On Tuesday 21 September 2010 12:52:55 am Massimiliano Cannata wrote: > Dear OSGeo community, > I'm writing this mail to aknowledge the OSGeo community about a very > negative situation that happened. > > As you may know, in Sydney, the selection process for the Accademic > Track session was based on the paper review by a scientific committee. > > The web site, promoted that the selected papers were going to be > published by a reputed journal. For this reason several persons (at > least myself) submitted their works and could afford the costs of the > conference (my director approved the cost saying, "well if you will have > a publication is ok.."). > > After more then one year, Thierry Badard, the person that take in charge > the task to find the editor for the papers do not produced anything. He > only send two mails in one year writing that He will come out with news > very soon!! (still waiting). > > I think that this is not positive for the FOSS4G conference and the > accademic community that work with OSGeo project. > > But, apart of this acknowledge, with this e-mail I formally ask that my > paper is retired from any future pubblication, so that I can try on > myself to submit this paper to another journal. > > I just would like to remind that writing paper is time expensive and > that young scientists needs publication and counted on these too, and > that if someone is not able to perform a task should simply not take in > charge the responsibility. > > Regards, > Massimiliano
Massimiliano, I agree. Papers submitted to journals should be published in a timely manner. Publishers should be forthright with authors and provide clear publication time lines PRIOR to accepting articles. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020 P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437 W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss