From gdevenyi at gmail.com  Fri Jul 15 12:40:51 2016
From: gdevenyi at gmail.com (Gabriel A. Devenyi)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:40:51 -0400
Subject: [MINC-development] [Announcement] MINC-VM 1.0 Release
Message-ID: <CAFQOoOpamiEqzGTS1AAUGKR1GcD0Ru9XT+XurZOr_2KZ24-j+w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

After a recent thread on minc-users asking about a VM [1] and the resulting
offer of several options, I thought it might be useful to a have an
up-to-date ?standardized? VM with the MINC tools [2].

My goal was to automate the VM production process so that as new versions
of OSes and tools are released it won?t be a huge manual process to
re-create the VM. I found that packer <https://www.packer.io/> is a tool
ideal for spinning up a VM, provisioning it, and exporting it in an
automated manner.

So, this is my announcement of the 1.0 release of MINC-VM, a Lubuntu-Core
16.04 VirtualBox VM, containing:

   - minc-toolkit-v1 <https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-toolkit>
   - minc-toolkit-v2 <https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-toolkit-v2>
   - pyminc <https://github.com/Mouse-Imaging-Centre/pyminc>
   - minc-stuffs <https://github.com/Mouse-Imaging-Centre/minc-stuffs>
   - R <https://www.r-project.org/>
   - RStudio <https://www.rstudio.com/>
   - RMINC <https://github.com/Mouse-Imaging-Centre/RMINC>
   - brain-view2 <https://github.com/Mouse-Imaging-Centre/brain-view2>
   - pyezminc <https://github.com/BIC-MNI/pyezminc>
   -

   itksnap 3.4.0 with MINC support <https://github.com/vfonov/itksnap3>
   -

   mni.cortical.statistics
   <https://github.com/BIC-MNI/mni.cortical.statistics>

You can find the packer build scripts, download the pre-constructed VM, and
submit issues at:
https://github.com/cobralab/MINC-VM

HashiCorp <https://www.hashicorp.com/> has generously provided a cloud
building and hosting account, so the VM build rebuilds once-a-day to keep
up to date with Ubuntu?s mainline. It also rebuilds when any changes are
pushed on Github. All prior versions are maintained for download as well.

[1] http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/minc-users/2016-May/004400.html
[2] https://xkcd.com/927/

--
Gabriel A. Devenyi B.Eng. Ph.D.
Research Computing Associate
Computational Brain Anatomy Laboratory
Cerebral Imaging Center
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Affiliate, Department of Psychiatry
McGill University
t: 514.761.6131x4781
e: gdevenyi at gmail.com
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From vladimir.fonov at gmail.com  Fri Jul 22 13:49:46 2016
From: vladimir.fonov at gmail.com (vladimir.fonov at gmail.com)
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:49:46 -0400
Subject: [MINC-development] Updates on MINC wiki books
Message-ID: <F8728E10-9A83-4142-9F84-80405C94E42E@gmail.com>

Hello Everybody,

I have started updating https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC to reflect current state of affairs. In particular I have created a page describing current users and developers of MINC and MINC-based tools. This list is currently incomplete, could you take a look at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/MincWorld and send me suggestions (or  create an account on wikibooks and links yourself). 

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Best regards, Vladimir S. FONOV ~ v.s.fonov <at> ilmarin.info





From a.janke at gmail.com  Sat Jul 23 09:26:25 2016
From: a.janke at gmail.com (Andrew Janke)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:26:25 +1000
Subject: [MINC-development] Updates on MINC wiki books
In-Reply-To: <F8728E10-9A83-4142-9F84-80405C94E42E@gmail.com>
References: <F8728E10-9A83-4142-9F84-80405C94E42E@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAG0CB22TTanhtTDuwbSnb4VFG2mdo6+u+3egYDS8tDWAOpex4w@mail.gmail.com>

Good stuff. A lot of it is now a long way out of date.

I've added one for Oz, there are others.


a


On 23 July 2016 at 03:49,  <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have started updating https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC to reflect current state of affairs. In particular I have created a page describing current users and developers of MINC and MINC-based tools. This list is currently incomplete, could you take a look at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/MincWorld and send me suggestions (or  create an account on wikibooks and links yourself).
>
> ---
> Best regards, Vladimir S. FONOV ~ v.s.fonov <at> ilmarin.info
>
>
>
>
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