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

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 deals singapore 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 sports massage singapore 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 [http://physioactive.sg/services/sports-therapy.html sports injury singapore 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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