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About contents, iteration 1:

Summary

QuantEcon Bookshelf is an open notebook gallery and archive that hosts
Jupyter notebooks related to all areas of economics and econometrics.

Anyone can submit a notebook on either of these topics. Peer review is
conducted purely by the free market, in the form of upvotes and downvotes.

We encourage submissions containing either original material or replications
of existing studies in an open and reproducible manner. Users are encouraged
both to submit their own material and also to vote and comment on existing
submissions.

We hope that votes will be determined by the quality and perceived value of
the content of a given notebook to economic research and public policy.

One the site goes beyond beta status, URLs to individual notebooks will be
permanent and can be used in citations.

QuantEcon Bookshelf is a QuantEcon project funded by
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and designed and built by
the team listed below.

Project Team

Lead Developer

• Trevor Lyon

Prototype and Front-end Design

• Andrij Stachurski

Project Coordinators

• Chase Coleman

• Spencer Lyon

• Matthew McKay

• John Stachurski

• Natasha Watkins

License and Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Software published on this site will be understood as having been released
under the 3 Clause BSD license.

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Note: License was copied somewhat randomly, and perhaps should be lower case.

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Nice.

I prefer 'repository' over 'gallery'.

'One the site' -> 'Once the site'

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Thanks for this. Edit it here (https://github.com/jstac/QuantEconLib/blob/master/assets/aboutPage.md). Then it will just get updated with git pull happens.

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