[Journal] Re: [Board] Questions about the OSGeo Journal Post Tyler Mitchell

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for the feedback Eli. I will do my best to be transparent, and
will continue to post on my Journal work to the OSGeo Journal mailing
list.

Landon

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> Landon,
>
>     Thanks for doing all of this.  I do see that you are doing almost
> all of the journal.  I think that the journal is a great presentation
> of OSGeo and hopefully you get satisfaction from making such a great
> contribution to OSGeo.
>
>> How are decisions about the style, content, and format of the Journal
>> going to be made?
>
> Style is something that I worked on some.  Yes it seemed there was
> perhaps no real policy and thus any journal member could choose to
> apply the style that they saw fit (and announce or discuss on the
> list).  I focused on correct spelling, grammar, and other minor things
> that I thought made the journal look as professional as possible.  At
> first and still, I am slightly hesitant to just run through other
> contributors' articles and reformat them to be consistent, rephrase
> sentences, fix spelling (particularly pertaining to
> internationalization of English), etc.  I think that as long as you
> are reasonably transparent (i.e. have a wiki page, webpage, email
> discussion/announcement of generally what you are doing or the current
> process) and generally willing to accept input from anyone
> contributing (perhaps proportionally to their contributions), then
> whatever you decide seems like the proper decision.  Style,
> consistency, spelling, and grammar are things which I'm still
> interested in contributing to, but must apologize for not putting in
> much recent effort on this.
>
> Keep up the good work, Eli