[Journal] Journal user registration disabled on journal.osgeo.org

Fri Nov 20 07:28:03 PST 2015

Hello,

This is kind of difficult to answer for me, I had to think myself a bit 
about what I want to do for the Journal.

I am willing to help the Journal from a technical/website point of view. 
I am also willing to help for example as a Co-Editor for facilitating 
review and publishing of paper submissions. I would really like to see 
(small) case studies on the application of open source software, in 
industry or in education, or anywhere else. I also would love to see 
basic papers presenting and introducing an OSGeo project, written form 
the core devs/PSC of the projects. These kind of papers are really 
needed in the scientific community, I would love to cite a proper 
journal paper, when I write about applying a certain project. For most 
projects none such papers exist.

I am also very much in favour for having Newsletter/Status Report style 
Issues in the Journal, but I am personally not that much interested in 
compiling such issues. But, of course, from the website point of view 
and publishing through the Journal system I can and will help there too.

So it would be great If we, as I see right now Landon, Barend, Eli and 
myself, (any further volunteers are also more than welcome I think) 
would be working together to get the Journal going again.

I myself am also not really up for changing anything that would need 
approval from the board right now. Meaning, setting up a new Journal 
Committee or something. I think formally Landon is the Committee Chair, 
right? I am happy with that as long as he answers to questions like 
changing really outdated contact informations etc. on the Website that 
need this decision authority.

@Venka: So, its not yet clear to me what I should propose on that wiki 
page. I would first like to have some understanding from the involved 
persons on the list here, on what we do now.

Regards,
Christian

Am 20.11.2015 um 02:32 schrieb Venkatesh Raghavan:
> Dear All,
>
> Glad that the discussion regarding OSGeo Journal has been
> started.
>
> I would like to suggest that we create a wiki document putting
> together some ideas on how to get the journal page updated
> and have the journal committee expanded and re-vitalized.
>
> After the initial draft page is made, we could have a online
> meeting on skype to finalize the draft and take up discussion
> with the OSGeo Board regarding any support and approval that
> may be required from the board.
>
> Christian has recently taken the lead in improving the
> journal site [1], so if he could spare some time to
> make the initial draft, it would be great.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> [1] https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal
>
>
>
> On 2015/11/20 10:03, Eli Adam wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Christian Willmes
>> <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I disabled the User registration because of the spam bot problem 
>>> mentioned
>>> in the forwarded mail.
>> Thanks for doing this and helping get the OJS system back on track.
>>
>>> Users with Role Journal Manager or Site Admin can register new Users on
>>> request.
>>>
>>> Should the public user registration stay disabled?
>> I think so.  We are not overwhelmed by new contributors, :).
>>
>>> If we let the user registration closed, we should provide an 
>>> explanation, on
>>> how to get an account for participating in the journal. We could for 
>>> example
>>> provide this lists address as point of contact for potential new
>>> contributors.
>> Yes, that is a good idea.
>>
>>> I did not yet found a soloution (or a pattern) for how we delete all 
>>> the
>>> spam accounts. If anyone has a good Idea how to do this, input is 
>>> welcome.
>>> Otherwise we need to delete the accounts manually, which is a lot of 
>>> work...
>> Not sure what to do here.
>>
>> Best regards, Eli
>>
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christian
>>>
>>> On 14.06.2015 21:44, Christian Willmes wrote:
>>>> Hi Barend,
>>>>
>>>> I am quite sure I disabled the registration on the journals OJS
>>>> instance, since we discovered that spam user registration problem
>>>> already when we prepared the instance for the 2013 FOSS4G 
>>>> publications.
>>>> Someone must have re-enabled that, or we were indeed hacked?
>>>>
>>>> I will have a look into disabeling the registration again tomorrow
>>>> afternoon/evening when I have some spare time in between. If there are
>>>> objections to that, please say so...
>>>>
>>>> According the TGIS publication, about three weeks ago I got an
>>>> additional review of my paper with (very good) comments from 3 
>>>> anonymous
>>>> reviewers, that I and my co-authors worked into the paper. We plan to
>>>> submit the revised version tomorrow or at latest on Tuesday (the
>>>> deadline is until mid July though).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>> On 14.06.2015 12:33, b.j.kobben at utwente.nl wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> You might have seen already the announcement below I sent on various
>>>>> channels on the FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track publication in the OSGEO
>>>>> Journal.
>>>>>
>>>>> There were only five papers left (of the seven selected two have
>>>>> chosen to
>>>>> publish elsewhere). Thus once I finally had al materials, I could 
>>>>> quite
>>>>> quickly do the actual editing and publishing.
>>>>>
>>>>> In doing so, I found that he OJS system has had a flood of spam/robot
>>>>> registrations: I found this when trying to send all users an 
>>>>> announcement
>>>>> and having the system trying to send mail to 40169 users. Not sure 
>>>>> who
>>>>> (if
>>>>> anybody) is at them moment (feeling) responsible for the Journal 
>>>>> system,
>>>>> but it needs some tender love and care...
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours,
>>>>> Barend
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI: there were three AT papers selected for the Transactions in GIS
>>>>> journal, I asked their chief editor what the status of those is, but
>>>>> received no answer as of yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> ==========
>>>>>
>>>>> Volume 14 of the OSGeo Journal [1] has just been published. This 
>>>>> issue
>>>>> comprises five research papers selected from the submissions to the
>>>>> Academic Track of FOSS4G 2014, which took place in Portland 
>>>>> (Oregon,USA),
>>>>> from 8 to 13 September 2014.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] - 
>>>>> https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/issue/viewIssue/35/6
>>>>>
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