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Some thoughts on the MathJax presence on teh intertubez(tm).
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* Where are we?
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* www.mathjax.org
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* github.com/mathjax
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* google groups
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* twitter, facebook, linkedin
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* Where else could we be? What could we use?
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* google+ page
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* youtube/vimeo etc for video tutorials
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* stackexchange/osqa for ourselves
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What are we doing where?
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* github
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* code repository (duh!)
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* development wiki (double duh!)
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* issue tracker
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* testing suite repository
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* development tools repository
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* soon: docs repository, example-apps repository
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* google groups
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* user group -> everything
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* dev group -> MJ development related stuff
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* social networks
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* twitter: looking for conversations
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* linkedin: MJ group for announcements
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* facebook: for announcements
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* www.mathjax.org
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* wordpress
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* blog/news
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* pages about MathJax (pretty wild mix)
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* sphinx docs
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### current issues
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* www.mathjax.org
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* docs have "fake" wordpress theme.
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* docs 1.1 not showing that they are outdated.
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* wordpress search vs docs search -> confusion
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* wordpress contains some stuff that really belongs to the documentation
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* and vice versa
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### who are our users?
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* What types of users do we have?
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* The Reader
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* has seen content using MathJax
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* maybe did a search, clicked on a badge, maybe a potential sponsor
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* just wants to know what it is
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* might become...
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* The Author
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* wants to author mathematical content
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* might become...
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* The Developer
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* writes some kind of application that involves mathematical notation
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* could be a web app, mobile app, desktop app
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* might become...
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* The Hacker
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* wants to modify MathJax
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* maybe just for an app, maybe write an extension, maybe a jax, maybe get fully involved
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* What do these types need?
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* The Reader
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* needs a good landing page
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* needs to know that readers don't have to do anything
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* needs to be wowed with some cool demos ;)
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* might want to know about helpers (FF font plugin, Mathjax-This-Page bookmarklet, greasemonkey scripts)
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* might need to know about user group
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* The Author
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* needs to understand what authors have to do, depending on their authoring platform
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* needs to understand CDN
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* might need to understand installing MathJax on a server
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* might need info for platforms (wordpress, blogspot, mediawiki etc)
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* might need small tweaks (disqus-comments scripts)
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* might need authoring help (pandoc, Qute, MathType, apps)
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* needs to know about the user group
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* might need to know about issue tracker
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* might want to add/modify our documentation
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* The Developer
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* needs to know about API
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* needs to know about the issue tracker
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* needs to know about "shrinking", which parts of MathJax are needed for which browsers
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* needs to know about example apps
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* needs to know about helpful snippets
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* might want to add/modify our documentation
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* might want to be on the dev list
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* The Hacker
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* needs to know about testing suite, development tools, development wiki
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### Re-organizing our web presence
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Some ideas.
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* www.mathjax.org
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* pure landing page
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* i.e., only highly stable content such as info for Readers
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* good navigation for everybody else (i.e. to news/blog and docs)
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* blog.mathjax.org
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* for what used to be www.mathjax.org/news as well as "usefully outdated" content (Neil's article on a11y, Hylke's article on LMS)
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* docs.mathjax.org
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* our new docs, hosted at rtfd
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* structured to help Authors, Developers and Hackers find the right parts
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* incorporates the documentation from www.mathjax.org (e.g. Mathjax-in-Use, epub readers, browser-compatibility)
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* easier to add user contributions via "edit on github"
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* clearly distinguished theme to avoid confusion with main site
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* How?
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* docs -> rtfd.org
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* website -> github-pages/jekyll
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* What would it require?
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* convert our theme to jekyll (use twitter-bootstrap?)
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* understand rtfd.org standard theme enough to get some "branding" going (i.e., link to www.mathjax.org & logo)
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* OR design sphinx theme (needs: add manual links for versions, allows: better control, warning of old versions)
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* Transition
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* introduce docs.mathjax.org, blog.mathjax.org slowly & use redirects to update search engines (one caveat of github/pages: no redirects :() |
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