[DotNet-OSGeo] Re: Regarding MapWindow/OSGeo DotNet 2011

[Harold Dunsford]

Obviously, assuming I can swing the whole time off situation or get it
approved as my work related travel, I'd enjoy these kinds of hard hitting
topics.  While I certainly believe the other developers can use this sort of
briefing, this third track content was very limited in its draw last
conference.  Previously we had a track for application users, (big
audience), for novice consumer-developers (big audience), and for framework
developers...which turned out to be just me sitting in a room talking to
like one other person, who was arguably lost.  I'm concerned that if Michael
gets deep enough to where the topics are really beneficial for someone like
me or other very experienced developers, they will be too deep to drum up
attendance from anyone else.  If he can tailor it for the consumer-developer
level it would probably be well attended.

We could certainly use a short steering committee meeting for issues that
cover future direction ideas, but it needs to be short because the members
of the steering committee tend to also be the presenters of content.  If you
hole them up in a room together, then the mob of raging fans has nothing to
do for that time.  So that either needs to happen as part of the super
collective, and treat the other attenders as audience members for a quick
future-directions discussion, allowing them to contribute ideas while
everyone is together, or it needs to happen as a meeting outside of the time
span of the main conference.  During the main conference hours, we should
cater to the needs of the general public more than to our own needs, which
can be handled by e-mail or conference calls or whatever.

It would be worth hosting at least one DotSpatial framework design strategy
session.  We now have considerably more members that are outside of the Dan
Ames lab that are actually contributing to framework design into the future,
as long as we can tear them away from getting distracted by parallel
sessions.  If we had such a thing, one idea would be to have each presenter
bring a 5 minute conversation starter prepared on their favorite topics to
bring the group up to speed.  The session could run more like a
brain-storming session, and less like a power-point presentation series, and
it should at most be a one hour session, since, once again the attendees are
probably critical presenters for other areas.  This might be better
organized as a "birds of a feather" style meeting over food or something,
and don't worry about having power points at all.

Anyway, those are just some ideas that are in my head right now.

Ted




On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at lizardtech.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> Some of the possible topics I could do include:
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>   - a critical look at the framework design guidelines: StyleCop, FxCop,
> and friends, plus “How (and Why) to Implement Dispose” :-)
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>   - a tour of the support for parallelism in .NET 4
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>   - a nature walk through the various collections classes, including the
> obscure ones you thought you didn’t need to know about
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>   - WPF for geo folks: drawing vectors, drawing rasters manually and
> efficiently, …
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>   - Windows Phone 7 for geo folks: showing bing maps and OSM maps, using
> the gps, geo routing services, …
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> - what’s in an assembly, including signing and versions, and how to
> generate your own IL on the fly for really fast reprojections
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> 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?)
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> -mpg
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> *From:* dotspatial-sc at googlegroups.com [mailto:
> dotspatial-sc at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Ames
> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2010 11:38 AM
> *To:* dotspatial-dev at googlegroups.com; dotspatial-sc at googlegroups.com;
> dotnet at lists.osgeo.org; mapwindowteam
> *Subject:* Regarding MapWindow/OSGeo DotNet 2011
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> Hi all,
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> We've finally been able to lock in a hotel and a meeting date for a
> MapWindow/OSGeo DotNet 2011 Conference in San Diego.
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> All the relevant information is posted here:
> http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2011.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I'll be sending out a formal "call for abstracts" for workshops, papers and
> posters later this week.
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> 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...
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> Thanks in advance for taking a look at the conference web site.
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> - Dan
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> (P.S., I'll be looking for volunteers to help with sorting through
> abstracts and making the conference program in January...)
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> --
> Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
> Associate Professor, Geosciences
> Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
> amesdani at isu.edu
> geology.isu.edu
> www.mapwindow.org
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