book on Open Source GIS: http://www.grassbook.org - 2002
== My OSGeo related proposals 2006-2011 ==
* Microdonations - don't ignore the small money! (really, we need a better framework for that)
* OSGeo Python Library (Software stack)
* OSGeo Cartographic Library (Software stack)
* OSGeo map symbol set (Software stack)
* OSGeo Multilanguage Dictionary (Education) - prototype
* Software Translation Portal (Software stack)
* OSGeo book shop (see Template:Books) <-- in Drupal, please, complete at http://www.osgeo.org/books
== Done goals 2006-2011 ==
* Started Open Source GIS History article
* Get Postgrey installed for lists.osgeo.org (combat spam on lists.osgeo.org)
* Italiano - OSGeo local chapter
* First OSGeo Educational data set
* GRASS Incubation
== My goals 2010-2011 (as a director) ==
Ex post note: I could not realize all my goals in my years of being a director (since 2006), so please pick 'em up!
* Board:
** Extend the OSGeo mission statement: add "collaborative"
** consider two one F2F board of directors meetings per year
** consider a MoU with OpenStreetMap Foundation to clarify relationship for people outside of communities
** discuss a low charter member fee (as most organizations worldwide have incl. OSGeo local chapters), perhaps BIP adjusted
* Conference
** run two conferences per year in different parts of the world rather than targeting at 2000 participants. One could be the current conference, the other more workshop oriented (Geoff Zeiss: make that topic oriented)
* Marketing
** Edu Marketing reachout initiative - better advertise the multi-language Edu portal
* Data
** Geodata committee: fill the raster niche (as OSM does for vector data) - e.g. by supporting http://openaerialmap.org
* Business
** Service providers directory: better support individual freelancers
** consider to establish a FOSS4G "engineer" certificate (which can even generate revenue for OSGeo)
* Community
** better link OSGeo int'l and local chapters (basically poor performance of many OSGeo liason officers. Maybe tag important messages and send to new local-chapters list?)
** promote a spatially more representative charter membership structure: elections went into this direction, see: Board of Directors Report 2011
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