[R] Any useR conference in US in YR2008

[elw at stderr.org]

Something like this - alternating among continents - happens with AoIR, 
the Association for Internet Research.  A real effort has been made to 
make sure that the conference is in North America no more than every other 
year, with alternating slots going to Europe and (once so far..) to 
Australia.  There is quite a lot of discussion of how to get that 
particular conference (and research-base) spun up in South America, as 
well - and I think that eventually we'll see a conference hosted there.

A good model to follow, I think; AoIR is, like useR, a relatively young 
and savvy conference/group, pretty close to the bleeding edge.

--elijah


On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:13:53 +1000
> From: Bill.Venables at csiro.au
> To: marc_schwartz at comcast.net, liuwensui at gmail.com
> Cc: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Any useR conference in US in YR2008
> 
> Apropos this issue, the R Foundation has had an offer to host useR 2009
> from a European based group rather than a North American based one.  My
> understanding is that no decision has yet been taken, though.  If other
> groups had an interest in hosting useR 2009, it might not be a bad idea
> to register that interest fairly soon.
>
> There was a suggestion that alternating between the North America and
> Europe would be a good idea, but I don't know if this is a cosy
> understanding of what would be nice, or a reasonably firm policy
> decision.  (I'm also not sure in which camp little places like Brazil,
> New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, India, ..., would fit in this
> rather occidental view of the world, too.  :-)
>
> Bill Venables.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Marc Schwartz
> Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 3:54 AM
> To: Wensui Liu
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Any useR conference in US in YR2008
>
> None sponsored by the R Foundation.
>
> There may be others, offered by the various companies who offer R/S-PLUS
> training. They do periodically post e-mails about them on these lists.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 12:44 -0500, Wensui Liu wrote:
>> Thank you so much, Marc!
>> So if I understand correctly, there is no conference related to R in
>> US in the coming yr2008. Am I correct?
>>
>> On 11/22/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 11:58 -0500, Wensui Liu wrote:
>>>> Dear usRs,
>>>> Is there any conference for usR in US next year?
>>>> Happy Turkey day!
>>>>
>>>> wensui
>>>
>>> R related conferences, at least those officially related to the R
>>> Foundation, are listed here:
>>>
>>>   http://www.r-project.org/conferences.html
>>>
>>> This past August, the useR! conference was at Iowa State University.
>>> Next year's useR! conference is in Dortmund, Germany. If the pattern
>>> holds, the useR! conference in 2009 will be back in the U.S.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Marc Schwartz
>>>
>
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