[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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