Journal Volume 1

OSGeo Journal - Volume 1 - is now published at: http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1

Next Volume is Journal Volume 2

The following page is kept for historic reasons and is no longer active.

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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
6. release - May 15, 2007

Status

1. Starting up..
2. Setting deadlines
3. Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list (twice)
4. Drafts for articles are coming in
5. Review of articles
6. Latex check of articles
7. Proofreading
8. Final layout

Contributors / Topics

See Journal page 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
• !! = version ready for final grammar/spell-checking
• !!! = final version ready

Editorials

1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - General updates - !!!
2. Ohloh stats summary

News

1. Author: Tyler Mitchell - OSGeo 1st Anniversary - !!!
2. OSGeo accepted for Google Summer of Code (SoC) - !!!
3. OSGeo sponsorship update !!!
4. Upcoming events !!!
5. Old news, see news archive on osgeo.org !!!

Event Reports (2-3 articles)

1. Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: Map World Forum, India - !!!
2. Author: Andrea Scianna - title: VIII Meeting Italian users of GRASS & GFOSS - !!!
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. Authors: Alex Fordyce and Charlie Crocker - title: Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project - !!!
2. Author: Roger Bivand - title: Using the R-GRASS Interface  !!!

Integration Studies (2-3 articles)

1. Author: Franck Martin - title: Tikiwiki a GeoCMS - !!!
2. Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS - !!!
3. Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT - !!!

Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

1. Author: Landon Blake - title: Spatial Relationships - An Introduction - !!!
2. Author: Daniel Aimes - title: Evaluation and Implementation of WPS - !!!

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

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

None

Interview(s)

None

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: Daniel Morissette - topic: MapServer Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
   4. Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: MapBuilder Project Update - ("Status" and "About the author" sections only) - !!!
   5. Author: Christoph Baudson - topic: Mapbender Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
   6. Author: Frank Warmerdam - topic: GDAL Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
   7. Author: Jeroen Ticheler - topic: Geonetwork Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
   8. Author: GRASS PSC - topic: GRASS Project Update - 2007 Q1 - !!!
   9. Author: Gary Sherman - topic: QGIS Update - !!!