[Upd-discuss] climate change info by distributed computing

[Adam Moran]

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:25:32 +0100 (CET) Lars Aronsson wrote:

>> I think that it is off topic.  How does it relate to the public 
>> domain? 

Isn't the public domain about maintaining a knowledge base so that it
can be used by the public for the public ?

Blair demands green 'revolution'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4854886.stm

   'Tony Blair has called for a "technological revolution comparable to
    the internet" to slow global warming.'

I would add this to the antipodean speech of the caretaker manager:

* we do have the internet.
* what better place to put this information than the public domain
* folk talk a lot about 'climate', but what we experience is weather

I'm copying in FP6 in the hope of finding synergies


Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:13:02 +0200 Jonas Öberg wrote:

> Adam,
> 
>> We intend to develop a Knowledge Transfer Network for the production, publishing and distribution of learning and community media. We plan to use RSS and Bittorrent technologies for distribution in a similar way as
>> Democracy Player [1] and BroadCatching [2].
> 
> This sounds like a really useful thing to do! I've been thinking about if we can find some some synergies here. For instance, the FSFE is participating in the SELF project, which aims to produce a platform for the distribution and use of information, education and training programmed about Free Software.
> 
> The SELF project in itself will be more focused on the actual production of such material, rather than the distribution. But we've also got the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education as a partner, who are working on GNOWSYS, which is a knowledge organisation and representation system, supporting open standards for semantic webs.
> 
> SELF is currently scheduled to kick off in july. 
> -- 
> Jonas Öberg
> Vice President
> Free Software Foundation Europe 


Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:25:32 +0100 (CET) Lars Aronsson wrote:

> 18 Mar 2006 12:41:56 -0000 Mashilamani Sambasivam wrote:
> 
>> I hope this subject is not offtopic.
>>
>> BBC is linking to huge climate change project 
>> launched 20 feb 2006; results to be out may 1.
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4702636.stm
> 
> I think that it is off topic.  How does it relate to the public 
> domain?  And the same goes for the earlier thread about Google.


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