[Geo4All] [Foss4g-academic] Fwd: FOSS4G Boston: call for Academic (and not only) reviewers

Sun Mar 26 12:59:51 PDT 2017

> On Mar 26, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Michael, All:
> 
> *Wonderful* to see Ashley working in this role -- as a former graduate from my program at UMass Amherst I can say she is a wonderful, bright and talented individual! 
> 
> This year I've been unexpectedly put in a position directing our new School of Public Policy at UMass, so I've unfortunately not had the bandwidth to help the LOC the way I would have liked. Sorry Michael, Guido, Andy, others ! :-/ 
> 
> But I'd be happy to step in to co-lead the academic review with one or two others… 

Charlie, thank you for stepping in - given that I need to work on the OSGeo Annual Meeting agenda I am getting quite busy with OSGeo / FOSS4G
so I would not be able to handle also the paper reviews.
> 
> @Helena, Maria, Andy, others -- anyone want to join me as a co-organizer? 

I can join and Andy has been organizing this effort so far as well
> 
> 1) I might be able to get a paper review system established through our Library's institutional repository. 

That would be great - I just wanted to ask Andy about submission management system that they are using (most conferences 
that I worked with use easy chair), so if you can set something up that would be great.
> 
> 2) Also, as a default, we might be able to use our Institutional Repository to create and distribute a Conference Proceedings. I did this a couple times prior for doctoral consortia where we got an ISBN # and self published it. That could be our default. The other ideas might be to publish under the OSGeo Journal banner, or best, would be that we establish a contract with a geo-journal. 

That would be extremely helpful becuase we probably won’t be able to get all papers published in a special issue journal
> 
> Question to the group: Does anyone have a connection to a geo-related peer-reviewed journal that we could reach out to about whether they'd be interested in having a special issue of conference proceedings?

I can reach out to Computers and Geosciences where I am on editorial board but it needs to be a geoscience oriented paper (based on
the abstract titles there is about 12 of those so it may not be enough becuase not everybody manages to submit a solid enoigh paper -
we had a situation like that before - many great abstracts but to not enough great papers).
There are more abstracts that have socio-economic, human geography oriented focus so it would be great if we could find a related journal for that,

Helena

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Charlie Schweik
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> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Michael Terner <mgt at appgeo.com> wrote:
> Maria:
> Thank you so much for putting out this call for assistance. And thanks to Venka for further spreading the word and to Helena for opening up the Scientific Committee on the OSGeo Wiki page.
> 
> Also, THANK YOU to all those who have volunteered so far. As per Maria's original message we need some short term help on reviewing the abstracts, but we are also looking for some longer term help. Here's is the skinny on what we need:
> 	• Abstract Review: With the Call for Presentations closed, we have received 49 submissions that were self selected as "academic" which means there is an intent to submit a paper in association with the presentation. I have now read all 49 academic abstracts and have been hugely impressed with the breadth of topics and the quality of research. It will be great to add academic opinions to the selection process, as our Program Committee is also reviewing these papers.
> 	• Paper Review Process: In addition, and as per previous posts to the OSGeo Academic Subcommittee list from Andy Anderson (of Amherst College), our Chair of the Program Committee, we are desperately searching for a group of people who will help to organize the collection and review of papers; and hopefully find a path to either publication and/or creating a FOSS4G Conference Proceedings. In the short term, we need to post guidance on paper production and submission to the website.
> The FOSS4G Team now has a fulltime Conference Organizing Assistant, Ashley Tardiff, and she will provide further guidance over the coming days. This will include:
> 	• Providing updates to the OSGeo Wiki Page
> 	• Distributing a spreadsheet that contains the 49 abstracts and other relevant information
> 	• And identifying a format for providing scoring/feedback to the Program Committee. Your input on scoring/feedback is welcome.
> Please let us know if you have any questions, and please help spread the word to identify further volunteers.
> 
> Thanks again...
> 
> MT
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> Michael Terner
> Executive Vice President & FOSS4G Boston 2017 Chair
> Applied Geographics, Inc.
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> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:22 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
> Thank you so much!Yes, I will.
> Happy weekend
> Maria
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> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
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> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Da: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> 
> Data: 25/03/17 04:31 (GMT+01:00) 
> A: FOSS4G-Academic <foss4g-academic at lists.osgeo.org> 
> Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>, Venkatesh Raghavan <venka.osgeo at gmail.com>, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com>, Michael Terner <mgt at appgeo.com> 
> Oggetto: Re: [Foss4g-academic] Fwd: [Geo4All] FOSS4G Boston: call for Academic (and not only) reviewers 
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> I have set up a section on the FOSS4G 2017 wiki for the Scientific committee 
> 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017#Scientific_Committee
> 
> Maria, Venka, I took the liberty to sign you up, I hope you are OK with it.
> 
> Others on this list please sign up so that we know how many are available and whether 
> we need to actively reach out to potential members. 
> There is an extensive list on wiki for 2009 conference that we could use
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Scientific_committee_expertises
> 
> Thank you, Helena
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> > On Mar 24, 2017, at 9:20 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I am forwarding mail regarding review of
> > Academic Track Abstracts and participation
> > in the FOSS4G-2017 Boston Academic Committee.
> > 
> > Look forward for your help and participation.
> > 
> > Best
> > 
> > Venka
> > 
> > P.S. I am willing to help out with the abstract review.
> > 
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject: [Geo4All] FOSS4G Boston: call for Academic (and not only) reviewers
> > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:25:28 +0000
> > From: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> > To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>
> > CC: Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com>, Michael Terner <mgt at appgeo.com>
> > 
> > Dear All
> > 
> > the submission phase at  FOSS4G 2017  Boston was a great success!!  This is amazing but now the organizers have to review a huge number of abstracts  in a short time.
> > 
> > Are there volunteers who want to help? They are not papers, but simply abstracts. Therefore it can be enough quick.
> > 
> > Please, if you want to be part of this Scientific Committee, write directly to Michael, Andy and Guido.
> > 
> > As usual, many thanks!
> > 
> > Happy week end,
> > 
> > Maria
> > 
> > 
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> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> > Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> > Politecnico di Milano
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> > ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board
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> > UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
> > 
> > Sol Katz Award 2015
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