[Manifold-l] call for interest - Australian users meeting

[Simon Greener (SpatialDB Advisor)]

Folks,

The "we" in Mike's email refers to Mike Sumner and myself (Simon Greener).
We got together this morning at the University of Tasmania to discuss
the posting I made on to the discussion list and forum. Mike had some great
suggestions and we brain-stormed some ideas on what we thought users mike
like to see in the sessions. In effect, Mike and I are going to act as
the convenors of the forum/user meeting.

That does not mean we will be telling everyone what will be happening,  
where and when,
but we feel that unless we start the ball rolling with some concrete  
suggestions
and put these out for comment nothing much will happen.

So, to all those people who emailed me privately, great stuff: I have you  
in my intray
so will contact you all directly when we have something concrete to report  
on.

regards
S
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:09:02 +1100, Michael Sumner <mdsumner at utas.edu.au>  
wrote:

> Hello, this is a general call for interest in an Australian Manifold  
> users meeting. (Discussed at  
> http://69.17.46.171/Site/Thread.aspx?id=28968&edit=29037  )
>
> We thought that a meeting in Sydney some time in late January / early  
> February 2007 would be right - we will investigate options with the  
> university/colleges and the Leagues clubs. We will check out meeting  
> venues as well as accommodation and food options - please feel free to  
> make suggestions!
>
> The major themes we thought would be important:
>
> 1. everyone comes with a real-world problem that they'd like solved -  
> and they leave with an answer!
>
> 2. we have some solid outcomes from the meeting for detailed, ambitious  
> requests to be made to sales at manifold for improving the product
>
> In terms of topics, we have this tentative list:
>
> - sophisticated database connnectivity
> - the representation of time in GIS
> - environmental management - both terrestrial and marine
> - programming/extensions
> - available data sources on the web, that are of general interest
>
> Please regard all of this as food for thought - it's not a prescription!  
> I'm very keen to hear people's ideas and opionions, please give  
> preferences to locations and times for this meeting - and, of course let  
> us all know what you'd like to see and get out of this event.
>
> We will set up a site for gathering and sharing information for this  
> event sometime soon.
>
> Ideas regarding problems to be solved, and applications for presentation  
> / discussion are most welcome.
>
> Cheers, Mike.
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