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| OSGeo Member | ||
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| Name: | Alex Mandel | |
| Job Title: | Geospatial Data Engineer | |
| Company: | Development Seed | |
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| City: | Davis | |
| State: | CA | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Local Chapter: | California Chapter | |
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| Website: | https://wildintellect.com | |
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OSGeo Experience and Roles:
- Member of the California Chapter
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
Code/Application Experience
- R, Python, VBA/VB, html, css, js
- Plone, Trac, Apache
- QGIS, GRASS, GDAL, OpenLayers
- Spatialite(SQLite), PostGIS, MySql
- Inkscpae, GIMP, Scribus
Projects & Committees
School Activities
- 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
Degrees
- 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






