Developer profile?
Auke Jilderda
auke at collab.net
Thu Oct 5 06:16:15 EDT 2006
Hi Markus,
thanks, looks good!
I converted your plain text into HTML (revision 1.1) and provided some
suggestions (revision 1.2). I thought I'd be smart and use version
control with the diff to help you easily scan through the feedback but
that didn't work out as great as I had hoped: my editor re-wrapping
lines to fit the width obfuscates the diff a bit but I included the diff
below as well as both files. The latest version is viewable at [1].
Note, I didn't publish it anywhere yet until you and the web committee
is fine with it.
In general, I fixed some typos and punctuation. Also, I added a
reference to your book. Let me know if you're ok with the current
version and what you'd like to see changed?
Web committee, can you also have a look and give feedback?
Thanks!
Auke
1.
https://www.osgeo.org/content/spotlights/developer/MarkusNeteler.html
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<p><em>Tell us a bit about yourself?</em></p>
<p>I have an M.Sc. degree in Physical Geography and Landscape
- Ecology from the University of Hanover in Germany. I worked at the
+ Ecology from the University of Hannover in Germany. I worked at the
Institute of Geography as Research Scientist and teaching associate
- for two years. Since 2001, I work as researcher at ITC-irst and
CEA
- (Center for Alpine Ecology), Trento, Italy. I am working on remote
- sensing for environmental risk assessment and Free Software GIS
- development. Helena Mitasova and I have written the first book on
- the Open Source GIS GRASS (3rd edition forthcoming!). I live with
my
- wife and my kids in the nice Trentino Province in Italy. My passion
- is classical music, I was actively playing in a symphony orchestra,
- but time and orchestras are currently rare.</p>
+ for two years.
+
+ <p>Since 2001, I work as researcher at l'Istituto Trentino di
+ Cultura - Il Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
+ (ITC-irst) + ITC-irst and Center for Alpine Ecology (CEA) in
Trento,
+ Italy. I work on remote sensing for environmental risk assessment
+ and Free Software GIS development. Helena Mitasova and I have
+ written the first book on the Open Source GIS GRASS (3rd edition
+ forthcoming): <a
+
href="http://www.springer.com/dal/home?SGWID=1-102-22-173664736-0&change
Header=true"><em>Open
+ Source GIS: A Grass GIS Approach</em></a>, Markus Neteler,
+ Helena Mitasova, ISBN 1402070888, Springer, 30 June 2002.
+
+ <p>I live with my wife and my kids in the nice Trentino Province in
+ Italy. My passion is classical music, I was actively playing in a
+ symphony orchestra, but time and orchestras are currently rare.</p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -53,13 +61,13 @@
<p>As a student, I started to use GIS in 1994, first a bit of
Arc-Info, then GRASS for a series of projects at University of
- Hanover in Germany. I immediately became very interested in the
GIS
- technology, so I started to play around. First first "teaching
+ Hannover in Germany. I immediately became very interested in the
+ GIS technology, so I started to play around. First first "teaching
GRASS" experiences I had in India at Anna University (Chennai,
Tamil
Nadu) where I stayed in 1997 for a couple of months as student. I
got deeply involved in the GRASS development since 1998. Phisan
- Santitamnont from Thailand who was a doctorate student at
University
- of Hanover was opening the door for me to get GRASS running on
early
+ Santitamnont from Thailand, a doctorate student at University of
+ Hannover, was opening the door for me to get GRASS running on early
Linux versions.</p>
</li>
@@ -68,14 +76,14 @@
are you using to get the job done (we want to know about both
commercial and open source)?</em></p>
- <p>Years ago, I used proprietary software a bit, but found it more
+ <p>Years ago, I used proprietary software a bit but found it more
interesting to discover details of GIS algorithms in open source
GIS. Also for teaching, I only use open source GIS: Nowadays, for
example, with QGIS on top of GRASS, you can do fancy things in an
afternoon. At ITC-irst and CEA, we are using GRASS and related
- software for traffic accident projects, for the identification of
+ software for traffic accident projects, the identification of
unexploded bombs from World War II (Adige valley in Trentino), and
- for risk analysis of tick-borne diseases.</p>
+ risk analysis of tick-borne diseases.</p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -84,8 +92,8 @@
<p>I like the community approach (the famous "bazaar"): people
contribute what they can: ideas, source code, documentation, data,
- bug & wish reports and so forth. I help to solve some of their
- problems, and they do a lot for me. This works pretty well, in the
+ bug & wish reports, and so forth. I help to solve some of their
+ problems and they do a lot for me. This works pretty well, in the
GRASS project even with a very low administrational overhead.
Beside
the more technical issues I got a series of nice opportunities to
travel the world such as an invitation to Japan from Osaka City
@@ -104,14 +112,14 @@
<p><em>What open source projects are you contributing to as a
developer?</em></p>
- <p>I am basically contributing to GRASS GIS, sometimes also
- something to other related projects. In future, want to do a bit
+ <p>I am basically contributing to GRASS GIS and sometimes also
+ something to other related projects. In future, I want to do a bit
more on free geodata since our toolbox to process spatial data is
really rich and powerful. However, here in Europe, we are lacking
reasonable access to spatial data. Hopefully OSGeo can help to
- deliver some datasets. I am also involved in developing workshop
and
- training material, supporting localization of GRASS, software
- packaging etc.</p>
+ deliver some datasets. I am also involved in developing workshops
+ and training material, supporting localization of GRASS, software
+ packaging, and so on.</p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -119,22 +127,22 @@
why are you using them (remember to use the full URL)?</em></p>
<p>In terms of GIS, I am <a href="http://grass.itc.it/">GRASS</a>
- power user. :-) Of course I also use GDAL/OGR, PROJ4, QGIS, a bit
- of Mapserver. Then R-stats, Latex, OpenOffice and tons of other
+ power user. :-) Of course I also use GDAL/OGR, PROJ4, QGIS, and a
+ bit of Mapserver. Then R-stats, Latex, OpenOffice and tons of other
packages - say, I only use free software.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><em>Is your company using code from these projects and if so
- please describe how/why if you can?</em></p>
+ please describe how and why if you can?</em></p>
<p>At ITC-irst, we are hosting part of the GRASS infrastructure and
contribute to the development. For example, the new GRASS 6 vector
engine was developed by my former colleague Radim Blazek. I am
- co-founder of GDF Hannover is offering solutions to Free Software
- GIS, commercially helping companies and individuals to implement
- FOSS4G solutions. GDF Hannover is also hosting the GRASS Wiki and
- the Tutorials Translation Portal.</p>
+ co-founder of GDF Hannover which is offering solutions to Free
+ Software GIS, commercially helping companies and individuals to
+ implement FOSS4G solutions. GDF Hannover is also hosting the GRASS
+ Wiki and the Tutorials Translation Portal.</p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -148,22 +156,22 @@
<p><em>What programming languages do you use (scripting and
compiled)?</em></p>
- <p>Primarily C and Un*x shell scripts, with the emergence of the
- GRASS-Python interface I'll most likely switch to Python.</p>
+ <p>Primarily C and Un*x shell scripts; with the emergence of the
+ GRASS-Python interface, I'll most likely switch to Python.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><em>What spoken/written languages are you fluent in?</em></p>
- <p>German, English and Italian. I wish I knew more French.</p>
+ <p>German, English, and Italian. I wish I knew more French.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><em>This is for us to do a better job, what do you think needs
to
be added to the web site to help you?</em></p>
- <p>A better users mailing list archival and searching tool and a
- more intuitive content management system.</p>
+ <p>A better users mailing list archival and search tool and a more
+ intuitive content management system.</p>
</li>
</ul>
On 04 October 2006 14:52, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> Hi Auke,
>
> the interview is ready... if any English needs to be fixed, I would
> appreciate corrections.
>
> Thanks,
> Markus
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