Markus Neteler
Dr Markus Neteler is a co-founder of mundialis in Bonn (https://mundialis.de/) and ESMERALDA (https://esmeralda.earth). His main topics are remote sensing, analysis of large-scale geodata and free software GIS development. He has been GRASS release manager (https://grass.osgeo.org/) since 1997 and is a founding member of FOSSGIS, the Italian GFOSS and OSGeo.org. In 2006, he was awarded the Sol Katz Award; he received the Life Achievement Award 2022 from the OpenGeoHub Foundation.
Session
09-01
10:00
45min
How Our Community Was Born — Looking Back on More Than 20 Years of History
Markus Neteler, Venkatesh Raghavan, Jeff McKenna, Toru Mori
This session will focus on the very early days of the open source geospatial community, including GRASS, UMN MapServer, the first FOSS4G conference in Bangkok, and the establishment of OSGeo.
Keynote
Phoenix Hall