[SciPy-User] Main Site Design Questions

[Guillaume Gay]

Hi,


I'll give it a shot,

Le 20/05/2019 à 04:12, Christina Lee a écrit :
> As both people are realizing scipy.org <http://scipy.org> needs a
> design overhaul and discussing doing so, I'd like to start a
> discussion clarifying aspects of SciPy that would drive design choices. 
>
> These might seem like annoying and weird questions to someone used to
> a different type of thinking, but this is still problem-solving. The
> code itself gets more useful if there is a lower barrier to entry.
>
> * How should the typical user/feel/ about SciPy?  What gut-level
> impression should the website leave?  How do you/feel/ about SciPy?
>          For example: reliable, dependable, cutting-edge, fast, novel,
> exciting, ... These will influence aspects like colors, fonts, images,
> spacings, etc. 
>
reliable and dependable yes, I'll add rich or complete, a sense that
what I would classically need for scientific computing will be provided
here. Scipy is the _reference_ library. As pointing by Ralf, cutting
edge no. Exciting yes, as in "Sam entering the Citadel library" exciting.


> * What is the most important thing for a user to do?
>        Fairly certain the answer to this question is "Install".
>
Find documentation (at least for me). Installing can go through other
channels nowadays (anaconda in particular). I go through scipy.org to
land on the docs 99 % of the time.


> * What is the most important thing for someone to learn about SciPy?
>       Assume they know absolutely nothing and you have 10 seconds to
> catch their interest.
You can do all the maths, in a coherent, integrated (& interoperable)
framework
>  
>
> * You have more than 10 seconds: Anything really cool about SciPy? 
> Done anything amazing with it? Any cool plots?
As Ralf said, really cool physics. I saw a post about matplotlib being
used in 13 % of papers on ArXiv, scipy must be used in a good fraction
of those.
>
> * Do we have information about both the typical SciPy user, and the
> typical person visiting the website? If most people have barely
> touched Python the first time the come across SciPy.org, that changes
> presentation and wording.

I think academy and applied research, so technical but not necessarily
trained programmers.


>
> Happy Sunday,
> Christina Lee
>
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