Well, not an assistant for Jacques. Another editor of vertebrate paleontology, who could take over the load for many of the contributions that Jacques has to edit, that would be useful, I think. Michel On 16/11/11 22:00, de Queiroz, Kevin wrote: > 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. :-) >
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