Merge pull request #42 from OBF/new_site_blog

add website post

Author: nlharris

content/posts/2025-03-04-new-website.md

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+---
+author: Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
+category:
+  - community
+  - obf 
+date: "2025-03-04T18:23:00+00:00"
+tag:
+  - obf
+  - internal
+ 
+title: "Welcome to the new OBF website!"
+---
+
+![the hugo logo](/img/2025-03-04-hugo.svg)
+
+Over the past few weeks, we have been working behind the scenes to migrate our website, resulting in the page that you currently have in front of you!
+Our pages are now generated by the [_Go_-based, open source static site generator _Hugo_](https://gohugo.io/), and are stored on [GitHub](https://github.com/OBF/OBF.github.io).
+All old URLs should continue working as before, but **if you run into any missing pages or other issues, please let us know by [submitting an issue](https://github.com/OBF/OBF.github.io/issues/new) or contacting us via the channels linked in the page footer**.
+
+Until recently, the OBF websites and blog ran on _Wordpress_, the most common, PHP-based Content Management System, which overall has served us well over the years (and which itself was a migration from the previous _MediaWiki_-based setup).
+Beyond the [recent governance issues with Wordpress](https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/27/24256361/wordpress-wp-engine-drama-explained-matt-mullenweg), we also decided to move towards a static site system due to being easier to maintain in the long-term.
+
+Keeping up with the security patches for WP itself, the plugins we used and keeping it compatible with our custom theme required a lot of effort.
+As a small, all-volunteer-run organisation, we decided that it's both a better use of our time and more sustainable in the long-term to use a simpler static site generator.
+Ultimately, the output of the static site generator is just a collection of HTML files that can easily be moved between hosts and are mostly self-contained.
+
+For our use-case, _Hugo_ and its ecosystem have the benefit that [_wp2hugo_](https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo) provides an easy way to migrate an existing blog from Wordpress to Hugo!
+Using an _XML dump_ that Wordpress can generate, Hugo can create all the markdown files and even get the necessary static files like images in the right place.
+If you're considering moving away from Wordpress, this might be worthwhile alternative to look at!

content/posts/2025-03-09-BOSC-BOKR.md

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+---
+author: nlharris
+category:
+  - bosc
+  - ismb
+  - community
+cover:
+  alt: Crowded room in the joint BOSC/Bio-Ontologies session in 2023
+  image: /wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BOSC2023-crowded-room-Bastian-1-1.png
+
+date: "2025-03-09T21:30:32+00:00"
+tag:
+  - bosc
+  - ismb
+  - conferences
+ 
+title: BOSC and BOKR to join forces at ISMB/ECCB 2025
+url: /2025/03/01/BOSC-BOKR-2025
+
+---
+
+![Crowded room in the joint BOSC/Bio-Ontologies session in 2023](/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BOSC2023-crowded-room-Bastian-1-1.png)
+
+We are pleased to announce that BOSC and the newly-renamed
+[Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)](https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2025-meeting) will join forces for a day at ISMB/ECCB 2025! The joint session will include talks chosen from abstracts submitted to BOSC or Bio-Ontologies, plus a keynote speaker who is well known in both the ontology and open science communities (stay tuned for an announcement soon!).
+
+{{< columns >}}
+
+![Joint keynote speaker Melissa Haendel at BOSC/Bio-Ontologies joint session in 2022](/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Melissa-at-podium.jpeg)
+
+*(Above: Melissa Haendel was the keynote speaker at the BOSC/Bio-Ontologies joint session in 2022.)*
+
+{{< column >}}
+
+BOSC and BOKR are two of the longest-running COSIs (Communities of Special Interest) at ISMB: BOSC started in 2000 and BOKR (then called Bio-Ontologies) in 1998. Bio-Ontologies focuses on the FAIR development and application of ontologies and other Linked Open Data resources and the organization, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biomedicine and the life sciences. BOSC covers the full spectrum of open source, open science, open data and open standards in the life sciences.
+
+{{< endcolumns >}}
+
+You can submit relevant abstracts to either BOSC or BOKR (please do not double-submit the same abstract); the Program Chairs of both COSIs will consider appropriate abstracts for the joint session.
+
+BOSC 2025 will take place July 21-22, and BOKR will be July 22-23. The joint session will be part or all of the day on July 22.