[TOS] Need volunteers - Re: Peer-Reviewed Open Source Journal

[Mel Chua]

Chris Tyler wrote:
> There's been some great discussion the idea of forming a
> peer-reviewed open source journal or interacting with existing
> journals. The next step is to move from discussion to action.
> 
> We need a small group to form around this need and have one or two 
> people step up to lead it. Who's in?

I'm in. I haven't been able to use my copyediting, speed-reading, and 
writer-wrangling skills for something awesome for a while. I have time 
to put into this and know how to get a publication out and how to talk 
with, ask questions of, and learn from people who know more about it 
than me. I do not have much knowledge of how to do this for scholarly 
research journals in particular, so I'd love either a partner to figure 
this out with or a mentor to learn from.

This week is a bit hectic (an XO deployment I'm coordinating tech for is 
supposed to go live in 48 hours), but on Thursday I'll take a first 
sprint through compiling 5 years of scattered notes on this onto the TOS 
wiki. I made a placeholder here with some questions to get us started in 
the meantime. ;) 
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSS_education_papers_in_scholarly_journals

I also put some placeholders for other projects I've seen mentioned on 
this list on http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Projects, which is 
linked to from the TOS main page.

--Mel

PS: Oh - hi! I'm Mel Chua, mchua on IRC, electrical engineer, OSS 
community geek (OLPC, Sugar Labs), undergraduate engineering education 
geek, and hopefully a professor sometime in the relatively distant 
future. I've been listening to the conversation nearly since the list 
began and looking for a way to start contributing, and it seems Chris 
has hit upon a "how to make Mel volunteer" button - I'm a journal nerd 
and something of a documentation maniac.