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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello all, and congrats on a great tool!! I am very impressed.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>My intent is to use this tool in my research to see how it might be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>possible to use GME as an early conceptual design tool for architects to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>be able to model design criteria and their dependencies between them. I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>very much like the system architecture from what I understand so far,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>especially the extensibility and use of OCL. Very good decisions in my</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>opinion. One extension that I'd like to see is to render the contents</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>of a node in the node's icon as a bitmap, therefore giving a miniature</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>snapshot of its contents. This would be great for state diagrams for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>example. Secondly, I am interested in in-place rendering and editing of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>a node's attributes, ie a table inside of the node of attribute-value</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>pairs with the twist that derived attributes could be visually linked so</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>users could ascertain visually where attribute dependencies are.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>My most important question however before I jump in is whether or not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>you intend to open source GME. I saw a previous post mention that the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>licensing has not yet been determined, and I wanted to offer my vote for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>any type of open source license as I would be interested in contributing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>time and effort from my research project towards this effort. I am</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>leary of jumping into projects where I don't have any assurance that if</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>there is a problem I need addressed quickly that I can take care of it</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>myself (on my management's timeframe :), and secondly, if open source I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>have greater confidence that over time I can address issues even if the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>original developers have moved on to 'greener' pastures.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks for the consideration!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Best regards,</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>-Van </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2> ____________________________________________________________ </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Van Woods, Research Architect </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> U.S. Army Corps of Engineers </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Engineer Research and Development Center </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Construction Engineering Research Laboratory </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 206-764-3614 </FONT>
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