biojava website ( was Re: [Biojava-l] Documentation Overview spelling correction)

[Thomas Down]

No, I'm not talking about big website redesigns or lots of
coding.  The problems with the BioJava website are rather
deeper than that, in that most of the content hasn't actually
been updated for a year or more, despite all the improvements
which have gone into the product.  I've done a few things
recently, like updating the tutorials so that they work
properly with BioJava 1.2.  But what we really need is
for someone who's reasonably familiar with the library
and its capabilities to check through and update the existing
pages.  If Jeff is happy to have a go, I'd be very pleased
to see this happen, especially with the 1.2 release coming up.

More tutorial documents would also be very welcome.

Everything can be ported over the whatever content management
system the webteam come up with in due course,

    Thomas.


On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:10:40AM -0500, chris dagdigian wrote:
> 
> Don't reinvent the wheel- people interested in working on our 
> next-generation (apache + php apparently) website should just up and 
> join our existing webteam. We already have the server, now we just need 
> smart people to make things happen in a timely fashion. People 
> interested in joining the open-bio webteam should point their browsers 
> at http://open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/webteam
> 
> The basic goal is a good-looking template driven website that has little 
> or no dynamic/changing content (probably just the News items will 
> change). We are good at writing code but we suck at content creation so 
> the last thing we want is some goofy portal that instantly goes out of 
> date because people can't be bothered to update it. I imagine that most 
> of the content is going to be static stuff like the email list archives 
> and auto-generated codebase documentation. .