[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Robert D. Vincent]

Hi Vlad,

Yes, that's a fine point. I would not use the McGill site to replace the
wiki, but rather as a landing page for MINC stuff. It would presumably link
out to Github or whatever else we use.

    -bert

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Vladimir S. FONOV <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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     official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially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     http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/ - old (and out-of date) page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
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
>  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com
>
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