On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey Hutchison <geo...@pitt.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Despite the low level of action, I’ve been spending a lot of time *thinking* > about Avogadro and the future. There are quite a few exciting things, > although it may take a while before they fully appear. > > One thing I can talk about is pushing for tutorials and manuals. > > The University of Pittsburgh is putting money and student-power towards > improving tutorials and manuals for Avogadro. We’re converting from a > proprietary program to Avogadro over the next two years. So we’ll be putting > up workflows, learning exercises, etc. > > One thing I'm considering is moving away from MediaWiki. It's insecure and > spammy. The whole point was to let people easily edit the pages, and that > doesn't work now. > > I'm open to suggestions, but I'd like to suggest GitHub pages. These are > generated from a repo, so it's easy to add a pull request to modify them, > translate, etc. As static pages, they're easier to package and distribute > too. > > One catch is converting from MediaWiki to Jekyll, so if someone can help > with that, eg parsing the XML dump, please let me know. > > Thoughts? Better alternatives? > This sounds good to me, I think being able to issue pull requests would be useful along with easier packaging, offline editing.
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