[Board] f2f meeting follow up

[b.j.kobben at utwente.nl]

I am sorry, but I feel obliged to step in here: The discussion as apparently conducted in the F2F has no bearing on the original request by Franz-Josef, which was simply for funding to have somebody (and yes, he asked me) to do the COPY-EDITING (i.e taking the original papers as submitted by the authors and turning them into proper lay-out in LaTeX, and producing a journal edition); This is for producing a volume of the sadly neglected osgeo publication called OSGEO Journal. This was what was promised to the authors when their papers that were accepted for the academic track of Foss4G 2016 would be published. They are waiting for this promise to be fulfilled already more than a year! 

I appreciate I have done that task earlier "for free", for volumes 13 and 14 of the journal (the FOSS4G AT proceedings of Nottingham and Portland, respectively). But at those editions I was the (co-)Chair of the Academic Track, and thus could defend my time to my Professor, as being an AT chair earns you academic brownie points. For the 2016 Bonn edition I was not, and thus when Franz-Josef asked me because, apparently, no one else was willing and/or able to do the copy-editing, I told him it would have to be a payed-for job this time. He requested this funding already in March I think, so it's surprising that no decision has been made yet, and even the original request is still clearly not properly understood...

The OSGEO Journal is a proper outlet for this, as it is an official Open Access ISSN-numbered journal of the osgeo.org. I called it "sadly neglected" before because the last volumes are indeed the two I copy-edited (it originally was supposed to be at least yearly). And there's no sign of it at the new site....

yours truly,  

 
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Barend Köbben
OSgeo.org Charter Member / OSgeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer
Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente (Netherlands)
@barendkobben
 

On 23/08/2017, 15:53, "Board on behalf of Helena Mitasova" <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

    
    
    
    Jody, Venka
    
    
    we already agreed to ask Charlie first before going back to Franz and asking him to ask on public mailing list -
    (so that action item should not have been there for Venka)
    so I did talk to Charlie and Charlie is interested in publishing the proceedings in Bonn, so Venka, in your answer to Franz please let him know to contact Charlie Schweik (he should have his contact) and arrange the publication with him.
    They already have the system for proceedings set up.
    
    
    Helena
    
    
    On Aug 23, 2017, at 4:31 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
    
    Hi Jody,
    
    Thanks for all your effort with the f2f minutes.
    Please my comments on the action item
    assigned to me below;
    
    On 2017/08/23 14:16, Jody Garnett wrote:
    
    Meeting mins are now available:
    https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Boston_2017
    
    The board has the following actions identified:
    
    
    .....
    
    
       - Action Venka: Ask Franz to ask in public on the board email list?
    
    
    
    The request from Franz has been conveyed by me to the board and also discussed in
    the thread on board list [1]. I do not think it is necessary (or proper) for request Franz to
    repeat his request on public board mailing list.
    
    [1] 
    https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2017-July/010436.html <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2017-July/010436.html>
    
       - Action Helena: Ask Charlie if foss4g Bonn publication accept a few
       more papers?
    
    
    
    I think a decision on Franz request can be taken after confirming the above possibility
    with Charlie.
    
    Best
    
    Venka
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