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 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
• !!! = 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 - !?
2. ...

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

1. Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API
2. ...

Interview(s)

1. ...

Developer Announcements

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