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Re: Site addition ideas (Re: ids-pvwave archive) [message #14917 is a reply to message #14639] Wed, 31 March 1999 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In article <7dtpkv$8pt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, wbiagiot@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:

> This is in comment to Mike Schienle's idea for a generic IDL user's website:
>
> Personally, I scour the net every week or two for good IDL ideas to add to or
> modify my work projects with. D. Fanning's site is one of the best, of
> course, and should be commended for his often unpaid support of the IDL
> community.

Let me second that comment.

> My idea for Mike is to include an email list of IDL users with
> their area of expertise, such as mathematical routines, plotting, imaging,
> GUI's, object graphics, IDL projects worked on, etc.

Good idea with one caveat. Putting an email address on a website is an
open invitation for spam. Everytime I post the FAQ I get to look forward
to dozens of unsolicited emails. I'll put a reminder of the downside of
listing an email on the page(s) that handle that.

> In some ways, this is
> as useful as a open library of IDL subroutines, and might be easier than
> scanning Dejanews.

I was pondering this on a drive this morning. Lots of people have a small
library of routines that they use in-house but have not put them in an
accessible library. A simple means of uploading or linking files (.pro or
.sav) into a common site, ought to increase the availability of routines.
It would be searchable of course, and sortable by author, routine name,
routine type, keywords, etc.

> Also, as a collabration, certain subscribers such as
> myself, have IDL maintenance/support and can forward *relevant* community
> questions to RSI.
>
> Good luck with the site and keep us posted.

Will do. Thanks for the ideas and encouragement.

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Mike Schienle Interactive Visuals, Inc.
mgs@ivsoftware.com Remote Sensing and Image Processing
http://www.ivsoftware.com/ Analysis and Application Development

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