Fwd: Re: Open Mash Development

[Lloyd_Lim@limunltd.com (Lloyd Lim)]

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:08:20 -0400
From: Florian Hafner <hafnerf@db.erau.edu>
To: Lloyd Lim <Lloyd_Lim@limunltd.com>
Subject: Re: Open Mash Development

Lloyd,

Thanks for adding me to the sourceforge project. And also sorry for the
late response to your e-mail. My firewall has been playing tricks on me.
Anyways, more about me:

During the day I play network administrator and software developer for
the Air Traffic Management Research Lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Daytona Beach, FL. It's a small departmental linux
network. I am also in charge of administering our 'air traffic control
real-time simulator', which is an in-house software for real-time
human-in-the-loop simulations assessing air traffic controller capacity.
What we basically do is test new displays and ways of controlling  air
traffic.

During the evenings I am a graduate student in Software Engineering  at
this university as well.

My interest in Mash is two-fold:

1) I have been charged with developing a communications (primarily
voice) for the air traffic control simulator. The tool will need to be
able to do multicasting over select ports, as well as point-to-point
communication between specific controllers working on different sectors.
Mash appears to do all of this, but the User Interface is not very
friendly for 'set in their ways' controller. Eventually I am hoping to
have a user friendly GUI on a touch pad as a secondary deisplay for the
controller. Unfortunately, my knowledge of tk and tcl is limitied, so
it's either learn it or rewrite it in Java.

2) My secondary interest is the fact that I have to write a Graduate
Research Project this fall and coming spring and I wanted to do it in
the area of voice communivation over IP.

As far as my programming skills are concerned, I am good in Java, C/C++,
CGI. I know some other languages but have never done any sizeable
project in them. Due to my occupation as a network administrator, I do
have some considerable networking experience.

Ok, enough for now :) Please e-mail me if anyone has any other questions
:)

Florian