[BioRuby] Restyling BioRuby.org

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Raoul Bonnal wrote:

> Hi Pjotr, Hilmar and others,
> ...
> 
>> 4. One for you Hilmar: does the OBF actually encourage inertia in the Bio*
>>   projects? 
>> 
>>  It is appears to me that sitting leadership is reluctant to
>>  give away their positions. I have discussed this with Chris Fields
>>  last year. We agreed that there are also few to take over the helm.
>>  So...
> I don't see how OBF could push the projects, in case of founds they would be
> distributed equally? We are good people so we are working together promoting
> our language helping the others. During the last BioHackathon the most
> astonishing things was seeing Bio Perl/Ruby/Python/Java working (really)
> together, it was great.

Bioinformatics problems span languages

>> 5. how do we nurture future leadership?
>> 
>> I am old and cynical enough to know people mostly work for their own
>> direct benefit (their itch, so tho speak) in OSS, or anywhere else.
>> Still, I am going to poke and prod for some time, to see if we can
>> make change. I believe Bio* projects are at fork in the road. Which
>> one are we going to take?
> 
>> Should BioRuby exist as it is, or should we
>> use it as a breeding ground for young developers. Same question really
>> for BioPython and BioPerl.
> Not very clear, at least to me.
> 
>> The BioRuby community is almost in a coma, I think. Despite 180
>> readers of the ML. I see the same people engaging, and interestingly,
>> a significant number of messages from Biopython and BioPerl
>> leadership. Thank you for that. BioRuby is just coming out of its
>> shell, and you are helping.
> 
> 
>> 6. What is needed to get BioRuby out of the comatose state?
>> 
>>  With BioRuby we have had lively discussions before, but they tend to
>>  peter out. We can reason about this, but I think it goes back to
>>  leadership again.
> I don't know how to solve this issue... The democratic process you suggested
> some time ago ? Which is the workload, which is the coding power we have ?
> Which are the languages we can rely on for performances (it means which is
> the knowledge of the people around here )? Do we want to support Jruby?
> Suppose we now need a new feature in BioRuby, which one ? Do we want to
> participate to GSoC ? YES and we MUST there is no doubt and we NEED to write
> good proposals but everything should be made as a community not only as a
> group of passionate developers.
> 
> 
> LANGUAGES:
> D or Scala, I don't know that I'm just curious and eager to learn. Most of
> my work is managing large scale data and interconnecting them extracting
> information etc... I would say, why not Hadoop ?
> We are just a piece of a bigger ecosystem, the problem is that most of the
> time "setting up" each piece is a pain in the ass.
> 
> WEBSITE Proposals:
> Why not create and post images, an image per page. Is a usual approach for
> proposing new layouts.
> 
> 
> We are growing and this kind of discussions are a natural process.
> --
> Ra
> 
> 
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