[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Andrew Janke]

What Jason said. SPM uses wikibooks and I find it a very easy
interface to use without the hassles of logins and other such things.
So, my preference:

   wikibooks for user documentation

   github for issue tracking and developer things.

All the others should contain links to these two canonical sources.
I'm happy to help organise this but can only contribute to wikibooks
and github.

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On 10 February 2016 at 13:01, Jason Lerch <jason at mouseimaging.ca> wrote:
> 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 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/HomePage - previous official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially transferred to http://www.mcgill.ca/bic/ - there were plans to decommission it, but it looks like it's not going to happen.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 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/ - old (and out-of date) page that is still alive, and shows-up in top-5 hit when I google minc tools.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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