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 #### Contributed by [Jay Lofstead](https://github.com/gflofst)
 
-#### Publication date: Augusta 28, 2024
+#### Publication date: August 28, 2024
 
 The ACM REP conference helps build better software by highlighting developments in reproducibility and replicability for computational science.
 
-A few years ago, growing out of work of Carlos Maltzahn, his student Ivo Jimenez, and me, we saw growing a momentum of people interested in reproducibility and replicability challenges and successes for computational science. To help drive the community and grow those efforts, the topic of Ivo Jimenez's PhD thesis, we gathered prominent community members and started an Exploratory Interest Group (EIG) with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Our goal was to explore how big this community is and see whether we could make a catalyst and meeting point for these researchers and practitioners to help drive improving scientific software quality.
+A few years ago, growing out of work of Carlos Maltzahn, his student Ivo Jimenez, and me, we saw a growing momentum of people interested in reproducibility and replicability challenges and successes for computational science. To help drive the community and grow those efforts, the topic of Ivo Jimenez's PhD thesis, we gathered prominent community members and started an Exploratory Interest Group (EIG) with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Our goal was to explore how big this community is and see whether we could make a catalyst and meeting point for these researchers and practitioners to help drive improving scientific software quality.
 
 Within a few years, we felt like we had enough momentum, and in Summer 2023 we held the first ACM REP conference. Even with short notice and not much advertising, we managed to get a critical mass of research papers and attendance that proved the community was both large enough and interested in participating.