Journal Volume 1

This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo Journal

Deadlines

These are draft deadlines currently open for discussion.

1. Call for participation and papers - February 27, 2007
2. Finalise production team - March 8, 2007
3. Close formal call for papers - March 23, 2007
4. Draft production - April 4, 2007
5. Final production - April 16, 2007

Status

1. Starting up..
2. Setting deadlines
3. Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list (twice)
4. Drafts for articles are coming in

Contributors / Topics

See Journal page for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

Status:

• ? = not yet confirmed
• !? = confirmed/in contact
• ! = first version submitted
• !! = version ready for grammar/spell-checking
• !!! = final version ready

Editorials

1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates - !?
2. Ohloh stats summary

News

1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary - !
2. OSGeo accepted for Google Summer of Code (SoC) - !
3. OSGeo sponsorship update !
4. Upcoming events !
5. Old news, see news archive on osgeo.org !

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

1. Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: Map World Forum, India - !
2. Author: Andrea Scianna - title: VIII Meeting Italian users of GRASS & GFOSS - !
3. Author: Helena Mitasova/Julia Harrell - title: 2007 NC GIS Conference and new OSGEO Affiliated NC FOSS4G User Group - !

Project Spotlights (1-2 articles)

1. Author Marc Jansen and Astrid Emde - title: TBD (A short introduction to Mapbender) -- !!
2. Author M. Mueller - title: TBD (deegree) -- !!
3. Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller - !!
4. Author Oliver Eichler - title: TBD (QLandkarte) -- !!

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

1. Authors: Alex Fordyce and Charlie Crocker - title: Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project - !
2. Author: Roger Bivand - title: Using the R-GRASS Interface  !

Integration Studies (2-3 articles)

1. Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS - !!
2. Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS - !!
3. Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT - !!

Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

1. Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction - !
2. Author: Daniel Aimes - title: Evaluation and Implementation of WPS - !

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

1. Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API

None

Interview(s)

None

Developer Announcements

1. Author: Luca Casagrande - title: LiveCD Developments - !
2. OSGeo project summaries:
   1. Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   2. Author: Jody Garnett - title: GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   3. Author: Daniel Morissette - topic: MapServer Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   4. Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: MapBuilder Project Update - ("Status" and "About the author" sections only) - !
   5. Author: Christoph Baudson - topic: Mapbender Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   6. Author: Frank Warmerdam - topic: GDAL Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   7. Author: Jeroen Ticheler - topic: Geonetwork Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   8. Author: GRASS PSC - topic: GRASS Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !
   9. Author: Gary Sherman - topic: QGIS Update - !