The Unidata Program has become an offical member of the Open Commons
Consortium (OCC).
The OCC, formerly known as the Open Cloud
Consortium, is a not-for-profit organization that manages
and operates cloud computing and data commons infrastructure
to support scientific, medical, health care and
environmental research. OCC members span the globe and
include over 30 universities, companies, government
agencies, and national laboratories.
As a member of OCC, Unidata's initial focus will be
participation in the OCC NOAA Data Alliance Working Group,
which aims to support the NOAA data commons and the
geoscience community interested in the open redistribution
of NOAA datasets. (Unidata is also involved with cloud-based
access to NOAA data through its collaboration
with Amazon Web Services.)