Re: Are we relevant under terms of "free bioinformatics software"
On 03/15/2012 03:09 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>>> IMHO ideally it should be something easy to remember.... e.g.
>>> med.debian.net ? ;)
>> And bio.debian.net as an alias :) Just kidding. Somewhat. I would
>> support your suggestion.
> ;-)
>
>> My hunch is that we need an exchange about the practical side of the
>> packages more to educate our users and us not only about what software
>> we have in the archive but also about some creative way to use it. So,
>> if the Debian Med wiki would start to have dedicated pages for
>> individual packages it features, then this is nothing I could personally
>> maintain, but our user base could.
> if you manage to engage users to such a degree -- you would be an
> exemplar for everyone ;)
I admit to be thinking not only about power users but also about upstream.
wiki.d.o is a nice place to have something googlable that works from A-Z
on an otherwise blank Linux environment. It is just not so awkward there
to integrate many tools from many different places.
>> Every such page would also link to
>> somewhere on the DebianMed developers portal, which the search engines
>> should take some notice of.
> not sure if of any value but I just want to describe what we have
> for neuro.debian.net:
>
> in neuroimaging field we have a portal http://www.nitrc.org/ which is
> used by many projects to host/distribute their code/data/etc. So
> neuro.debian.net package pages (e.g.
> http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/ants.html ) backlink to blends pages and
> NITRC pages. also on NITRC side we have created NeuroDebian project and
> NITRC allows to list other projects to be a part of some other project,
> so now we are quite well interlinked with corresponding software
> packages: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/neurodebian/ so.
Nice and interesting. In my perception we are all too busy with the
packages themselves to add much more around it all. My way towards more
would now be educational short stories. Not within the next few months,
though.
Steffen
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