[Insight-users] Suggestion -- New Memeber Welcoming Package

[Kalpathi R Subramanian]

Luis Ibanez wrote:

> Hi Arash,
>
> Thanks a lot for you suggestion.
>
> We just put a first draft of the Welcome page.
>
>      http://www.itk.org/HTML/Welcome.htm
>
> It has very few entries in order to lure newcomers
> to *actually read* the page.  :-)
>
> We hope that by visiting the "Getting Started I"
> tutorial session, many of the newcomers questions
> will be answered.
>
> Please let us know if you have any other suggestions
>
>    Regards,
>
>       Luis
>
> ---------------------
> Arash Jahangir wrote:
> > Hi Luis,
> > I've noticed a lot of similar questions from new members.  Questions like
> > "How do I connect to VTK" or "what libraries are there" seem to pop up
> > rather frequently.  Nothing wrong with asking, but since they seem to be
> > shared by many new members, may I suggest Kitware creates a Welcoming
> > Package and email it to new members upon joining.  The package would include
> > the top 5 (or 10) newbie questions along with links to the library
> > resources.  For ITK this would be something like:
> >
> > 1) There are no visualization functionalities in ITK; if you want to see
> > your data, we suggest using VTK (link to VTK).  To learn how to connect the
> > two, take a look at (link here).
> > 2) Here is the list of ITK Modules
> > http://www.itk.org/Doxygen/html/modules.html
> > 3) Chances are your question has been discussed in the past.  You can search
> > the FAQ (or archives) here
> > 4) More through documentation and courseware can be found here
> > 5) Here are some of the ITK related projects and resources (links)
> >
> > On a related note, I think if ITK documentation had pages similar to VTK's
> > "Annotated Class List" and even better, "Class to Examples", it would be of
> > interest to a lot of people, especially new members.

I strongly agree with the point above!  -:) Wasnt ITK following a similar path
(using Doxygen) as VTK,
in terms of documentation?

    -- krs


>
> >
> > just a thought,
> > Arash
> >
> > PS  We discussed creation of tiling/mosaic framework to be shared with ITK
> > community.  For now the existing ITK libs answer our needs as we have fair
> > overlap between the images.  Should this change in the future, we'll take
> > you up on your offer.
> >
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