Thanks for the encouragement Richard. We are trying to keep up with the needs of the VTK community. Will
PS- Don't send this to the ITK folks, their heads might swell even more ;-) On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Richard Whitehead < [email protected]> wrote: > David, > > I am very pleased to hear this. Getting started with VTK has been a > really tough learning curve, often the simplest things are very difficult > to get to work (e.g. getting a picture to fill a window!). > The users forum is great but one doesn't always get an answer. > ITK was actually much easier to learn, maybe there are things we can learn > from them too. > > Many thanks, > > Richard > > > > Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:29:19 -0400 > From: David E DeMarle <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, vtkdev > <[email protected]>, Christopher Mullins > <[email protected]>, Will Schroeder > <[email protected]> > Subject: [vtkusers] heads up: changes to vtk web site and examples > coming > Message-ID: > <CANjZAi8s61gFQSE4N_riGx5mU= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Hey gang, > > We've started cleaning up the accumulated clutter that we call the VTK wiki > page. With a collection of maybe twenty years' information up there we are > suffering more from a proliferation than a scarcity of information. Our > goal then is to streamline and improve the content to make it easier to > find the important stuff and especially to get started using VTK. > > As such we have or are about to: > * change the top level wiki page from: > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Deprecated_frontpage > to: > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK > > * remove or update old and often conflicting content (I'm looking at you > FAQ!). > > * switch to a ParaView style download form on the webpage, where you pick > from drop down boxes what you want to download. > > * Adhere to "one set of examples to rule them all" or "there can be only > one set of examples". The in source VTK examples: > ${VTKSOURCE}/Examples > are being updated and will eventually move to the VTK Wiki examples > project: > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples > Regression test results for the wiki examples will move to the VTK > dashboard where more developers will see them. > > * the VTK web site will receive its own facelift in the coming months, like > ParaView's recently did, for much the same reason. > > If you have any concerns about any of this or have some spare time and > would like to help update the documentation and example, please let us > know. > > David E DeMarle > Kitware, Inc. > R&D Engineer > 21 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > Phone: 518-881-4909 > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at: > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers > > -- William J. Schroeder, PhD Kitware, Inc. 28 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065 [email protected] http://www.kitware.com (518) 881-4902
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