Fantastic, Michael. This is exactly the kind of support such a project would need (i.e. input/guidance from serious users...). I just listed you on the project steering committee page here <a href="http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Steering%20Committee">http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Steering%20Committee</a>. - Dan<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpg@lizardtech.com">mpg@lizardtech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I would certainly volunteer to help steer.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">While not building any specific project, we (LizardTech) are leveraging
.NET wrapped stuff, looking to use more, and would be likely to be helping
sponsor such efforts in the future.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">-mpg</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:dotnet-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">dotnet-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dotnet-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">dotnet-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:27 AM</span></p><div class="im"><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dotnet@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">dotnet@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DotNet-OSGeo] Working towards a System.Spatial library... and
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<p class="MsoNormal">HI all, </p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">A couple months back I proposed on this list that we ought
to consider moving towards a common "de-branded" low level API that
could be shared across multiple desktop and web based projects and that would
integrate all the best common aspects of NTS, GeoAPI, SharpMap, MapWindow,
various Proj4 ports, etc. The idea here is to lower the bar of entry for
potential users of these libraries by giving them a common look and feel and
ensuring close adherence to .NET Framework coding practices. This is
obviously a non-trivial goal, but has the potential for being a major step
forward for OSGeo.NET. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm interested in moving this project forward following all
of the best practices for Open Source projects. So one of the first tasks I
believe, should be formation of a steering committee. If you think that this
project is a good idea and feel like you have something to contribute, will you
please volunteer to be on the steering committee? I have already gotten
agreement from Ted Dunsford and Gennadii Donchyts to be on this steering
committee and am looking for 2-4 more people who are active user/developers on
NTS, SharpMap, GeoAPI or other projects who are willing to be on the steering
committee.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Secondly, I've taken the liberty of registering the <a href="http://dotspatial.codeplex.com" target="_blank">dotspatial.codeplex.com</a> site as well
as <a href="http://dotspatial.org" target="_blank">dotspatial.org</a> to use for managing this
project and Ted Dunsford has already started contributing some code for people
to look at and to "get the conversation going" as to what would be
included in such a project. We've also been listed on the top of the CodePlex
"find project openings" page (<a href="http://www.codeplex.com/site/search/openings" target="_blank">http://www.codeplex.com/site/search/openings</a>)
and as a result we've got several programmers already volunteering to work on
the project. (Hence the need for a steering committee to make sure we give
these people the right tasks...) </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thirdly, I also asked a friend to take a shot at designing
some potential logos for us to use for the project. Will you please vote on a
logo here:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=logo&referringTitle=Home" target="_blank">http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=logo&referringTitle=Home</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(feel free to leave a vote in the comments for that page
and/or make suggestions on improving any of the logos)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(By the way, I saw a very cool demo of a project by Gennadii
here at the iEMSs Conference in Ottawa yesterday in which he used a number of
.NET OSGeo tools that included work from many of you, I'm sure. Very cool
stuff...)</p>
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-- <br>
Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>
Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br>
<a href="mailto:amesdani@isu.edu" target="_blank">amesdani@isu.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://geology.isu.edu" target="_blank">geology.isu.edu</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br><a href="mailto:amesdani@isu.edu">amesdani@isu.edu</a><br><a href="http://geology.isu.edu">geology.isu.edu</a><br>
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