<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Your proposal looks good to me Dan, thanks for taking the time to write it down. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>How critical do you think it is to have a particular section for peer review articles? I'd rather not relegate part of the Journal to be only for Peer Review articles, as such a category may be functionally useful but meaningless for the average reader who won't care. I'd rather add some sort of header or footer or intro. text to peer reviewed articles so they are obvious to the reader but still fit within our "case study" or "integration" sections.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Will that work?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Could you move the text from Talk:Journal to <A href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_Peer_Review">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_Peer_Review</A> instead? Then we can make this a formal page specifically around the peer review concept.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks again, let's get started by first checking any of the proposed papers that are already in the queue. Giuliano would you like to be the first to try out the process?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tyler</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 25-May-07, at 4:19 PM, Daniel Ames wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Tyler and Micha and others,<BR><BR>First I should tell you all that we just had a great 9-paper session on Open Source GIS in Environmental Modeling here in Prague at the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems. There were presentations from Ari Jolma, Helena Mitasova, Markus Neteler, and folks from EPA, my lab and elsewhere. It went quite well and OSGeo got lots of good air-time. <BR><BR>As for the review process for OSGeo Journal, I've just posted a proposed plan for a peer review process on the wiki here: <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Talk:Journal"> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Talk:Journal</A></SPAN><BR><BR>I've also posted a proposed timeline for the process that might work for Issue 2. The bottom line is that we would put out a call for peer review papers on June 1 and try to have a few reviewed and accepted and in final form by August 3... <BR><BR>Please take a look and let me know what you think.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Dan<BR><BR><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><BR></SPAN><A href="http://www.hydromap.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> </A></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Tyler Mitchell</DIV><DIV>Executive Director</DIV><DIV>Open Source Geospatial Foundation</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:tmitchell@osgeo.org">tmitchell@osgeo.org</A></DIV><DIV>P: +1-250-277-1621</DIV><DIV>M: +1-250-303-1831</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>