[Journal] Next steps

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Hi all,
Firstly, my apologies for the last few months of disorganised silence.
The Journal has always been a bit of a back-burner project that I can't
always commit direct time to.  That said, over the upcoming weeks I'd
like to try to rectify that.

Landon Blake has offered to help run some of the organising processes so
I'd like to start the discussion here, just so you are all in the loop.

The next step we obviously need is a deadline for draft articles, and a
deadline for final production.  With other deadlines in between.  I
propose a mid-October deadline for draft articles, with a publication
deadline for end of November.  If that sounds fine, then let's work with
that.

Current articles have been collecting dust in the queue, some have been
reviewed, but there are only a few.  Therefore we could open the door to
receive more articles for a few weeks.  This time I'll even make an
announcement to invite them ;-)

After that, we can initiate the review cycles, edits and other items
through the journal system.  When we get into then it's just babysitting
and harassment from me, Landon to the editors and them onto the
reviewers and authors.  Final layout and conversion is another matter,
but I think a few of us can handle that when we get to it.

So, if this makes sense, let me know and we can get started.  The main
hiccup here has been switching from wiki to using the OJS at
http://osgeo.org/ojs - so bear with us as we work through a new and
improved workflow.  If you need more guidance on using the system,
please let me know.

Sincerely,
Tyler

p.s. Going to FOSS4G?  We could have a breakout meeting sometime there
too.