Protest slows NASA open source project, FCW “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s plans to transition to a content management system with open source architecture are on hold for a little while. The agency awarded a $40 million blanket purchase agreement in mid-December to Rockville, Md.-based InfoZen to replace the agency’s existing CMS – operated for several years by eTouch Federal Systems LLC – with open source architecture to run […]

NASA Open Source Summit Proceedings Online “On March 29 & 30, NASA hosted its first Open Source Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The event brought engineers and policy makers from across NASA together with well-respected members of the open source community together to discuss current challenges with NASA’s open source policy framework, and propose modifications that would make it easier for NASA to develop, release, and […]

NASA To Host Open Source Summit March 29-30 In California “NASA will host a summit about open source software development on March 29-30 at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on both days. NASA’s first Open Source Summit will bring together engineers, policy makers and members of the open source community. Participants will discuss the challenges within […]

NASA Solicitation: Open Source Software to Support Projects at MSFC “Arcata Associates Inc. plans to issue a Sole Source Request for Quote (RFQ) for Open Source Software to be used at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).” The solicitation focuses on A-RTP protocol Stack XP. You can get it for free here and here. What the solicitation is really after is support and training – not the software.