Jorge,<div><br></div><div>With regard to the allocation of presentation slots in the schedule. Would you like the presentations to be ran consecutively in a single room where possible?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div>
<div><br></div><div>Simon<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/22 Jorge Gustavo Rocha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgr@di.uminho.pt">jgr@di.uminho.pt</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
Thanks Paul. I'm interested to go forward [at full speed, since we don't<br>
have much time]. More people is necessary, so Thierry's offer is very<br>
welcome.<br>
<br>
I think the next steps should be:<br>
<br>
0) Write down the call for [scientific/research] papers, for the<br>
academic track (we can start with last year call)<br>
<br>
1) Update FOSS4G 2009 web site, to announce the peer reviewed academic<br>
track, pointing to call for papers<br>
- Deadline for this track should be around July 31th;<br>
- Specific submission guidelines should be added to this track<br>
- The conference scheduled should be updated to have 3 or 4 sessions<br>
with academic presentations (taking about 12 to 16 slots of the 94<br>
available ones)<br>
<br>
1.1) Cameron could prepare a press release to announce the call, and to<br>
get it posted to every mailing list<br>
<br>
2) Create a representative scientific committee (this can start right<br>
now; some other members can be added later), by:<br>
- Inviting the members that previously act as scientific<br>
committee/reviewers<br>
- Inviting people from the Spanish chapter, that can do this job next<br>
year (maybe Lluís Vicens, from SITGA, Miguel R. Luaces, from Coruña<br>
Univ., Victor Olaya, from Extremadura Univ.)<br>
- Inviting Charlie Schweik, and someone else from the OSGeo-Edu<br>
- Inviting people from Australia<br>
- Inviting other known OSGeo chapter members, related to academic<br>
duties and research<br>
- Have some places for volunteers<br>
With 20 members on the scientific committee, if each can read 10 papers,<br>
we can have 200 readings. So, if each paper is read by 3 reviewers, we<br>
can receive 60-70 papers for reviewing.<br>
<br>
3) Making all possible contacts with reputed journals/books, to start a<br>
reference publication related to OSGeo/FOSS4G. Thierry suggestion make<br>
sense; we can work with other institutions like ICA and alike to have<br>
the best possible printed publication, if we don't have enough high<br>
quality papers to create our own volume.<br>
<br>
4) Install and configure an open source platform to handle the blind<br>
reviewing process (that's easy; OpenConf can be used for the job). The<br>
reviewing process will take place in August.<br>
<br>
Right now, we need some feedback from Cameron and others to know the<br>
impact of this academic track in the current schedule. Is the July 31th<br>
deadline ok? 12 to 16 papers is reasonable?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Jorge<br>
--<br>
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</div>Qui, 2009-05-21 às 15:09 -0400, Thierry Badard escreveu:<br>
<div class="im">> Paul Ramsey a écrit :<br>
> > More than anything else, the Sydney team needs someone with an<br>
> > academic background to step up and take on the academic track:<br>
> ><br>
> > - organizing the peer review panel<br>
> > - selecting the publication mechanism<br>
> > - selecting the papers for the academic track<br>
> ><br>
> > In 2007 Tyler and members of the education committee did that for me,<br>
> > which was invaluable. In 2008, a member of the LOC was sufficiently<br>
> > academic to do it. For 2009, a volunteer from the academic community<br>
> > is needed. Us ordinary folk don't understand what makes a good process<br>
> > for this stuff, we need someone who does. Could that person be you,<br>
> > Jorge?<br>
> ><br>
> > P<br>
><br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> If Jorge is interested in, I could take it in charge with him. I have<br>
> already been involved in lot of program or scientific committees and I<br>
> have also organised different scientific tracks, workshops or events. In<br>
> addition, as a co-chair of ICA WG on open source geospatial technologies<br>
> (see <a href="http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca" target="_blank">http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca</a>), I will be very happy to<br>
> engage a first effective collaboration between ICA and OSGeo around an<br>
> academic/scientific track with publication of selected papers as an<br>
> edited book.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Th.<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
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