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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m interested in doing a workshop that would be a deep-dive into an advanced C#/.NET topic, using geo or the DotSpatial code itself as my working examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Some of the possible topics I could do include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> - a critical look at the framework design guidelines: StyleCop, FxCop, and friends, plus “How (and Why) to Implement Dispose” :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> - a tour of the support for parallelism in .NET 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> - a nature walk through the various collections classes, including the obscure ones you thought you didn’t need to know about<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> - WPF for geo folks: drawing vectors, drawing rasters manually and efficiently, …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> - Windows Phone 7 for geo folks: showing bing maps and OSM maps, using the gps, geo routing services, …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> - what’s in an assembly, including signing and versions, and how to generate your own IL on the fly for really fast reprojections<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Would any of these ideas be considered in scope? Would any of you be willing to attend one of these? (and if so, which one?)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-mpg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dotspatial-sc@googlegroups.com [mailto:dotspatial-sc@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Ames<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 25, 2010 11:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> dotspatial-dev@googlegroups.com; dotspatial-sc@googlegroups.com; dotnet@lists.osgeo.org; mapwindowteam<br><b>Subject:</b> Regarding MapWindow/OSGeo DotNet 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We've finally been able to lock in a hotel and a meeting date for a MapWindow/OSGeo DotNet 2011 Conference in San Diego. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>All the relevant information is posted here: <a href="http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2011">http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2011</a>. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It turned out that a major leukemia meeting had booked most of the space in San Diego earlier in June, so I had to move our meeting back by one week to June 13-15, 2011. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I hope that many/all of you will be able to come to San Diego next summer and join us for this in-person get together of the MapWindow and OSGeo DotNet developer and user community.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'll be sending out a formal "call for abstracts" for workshops, papers and posters later this week. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Note that we are doing workshops differently this year - instead of me proposing workshops and finding presenters, I am hoping that many (at least 12) of you will propose workshops that you can deliver. Of course workshop presenters will get a free conference registration...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for taking a look at the conference web site.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Dan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(P.S., I'll be looking for volunteers to help with sorting through abstracts and making the conference program in January...)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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" target="_blank">amesdani@isu.edu</a><br><a href="http://geology.isu.edu" target="_blank">geology.isu.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.mapwindow.org" target="_blank">www.mapwindow.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>