About Arnulf Christl

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1 Roots
2 Studies
3 Practical Work
4 Businesses
5 Current Work Scopes
6 Freedom of Knowledge

Roots

Arnulf Christl was born on April 28th in 1970 in Frankfurt, Germany. After stays in Indonesia and Uruguay and toying around with Commodore C64 he settled down in Germany where he learned to be a joiner.

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Studies

In 1991 he moved to study at the Geography Department of the Phillipps University of Marbug, Germany. He started to work as UNIX administrator at the department where he also got in touch with his first GIS software CATLAS. In 1994 he worked as GIS analyst at the university of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Practical Work

After coming back to Germany he settled down in Bonn. There he started to work as freelance programmer mainly implementing API extensions for the desktop GIS SICAD/SD. During the following 5 years he worked as freelance programmer, consultant and trainer for several companies. During this time he developed GIS education curriculum for training in university extension courses.

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Businesses

In 1998 he founded CCGIS as a privately owned business in Germany specialized in providing spatial technology.

Arnulf Christl tied up

Every year the staff grows by one or two. Since 2001 he shares responsibilities with Peter Stamm and focuses again more on the technology. In 2002 he started to develop Free Software business models and adopt Free Software technology. In 2003 he founded the Geo-Consortium together with seven companions from affiliated companies. In the past years he has been active in organizing several user meetings and conferences, currently the FOSSGIS 2007. In 2007 the companies CCGIS, KARTA.GO and Geo-Consortium merged into the WhereGroup where Arnulf continues his work as CEO with technical focus.

The OGC Principal Membership of the WhereGroup makes Arnulf Christl the (currently only) European representative with voting power in the Planning Committee which is OGC's highest level decision body. At this level he collaborates with representatives of industry leaders like Intergraph, ESRI or Google. This warrants that Mapbender development is tied closely to standardisation bodies in the geospatial realm as well as having European issues observed.

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Current Work Scopes

He works as system architect for geomatics and interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructures with the Free Software OSGeo SDI stack. He is member of the Mapbender Project Steering Committee, gives consultation, talks and conducts workshops.

He is an active member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation helping to organize marketing and spreading word for Free Software business models in Open Source development.

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