I don't know that we need more editors. Phil and I have made substantial progress on the contributions that we are handling, and a lot of the delays are related to authors not revising their contributions in a timely manner. One thing that might help is if we could hire an assistant for Jacques : ). Kevin On 11/16/11 10:43 AM, "David Marjanovic" < david.marjanovic at gmx.at > wrote: In case it matters (I'm not a Council member), I wholeheartedly support the call for more editors for the Companion Volume. It is evident that the work is way too much for just three people. Unfortunately, I don't think I can volunteer myself... > Dear Colleagues, > > I am concerned about several issues on which I would like your views. > We have a proposal on the table about the rank of species, and we are > likely to have others. It seems impractical to try to resolve these > things by email. I don't understand why. E-mail has several advantages over a meatspace meeting: it allows us -- to cite sources and even link to them without further ado; -- to look everything up and not just what we happen to carry around in our heads -- off-of-the-top-of-my-head comments are no way to deal with serious, detailed proposals to amend the PhyloCode; -- and, more trivially, to "speak" all at the same time but still "listen" to everyone. This last one would stay an issue even in Skype. Instead of e-mail, a forum (bulletin board) or even the comments section of a blog (which is almost the same as a forum) may work at least as well. The best discussions I have are all on blogs. My financial situation, and thus ability to attend a meeting even in Berkeley, may greatly improve by January, but nothing is fixed yet. > 2. In the intervening time I would suggest circulating a call for > proposals in the systematic community that would suggest any changes > in the substance or wording of the PhyloCode, prior to its > publication; no further changes would be entertained for a period of > "x" (x to be determined) years afterward. These proposals would have > a deadline at least a month before the meeting. The CPN would > consider them at that meeting. Fine, if we include a plea to read the entire PhyloCode before writing a proposal, and a threat that proposals whose authors clearly haven't read the PhyloCode will be unceremoniously ignored. :-) _______________________________________________ CPN mailing list CPN at listserv.ohio.edu http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/cpn
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