[Journal] 2012 Annual Report

Eli Adam eadam at co.lincoln.or.us
Thu Jun 30 10:31:55 PDT 2016


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eli:
>
> It looks the page number problem with the Ottawa Chapter Report is fixed.
> Could you do your final check? I'd like to try to get this issue published
> next week so I can start work on the next volume.

Great.  Exciting to finish this.  I don't see what I'm supposed to be
checking, https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/log/journal/volume_12.  What
should I be checking?

Eli

>
> Thanks!
>
> Landon
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for another check Eli. I'll see if I can make time to button up
>> these edits this coming week.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Landon,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Landon Blake
>>> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Eli:
>>> >
>>> > I made an SVN commit. I'm not sure how many of my changes got through
>>> > because my working copy was out of date, but it looks like the only
>>> > conflict
>>> > was with the Romanian Chapter. I'll see if I can get that conflict
>>> > resolved
>>> > and then I'll look at your other comments. I'll try to do this before
>>> > the
>>> > end of the work week.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the commit.  I made and committed a few minor fixes,
>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/12602/
>>>
>>> The page number 27 is bold and black instead of small and green (at
>>> least in the PDF).
>>>
>>> Once you think that we are close and update the master PDF, let me
>>> know and I'll run through all the copy editing steps, including spell
>>> check.  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Copy_Editing
>>>
>>> Looks good!  Thanks for working on it.  I'm looking forward to completing
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Eli
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Landon
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Landon Blake
>>> >> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> > Eli asked me to wrap up the final edits to the 2012 Annual Report.
>>> >> > Here
>>> >> > are
>>> >> > his comments and my changes:
>>> >>
>>> >> The first comment was that I fixed many minor things in svn in
>>> >> revision https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/11997/.  I don't see
>>> >> those changes reflected in this most recent attachment.  I also don't
>>> >> see any of your updates in svn.  I'm under the impression that we are
>>> >> collaboratively working on Journal development just like source code
>>> >> so we would svn update, then make changes, then svn commit.  Seeing
>>> >> diffs also makes it easier to see what changes have been made rather
>>> >> than trying to look at everything again.
>>> >>
>>> >> The rest of these comments were things that I couldn't fix myself in
>>> >> the sources.
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 1. Almost no urls are linked.  I don't know if urls are supposed to
>>> >> > be
>>> >> > blue hyperlinks or not.  If they are not, then they should be
>>> >> > spelled
>>> >> > out (which might help rather than hiding them anyway)
>>> >> >
>>> >> > The attached copy doesn't have any hyperlinks. Hopefully that will
>>> >> > solve
>>> >> > this problem.
>>> >>
>>> >> Looks good.
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 2. Landon can you review the first paragraph of the editorial and
>>> >> > double check year (2014 vs 2012), the sentence that says 4 is an
>>> >> > increase from 4, and decide if you really want to spell and
>>> >> > parenthesis numbers -- four (4)?
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This has been fixed.
>>> >>
>>> >> Looks mostly good.  If it were in svn, I would change "2" to "two" for
>>> >> consistency in the first paragraph.
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 3. The Australia/New Zealand Report says "We need this content" -
>>> >> > get
>>> >> > content of delete.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This has been fixed.
>>> >>
>>> >> It seems to still be there.  Maybe the pdf didn't get regenerated for
>>> >> this report.
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 4. The Francophone Chapter is missing a map.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I had a map previously, but the chapter asked for its removal. This
>>> >> > is a
>>> >> > language chapter rather than a country specific chapter. :]
>>> >>
>>> >> I see, now I know.
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 5. The Romanian Chapter has six things that should be urls that say,
>>> >> > "can be found here" and don't appear to have link information
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Couldn't find this problem, but I fixed some other layout errors.
>>> >>
>>> >> Check page 37 and 38. Try searching for "can be found here".
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 6. The Incubation Report seems to contain an entire section on the
>>> >> > ICA-OSGeo Lab Network.  I don't see that as in the realm of the
>>> >> > Incubation Committee and question whether the Incubation Committee
>>> >> > should be reporting on that (or if the Journal should be presenting
>>> >> > the ICA-OSGeo Lab Network as part of the Incubation Committee work).
>>> >> > I would welcome the ICA-OSGeo Lab Network having their own report
>>> >> > and
>>> >> > section.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Fixed. I think this was a copy/paste error on my part.
>>> >>
>>> >> This now appears to be the correct report.  Once the sources are in
>>> >> svn, I'll review and copy edit it.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks for the revisions.
>>> >>
>>> >> Eli
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Please review the attached and let me know if other changes are
>>> >> > needed.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks!
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Landon
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
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