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
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Website:	https://wildintellect.com
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Personal Description :
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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

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

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