Arnold, <div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for offering to join the DotSpatial steering committee. I'm copying the dotnet osgeo list so that others can see the kind of excellent resume you bring to the task. I've added you to the page and Google Group.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Dan</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Arnold Helmut Engelmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahe@dhi.us">ahe@dhi.us</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">Hi Dan,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I’d like to volunteer for this committee. As I’m new
to this list (I joined after seeing your post on the GeoAPI.NET forum on
codeplex), and relatively new to the open source scene, I should probably
introduce myself.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I studied under John Radke at Berkeley and Duane Marble at Ohio
State in the 1990’s and joined my current employer, DHI Water and
Environment (<a href="http://www.dhigroup.com" target="_blank">www.dhigroup.com</a>) in 1999. I also interned at ESRI in 1995 and
worked briefly for the Ohio EPA. In the last 11 years I’ve been involved
in developing GIS based water modeling applications for DHI, mostly based on
ESRI software. We started using .NET with ArcGIS relatively early (in 2002),
and recently have begun using open source GIS in newer products. We use
SharpMap in a web dashboard product which acts as a portal to our modeling
software. We are using NTS (along with the associated GeoAPI.NET) in a new
desktop application framework associated with managing spatial/temporal data
and also for executing water models and analyzing results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">We are putting a significant effort into developing these
platforms with about 15 developers in Copenhagen, New Delhi, and Shanghai
working on these (including myself in Portland). I’m in charge of the GIS
related development. I would very much like to see something more unified and
consistent developed in regard to these GIS libraries, and would definitely like
to contribute.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
<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
Behalf Of </b>Daniel Ames<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 07, 2010 22:57</span></p><div class="im"><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dotnet@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">dotnet@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
</div><b>Subject:</b> [DotNet-OSGeo] Working towards a System.Spatial library... and
Please vote on a logo...<p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">HI all, </p>
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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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