Professionally

• ~ 300 maps made...roughly
• Numerous analyses done, some big, some small
• 15 clients
• Co-authored Mastering QGIS with Packt Publishing
• Authored Discover QGIS with Locate Press (in press)
• Updated the GeoAcademy Curriculum twice: once to QGIS 2.8 and once to QGIS 2.12
• Learned Git
• Won the 2015 New Mexico Geographic Information Council Green Chile Outstanding Service Award
• Won the GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Team Award
• Voted in as an OsGeo Charter Member
• Continued to migrate all GIS work to QGIS
• 3 Community Health Map workshops conducted in Charleston, SC
• Presented at FOSS4G-NA in San Francisco
• Presented at the first QGIS conference in Nødebo, DK
• Presented at the New Mexico Geographic Information Council Fall Meeting
• 10 blog entries at  communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/
• Taught GIS 2020 – Introduction to Open Source GIS at Central New Mexico Community College
• Taught 2 GIS courses at UNM Continuing Education
• Taught 5 FOSS4G online courses for Del Mar College
• Became recertified as a GISP for the second time

Personally

• Celebrated my grandmothers 100^th birthday
• Travelled to Denmark, Vermont, New York City, San Francisco, Colorado, Bisbee AZ and Charleston SC.
• Worked out 184 times...not bad for an aging GeoHipster!
• Walked 370 miles...ah technology!
• Climbed my 20^th 14’er (Mt Yale)...a work in progress
• PR bench press – 215lb 3x
• PR dead lift – 300lb – 5x
• PR back squat – 205lb – 4x

At the most recent New Mexico Geographic Information Council meeting I was honored to be awarded the NMGIC Green Chile Outstanding Service Award. Dr. Ken Boykin, from the New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, won the Red Chile award. Not sure which is hotter:) 

I'd like to thank NMGIC for this award. I was very surprised and as I told the NMGIC President, "I feel like I'm just getting started!"

Dr. Ken Boykin and Kurt Menke

I finally have a moment to report back on the first ever international QGIS User/Educator/Developer conference in Nødebo, Denmark. It was certainly one of the best GIS conferences I've been to. It had a very intimate feel. The setting at the Forestry School of the University of Copenhagen (Skovskolen) was beautiful and peaceful. It was located in one of Denmarks largest forests and there were numerous trails and forest gym play areas.

Danish forest (Gribskov) near the conference groundsI had a lot of great conversations, some with old friends, and some with people I've known only from the QGIS-sphere. It was exciting the meet the latter face to face! There were ~150 attendees from 25 countries, and being one of only two Amercans was stimulating and refreshing.   QGIS 2015 Attendee Map

After Jeff McKenna's keynote I presented on the FOSS4G Academy.

OsGeo President Jeff McKenna opening the conferenceThere were some really good talks and workshops over the first two days. One highlight was a fruitfull round table discussion on education, curricula and certification. I'm excited to announce that our FOSS4G Academy material are being adopted by the QGIS project. This is the best chance for this material to survive and grow past 2015. 

My personal conference highlights included: 

• Matthias Kuhn presenting QField - this will be a mobile version of QGIS<">