[Gmod-gbrowse] Server change for gmod.org and an announcement

[Scott C. <sc...@sc...>]

Hello all,

For several years, I've wanted to port the gmod.org MediaWiki instance to
something else but was daunted by the task. Events have finally conspired
to force me to do it, so I've spent the last month porting the content at
gmod.org to a github.io hosted page. It was a real slog, but thank goodness
for recursive wget, Pandoc and command line Perl to allow me to change
thousands of markdown files at a time.

Since gmod.org is now hosted at github.io, changes to this page can now be
made with commits to the https://github.com/GMOD/gmod.github.io repo. That
means that fixes and additions can be made by creating and editing markdown
files in the gmod.github.io repo and merging the changes into the main
branch.

AND NOW THE ANNOUNCEMENT

At the end of July, I will be stepping away from my role as GMOD project
coordinator, which on one hand, makes me very sad, but on the other, fills
me with immense pride in what we as the GMOD community have achieved over
the last 22 years. We have truly democratized organism genomics, allowing a
small lab to distribute data on whatever organisms are of interest to them
with (relatively) little effort. We can compare that to the MODs that
existed in the early aughts, that had staffs of many software developers to
make the same thing happen. We all did that, and I think the world is a
better place for it.

I can't say yet where I'm going, as I have a few opportunities on the table
that haven't been finalized, but I hope to be fulfilling a similar role in
another community.  If you're really interested, you can follow me on
Mastodon at @sco...@ge...cial.

Thank you to all of you--I have really enjoyed working with and growing
this community,
Scott


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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                                  scott
at scottcain dot net
GMOD Project Manager (http://gmod.org/)
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WormBase Developer (http://wormbase.org/)
Alliance of Genome Resources Group Leader (http://alliancegenome.org/)
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Human Cancer Models Initiative Project Manager (
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