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
2. Confirm deadlines
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
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. 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. Author: Jachym Cepicky - title: TBD (PyWPS)
   3. ...
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. ...