[IPython-dev] A 'static demo' mode for the notebook, so we could keep a more visible version of the examples up?

[Jason Grout]

On 6/9/12 8:19 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was just thinking: would it make sense to have something like a
> `--no-kernels` flag to the notebook that would behave like a 'hard
> read-only' mode, where the server would simply never instantiate any
> kernel whatsoever (neither for a notebook nor exposing the cluster
> tab)?
>
> I'm thinking that such a flag would be very useful in order to run a
> very safe notebook server to simply present the nicely rendered
> version of all the files in it.  I'm specifically thinking this would
> let us have a persistent address to show our example notebooks, for
> which we currently resort to just pointing people to the repo:
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/docs/examples/notebooks
>
> This isn't a very useful way of showing that content to interested
> users, but if we could run a persistent server without any risk that
> would solve this problem easily for now.   Eventually we'll fold
> high-quality notebook conversion into our built docs, etc, but this
> seemed like a useful solution anyways...
>
> Thoughts?
>

+1.  Very much so.  Our rough equivalent, the published worksheets on 
sagenb.org, are a wealth of expertise and knowledge, and it's often fun 
to just see what new things I can learn by browsing interesting looking 
ones.

Jason