Journal Volume 1

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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 deadlines
  2. Public invite for volunteers and contributors

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
  4. Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
    1. Author TBD - OSSIM (pending)
    2. Author TBD - Mapbender (dito)
    3. 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. Author: Lorenzo Becchi - title: Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS
    5. ...
  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. Author: Various - title: OSGeo project summaries (Note that non-OSGeo projects are welcome here too!)
    3. ...