[Journal] Journal Title

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sat Sep 26 05:04:30 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> The "OSGeo Journal: Official Journal of the Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation" came out of the desire to have a newsletter for the
> foundation.  It's morphed naturally into providing a useful venue for
> various topics and is less of a newsletter and more of a journal.
>
> The Annual Report pretty much covers the year in review of various
> items.  Our online news and email lists take care of announcements and
> new developments.  Each software project takes care of their own quite
> well too.
>
> So, as Rafal mentioned, a name change is likely in order as we seek to
> adapt the Journal.  This is also a good chance for us to revisit our
> mission and inject a bit of enthusiasm for a grander vision :)
>
> So let the discussion continue - OSGeo Journal no longer describes the
> content well enough, so let's share new ideas for the Title of the
> Journal, and a one sentence description of its content...
>
> Rafal said:
> Maybe something like "(Global) Journal on Open Source Geomatics"?

Perhaps
"International Journal of Open Source Geomatics"
?

Markus


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