add EFSPI blog post (#121)

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+title: "openstatsware is now an official EFSPI SIG!"
+author: "Daniel"
+subtitle: Announcing the membership in the EFSPI family
+description: "`openstatsware` is now an official EFSPI Special Interest Group (SIG), in addition to being an ASA BIOP scientific working group."
+date: "2024-03-11"
+categories: [news]
+image: "efspi_logo_square.jpeg"
+---
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+[EFSPI](https://www.efspi.org/), the European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry, is the major European organization in Biopharmaceutical Statistics. The corresponding [European Special Interest Groups (SIGs)](https://www.psiweb.org/sigs-special-interest-groups/sigs) are jointly sponsored by EFSPI and [PSI](https://www.psiweb.org/), which is a member of EFSPI itself.
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+We are proud and happy to announce that after a long application process, `openstatsware` is now also an official EFSPI SIG! The corresponding web site is [here](https://www.psiweb.org/sigs-special-interest-groups/software-engineering) and links to our central home page [openstatsware.org](https://openstatsware.org) such that we only need to maintain the latter on a frequent basis.
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+As many of the `openstatsware` members and their companies are based in Europe, the association with EFSPI emphasizes nicely the European pillar of `openstatsware`. We will also continue to organize conference sessions, work shops etc. in Europe.
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+The new association does fit well with the existing ASA BIOP association of `openstatsware`. In fact, there are other working groups that are associated with both ASA BIOP and EFSPI (e.g. [Oncology Estimands](http://www.oncoestimand.org)). `openstatsware` continues to be a global working group across continents and countries.
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+We are looking forward to the strenghtened collaboration with other EFSPI SIGs and corresponding events in Europe!