Dear Mathias and listmembers,

I like your idea on getting the Ontrack on to an e-platform. I do not really mind on the name of the domain but 2, 3 or 4 looks better.

Good luck

Luis

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Prof. Dr. Luis Barbero
Dpt. of Earth Sciences (Fission Track Laboratory)
Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences
University of Cádiz
11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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De: Fission track [mailto:[log in to unmask]] En nombre de Matthias Raab
Enviado el: martes, 27 de febrero de 2007 6:20
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Asunto: Ontrack goes Online

Dear Ontrack-subsciber,

The next issue of Ontrack is due shortly. After discussing the future of Ontrack numerous times with a number of people in the community, I believe it is a sensible thing to move Ontrack on to an electronic platform. The benefits for the community are manigfold:

• Publications will be up in no time,
• discussion forums will be available for all aspects of thermochronology,
• links to all online resources are available,
• members can update their own profile,
• published material such as articles, news, etc., will always be online,
• there will be space for commercial advertisements,
• the work for the editor will (hopefully) be reduced,
• the forum will be governed through a content management system (joomla),
• joomla is open source and all documentation is freely available (important for hand over to next editor),
• the editor will change every year, as usual,
• hosting will be arranged through an independent (though commercial) internet service provider,
• costs are low and unlikely to exceed USD $200 per year after initial set up fees,
• and much more...
• and finally, we will be having a thriving community!

I am happy to take the initiative and my plans for the next 6-8 weeks are to register a URL and to start with the initial set-up, installing all required components etc. I am sure everybody has a lot of ideas what this platform/forum should achieve, and I would like to know what you think is important to implement. Please email me.

Also, the name ontrack is already registered in a lot of combinatations. As of today, the following domain names are still available:

• www.ontrack.ws
• www.ontrack-forum.net
• www.ontrackforum.org
• www.ontrackforum.net

Please vote for your favorite domain name and I will try to fetch it asap. Personally I am in favour of option 2 and 3. Of course, any other suggestion is welcome (please check availability first).

I look forward to your response.

All the best,

Matthias

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Dr. Matthias J. Raab
The University of Melbourne
School of Earth Sciences

Melbourne 3010
Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 9868

Fax: +61 3 8344 7761