Markus Neteler

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Markus Neteler {{#umSetParam: 11.13532|46.19281|Fondazione E. Mach, Trento|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
• First book on Open Source GIS: http://www.grassbook.org

Contact Markus Neteler or 'neteler*osgeo.org'

What's hot: http://tinyurl.com/tree-four-freedoms "Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology" letter

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

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