[Scipy-organizers] Publication and review in SciPy

[Anthony Scopatz]

Hello James, Jacob,

I'd really rather us not continue this discussion on this thread.  Thanks!

Be Well
Anthony
On Nov 6, 2013 5:22 PM, "James Bergstra" <james.bergstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> And Kyle, let me ask you that - would you personally submit a SciPy paper
>> knowing that to get the paper accepted you have to review another Scipy
>> paper and sign your name on the review? For me the answer is Yes. I will
>> actually respect such a conference more.
>>
>>
> Hmm, this sounds socially awkward to me, and I'm suspicious of potential
> conflict of interest.  Are there other conferences/journals that work this
> way?
>
> Have you guys checked out ICLR? They use a custom web app to run the
> submission system that includes both anonymous and non-anonymous reviews
> (plus non-anonymous comments on the reviews).
>
> http://openreview.net/iclr2013
>
> Like I mentioned earlier, by all accounts ICLR's model was a success and
> several other conferences & workshops have used it since then. SciPy could
> simply join their ranks and handle the conference submissions and review
> process with the software they've built at openreview.net.
>
> - James
>
>