[Foss4g2009] Fwd: FOSS4G 2009 Climate Change Keynote Speaker

[Cameron Shorter]

Bruce, great news to hear about securing Andy.
Could we please get a photo of him for the website too.

I'd love to have a chat with Andy if possible. Any chance you could 
forward through his contact details to me, or get him to call me.
I'm keen to get him to also cover:
1. Very briefly, a summary of Climate Change.
2. The people in the FOSS4G audience will be more qualified to help fix 
Climate Change that most people.
* How is Climate Change going to effect their jobs?
* How can the participants make positive contributions toward the 
environment, or helping change government policy etc?
** The room consists of data custodians, SDI sponsors, developers, 
motivators (open source project leads need to be good motivators to 
attract people to work on their projects for free).

Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> We have been very fortunate attract Professor Andy Pitman as our Key 
> Note speaker on Climate Change at FOSS4G-2009.
>
> http://profiles.science.unsw.edu.au/apitman/
>
>
> I understand from fellow managers at the National Climate Centre in 
> the Bureau of Meteorology that Andy is well respected in his field and 
> considered one of Australia's best communicators on climate modeling 
> issues. He comes highly recommended from a number of senior people in 
> the National Climate Centre.
>
> Andy's proposed outline of his keynote talk is included below.
>
> One point that he would like to make strongly is that all models used 
> in Climate Change analysis (including software) should be open and 
> available as Open Source to allow public scrutiny and improvement.
>
> Andy is also keen to attract developers to help with Climate Modeling.
>
> 30 minutes is OK for his talk.
>
>
>
> Attached is Professor Andy Pitman's bio.
>
>
>
> I propose that we accept Professor Pitman as our Climate Change 
> Keynote Speaker.
>
>
> Bruce Bannerman
>
>
>
>
> > Sent: Monday, 15 June 2009 3:55 PM
> > To: Bruce Bannerman; Andy Pitman
> > Subject: Re: FW: Geospatial conference and Climate Change
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > bio attached
> >
> > bullets:
> >
> >    1. what are climate models
> >    2. how are they built
> >    3. how are they evaluated
> >    4. why they matter
> >
> > and then
> >
> >    1. what issues arise from 2, 3 and 4
> >    2. ways forward to address these issues - involving open source
> >       philosophies
> >
> >
>
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