<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Dear OGGeo and GeoForAll colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><b>1) An update on FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic proceedings readership</b></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One of the nice things about using the Scholarworks system [1] for managing production and hosting FOSS4G conference open access academic proceedings is that the Scholarworks system provides regular reporting of readership and downloads. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">FYI, since 9/5/2017, the FOSS4G 2017 full Academic Proceedings has been:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- downloaded 135 times;</div><div class="gmail_extra">- accessed from 75 different universities; </div><div class="gmail_extra">- representing 68 different countries. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I can send a map screen shot if anyone is interested.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><b>2) Also, FYI, </b></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Mohammed Zia, and our Scholarworks support person Erin Jerome at UMass Amherst are working to get the 2016 FOSS4G Bonn proceedings up on this site as Volume 16; and, </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Zia and I are in communication with FOSS4G NA academic chair Steve Liang about the possibility of using this system to support the production of their FOSS4G NA conference Academic Proceedings. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- If there are any other upcoming FOSS4G regional conferences who would like to use this system for their proceedings, please contact me. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><b>3) The OSGeo Journal page needs updating</b></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Somehow we now need to update the OSGeo Journal webpage [2] updated to reflect these developments. Can anyone help me with that?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks to Mohammed Zia, Erin Jerome and Andy Anderson for their ongoing support of this effort, and to my university for providing the Scholarworks system at no cost to our community.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Charlie Schweik</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[1] <a href="http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/">http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">[2] <a href="https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal">https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-------------------<br><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr">Professor</div><div dir="ltr">Department of Environmental Conservation & </div><div>School of Public Policy</div><div>University of Massachusetts, Amherst</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"Make positive change in your sphere of influence." -- CMS</span><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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