Journal Volume 2

This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo Journal - Volume 2 publication.

If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category. Please review the Journal License and Guidelines page first.

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Deadlines

 * Articles welcome: Now
 * Article drafts: June 22, 2007
 * Article Submission Ends: July 3, 2007 (~30 days to submit)
 * First Draft: July 22, 2007
 * Final Publication: August 1, 2007 (~30 days from article close)

Contributors / Topics
See Journal 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

 * 1) Tyler Mitchell: General updates

News

 * 1) Editor: Jason Fournier
 * 2) Additional contributors welcome...

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

 * 1) Ravi Kumar: FOSS GIS in India: A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo

Project Introductions (1-2 articles)

 * 1) Schuyler Erle: OpenLayers (title TBD)
 * 2) Scott Emmons: Flexible Internet Spatial Template (FIST): a MapServer-based web mapping framework (title TBD)
 * 3) Daniel Ames: MapWindow: Considering MapWindow as a tool for WPS (title TBD)
 * 4) Jeroen Ticheler: GeoNetwork OpenSource: The FAO GeoNetwork

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

 * 1) Joel Schlagel: title TBD
 * 2) [mailto:shamimakhterATgmail.com Shamim Akhter] & [mailto:yann.cheminATgmail.com Yann Chemin]: Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing
 * 3) Rafael Sperb: Fisheries Tracking System (title TBD)
 * 4) David Enns: MapServer-related project example (title TBD)
 * 5) Giuliano Cecchi and Raffaele C. Mattioli: The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis and FAO GeoNetwork

Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

 * 1) Landon Blake: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

 * 1) Tim Sutton: Programming Using the QGIS API (title TBD)

Developer Announcements

 * 1) OSGeo project summaries
 * 2) OSGeo Local Chapter updates
 * 3) Markus Mueller: deegree project update (before or after Local chapter updates?)