[MINC-development] organization of the minc web site

[Gabriel A. Devenyi]

I'm +1 for a wiki (github or otherwise).

I'd just like to add that I hope that old scripts/docs hidden on the minc
wiki can be harvested and put somewhere (for example
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/CenterMncOrigin which I found
yesterday)

-- 
Gabriel A. Devenyi B.Eng. Ph.D.
Research Computing Associate
Computational Brain Anatomy Laboratory
Cerebral Imaging Center
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
McGill University
t: 514.761.6131x4781
e: gdevenyi at gmail.com

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ta
>
>
>
> a
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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 official web site, now partially out-of-date and partially transferred to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 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/ - old (and out-of date) page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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