At 05:52 PM 9/4/2009, you wrote:
Steven Krivit wrote:
what is the plan for the most recent [ICCF] proceedings and the
forthcoming one?
I finished editing all papers for the most recent proceedings a week after
the final, FINAL deadline, in February or whenever it was. Nagel and
Melich have had the papers ever since. They made some corrections to the
contents of the papers, they wrote an introduction, and they persuaded 2
or 3 other authors to give papers, as recently as last week. I do not know
when they will get around to printing the book. I think they will have it
printed in the U.S. rather than India, and they will hold the copyright.
Do you have any idea why they broke tradition and did not get it published
by World Scientific?
As for the next conference, I have been bombarding people with various
suggestions. For example I urge them to emulate PLoS and use a CCAL
instead of a copyright. (See
<http://www.plos.org/journals/license.html>http://www.plos.org/journals/license.html)
Some have expressed support for these ideas but most remain silent, so I
do know what they will do. They say they will have a meeting at the
conference to discuss the proceedings.
- Jed
