Yes please do keep me as back up. Paul and I manage this project together. Thanks to everyone on the DVD committee for considering us!<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>- Dan</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------</div>
<div>Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br><a href="mailto:dan.ames@isu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@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></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>&gt;</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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    Thank you Daniel,<br>
    <br>
    As discussed with you earlier, I think that MapWindow plays an
    important role in the Geospatial Open Source stack, and while it
    doesn&#39;t run on linux as other OSGeo-Live applications, I think we
    should make an exception and include as a windows installer.<br>
    <br>
    I caveat this comment based upon whether we can find enough room,
    which will probably come at the expense of windows installers for
    other applications. I&#39;m hoping we should have a better understanding
    of the space availability after Alex creates a build which I think
    he will be doing soonish.<br>
    <br>
    Does anyone else from the OSGeo-Live community have comments or
    suggestions related to this application?<br>
    <br>
    Paul Meems, can you please confirm that you are ok to be
    OSGeo-Live&#39;s contact person for MapWindow?<br>
    Daniel, do you mind if we keep you name as a back up contact person
    as well? (It means you will be CCed on emails we send to project
    owners, which doesn&#39;t happen too often).<div><div class="h5"><br>
    <br>
    On 5/01/2012 4:03 AM, Daniel P. Ames wrote:
    <blockquote type="cite">Cameron, can you approve my membership on this mailing
      list so that our application can go through? Thanks,<br clear="all">
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>- Dan</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>--------------------------</div>
      <div>Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>
        Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>
        Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br>
        <a href="mailto:dan.ames@isu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@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>
      </div>
      <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
        From: <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:live-demo-owner@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">live-demo-owner@lists.osgeo.org</a>&gt;</span><br>
        Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:01 AM<br>
        Subject: Application to include MapWindow 4.8.6 on the OSGeo
        Live DVD<br>
        To: <a href="mailto:dan.ames@isu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@isu.edu</a><br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <div>This is an application to include the MapWindow
          GIS 4.8.6 software on the OSGeo Live DVD. The reasons for
          making this request now are 1) we have reached a point where
          MapWindow is mature and stable enough to be included, 2) we
          would like to offer a .NET native Windows application on the
          DVD, 3) We are holding our 3rd international conference in
          June in the Netherlands and would like to distribute this DVD
          to the conference goers (which will include users and
          developers of a variety of FOSS4G products - hence we&#39;d like
          to give them the full OSGeo Live DVD - not just a CD of
          MapWindow.)
          <div>
            <br>
          </div>
          <div>Here are specific answers to the application request form
            (answers in bold).</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Please describe your
                application.
                <ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">What is its name? <b>MapWindow
                      GIS 4.8.6</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">What is the home page
                    URL?<b> <a href="http://www.mapwindow.org" target="_blank">www.mapwindow.org</a></b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">
                    Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used? <b>Mozilla
                      Public License (MPL 1.1)</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">What does the
                    application do and how does it add value to the
                    GeoSpatial stack of software? <b>This is a desktop
                      GIS that can be extended through plugins written
                      in .NET</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Does the application
                    make use of OGC standards? Which versions of the
                    standards? Client or server? You may wish to add
                    comments about how standards are used.<b> The
                      software uses shapefiles and raster data. Plugins
                      are under development to access WFS and WMS data.</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">What language is it
                    written in?<b> C++, C#, <a href="http://VB.NET" target="_blank">VB.NET</a></b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Which version of the
                    application should be included in the next
                    OSGeo-Live release?<b> 4.8.6</b></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Stability is very
                important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds a bug
                in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of
                all other OSGeo-Live applications as well. (Way pay most
                attention to the following answers):
                <ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">If risk adverse
                    organisations have deployed your application into
                    production, it would imply that these organisations
                    have verified the stability of your software. Has
                    the application been rolled out to production into
                    risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please
                    mention some of these organisations? <b>US EPA and
                      USGS have made extensive use of MapWindow.</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">What is the size of
                    the user community? You can often answer this by
                    mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy
                    email list? <b>Approximately 6,000 downloads per
                      month and 14,000 people on the opt-in mailing
                      list.</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">What is the size of
                    your developer community?<b> about 10 active
                      developers on MapWindow 4.x with other developers
                      focused on plugins and other versions of the
                      software (MapWindow 6 is an active work in
                      progress).</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Do you have a bug
                    free, stable release? 4.8.6 is significantly bug
                    free.<b> The only major errors reported are related
                      to third party plugins that need to be updated.</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">
                    Please discuss the level of testing that your
                    project has gone through. <b>This version (4.8.x)
                      has undergone 6 test releases over the past 18
                      months. Bugs were found in each test release that
                      were then fixed until we got to this stable
                      version.</b></li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">How long has the
                    project has had mature code. <b>MapWindow 4.x was
                      first released in 2005. The code has continued to
                      mature and improve over the years with many new
                      features that sometimes introduce bugs - which is
                      why the latest version had 6 candidate releases.</b></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">OSGeo-Live is targeted at
                applications that people can use rather than libraries.
                Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
                command line interface) that a user can interact with?
                (We do make an exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries,
                and will include Project Overviews for these libraries,
                even if they don&#39;t have a user interface.) <b>Yes,
                  MapWindow 4.x is primarily an end user interface,
                  though it can be extended through custom plugins using
                  the MapWindow libraries.</b></li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">We give preference to
                OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which are
                presented at <a href="http://foss4g.org/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,187);background-image:url(&#39;&#39;);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">FOSS4G</a> conferences. If
                your project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has
                been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then please
                mention it. <b>MapWindow is not an Incubated project as
                  of yet, but has been presented at many FOSS4G
                  conferences through demo booths, talks, posters, etc.</b></li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">With around 50
                applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core packagers
                do not have the time to liaise with every single project
                email list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a
                volunteer (or two) to take responsibility for liaising
                between OSGeo-Live and the project&#39;s communities. This
                volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
                scripts and English documentation are updated by someone
                for each OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the
                installed application and Quickstart documentation works
                as expected on release candidate releases of OSGeo-Live.
                Who will act as the project&#39;s liaison person.<b> We have
                  asked Mr. Paul Meems to take this role. </b></li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux
                based. Our installation preference is:
                <ol style="line-height:1.5em;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:3.2em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Install from UbuntuGIS
                    or DebianGIS</li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Install .deb files
                    from a PPA</li>
                  <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Write a custom install
                    script</li>
                </ol>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <dl style="margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.5em;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
              <dd style="line-height:1.5em;margin-left:2em;margin-bottom:0.1em">Can
                you please discuss how your application will be
                installed. -<b> As we&#39;ve discussed with Cameron,
                  MapWindow 4.x is a Windows native .NET application
                  hence the application will need to appear on the DVD
                  as a single executable installer - something like
                  MapWindow4.8.x_Install.exe.</b></dd>
            </dl>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">OSGeo-Live is memory and
                disk constrained. Can the application run in 512 Meg of
                RAM?<b> (N/A)</b></li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">How much disk space will
                be required to install the application and a suitable
                example application? <b>Installation requires about 65
                  MB of HD space.</b></li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">We aim to reduce disk
                space by having all applications make use of a common
                dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the
                example datasets already installed:</li>
            </ul>
            <p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;line-height:19px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,187);background-image:url(&#39;&#39;);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets</a> If
              another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss
              here. Is it appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets
              which may already be included in the standard release. <b>Our
                small 45MB installer includes a few sample data sets
                that are extracted to the HD on the Windows machine.</b></p>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Each OSGeo-Live
                application requires a Project Overview available under
                a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,187);background-image:url(&#39;&#39;);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">CC By</a> and a Quickstart
                available under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,187);background-image:url(&#39;&#39;);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">CC By-SA</a> license. (You
                may release under a second license as well). Will you
                produce this? <b>Yes we will produce this. </b></li>
            </ul>
            <ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

              <li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">In past releases, we have
                included Windows and Mac installers for some
                applications. It is likely we won&#39;t have space for these
                in future releases. However, if there is room, would you
                be wishing to include Windows and/or Mac installers? <b>Yes
                  in this case we ONLY would like to include a Windows
                  installer. </b></li>
            </ul>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Thanks to the DVD committee for considering inclusion
              of MapWindow in the OSGeo Live DVD. </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>- Dan</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>--------------------------</div>
            <div>
              Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE<br>
              Associate Professor, Geosciences<br>
              Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br>
              <a href="mailto:dan.ames@isu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@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></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <br>
    </div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><pre cols="72">-- 
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