[Journal] Feedback: [FOSS4G Proceedings] publication request
Markus Neteler
neteler.osgeo at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 15:36:37 EDT 2007
On 10/5/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On 4-Oct-07, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Ames wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I have a suggestion I'd like to throw out to the Journal
> > community. A colleague (Gary Watry) and I have been using a self
> > publishing company lately for book publishing and so far have been
> > very pleased with the outcome. The company is called LULU.com and
> > they are incredibly easy to work with.
> >
> > Perhaps the Journal can be made available in hard cover in this way?
>
> I would love to this and have considered it for some months.
> Unfortunately we just haven't had the time between releases to really
> get our main layout challenges fixed up. If editors can handle the
> brunt of the content workload for Volume 3, then hopefully I can get
> some more time to tackle the layout.
>
> Anyone else want to help at that end? We'll look to you, Dan, when
> we need some more tips for using LULU.
>
> We also need to talk about Peer Review - I get more questions every
> day. Think you can muster up a process for this volume?
I had once published my "GRASS in a Nutshell" script there, it
is really easy and straightforward. Would be great to see it as
hard|softcover, too. Maybe even libraries would become interested
then.
Just (more or less) upload
- front cover
- text
- back cover
and publish it.
Markus
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