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Committee of the Regions
COR issues opinion on PSI Directive and Internet of Things

Member States

France creates body to publish and distribute PSI

Stakeholder

Denmark holds Open Data Play Conference
Brussels: Data Protection Conference
Brussels Conference: Addressing the future
Hungarian conference on free geo data
Swedish Newspaper publishes letter on PSI
UK: 25th Meeting of APPSI

The 10th Nordic conference on High Performance Computing (PARA10) will
be held in Reykjavík, Iceland, 6-9 June.

 One of the keynote speakers will be John Michalakes, from NCAR in
 Boulder. Mr. Michalakes leads the working group responsible for
 software architecture, standards and implementation within the WRF
 atmospheric modeling project.
 
 The topic of his talk is "Towards Petascale for Atmospheric Simulations"
 - http://yourhost.is/para2010/programme.html
 
 Some key numbers for PARA10:
 
 Conference fee:
       Full   Student
 Early - until 15 March        EUR 425        EUR 280
 Regular- until 15 April    EUR 450  EUR 300
 Late - after 15 April   EUR 490  EUR 330
 
 Incl. welcome reception, lunches, conference tour and conference dinner.
 
 Key dates:
 
 March 15  Last day to submit abstracts
 March 15  Early fee registration deadline
 April 5  Last day for notification of abstract acceptance
 April 15  Regular fee registration deadline
 June 6–9  Para 2010 in Reykjavík

European Parliament
European Parliament approves new Commission

Safer standards for transfers to processors in third countries

Spain: Madrid opens up PSI for re-use
Denmark: ODIS Conference presentations published
Germany: German DGI launches Working Group on PSI Re-use

At a meeting held in the European Parliament on 2nd February 2010 and arranged through the PSI Alliance, PRIMET had the chance to brief several MEPs on the issues surrounding the re-use of meteorological data, including the competition issues with NMHSs and the data pricing issues.