Looking for Background Information on the Creation of the JuliaCon Proceedings

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Hi!

I am thinking about the question how hard it is to create a new conference proceeding for an existing conference venue.

Would anyone of the JuliaCon Proceedings people able to comment a bit? Like I am interested in the booting process. How complicated things really are.

My loose ideas are so far:

  • For review and paper hosting it should be possible to use https://openreview.net/?
  • How is the long-term paper storage done? Like 10, 50 years.
  • Is there complicated legal requirements?
  • I feel like self-responsible type settings is OK these days. You just need to provide a standard MS Word and LaTeX template as done in NeuRIPS, etc. So authors are mostly responsible for this.
  • There seems to be companies such as Scholastica doing that. But I want to keep the publishing practically free.

Any hints and directions are greatly appreciated! Maybe there is some good guides existing …

I am not interested in making any money, it should be a way to provide a good review system, improving the quality of the conference and offer alternatives to for-profit publishing (which is unfortunately very common in my field).

Best,

Felix

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@vchuravy

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So we went with OpenJournals (https://www.theoj.org/) due to our mutual affiliation with NumFocus. They are the same people who run JOSS, and provide the infrastructure for paper review and distribution (aka DOI, and making sure that it ends up in the doi networks)

The big thing we had to due was to apply for an ISSN (https://portal.issn.org/) which the editor-in-chief does based on the national residence, for the US this means an application with the US Library of Congress

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You may appreciate the JuliaCon Paris talk:

I don’t think that recording has hit YouTube yet.

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