[OSGeo-Discuss] An update on the FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Track Proceedings readership

[Jeff McKenna]

Thank you Charlie for the nice update.  I am proud to have participated 
in the academic track, by reviewing 3 papers, and I often think of the 
wonderful academic ice breaker at the MIT pavilion (the boat ride was so 
special to me).  Thank you to Mohammed, Andy, Franz-Josef, Erin, Charlie 
and whole team for the great work organizing it all.  And 
congratulations to you Charlie as a GeoAmbassador, well deserved. 
Family.    -jeff


-- 
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna




On 2017-12-04 12:09 PM, Charlie Schweik wrote:
> Dear OGGeo and GeoForAll colleagues,
> 
> *1) An update on FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic proceedings readership*
> 
> One of the nice things about using the Scholarworks system [1] for 
> managing production and hosting FOSS4G conference open access academic 
> proceedings is that the Scholarworks system provides regular reporting 
> of readership and downloads.
> 
> FYI, since 9/5/2017, the FOSS4G 2017 full Academic Proceedings has been:
> 
> - downloaded 135 times;
> - accessed from 75 different universities;
> - representing 68 different countries.
> 
> I can send a map screen shot if anyone is interested.
> 
> *2) Also, FYI, *
> 
> - Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Mohammed Zia, and our Scholarworks support 
> person Erin Jerome at UMass Amherst are working to get the 2016 FOSS4G 
> Bonn proceedings up on this site as Volume 16; and,
> 
> - Zia and I are in communication with FOSS4G NA academic chair Steve 
> Liang about the possibility of using this system to support the 
> production of their FOSS4G NA conference Academic Proceedings.
> 
> - If there are any other upcoming FOSS4G regional conferences who would 
> like to use this system for their proceedings, please contact me.
> 
> *3) The OSGeo Journal page needs updating*
> 
> Somehow we now need to update the OSGeo Journal webpage [2] updated to 
> reflect these developments. Can anyone help me with that?
> 
> Thanks to Mohammed Zia, Erin Jerome and Andy Anderson for their ongoing 
> support of this effort, and to my university for providing the 
> Scholarworks system at no cost to our community.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Charlie Schweik
> 
> [1] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
> [2] https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal
> 
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> Department of Environmental Conservation &
> School of Public Policy
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> 
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