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

[Douglas Bates]

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?
> >
> >
> > 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.