I'm curious what you see as the limitations of the existing website? I personally think our current website is fine. Maybe some of the content could be improved or moved around a bit, but I don't know if that necessitates a new static generator for it.
Aaron Meurer On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:32 AM Jason Moore <moorepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nikhil, > > I recommend creating some kind of survey with carefully crafted questions > to discover what the SymPy community (users and devs) might want in a > website upgrade. Maybe you can come up with 5 or 6 key questions that take > < 5 mins to complete to try to get a broad sampling of opinions and then > advertise it beyond the mailing list and Github. Given the results, I would > lean to prioritizing SymPy user needs over SymPy developer needs in the > work you do. It may be tempting to spend lots of time on a fancy website > build system instead of updating the content, organization, and appearance > of the website, but I believe the latter is much more important. > > As for choice in static site generators I'd recommend 1) choosing one that > is very likely to be popular and well maintained in the long run, 2) > reduces the amount of work needed to convert from the current website, 3) > and, if possible, written in Python because our community knows Python and > will have little trouble writing extensions, modifications, for any special > things we desire. > > Good idea! Share the proposal as you draft it and we can give you feedback. > > Jason > moorepants.info > +01 530-601-9791 > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nikhil Maan <nikhilmaa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> I would like to work on this as a NUMFOCUS grant project. What kind of >> changes do we want in the website? >> As for the static generators, in my experience, I found hugo to be >> simpler and easier to use for everyone and it also has a vast library of >> themes that we can use. The main problem I've had with it is it's in a pre >> v1 release, so some things do tend to break sometimes with some releases. >> >> On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 9:16:02 PM UTC+5:30 nicog...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> I think that using a static generator would have advantages from the >>> translation point-of-view as well. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 3:27:28 PM UTC-5, Aaron Meurer wrote: >>>> >>>> I think we can modify the backend, but we should be prepared as >>>> mentors to do the programming work. Conversely, I don't know if it >>>> would make sense to make any changes without feedback from a technical >>>> writer if we are going to get one, so I don't know if it makes sense >>>> to do anything like this now, aside from initial research into what >>>> alternatives are out there. >>>> >>>> Aaron Meurer >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ac3605e5-763a-48ac-bcf3-c97cebfe0bedn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ac3605e5-763a-48ac-bcf3-c97cebfe0bedn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiuA%2B%3D0t6CE2O4Aq-J4puBsvg64nk2jDvgUTo7M-UFxfQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiuA%2B%3D0t6CE2O4Aq-J4puBsvg64nk2jDvgUTo7M-UFxfQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6LqfTe1JRL2NZPGZ_xD8euWOq_sKcZM8VOr9uPBe8K0%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
