Editor Skype call: March 16 2015

May 2015 Facilitation Issue Skype call: Blane (Chair),Simone, Philipp, Pete and Lucie

Agenda:
1. Status of submissions and next steps
2. Editorial introduction
3. Misc.

1. Status of submissions and next steps:

Problem: can't find submissions in the OJS system!
Went through overview Google doc 2 articles not in yet out of 9
New column “P” in Overview spreadsheet: "Status (as of March 16)"
We have to check and get back to authors re. formatting and bios which are needed for all, then it goes to Sarah and Ewen (for formatting guidelines see http://wiki.km4dev.org/Editor_Handbook_%27%27%27ENGLISH%27%27%27)
Final deadline for authors: March 30 (FAO deadline 20 March)
Need to know where they are in the system / how to put them into the system

ACTION: Editors liaise with co-reviewers and get back to authors re. final revisions asap
ACTION: Need to ask Sarah or Ewen to put in articles (or how to)

2. Editorial introduction

Other editors' availability/interest re. editorial:
- Simone: on leave starting Thursday for 2 weeks
- Blane: can write if others review
- Philipp, Pete and Lucie: can contribute and review

Have editorial draft by mid-April
Editorial should have two-liners for each article but also points to literature, i.e. previous facilitation issue, KM4Dev threads, etc. (Philipp: there might be some useful references in here: https://quip.com/KYhVArf0D39O?utm_content=buffer53124&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

ACTION: Propose to Sarah a 30 April deadline for the editorial... need to know if this is too late for her.
ACTION: Each lead reviewer writes two-liner on their reviewed paper for the editorial
ACTION: Pete: to go through latest dolege thread on KM4dev

3. Misc.

We do an email check end-March to see if everything is on track
Put on agenda for next call: comms and dissemination strategy for the issue, which mailing lists we send to