[OSGeo-Conf] [FOSS4G2007] Academic Conference Requirements

[Helena Mitasova]

On Jun 2, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

>> On 6/2/07, Paul Ramsey < pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:...  that  
>> some volunteer will step up and say "*I* will
>> ensure all the academic participants go home happy.")
>
> Okay Paul, I'll bite -  but I'll still leave room for others to  
> raise their hands. :)
>
> On 2-Jun-07, at 8:11 AM, Daniel Ames wrote:
>> OSGeo Journal already has an ISBN (right?) and publishing  
>> proceedings in our own journal probably makes sense. Perhaps  
>> conference attendees are just encouraged to submit their papers  
>> through the OSGeo Journal's existing processes,
>
> I agree with the idea of having the Journal as a venue for  
> publishing the proceedings.  We can put select papers through the  
> peer review process.  We can consider how to also handle all the  
> others that might be ready to publish.  I look at this as a very  
> convenient way to suddenly have lots of Journal content for our 3rd  
> issue and also help the conference.

We could do something similar to what we had for the GRASS2002  
conference - special
journal issue with selected peer reviewed papers and separate  
proceedings - we can invite
the best contributions (10-15) to be submitted as peer reviewed  
papers for the OSGeo Journal
(this will be a good test of the peer review process for the new  
journal, the selection
can be done by the editorial board) and publish
the rest of the papers as OSGeo journal supplement/proceedings volume.
The peer review process is sometimes tough but the revised papers are  
usually much better quality.
>
> I assume we'd only need to take some of the presentations whose  
> authors put together a more formal paper - not just reprint  
> presentation files.  Will that meet the needs?  How much  
> information do people need ahead of time?

we would need to announce that there will be proceedings with some  
deadline
for contributions, give people formatting template and a place to  
submit the papers (I assume
OSGeo journal infrastructure could be used?) Presentation files are not
suitable as papers - I assume they would be available on-line along  
with abstracts so
they don't need any extra publishing procedure.

Helena



>
> Yes, OSGeo Journal has an official ISSN (it's like the ISBN but is  
> for periodicals/serials, not books).
>
> Tyler
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