[BioRuby] Restyling BioRuby.org

[Pjotr Prins]

Today we will be on IRC.

Pj.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:41:29AM +0300, George Githinji wrote:
> Now let us get discuss the  issues regarding actually restyling the
> bioruby.org site.
> 
> If we were to restyle bioruby.org., What is the community's preferred
> way of doing it?
> 1. Using an existing Ruby framework
>     i)  Rails
>     ii) Sinatra
>     iii) Others (specify)
> 
> 2. Getting together some static pages without utilizing a framework.
> 
> Some considerations:
> 1. Who hosts the Bioruby.org site
> This is important so as to access the nature and the ease of
> deployment. Also should bioruby.org be hosted on a cloud
> infrastructure like heroku? What are the pros and cons?
> 
> 2. Who owns the bioruby.org domain name? aka who pays and registers
> this domain every year and why?
> Is this person willing to surrender the domain ownership to the
> community? Would he perform the registration on behalf of the
> community ?
> 
> 3. For a while now, bioruby.org redirects to
> http://bioruby.open-bio.org/. Which of the two is the  more
> appropriate 'home' url?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Mic <mictadlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought BioRuby would run with JRuby. How far is Rubinus and support for
> > it? There is a Ruby like language on to of erlang  http://reia-lang.org/ which
> > support erlang's famous concurrent programming.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > We might be able to embed a Twitter feed on the
> >> > home pages too...
> >> >
> >>
> >> Looks like you can get an RSS feed easily enough, e.g.
> >>
> >> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=biopython
> >>
> >> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=bioperl
> >>
> >> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=bioruby
> >>
> >> That can be embedded in MediaWiki but it isn't very pretty.
> >>
> >> Peter
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> >>
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ---------------
> Sincerely
> George
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