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 up mailing list - done
  2. Confirm deadlines - in progress
  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.

Status:

  • ? = not yet confirmed
  • !? = confirmed/in contact
  • ! = first version submitted
  • !!! = final version ready


  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
    3. Author: Helena Mitasova/Julia Harrell - title: 2007 NC GIS Conference and new OSGEO Affiliated NC FOSS4G User Group
  4. Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
    1. Author Marc Jansen - title: TBD (Mapbender) -- !?
    2. Author M. Mueller - title: TBD (deegree) -- !
    3. Author Tim Sutton - title: Introducing openModeller
    4. Author Oliver Eichler - title: TBD (QLandkarte) -- !
    5. Author TBD - OSSIM (pending)
  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. Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: PyWPS and Embrio 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 - An Introduction
    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. OSGeo project summaries:
      1. Author: MapGuide PSC - title: MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1
      2. Author: Jody Garnett - title: GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1
      3. Author: Steve Lime - title: MapServer Project Update - 2007 Q1
      4. Author: Cameron Shorter - title: Mapbuilder Project Update - 2007 Q1
    3. ...