[OSGeo-Edu] Education & Journal

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

One of the items that came out of the Edu meeting at FOSS4G last week  
were some questions about relating to the OSGeo Journal.  I just  
wanted to mention that the Journal is open and available to the  
committee to use for discussion papers, (re)publishing material,  
providing project updates and more.

The Journal is still relatively young (2 issues so far) and as such  
has need for more editors, proofreaders and especially some folks  
with LaTeX expertise.  If you are interested, let me know. If you  
have further questions about commitment level, time required, areas  
needing help, etc. please ask.

At present we are starting to coordinate collecting proceedings from  
FOSS4G to go into a special edition of the Journal.  Daniel Ames has  
previously volunteered to manage a peer review process around the  
Journal, so he may be looking to some of you to help fill that role  
as well.  Some of the authors were certainly interested in having  
that option.

So this is an invitation to join our team, contribute and help spread  
the word and training material out through an increasingly successful  
medium.  We are also considering printing options for future (or  
back) issues, to handle on demand purchase requests.

Tyler