Comments on: Announcing people.openNASA

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:02:24 +0000

I see this as being a first step towards a longer term goal for the Open Government Directive. If the OpenNASA v1.0 team wants to move the code to an ARC domain, I can approve it! NASA domains are a little more challenging, but not impossible.

We are working with the Spacebook team now (aka OpenNASA v1.5), and ultimately want to build a .gov “Facebook for Government” that is accessible via the internet.

First phase: other Federal partners. Future phases: State and Local gov’t and the general public.

By: Jessy

Jessy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:10:32 +0000

yeah, it’s a good point david. we’d be totally open to this being official, and the code’s open source, and could easily be deployed internally. but if we took the inside route for “permission” to do this, frankly, i don’t think it would happen. in my experience, often the best way to inspire those “inside” that something like this is worthwhile, is to just do it first…

re .com vs. gov, i also agree, although at least the two of us are here .

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:18:51 +0000

I think this is a great idea, but why do this outside of NASA? I’m assuming that the people that put this together are NASA employees, so why not try to influence the system from the inside and make people.nasa.gov more like this or even the new Spacebook? I think a lot of NASA employees will see that this is from a .com and not a .gov and will instantly not want to use it. It’s not OFFICIAL NASA and so they will mistrust your intentions with their information.

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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:19:59 +0000

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