Date:         Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:05:07 -0400
Reply-To:     "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>"
              <schreier.junk.mail@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>"
              <schreier.junk.mail@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: www.sascommunity.org

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:05 -0400, Sigurd Hermansen <HERMANS1@WESTAT.COM>
wrote:

>Lex:
>... and we appreciate the simplicity of the site and the power that it
>gives users. It would help to be able to archive PowerPoint or other
>documents and link them to a conference paper.
>
>While I have you on the line, I'd appreciate hearing how to handle
>corrections of or errata for a SGF paper. During preparation of expanded
>Evaluating Predictive Modeling papers for SESUG 2008 (Mining the Past,
>Seeing the Future section), I noticed an error in the summary version of
>the concordance c macro program in the paper. It amounts to but a
>one-character error, but it produces a smaller than correct c statistic
>value when summaries of outcomes and predictions have larger multiples
>and larger than correct c statistic value when summaries have few or
>small multiples.
>
>I believe that I have seen corrected versions of papers in the past, but
>can't locate one now as an example. Please advise how to initiate a
>correction.
>Thanks,
>S

Remember that for the most part the conference papers are not hosted at
lexjansen.com. Rather they are at sas.com, nesug.org, etc.

Something else to ponder: What if the correction is put forth by someone
other than the original author(s)?

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lex
>Jansen
>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:28 PM
>To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: www.sascommunity.org
>
>
>My site (www.lexjansen.com) is by design not a SAS community site. The
>proceedings part is simply a user interface to SAS conference
>proceedings (partly hosted by me), mashed up with Google search. I like
>to keep it that simple. A thing that I have been thinking about adding
>is that authors could add Powerpoints, codes, ... I have not found a
>good way of doing this yet, other then solliciting for it on SAS-L
>(which hardly gives any response).
>
>Lex
>
>
>On Jul 29, 10:35 am, mlhow...@avalon.net (Mary) wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps we could persuade Lex to rename his site to be
>> =www.sascommunity.org, and perhaps to have him add other articles that
>
>> = aren't formal papers, and that would be a very useful tool.  I'm a =
>
>> little dubious of Wiki being able to be as useful as that, but I think
>
>> = that comes from my frustration at it being very difficult to even
>> add my = SAS tutorial to it.
>>
>> -Mary
>>
>>   ----- Original Message -----=20
>>   From: Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>=20
>>   To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU=20
>>   Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:03 PM
>>   Subject: Re: OT:www.sascommunity.org
>>
>>
>>  http://lexjansen.com/
>>
>>   The underlying resource is the collective proceedings archives of
>the
>>   various SAS user conferences. What Lex notably adds is an excellent
>> = front
>>   end for browsing and searching.
>>
>>   I consider a search of conference proceedings to be in nature and =
>> purpose
>>   somewhat different from a help-desk or knowledge base sort of =
>> question.
>>