Heat wave here too this weekend. Unfortunately, my air conditioned bilevel train has been canceled and I'll be out in the mid-90s as trainman on the caboose train both days.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
We have 90s predicted through the weekend. In terms of heat, this summer hasn't been as bad. I think the humidity has been lower. So there's no walking into a brick wall, just walking into an oven.
*now that I've said all this, the humidity will spike to 90% and the temps will hit 100+.
"Einstein@Home: Upcoming website relaunch
After a long time of development and testing we're ready to relaunch our website!
The new site will feature a new design that's much improved over the current more than 10-year-old set of pages. The current Einstein@Home website is neither visually appealing by today's standards, nor is it particularly accessible because of the current structuring of information. First time visitors and potential new volunteers can be confused and we want to avoid that of course. We want to release a fully revamped website with an entirely new modern design as well as a complete overhaul of how we present information - all with an improved user-experience in mind.
Secondly, the current Einstein@Home website maintenance has always been cumbersome. Many content changes require a change of code! That's not the best way to get scientists to add or update content, like blogging about their current work or providing additional scientific content. We needed a way to facilitate that to expand the range of information we provide to our volunteer community, increasing their insight into what's going on behind the scenes. We chose to use Drupal, a true content management system, that allows us to do just that. But there's more: it's possible to extend Drupal's functionality in a way that it can fully include the functionality of BOINC's stock webpages. Other projects separated their content/science pages from their project management/community website, effectively providing two websites for a single BOINC project. That's something we wanted to avoid. We want a fully integrated, coherent solution and Drupal allows us to do that. However, the downside of this is a relatively complex implementation which is why it took us some time to develop it with our limited resources. Now we think it's time to release it.
We know that major changes like these will never please everyone, whether it's the visual design or the modernized site structure. We tried to minimize such negative effects by running a public test phase over at albertathome.org. That test phase started two years ago where we first invited our top 100 community power-users and our moderators. After that we fully migrated our test project and invited the whole community to give it a spin. We gathered your feedback and incorporated it into the now to be released version. Please note though that the new site still isn't 100% complete. It's going to be just the beginning - we upgrade its foundation to be able to build new offerings on top of it over the next months and years.
Long story short, here's the current release plan:
July 20th: first public announcement
July 25th: release plan update / heads-up
July 29th: final heads-up
August 1st-5th: website downtime / data migration / relaunch
Please note that during the first week of August the project's website will be down as we need to migrate all the existing community content in a coherent way. We try to keep the project itself running such that workunit distribution shouldn't be affected."
So, since many people don't read, or pay attention to the BOINC Notices; I wanted to get this posted here.
TL, you could have just given us a simple link you know.
Quote:
Oh no, five whole days without the interaction between Mike and Annie! Will I survive the withdrawal?
I suspect some will feel the same about your trains :-))
Quote:
and .... Whatever became of "Annie of Arc ?
She went off on a tangent, struck a wrong chord, and was last seen in the dock leaf sector of the local pharmacy.
Meanwhile, reports of a nationwide outbreak of Urticaria are believed to have no foundation, and the Council are having strong words with the local Urtica dioica community about their demeanour towards the public. The PM has said that there will be no rash decisions made.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
BBC America is running a lot of TNG this week, plus Hitchhiker's a couple of times. They're even saying "Sci-Fi Saturday." Not surprising, given the new movie coming out Friday.
Then they're running all four Jawses on Sunday.
Meanwhile, FX is running the reboot movies a lot this week.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
BBC America is running a lot of TNG this week, plus Hitchhiker's a couple of times. They're even saying "Sci-Fi Saturday." Not surprising, given the new movie coming out Friday.
Then they're running all four Jawses on Sunday.
Meanwhile, FX is running the reboot movies a lot this week.
You forgot about the NEW Sharknado being aired on July 31st!! Again it's a tv movie, just like all the others. ;-)
Chris IMHO I appreciated the blurb about the new website, it was short and to the point as opposed to long and windy so easier to read here than going to a link to read it. Sure a link could lead to more info but I got what I needed to know from what was posted.
Heat wave here too this
Heat wave here too this weekend. Unfortunately, my air conditioned bilevel train has been canceled and I'll be out in the mid-90s as trainman on the caboose train both days.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
We have 90s predicted through
We have 90s predicted through the weekend. In terms of heat, this summer hasn't been as bad. I think the humidity has been lower. So there's no walking into a brick wall, just walking into an oven.
*now that I've said all this, the humidity will spike to 90% and the temps will hit 100+.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
OK - Just got this from
OK - Just got this from Notices in BOINC:
"Einstein@Home: Upcoming website relaunch
After a long time of development and testing we're ready to relaunch our website!
The new site will feature a new design that's much improved over the current more than 10-year-old set of pages. The current Einstein@Home website is neither visually appealing by today's standards, nor is it particularly accessible because of the current structuring of information. First time visitors and potential new volunteers can be confused and we want to avoid that of course. We want to release a fully revamped website with an entirely new modern design as well as a complete overhaul of how we present information - all with an improved user-experience in mind.
Secondly, the current Einstein@Home website maintenance has always been cumbersome. Many content changes require a change of code! That's not the best way to get scientists to add or update content, like blogging about their current work or providing additional scientific content. We needed a way to facilitate that to expand the range of information we provide to our volunteer community, increasing their insight into what's going on behind the scenes. We chose to use Drupal, a true content management system, that allows us to do just that. But there's more: it's possible to extend Drupal's functionality in a way that it can fully include the functionality of BOINC's stock webpages. Other projects separated their content/science pages from their project management/community website, effectively providing two websites for a single BOINC project. That's something we wanted to avoid. We want a fully integrated, coherent solution and Drupal allows us to do that. However, the downside of this is a relatively complex implementation which is why it took us some time to develop it with our limited resources. Now we think it's time to release it.
We know that major changes like these will never please everyone, whether it's the visual design or the modernized site structure. We tried to minimize such negative effects by running a public test phase over at albertathome.org. That test phase started two years ago where we first invited our top 100 community power-users and our moderators. After that we fully migrated our test project and invited the whole community to give it a spin. We gathered your feedback and incorporated it into the now to be released version. Please note though that the new site still isn't 100% complete. It's going to be just the beginning - we upgrade its foundation to be able to build new offerings on top of it over the next months and years.
Long story short, here's the current release plan:
July 20th: first public announcement
July 25th: release plan update / heads-up
July 29th: final heads-up
August 1st-5th: website downtime / data migration / relaunch
Please note that during the first week of August the project's website will be down as we need to migrate all the existing community content in a coherent way. We try to keep the project itself running such that workunit distribution shouldn't be affected."
So, since many people don't read, or pay attention to the BOINC Notices; I wanted to get this posted here.
TL
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
Oh no, five whole days
Oh no, five whole days without the interaction between Mike and Annie! Will I survive the withdrawal?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
TL, you could have just given
TL, you could have just given us a simple link you know.
I suspect some will feel the same about your trains :-))
She went off on a tangent, struck a wrong chord, and was last seen in the dock leaf sector of the local pharmacy.
Meanwhile, reports of a nationwide outbreak of Urticaria are believed to have no foundation, and the Council are having strong words with the local Urtica dioica community about their demeanour towards the public. The PM has said that there will be no rash decisions made.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
BBC America is running a lot
BBC America is running a lot of TNG this week, plus Hitchhiker's a couple of times. They're even saying "Sci-Fi Saturday." Not surprising, given the new movie coming out Friday.
Then they're running all four Jawses on Sunday.
Meanwhile, FX is running the reboot movies a lot this week.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: BBC America is running
You forgot about the NEW Sharknado being aired on July 31st!! Again it's a tv movie, just like all the others. ;-)
Chris IMHO I appreciated the blurb about the new website, it was short and to the point as opposed to long and windy so easier to read here than going to a link to read it. Sure a link could lead to more info but I got what I needed to know from what was posted.
Some cheerful news to start
Some cheerful news to start your Thursday !
Neil degrasse Tyson talks about asteroid Apophis
hitting us in 2029 ...
Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdETHCmpVVg
RE: You forgot about the
I saw the last 20 minutes or so of one of those. That was truly a comedy like Mike thought West Wing was.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Hitchhikers was 100%
Hitchhikers was 100% excellent as was Red Dwarf.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now