Great initiative! But I find the screencaps on the landing page's slideshow very misleading imho. It displays some code repo... ok, now I'm a coder and just like others I'd be then inclined to ask myself "why would I use this instead of Github or Bitbucket?". And my gf is a neuroscientist and her gut reaction was "well... I don't code, how is this of any interest for me? I don't get it...".
Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
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Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#92Great initiative! But I find the screencaps on the landing page's slideshow very misleading imho. It displays some code repo... ok, now I'm a coder and just like others I'd be then inclined to ask myself "why would I use this instead of Github or Bitbucket?". And my gf is a neuroscientist and her gut reaction was "well... I don't code, how is this of any interest for me? I don't get it...".
Just to be clear: we both are VERY interested by this site, and actually quite excited. It's better than any other related initiatives and we expect to try it out asap!
It's just this detail made us tick...
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#93I first heard of you guys when I read an interesting post about the startup scene in Chattanooga. Congrats on launching.
If you haven't checked in lately the scene is Chatt is growing daily http://noogastartups.com/
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#94Great initiative! But I find the screencaps on the landing page's slideshow very misleading imho. It displays some code repo... ok, now I'm a coder and just like others I'd be then inclined to ask myself "why would I use this instead of Github or Bitbucket?". And my gf is a neuroscientist and her gut reaction was "well... I don't code, how is this of any interest for me? I don't get it...".
Just to be clear: we both are VERY interested by this site, and actually quite excited. It's better than any other related initiatives and we expect to try it out asap! It's just this detail made us tick...
I agree we need to clean that up. We use a rake command to seed our test server with test data. We will swap those out for some real screenshots today
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
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So the blog post claims improvements to the webapp were made and has an image of the gitlab interface. Gitlab was recently updated and made big changes in the backend to improve performance. This smells fishy.
Hi raffenet, We have used gitlab components & also contributed back to gitlab. Its a great project, but I can assure you we have an entirely different product. Were just leveraging OSS projects like any other startup
from what I can see it is a Gitlab 5 install with a skin? What advantage is there for an organisation using your product vs a free gitlab install?
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
So the blog post claims improvements to the webapp were made and has an image of the gitlab interface. Gitlab was recently updated and made big changes in the backend to improve performance. This smells fishy.
Hi raffenet, We have used gitlab components & also contributed back to gitlab. Its a great project, but I can assure you we have an entirely different product. Were just leveraging OSS projects like any other startup
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Sure, OSF costs money, but VC-funded startups are under pressure to monetize their customer bases, whereas grant-funded projects just need to make something useful enough to justify continued investment. There's the obvious risk is that a VC-funded company will make its money off of selling your private information. (I don't think this is very likely, but I trust Brian Nosek a lot more than I trust most startups.) Th…
While I can agree with the spirit of your message, OTOH... > Not only do private corporations buy shiny buildings, but they also have a legal obligation to make as much money for their shareholders as they possibly can. This seems to be a popular belief, but it's simply not true. Private companies have no legal requirement to make profits or pay dividends. Even public companies, do not have to by law, maximize profit…
Sorry, you're right, there is no direct legal obligation to make money. However, investors in startups frequently have a large degree of control over the direction of the company, and often care more about the bottom line than any broader mission to change the world. See e.g. Jason Hoyt's blog post on Mendeley: http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/47527556151/my-thoughts-o...
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#98To Toni & the whole Banyan team, CONGRATS on launching the public beta! I'm excited to see Banyan on the gigabit web. :)
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to be clear: we both are VERY interested by this site, and actually quite excited. It's better than any other related initiatives and we expect to try it out asap! It's just this detail made us tick...
I agree we need to clean that up. We use a rake command to seed our test server with test data. We will swap those out for some real screenshots today
We're registering. I've passed the word to other fellow scientist in my network. Looking forward to use it fully.
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#100To Toni & the whole Banyan team, CONGRATS on launching the public beta! I'm excited to see Banyan on the gigabit web. :)
Thanks Will!