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Note that the GOC may undertake some or all of these steps on your behalf as part of administrative processes and house cleaning. </p> <h2><span id="Farewell.21"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Farewell!">Farewell!</span></h2> <p>So, you need to say good-bye to the Gene Ontology Consortium. While we hate to see you go, there are some steps to be taken before you leave. By taking these steps, you will reduce unwanted mail and notifications, and help make the GO project management more efficient. If you are not comfortable with any of the below, please let the Helpdesk know and we will do what we can. </p> <dl><dt>Email the Helpdesk at help-at-geneontology.org</dt> <dd>Let us know you're leaving: please include your current GO-related duties and the name(s)/contact(s) that will be taking over for you, if any. Feel free to include a note to the group if you'd like us to message the go-consortium mailing list on your behalf.</dd> <dt>GitHub</dt> <dd>Go to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/settings/organizations">GitHub Organizations Settings</a> and select “Leave” for “geneontology”. This will also remove you from any Teams that you are a member of in the GO org.</dd> <dd><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/settings/tokens">Review your personal access tokens</a> and consider if you should revoke them. For example, if your token is being used in an automated process, it should be migrated to another user.</dd> <dd>We also recommend reviewing the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-user-account-settings/best-practices-for-leaving-your-company">GitHub documents on leaving a company</a>.</dd> <dt>GO metadata in GitHub</dt> <dd>Please contact the Helpdesk to have this done if you’re not comfortable modifying files in GitHub.</dd> <dd>Update status in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/geneontology/go-site/blob/master/metadata/users.yaml">users.yaml</a>; consider groups, institution, and curator status.</dd> <dd>Remove self from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/geneontology/go-site/blob/master/metadata/group-contacts.csv">group-contacts.csv</a></dd> <dt>Mailing lists</dt> <dd>While the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/go-friends">GO-friends list</a> is public and open to anyone interested, others are internal to project members. Enter your email address into <a href="/Internal_email_lists" title="Internal email lists">unsubscribe/reminder sections of your mailing list</a> and follow the instructions given to unsubscribe. Some commonly subscribed lists are: <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/go-consortium">go-consortium</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/go-ontology">go-ontology</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/go-managers">go-managers</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Google Drive</dt> <dd>Transfer ownership of any files to the GOC</dd> <dt>Slack</dt> <dd>You can <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slack.com/help/articles/203953146-Deactivate-your-Slack-account">follow directions for leaving the GO Workspace (“geneontology”)</a>. Make sure that you have selected the “geneontology” workspace before proceeding.</dd> <dt>Software group members</dt> <dd>Make sure the following have been migrated to other developers: <ul><li>Application, messaging, or SaS accounts</li> <li>Repos and forks in your personal space</li> <li>Tokens and secret URLs</li> <li>Passwords and access for GOC infrastructure</li> <li>Virtualized hardware and other infrastructure</li> <li>Remove self from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://groups.io/g/godev-internal/">GO software group</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <h2><span id="Internal_steps_.28A_GO_manager_will_do_these_steps_for_you.29"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Internal_steps_(A_GO_manager_will_do_these_steps_for_you)">Internal steps (A GO manager will do these steps for you)</span></h2> <dl><dd>Removal from Google Drive</dd> <dd>Removal from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=Z2VuZW9udG9sb2d5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQ">GO Google calendar</a></dd> <dd>Turn off GO wiki account</dd></dl> <p><br /> <b>Thank you for being a part of the Gene Ontology Consortium & best wishes on your next adventure!</b> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Review_Status">Review Status</span></h2> <p>Last reviewed: June 20, 2022 </p>    </div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php?title=Member_Offboarding&oldid=82708">https://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php?title=Member_Offboarding&oldid=82708</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/Category:GOC_Overview" title="Category:GOC Overview">GOC Overview</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <nav id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal vector-user-menu-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-personal-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Personal tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="pt-login" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Member+Offboarding" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o"><span>Log in</span></a></li></ul> </div> </nav> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav id="p-namespaces" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-namespaces vector-menu-tabs vector-menu-tabs-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-namespaces-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Namespaces</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/Member_Offboarding" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Page</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="new mw-list-item"><a href="/index.php?title=Talk:Member_Offboarding&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page (page does not exist) [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Discussion</span></a></li></ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet vector-menu-dropdown" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" role="navigation" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-variants-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-variants" class="vector-menu-checkbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" /> <label id="p-variants-label" aria-label="Change language variant" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"></ul> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation"> <nav id="p-views" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-views vector-menu-tabs vector-menu-tabs-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-views-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-views-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Views</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="ca-view" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/Member_Offboarding"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-viewsource" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/index.php?title=Member_Offboarding&action=edit" title="This page is protected.
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