[BioRuby] bioruby.org ideas and proposal

[Pjotr Prins]

Welcome Andrea,

You are late indeed. It will take everything to be in time, for a
full proposal. But don't let it discourage you. Your ideas are good,
if you send a fleshed out proposal, we can still comment.

Pj.

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:07:54PM +0200, Andrea Nodari wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I know I am late, but I had some problems with the pc in these days :)
> 
> Here I have some proposals for bioruby website and soon I'll do my application,
> again, if you can help me with suggestions and feedback they're very
> welcome,  but I know I'm late:
> I have three main ideas:
> 
> 1) Interaction with user.
> A suggestion could be a sandbox, with some examples of usage of a gem
> and an interactive
> environment for try out some features. I think it could be very attractive.
> (Examples: http://try.redis-db.com/ or http://tryruby.org/)
> 
> 2) Challanges.
> As Pjotr said, I think it could be fantastic if some challanges were
> proposed through github
> on the main website.
> 
> 3) A strong integration with github and bioruby.info.
> I would like to accept the suggestion from the guy who want to do the
> testing framework.
> I think it's a good idea to show in the main site the status of various gems.
> 
> Another thing (easier I think) is the integration of all sources of
> information such as twitter feed,
> github issues etc..
> The news part in a website is very important :)
> 
> Well, that's all.. tomorrow I'll come up with some mock ups and more details.
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> Andrea
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