Dear Landon
I'm in the Editorial Boarder of a journal (Applied Geomatics) and we
are volunteers also but we try to define, before, and respect, after,
deadlines.
In general we succeed.
In any case the most of activities of OSGeo is given by volunteers and
therefore I can't see the conceptual difference between the Journal
and other activities. And at the end Tyler was supposed to finalise
the journal and he is not a volunteer.
Cheers.
Maria
Def. Quota Landon Blake <lbl...@ksninc.com>:
I appreciate the concerns on the part of those that submit articles.
However, the OSGeo Journal, for example, is put together by a team of
volunteer editors.
It is hard to make publication commitments when you are working with a
team of volunteers.
Maybe we need to make this aspect of the OSGeo Journal clear to authors
that submit an article. It may not be the best article for articles that
critically depend on hard publication dates.
Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Simon Cropper
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:52 PM
To: massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PAPERS OF FOSS4G 2009
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
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