Markus Neteler



Markus Neteler


 * employee at Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy - head of GIS and RS Unit
 * OSGeo.org - member of the Board of Directors (2006-2011) and of some committees since 2006
 * chair of the GRASS PSC
 * spending too much time on GRASS GIS :)
 * 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

Contact Markus Neteler or 'neteler*osgeo.org'

What's hot: http://www.grassbook.org/  <<-- new Edition 2008!

My goals 2010-2011 (as a director)

 * Board
 * ✅ Extend the OSGeo mission statement: add "collaborative"
 * consider a MoU with OpenStreetMap Foundation to clarify relationship for people outside of communities
 * consider two F2F board of directors meetings per year
 * discuss charter member fee (as most organizations worldwide have incl. OSGeo local chapters)


 * 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

My OSGeo related proposals

 * 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