[open-science] The Journal Wordpress

Wed Jul 25 16:15:04 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ethan O. Perlstein
<eperlste at princeton.edu>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new entrant to the Open Science list. My name is Ethan Perlstein, I'm
> an evolutionary pharmacologist at Princeton, and my lab gives psych drugs
> to yeast.
>
> Recently, I commissioned a modular, self publishing platform built on WP
> from a professional web design team, and my site went live a month ago:
> http://perlsteinlab.com
>
>
Welcme Ethan!

> In the spirit of Open Science, I'd like to make my platform freely
> available and open source. After consultations, the consensus is to convert
> my site into a Wordpress theme via a community-based effort. I'm looking
> for anyone interested in helping me, which as I understand ultimately boils
> down to uploading the base code onto GitHub. However, not being a
> programmer myself, I don't know how to navigate this process and ensure
> that conversion to a WP theme is efficient and actually results in a usable
> platform.
>
>
Is it specifically based on GitHub? Or would any repository do?

> Please let me know if this project is of interest, and if you or anyone
> you know would be interesting in using such a platform.
>
>
All such ideas are interesting -  the OKF is a meritocracy so take-up
depends on the ideas and the implementation being compelling.

My personal experience with WP is that it's the de facto open standard - so
I use it - but it seems awful for semantic content such as XML. But maybe
it's got better...

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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