• DSOnline Editorial Board Meeting 2007-07 Web Page

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  • Introduction

    • This is a Web Page for organising my information about the 2007-07 DSOnline Technical Committee Meeting - Paris, France.
    • Contents:
      • People
      • Blog
      • Preparation
      • Action List
      • References
      • Validation and Metadata

  • People

    • Fabrice Kordon
      • Software Engineering
    • Liviu Iftode
      • Cluster Computing
    • Maria Ganzha
    • Marcin Paprzycki
    • Jean Bacon (Chair)
    • Ken Moody Distributed systems and mathematics
    • Paul Townend
    • Andy Turner
    • Olivier Marin (not present, submitted comments, organised logistics)
    • Dick Price (not present but we should report back to Dick and team)
    • Niek Wijngaards (not present, submitted comments)

  • Blog

    • 2007-07-09
      • DSOnline History
        • Started as Concurrency in 1999 and in 2000 became Online only Distributed Parallel Systems (DPS).
        • Editorial Board (EB) formed in 2005.
        • Computer Society was getting IEEE funding, but it runs dry circa 2005.
        • Funding problematic!
        • Technical Activities Board (TAB) formed of 1 member from each society meet.
        • Publications (Pubs) meeting 2007.
          • Publications Review undertaken:
            • Recommended that DSOnline should be changed or discontinued.
          • Proposal to change Distributed Systems Online (DSOnline) to Computer Science Online (CSOnline)
          • Dick Price suggests a way forward is to broaden scope.
      • More background:
        • About DSOnline
        • Committee on new computer.org report
        • What should the new Computer Society web content be like... Blog Wiki and all
        • Niek proposed a move to wikipedia or a more wikipedia like platform.
        • IEEE Computer Society
          • Communities
          • 2007 Technical Activities Board (TAB)
        • The New Computer.org Blog
        • ACM Tech News
      • Discussion on how to move forward:
        • Community Building
          • What is it that needs to be created?
          • Wiki
          • Blog
        • Community Experience
          • Various people talked of experiences with lack of engagement when Wikis set up for conferences and workshops.
          • I outlined positive experience of geospatial community building:
            • FOSS4G
            • Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation
            • Can we learn from these?
      • Notes
        • Seemingly greater demand for journalists not scientists.
        • Lightweight transaction style editing:
          • Faster cheeper turnover compared with copy editing.
        • Ideas:
          • New Topic Area Suggestion:
            • Distributed Geospatial Information Systems
          • Digg and slashdot links at the bottom of articles.
          • Integrate Internet and Pervasive Magazines and other magazines with DSOnline

  • Preparation

    • Sorted flights accomodation and funding.

  • Action List

    • Claim Expenses
    • General actions for the group
      • Feedback concerns about evaluation of DSOnline in comparison with other magazines:
        • Much of the evaluation did not apply to DSOnline meaning it's overall ranking was low.
        • Computer Society publications are magazines whereas DSOnline is somewhat different.

  • References

  • Validation and Metadata

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    • Copyright: Andy Turner, University of Leeds