| Christopher Barry on 17 Dec 2016 08:08:26 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Wanted: volunteers with bandwidth, storage, coding skills to help save climate data |
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:32:33 -0500 Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote: >If you have an interest in preserving a lot of scientific research >data: > > Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing > it might vanish under Trump > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/ > >I've set up a mailing list to coordinate IT efforts to help out. >Signup via climatedata-request@firemountain.net or, if you prefer >Mailman's web interface, >http://www.firemountain.net/mailman/listinfo/climatedata should work. > >---rsk While I greatly respect you Rich, this whole thing seems a bit like 'the sky is falling' to me. Does anyone /really/ think Trump would seize or delete their data? That's seriously paranoid and weird. Why can't they just throw it up on github or somewhere like that? -- Regards, Christopher ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug