[Journal] A Short Guide to Writing Chapter Annual Report Items

[Landon Blake]

Eli:

Thank you for your comments. I agree, this content is much more
appropriate for the wiki. I will add it there as soon as I have a few
minutes. I also need to do some general housekeeping of our Journal
wiki pages. I will add that to my task list.

Any comments on the actual content of the guide?

Landon

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've put together a short guide to help authors that put together our
>> OSGeo Local Chapter Annual Report Items. You can read the guide here:
>>
>>
>> http://geojournaleditor.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/a-short-guide-to-writing-chapter-annual-report-items/
>>
>> I'd like to do the same thing for case study articles and software
>> project annual report items.
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>
> I've always taken the wiki as the source for this type of information:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Journal
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_Template
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report:_Chapter_Report_Item_Template
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report:_Software_Project_Report_Item_Template
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Journal_Volume_9
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Journal_Volume_11
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2011
>
> To avoid a fracturing of focus and creating confusion, we should probably
> have some coherent mostly single source presentation.  There should not be
> two different sets of directions on how to send an annual report.  I had
> sort of assumed that the point of the Journal blog was mostly an out-facing
> consumption platform (i.e. people might prefer to read journal articles as
> blog entries rather than a pdf).  I think that multiple out-going channels
> for Journal content are fine (one journal article goes out in pdf, blog,
> news item, youtube demo, twitter, etc, etc).  I thought it might also
> include blog entires about the Journal (like we have Canadian English,
> Standard American English, Australian English, UK English, and many English
> as an additional language all in one Journal!)  What are the goals of the
> Journal blog?
>
> I generally prefer osgeo.org urls for official OSGeo activities, which I
> think the journal is.  Many OSGeo members have wiki logins already too.
> Other than url and existing logins, I don't have much preference of wiki or
> blog but would like it to be consistent and straight forward (and not
> multiple conflicting sources of information).  My interest remains mostly on
> copyediting and proofreading and that is how I'll continue to focus my
> effort.
>
> My initial thoughts, Eli
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Landon
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