Re: Amazon public data

[Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Amazon's URL is here
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/

Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Dear Charles and who else may be interested in the Amazon clouds,
> 
> Slashdot just pointed me to Amazon's service of preparing public data
> for the cloud's direct access. A bright move by the EC2 folks, I'd say.
> They think about genomes, census data and whatever...and I thought about
> Debian-Med images plus public data.
> 
> How would you think about asking them to allow for a Debian-Med image to
> be regularly auto-updated as public data? The getData
> (http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/community/infrastructure/getData/?rev=0&sc=0)
> script could possibly be amended to work either with normal
> installations or in the amazon fantasy world. We could thus make use of
> communities outside of Debian to prepare data and (possibly) win a few
> individuals more for our distribution.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Steffen
> 
>