[Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor packages

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

For people like me who might be a bit behind on social media, it might be
nice to identify where the blurb is generated from.  Is it the first
sentence of the description or ...?

Best,
Kasper

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Andrzej Oleś <andrzej.oles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> thank you for sharing your idea!
>
> One possibility would be to include a package icon/logo next to the package
> name if the package provides one. This file could be saved as inst/logo.png
> or vignettes/logo.png, e.g. see
> https://github.com/aoles/EBImage/blob/master/vignettes/logo.png
>
> Best,
> Andrzej
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Lin Pedersen <thomasp85 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just sat down to write a linkedIn update about my recent package and
> > noticed that a thumbnail styled summary was added once I put in the URL
> for
> > my package (this is probably old news - I’m not much of a social media
> > guy). The summary was a bit dull though, and I was wondering if it was
> > possible to change something on the package landing pages to spice these
> > thumbnails up a bit, so they would appear more exciting when people share
> > their work on Facebook/linkedIn/Twitter…
> >
> > Don’t know how much work this entail - it is definitely in the
> > nice-to-have rather than need-to-have pile of feature requests
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