NASA to Host Open Source Summit-Informationweek

NASA continues to support the open source community by hosting the first ever Summit around the technology.

The Agency's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California will be the location for the two-day Open Source Summit 2011, March 29-30, during which NASA expects host engineers, policy makers, and members of the open source community to discuss how the Agency to strengthen its participation and contribute more to the sector.

NASA has several important objectives for the meeting, including a discussion of the challenges "within the existing policy framework of open source and [] to propose amendments" NASA's development, release, and use of software to facilitate, according to the Agency.

The Agency also hopes for the development of a formal way to support the cooperation with the public for the development of open source technology and explore its options and to develop software under various open source licenses, it said.

Other objectives are weighing the possibility for NASA to participate in open source software governance bodies and learn about best practices used by private organizations and other federal agencies to participate in the open source community.

NASA has a host of speakers for the two-day summit of both open source companies and suppliers coated with strong ties to it, including Mozilla Labs, IBM and Red Hat. The agenda includes sessions on licenses and Government restrictions, as well as governance and risk assessments, according to NASA.

The Federal Government is embracing open source technology as a cost-effective and flexible way to deploy Web sites and other IT systems for some time. In April 2010, the White House the first contributions to the community by donating code to the Drupal project, an open source content management system that WhiteHouse.gov is built. It followed that with the release of yet more software to Drupal in February.

NASA is one of the agencies at the forefront of the Government of open source push. The Space Agency contributed core technology for its cloud computing platform, Nebula, Open Stack, an open source cloud computing initiative launched last year.

Then won a project led by NASA in January, the full support of the Apache Software Foundation to strengthen development efforts around Java-based middleware called Object-oriented data technology (OODT), originally developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. OODT used metadata so that end users to simultaneously influence of disparate and geographically dispersed computers and data resources, making cross-platform collaboration.

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