OSGeo Journal and FOSS4G Updates

Journal - Volume 2

Volume 2 is coming over the horizon quickly and articles are starting to come in.

We are getting to the point where some people are starting to come to us with requests to publish their material. This is encouraging for several reasons and will hopefully continue in the longer term.

Interest is increasing partly because we are offering an option to have articles go through peer review. Daniel Ames is helping run a true peer review process. This will help provide a venue for our academic writers who have publication needs.

We have also offered to publish proceedings for FOSS4G 2007, again to help those who want their papers to get extra distribution and review.

In general, the Journal effort is turning out to be quite an interesting way of building external interest in OSGeo and educating public readers about a wide range of software, topics and news.

On that note, I would really like to have a good update from your project, local chapter or committee - any volunteers?

I have also been reviewing some journal management software that looks quite promising. Venka pointed me to the Open Journal System which helps manage the review/editing process as well as receiving submissions, feeding up metadata to search repositories, posting online versions, etc.

If you've used it before and want to help get it tested for our needs, please let me know. It would be really interesting to backload the last volume so we can put it through its paces.

FOSS4G Conference

We are well into FOSS4G planning - next on the list is accepting presentations. You have only a couple days left (June 29th) to submit proposals for presentations. The final presentation roster will be decided by July 15th. There will also be an opportunity for you to be part of a Community Review process to help select the presentations.