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Update Biological Expression Language topic URL#1897

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@cthoyt cthoyt commented Oct 29, 2020

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The old openbel.org website has now been co-opted by a company that's advertizing their services, so there's a new purely community-driven site to replace it. This PR switches the URL and GitHub organization for the biological-expression-language topic to reflect that.

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the old openbel.org website has now been co-opted by a company that's advertizing their services, so there's a new purely community-driven site to replace it
@cthoyt cthoyt requested a review from a team October 29, 2020 11:03
@cthoyt cthoyt changed the title Update Biologicla Expression Language topic URL Update Biological Expression Language topic URL Oct 29, 2020
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deniseyu commented Nov 9, 2020

Thanks for the contribution, @cthoyt! For my context (as a non-scientist 😄), what is the relationship between these two projects? Is https://bel.bio/ deprecated in favor of https://biological-expression-language.github.io/ within the BEL community? Thanks in advance!

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cthoyt commented Nov 9, 2020

The biological expression language was created by Selventa, Inc. and made public through their GitHub repository https://github.com/openbel. They also sponsored the community OpenBEL organization and website https://openbel.org. Since Selventa dissolved in 2016, the community has had a re-emergence, but one of the ex-Selventa employees recently used their access to the domain registration to redirect the community page to their company's page (which is https://bel.bio). The https://github.com/openbel organization also used to be maintained by the community, but the same person also recently removed access from the other community members.

The https://biological-expression-language.github.io/ is a neutral, more inclusive site that will support the community and not just a single business, which could also go defunct like Selventa

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deniseyu commented Nov 9, 2020

Thanks for the explanation @cthoyt!

@deniseyu deniseyu merged commit d21cec1 into github:master Nov 10, 2020
@cthoyt cthoyt deleted the patch-3 branch November 16, 2020 15:37
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