From c.willmes at uni-koeln.de Sat Dec 16 13:40:48 2017 From: c.willmes at uni-koeln.de (Christian Willmes) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:40:48 +0100 Subject: [Journal] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal In-Reply-To: <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> References: <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: <7297aa05-9aab-dba0-000f-9e3c925fbd55@uni-koeln.de> I am sorry the cited wording below was a mistake, caused from uncarefully re-editing the phrase. This sounds not very nice, I just wanted to say that Landon Blake stepped down, but not in this wording of course... Best, Christian Am 16.12.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Christian Willmes: > > Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently > stepped down. > > > See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html > -- Christian Willmes AG GIS & Fernerkundung | GIS & RS Group Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234 http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html http://www.sfb806.de http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-6542 From c.willmes at uni-koeln.de Sat Dec 16 13:37:03 2017 From: c.willmes at uni-koeln.de (Christian Willmes) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:37:03 +0100 Subject: [Journal] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> Dear Suchith, this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is "newsletter at lists.osgeo.org". I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this time the guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas. See this thread: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html And this one: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html (I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the archives.) Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently stepped down. See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee is without a Chair currently... The Journal is found here: https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal And official information is found here: http://www.osgeo.org/journal I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the current situation. Best regards, Christian Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith Anand: > > Dear All, > > > Though we have a  OSGeo journal and I thank everyone who worked to > make this happen, for really making impact , it needs new ideas and > lot of work to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the > discussions in the community for ideas for making the OSGeo journal > a high impact journal that will attract submissions. > > > I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is > long term aim. Sharing some lessons learnt from GeoForAll, we > initially didn’t have webinar platform but we could see its potential > to spread our message. Initially we relied on external organisations > for our webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael)to > run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place .For our > newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an > excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important. > > > Similarly, it is now time for us to think ideas of our own high impact > journal. I have been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer > for many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also > volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I support the > idea of open access journals , I think it is important the costs of > publishing in open access journals comes down.I don’t know the answer > to how to make this possible but I thinkifthere is lot of competition, > then costs will come down. > > > Will any one be interested to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo > journal and working to create a high impact Open access journal that > ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need to > beworked on to make thispossible. The Championsneeds to bring together > a strong Editorial Board,and maybe have a new name for the journal - > *International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications .*** > > > The Champions should put processes and systems in place . For OSGeo, > we now have thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic > systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have lot of > good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4GAcademic Tracks (both > global and regional)who will all benefit but it needs a champion and a > team to make this possible. I am willing to volunteer as one member > for the Edition Board for this and review papers for free etc but I am > unable to lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So > anyone is willing tochampion ideas for this, please come forward. > > > Best wishes, > > > Suchith > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. 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URL: From sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com Sun Dec 17 08:32:51 2017 From: sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com (Landon Blake) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 08:32:51 -0800 Subject: [Journal] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal In-Reply-To: <7297aa05-9aab-dba0-000f-9e3c925fbd55@uni-koeln.de> References: <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> <7297aa05-9aab-dba0-000f-9e3c925fbd55@uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: No offense was taken Christian. It is good to see some renewed interest in the journal. I hope things germinate and move forward. :] On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Christian Willmes wrote: > I am sorry the cited wording below was a mistake, caused from uncarefully > re-editing the phrase. This sounds not very nice, I just wanted to say that > Landon Blake stepped down, but not in this wording of course... > > Best, > Christian > > > Am 16.12.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Christian Willmes: > >> >> Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently >> stepped down. >> >> >> See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/ >> 001245.html >> >> > -- > Christian Willmes > AG GIS & Fernerkundung | GIS & RS Group > Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography > Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne > Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234 > http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html > http://www.sfb806.de > http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de > http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-6542 > > _______________________________________________ > newsletter mailing list > newsletter at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter -- Landon "Homemade cookies. Mmmmmmmmmmm!" Web: www.landonblake.