[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Hello,


On 16-02-10 12:59 PM, Robert D. Vincent wrote:
> 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.
...
> In general, I would be happy to increase our use of the
> www.mcgill.ca/bic <http://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.

Unfortunately, that's the path that was deemed to be the least 
preferable. I.e Louis wants to have a web site where people can 
contribute without taking that course.




>
>      -bert
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Vladimir S. FONOV
> <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com <mailto: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     official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially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     http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/ - old (and out-of date) page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 <http://gmail.com>
>
>


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Best regards,

  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com