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

Tue Jul 28 06:41:00 CEST 2015

Hi Vanessa,

The website starts looking *much* better. Thank you for pushing forward
with this. And I am very happy that
the website is built with Flask now a Python tool!!! :)

When you have some time I would like to know why you selected Flask from
the list of static page generators
and if you have actually played with Pelican. By the way I am perfectly
happy with Flask. I just wanted to know
if you have looked into the differences and if there are some clear
advantages which I am not aware of.

Also, If now if I want for example to add a text button under the
nipy.gihub.io logo I will need to change the template right?
Are these templates generated automatically by jinja or another engine? Is
this easy to change the template with the current
design?

Thanks again!
:) :) :)

Best regards,
Eleftherios

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:41 PM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> 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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>>>>>> Vanessa Villamia Sochat
>>>>>> Stanford University
>>>>>> (603) 321-0676
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