[OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal

Fri Dec 22 01:39:39 PST 2017

Dear Christian,

My thanks and gratitude to Landon Blake, Eli Adam and everyone who helped make OSGeo Journal possible. We have some good foundations to build upon for the future.

Thank you for the information and help on this. You have put some excellent ideas that will help us reinvigorating the OSGeo Journal for moving ideas and actions forward.

May I request you to  please consider volunteering yourself as the chair of the OSGeo Journal committee. I will be also joining the committee and also work to invite other colleagues in GeoForAll to join this committee. We can bring in the chairs of all FOSS4G Academic Committees to join the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee members as reviewers etc.

We should also proactively negotiate with other GIS  journals to ask them to provide full fee waiver for all authors submitting for any special issue from FOSS4G Academic Conferences from now.

I will from now put the discussions on this through the OSGeo journal mail lists. I request all colleagues interested to join this list [1]. I will be on family holidays from tomorrow for a week and not using email , so will come with more ideas in 2018 :-)

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter

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From: Christian Willmes <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de>
Sent: 16 December 2017 21:37
To: Suchith Anand; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; newsletter at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal

Dear Suchith,

this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is "newsletter at lists.osgeo.org"<mailto:newsletter at lists.osgeo.org>.

I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this time the guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas.

See this thread: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html

And this one: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html

(I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the archives.)

Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently stepped down.

See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html

No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee is without a Chair currently...

The Journal is found here: https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal

And official information is found here: http://www.osgeo.org/journal

I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the current situation.

Best regards,
Christian

Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith Anand:

Dear All,

Though we have a  OSGeo journal and I thank everyone who worked to make this happen, for really making impact , it needs new ideas and lot of work to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the discussions in the community for ideas for making the OSGeo journal a high impact journal that will attract submissions.

I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is long term aim. Sharing some lessons learnt from GeoForAll, we initially didn’t have webinar platform but we could see its potential to spread our message. Initially we relied on external organisations for our webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael)  to run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place .  For our newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important.

Similarly, it is now time for us to think ideas of our own high impact journal. I have been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer for many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I support the idea of open access journals , I think it is important the costs of publishing in open access journals comes down.  I don’t know the answer to how to make this possible but I think if there is lot of competition, then costs will come down.

Will any one be interested to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo journal and working to create a high impact Open access journal that ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need to be  worked on to make this  possible. The Champions  needs to bring together a strong Editorial Board,  and maybe have a new name for the journal - International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications .

The Champions should put processes and systems in place . For OSGeo, we now have thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have lot of good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4G  Academic Tracks (both global and regional)  who will all benefit but it needs a champion and a team to make this possible. I am willing to volunteer as one member for the Edition Board for this and review papers for free etc but I am unable to lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So anyone is willing to  champion ideas for this, please come forward.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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