[Journal] Update and request for help

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Welcome Dan.

I used to hang my hat in Kalispell, Montana. Idaho would be my second
choice of any State to live in!

I look forward to working with you on the journal.

Landon

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Ames <amesdani at isu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all.  Dan Ames here... I'm excited to be involved with the journal as an
> editor for peer reviewed articles and wanted to take a minute to introduce
> myself to those of you whom I haven't met.
>
> I'm an Assistant Professor at Idaho State University - Idaho Falls (USA).
> My PhD is in civil and environmental engineering and I teach and do research
> in the Geosciences Department here at ISU.  I've been involved in open
> source GIS for the Windows platform for several years and am the project
> team leader for the MapWindow GIS project (www.mapwindow.org) which is used
> as a desktop GIS and also as programming components for the .NET and COM
> environments in Windows.
>
> I'm glad to see that the new OJS system is up and running and I hope that
> all of you are registered as "reviewers" on the site so that we can call on
> your help for peer review of articles.  Also, if you know people who may not
> be on this mailing list but who would be willing to contribute their time as
> peer reviewers for OSGeo Journal, then please send them the link
> (http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/)
>
> From a journal-organizational point of view, I'd like to propose that we
> come up with a better name for the peer reviewed section of the journal.
> Something like, "Original Research and Technical Papers" or equivalent - so
> that potential contributors of this kind of work have a place to go (i.e.
> the change would appear on this page:
> http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies)
>
> Dan
>
>
> --
> Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE
> Geospatial Software lab
> Department of Geosciences
> Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
> amesdani at isu.edu
> www.hydromap.com
>
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