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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear All,</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Though we have a OSGeo </span><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size: 12px;">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</span></font>
<font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size: 12px;">the OSGeo journal a high impact journal that will attract submissions</span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is long term aim</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. 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)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">to run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place .</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For our newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I don’t know the answer to how to make this possible but I think</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">if</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">there
is lot of competition, then costs will come down.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">worked on to make this</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">possible. The Champions</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">needs to bring together a strong Editorial Board,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and maybe have a new name for the journal -
<b>International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications .</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b> </b></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Academic Tracks (both global and regional)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">champion ideas for this, please come forward.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best wishes,</span></p>
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