Opening data at NASA
posted Fri 11 Dec 2009 by Michael Galloy under DataWired has an article about an informal group of NASA insiders and outsiders trying to free NASA data:
A bunch of data nerds from inside and outside NASA will gather at a house in Cupertino, California called the Rainbow Mansion this Saturday to hack through the agency’s data jungles.
The event isn’t NASA-sponsored. None of the bureaucracy is involved at all. Instead, the event is being coordinated by a small group of people who just love the space program and want to help open up the agency’s troves of information.
I find several aspects of the article that are fascinating—opening up NASA data, the Sunlight Foundation’s Great American Hackathon, and TinyApps (motto: “Never spend more than 4 hours on the first release.”).
