Re: xls workshop?

Jan de Leeuw <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 15:32:31 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.statistics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You can download the old xlispstat.org website at

http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub/xlispstat.tgz

It's about 31MB. Good luck !

--- Jan

On Tuesday, Jul 8, 2003, at 16:10 US/Pacific, [email protected] wrote:

> I have the okay from my chair to host the xlispstat.org domain name,  
> and I
> plan on snapping it up for ten years. I hope to take that over this
> week.
>
> I'm now interested in knowing what folks would like provided from the
> website, and how they would like it provided:
> 	files provided
> 	upload capabilities
> 	format
> 	etc.
> I imagine that it would be easiest if I could start with the format of  
> the
> old xlispstat.org site, and then grow the site.
> Andy
>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Pedro Valero wrote:
>
>> Hello lispers,
>>
>> Well, it looks like we have three tasks:
>>
>> 1. Organizing the workshop.
>> 2. The special issue of the JSE
>> 3. Setting up back the xlisp.org domain
>>
>> I would say that the different tasks might be carried by different  
>> people
>> so that the workload would not be too concentrated. I have already
>> volunteered for number 1 but I think this could be decided later,  
>> depending
>> on the geographical situation of the people interested on attending in
>> order to keep costs lower as possible. It would be useful to have a  
>> first
>> expression of interest of people interested on the workshop so we  
>> might see
>> if it is is really worth of the effort.
>> On the other hand, the special issue of the JSE is an offer that we  
>> can not
>> turn down. Again, I would volunteer for doing the work, preferably  
>> with
>> somebody else. The issue might include descriptions of actual work  
>> carried
>> out with xlisp-stat but it would be nice to devote some papers about
>> general computational statistics matters.
>> About the xlisp.org, I would suggest a new approach to the site. This
>> suggestion stems from my experiences with the code in this site. When  
>> I
>> download something and try to run it, it is very usual that I can not  
>> get
>> anything sensible happening. The problem is that every piece of code  
>> seems
>> to be reinvent basic issues such as data formats, opening files, etc.  
>> I
>> think that a good project would be to create workspaces that would  
>> include
>> as much of this code already loaded and to specify a minimum set of
>> conventions so that playing with a new piece of software was made  
>> easy.
>> This could be the subject of a paper. Another approach, of course,  
>> would be
>> to take advantage of the two big projects in xlisp-stat (Arc and  
>> ViSta) and
>> use the framework they provide.
>>
>> Pedro
>>
>>
>>
>> At 19:27 07/07/2003, [email protected] wrote:
>>> I may be willing to host the xlispstat.org domain name at Northern
>>> Kentucky University. What's involved, and how much will it cost? If  
>>> you
>>> know, and want to spare others the details, email me directly. I'm  
>>> sure
>>> that we have the disk space, and a machine that could handle the  
>>> hits.
>>>
>>> I'd also like to participate in a conference on lispstat, in Spain,
>>> France, or the US (maybe at NKU? I'd be willing to work to set it  
>>> up). It
>>> would be a shame to let this software die a death of a thousand  
>>> cuts. It's
>>> wonderful stuff which I routinely use, and I hope that we can make it
>>> vibrant once again. I'm glad to see so many of the old names  
>>> floating up
>>> from the past: clearly there's still lots of interest.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, obviously one could. But the question is, as always, who will
>>>> host and  maintain and hopefully grow it.
>>>>
>>>> --- Jan
>>>>
>>>> PS: http://www.stat.ucla.edu:16080/xlispstat/code/
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, Jul 7, 2003, at 07:54 US/Pacific,
>>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Another thing mentioned was that xlispstat.org is free to register
>>>>> again.  Maybe we can try to set it up again, such that the  
>>>>> repository
>>>>> of xls code is accessible again?
>>>>>
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: [email protected]
homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
   
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