[Journal] Moving Forward With a Quarterly Journal

[Landon Blake]

Understood. Thanks for the feedback Eli.

Landon

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to propose moving forward with a quarterly or bi-monthly
> edition of
> > the OSGeo Journal instead of an annual edition. I think a more frequent
> and
> > smaller publication will be easier for me to handle and will allow me to
> > publish more regularly.
> >
> > If you have strong objections to moving to a smaller quarterly format,
> > please let me know. I plan on asking for submissions from chapters,
> software
> > projects, and committees early next week. The submissions would be for
> the
> > last quarter (July to September 2014).
>
> Not all chapters, projects, and committees do something once a quarter
> so they might not have anything to report.  This isn't necessarily a
> problem in that there may be fewer reports reported more frequently
> evening out over a year.
>
> Historically we have not had prompt turn around time asking for
> reports, that might reduce number of submissions.
>
> Neither of these things should be a barrier to quarterly publishing,
> just things to keep in mind and try to accommodate.
>
> Eli
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Landon
> >
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