Markus Neteler

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

Markus Neteler {{#umSetParam: 11.13532|46.19281|Fondazione E. Mach, Trento|Neteler|Markus Neteler}}

working at Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy - GIS and RS Unit | Chair of the GRASS PSC
Contact me for Professional GRASS GIS training courses
Contact me for GIS consulting

Contact Markus Neteler or 'neteler*osgeo.org'

OSGeo.org - former member of the Board of Directors (2006-2011) and of some committees since 2006
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
http://tinyurl.com/tree-four-freedoms - "Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology" - letter to Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 27, Issue 6, 310-311, 20 April 2012
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)

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

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