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Wired has an article on a new effort at NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) called CosmosCode, which is part of the CoLab initiative. From the CoLab website:
As NASA’s lead center for information technology in support of the Vision for Space Exploration, ARC is exploring new opportunities to work openly and collaboratively with the Bay Area’s leading entrepreneurial communities in order to leverage these unique regional assets. The goal of these initiatives is to catalyze the development of a non-traditional aerospace sector to participate in the Vision for Space Exploration.
From the CosmosCode page on the CoLab site:
CosmosCode will build a core offering of free and open source space software through an independent project hosting website, and the development and management of a free software community specific to the challenges and opportunities afforded by space. This community will provide a common access point for individuals, academics, companies, and space agencies around the world using, contributing to, or supporting re-usable, modular, extensible, or standards driven space exploration software.
Personally I find this pretty exciting. I’m nearly finished with my Masters in Space Studies at UND, and frankly am seeking some direction on what to do next. Maybe starting to participate in some Open Source projects at NASA would be a start.
Now, NASA has a nice collection of Open Source Software, including one familiar to a lot of GIS types - World Wind. I’m not quite sure how CosmosCode will fit in to the current NASA OSS world, I guess we’ll just have to see how it develops.
There is a mailing list signup on the CoLab page, go ahead and sign up.
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