All the news that's fit to print from your FOSS4G 2013 committee.. The biggie is that the deal is now done with Transactions in GIS that a number of papers from the Academic Track submissions will be accepted into the journal for publishing. "TGIS" as it is known, "is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and short technical notes on the latest advances and best practices in the spatial sciences.". The attraction of this for academics is that published papers in high-impact journals are what we live for. The AT Subcommittee is now busy putting together a review team for the submissions, and also writing the call for papers to go out soon. All this should bring in some very strong submissions to the Academic Track of the conference.
Elsewhere, progress continues on the web site design and logo. We've had a few logo proposals, and have settled on something that evokes the English autumn. At the time of the conference the leaves will be starting to turn, and Sherwood Forest will be a magnificent place to explore if you wish to go on a chivalric quest away from the safety of the GeoCamp - the giant marquee that will form part of the conference location. If Robin Hood should capture you, just tell him you develop Open Source applications and he'll set you on your way. Other discussions have been going on about sponsorship, not having conference bags, social trips (caves anyone? http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/caves-of-nottingham_11.html), getting enough internet bandwidth, and a big discussion about how to review presentations - which I'll post about shortly. Barry _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
