Journal Volume 1

This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo Newsletter

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

Todo

 * 1) Set up mailing list - done
 * 2) Confirm deadlines - in progress
 * 3) 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.

Status:
 * ? = not yet confirmed
 * !? = confirmed/in contact
 * ! = first version submitted
 * !!! = final version ready

Editorials

 * 1) Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates - !?

News

 * 1) Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary - !?
 * 2) others...

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

 * 1) Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: Map World Forum, India - !?
 * 2) Author: TBD - title: GRASS Meeting, Italy - ?
 * 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) Author Nathalie Mainland, Autodesk  - title: Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project - !
 * 2) Author Dylan Beaudette - title: ( The GRASS - R Interaction )  ?
 * 3) Author R. Bivand - title: TBD (spgrass6) ?

Integration Studies (2-3 articles)

 * 1) Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD - !? (confirmed)
 * 2) Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS - !?
 * 3) Authors: Jachym Cepicky  and Lorenzo Becchi - title:  PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS - !
 * 4) 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 - !?

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

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

Developer Announcements

 * 1) Author: Luca Casagrande - title: LiveCD Developments - !?
 * 2) OSGeo project summaries:
 * 3) Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !?
 * 4) Author: Jody Garnett - title: GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !?
 * 5) Author: Steve Lime - topic: MapServer Project Update - !?
 * 6) Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: MapBuilder Project Update - !?
 * 7) Author: Christoph Baudson - topic: Mapbender Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !