[Journal] Additional Section Editors Are Needed

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Tyler and others,

I'll see if I can take care of the section changes today.

If I understand correctly, we want to create one section for general
topical articles, and will "merge" the case studies, integration
studies, and project spotlight sections into a single section called
"Projects".

Is this correct?

Landon

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> I think you forgot to cc the list. Either way..
> What we should do is just deactivate one of the sections. I'm not sure how
> it will treat passed issues that used that section. I suggest just making a
> new one or two - and then we'll deactivate the others.
>
> I'm not sure if that makes sense, but I'm leary of deleting anything, but we
> sure don't want it showing up under the next issue.
>
> Tyler
>
> ----------------original message-----------------
> From: "Sunburned Surveyor" sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
> To: "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" tmitchell at osgeo.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:31 -0700
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>
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Tyler
>>>
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