The PCF is commonly involved with two larger contests. The domains for these are bapc.eu and nwerc.eu. Listed below are guidelines on how to work with them and how to request changes.

For this description we take bapc.eu as the example domain. Any other domain can be substituted. The PCF can help with setting up with both a website and emailing.

Setting up a website⌗

It is recommended to host the website at <year>.bapc.eu as its canonical location. This ensures that older websites remain available and that <year>’s website will remain available in the future. Make bapc.eu and www.bapc.eu a redirect to <year>.bapc.eu.

Other relevant domainnames could be:

  • jury.bapc.eu for the jury to be used for Call For Problems (currently in use)
  • scoreboard.bapc.eu for hosting the public scoreboard
  • open.bapc.eu for hosting an open, public contest

After having setup your website check your website and domain settings using https://internet.nl. Our sponsor SURF prefers a maximum score on this test.

Mail⌗

The last few years it has been noticed that it is preferred to have consistent mailing for emails using a similar scheme as for the main website. e.g. mailing organisation@1999.bapc.eu will send an email to the organisers of the last BAPC before the burst of the dot-com bubble.

Similar to the website, organisation@bapc.eu can then become an alias to organisation@<year>.bapc.eu.

There are also more general emails, which should remain available. Specifically the address(es) the jury uses to send out the Call For Problems.

Domain changes⌗

Changes in the (sub)domain of bapc.eu and nwerc.eu can be requested by sending an email to: icpc@surf.nl, be aware that these will be handled during office hours.