[Foss4g2009] FOSS4G 2009 Website

[Tim Bowden]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:23 -0700, Dave Patton wrote:
> On 2008/09/22 4:22 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 
> > Regarding URL of the conference, I've already made a call on that for
> >  marketing material. It will be: http://foss4g.org/2009
> 
> Cool URIs don't change
> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
> 
> I agree with Jeff that we should follow
> the established pattern from 2006-2008,
> which means we should use:
> http://www.foss4g2007.org/

Wasn't there some discussion on the marketing list ages ago about this?
The concern was future domains could be hijacked.  Sorry, I can't point
to the reference atm.  If we always use foss4g.org/year then we escape
this issue.  foss4g.org/ would always point to the next/current conf as
appropriate.

Regards,
Tim Bowden

> which implies:
> - always use the "www" when the URI is
>    included in any text
> - always include the trailing slash
> - allow http://foss4g2007.org/ to
>    work the same as 'the www version'
> - "redirects" should be done at the
>    DNS level, or transparently, so that
>    when the user reaches our website,
>    the URL in their browsers still starts
>    with http://www.foss4g2009.org/
>    (i.e. don't do it like 2008 has done,
>    where http://www.foss4g2008.org/ results
>    in an HTTP 302 redirecting to:
>    http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008
>    See this for part of why this is incorrect:
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_302)
> 
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