Journal Volume 1
This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo Newsletter
Deadlines
These are draft deadlines currently open for discussion.
- Call for participation and papers - February 27, 2007
- Finalise production team - March 8, 2007
- Close formal call for papers - March 23, 2007
- Draft production - April 4, 2007
- Final production - April 16, 2007
Status
- Starting up..
- Setting deadlines
- Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list
Todo
- Set up mailing list - done
- Confirm deadlines - in progress
- Public invite for more contributors in particular areas
Contributors / Topics
See Newsletter 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.
- Editorials
- Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates
- News
- Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary
- others...
- Event Reports (2-3 articles)
- Author: Venka/Ravi/? - title: Map World Forum, India
- Author: TBD - title: GRASS Meeting, Italy
- Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
- Author TBD - OSSIM (pending)
- Author TBD - Mapbender (dito)
- Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller
- Case Studies (2-3 articles)
- Author TBD - title: TBD (MapGuide Open Source)
- Author R. Bivand - title: TBD (spgrass6)
- ...
- Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
- Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD
- Author: S. Gebbert - title: TBD (GRASS-VTK)
- Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS
- Author: Lorenzo Becchi - title: Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS
- Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT
- ...
- Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
- Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships and Topology
- ...
- Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)
- Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API
- Author: Jachym Cepicky - title: TBD (PyWPS)
- ...
- Interview(s)
- ...
- Developer Announcements
- Author: Luca Casagrande - title: LiveCD Developments
- OSGeo project summaries:
- Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1
- Author: Jody Garnett - title: GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1
- ...