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Opensourcing the US Space Effort!
Apr. 12th, 2007 08:53 pmNASA is opening a collaborative effort aimed at volunteers who might want to help code for space missions. The project is called CosmosCode and will be open source under a Nasa license. http://technocrat.net/d/2007/4/12/17895
"CosmosCode is indicative of a larger shift at NASA toward openness and transparency -- things for which complex and bureaucratic government labs are not known. The software project is part of CoLab, an effort to invite the public to help NASA scientists with various engineering problems. The space agency is also digging into its files from previous missions and releasing code that until now remained behind closed doors. Together, these projects are creating a sort of SourceForge for space."
Check out CoLab's Website here: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/
Wired's article on the subject: http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/04/cosmoscode_0409
"CosmosCode is indicative of a larger shift at NASA toward openness and transparency -- things for which complex and bureaucratic government labs are not known. The software project is part of CoLab, an effort to invite the public to help NASA scientists with various engineering problems. The space agency is also digging into its files from previous missions and releasing code that until now remained behind closed doors. Together, these projects are creating a sort of SourceForge for space."
Check out CoLab's Website here: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/
Wired's article on the subject: http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/04/cosmoscode_0409
