[OSGeo-Conf] [FOSS4G2007] Academic Conference Requirements

[Paul Ramsey]

There was also a desire on the part of questioners that the published  
proceeding have an ISBN. How far down this path do we go?  (I say all  
this, BTW, in the fullest expectation that I am *not* going to  
organize this, that some volunteer will step up and say "*I* will  
ensure all the academic participants go home happy.")

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On 2-Jun-07, at 1:21 AM, venka.osgeo wrote:

> Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On 6/2/07, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> I have received a couple questions recently about the publication of
>>> proceedings.
>>>
>>> I believe FOSS4G 2006 may have committed to publish proceedings,
>>> though I don't know if they have done so yet.
> ...
>
> I had suggested publication of special issue of FOSS2006
> but nothing has happened as yet.
>
>>> Is this important? Should this be something FOSS4GXX does, as a
>>> matter of course?
>> I would appreciate it - this is something which remains.
>> See for example FOSS4G2004:
>
> I would appreciate it too at least for selected papers
>> http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/papers.php
>> Venka et al used the PKP Open Archives Harvester.
>
> Apart from the online proceedings of full papers,
> selected papers of 2004 conference were peer-reviewed also
> published in a regular scientific journal
> (International Journal of Geoinformatics).
>
> The peer-reviewed papers are available online at
> http://www.j-geoinfo.net/Content/March2005/content1(1).htm
>
> Perhaps selected papers could be published in the new OSGeo
> Journal.
>
> Venka