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<p>Dear Suchith,</p>
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<p>this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:newsletter@lists.osgeo.org">"newsletter@lists.osgeo.org"</a>.</p>
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<p>I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this
time the guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas.</p>
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<p>See this thread:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html</a></p>
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<p>And this one:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html</a></p>
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<p>(I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the
archives.)<br>
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<p>Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time)
recently stepped down. <br>
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<p>See:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html</a><br>
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<p>No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee
is without a Chair currently... <br>
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<p>The Journal is found here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal">https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal</a></p>
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<p>And official information is found here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/journal">http://www.osgeo.org/journal</a><br>
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<p>I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the
current situation. <br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
Christian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith
Anand:<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Though we have a OSGeo </span><font
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and I thank everyone who worked to make this happen, for
really making impact , it needs new ideas and lot of work
to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the
discussions in the community for ideas for making</span></font>
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OSGeo journal a high impact journal that will attract
submissions</span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I think , timing wise it is
good to start planning ideas even if it is long term aim</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Sharing some lessons learnt
from GeoForAll, we initially didn’t have webinar platform
but we could see its potential to spread our message.
Initially we relied on external organisations for our
webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael)</span><span
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">to run this for us,
we moved to use our own system in place .</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For our newsletters,
it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an excellent
team to make it happen. So having champions is important.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Similarly, it is now time
for us to think ideas of our own high impact journal. I have
been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer for
many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also
volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I
support the idea of open access journals , I think it is
important the costs of publishing in open access journals
comes down.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I don’t know the
answer to how to make this possible but I think</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">if</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">there is lot of competition,
then costs will come down.</span><span style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Will any one be interested
to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo journal and
working to create a high impact Open access journal that
ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need
to be</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">worked on to make
this</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">possible. The
Champions</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">needs to bring
together a strong Editorial Board,</span><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and maybe have a new
name for the journal -
<b>International journal for Open Geospatial Science and
Applications .</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0);"><b> </b></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Champions should put
processes and systems in place . For OSGeo, we now have
thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic
systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have
lot of good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4G</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">Academic Tracks (both global and regional)</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">who will all benefit
but it needs a champion and a team to make this possible. I
am willing to volunteer as one member for the Edition Board
for this and review papers for free etc but I am unable to
lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So
anyone is willing to</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">champion ideas for
this, please come forward.</span><span style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best wishes,</span></p>
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