User:Maximdubinin

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Hello, my name is Maxim Dubinin, I am:

  • Founder and CEO of NextGIS - Opensource geospatial solutions provider focusing on Russia.
  • Founder and current head of GIS-Lab - Geospatial community for experts and amateurs for Russian-speaking audience, founded in 2001.

Things I have done personally, initiated or led:

  • Wrote over 220 articles majority of which are about opensource GIS tools and data (en, ru)
  • Participated in 11 communal projects at GIS-Lab and coordinated 5 of them, including translation of GRASS and gvSIG manuals, OSGeo Live docs, creation of the first truly open dataset of administrative division of Russia, etc.
  • Wrote 20+ QGIS plugins, participated in GDAL and QGIS source tree
  • Sponsored OpenLayers and QGIS
  • Threw the first Russian OpenStreetMap party in 2009
  • Jump started Russian OpenStreetMap Council in 2011
  • Organized OpenGIS! conference in 2012 (http://gisconf.ru/en): 250+ attendants from 150+ organizations, 2 days, 3 simultaneous sections.
  • Sponsored OSM Baltics Conference in 2013 (upcoming)

Naturally all this activities would not be possible without many co-authors, helpers, fellow enthusiasts.

All personal info, CV can be found here: http://m-d.me

You can reach me at: sim@gis-lab.info

My GitHub stuff is here.

NextGIS GitHub is there.