Abstract
A decade ago, when we started the BSG, we quickly discovered the value of meeting personally to develop ideas and discuss research. Though we began as a strictly email discussion group, we accomplished more in our first meeting in the summer of 1997 than we could have done in months of email. Our conferences soon became our main activity, and we opened the conference to public submissions in 2001. Submitted abstracts required editing, and that opened up a whole new can of worms. We developed our editorial policy by trial and error, mostly by addressing problems as they arose. We’ve definitely made mistakes, which we’ve hopefully learned from. Since this is our fifth conference with open submissions, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at our previous conferences and to give an overview of the editorial process as it currently stands.