About

Hello FME’ers, and welcome to the FME Evangelist.

This site is the means for Safe Software to circulate technical bulletins to all our users.

Focus
As the FME Evangelist my focus is on highlighting:

…with the occasional diversion onto items such as important technical news, upcoming events, Safe blog postings, etc.

Format
I intend to post everything as a compendium of items rather than as individual posts - though I may reconsider that decision.

FME Technical Resources
Safe Software has a number of technical resources hosted on different web sites and services.

To help users keep track of all these resources, we’ve registered a bunch of domain names to make it easier to quote the resource URLs to someone. These are:

Additionally, we’ve organized them under a parent site called FME User Central:

Bookmark that page and you’ll always have access to the latest FME related information.

FME Evangelism and Your Feedback
Anyway, back to the evangelism…

My role is to evangelize new FME functions to the world on Safe’s behalf. You may have noticed me participating in user group discussions under the name mark2atsafe, or have attended a training course that I’ve taught.

However, I don’t see evangelizing as a one-way process. As much as I’m supposed to preach the good news to you, I feel it’s important that I should also promote user requirements and suggestions to the decision makers at Safe.

So please feel free to contact me to discuss any ideas or suggestions you might have for making FME a better product. It doesn’t matter how small the issue - a minor tweak to a GUI or log message for example - our developers’ favourite fixes are the small ones that have a big impact.

We’ve turned off the commenting on this site, because we don’t want it to turn into a glorified discussion board. You can either post your thoughts to the user group (FMETalk) or directly to me at:

Having taken my life into my hands by giving out my contact information, I’d add the comment that support related issues should really be sent to support@safe.com to be answered. The support team has more resources than I do, so you can expect a quicker and more accurate response by contacting them.

I hope you find this resource of use, and I look forward to spreading the FME word.

Mark Ireland, The FME Evangelist
Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
support@safe.com http://www.safe.com
Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access

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