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.

1. Editorials
   1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates
2. News
   1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary
   2. others...
3. Event Reports (2-3 articles)
   1. Author: Venka/Ravi/? - title: 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
4. Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
   1. Author TBD - OSSIM (pending)
   2. Author TBD - Mapbender (dito)
   3. Author M. Mueller - title: TBD (deegree)
   4. Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller
5. Case Studies (2-3 articles)
   1. Author TBD - title: TBD (MapGuide Open Source)
   2. Author R. Bivand - title: TBD (spgrass6)
   3. ...
6. Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
   1. Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD
   2. Author: S. Gebbert - title: TBD (GRASS-VTK)
   3. Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS
   4. Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS
   5. Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT
   6. ...
7. Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
   1. Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships and Topology
   2. ...
8. Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)
   1. Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API
   2. ...
9. Interview(s)
   1. ...
10. 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. ...