[Journal] [Fwd: Re: Next steps]

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Thanks for the continued discussion... good ideas and food for thought
all around!  More below...

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 13:55 +0300, Micha Silver wrote:
> 
> While I like Tyler's suggestion to assign each issue to a different 
> "assistant editor", that won't replace having someone as "chief
> editor" 
> to do the pushing and nudging, and keep writers, reviewers,
> latexers,  
> etc in step with the deadlines.

I agree wholeheartedly.  My challenge at the moment is that when/if I'm
away from the office for a week and if no one else cares, the Journal
can dry up and disappear until I return.  The fact that more are
contributing to the discussion now is encouraging though, so I'm
optimistic.

Dimitris wrote:
> 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.

Good ideas.  I especially like the idea of knowing what kinds of papers
and even how many we aim for - then it is not open-ended question up
until the deadline.  

I'm not sure what you mean above by "sub-issue.. with different ISSN".
I'm hoping to reduce our administrative overhead and try to stick with
just one ISSN.  Is there a problem with (re)using the one we have?  I
expect I'm not understanding the academic issues here.  At present
specific sections of the journal can have peer review, others do not..
it's up to us.

My next email was going to be about Sections and content types, so we
can be sure we have editors lined up to help with them all.  And to make
sure that we have appropriate categories as well.

Tyler