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Submission + - Climate unit releases virtually all remaining data (bbc.co.uk)

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mutube

on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @05:03PM

mutube writes: "The BBC is reporting that the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of "ClimateGate", has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid.

Most temperature data was already available, but critics of climate science want everything public. Following the latest release, raw data from virtually all of the world's 5,000-plus weather stations is freely available.

Release of this dataset required The Met Office to secure approval from more than 1,500 weather stations around the world. The article notes that while Trinidad and Tobago refused permission but the Information Commissioner ruled that public interest in disclosure outweighed those considerations."

Submission + - Bruce Perens Aims for OSI Executive (techp.org) 1

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mutube

on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @04:24PM

mutube writes: "Open Source advocate Bruce Perens began petititioning for support in election to the OSI Executive Board. As a self-electing board, demonstrable community support is needed to attain a seat. Perens is standing on a platform of reducing over-representation of vendors to help balance leadership to developers who are traditionally elsewhere. He argues that this will help reassert the importance of developers in the Open Source world and ensure their ongoing rights to the direction of both their code and the concept itself.

In his petition notice, Bruce suggests that recent Open Source involvement by Microsoft could lead to them being offered a place on the board. With a background fighting SCO and Novell-Microsoft patent agreements, is Bruce the best man to take them on? Who else would you want on your side?"

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