Hello again devs and user from around and far

Thanks for all your enthusiastic response :)

It is the end of the year and this topic might seems as not important, but 
it is for me personally so I am posting some of the progress on this matter 
to keep you guys informed.

So after some minor discussions, Pelican <http://blog.getpelican.com/> (a 
static website generator in python) has been chosen as the platform for the 
development of the new website to be used in tandem with github user pages 
<https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-project-pages/>.

Right now I am in the process of "playing" with the different options and 
plugins to use with Pelican and adapting the existing content in a pelican 
friendly format (markdown), which includes the pages in the googlecode 
site, the blog (in blogger) among others.

Many ideas are coming to mind for the new website, but some of the features 
that will be included are:

   - A new blog engine (powered by Pelican itself), so blogger would be 
   eventually be discontinued
   - Search functionality (powered by Tipue Search)
   - Blog posts comments via Disqus

Some other features under consideration are

   - New documentation in site powered by Sphinx (in order to centralize 
   information in a single place/web)

Finally I am drawing inspiration for how the site should look based on 
"competitor" packages in the Scientific/Development IDE environment which 
includes:

   - Matlab <http://nl.mathworks.com/products/matlab/index.html>
   - Ninja-IDE <http://ninja-ide.org/>
   - IEP <http://www.iep-project.org/>
   - R-Studio <http://www.rstudio.com/>

Any other sites for similar packages can be used as inspiration, so feel 
free to comment on any other sites/packages you are aware of.


Additional to this effort there are new channels of communication and 
outreach that hopefully will appeal to a larger user base. These include:

   - Facebook page 
   <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spyder-IDE/1575444006019383>
   - Twitter account <https://twitter.com/Spyder_IDE>
   - Google+ Page 
   
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107193318474220481102/107193318474220481102/posts>
   - Google+ Community 
   
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107193318474220481102/communities/112932801653352854842>
   - YouTube Channel 
   <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK0uCG7DVzKUAhaw8veitkw>

Please subscribe/follow if you feel more comfortable getting updates and 
information on those channels. 

Merry X-mas (for those celebrating) and happy new year (idem)

Cheers

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