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[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] (re-reposting for Alessandro who is still bouncing off)
Ah, but our SC members are unusual in that they are all committed to helping the project and very diligent in delivering reviews - most of those for issue 1 came back in a few weeks. if you explain the situation people understand and do their best to meet deadlines - though I guess you will be getting outside reviewers too
you're right, but the lenght of the review process also depends on how many reviewers we need. let's say we have 4 good papers = 8 or 12 reviewers, all experts on more or less the same subject... this was worrying us even before you said you wanted it for december :) again, I am certainly willing to try and make it for december, and i'm sure johan as well will work hard to match the deadline. i dont think it's impossible. but as a special issue you have special problems here: what if one author is late? what if one reviewer is late? what if, which is very likely, one paper needs major revisions? that would stop the whole issue and not only one paper. if i were you, mathieu, I would have a Plan B: 2/3 papers and 2/3 short articles for the debate section ready for december. if we make it for december with our issue, you move them to june and the next special issue to next december. of course you can also decide to publish the december special issue say in january o february 2012, if something happens. anyhow i guess these are normal problems when you start a new journal...
On 06/30/11, Alessandro Delfanti <delfanti sissa.it> wrote:
mathieu, you're very optimistic :) first of all, july 31 to early october means slightly more than one month - i dont think people will work in august, but i'm italian, i got a bias here :) so i would give them one more month second, in my experience it is almost impossible to get the referees' reports in one month. usually it takes 2 to 6 months to: find the reviewer. convince her/him. ask for another person. convince her/him... ask her/him for the review. remind. remind again. change the deadline. write her/him again. switch to another reviewer... and so on and so forth :) i mean, we MIGHT make it for december, and we can certainly try, but i wouldn't bet on having everything in time... ciao a[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] Hi all If Maurizio and Vincenzo's issue will be ready in May for a June 2012 release that raises the question of the content of the next issue, December 2011. @Alessandro: You recently wrote to me that your and Johan's issue on biohacking could not be made ready for a December release. I was meaning to get back to you on that point so I'll take this oppportunity. Your deadline for submission is July 31. Say two months to complete papers: Early October. One month for review: early November. One month for revision and signaling: Early December. It's tight, but doable. Alternatively would be December 2012... Or negotiate with Maurizio and Vincenzo for the June 2012 spot. Then we have the problem of no content for the next issue. IMHO, for the good of the project, it would be best to aim for December... What do you and Johan say? cheers, Mathieu ps. For the "debate" section my view is the issue of "which licence best spreads the commons / free software" has the potential to be all at once useful and vigorous, if participants can lose the aggro. pps. Have not read the below call in detail but I note that they want to invite "anti-hacker" D. Golumbia which is a gutsy move but isn't this also a question of definition (ie, different conceptions of what is a hacker - criminal or not etc) as discussed extensively on the AOIR list and here? Just my 2 cents. On 06/29/11, Maurizio Teli <maurizio maurizioteli.eu> wrote:Dear All, I send you teh text Vincenzo and myself have prepared for the special issue on Free Software. Two main points: - we have thought of an invitation based issue, with papers co-authored by social scientists and computer scientists; if someone among you wants to participate or suggest some potential contributor, we will be happy to include them; - we were thinking about inviting David Golumbia to the debate section of this special issue before the AIR-L debate; we are once more convinced of how a piece by him can be useful but we would like to have your opinion before inviting him. Below you find the short introduction that we will share with the invited contributors (so we have to check their availability too) and a list of names of contributors both for the research papers and the debate papers. Feel free to make any suggestion. We can reasonably expect the issue to be ready in May 2012. Best M. --- The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies? From the perspective of social organization, Free Software can be conceived as a form of critique by adaptability and modifiability, as pointed out by anthropologist Christopher Kelty, standing outside institutionalized forms of power and providing working alternatives as critical tools. Starting from such kind of understanding, Free Software has been interpreted as a form of critique toward consolidated capitalistic tropes and contemporary forms, like the extension of Intellectual Property toward any kind of common pool resources or the forms of organization of labour and coordination of distributed developers. Nevertheless, the increasing adoption of Free Software by multi-national corporations is now forecasting the domestication of free software practices by contemporary global capitalism and hierarchical forms of social organization. It happens in particular in the form of the Open Source dialect, through the extensive overlapping of the open source discourse with the capitalistic discourses, such as the one on legitimate hybrid business models, between open source and proprietary licensing. Such perspective requires that the critical power of Free Software is brought under scrutiny, moving from the undermining of the discourses of Intellectual Property, organization of work or hierarchy, to the understanding of the epistemological implications for computer science and software engineering. From this point of view, arguments like the one by David Golumbia, who sees the epistemology of computing as the locus of production and reproduction of long standing inequalities in power relationship, are suggesting new areas of enquiry. Is Free Software able to critique the epistemological basis of computing? Is it able to connect its critique of discourses of Intellectual Property and organizational forms to the critique of the premises of software development as a professional and research practice? Those are the questions this special issue is trying to answer. It is trying to do that through papers co-authored by social scientists and computer scientists, who will try to envision the potential for Free Software of being a form of interdisciplinary, cultural and material, critique. Invited contributors: Maurizio Teli, Ahref Foundation & Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento (eds.) David Hakken, Indiana University & a CS colleague to be announced (DH accepted the invitation) Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University (to be contacted and asked to contact a CS) Debate invitations (to be invited): Fabio Casati, University of Trento Judith Simon, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris Pelle Ehn, Malmö University Christopher Kelty, Duke University David Golumbia, University of Virginia ______________________________ http://www.oekonux.org/journal-- **** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute College of Arts and Social Science The Australian National University email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php [2 text/html] ______________________________ http://www.oekonux.org/journal-- Alessandro Delfanti ICS, Innovations in the Communication of Science Sissa, Trieste, Italy delfanti sissa.it http://people.sissa.it/~delfanti/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- SISSA Webmail https://webmail.sissa.it/ Powered by Horde http://www.horde.org/ ______________________________ http://www.oekonux.org/journal
-- **** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute College of Arts and Social Science The Australian National University email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php [2 text/html] ______________________________ http://www.oekonux.org/journal
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