Open Source at NASA: How a website helps organize NASA colleagues & engage the o

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Rikki Endsley
Jan 13, 2012

[ Thanks to Rikki Endsley for this link. ]

“When I think of open source, Linux is the core,” says
William Eshagh, a technologist working on Open Government and the
Nebula Cloud Computing Platform out of the NASA Ames Research
Center. Eshagh recently announced the launch of code.nasa.gov, a
new NASA website intended to help the organization unify and expand
its open source activities.

I spoke with Eshagh and his colleague, Sean Herron, a technology
strategist at NASA, about the new site and the roles Linux and open
source play at the organization.


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