Hi Helena Thanks for the info and your help. My suggestion is that rather than planning the academic track each year on an adhoc basis, it will be of benefit if we have a strategy for this long-term (not depending on local arrangements each time).
As a start, i suggest that we plan to setup a program committee for Academic Track bringing together key people who have organised and helped (by being reviewers etc) the academic track in the previous years for FOSS4G , who will be responsible for all aspects of this framework (from CfP, special issue arrangements, time plan etc). Best wishes, Suchith -----Original Message----- From: ica-opensource-boun...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:ica-opensource-boun...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Helena Mitasova Sent: 01 November 2011 15:30 To: Barend Köbben Cc: OSGeo Discussions; ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [ica-opensource] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track Suchith, Barend, this has been in place since inception of FOSS4G and the success of this effort for each conference pretty much depends on the academic track and local organizing committee, quality of the submissions and the process for the journal that is selected. This year, Rafael Moreno has done a particularly good job managing the selection of peer reviewed papers for TGIS and, if the authors do their reviews efficiently, we may have the special issue of TGIS published relatively quickly compared to other years. This is the second time we have worked with TGIS - the first one was in 2004 (vol 8 no 2). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.2004.8.issue-2/issuetoc I am on the editorial board of TGIS and it is a good journal to work with, but there are several others. The 2010 FOSS4G papers are being published in Applied Geomatics. Barend, please let me know if you need more information, I will be happy to help with this effort, Helena Helena Mitasova Associate Professor Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 hmit...@ncsu.edu On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > Hi all, > > One of the topics of the OSGeo-ICA MoU is that we work to establish a > framework for publications for the academic track of FOSS4G conferences. The > key aim is to put in place a framework for publications for the academic > track (one option might be special issues in reputable GIS journals like > IJGIS, TGIS etc). > > Barend Köbben, (ITC - University of Twente) has kindly agreed to start > working on this but we need to bring together a core group of people who can > help with this effort. If you are interested please contact Barend (cc in). > Also please let me know who is the key contact in OSGeo Board for this. > > For a start, it will be really good to know what efforts have been done in > previous years for the FOSS4G academic track publication and what > suggestions/ideas you all have, so that we can work to produce a proper > template incorporating all this. It will be good if you can let us know your > thoughts/ideas before 15th Nov and i can then also discuss and plan this > during the ICA Commission Chairs meeting planned in Vienna. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > Dr Suchith Anand > Nottingham Geospatial Institute > Nottingham Geospatial Building > University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU > Tel: (0)115 82 32750 > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx > > http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ > http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ > http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ > > Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for > bridging the digital divide > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may > contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, > please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy > or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. > Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not > necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ ICA-OpenSource mailing list ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ica-opensource _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
