Hello, I was at the ECCB earlier this month and in particular over the tutorials I had asked about the idea to synchronize their tutorial efforts with our packaging. I was a bit surprised, but all tutorials indeed requested to install a considerable amount of software, one was even a Ubuntu-derived VM with several GB in size. I only asked three, but they would all happily see their work linked from our pages and also come up with a variant of their tutorial that explains how to install our packages. This is nice, I thought.
The problem, which may not really be a problem but we better have some sort of consensus over how to do it, is that I do know know about what page should be the one linking out to those introductory (or often less introductory) approaches to computational biology. The page we had is lost over the unification of the management of all blends. When googling for "debian med", I am pointed to https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ - which is even localised but in my mind completely pointless and few people can update it. I think this page should be removed or auto-forward to https://blends.debian.org/med https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed - which is the page that could be but is not. https://www.*debian*.org/devel/*debian*-*med*/index.de.html is the same as https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/practice - nice, everyone understands it, just nothing for computational biology https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/ - not suggested by google but kind of intuitive to check after being pointed to the prior. This may be about the best page we have. https://blends.debian.org/med/ - not suggested by google but kind of a nice URL that people will try who found the former. I understand it is auto-generated. https://blends.debian.org/astro/ is nicer https://www.debian.org/blends/ - nice page IMHO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian-Med - funnily enough, the Wiki page seems better than most of what we had produced. We all do not seem to care too much about any such web presentation of Debian Med, otherwise it would be better. Given that we do not want to invest too much time, I very much favour a decent automation, much like a blends-version of the package tracker. We kind of had that once. Almost, just it was specific for Debian Med. Would it not sound like a good GSoC project to come up with a cross-blends web site generator? Or maybe we can generate something that would serve as input for another generator like http://gohugo.io (I am a bit of a fan, btw, and I should point out that it is already packaged https://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hugo.html). So, I like the idea to have a home page for Debian Med that would function as a portal to our scientific community. And I would also like if that portal would be technically shared with other blends, so we avoid reinventing/reimplementing wheels, here. Cheers, Steffen
