[Journal] Additional Section Editors Are Needed

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I concur with Tyler's comments. The suggestions to combine sections
were good suggestions.

Tyler: Is it possible to combine sections through OJS? I can try to do
this next week if I can figure out where to look.

Landon

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> Micha wrote:
>> Pink elephants and unicorns? THis issue is gonna be interesting!
>> I agree that there's some overlap between the sections as they were
>> previously defined. Ingeneral "Case Studies" covered reports of how FOSS
>> GIS software was incorporated into real life situations. "Topical
>> Studies" pointed more towards technical GIS issues, and how they could
>> be solved with FOSS GIS tools.
>> But I would go for your suggestion to just combine them all under one
>> umbrella , called something like "Applications" or "Implementations".
>> I'd even go further and lump together "Project reports" and "Project
>> Spotlight", into one section on Projects, then just visually highlight
>> one project as the spotlight.
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> Excellent idea - the fewer sections the better, I agree. For "Topical" I was
> specifically thinking of items that were NOT related to applications, as
> Micha noted above. E.g. professional discussion that may not have anything
> to do with software. I'd like to still have a spot for that. But, agreed,
> the rest of case studies can be rolled together. It may help to just call
> them case studies, but "applications" is okay too.
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