Articles (METRo)

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Contents 1 Medias 2 Conferences 2.1 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 2.1.1 CMOS 2005 2.1.2 CMOS 2007 2.2 Free Sotfware and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) 2007 2.3 American Meteorological Society (AMS) 2008 2.4 Conference on free software and public administrations (CLLAP) 2008

[edit] Medias

• Environment Canada opens up to open source, Rafael Ruffolo, LinuxWorld.com.au, 05/11/2007.
• FSOSS Day 2, A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru, Dru, 10/26/2007.

[edit] Conferences

[edit] Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)

• CMOS website

[edit] CMOS 2005

Held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. May 21st to June 3rd 2005.

Title: METRO 2, a new version of the road condition prediction model for general use.

• CMOS 2005 website
• Session on Road Weather
• Abstract

[edit] CMOS 2007

Held in St-John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. May 28th to June 1st 2007.

Title: METRo, the Road forecasting model of Environment Canada: an example of free and open software from the government of Canada

• CMOS 2007 website
• Open access to meteorological data (file: pdf, odt)

[edit] Free Sotfware and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) 2007

Held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the Seneca College. October 25-26th 2007.

Title: METRo: free software provided by the federal government of Canada

• FOSS
• slideshow
• agregator
• movie (VLC player to read Ogg Theora movie)

[edit] American Meteorological Society (AMS) 2008

Held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. January 20th to 24th 2008.

Title: The Use of METRo (Model of the Environment and Temperature of the Roads) in Roadway Operation Decision Support Systems (NCAR)

• Abstract
• Extended abstract (PDF)
• Recorded presentation

[edit] Conference on free software and public administrations (CLLAP) 2008

Held in Québec city December 9th and 10th 2008. French presentations.

Title: METRo, un logiciel libre créé par le Gouvernement du Canada

• (fr)CLAPP website
• (fr)Miguel Tremblay short biography
• (fr)Talk abstract
• Video:
  • (fr)Flash
  • (fr)Ogg Theora
• Audio:
  • (fr)Speex
  • (fr)MP3
• Slides:
  • (fr)PDF
  • (fr)Flash

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