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

[Arash Jahangir]

Hi Luis,
My congrats on a well developed started package.  It is clear and well
organized.    I think if the getting started in HTML so that people with
slower connection could just jump to their section, it could be helpful.
Also, some info on CVS check out and pros and cons of CVS version would be
good.

As to luring people to read the whole thing...that is a possible but hard to
accomplish task, imo.  I personally have not had much luck with it.  So I
make my docs in easy (and quick) to browse format and hope the painless
experience encourages more/better reads of the rest of documents.

regards,
Arash

PS Any plans for "Class to Examples" or annotated class list?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
To: "Arash Jahangir" <arash at vije.ca>
Cc: <insight-users at itk.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Suggestion -- New Memeber Welcoming Package


>
> 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.
> >
> > 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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> >
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