Journal Volume 1

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
 * 6) release -  Mai, 2007 

Status

 * 1) Starting up..
 * 2) Setting deadlines
 * 3) Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list (twice)
 * 4) Drafts for articles are coming in
 * 5) Review of articles
 * 6) Latex check of articles
 * 7) Proofreading
 * 8) Final layout

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 final 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)
None
 * 1) Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API

Interview(s)
None

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: Daniel Morissette - topic: MapServer Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
 * 6) Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: MapBuilder Project Update - ("Status" and "About the author" sections only) - !!!
 * 7) Author: Christoph Baudson - topic: Mapbender Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
 * 8) Author: Frank Warmerdam - topic: GDAL Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
 * 9) Author: Jeroen Ticheler - topic: Geonetwork Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
 * 10) Author: GRASS PSC - topic: GRASS Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
 * 11) Author: Gary Sherman - topic: QGIS Update - !!!