PMC Intros: Your First Task

PMC Introductions
A Few Things We Need You to Check and/or Do Right Away

If you've had any problems accessing or reading the pages in this introductory "topic" please let me know right away. Send me email to: scheftic@geom.umn.edu

Since you'll be writing web pages for this course, you'll need to have a place where you can save them, and where the workshop facilitator and other participants will be able to get at and read your pages. If you do not have such access at your site, let me know right away. I can probably get you temporary space, for the duration of this workshop at least, on a Geometry Center machine, providing you do at least have the ability to transfer files back and forth from our site (e.g, by using an FTP package of some sort). If you don't even have that, then we'll have to discuss if / how you will be able to proceed in this workshop.

Please do not give out the URL for this workshop to anyone who is not registered for it. You have paid to register, which is why you're being given access. At this point, although the pages could actually be accessed by anyone, I have taken care that there are no obvious links to these pages from any other location. They are a self-contained little site. You need to know the URL in the first place to find them.

As soon as possible, please send me the machine name and / or numeric net address of the machine or machines from which you'll be accessing these worskhop pages. (If you don't know how to get the names and/or numbers, let me know that and I'll help you figure it out.) I'm keeping page-access logs for all the workshop materials. I can modify my logging program to ignore hits from your machine. If I can rule out legitimate hits from participants' machines, then any that are left are intruders who have found us. If the number of such hits remains minimal, I'll just ignore it. If it gets large, and widely distributed, then I'll have to introduce some other mechanism to restrict access solely to course particpants, which I'd rather not do if I can avoid it!

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Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 1997 by Carol Scheftic. All rights reserved. (This course is based on a workshop originally offered at The Geometry Center and adapted with permission.) Please send comments on this page, or requests for permission to re-use material from this page, to: scheftic@geom.umn.edu

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