2011 NASA Open Source Summit convenes innovators and technologists

March 29, 2011 11:01 am

Today in California, NASA is hosting its first Open Source Summit. You can watch the open source livestream here. The first Open Source Summit is at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Engineers and policy makers across NASA are meeting with members of the open source community to discuss the challenges with open source policy. Here’s the agenda. The liveblog is below.

Virtual attendees connected on morning phone conversations on Maestro Conference and collaboratively took notes online at the Ideation Forum.

In the afternoon, the NASA Open Source Summit turned to breakout groups with discussions driven by the online conversation. Photo by NASA’s Chris @Gerty:

Presentations are also going up over at Slideshare. Here are great examples:

2011 NASA Open Source Summit – David Wheeler
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Open source-at-nasa fong
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2011 NASA Open Source Summit – Patrick Hogan
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2011 NASA Open Source Summit – Forge.mil

Open Source Governance for your Organization
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Alexander B. Howard is Radar's Government 2.0 Correspondent for 
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