Markus Neteler

OSGeo Member
Name:	Markus Neteler
Job Title:	Owner and General Manager
Company:	mundialis GmbH & Co KG
Address:	Kölnstrasse 99
City:	Bonn
State:
Country:	Germany
Local Chapter:	FOSSGIS
Email:	neteler@osgeo.org
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Website:	https://www.mundialis.de/neteler/
Language(s):	German; English; Italian
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

                   

Markus Neteler

awarded by Arnulf for untiring cleaning-up of the Wiki. Thanks in the name of the community!

• Since 2016 I'm CEO 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: 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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