Alex Morega

Hi there! I’m a freelance web developer based in Bucharest, Romania. I’m also a member of ROSEdu, an organization that promotes open-source in education.

You can reach me at . Also check out my GitHub account (github.com/mgax) and maybe the cv (English, Romanian.

Open source projects

• LFS – a Git-LFS server implemented in Python

• SubText – private end-to-end encrypted chat app with a nice user experience

• Hoover – search tool for large collections of documents based on elasticsearch

• JekyllCMS (github.com/mgax/jekyllcms) – content editor for GitHub Pages

• haihui (github.com/mgax/haihui) – hiking maps, optimized for mobile use, based on OpenStreetMap data

• rust-gdal – GDAL bindings for Rust

• MP Tracker (github.com/mgax/mptracker) – statistics about Romanian MPs (client: Open Politics)

• BlackSea HIV (github.com/mgax/blacksea-hiv) – map of HIV cases in the Black Sea region (client: The Black Sea publication)

• GistMap – publish maps on the web by creating a gist, inspired by bl.ocks.org

• SpaghettiFS – experimental Fuse filesystem that stores data in a Git repository

• SPARQL browser – simple GUI to explore the contents of a triple store

• AppleScript JSON – AppleScript JSON encoder

Talks, workshops

• Web maps, with Sorin Rusu – geo-spatial Cluj, April 2016, code

• Orienteering maps – geo-spatial Cluj, April 2016, slides

• Visualizations – Open Data Summer School, June 2015, slides, code

• haihui – AmsterdamJS March 2015 slides; Utrecht JS March 2015 overpass code demo; geo-spatial Cluj 2015; softbinator slides

• Overpass workshop – geo-spatial Cluj, June 2015, tutorial

• Flask intro – ROSEdu CDL, April 2015, slides, code

• Python workshop for Thales – October 2015, exercises

• Web maps with static files – geo-spatial Timișoara, November 2014, slides

• PyGame – CS4HS, October 2014, code

• “Python, a practitioner’s perspective” – RoPython, Oct 2014, slides

• Python workshop – FOSS4G-CEE, June 2013, github.com/mgax/foss4gcee2013-pygis

• Flask intro, with Alex Eftimie – ROSEdu Web Workshops, April 2013, slides, code

• Python intro – ROSEdu CDL, March 2012, slides

• HTTP protocol – ROSEdu WebDev, February 2012, slides

• Web front-end – ROSEdu CDL, November 2011, slides

• Unicode – ROSEdu Tech Talks, April 2011, slides

• Automated testing – ROSEdu CDL, March 2011, slides

• Usability – Wurbe, November 2010, slides

• WSGI – ROSEdu Tech Talks, November 2009 slides, code

• ZODB – Wurbe, October 2009, slides, code