Hi all. Dan Ames here... I'm excited to be involved with the journal as an editor for peer reviewed articles and wanted to take a minute to introduce myself to those of you whom I haven't met. <br><br>I'm an Assistant Professor at Idaho State University - Idaho Falls (USA). My PhD is in civil and environmental engineering and I teach and do research in the Geosciences Department here at ISU. I've been involved in open source GIS for the Windows platform for several years and am the project team leader for the MapWindow GIS project (<a href="http://www.mapwindow.org">www.mapwindow.org</a>) which is used as a desktop GIS and also as programming components for the .NET and COM environments in Windows. <br>
<br>I'm glad to see that the new OJS system is up and running and I hope that all of you are registered as "reviewers" on the site so that we can call on your help for peer review of articles. Also, if you know people who may not be on this mailing list but who would be willing to contribute their time as peer reviewers for OSGeo Journal, then please send them the link (<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/">http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/</a>)<br>
<br>From a journal-organizational point of view, I'd like to propose that we come up with a better name for the peer reviewed section of the journal. Something like, "Original Research and Technical Papers" or equivalent - so that potential contributors of this kind of work have a place to go (i.e. the change would appear on this page: <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies">http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies</a>)<br>
<br>Dan<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE<br>Geospatial Software lab<br>Department of Geosciences<br>Idaho State University - Idaho Falls<br><a href="mailto:amesdani@isu.edu">amesdani@isu.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.hydromap.com">www.hydromap.com</a><br>