AISTATS 2021

This is the webpage for AISTATS 2021.

The AISTATS webpages are hosted on github and generated using a custom theme from Jekyll.

This repository contains the current AISTATS conference page. Once the year has past it can be archived to aistats20XX and modified to form the next year's page.

To Create a New Conference Page follow these Instructions

Each year the main web page needs to be archived to store as a previous year's conference. To do this, the first thing you need to do is duplicate this repository.

These steps need to be done by someone with admin access to the aistats github organization

1. Create the new repo in github by going to https://github.com/organizations/aistats/repositories/new, use the name coding aistatsXXXX where XXXX is the year of the archived conference.

2. Give the conference a description e.g., "April 9 - 11, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands"

3. Do not create an initial README for the conference.

4. Create the Repo.

These steps can be done with an account that has write access to the aistats.github.io.git

5. Go to a suitable directory on your machine and type:

git clone --bare https://github.com/aistats/stub.git
mv stub.git aistatsXXXX
cd aistatsXXXX
git branch -m gh-pages
git push --mirror https://github.com/aistats/aistatsXXXX.git

6. Edit the _config.yml file in the new repo to set baseurl to /aistatsXXXX

7. Check that the archived page appears online at http://aistats.org/aistatsXXXX/

8. Update the original main repository at https://github.com/aistats/aistats.github.io for the current conference. This will be used to host the current AISTATS.

9. Add the team aistatsXXXX to the admin rights for the repo aistatsXXXX

10. Create a new admin team for this year's page, aistatsYYYY, where YYYY=XXXX+1 and assign it to admin aistats.github.io

More information

• See a list of repositories of past web sites here.

• This link gives Github help about project pages (at the bottom), if we put the Jekyll files in gh-pages branch, the repository will be served under http://aistats.github.io/aistats20xx. Note that the main repository uses master branch, not gh-pages.

• When archiving to aistats20xx, it is necessary to modify the baseurl entry of _config.yml from baseurl: "" to baseurl: "/aistats20xx" so that internal links in the web site are generated correctly.

• baseurl: "" is used only in the current AISTATS site because its files are at the root of aistats.github.io.

• Repository set up by Neil Lawrence and conversion of the old javascript pages by Wittawat. Pages then arcived for the 2016 and 2017 editions of the conference.