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

Thu Nov 26 22:26:49 PST 2015

I should add that having an independent academic journal will require some
involvement by volunteers from academia. I must admit as a private sector
flunky, the entire world of academic publishing is a mystery to me. :]

Landon

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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