Journal Volume 1

This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo Journal

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 (twice)
4. Drafts for articles are coming in

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 - !