Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Journal] OSGEO journal

[Landon Blake]

Christian wrote: "First, the Journal has failed to build enough academic
merit, that researchers seriously consider to submit their work to the
Journal.
Second, the articles about community activities need to be published and
circulated within short time spans after that activity/event, thus a longer
editing and publication process as inevitable for a peer-reviewed Journal
is not suitable. Thus, these posts are ending up on blogs and also on the
wiki. And I actually think, that this is the better forum for this kind of
content, including lots of photos, web links and also videos, etc."

Great observation. Seems like the journal suffers from trying to be two (2)
things at once: an academic journal and a newsletter for OSGeo. Perhaps the
journal would do better if we separated these two (2) functions.

Landon

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Helena Mitasova  wrote:

> Christian
>
> - I am very much in support of your ideas. It may be useful to post this
> vision on the geo4all and osgeo discuss list. I am sure there will be
> volunteers willing to help out or at least encourage contributions and
> reviews. This would also help to coordinate with other publishing ideas
> such as the one proposed by Charlie focusing on peer reviewed educational
> material (which would be interesting niche that nobody has done so far - we
> could have one of the issues focused on that topic).
>
> Helena
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Christian Willmes  > wrote:
>
>> Dear Dimitris,
>>
>> its great to hear, that you are also interested in working on the OSGeo
>> Journal.
>>
>> Regarding your proposal and ideas, I see the OSGeo Journal more as an
>> academic journal, just look at the history of published issues [1]. Five
>> academic tracks proceedings, I did not counted the single academic papers,
>> but it will amount to 30-40 papers I think.
>> I am in favour to also have community reports, if they are provided (what
>> was not abundantly the case in the past either).
>>
>> But here is my analysis of and vision for the Journal.
>>
>> First, the Journal has failed to build enough academic merit, that
>> researchers seriously consider to submit their work to the Journal.
>> Second, the articles about community activities need to be published and
>> circulated within short time spans after that activity/event, thus a longer
>> editing and publication process as inevitable for a peer-reviewed Journal
>> is not suitable. Thus, these posts are ending up on blogs and also on the
>> wiki. And I actually think, that this is the better forum for this kind of
>> content, including lots of photos, web links and also videos, etc..
>>
>> So, I would suggest to keep the journal more in an academic direction,
>> and try to build merit, so that researchers start to reconsider submitting
>> to the OSGeo journal. One big point in this is, that the Journal should be
>> the default publication for FOSS4G academic track contributions. Of course,
>> attracting academics with the possibility of publications in a higher
>> ranking journal like Transactions in GIS in the past, for some few best
>> submissions each year should be also the case in the future as a major
>> attractor for academics. This practice would also yield more submissions to
>> be published in the OSGeo Journal.
>>
>> I think the OSGeo Journal can and should take a niche, that is not really
>> occupied in the Journal landscape yet. That is, articles presenting OSGeo
>> Projects, including software architecture, licensing model, road maps,
>> overview of dev community, etc. and of course case studies that focus on
>> the application of OSGeo projects in education, in public sector, for
>> development work, in industry etc.. These papers do not have to meet the
>> highest academic standards, they primarily have the function to highlight
>> OSGeo projects and to provide citable works on these OSGeo Projects. The
>> submission of papers should be generally open to everyone, no prerequisites
>> (like acad. degrees or something) whatsoever.
>>
>> Of course, a section on reposts from events etc. can and should also be
>> maintained. I would suggest that we have at first one Issue per year
>> (additionally to the FOSS4G academic track) that is open from the beginning
>> of a year to the end, and adds submissions, as soon as they are reviewed
>> and edited to this issue. Its no problem if there are at first very few
>> papers in an issue, it is more important, that we start to publish again.
>> We should keep it as simple as possible, not overarching criteria, such as
>> themes etc.. The only important criteria should be, that it has something
>> to do with OSGeo. Quality and validity is checked and if needed improved
>> during the review process.
>>
>> So, I would like to volunteer for a Journal in that direction.
>> I am open to other directions, but prefer the above depicted agenda.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian
>>
>> [1] 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Journal] OSGeo Journal - Call for Contributions

[b.j.kobben]

Hi Landon,

Just a reminder that the Academic Track committee of FOSS4G2014 is at the 
moment doing a final review round to determine where each Academic Track paper 
is to be published (if anywhere). Some of those might come up for the OSGEO 
Journal, as of yet we do not know if there's enough to fill a special issue or 
maybe we just have a few in a regular issue.  We hope to have the selection and 
final editing before Christmas, so that 'production' could start in 2015.

Yours,
Barend Köbben


--
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Senior Lecturer - ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
@barendkobben



On 22-10-2014 23:47, Landon Blake 
sunburned.surve...@gmail.commailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com wrote:

We are getting ready to (finally) publish the annual report for 2012. I'm going 
to experiment with a slimmer journal published bi-monthly or quarterly instead 
of once a year.

We'll start this experiment with a Fall 2014 Issue of the Journal.

I invite Chapters, Software Projects, and Committees to submit reports just 
like they normally do for the Annual Report. This round of submittals can cover 
activities from January 2013 to September 2014.

I'll also need a volunteer for an interview. Please don't be shy.

If you want to contribute a topical article or tutorial for this issue, that 
would also help. I'd like to get submissions by October 31. I'll plan on 
publishing by the middle of November.

You can send your articles directly to me 
(sunburned.surve...@gmail.commailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com) or to the 
Newsletter mailing list. All we need is your word processing document and any 
photos or graphics. We will take care of the rest.

I really appreciate the help and support.

Thanks!

Landon
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Journal] OSGeo Journal - Call for Contributions

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for the reminder Barend.

Landon

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:55 AM, b.j.kob...@utwente.nl wrote:

  Hi Landon,

  Just a reminder that the Academic Track committee of FOSS4G2014 is at
 the moment doing a final review round to determine where each Academic
 Track paper is to be published (if anywhere). Some of those might come up
 for the OSGEO Journal, as of yet we do not know if there's enough to fill a
 special issue or maybe we just have a few in a regular issue.  We hope to
 have the selection and final editing before Christmas, so that 'production'
 could start in 2015.

  Yours,
 Barend Köbben


  --
 Barend Köbben
 Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente
 PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
 @barendkobben



   On 22-10-2014 23:47, Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.com
 wrote:

   We are getting ready to (finally) publish the annual report for 2012.
 I'm going to experiment with a slimmer journal published bi-monthly or
 quarterly instead of once a year.

  We'll start this experiment with a Fall 2014 Issue of the Journal.

  I invite Chapters, Software Projects, and Committees to submit reports
 just like they normally do for the Annual Report. This round of submittals
 can cover activities from January 2013 to September 2014.

  I'll also need a volunteer for an interview. Please don't be shy.

  If you want to contribute a topical article or tutorial for this issue,
 that would also help. I'd like to get submissions by October 31. I'll plan
 on publishing by the middle of November.

  You can send your articles directly to me (sunburned.surve...@gmail.com)
 or to the Newsletter mailing list. All we need is your word processing
 document and any photos or graphics. We will take care of the rest.

  I really appreciate the help and support.

  Thanks!

  Landon

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