[Board] [OSGeo-Conf] Proceedings Inquiry (PO#75676)

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Dear All

I have excluded Michael from Curran in this reply.

This looks to me like a predatory publisher and we should be very
careful of this. They publish proceedings and then sell each paper for
quite large numbers. This is a very frown upon approach and might not
be good for FOSS4G to be associated with such a publisher. We can
discuss this more at the board meeting, but I thought I would just add
this.

The latest FOSS4G academic papers have been published through the
ISPRS, thanks to Maria Brovelli, and this is good exposure. I think
this is a better approach. She is busy arranging this for the 2021
conference as well.

Regards
Victoria


On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:30 PM Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> For your second question, your proposal will be discussed at the next
> OSGeo board meeting.
>
> For the first question I will let the FOSS4G 2019 organizers reply to you.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 8/13/20 6:15 PM, Curran Associates, Inc. wrote:
> >   Hi Steven and colleagues,
> > I have a couple of follow-up questions for you.
> > 1) Do you know when the 2019 proceedings will be available?
> > 2) Would you be opposed to us printing the FOSS4G proceedings? If possible, we'd like to print any and all FOSS4G proceedings for our customers. We have a handful of large, national library of science customers (i.e The British Library, The German National Library of Science and Technology, The National Diet Library of Japan, among others) that request printed proceedings. In circumstances where there is no print available, we try to obtain permission to create a print-on-demand book. You would retain 100% copyright ownership, and we would cover the entire cost of production/distribution. Does this sound like something that you could agree to?
> > Have a nice day!
> > Best Regards,Michael Curran
> > Curran Associates, Inc.57 Morehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571T: 845 758 0400 x101  |  F: 845 758 2633  |  E: curran at proceedings.com
> >
> >      On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 6:32:52 AM EDT, Curran Associates, Inc. <curran at proceedings.com> wrote:
> >
> >    Great! Thank you so much for the quick reply and info. I really appreciate it. Stay well!
> > Best,Michael
> >
> >      On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 4:59:07 AM EDT, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
> > ______
> > Steven
> >
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> > On 13 Aug 2020, at 09:42, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am forwarding this inquiry to our conference committee.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Angelos
> >
> > On 8/12/20 8:34 PM, Curran Associates, Inc. wrote:
> >
> > Dear Sir/Madam,
> > Are there any proceedings available from the following conferences?
> >      - FOSS4G 2013
> >      - FOSS4G 2014
> >      - FOSS4G 2016
> >      - FOSS4G 2017
> >      - FOSS4G 2018
> >      - FOSS4G 2019
> > We have a library customer that is looking for the papers presented at those meetings.
> >
> > Have a nice day!
> > Best Regards,Michael Curran
> > Curran Associates, Inc.57 Morehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571T: 845 758 0400 x101  |  F: 845 758 2633  |  E: curran at proceedings.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
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> President
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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