[Journal] Next steps

[Rafal Wawer]

Interesting idea Dan,
It would consolidate efford and as the JOSIS is already a while on the stage it could attract more authors.. I guess. On the other hand the publications on FOSS4G may dissolve in overall spatial pot, next to papers on proprietary solutions (-;
The future journal of OSGeo, we were discussing about, is to be seen as addressing all the aspects of FOSS4G: news, events, scientific papers, applications, education, etc. Personally - it is what I would like to have as a reader... but my background is also scientific. For ICT specialists as well as for GI experts and users the scientific content may not be that important.
Certainly Dan's idea is worth considering!

What I like in the setup of JOSIS is the mechanizm fo discussions on submitted papers. Nice idea to have it along with the review and not as usuall - after publishing.

Best regards:
RAf


Dr. Rafal Wawer
K.U.Leuven
R&D Division SADL (Spatial Application Division)
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tel. 0032 16 329731

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From: newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel P. Ames
Sent: 30 September 2009 08:14
To: Barry Rowlingson
Cc: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo); newsletter at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Journal] Next steps

Barry, I'm glad you mentioned JOSIS. I was about to comment on this myself, and you beat me to it! These folks have some ideals that are fairly well aligned with OSGeo ideals and it would be nice to support them. I suppose there are a couple of ways to do that. One is to contact them about some kind of a merger whereby JOSIS accepts some OSGeo people as board members and in return OSGeo adopts JOSIS as it's officially sanctioned outlet for research publication. I see this as a bit of an extreme option, but something that might be worth considering... - Dan



On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>> wrote:
Has everyone else seen JOSIS:

http://josis.org/index.php/josis/index

it seems to be run on volunteer effort, and needs 3 editors-in-chief
and a whole load of luminaries on the editorial board. Plus
who-knows-how-many reviewers (they just got one more).

They're also using OJS for journal management, and seem to have open
comments on pre-published articles.

 They don't seem to say how often they publish an issue though.
Perhaps these days the concept of an 'issue' is becoming meaningless,
and articles should just be published when the editor gets the reviews
and gives the okay? Click a button and there it is in everyone's RSS
feed.

Barry
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