<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear ML Administrators/PSC,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am a GIS enthusiast and Computer Science student and I am writing you to seek for your preliminary consensus to use the </span><a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a> mailing list for the purposes of my MSc thesis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Specifically I am trying to directly collect the developers’ opinions about a number of features that might characterize a good desktop geo-processing framework.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The final goal is going a step beyond the usual Desktop GIS round-up to attempt a review of all those open-source desktop environments that attract developers and spatial-scientist by allowing them to efficiently create new tools to process spatial information.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My plan is administering a simple questionnaire trough the ML and collect voluntary contributes from the subscribers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The synthesis of the results from this survey and from all the analogous performed inside other Communities will be made publicly available at the end of the study (February 2014) through a post on this ML (and perhaps in a subsequent</span> open-access paper).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All contributes from the ML will be managed complying to University Ethical Committee (EC) regulations to ensure no leakage of personal information will occur. This study has been approved by the EC with protocol number COM/PG/UH/00034.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Looking forward to hearing from you.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Marco Foi</span></p></div>