On 9/18/07, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/18/07, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Earl F. Glynn wrote: > > > "hadley wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> 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? > > > > > > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
