[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Ok, yes - that's the proposed plan. To have a simple page on the 
official web site pointing to the actual location where all the stuff 
lives.

On 16-02-10 02:06 PM, Robert D. Vincent wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>         <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>
>         <mailto: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              official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially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> <http://gmail.com>
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     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