[Journal] Next steps

[Rafal Wawer]

Hi Mitchel,
Good to hear from you. (-:
The deadline for new articles is IMO quite short... Unless we put the announcement in a very exposed place.

It would be nice to have a fixed timing for the journal: deadlines for submission, decisions, review, issues, etc. Both parties - editors/reviewers and authors, would have clear picture. Submission deadlines could be announced on the OSGeo website and mailinglists some 2-3 months in advance, so the authors will have enough time to prepare good papers.
How about setting up 2 releases a year for a start? (-:

Best regards:
Raf

Dr. Rafal Wawer
K.U.Leuven
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-----Original Message-----
From: newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Sent: 21 September 2009 21:55
To: newsletter at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Journal] Next steps

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.

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