Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
I would like to see netCDF information continue to be distributed as it is. The discussions are interesting and fully pertinent to generic sharing of data among scientists. I think having a dedicated newsgroup that people must log into takes it out of people's awareness, and makes them have to hunt for the information. Overall that is more time consuming. We find within our organization that using newsgroups and notes conferences do not get information to people in as timely a manner, or stimulate as active of a discussion on important technical points. The principle of "Out of sight, out of mind" is at work when you make people hunt for information. As far as expanding the current mailing list to include other approaches to data sharing in addition to netCDF, I think that the people who really care about these issues are already part of the netCDFgroup mailing list. It could be larger. We could do more work to make it wider known, however, that may expand the Unidata's support load. I say, let's keep it as it is. Deleting information is much easier than having to go hunt for it. We'll get better review the way it is. Rich Lysakowski
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