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ECMWF hypocrisy? #18

Closed jweisbaum closed 3 years ago

jweisbaum commented 3 years ago

Out of curiosity, and I recognize I don't fully know what I'm talking about here, but don't any students out there find it a bit unfair that ECMWF wants to use open source software and student developers to aid the assessment of forecast data that they charge thousands of dollars for people to use unlike nearly every other meteo agency in the world with a global weather model? Are the students who participated in this getting paid? This seems like exploitation to me. Students who participated in this and believe in the power of open source: I beg you to pressure your overlords to walk the walk.

jwagemann commented 3 years ago

@jweisbaum I agree with you that it seems that you do not entirely understand ECMWF Summer of Weather Code.

ESoWC participants are getting paid a stipend of 5000£ and the ESoWC projects are not about assessing ECMWF's forecast data, but to foster open-source developments and innovations related to climate and weather data.

I kindly ask you, before you make such uninformed comments, to first inform yourself and if afterwards there are still open questions, to reach out to the ESoWC team. I am closing this issue.