Re: contributions from statisticians

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:24:52AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> The details are more difficult, of course--but the details you
>> propose seem OK to me, especially since it sounds like you are
>> volunteering to try helping out statisticians.  (Is there a word
>> for this?  "mentoring"?  "shepherding"?)
>
> Yes, I'm volunteering. I was thinking of calling it "editing" and
> "reviewing," since editors and reviewers for journals do something
> similar.
>
>> Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I would be happy to write a file called 'CONTRIBUTING' and put that in
>> > CVS. Maybe we could even put something on savannah where statistical
>> > programmers will find it.
>> 
>> This sounds like a good way to start, to me.
>
> I'll write some submission requirements soon and post them for review.

Sounds good to me.
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