Markus Neteler






 * Since 2016 working in the mundialis company in Bonn (Germany) on remote sensing and massive satellite data processing.
 * Chair of the GRASS PSC
 * Contact me for my blog

Contact Markus Neteler or 'neteler*osgeo.org'

Markus Neteler's research focus is remote sensing for environmental risk assessment, epidemiological GIS modelling and Free Software GIS development. He is principal GIS analyst for FEM in several European and national projects related to vector-borne diseases and biodiversity. He is author/co-author of two books on GRASS and various papers on GIS applications. He is founding-member of the OSGeo Foundation and served on its board between 2006-2011. Since 2016 he works in the mundialis company in Bonn (Germany) on remote sensing and massive satellite data processing.


 * OSGeo Experience




 * Misc


 * OSGeo.org - former member of the Board of Directors (2006-2011) and of some committees since 2006
 * co-founder of GDF Hannover, Germany
 * co-founder and member of FOSSGIS.de (formerly GRASS-Anwender-Vereingung e.V. - GAV), D-A-CH and GFOSS.it, Italy
 * Sol Katz Award for 2006
 * First book on Open Source GIS: [[Image:GRASS book 2008.jpg|80px]] http://www.grassbook.org
 * http://tinyurl.com/tree-four-freedoms - "Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology" - letter to Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 27, Issue 6, 310-311, 20 April 2012
 * 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)

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

 * ✅ 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