My Mission
I bring OSGeo Tools to my users to help them in their mission to make our river and our water healthy and safe.Biography
I have been working in open source GIS for 10 years at the Erftverband in Germany. I care for about 70 groundwater scientists, biologists, hydrologists, waste water engineers, planners, field workers and surveyors, All of them use GIS in a completely different way, and I am always jumping from one project to the next and I am always doing something completely different. It’s great.
I am a good person to ask about:
- How to move an organisation from ArcView to QGIS
- How to deliver QGIS updates to users in a Windows networked environment in a mostly consistent and professional manner
- How to run and customise the QGIS Web Client
- How to get an organisation up and running with QField
- How to run a privately hosted QFieldCloud instance
- How to build QField plugins
- How to move mountainous piles of undocumented shape files into a Postgres database without making a mess
- How to build a metadata and catalog system that is super useful
- How to nudge your users into writing documentation
- How to move your users from shapes to Postgres without them knowing about it.
And of course writing QGIS Plugins. There is probably a lot that I do that I could do a lot better, or completely different. Some of my code is ridiculous and some is quite clever. I try my best, go to the conferences, drink the coffee, and talk to as many people as I can and try to learn.
I love my job. I love my people.
