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This is just a placeholder for future contributions to the OSGeo [[Journal]].  If you want to contribute a future article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.
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This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo [[Journal]] - Volume 2 publication.  If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category. Please review the [[Journal License and Guidelines]] page first
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== Deadlines ==
 
== Deadlines ==

Revision as of 16:43, 22 May 2007

This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo Journal - Volume 2 publication. If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category. Please review the Journal License and Guidelines page first


Deadlines

  • Articles welcome: Now
  • Article Submission Ends: July 3, 2007 (~30 days to submit)
  • First Draft: July 22, 2007
  • Final Publication: August 1, 2007 (~30 days from article close)

Contributors / Topics

See Journal 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.

Editorials

  1. Tyler Mitchell: General updates

News

  1. Editor: Jason Fournier
  2. Additional contributors welcome...

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

  1. Ravi Kumar: FOSS GIS in India: A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
  2. ...

Project Introductions (1-2 articles)

  1. Schuyler Erle: OpenLayers (title TBD)
  2. Scott Emmons: Flexible Internet Spatial Template (FIST): a MapServer-based web mapping framework (title TBD)
  3. Daniel Ames: MapWindow: Considering MapWindow as a tool for WPS (title TBD)
  4. Jeroen Ticheler: GeoNetwork OpenSource: The FAO GeoNetwork

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

  1. Joel Schlagel: title TBD
  2. Shamim Akhter & Yann Chemin: Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing
  3. Rafael Sperb: Fisheries Tracking System (title TBD)
  4. David Enns: MapServer-related project example (title TBD)
  5. Giuliano Cecchi and Raffaele C. Mattioli: The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis and FAO GeoNetwork
  6. ...

Integration Studies (2-3 articles)

  1. ...

Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

  1. Markus Neteler: Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case (aboutGRASS-QA)
  2. Landon Blake: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology
  3. ...

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

  1. Tim Sutton: Programming Using the QGIS API (title TBD)

Interview(s)

  1. ...

Developer Announcements

  1. OSGeo project summaries
  2. OSGeo Local Chapter updates
  3. ...