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

[Mark]

Hi Heiko,

No panic :-)  We are not "abandoning" BioMoby any time in the foreseeable  
future!  Certainly the majority of my resources are going into the SADI  
project rather than the Moby project, but Moby doesn't cost a lot to  
maintain so there is no pressure at all to shut it down.  It was simply a  
matter of an urgent situation arising with the project website without any  
hands to look after it properly and quickly, so we were exploring drastic  
measures.  (thanks again, Chris!!!)

It would certainly be interesting to know the activity of the project  
worldwide.  Your registry, the INB registry, the IRRI registry, plus our  
copy of Moby Central... must be close to 1M registry queries per month, I  
suspect!  (do any of you have these statistics?)

Not bad for a project that had it's initial funding cut by 70% because the  
reviewer said "it'll never work"  :-)

Mark




On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:10:33 -0700, Heiko Schoof  
<schoof at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> wrote:

> Dear Chris, thanks a mill for rescue work!
>
> Dear Mark, for us Biomoby is still a core necessity in projects
> running at least until mid of next year. If anything needs taken care
> of, let me know; we have just taken your continued Biomoby support for
> granted but in no way does that mean we'll let Biomoby die silently.
>
> You don't even see all our biomoby usage as our EUSOL internal
> services run off our own registry.
>
> Best, Heiko
>
> On 28.06.2010, at 21:31, Mark wrote:
>
>> by the way... Eddie just corrected me.
>>
>> The number of hits on MOBY Central registry (800,000) and the number
>> of hits on the Canadian services (1.4M) were in the past TWO months,
>> not the past 12 months.
>>
>> Wow!!  The project really IS still going strong!
>>
>> Mark
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