[Neuroimaging] Nipy.org new website needs a complete remake

[vanessa sochat]

ok, simple addition of projects to the front page:

http://www.vbmis.com/bmi/project/nipy/

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:31 AM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> We can freeze the site into a static version for github pages:
>
> https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/
>
> I have one function that takes the template name as a variable, so I'm
> anticipating needing to write custom code to make sure those are generated
> as well.
>
> I'm sure there would be a way to review the rendered pages before
> deploying. I don't know off the top of my head. I usually just try and
> figure stuff out as I'm working on it!
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Ariel Rokem <arokem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:57 AM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, of course! The current design generates the navigation and pages
>>> dynamically from this file:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/vsoch/nipy/blob/master/code/static/projects.tsv
>>>
>>> If there is nothing added beyond that, a standard template page is used
>>> for the package's page:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/vsoch/nipy/blob/master/code/templates/project.html
>>>
>>> but for custom stuffs, the user can add a template page with the same
>>> name as the markdown_tag variable, for example, here is nipype:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/vsoch/nipy/blob/master/code/templates/nipype.html
>>>
>>> And of course the front page content will be generated in this fashion
>>> as well.
>>>
>>
>> That design is very elegant (in my opinion). Nice work! Even the
>> brain-snake is back, to everyone's relief.
>>
>> How are you planning to serve this up? Is there a way to do this
>> automatically through github? Any way to review the rendered website on PRs
>> before they are merged upstream?
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Ariel Rokem <arokem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:54 AM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Having all packages nicely shown on the front page is a good idea -
>>>>> and I was thinking of having a nice visualization that would quickly show
>>>>> some stats next to each. I put the latest blob post mostly because I ran
>>>>> out of work time for the day. Is the old site living somewhere so I can
>>>>> take a look?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks so much for joining in the effort! For me, an important change
>>>> relative to the old page design is to allow the project list to change over
>>>> time and to allow people to easily advertise their neuroimaging-in-python
>>>> projects on this webpage. I would prefer not to have the list of projects
>>>> be statically enshrined into the design of the front page. If you can make
>>>> it organically change on the front page, that would be good.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Gaël - I completely agree about nilearn! I just copied the groups as
>>>>> is from the current page, and had I thought about this, probably would have
>>>>> questioned them.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Gael Varoquaux <
>>>>> gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since it is the time to gives one opinion
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - I agree with Elefterios that I think it is a good thing to have a
>>>>>> list
>>>>>>   of the projects on the front page. I liked how the old webpage did
>>>>>> it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - The snake-brain logo is great. We should have it on the front page.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Developper-oriented information should be less emphasized compared
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>   user-oriented information: 'view on github', 'contribute', 'A
>>>>>> natural
>>>>>>   home for collaboration' should be deemphasized compared to the
>>>>>> project
>>>>>>   directory. The reason is that we are trying to convince people to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>>   the nipy ecosystem, and for this, the highest priority is to orient
>>>>>>   end users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My 2 cents,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gaël
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS: Vanessa: Nilearn is not only for fMRI. It's for statistical
>>>>>> analysis
>>>>>> of images. It is also used for anatomical images:
>>>>>> http://nilearn.github.io/auto_examples/decoding/plot_oasis_vbm.html
>>>>>> If we could get a preprocessed, openly downloadable set of images of
>>>>>> eg
>>>>>> FA, we would do an example with diffusion too.
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Stanford University
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