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


 * 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) Author: Helena Mitasova/Julia Harrell - title: 2007 NC GIS Conference and new OSGEO Affiliated NC FOSS4G User Group
 * 10) Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
 * 11) Author Marc Jansen - title: TBD (Mapbender) -- !?
 * 12) Author M. Mueller - title: TBD (deegree) -- !
 * 13) Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller
 * 14) Author Oliver Eichler - title: TBD (QLandkarte) -- !
 * 15) Author TBD - OSSIM (pending)
 * 16) Case Studies (2-3 articles)
 * 17) Author TBD - title: TBD (MapGuide Open Source)
 * 18) Author R. Bivand - title: TBD (spgrass6)
 * 19) Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
 * 20) Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD
 * 21) Author: S. Gebbert - title: TBD (GRASS-VTK)
 * 22) Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS
 * 23) Authors: Jachym Cepicky  and Lorenzo Becchi - title:  PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS
 * 24) Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT - !
 * 25) Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
 * 26) Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships and Topology - An Introduction
 * 27) Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)
 * 28) Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API
 * 29) Interview(s)
 * 30) Developer Announcements
 * 31) Author: Luca Casagrande - title: LiveCD Developments
 * 32) OSGeo project summaries:
 * 33) Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 34) Author: Jody Garnett - title: GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 35) Author: Steve Lime - title: MapServer Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 36) Author: Cameron Shorter - title: Mapbuilder Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 1) OSGeo project summaries:
 * 2) Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 3) Author: Jody Garnett - title: GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 4) Author: Steve Lime - title: MapServer Project Update - 2007 Q1
 * 5) Author: Cameron Shorter - title: Mapbuilder Project Update - 2007 Q1