[Numpy-discussion] Suggestions for NumPy (original) (raw)

Joe Harrington jh at oobleck.astro.cornell.edu
Wed Jun 7 16:52:33 EDT 2006

Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:04:32 -0400 From: "Jonathan Taylor" <jonathan.taylor at utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Suggestions for NumPy To: numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <463e11f90606021504h742e92e4t5ff418d1e29e426 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

My suggestion would be to have both numpy.org and scipy.org be the exact same page, but make it extremely clear that there are two different projects on the front page.

Cheers. Jon.

The goal of the web is to make information easy to find. The easiest and most successful way of doing that is to answer many needs in one place, hence the existence of "portal" pages, which scipy.org bills itself as. The relationship between scipy and numpy is laid out in its front page text. With two (actually many more) packages distributed separately, there will always be confused people, but having one main site that tells the whole story and provides comprehensive information will be the quickest way to deconfuse them. Conversely, a plethora of pages is a poor marketing strategy, as we have been learning with the zoo that's out there already. My suggestion is that all the other pages be automatic redirects to the scipy.org page or subpages thereof. I know that will probably make some people feel their toes have been stepped on. We could consider a website name change to avoid that, but I hope we don't have to.

Unite and conquer...

--jh--

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