[OSGeo-Conf] Re:FOSS4G Conference Presentations and an academictrack

[mapbutcher]

Jorge,
With regard to the allocation of presentation slots in the schedule. Would
you like the presentations to be ran consecutively in a single room where
possible?

Cheers

Simon


2009/5/22 Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr at di.uminho.pt>

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks Paul. I'm interested to go forward [at full speed, since we don't
> have much time]. More people is necessary, so Thierry's offer is very
> welcome.
>
> I think the next steps should be:
>
> 0) Write down the call for [scientific/research] papers, for the
> academic track (we can start with last year call)
>
> 1) Update FOSS4G 2009 web site, to announce the peer reviewed academic
> track, pointing to call for papers
>        - Deadline for this track should be around July 31th;
>        - Specific submission guidelines should be added to this track
>        - The conference scheduled should be updated to have 3 or 4 sessions
> with academic presentations (taking about 12 to 16 slots of the 94
> available ones)
>
> 1.1) Cameron could prepare a press release to announce the call, and to
> get it posted to every mailing list
>
> 2) Create a representative scientific committee (this can start right
> now; some other members can be added later), by:
>        - Inviting the members that previously act as scientific
> committee/reviewers
>        - Inviting people from the Spanish chapter, that can do this job
> next
> year (maybe Lluís Vicens, from SITGA, Miguel R. Luaces, from Coruña
> Univ., Victor Olaya, from Extremadura Univ.)
>        - Inviting Charlie Schweik, and someone else from the OSGeo-Edu
>        - Inviting people from Australia
>        - Inviting other known OSGeo chapter members, related to academic
> duties and research
>        - Have some places for volunteers
> With 20 members on the scientific committee, if each can read 10 papers,
> we can have 200 readings. So, if each paper is read by 3 reviewers, we
> can receive 60-70 papers for reviewing.
>
> 3) Making all possible contacts with reputed journals/books, to start a
> reference publication related to OSGeo/FOSS4G. Thierry suggestion make
> sense; we can work with other institutions like ICA and alike to have
> the best possible printed publication, if we don't have enough high
> quality papers to create our own volume.
>
> 4) Install and configure an open source platform to handle the blind
> reviewing process (that's easy; OpenConf can be used for the job). The
> reviewing process will take place in August.
>
> Right now, we need some feedback from Cameron and others to know the
> impact of this academic track in the current schedule. Is the July 31th
> deadline ok? 12 to 16 papers is reasonable?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge
> --
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> Qui, 2009-05-21 às 15:09 -0400, Thierry Badard escreveu:
> > Paul Ramsey a écrit :
> > > More than anything else, the Sydney team needs someone with an
> > > academic background to step up and take on the academic track:
> > >
> > > - organizing the peer review panel
> > > - selecting the publication mechanism
> > > - selecting the papers for the academic track
> > >
> > > In 2007 Tyler and members of the education committee did that for me,
> > > which was invaluable. In 2008, a member of the LOC was sufficiently
> > > academic to do it. For 2009, a volunteer from the academic community
> > > is needed. Us ordinary folk don't understand what makes a good process
> > > for this stuff, we need someone who does. Could that person be you,
> > > Jorge?
> > >
> > > P
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If Jorge is interested in, I could take it in charge with him. I have
> > already been involved in lot of program or scientific committees and I
> > have also organised different scientific tracks, workshops or events. In
> > addition, as a co-chair of ICA WG on open source geospatial technologies
> >   (see http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca), I will be very happy to
> > engage a first effective collaboration between ICA and OSGeo around an
> > academic/scientific track with publication of selected papers as an
> > edited book.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Th.
> >
>
>
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