[MOBY-dev] What to do with the BioMoby website

[Mark]

Hi all,

As you know, we switched the BioMoby website to Wordpress several years  
ago.  We've just noticed that the WP installation has been compromised,  
and unfortunately the update to a more secure version of Wordpress is not  
a trivial process!

So... I'm now wondering what we should do with the website.  I must admit  
that I rarely use it - I do look at the interactive map from time-to-time,  
and the list of papers and software is often useful to refer to... but the  
bloggy-aspect of the site is something that I simply never use (and it  
hasn't been updated in quite a while!)

 From my perspective, the Moby project is "finished", and I have personally  
moved-on to the newer SADI interoperability framework project (and I hope  
many Moby'ers will maked this move also!!) so other than archival I have  
no personal interest in maintaining the current biomoby website, but maybe  
others do?
Does anyone have an interest in any of the biomoby.org website content?   
If so, please let me know which "bits" are useful/interesting to you and I  
will create an archive of those pieces on a simple, straightforward set of  
web pages.  Those bits that nobody has an interest in will simply be taken  
down, I think.  We don't have time/manpower at the moment to do a  
Wordpress upgrade, and having a compromised site on open-bio is not  
something we can ignore!

The biomoby domain, however, is still required as we have a ton of  
proxying happening via that domain name, so the domain will remain up and  
running.  All we really need to do is take WordPress down, while keeping  
any useful bits of the Wordpress site available in some simple page-form.

Let me know what you all think.

Best wishes!

Mark

P.S.  If anyone is interested, we ran the stats the other day - the Moby  
Central registry hosted in Canada was hit >800,000 times in the past year,  
and the BioMoby services that we host here were hit almost 1.4 Million  
times in the past 12 months!!  ...so... the project is still pretty active  
for sure!!