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

[Earl F. Glynn]

"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?

Just my $0.02,

efg

Earl F. Glynn
Scientific Programmer
Stowers Institute for Medical Research