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


Editorials

  1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates - !?

News

  1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary - !?
  2. others...

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

  1. Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: 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 - !?

Project Spotlights (1-2 articles)

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

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

  1. Author Nathalie Mainland, Autodesk - title: Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project - !
  2. Author Dylan Beaudette - title: ( The GRASS - R Interaction ) ?
  3. Author R. Bivand - title: TBD (spgrass6) ?

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. ...

Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

  1. Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction - !?
  2. ...

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

  1. Author: Tim Sutton - title: Building apps with QGIS API
  2. ...

Interview(s)

  1. ...

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 - topic: MapServer Project Update - !?
    4. Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: MapBuilder Project Update - !?
    5. Author: Christoph Baudson - topic: Mapbender Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !?