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

Thu Nov 26 22:25:10 PST 2015

Thanks for the responses Eli and Christian. Are you sure you don't want to
jump in as editor Christian? That wouldn't hurt my feelings one little bit.
:]

Perhaps we need some more discussion on the observation that Christian has
already made about the difficulty of having the Journal serve as an
academic publishing channel and an organizational newsletter. Seems like it
is a challenge to do both at once, especially with the volunteer challenges
that can lead to a slow review and publication schedule.

What do you guys thinking about splitting the functions. We could have an
annual academic journal and a more frequently published (and smaller)
organization newsletter.

I'm just brainstorming here.

Landon

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> Hi Venka,
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan
> <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Glad that the discussion regarding OSGeo Journal has been
> > started.
>
> It is exciting to have more Journal activity!  Thanks for joining in.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> If you want, can you start the wiki page and include any work that
> you're willing to contribute towards the Journal?  I find it best that
> people volunteer for what they want to do rather than someone else
> suggest they volunteer for the work.  The OSGeo Do-ocracy way,
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Do-ocracy
>
> I have several times expressed a continued interest in copy editing.
> I would add that to a list of offered contributions from myself.
>
> I have some interest in facilitating the functioning of the committee
> and will make a minimal contribution to that with the hope that it
> will start functioning smoothly again.  I don't intend to take a long
> term leadership role with lots of work for the committee.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> If we are doing anything that requires support or approval, we can
> involve the Board.  More likely it will just be reorganizing within
> our existing realm and not require involvement of 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.
>
> From his actions and words, Christian is interested in taking a
> technical supporting role of keeping our infrastructure up to date,
> working, not suffering from spam, and helping us use it.  He also
> expressed a willingness to help as a Co-Editor for facilitating review
> and publishing of paper submissions, particularly basic papers
> presenting and introducing OSGeo projects by core devs/PSC so that it
> is available to use as a citation when applying a project.
>
>
> Best regards, Eli
>
>
> >
> > 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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