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LandonBlake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottLandonBlake Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/landon_blake/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eadam at co.lincoln.or.us Mon Dec 18 09:01:05 2017 From: eadam at co.lincoln.or.us (Eli Adam) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:01:05 -0800 Subject: [Journal] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal In-Reply-To: References: <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> <7297aa05-9aab-dba0-000f-9e3c925fbd55@uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: This message won't go to some of the cc lists since I'm not subscribed. Charlie, Suchith, all, Reinvigorating the OSGeo Journal would be a welcome development and there is opportunity for people to do that and even take it in new directions as well. It looks like great work is already underway. At some point, coordination and discussion (which Christian has already pointed out) on the Journal email list is probably in order so that there can be an orderly transition. The last few years with the Journal being less active has led to a somewhat fractured publishing of FOSS4G proceedings. Perhaps this can be less fractured in the future? I'm happy to play a minor role facilitating the re-invigoration of the Journal if there are people who want to take the lead. Best regards, Eli On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > No offense was taken Christian. It is good to see some renewed interest in > the journal. I hope things germinate and move forward. :] > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Christian Willmes > wrote: >> >> I am sorry the cited wording below was a mistake, caused from uncarefully >> re-editing the phrase. This sounds not very nice, I just wanted to say that >> Landon Blake stepped down, but not in this wording of course... >> >> Best, >> Christian >> >> >> Am 16.12.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Christian Willmes: >>> >>> >>> Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently >>> stepped down. >>> >>> >>> See: >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html >>> >> >> -- >> Christian Willmes >> AG GIS & Fernerkundung | GIS & RS Group >> Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography >> Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne >> Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234 >> http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html >> http://www.sfb806.de >> http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de >> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-6542 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newsletter mailing list >> newsletter at lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter > > > > > -- > Landon > "Homemade cookies. Mmmmmmmmmmm!" > > Web: www.landonblake.com > > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake > > Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LandonBlake > > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottLandonBlake > > Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/landon_blake/ > > > _______________________________________________ > newsletter mailing list > newsletter at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter From Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Dec 22 01:39:39 2017 From: Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk (Suchith Anand) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:39:39 +0000 Subject: [Journal] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal In-Reply-To: <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> References: , <43764a27-443e-ccb9-6ad5-a734c4d87232@uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: Dear Christian, My thanks and gratitude to Landon Blake, Eli Adam and everyone who helped make OSGeo Journal possible. We have some good foundations to build upon for the future. Thank you for the information and help on this. You have put some excellent ideas that will help us reinvigorating the OSGeo Journal for moving ideas and actions forward. May I request you to please consider volunteering yourself as the chair of the OSGeo Journal committee. I will be also joining the committee and also work to invite other colleagues in GeoForAll to join this committee. We can bring in the chairs of all FOSS4G Academic Committees to join the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee members as reviewers etc. We should also proactively negotiate with other GIS journals to ask them to provide full fee waiver for all authors submitting for any special issue from FOSS4G Academic Conferences from now. I will from now put the discussions on this through the OSGeo journal mail lists. I request all colleagues interested to join this list [1]. I will be on family holidays from tomorrow for a week and not using email , so will come with more ideas in 2018 :-) Best wishes, Suchith [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter ________________________________ From: Christian Willmes Sent: 16 December 2017 21:37 To: Suchith Anand; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; newsletter at lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal Dear Suchith, this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is "newsletter at lists.osgeo.org". I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this time the guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas. See this thread: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html And this one: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html (I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the archives.) Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently stepped down. See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee is without a Chair currently... The Journal is found here: https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal And official information is found here: http://www.osgeo.org/journal I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the current situation. Best regards, Christian Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith Anand: Dear All, Though we have a OSGeo journal and I thank everyone who worked to make this happen, for really making impact , it needs new ideas and lot of work to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the discussions in the community for ideas for making the OSGeo journal a high impact journal that will attract submissions. I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is long term aim. Sharing some lessons learnt from GeoForAll, we initially didn’t have webinar platform but we could see its potential to spread our message. Initially we relied on external organisations for our webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael) to run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place . For our newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important. Similarly, it is now time for us to think ideas of our own high impact journal. I have been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer for many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I support the idea of open access journals , I think it is important the costs of publishing in open access journals comes down. I don’t know the answer to how to make this possible but I think if there is lot of competition, then costs will come down. Will any one be interested to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo journal and working to create a high impact Open access journal that ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need to be worked on to make this possible. The Champions needs to bring together a strong Editorial Board, and maybe have a new name for the journal - International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications . The Champions should put processes and systems in place . For OSGeo, we now have thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have lot of good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4G Academic Tracks (both global and regional) who will all benefit but it needs a champion and a team to make this possible. I am willing to volunteer as one member for the Edition Board for this and review papers for free etc but I am unable to lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So anyone is willing to champion ideas for this, please come forward. Best wishes, Suchith This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. 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