Misc improvements to the web site:

[nthiery]

• Shorten the main intro

• list of mailing lists on the contact page

• Integrate twitter feed?

• Links to the task/deliverable/milestones issues on github

• List of the different sites and people:

  • with links to the presentations during the Kickoff
  • with the roles of the participants, taken from the proposal
  • with pictures
  • with recruited people and local close collaborators

• List of meetings / meetings web pages? we already have a calendar and announces

• Export the calendar as ICAL.

• List of software?

• Document in the README.md how to build the site with Jekyll

• How do we do analytics?

• Choose and host fonts locally

• Add four entry points:

  • "For mathematicians"
  • "For developers"
  • "For participants"
  • "For reviewers"

  For the first two, see Write five slide presentations for OpenDreamKit OpenDreamKit#157
  For participants, see https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/
  For reviewers, see Improve our website for reviewers and followers OpenDreamKit#173

• Update acknowledge page

• Add a page for listing talks and other ODK's activities

• Mention somewhere (end of list of partners?) that the project was labelled by the Free and Open Source Software Work Group of the Systematic Cluster.

• Enable slides with reveal.js

• Rename "activities" to "blog" (also in the main README). Maybe fuse "news", "activities", and "job openings" using a tags?

• Encourage more blog posts (Luca volunteered to lead this)

• Remove Acknowledge from the main page (maybe also Edit this page if easy)

• Add tooltips on Task / Deliverable / Timeline to explain what those are.

[fangohr]

Regarding listing talks, workshops, posters, etc -- we could have a new item on the left called 'activities' in which we list each 'activity' briefly, and -- if it deserves more detail -- it is a link to a separate page? I believe gathering as much data as possible from the beginning will pay off.
(For my doctoral training centre, we have a news/blog page where I try to list all we do; this pays off at reporting times when you wouldn't remember otherwise what you have done, and is also a good online representation of the activities: http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/blog/)

[nthiery]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:35:05PM -0800, Hans Fangohr wrote:

Regarding listing talks, workshops, posters, etc -- we could have a new
item on the left called 'activities' in which we list each 'activity'
briefly, and -- if it deserves more detail -- it is a link to a
separate page?

I like the term "activities". The simplest is probably to use Jekyll's
blog support (as we already do for our News section). Adding a new
post is just adding a short file, so it's fine to create one even for
just a brief link).

I'll try to add such a section sometime soon, unless someone beats me
to it!

I believe gathering as much data as possible from the beginning
will pay off. (For my doctoral training centre, we have a
news/blog page where I try to list all we do; this pays off at
reporting times when you wouldn't remember otherwise what you
have done, and is also a good online representation of the
activities: [1]http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/blog/)

+1!!!

Cheers,

Nicolas

Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" [email protected]
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

[nthiery]

Hi @minrk!
For our website and elsewhere in our infrastructure, it would be helpful to have the data from our proposal (deliverables, ...) as a yaml file. When you generated our github issues from this data, you must have written a parser for the "final.pdata" file, right? Where could I find it? Then I could just use it to get a yaml dump.
Thanks in advance!

[minrk]

@nthiery I used this ruby script to parse final.pdata.

[nthiery]

@defeo, @VivianePons, @kohlhase: I just pushed a script to convert the metadata from the proposal about wp's, tasks, deliverables into yaml, so that we could easily load it into Python/Jekyll/... for misc purposes.

• https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/blob/master/Proposal/final.pdata.yaml
• https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/blob/master/bin/pdata-latex-to-yaml
  So if we copy the output file into the website repo, we can now easily use it to generate pieces of the website. A first nice little utility would be to have taskref and delivref tags.

@kohlhase: you probably want to look over the changes I made to the proposal style file, as I made little changes to the pdata format for more consistency between tasks and deliverables + a bug fix.

Cheers

[defeo]

Are you sure the script is not buggy? I have a doubt about these lines https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/blob/master/Proposal/final.pdata.yaml#L18-L29 and similar ones.

[nthiery]

Yeah; if we actually need the information on those lines, the script will need to be made less stupid.
In final.pdata, the label of a deliverable is of the form wp-label@deliv-label (same for tasks). I found it more convenient to split such labels in two chunks. And the splitting is a bit too agressive right now :-)

[VivianePons]

Many of the boxes have been answered by the new site.

In particular: there is a working ical link.