Markus Neteler






 * 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 blog
 * Contact me at Markus Neteler 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 70 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: [[Image:GRASS book 2008.jpg|80px]] 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