[Journal] [OSGeo-Conf] Planning FOSS4G 2015/16

Thu Sep 26 01:52:42 PDT 2013

Hi Eli (also cc-d to Journal list),

>We are very happy to have your help.  I saw the conference-dev email and
>will respond on list (and clarify that Percy is actually the Academic
>Track Chair, In regards to the AT, I'll be more of a technical
>functionary focused on the publication).

Could you send me contact details for Percy...?

>FYI, this page,
>http://2013.foss4g.org/academic-track/
><http://2013.foss4g.org/academic-track/>,makes it seem like there are 19
>papers but probably some were for presentation and not publication.

That's because 5 were selected for publication in Transactions in GIS (ISI
journal). See the quick and dirty overview I juts mailed to the
conference-dev list).

>This is somewhat typical.  Landon does most of the Journal work with a
>handful of others taking a supporting role.  The work cycle is somewhat
>sporadic and goes in phases.  That being said, I'm sure that Landon and
>the rest of the Journal Team is open o the idea of a 'guest editor'.  So
>if you have someone who wants to do the majority of the work, then this
>can proceed at that person's schedule.  You might want to contact Tyler
>Mitchell/Locate Press and see if he is interested in being a guest
>editor. I think that he and Gary Sherman did the Journal for the FOSS4G
>2011 Proceedings.  They do great work.  I'm not sure but speculate that
>Barry might also have the required skills to be a guest editor.

As explained in the list email, we are already sort of guest editors. All
papers have been fully blind-reviewed and are ready for copy-editing. We
forced the authors to use a fixed, simple template, so that phase should
in principle be easy. Note that TGIS has already published some of them in
online preview. 

> first).  Hmm, looking in svn, I see some of the activity,
>http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_13/Raw/OSGEO-FOSS4G2013/
><http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_13/Raw/OSGEO-FOSS4G2013/>  It
>looks like the papers have been reviewed.  Are they revised and accepted
>and just awaiting publication?

Ah, good! These are indeed the fully reviewed and revised papers I talked
about having sent to Landon. Looks like he copied the files I sent him
straight into the svn.

I am available to act a guest editor for this if that what would speed up
the process. Note I have no idea how the copy-editing and publishing
process of OSGEO journal works, so please direct me to a page/doc about
that if it exists.

Yours,
Barend

--
Barend Köbben 
ITC - University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
+31-(0)53 4874 253

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>On 09-08-13 16:54, "Eli Adam" <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
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>>Barend,
>>I'd very much like to help on the publishing.  So far I've been
>>copyediting for the OSGeo Journal.  Please include me for the publishing.
>> Looking forward to contributing any way I can.
>>Unfortunately, I won't be in Nottingham so we'll have to meet in person
>>some other time.
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>>Best regards, Eli
>>On Aug 9, 2013 3:55 AM, <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> wrote:
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>>> Hi Eli,
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>>> I won't speak for the whole LOC of Nott here, but joining now is
>>>probably not very fruitful. do however join the Volunteers, we still can
>>>use many of those  at the conference itself! See the
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>>2013.foss4g.org <http://2013.foss4g.org> <http://2013.foss4g.org> for
>>joining.
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>>> And as academic Track chair  I'm happy to share our experiences on the
>>>publishing. That would be something to start as soon as possible, we now
>>>seem to have a somewhat stable system set up with the two outlets (TGIS
>>>and OSGeO journal). I suppose you will
>> be in Nottingham, let's resolve to meet there and get the 2014 AcTrack
>>going...!
>>> Yours,
>>> --
>>> Barend Köbben (Senior Lecturer)
>>> ITC - University of Twente,
>>> Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
>>> PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
>>> +31-(0)53 4874 253
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: 
>conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
><mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>[conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Eli Adam
>>>[eadam at co.lincoln.or.us]
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 06:59
>>> To: Darrell Fuhriman
>>> Cc: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Planning FOSS4G 2015/16
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>>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Darrell Fuhriman
>>><darrell at garnix.org<mailto:darrell at garnix.org>> wrote:
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>>> > One thing that's come up as we've been working on this is that one
>>>year out is a pretty short time to do bookings of a conference this
>>>size. For instance, the Oregon Convention Center, where we'll be holding
>>>2014, is already booking 3-4 years out for large
>> conferences. As it was, we didn't have a lot of flexibility for the
>>dates either at the Convention Center, or the hotels. It worked out this
>>time, but we can't take that for granted in the future.
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>>> > If FOSS4G is going to continue to grow in attendance, I think the
>>>board should consider moving the bidding process dates up, so there's as
>>>much as two years out.
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>>> > I'd suggest starting the bidding process for 2015 in the next six
>>>months, and for 2016 six months after that, thus deciding on the host
>>>city two years out. But even 18 months would be wiser than 12.
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>>> Why wait 6-12 months?  Another call for Letters Of Intent could go out,
>>>perhaps from Nottingham?
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>>> Sao Paulo is ready to bid,
>>http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_LOI_SaoPaulo.pdf
>><http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_LOI_SaoPaulo.pdf>
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>>> Determining several years in advance can also give future cities an
>>>opportunity to join LOCs as an observer or minor remote participant to
>>>gain more experience or at least observation before it is their turn.
>>>I'm hoping to join the Nottingham LOC, especially
>> the portion that will publish the proceedings since I will likely be
>>involved in that for 2014.
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>>> Eli
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>>> > Just a thought,
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>>> > Darrell
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