[Journal] motion: Barend Köbben to act as guest editor for FOSS4G2013 Proceedings

[Landon Blake]

I think we should go for it...and I'm grateful for the extra help!

Landon


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Scott Mitchell <smitch at me.com> wrote:

> Agreed all around. +1
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Mitchell (mobile)
>
> > On Feb 21, 2014, at 7:54, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eli and all,
> >
> > +1 from me also. I think this is key for also  establishing framework
> for publications for the academic track of FOSS4G conferences . It was  one
> of the key actions of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
> >
> > Barend and Franz-Josef have done excellent work in getting the Academic
> Track of FOSS4G 2013 published in time and  I am pleased to see that they
> are leading efforts for FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track also
> https://2014.foss4g.org/calls-for-papers/academic-track-cfp/
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Eli Adam
> > Sent: 21 February 2014 02:19
> > To: newsletter at lists.osgeo.org
> > Cc: Franz-Josef Behr
> > Subject: [Journal] motion: Barend Köbben to act as guest editor for
> FOSS4G2013 Proceedings
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Barend Köbben (ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands), co-chair of the
> Academic Track at FOSS4G 2013, has been working on publishing the
> Proceedings as a volume of the OSGeo Journal.  He has already completed
> most of the work.
> >
> > I'd like to formalize Barend acting in the guest editor role as well as
> bring his work into SVN for a more open and standard working manner.  This
> will be similar to Tyler and Gary acting as guest editors for Volume 10,
> the 2011 proceedings.
> >
> > Motion to formalize Barend acting as the guest editor for a volume of
> the OSGeo Journal to publish the FOSS4G 2013 proceedings including granting
> him appropriate access and authority to complete the work (SVN commit
> access, etc)
> >
> > +1 Eli
> >
> > The Journal appears to have two landing pages,
> http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal and
> http://www.osgeo.org/journal.  It is my intention to ask SAC for access
> to those pages for Frans-Josef Behr (Stuttgart University of Applied
> Science, Germany - chair of the FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track) and Landon so
> that they can be consolidated, coordinated, or otherwise portray consistent
> and correct information.  Let me know if there are objections or if there
> is a better approach to this.
> >
> > Right now in SVN Volume 13 is the partially completed Annual Report for
> 2013.  I think that the FOSS4G 2013 Proceedings will be published before
> that so we need to determine the proper volume number.  Landon is fine
> moving the 2013 Annual Report to Volume 13.  Determining the appropriate
> volume number is something that I think falls in the realm of the guest
> editor.  If you would like to give feedback to Barend on that topic please
> do so.
> >
> > Are there any other issues that should be discussed for Barend to act as
> guest editor for one volume of the OSGeo Journal?
> >
> > Barend and Frans-Josef please join this mailing list,
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter
> >
> > Thanks and Best Regards, Eli
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