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 deadlines
 * 2) Public invite for volunteers and contributors

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.


 * 1) Editorials
 * 2) Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates
 * 3) News
 * 4) Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary
 * 5) others...
 * 6) Event Reports (2-3 articles)
 * 7) Author: Venka/Ravi/? - title: Map World Forum, India
 * 8) Author: TBD - title: GRASS Meeting, Italy
 * 9) Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
 * 10) Author TBD - OSSIM (pending)
 * 11) Author TBD - Mapbender (dito)
 * 12) Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller
 * 13) Case Studies (2-3 articles)
 * 14) Author TBD - title: TBD (MapGuide Open Source)
 * 15) Author R. Bivand - title: TBD (spgrass6)
 * 16) Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
 * 17) Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD
 * 18) Author: S. Gebbert - title: TBD (GRASS-VTK)
 * 19) Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS
 * 20) Author: Lorenzo Becchi - title: Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS
 * 21) Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
 * 22) Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships and Topology
 * 23) Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)
 * 24) Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API
 * 25) Interview(s)
 * 26) Developer Announcements
 * 27) Author: Luca Casagrande - title: LiveCD Developments
 * 28) Author: Various - title: OSGeo project summaries  (Note that non-OSGeo projects are welcome here too!)
 * 29) Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 1) Developer Announcements
 * 2) Author: Luca Casagrande - title: LiveCD Developments
 * 3) Author: Various - title: OSGeo project summaries  (Note that non-OSGeo projects are welcome here too!)
 * 4) Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 1) Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1