This year’s AGILE proceedings are special (leaving aside the global pandemic, of course) in three encouraging ways. First, Copernicus Publications  is the new publisher in charge of AGILE proceedings. The new AGILE: GIScience Series (AGILE-GISS) will host AGILE full and short papers in separate volume for the ensued years.

Accordingly, AGILE 2019 Conference proceeding are published as open access articles in the first volume of AGILE: GIScience Series, accessible online, permanently archived, and under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license . AGILE achieves a key milestone towards open science, making the scientific contributions of the AGILE community more accessible, and visible to the worldwide GIScience community.

Third, for the first time in the AGILE lecture series, accepted submissions received the “AGILE Reproducible” badge, if significant parts of the computational workflow could be reproduced. This additional and commendable effort was made by the Reproducibility Committee, chaired by Daniel Nüst (University of Münster, Germany) and the rest of members: Barbara Hofer (University of Salzburg, Austria), Frank Ostermann (University of Twente, the Netherlands), Rusne Sileryte (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands), and Carlos Granell (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)

Many thanks to all authors (and committees’ members and AGILE Council) for making the AGILE conference open more and reproducible! I hope that more members of the AGILE community will join the reproducible wave and present their research as reproducible articles to the next AGILE 2021 conference.