Winners Announced For International Space Apps Challenge

Posted by lordpenguin on May 21, 2012 4:10 AM EDT
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/05/winners-announced-international-space-apps-challenge/; By Tom Nardi
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While budgetary constraints and increasing commercial competition has clearly taken its toll on NASA, one area where the iconic government institution has unquestionably made headway is the implementation of open source.

The launching of code.NASA a few months back was an excellent start, open sourcing various pieces of NASA software so that anyone in the world could adapt and improve it. But as you might expect, many of NASA’s internal software projects are heavily tailored to their specific goals and operations; so with only a few exceptions, the software NASA open sourced was not of much use to the average person.

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