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Adding training and support page #46

Closed scottlevie97 closed 1 year ago

scottlevie97 commented 1 year ago

Hi @philipcardiff,

Here's my first draft of the training and support page. Please let me know what you think.

I can change the emails to forwards with specific names at a later stage, i.e. training@solids4foam.com etc.

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

Great, thanks @scottlevie97. I will go through it now.

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

Thanks @scottlevie97.

@alishayegh @cloner0110 @ScimonCFD : what are your thoughts?

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

Some thoughts I had:

scottlevie97 commented 1 year ago

I updated the training section to include the most recent training at OFWS18. Do you think this is enough material? Or should I include more?

I agree about combining the "Consulting and Support" and "Code Customisation and Development" sections. What are your thoughts on including a high-level example of the problems we can solve, e.g., Stress analysis, Geo-Mechanics, CFD, FSI etc?

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

I updated the training section to include the most recent training at OFWS18. Do you think this is enough material? Or should I include more?

Thanks; I am unsure; we can add more, but we probably don't want this page dominated by a list of available training material (although a small number of links is fine). Would it be a good idea to create a sub-page with available training material? I have found the following videos:

I agree about combining the "Consulting and Support" and "Code Customisation and Development" sections. What are your thoughts on including a high-level example of the problems we can solve, e.g., Stress analysis, Geo-Mechanics, CFD, FSI etc?

It doesn't hurt to list some types of areas like this where we could provide support. This makes me think that it could be useful to have a "Gallery" section on the website, where we include images or videos that demonstrate what solids4foam can do. Alternatively, or in addition, we could also list publications or projects that use (or have used) solids4foam. We can take inspiration from preCICE, e.g. https://precice.org/community-support-precice.html and https://precice.org/community.html.

cloner0110 commented 1 year ago

Thanks; I am unsure; we can add more, but we probably don't want this page dominated by a list of available training material (although a small number of links is fine). Would it be a good idea to create a sub-page with available training material? I have found the following videos:

UCL OpenFOAM Workshop 2021, solids4foam training: https://youtu.be/D3AyykFAW3c UCL OpenFOAM Workshop 2021: FV for solids presentation: https://youtu.be/sNDWUABn_c4 OFW17 2022: https://youtu.be/OxWlBdWnVGo OFW18 2023: https://youtu.be/7tmuqK58gIA and all slides I have are on ResearchGate. I think Zeljko (and some others) have given similar or related presentations.

@philipcardiff Why shouldn't solids4Foam have its own YouTube channel? Im not sure about it, its just a thought, since we are currently going through consultancy direction, so Im not sure YouTube channel could be an appropriate way of demonstrating our learning and database material.

It doesn't hurt to list some types of areas like this where we could provide support. This makes me think that it could be useful to have a "Gallery" section on the website, where we include images or videos that demonstrate what solids4foam can do. Alternatively, or in addition, we could also list publications or projects that use (or have used) solids4foam. We can take inspiration from preCICE, e.g. https://precice.org/community-support-precice.html and https://precice.org/community.html.

True, I agree, the community stories in precice is sth that could be useful.

I'll get back to you with my thoughts on this.

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

A dedicated solids4foam YouTube channel is an easy thing to create; at the moment, I have a short solids4foam playlist on my channel. We can easily create a dedicated channel and add all relevant videos there, e.g. using appropriate playlists, like Training, Example simulations, etc.

@cloner0110 : do you want to create the channel? YouTube now allows channels with multiple owners, so you can share the channel after creating it.

In the training section on solids4foam.com, we can then direct people to our YouTube channel to view trainings.

cloner0110 commented 1 year ago

A dedicated solids4foam YouTube channel is an easy thing to create; at the moment, I have a short solids4foam playlist on my channel. We can easily create a dedicated channel and add all relevant videos there, e.g. using appropriate playlists, like Training, Example simulations, etc.

@cloner0110 : do you want to create the channel? YouTube now allows channels with multiple owners, so you can share the channel after creating it.

Sure I will create. I noticed that we should create brand account instead of regular channels. In that case we can have multiple controls on the channel. One question, Is it ok to use contact@solids4foam.com as accounts email address ?

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

A dedicated solids4foam YouTube channel is an easy thing to create; at the moment, I have a short solids4foam playlist on my channel. We can easily create a dedicated channel and add all relevant videos there, e.g. using appropriate playlists, like Training, Example simulations, etc. @cloner0110 : do you want to create the channel? YouTube now allows channels with multiple owners, so you can share the channel after creating it.

Sure I will create. I noticed that we should create brand account instead of regular channels. In that case we can have multiple controls on the channel. One question, Is it ok to use contact@solids4foam.com as accounts email address ?

Sure; it makes sense to use contact@solids4foam.com

scottlevie97 commented 1 year ago

@philipcardiff I created a new training materials page in bc024ac7cc955d219f5dbcfceefef818ef5589a9 with the material listed in: https://github.com/solids4foam/solids4foam.github.io/pull/46#issuecomment-1673271844

I guess this can be used as a starting point, and over time we can add more material to it and update the links to our own youtube channel.

I couldn't find the slides for this presentation on ResearchGate:

UCL OpenFOAM Workshop 2021: FV for solids presentation: https://youtu.be/sNDWUABn_c4

Do you know where they are?

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

@philipcardiff I created a new training materials page in bc024ac with the material listed in: #46 (comment)

I guess this can be used as a starting point, and over time we can add more material to it and update the links to our own youtube channel.

I couldn't find the slides for this presentation on ResearchGate:

UCL OpenFOAM Workshop 2021: FV for solids presentation: https://youtu.be/sNDWUABn_c4

Do you know where they are?

Sure, that makes sense.

I made edits to make the training and support page shorter and more general. Let me know your thoughts.

Let me look for the UCL slides.

cloner0110 commented 1 year ago

BTW, @philipcardiff , @scottlevie97 I've put YouTube info on Slack, we can extract these videos and upload them on the S4F YT channel.

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

BTW, @philipcardiff , @scottlevie97 I've put YouTube info on Slack, we can extract these videos and upload them on the S4F YT channel.

Good idea: feel free to do this and we (you?) can add this to the website.

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

OK, I will merge now... and we can sit back and let the offers roll in!

philipcardiff commented 1 year ago

OK, the page is now live.

By the way, we could optionally embed the videos at https://www.solids4foam.com/support/training-material.html, as we do at https://www.solids4foam.com/tutorials/more-tutorials/fluid-solid-interaction/flexibleOversetCylinder.html. Just an idea. Probably does not make much difference.