[Rivet] Rivet dev sprint session

[Andy Buckley]

On 05/10/12 10:23, Leif Lönnblad wrote:
> On 2012-10-04 18:10, Frank Siegert wrote:
>> I've added a first draft to the doc/ directory using the same text
>> sources as the manual.
> 
> Looks good!
> 
> To complicate things, I would like to make a suggestion. I just talked
> to Gavin Salam, who is one of the editors for the "tools" section of
> EPJC, and he said they would be happy to publish the manual (after
> proper refereeing, of course). I guess there would be two reasons to
> choose EPJC before CPC. EPJC does not have the strict format that CPC
> has (on the other hand Frank have already done most of this work, and we
> would still need to use the EPJC style files). Both Springer and
> Elsevier are money-hungry big private companies, but at least Springer
> has recently committed EPJC to open access.

Mainly for the open access reason, if EPJC will really publish this (did
Gavin mention anything that we would have to emphasise -- demonstrations
of analysis output, generator comparison content, etc.?) then I would
personally prefer that route to the strict format and inaccessibility of
CPC. Thanks for the rapid work, Frank!

Andy

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