Journal Volume 1

This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo Journal

Deadlines

These are draft deadlines currently open for discussion.

Call for participation and papers - February 27, 2007
Finalise production team - March 8, 2007
Close formal call for papers - March 23, 2007
Draft production - April 4, 2007
Final production - April 16, 2007

Status

Starting up..
Setting deadlines
Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list (twice)
Drafts for articles are coming in

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

Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates - !?
Ohloh stats summary

News

Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary - !?
OSGeo accepted for Google Summer of Code (SoC) - ?
OSGeo sponsorship update ?
Upcoming events (see events calendar on osgeo.org?) ?
Old news, see news archive on osgeo.org
...

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: Map World Forum, India - !
Author: Andrea Scianna - title: VIII Meeting Italian users of GRASS & GFOSS - !
Author: Helena Mitasova/Julia Harrell - title: 2007 NC GIS Conference and new OSGEO Affiliated NC FOSS4G User Group - !

Project Spotlights (1-2 articles)

Author Marc Jansen and Astrid Emde - title: TBD (A short introduction to Mapbender) -- !
Author M. Mueller - title: TBD (deegree) -- !
Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller - !
Author Oliver Eichler - title: TBD (QLandkarte) -- !

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

Authors: Alex Fordyce and Charlie Crocker - title: Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project - !
Author: Roger Bivand - title: Using the R-GRASS Interface !

Integration Studies (2-3 articles)

Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD - !? (coming Tuesday)
Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS - !
Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS - !
Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT - !

Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction - !
Author: Daniel Aimes - title: Evaluation and Implementation of the OGC Web Processing Service

for Use in a Client-Side GIS - considering

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API

None

Interview(s)