Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal

2017-12-16 Thread Christian Willmes 

Dear Suchith,


this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is 
"newslet...@lists.osgeo.org".



I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this time the 
guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas.



See this thread: 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html



And this one: 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html



(I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the archives.)


Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently 
stepped down.



See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html


No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee is 
without a Chair currently...



The Journal is found here: https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal


And official information is found here: http://www.osgeo.org/journal


I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the current 
situation.



Best regards,
Christian




Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith Anand:


Dear All,


Though we have a  OSGeo journal and I thank everyone who worked to 
make this happen, for really making impact , it needs new ideas and 
lot of work to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the 
discussions in the community for ideas for making the OSGeo journal 
a high impact journal that will attract submissions.



I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is 
long term aim. Sharing some lessons learnt from GeoForAll, we 
initially didn’t have webinar platform but we could see its potential 
to spread our message. Initially we relied on external organisations 
for our webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael)to 
run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place .For our 
newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an 
excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important.



Similarly, it is now time for us to think ideas of our own high impact 
journal. I have been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer 
for many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also 
volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I support the 
idea of open access journals , I think it is important the costs of 
publishing in open access journals comes down.I don’t know the answer 
to how to make this possible but I thinkifthere is lot of competition, 
then costs will come down.



Will any one be interested to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo 
journal and working to create a high impact Open access journal that 
ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need to 
beworked on to make thispossible. The Championsneeds to bring together 
a strong Editorial Board,and maybe have a new name for the journal - 
*International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications .***



The Champions should put processes and systems in place . For OSGeo, 
we now have thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic 
systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have lot of 
good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4GAcademic Tracks (both 
global and regional)who will all benefit but it needs a champion and a 
team to make this possible. I am willing to volunteer as one member 
for the Edition Board for this and review papers for free etc but I am 
unable to lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So 
anyone is willing tochampion ideas for this, please come forward.



Best wishes,


Suchith


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High impact OSGeo Journal

2017-12-16 Thread Christian Willmes 
I am sorry the cited wording below was a mistake, caused from 
uncarefully re-editing the phrase. This sounds not very nice, I just 
wanted to say that Landon Blake stepped down, but not in this wording of 
course...


Best,
Christian


Am 16.12.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Christian Willmes:


Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently 
stepped down.



See: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html



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AG GIS & Fernerkundung  | GIS & RS Group
Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography
Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234
http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html
http://www.sfb806.de
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Google Code-in - a half time report: a success

2017-12-16 Thread Suchith Anand 
Congratulations to everyone who helped make this great initiative. It is truly 
inspiring to see the amazing contributions of young leaders of OSGeo.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Discuss  on behalf of Jeff McKenna 

Sent: 15 December 2017 23:14
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Google Code-in - a half time report: a 
success

Thanks Helli!

For others: we are at exactly 36% through the contest (a nice
'unofficial' page to follow for stats is http://gci-leaders.netlify.com/).


I wish all of OSGeo could see the activity and enthusiasm of these kids
for OSGeo, it is really something, and gives the whole community a blast
of fun! :)

GCI will truly will be a part of OSGeo every year from now on...

-jeff (part of the first GCI admin team)



On 2017-12-15 5:57 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> Dear OSGeo community,
>
> Google Code-in is in on the way to half time of the young students contest 
> and it can be called a success.
>
> Some general stats over all participating orgs [1]:
>
> * Total registered students: 6,146
> * Number of students who have completed at least one task: 1,573 (51% of 
> those students have completed more than 3 tasks, earning them a GCI t-shirt)
> * Total number of tasks completed: 5,499
> * Most tasks completed by one student: 39
>
> Regarding OSGeo, our mentors are doing an amazing work to help young students 
> to complete taks. A big thank you to our mentors!
>
> GCI tasks are create by these OSGeo projects and initiatives:
>
> FOSS4G, GeoServer, GeoTools, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeo, 
> OSGeoLive, pgRouting, PostGIS,  QGIS
>
> Are you interested in these tasks, have a look in [2].
>
> Also young students are very motivated to try completing OSGeo tasks:
>
> * 121 tasks are already done by students
>
> That's great: videos how to use/install OSGeo software, T-shirts for coding 
> sprints, graphics for manual pages and many more.
>
> As an example [3]:
>
> * d.rgb: added figure to example, thanks to Jerry Huang and Google Code-in
>
> Stay tuned! And help young students when they're asking on the MLs. It's 
> their first step to join our community.
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut (on behalf of the OSGeo GSoC/GCI admin team)
>
>
> [1] 
> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/12/google-code-in-is-breaking-records.html

> [2] https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-organization=5139786496999424

> [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-commit/2017-December/042808.html
>
>
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