Thanks Fernando for spending so much time thinking about this. There is another pitfall that I see lurking here that is relevant if we want to create something that the bean counters will count. I am guessing that the reason the everyone has been so enthusiastic about the idea (including myself) is that we want such a journal to exist because we want to publish articles in it. But this won't work very well if all of us are also the journal's primary organizers/editors/reviewers. From the outside, (and to the bean counters) I think that scenario will simply look like a bunch of friends in an isolated community approving of each other's work (even though it may be more than that in reality). Because of this, no matter what we do, I think it is important to build something that people outside scipy-dev@scipy.org will want to i) read and ii) publish in. The question is how to go about this. One way would be to find sponsors - organizations and individuals that could get behind the effort and provide publicity, manpower and resources. Another thing that might be important is to have a rolling publication model like that of the physics arxiv or boost - rather than a traditional model of having issues/volumes published at regular intervals. The difficulty with the traditional model is that there is pressure to have a continual flow of articles - it also creates deadlines :( Brian