[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Robert D. Vincent]

Hi Vlad,

Thanks for starting the discussion - I think we do need to get this under
control. Here's my take on each of the possibilities you mention:

1. I'd rather remove this, or migrate it to the McGill BIC site, assuming
that the BIC is not planning to maintain the old site.

2. I also don't see much need to maintain the wikibooks. I don't know if we
should remove what is there, but I would prefer not to have to maintain it.

3. I think it makes sense to continue to use Github for developer
documentation and communication. I don't know all of the Github services
well, but it probably makes sense to host other things there since it is
where we do most of our work. We could certainly create pages for some of
the active projects, and provide links to user documentation.

4. I'd like to use NITRC, but mostly as a set of links to other pages for
documentation and downloads. It should just point users to Github, or our
binary distributions, or whatever else is deemed appropriate. The
FreeSurfer entry is a good example I think we might want to follow.

In general, I would be happy to increase our use of the www.mcgill.ca/bic
website as a source for the MINC tools and documentation. I've taken the
McGill web management courses and so I can do the work of migrating some of
the older BIC pages if the "powers that be" are willing to let me.

    -bert

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Vladimir S. FONOV <
vladimir.fonov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Minc Developers,
>
> as you are probably aware, currently we have a little bit of a mish-mash
> of web sites describing available minc-tools. In particular, novice users,
> or readers of the papers (or Louis' grant reviewers). Are having hard time
> finding what we have and how to use it.
>
> Currently we have following:
>
> http://www.mcgill.ca/bic/software - official web site, with obsolete
> information , hard to navigate and almost impossible to update.
>
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/HomePage - previous
> official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially transferred to
> http://www.mcgill.ca/bic/ - there were plans to decommission it, but it
> looks like it's not going to happen.
>
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC - semi-official documentation page, a
> few things are up-to-date. But focus is mostly on software developers.
>
>
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/ - old (and out-of date) page that
> is still alive, and shows-up in top-5 hit when I google minc tools.
>
> there are a few other places which show-up with various information.
>
> Recently we had several meetings with people maintaining
> http://www.mcgill.ca/bic/ site with discussions on how to move forward,
> in particular in line of the latest announcement on pushing for Open
> Science ( for those who missed it:
> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/montreal-institute-going-open-accel-erate-science
> ).
>
> Currently the decision is to move as much information as possible to a
> single website and update all the old locations with links pointing to a
> new location. The particular location and organization of it is still up
> for discussion. But Louis wants it to start functioning pretty soon (i.e by
> the end of February).
> Currently, it seems we have several possibilities:
>
>
> 1. Keep maintaining the old wiki (
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/HomePage ) and put as much
> information as possible there.
>
>
> 2. Migrate to wikibooks https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC , and orient
> it more towards minc software users, rather then minc developers
>
>
> 3. Use github - since most of the open-source minc software already lives
> in https://github.com/BIC-MNI/ , and we can have issue tracking and wiki
> integration there. As well as github pages ( https://pages.github.com )
>
>
> 4. Use nitrc https://www.nitrc.org/projects/minc or
> https://www.nitrc.org/projects/minc-toolkit  - this one seem to be better
> suited for software releases. But I find the interface to be difficult to
> use.
>
> So, what do you think?
>
> P.S. The same goes for all the date sets that we are currently making
> available , in particular Atlases (
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/HomePage ), the brainweb (
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesBrainWeb/HomePage ), the BITE (
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Services/ServicesBITE ) and future projects.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
>  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com
>
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