[Mapserver-west] Intro

[Steven Steinberg]

Hello,

I've just joined in as well. As an intro, I'm a faculty member at Humboldt 
State University. I did my PhD work at Minnesota in the early days of 
Mapserver with Steve Lime and others so from a time standpoint I've been 
around this game from the beginning (a decade or so).

Before anyone gets the impression that means I know everything about MS, 
no! I see myself as more of a facilitator of MS and associated application 
platforms. I'm not much of a programmer which is why I find folks to 
collaborate with on that end (Doug, Gregor and Matt have all introduced 
themselves already and I guess you could say its my fault they're all into 
MS at this point).

What I will say is that we've done a good amount of development both at the 
University and in collaboration with HostGIS over the last 7 years or so. I 
tend to find ways to sell the idea of spatial data as part of almost every 
project we undertake and we have several that have already been mentioned 
here by my colleagues.

I'm very interested in growing the collaborations with anyone out there who 
is interested in a University partner (including the folks down in Arizona 
who might want to channel their program into something transferrable with a 
GIS program at a larger University).

Humboldt has a respected GIS program and draws in folks from all across the 
country (which is why students like Matt come from the east coast, right 
Matt!??) I'm very interested in continuing to find ways to make all of this 
useful to people out there in real situations and without saddling them 
with the costs of expensive commercial software systems. There's nothing 
better than being able to promote a system where we can put all of the 
funding into actual development and nothing into the cost of software 
licences, etc.

Finally I'll mention that I'm up here in Vancouver for a while, and would 
be happy to meet any of you who are in the neighborhood! (I know you're 
lurking out there). At some point I'd also like to see us west coasters get 
together to host a Mapserver Conference on this side of the continent. 
(it's our turn after all) and I'd be more than happy to offer HSU as a 
potential site.

Steve



Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D.

Temporary Contact Info (January - July 2005)

Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Airborne Remote Sensing
Simon Fraser University
Department of Geography
8888 University Drive
Room 7123 RCBH
Burnaby, British Columbia
CANADA V5A 1S6

Office/Lab Phone:       604.291.4556
Department Office:      604.291.3321
FAX:                    604.291.5841
E-mail:         steven_steinberg at sfu.ca

Permanent Contact Info:

Associate Professor
Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences Department
Co-Director, Advanced Spatial Analysis Facility
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA 95521

Office Phone:   707.826.3202
FAX:            707.826.4145
E-mail: gis at humboldt.edu
Website:        http://www.humboldt.edu/~sjs7001  
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