[DotNet-OSGeo] Working towards a System.Spatial library... and Please vote on a logo...

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I would certainly volunteer to help steer.

While not building any specific project, we (LizardTech) are leveraging .NET wrapped stuff, looking to use more, and would be likely to be helping sponsor such efforts in the future.

-mpg

From: dotnet-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:dotnet-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:27 AM
To: dotnet at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [DotNet-OSGeo] Working towards a System.Spatial library... and Please vote on a logo...

HI all,

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.

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.

Secondly, I've taken the liberty of registering the dotspatial.codeplex.com<http://dotspatial.codeplex.com> site as well as dotspatial.org<http://dotspatial.org> 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 (http://www.codeplex.com/site/search/openings) 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...)

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:

http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=logo&referringTitle=Home

(feel free to leave a vote in the comments for that page and/or make suggestions on improving any of the logos)

Thanks all.

- Dan

(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...)



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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
amesdani at isu.edu<mailto:amesdani at isu.edu>
geology.isu.edu<http://geology.isu.edu>
www.mapwindow.org<http://www.mapwindow.org>

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