July 14, 2005

HDF Group Spinning Off from NCSA
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The HDF Group will be spinning off from the National Center of
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as a non-profit corporation.
The new corporation, "The HDF Group" (THG), will continue to support
open source software and non-proprietary data formats.  This move is
expected to take up to six months to complete.

A new web site has been set up for THG at:

  http://www.hdfgroup.org/

However, the HDF web pages have not yet been moved and are still
accessible at:  http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

The new email address for HDF technical support is:

     help@hdfgroup.org

This address is currently forwarded to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu, so either
can be used for now.

For more information, see the following NCSA press release:

   http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Releases/07.12.05_NCSA's_HDF.html