Journal Volume 2

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 drafts: June 22, 2007
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

Tyler Mitchell: General updates

News

Editor: Jason Fournier
Additional contributors welcome...

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

Ravi Kumar: FOSS GIS in India: A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
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Project Introductions (1-2 articles)

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

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

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

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Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

Landon Blake: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology
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Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

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

Interview(s)

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Developer Announcements

OSGeo project summaries
OSGeo Local Chapter updates
Markus Mueller: deegree project update (before or after Local chapter updates?)
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