[Journal] Next steps

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at csd.uoc.gr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since I will not be in the upcoming FOSS4G some quick comments on Tyler's
> excellent plan:
> 1. it is good that we have a plan! :)
> 2. I would suggest to have a bit more time for articles, if we want
> something more than just announcements. I would suggest at least a month
> which pushes submissions towards the end of October and the rest
> accordingly.
> 3. maybe the conference is a great place to start/continue the journal
> discussion but maybe as a more organized discussion with larger
> participation
> 4. Tyler, could you draft a call for contributions that the section editors
> can amend accordingly and we can then push it to the community
> 5. could we also set a schedule for publication? I would prefer to delay
> this time and then keep dates for ... ever :) than pushing out an issue now
> and then mess up the scheduling again. One crucial question is if we need
> one or two issues per year.

 I've just been looking at how the R Journal is organised:
http://journal.r-project.org/index.html - I can't find publication
dates or deadlines for submission there though!

 They have invited papers as well as submissions which seems a good
idea if the journals is to become prestigious....

 One thing they have is an ISSN - I don't know how you'd get one of
these but would it be useful to have for the OSGEO Journal?

 They have a nice LaTeX template system for article submissions which
reduces the work for editors, but they don't have an organised web
site like OJS.


Barry