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DANDI landing page #1

Closed satra closed 5 years ago

satra commented 5 years ago
yarikoptic commented 5 years ago

Do you have one in mind from existing ones to take as a starting point? no webdesign skills here ;-)

bendichter commented 5 years ago

I'd like to set up a few things services that are relevant to the landing page:

1) Include a sign-up to a DANDI newsletter to inform users of new developments, solicit the field for datasets, get the word out about hackathons, etc. I've used MailChimp, which I like (free). 2) Set up google analytics on the website to see what type of activity we are getting (free). 3) Set up an email for questions. Would it be possible to set up contact@dandiarchive.org? Second choice would be dandi.archive@mit.edu, third would be dandi.archive@gmail.com. 4) Set up a twitter account for DANDI (maybe a little premature). 5) To make these services easier to access, I'd also like to create a LastPass group that holds the credentials for these services. Then I'd add you three to that group so we can all easily access these and other services.

Thoughts on these?

bendichter commented 5 years ago

Also as for design I could talk to the guy who designed the NWB newsletter for us

yarikoptic commented 5 years ago

5. Good idea - go ahead. Never used it though 4. We do have https://twitter.com/dandiarchive already 3. @satra would know more about emails setups we could do with the least of sweat. May be a few more mailman lists would be sufficient for announcements and support 2. Google analytics is a thorny topic. Eventually we will enable it or some other js beast. If we hosted it, could just analyze http logs.

yarikoptic commented 5 years ago

Also as for design I could talk to the guy who designed the NWB newsletter for us

I don't mind any assistance on design ;-)

bendichter commented 5 years ago

Why is Google analytics thorny?

yarikoptic commented 5 years ago

Why is Google analytics thorny?

Many people don't appreciate being tracked beyond obvious. Whenever I can I do disable Google analytics js which allows Google to track me on non Google sites

bendichter commented 5 years ago

@yarikoptic Hmm ok I usually expect people to use incognito mode if they don't want to be tracked and expect to be tracked otherwise, but I can see how that would get us off on the wrong foot with some of our more tech savvy users. Is there a way to gather this type of data without selling our souls to Google?

let's put links to our slack channel and twitter on the landing page

satra commented 5 years ago

if you like the general layout of my group's page, it's a jekyll based responsive static site generator and can be tuned pretty well. the nice thing about this is that it would support blogs and other features as well.

it also uses data files, which means we should be able to transform to other technologies in the future without losing info.

mgrauer commented 5 years ago

We could also make use of Jared Tomeck@Kitware for design, he did the Dandi logo and UI screenshots for the proposal. He also does website design and has worked with Jekyll before. We probably couldn't do this before mid-September though--but that gives some time to gather content, and I expect keeping the website looking fresh will be an ongoing project.

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yarikoptic commented 5 years ago

I think this sounds like the best plan to go forward indeed. So should we

satra commented 5 years ago

@bendichter - info@dandiarchive.org is now active - for discussions and announcements, i would simply use neurostars.org

@yarikoptic - i'll push a barebones version of jekyll to dandi.github.io

satra commented 5 years ago

@yarikoptic and others. basic version pushed. please add your details to _data/team_members.yml

satra commented 5 years ago

ok certificate errors are now resolved and site is available at: https://dandiarchive.org/

yarikoptic commented 5 years ago

Great, thank you @satra! I will fill out the details whenever get to the laptop