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Planning the future

We need to think about the organization of this website, as it will be with us for a long time. Here are some recent emails concerning the site-structure:

Andrew Straws layout suggestion

Andrew Straw suggested to make the website function more as a portal to scientific-computing-using-Python-in-general and not just SciPy and thus proposed a site structure something more like:

Home
        executive summary
        sidebar with brief news summary
News
        (e.g. scipy_core and full scipy nearing end of heavy re-structuring)
Getting started
        simple demos using scipy_core and matplotlib, for example
        pointers to individual packages, both scipy and external
Screenshots
        made with matplotlib and scipy_core and/or full scipy
        made with MayaVi
        made with raw VTK
        benchmarks from 64 CPU 64 bit Itanium system
scipy_core
        About
        Installation
        Intro demos
        Download page with links to source and binary releases
        FAQ
        Documentation
        Info about svn, link to Trac
(full) scipy
        About
        Installation
        Intro demos
        Download page with links to source and binary releases
        FAQ
        Documentation
        Info about svn, link to Trac
Cookbook
        we should
        think about
        some organization
        for code receipes
Download
        point to (or include) scipy_core/Download and scipy/Download

Another structure suggestion looking for simplicity

Home
        executive summary
        sidebar with brief news summary

News
        (e.g. scipy_core and full scipy nearing end of heavy re-structuring)

Screenshoots
        screenshoots
        demos

Documentation
        getting started
        install
        tutorial
        cookbook
        reference
        FAQ

Download
        packages
        docs

Community
        mailing lists
        events
        presentations

Developers
        bug reports
        SVN

Yet another structure suggestion (a mix of the 2 above)

The main idea here is:

  1. To create an impression that this site represents a tool called SciPy rather than a mix of interrelated software. The impression of a "mix" is very confusing for newbies.

  2. Still give a proper representation to scipy_core and other tools for scientific computing with Python.



SciPy: KickTheTires (last edited 2015-10-24 17:48:23 by anonymous)