[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Jason Lerch]

Hi all,

I vote for either # 2 or 3 in Vlad's options - both easy for users to add documentation to. 

Jason

> On 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 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/HomePage - previous official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially transferred to http://www.mcgill.ca/bic/ - there were plans to decommission it, but it looks like it's not going to happen.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 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/ - old (and out-of date) page that is still alive, and shows-up in top-5 hit when I google minc tools.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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