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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The wiki site is back and functionnal it seems.
So I could finally update this page:
https://yade-dem.org/wiki/Authors_and_contributors

Please, if you have not done so, put (or update) information on you
topics and maybe upload a picture. :)

Cheers.

Bruno


On 27/02/13 13:17, Bruno Chareyre wrote:
> Dear contributors,
>
> In 2010, we formalized a set of chapters of Yade's documentation, with
> associated bibliographic references (*1).
> The list of authors have been built automatically based on the blamelist
> of the documentation itslef (basically, one line of documentation was
> enough to be co-author).
> In the same move, we updated the "authors and contributors" page of the
> wiki (*2).
>
> After more than two years, it seems there is a need to reflect the
> evolution of the developers base and acknowledge fresh blood. Looking at
> Ohloh stats (*3), it is easy to find contributors who are not even named
> in the "contributors" page of the wiki. This is not serious.
>
> So my proposal is to:
> 1. use Ohlo's stats to refresh the wiki's list (this is easy and can be
> done quickly)
> 2. At some point, maybe release a 2nd edition of yade's documentation
> with additional co-authors. It means practically nothing to do. Just to
> name the 2nd release and generate stable pdf's for it. Let me insist on
> the fact that being co-author is granted to people producing some
> documentation, not just implementing something.
>
> Any remark/objection/suggestion about this?
>
> Bruno
>
> p.s. FYI, there is now a Yade page on google scholar, that you can use
> to track citations (*4). It is a good way to discover people doing
> something with our favorite DEM code. ;) Interestingly, some users we
> never hear about seem to be successful.
>
> *1: https://www.yade-dem.org/doc/citing.html
> *2: https://yade-dem.org/wiki/Authors_and_contributors
> *3: http://www.ohloh.net/p/yade/contributors/summary
> *4: http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=hZB8GGcAAAAJ&hl=en
>


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