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Hello,<br><br>
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).<br><br>
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).<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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).<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Steve<br><br>
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Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D.<br><br>
<u>Temporary Contact Info (January - July 2005)<br><br>
</u>Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Airborne Remote Sensing<br>
Simon Fraser University<br>
Department of Geography<br>
8888 University Drive<br>
Room 7123 RCBH<br>
Burnaby, British Columbia<br>
CANADA V5A 1S6<br><br>
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steven_steinberg@sfu.ca<br><br>
<u>Permanent Contact Info:<br><br>
</u>Associate Professor<br>
Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences Department<br>
Co-Director, Advanced Spatial Analysis Facility<br>
Humboldt State University<br>
Arcata, CA 95521<br><br>
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