User:Wildintellect

OSGeo Member
Name:	Alex Mandel
Job Title:	Geospatial Data Engineer
Company:	Development Seed
Address:
City:	Davis
State:	CA
Country:	USA
Local Chapter:	California Chapter
Email:
Phone:
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Website:	https://wildintellect.com
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Personal Description :
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

             

• Member of the California Chapter

Conference Activities

Talks

• FOSS4GNA 2023 -
• FOSS4G 2017 -
• FOSS4G 2014 -
• California Geographical Society 2010 - OSGeo Live
• North American Cartographic Information Society - OSGeo Sampler (With CA Chapter members)
• California Geographical Society 2009 - Spatialite
• American Association of Geographers 2009 Las Vegas (Panel)
• American Association of Geographers 2008 Conference in Boston, Apr 14-19th. - Open Source Course Development
• FOSS4G2007 : Community Mapping using Plone

Booths

• California Geographical Society 2008 Conference in Chico, May 2-4th.
• Tabling and Organizing Session at the American Association of Geographers 2009 Conference in Las Vegas
• Where 2.0 2009
• OSCON 2009
• California Geographical Society 2009

Code/Application Experience

• R, Python, VBA/VB, html, css, js
• Plone, Trac, Apache
• QGIS, GRASS, GDAL, OpenLayers
• Spatialite(SQLite), PostGIS, MySql
• Inkscpae, GIMP, Scribus

Projects & Committees

• Systems Adminstration
• OSGeo Live
• Marketing
• QGIS

School Activities

• Organized a course to evaluate new QGIS tutorials at UCD written by a Professor who teaches intro GIS.
• Organized a directed group study of graduate students to solve a geographical problem using programming and open source software.
• Quantum GIS plugin for metadata editing [1]
• Cartography Course using Inkscape
• Teaching Assistant: Programming GIS with Python

Degrees

• Bachelor of Science: Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology with minors in Landscape Restoration and GIS
• Phd: Geography - Dissertation: Expanding Geography with Free and Open Source Software: Technology Diffusion, Cartography, and Data Analysis

Relevant Memberships

• Linux Users Group of Davis
• GLOBAL: Geography Club