[BioPython] New biopython.org website

[Iddo Friedberg]

Good luck with your writtens...

If you can spare the time, can you set up a voting page for the logos? I 
guess Jeff should declare opening & closing time for ballots, and we'll 
all vote. One vote each please, unless you're from Florida.


./I



Brad Chapman wrote:
> Hey all; 
> Thanks to everyone for comments on the website. I'll try to respond
> to all the concerns in one mail here -- let me know if I miss anything.
> 
> [We need a logo]
> I agree completely and damn, am I impressed with the quality of the
> logos coming in. I'm glad there are so many artistically talented
> folks out there. Once we choose a logo (are we having a contest?
> Woo.) I'll be more than happy to get it up.
> 
> [Everyone misses ScriptCentral]
> I left ScriptCentral out of the first website just so I could get it
> finished and have something that works and has basic content. I also
> liked ScriptCentral and think that Jeff's idea of making it
> interactively editable like the Participants page is a good one.
> I'll try to get this set up as soon as I'm done with exams and
> recovered (okay, when I stop drinking after my exams are over :-).
> 
> [The Participants editable page is insecure]
> The danger with having editable pages and passwords that people
> could get out of mailing lists is that annoying webfiends with too
> much time on their hands could ruin things. On the other hand, the
> nice thing about the interactive pages and having the password
> available is that it encourages people to contribute and lower
> barriers. 
> 
> I was thinking about a solution that be more safe from getting
> messed up and still be interactive and the thing I think I'm going
> to implement is saving backups of the page. I found a class to make
> versioned backups on the ActiveState Python Cookbook and think I'll
> implement something based on this. Having backups should make it
> really hard for something to do a lot of damage we can't undo.
> Hopefully this'll satisfy these concerns. I'll try to get that done
> as soon as I can as well.
> 
> Glad the pages seem to be going over well and I'm especially happy
> with all the logos. Damn, ya'll are seriously talented. 
> 
> As-long-as-I-don't-have-to-draw-anything-ly yr's,
> Brad
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