[Journal] [Fwd: Re: Next steps]

[Jacolin Yves]

Le Thursday 24 September 2009 10:07:45 Dimitris Kotzinos, vous avez écrit :
> Hi Tyler, all
>
> i think that the discussion is reaching an interesting point, and this
> is in my opinion the character that we want the Journal to have. I will
> put forward my opinion on that but before I would like to comment on the
> number of issues / timing matter:
> I think that we should be a bit careful and pragmatic. I think that
> going from one issue (or even none if we do not count the Annual Report,
> and I think that we should not) to 4 issues per year is a giant step
> forward and we should make sure before that we can support it. As far as
> I know and understand I think that 4 issues is a really tough issue to
> handle as we are at the moment.
>
> So back to the Journal's character:
> I think that the Journal's character and scope should cover as much as
> possible the needs of the community but not all of them at once and
> should be able to bring new people into the crowd.
> So I do not agree for example that the basic aim of the journal should
> be to disseminate news and release information about the OSGeo Projects.
> All projects have associated web sites and even blogs that do the
> dissemination job properly, so in that sense my question is: what is the
> added value that one would find in a Journal like that beyond project
> news (please do not misunderstand me: I think that we still need to
> disseminate project news but this cannot be our core idea).
>
> So I suggest that we have in each issue:
> - one invited vision paper (that could be the issue theme)
> - a sub-issue dedicated to academics with different ISSN and a review
> committee so as to eventually make it a respectable scientific journal
> - the rest as they are, but a bit more "edited" to comply with the
> general idea
> - we should also disconnect the Annual Report from the Journal (or just
> have it as an annual special issue every March)
> I won't elaborate more but this suggestion brings some work to the
> journal's committee already so I would like to be more careful towards
> how much we ask.
>
> But I think that the discussion on what kind of journal we want is a
> crucial one.
>
> Sorry for the e-mail's length,
>
> Dimitris
Hello,

+1 for all idea from Dimitris :)

share case studies, point of view, etc are "better" that release info :)

Y.
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