Hi, Chris,
Provisionally, I'm ready to consider this kind of thing. We are rebuilding
our web site and expanding our capacity significantly for hosting design
research material. We have a working group developing the new site now for
launch in January 2009.
Before making a firm offer, I'd like to know what kind of server space this
would entail. Let's make a deal: if the DRS Council will put together a
small working group to state what is needed -- capacity, software, resources
-- I am ready to ask my web team to see if we can realize it.
Until I see the details, I won't make a final commitment, but on a
provisional basis, I am willing to host this at Swinburne Design.
You have an offer. Gather the facts and I will plow forward to see if I can
make the offer a reality.
Ken
Ken Friedman
Professor
Dean, Swinburne Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:56:15 +0100, Chris Rust <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Filippo A. Salustri wrote:
>> I was actually wondering if it might be advantageous to have such a
>> repository for design, rather than scattering it through various
>> institutional repositories.
>I have wondered if DRS could do something like that. However we are a
>small society and there is no guarantee that our own website will be
>maintained into the forseeable future so I would prefer that it could be
>hosted by a university on the Society's behalf.
>
>Any offers?
>
>This could be a very useful resource. For example I would like to find
>somewhere to archive historic material and old conference proceedings
>but my own university does not understand the idea of providing a useful
>archive as opposed to just supporting work by their own staff.
>
>best
>Chris
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