[Foss4g2012] Academic Track at Foss4g2012

Tue Dec 13 10:07:40 EST 2011

Dear mr Song,

Thank you for informing me. Friday we had a conference call with some
people in OSGEO, we did have a useful discussion, especially since both
Helena Mitasova and Rafael Moreno were there, being ex-organisers of the
Academic Track. The general idea as put forward in my setup seems OK, and
"Transactions in GIS" seems to be accepted as the most likely candidate
for a Journal outlet. I was planning to contact John Wilson, chief editor
of TGIS, soon with the ideas. In your email you mention having IEEE
conference proceedings. Can you tell me if this was intended for all
proceedings or specifically those of the Academic Track? And how developed
is that idea, was there already contact with IEEE?

I also want to put the plans thus far in a summarising email to the key
people involved so far.
In that I will also officially ask candidates for the so-called Scientific
Committee to commit
themselves (including you, so I hope you agree to be our local organising
liaison in the Scientific Committee). I will also  propose a first Call
for Papers (with little detail, but at least to have something sent around
before Christmas).

Yours,
Barend

--
Barend Köbben (Senior Lecturer)
ITC - University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information
Science and Earth Observation
PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
+31-(0)53 4874 253

On 09-12-11 17:49, "xianfeng song" <song.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear Kobben,
>
>I am Xianfeng Song, teaching GIS at Graduate University of Chinese
>Academy of Sciences. Glad to hear from you about the new idea of
>foss4g2012 academic track. As you know, there was a small committee
>organized by local coordinator to run the review of academic papers in
>past events, and many experts you mentioned were already there. They
>played a great role in reviewing and recommending a journal. A few weeks
>ago, the LOC ever had a meeting deciding to follow the customs to invite
>again those who ever working for past academic tracks.
>
>To encourage more academic paper submission in 2012, Prof. Chen, our
>chapter representative, and other LOC members recommend to publish an
>IEEE conference proceeding. The EI-index may help to spread the impact of
>our academic track through its reference system. The GIS Association of
>China is a very large community in China, we are thinking to attract
>those local participants from universities or research institutions this
>time.
>
>The above is our idea for your information. I also cc this mail to the
>LOC for their attention.
>
>Best regards,
>Song
>------------------
>http://people.gucas.ac.cn/~xfsong?language=en
>
>
>
>
>2011/12/8 Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl>
>
>Dear list,
>
>
>In a recent MoU between OSGEO and ICA (the International Cartographic
>Association), one of the items was that ICA's Commission on Open Source
>Geospatial
> Technologies will team up with OSGEO to consolidate and strengthen the
>Academic Track at the annual global FOSS4G conferences.
>Suchith Anand (the commission chair) has asked me to start organizing
>this and provide some ideas about the possible setup.
>
>
>Firstly I invite this list to please find below this setup for comments
>and discussion.
>
>Secondly, as you can read in the setup, one of the action points is to
>"contact OSGEO for a liaison with the local organisers for Beijing 2012".
>I have
> found on the WiKi the name of Xianfeng SONG as 'lead for academic
>track', but unfortunately no more contact details. Does anyone within
>this list have contact details for mr or mrs Song?
>
>
>Yours truly,--
>Barend Köbben (Senior Lecturer)
>ITC - University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information
>Science and Earth Observation
>PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
>+31-(0)53 4874 253
>
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>FOSS4G 2012 & further  Academic Track
>The general idea is to strengthen the Academic Track at the annual global
>FOSS4G conference. Currently it is too dependent on local and ad-hoc
>efforts (however successful many of them have been), we need to develop a
>fixed scenario
> and publication outlets to streamline and consolidate the Academic Track.
>For this we need a FOSS4G Academic track that is organised as follows:
>1. A scientific committee is established (some 4-5 members) that in
>principle serve for several years, each year complemented with a local
>organisation liaison; This committee oversees the Call for Papers and
> the reviewing process and the publication efforts.
>2. A reviewing committee is established under the auspices of the
>scientific committee, with members (some 20-30) that in principle serve
>for several years; Within this group there should be a sufficient spread
>of
> competencies/knowledge/expertise, to cover a wide range of paper
>subjects.
>3. The Call for Papers is published sufficiently in advance for people to
>come up with full, scientific quality papers.
>4. Reviewers are asked to (blind) review the papers for presentation at
>the conference; The target should be to end up with 20-25 acceptable
>papers for this stage.
>5. The reviewers are additionally asked to indicate, for the papers they
>find acceptable for presentation, if they think the paper should be
>considered for publication in a special issue of a high quality academic
>journal. From these highlighted
> papers, the scientific committee makes a selection of 8-10 papers for a
>special issue of a journal.
>6. The selection of the papers for both presentation and for the academic
>journal should be finished before the  conference takes place, so that
>the distinction can be made, e.g. by having a seperate session for
>selected
> papers. We should look into the possibility to have in coming years the
>journal published/printed and available at the conference (this will mean
>shifting the reviewing process forward to allow for journal production).
>
>
>For this process to work we should work on the following actions:
>1. Likely candidates for the academic journal should be identified and
>contacted. The most obvious candidate at present is "Transactions in GIS"
>(in which the 2004 and 2011 FOSS4G academic tracks have been published).
>Barend Köbben will
> contact the editors.
>2. Barend will contact previous organisers of academic tracks and others
>for membership of a scientific committee under his chairmanship. Likely
>candidates at this stage are Rafael Moreno (Denver 2011), Serena Coetzee
>(Cape Town
> 2008 and TGIS editorial board) and Helena Mitasova (OSGEO board and TGIS
>editorial board), but others could and should be considered.
>3. contact OSGEO for a liaison with the local organisers for Beijing 2012.
>4. Barend will gather a list of candidates for the Reviewing Committee
>from previous years'
> committees,asking previous organisers for email contact details. We aim
>for some 20-30 people to ask for a commitment
>for several years and a keyword list of their interests
> and expertise.
>5. For the whole procedure a good paper/conferencesubmission system is
>essential. Barend will look into thepossibilities.
>
>
>The planned timeline for the 2012 track is:
>* 1st preliminary Call for Papers (basically dates and subject matter)
>before Christmas
>* Detailed CfP (with procedures and detailed requirements): 1 February
>* Full paper deadline: 31 March
>* Reviewing decisions: 15 May
>* Final (revised) papers deadline: July 15
>* Final determination of journal contents: August 1
>* Conference (preliminary dates 10-15 Sep)
>* publication of special issue: ASAP
>
>
>Note that in coming years we would plan for this timeline to be moved
>forward to have the published journal available at the conference.
>Barend Köbben
>
>
>
>
>
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