Is that Overseer? If so, that's originally from the 90s... https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/advice/9621180/Overseer-nutrient-soft... Cheers, Peter On August 12, 2021 8:23:07 PM GMT+12:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
In a report in this evening’s TV1 news, NZ farmers have been using a piece of software to help them estimate their environmental groundwater impact that, according to some reports, is giving wildly inaccurate results <https://1news.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/software-estimating-much-fertiliser-effluent-leaches-farmland-flawed>. The minister is looking into whether it can be fixed, or whether it needs to be replaced.
Given its taxpayer funding (at least in part), why isn’t it open-sourced? Stick it on GitHub, and watch the hordes of would-be fixers descend. ;) _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/postorius/lists/wlug.list.waikato.ac.nz
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