news: recap QuantEcon's CEF 2026 talk on a community reference library

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What changes

This adds a News post recapping QuantEcon's talk at the CEF 2026 pre-conference: Matt's proposal for a Community Reference Library for Computational Economics, presented remotely on June 28, 2026. It also records that the initiative is now part of SCE Working Group 1 (https://econ-ark.github.io/sce-wg-1/).

• File: _posts/2026-06-28-cef-2026-reference-library.md. It's dated to the talk, as the site dates event posts, and it follows the SciPy 2026 post: a "Talk: … at CEF 2026" title, tag: [workshop] and author: QuantEcon.
• No call to register. QuantEcon/conference-cef2026 is archived and read-only, and the post links to its slides and materials only.

Sources

The draft was fact-checked and style-checked independently, and every link resolves.

• The talk and the proposal: slides/slides.qmd in QuantEcon/conference-cef2026, and the live deck.
• The event: the official CEF 2026 page (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, June 29 – July 1, with the pre-conference on June 28), the SCE pre-conference pages, which list Matt as presenting remotely, and the Econ-ARK program page, which names SCE and Econ-ARK as co-sponsors.
• The fact-check's corrections:
  • continuous integration covers only the Python and Julia code;
  • each toolkit contributes two baselines, an introductory and an advanced one;
  • the lack of a shared library is the talk's framing, narrowed to cross-toolkit, since a single-platform model archive already exists.

Please confirm

• The WG1 sentence links to the group's own page, which lists QuantEcon as a partner and describes the group's Baseline Model Library of models solved in several toolkits.
• Length: at about 290 words it's longer than most posts. The baselines paragraph is the easiest cut.
• Slide figure: the linked deck still says "~31k monthly users", which the site's analytics now label as sessions (Label the analytics dashboard sessions, because that is what it counts #248). The repo is archived, so correcting it means unarchiving it first.

Check on the preview

• /2026/06/28/cef-2026-reference-library.html renders with the numbered list and links.
• On /news/ it sits between the SciPy 2026 post (July 14) and the CMU workshop (April 13), and it appears on the home page's Latest News.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

The post makes public-facing factual claims (notably WG1 membership) that the author explicitly flagged as needing human confirmation and that cannot be verified from the codebase.

Review effort: Balanced
Findings: None

What changed in this PR

This PR adds a single News post to the QuantEcon Jekyll site recapping Matt McKay's remote talk at the CEF 2026 pre-conference (Venice, June 28, 2026), which proposed a community-owned, cross-toolkit Community Reference Library for Computational Economics, and notes that the initiative is now part of the SCE's Working Group 1. It fits the site's existing pattern of event recap posts (e.g., the SciPy 2026 and CMU workshop posts) and will surface automatically on /news/ and the home page's Latest News based on its front-matter date.

Changes:

• Adds _posts/2026-06-28-cef-2026-reference-library.md, a ~290-word event recap dated to the talk.
• Uses the established front matter convention: layout: post, a "Talk: …" title, author: QuantEcon, an excerpt, and tag: [workshop].
• Links only to the archived, read-only slides and materials repository (no call to register).

File	Description
_posts/​2026-06-28-cef-2026-reference-library.md	New News post recapping the CEF 2026 talk; front matter (layout, title, author, excerpt, tag) and Markdown structure follow the conventions of existing recap posts.

I verified the front matter against sibling posts: author: QuantEcon is a widely used value (e.g., 2026-07-17, 2025-12-02 posts), tag: [workshop] matches the SciPy 2026 and CMU posts, and the "Talk:" title prefix mirrors the "Tutorial:"/"Workshop:" pattern. The filename, date, links, and grammar are all clean and consistent, so I found no objective code issues to comment on. The remaining open items in this PR are factual (WG1 membership, talk details) that the author has explicitly flagged for human confirmation and that cannot be verified from the codebase.

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