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...evitable that there will, in the course of time, be other lists that are devoted, in some shape or form, to the concerns of practitioners (at all levels) who are using R. One development I'd not like to see is fracture along application area lines, allowing those who are comfortable in coteries whose focus was somewhat relevant to standards of use of statistics in that area 15 or 20 years ago to continue that way. One of the great things about R, in its development to date, has been its role in exposing people from a variety of application area communities to statistical traditio...

Dear Community, I recently started thinking about how to make a project like CentOS more transparent and open (especially for new contributors). The http://wiki.centos.org/Team page (which Dag created about a year ago) lists about 20 (more or less active) members, divided into core and community contributors. I personally do not like that kind of distinction. Of course there should be something

On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing list: I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a chance to contribute yet. The basics should include your name, your organization, your country and city, and the project you''re