[SciPy-Dev] changing scipy.org to just be about SciPy the library

[Matt Haberland]

Sounds like a good idea to me. I agree with the main points (not much
content about the ecosystem as it is, and we can certainly link to an
"ecosystem site" for backwards compatibility).

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 2:59 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The https://scipy.org/ website has always been about SciPy the ecosystem
> not SciPy the project/library, and it's always resulted in confusion. I
> propose we finally change that.  From my review of a recent PR [1] to the
> scipy.org website repo:
>
> """
> Perhaps the confusing thing here is that https://scipy.org is about
> "SciPy the ecosystem" rather than "SciPy the library". That's what we would
> really like to fix, then this becomes a lot more straightforward. So far I
> had in mind to have a replacement "ecosystem site" before changing
> scipy.org, however we could go without that. There really isn't that much
> content on the current site that we'd have to remove, and some of the
> things that are there now (like SciPy Stack) have become irrelevant. We
> could easily say that `scipy.org` will be about SciPy the library, while
> keeping a page like https://scipy.org/about.html that explains the
> ecosystem context.
> """
>
> Besides some news about and doc hosting for NumPy releases, there's not
> much content about other projects, and those other projects don't seem to
> care. The "ecosystem" thing really has had its time. "SciPy ecosystem"
> isn't even a preferred term anymore I think, the "scientific" is seen as
> too narrow by a lot of people. PyData or NumPy would be better qualifiers
> (or some new umbrella term).
>
> We may not be able to do all the work straight away, but I want to get
> approval for the decision to make scipy.org about the SciPy project now.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
> [1] https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/309
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Matt Haberland
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