[mapserver-users] TopoZone, MapServer, and me

[Brent Fraser]

Hey Ed,

  Now we're really gonna be behind schedule on that graticule improvement stuff... :)

Many, many thanks for your years of support, and best wishes on your new venture (I expect the OLPC s/w will have awesome performance!).

Brent Fraser

Ed McNierney wrote:
> Steve -
> 
> I think you and Brent will never let me REALLY retire until that 
> graticule (and title blocks, and neatlines, etc., etc.) are done!
> 
>     - Ed
> 
> 
> On 9/13/08 9:19 PM, "Steve Lime" <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> 
>     Congrats Ed, sounds like you've moved on to an equally interesting
>     topic from TopoZone. Glad to hear
>     TopoZone lives on in some shape or form. I'm sure I speak for all
>     community members when I say
>     thanks for all your help over the years. We'll have to find a new
>     performance, data optimization,
>     projection and raster guru. ;-)
> 
>     I hope you'll be back since you still owe me real graticule
>     support... Best of luck!
> 
>     Steve
> 
>     > >> Ed McNierney <ed at mcnierney.com> 09/13/08 7:45 PM >>>
>     Folks -
> 
>     Old-timers may have noticed that I've been relatively quiet on this
>     list for the last few months.  Newer folks might only have seen the
>     improvement <g>.  I am about to sign off - at least temporarily - as
>     I will no longer be an active MapServer user or developer.
> 
>     My TopoZone business was acquired by Demand Media, the parent
>     company of trails.com, in June, 2007.  I worked with trails.com to
>     integrate our technology into theirs (they were already using a very
>     similar MapServer-based system) and completed that work last April.
>      As of April, 2008 we closed down the former TopoZone servers and
>     office.  It was great to work with the trails.com team, but it made
>     little sense to keep a teeny satellite team out in Massachusetts
>     (they're based in Seattle).
> 
>     I took a little time off to do a few things on my to-do list.  As of
>     last Monday I've started a new position as VP of Software
>     Development for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation in Cambridge,
>     MA, building low-cost laptops for children around the world with
>     lots of cool applications on them.  This is keeping me pretty busy
>     with a rather massive open source development project with a team of
>     great people scattered around the globe.  I'll be busy doing that
>     work and won't really have the time to help out here (until I start
>     needing more maps...)
> 
>     Thanks to all the present and former members of this list who've
>     helped me a lot with MapServer (and GDAL, and PROJ, etc.) and to
>     those of you I've actually met in person at our conferences both
>     pre- and post-OSGeo.  If I can be of any assistance to any of you,
>     please let me know - thanks!
> 
>         - Ed
> 
>     Ed McNierney
>     205 Indian Hill Road
>     Groton, MA  01450
>     ed at mcnierney.com
>     +1 (978) 761-0049
> 
> 
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