[R] Proposal: Archive UseR conference presentations at www.r-project.org/useR-yyyy

[Friedrich Leisch]

[ Sorry to join in late, as Uwe already wrote I was offline in the
Austrian Alps. ]

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:56:03 -0500,
>>>>> Douglas Bates (DB) wrote:

  > On 9/18/07, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
  >> On 9/18/07, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
  >> > Earl F. Glynn wrote:
  >> > > "hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote in message
  >> > > news:f8e6ff050709041413k70340217r76b51984d9e23ef9 at mail.gmail.com...
  >> > >> Many of the presentations and posters from UseR! 2007 are now available
  >> > >> online:
  >> > >> http://user2007.org/program/
  >> > >
  >> > > The UseR 2006 conference info and presentations are part of
  >> > > www.r-project.org, namely http://www.r-project.org/useR-2006/
  >> > >
  >> > > I noticed the user2007.org  domain expires on 16 December 2007, which would
  >> > > need to be renewed each year to continue to make these presentations
  >> > > available online. During the year of a conference it makes sense to have a
  >> > > separate domain, but would it make sense to archive old UseR conferences at
  >> > > www.r-project.org/useR-yyyy?  Would it make sense to standardize this so one
  >> > > could generalize and find the presentations for any year?
  >> > >
  >> > > Next years' domain name is http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/
  >> > > but could be www.r-project.org/useR-2008 .  An automatic redirection link
  >> > > could be used so that www.r-project.org/useR-2008 is redirected to
  >> > > http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/  for now, but once the
  >> > > conference is over the archive could be moved to www.r-project.org.  Any
  >> > > comments?


The above redirection has already been in place for some time now,
i.e.,

	http://www.r-project.org/useR-2008	

works for me and redirects to Dortmund.


  >> >
  >> >
  >> > I'm fine with the proposal to move abstract or presentation to
  >> > www.r-project.org after the useR-2008. Having it local is much easier
  >> > during the organization periods. I know this is one of the topics some
  >> > useR organizers are currently discussing in the Austrian mountains
  >> > (where I should be as well given I've had some more time these days).
  >> 
  >> It would be even more useful to use subdomains like
  >> user2007.r-project.org so that we could host the content at a site
  >> other than on the R server (this would make it much easier for me, as
  >> I won't need to change the site at all to work on the r-project
  >> server).  I'm happy to advise on how to do this, if you (Fritz?) have
  >> access to your DNS records.

  > The nameservers for the R-project.org domain are located here at the
  > University of Wisconsin.  I can request a CNAME of
  > user2007.R-project.org be added if you tell me (off-list) the IP
  > address and ANAME of the machine to which it should point.


I think I like Hadley's proposal of collecting conference webpages
(after the conference is over) to one of our servers
better. Redirecting to pages at different locations is dangerous when
people move on to new positions.

E.g., I currently have the "problem" that since both Kurt and myself
are no longer at TU Wien, we cannot guarantee how long
www.ci.tuwien.ac.at will be up and running, and we were talking last
week about moving the old DSC webpages to the server at WU running
www.R-project.org.

So it would make a lot of sense to me to collect old conference pages
to a central location under the www.R-project.org umbrella. During the
active phase of a conference it is certainly better to have them on
a server under control of the local organizing committee.

Just my 2c,
Fritz

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