Gena, <div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for the feedback. I know that DotNet folks are always welcome at FOSS4g. My students and I have always felt welcome and learned a lot there (Lausanne, Capetown, Sydney). So we'll probably go to Denver too. (I was teaching MapServer and OpenLayers just today in fact based on stuff I've learned at these conferences). </div>
<div><br></div><div>The main reason we started the MapWindow conferences was because we wanted to do a lot of workshop and lab oriented training and found that at FOSS4g we could only get one or two workshops accepted - and they rejected all the ones for programmers. Of course this was a problem since half of the MapWindow users are actually 3rd party programmers using our controls. So not being able to do workshops made the regular FOSS4g less appealing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That being said, I've sent a note to the MapWindow team to get more feedback from people there who aren't on this list - including on the question of merging with FOSS4g in Denver.</div><div><br>
</div><div>By the way, we are also planning on doing a mini conference/workshop in Delft, Netherlands in April 2011 and our 2012 conference in Leipzig, Germany. There's got to be a way to harmonize all these events... </div>
<div><br></div><div>- Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Gennadii Donchyts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gennadiy.donchyts@gmail.com">gennadiy.donchyts@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Dan, all<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">It will be nice if everybody can make it, I will certainly distribute it between all our developers and will try to attend it. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Did you consider as an option to join forces with FOSS4G 2011 </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">in Denver (</span><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011</a>)<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"> and organize a separate .NET session there? That can create an opportunity for .NET geospatial communitty to learn what is going in all other OSGeo developments. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Gena</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><br></span></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Daniel Ames <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.ames@isu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@isu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Dear DotNet List, <div><br><div>As many of you know, the MapWindow team is planning to have its "MapWindow 2011" conference on 6-8 June 2011 in San Diego, California at UCSD. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Now with all the new developments on DotSpatial, Whitebox. NTS, SharpMap-Silverlight, <a href="http://PROJ.NET" target="_blank">PROJ.NET</a> and other projects, I would really like to open this conference up to a much wider OSGeo .NET/Mono audience. So this raises a couple of questions:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would folks on this list be interested/willing/able to attend such a conference and give a talk or workshop on some of these projects? </div><div><br></div><div>Would you all be able/willing to help promote the conference to your individual project developers and users?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps we would want to see if the MW team is willing to modify the title to include something like "OSGeo .NET" or "FOSS4g.NET/MONO". Also I suspect we'd want to check with the OSGeo conference list to see if it would give anyone heartburn if we were to use the word FOSS4G in the title. I think there is a precedent for this for regional meetings, but not sure about technology specific meetings...</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Dan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br>
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