[Journal] Editing access to journal.osgeo.org OJS instance

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Christian Willmes <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I enrolled Me (cwillmes), Eli (elil), Franz-Josef (fjbehr) and Barend
> (barend) as Journal Managers. Landon (surveyor) was already Jounal Manager.
>

Thanks, I've logged in and it works as expected.


>
> I futher propose to disable the public user registration on the OJS,
> because we have about 10 spam account sign ups a day. The userdatabase
> has already >30,000 entries.
>

I like this idea, especially if we responsively and promptly approve and
add new users upon request.  Generally I know that there are some people in
open communities (wikipedia, OSGeo, others) vehemently opposed to
restricting barrier free access, they have some good arguments too.  It
just seems like the only manageable way to me.

Eli


>
> regards,
> Christain
>
> Am 13.08.2014 um 18:05 schrieb Eli Adam:
> >
> > My thought is that some combination of Landon Blake (surveyor),
> > Franz-Josef Behr (fjbehr), Barend Kobben (kobben), me (elil), and you
> > should get access (osgeo ids, not sure if that is their Journal
> > account).  Does anyone else want access?  Do we want to discuss who is
> > doing what?  I'm most interested in updating the landing page,
> > https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal with volume 11 and 13 and
> > continuing to keep it up to date.
> >
> > Best regards, Eli
>
>
>
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