The Plan for Code

January 4, 2012 | Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution. [...]

Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.

In our initial release, we are focusing on providing a home for the current state of open source at the Agency. This includes guidance on how to engage the open source process, points of contact, and a directory of existing projects. By elucidating the process, we hope to lower the barriers to building open technology in partnership with the public.

Phase two will concentrate on providing a robust forum for ongoing discussion of open source concepts, policies, and projects at the Agency. In our third phase, we will turn to the tools and mechanisms development projects generally need to be successful, such as distributed version control, issue tracking, continuous integration, documentation, communication, and planning/management. During this phase, we will create and host a tool, service, and process chain to further lower the burden to going open.

Ultimately, our goal is to create a highly visible community hub that will imbue open concepts into the formulation stages of new hardware and software projects, and help existing projects transition to open modes of development and operation. We are going to need your help to get there! Please use “Share your Ideas,” comment on this post, or email us at opNo spam, please.engov@nasa.gov to let us know how code can help you, where you would like to see the site go, and how we might best fulfill our purpose.

We believe that tomorrow’s space and science systems will be built in the open, and that code.nasa.gov will play a big part in getting us there. Will your code someday escape our solar system or land on an alien planet? We’re working to make it happen, and with your help, it will.

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SHAROD ROY CHOUDHURY

Such an initiative is really great for NASA. I am a computer Science and engineering student in india and i am very eager to contribute!!
Anonymous

Now they should make all the other government opensource projects easier to find.
http://twitter.com/BrettCairns Brett Cairns

NASA has been doing great things with the budgets they have been given. Looking forward to the day when they lead the way to the discovery of sentient life in a far away solar system
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Anonymous

Sweeeet! Great work Guys.. Love working here at NASA…
Anonymous

Sweeeet! Great work Guys.. Love working here at NASA…
Anonymous

Sweeeet! Great work Guys.. Love working here at NASA…
Anonymous

Sweeeet! Great work Guys.. Love working here at NASA…
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The more open our government agencies and entities are the better. Just look at Fannie and Freddie Mac. These two GSE’s had no openforum or transparency and our country is in shambles because of it! Good job, NASA. Keep it up.
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The more open our government agencies and entities are the better. Just look at Fannie and Freddie Mac. These two GSE’s had no openforum or transparency and our country is in shambles because of it! Good job, NASA. Keep it up.
http://profile.yahoo.com/XDZI3CDN6BNLKFVAO675UNXZRQ Facebook

This is great news here! I love what NASA is doing these days!
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This is great news here! I love what NASA is doing these days!
Anonymous

Open source is the way to go. If NASA opens this up to the public then we can see some great minds collaborating for the same purpose.
Anonymous

Open source is the way to go. If NASA opens this up to the public then we can see some great minds collaborating for the same purpose.
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You always here about Richard Branson organising commercial flights into space or too the moon. Given how much it costs to lift stuff into space, is this actually feasable?

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http://www.roadaccidentclaimexperts.co.uk/ Road Accident Claim Experts

You always here about Richard Branson organising commercial flights into space or too the moon. Given how much it costs to lift stuff into space, is this actually feasable?

Regards

Damien Mulholland
Manager
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http://twitter.com/mattbsheets Matthew Sheets 

Will the theme of the site be released as open as well?
Anonymous

I think what you are doing is very important and long over due. I look forward to contributing articles.
http://twitter.com/Agespast David C. Weber

Thanks for your devotion to your scientific exploits. I have always been absolutely mystified by the Reasearch NASA is doing. What an honor to be a citizen of this country and its scientific community. I will be following your work as I have linked to your site for easy access!
David
http://matrobriva.altervista.org matrobriva

Great, Thanks NASA!

I hope that through this project free software will grow even more!
Anonymous

Try to collect one of the programs
(http://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/HSEG/core_rhsegV1.47.tar.gz 204 KB)

Downloading - okay unpacked is to build the makefile, two variants, with and without gtkmm.
I Ubuntu 11.04.Run MAKE-f Makefile_gtkmm get such a conclusion with the error:

cd params; make-f Makefile_gtkmm all “CC = g + +” “CFLAGS =- Wall-O3-ffloat-store -I/home/sergsh/src/CommonV1.47-pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0-I / usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdal-pthread -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr / lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 / -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr / lib/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/lib/pangomm-1.4/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix- print-2.0 -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include-I / usr / include / sigc + + -2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc + + -2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/lib/cairomm-1.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 ”
make [1]: Entering directory`/ Home/sergsh/Загрузки/OPEN_NASA_Code/Segmentation/core_rhsegV1.47/params’g + +-Wall-O3-ffloat-store -I/home/sergsh/src/CommonV1.47-pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0 / include -I/usr/include/gdal-pthread -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include - I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 / -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4-I / usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm -1.4 -I/usr/lib/pangomm-1.4/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4-I / usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc + + -2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc + + -2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/lib/cairomm-1.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/lib / gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0-c params.ccIn file included from params.h: 17:0,
from params.cc: 3:
.. / Image / image.h: 2:25: fatal error: image / image.h: No such file or directorycompilation terminated.
make [1]: *** [params.o] Error 1
make [1]: Leaving directory`/ Home/sergsh/Загрузки/OPEN_NASA_Code/Segmentation/core_rhsegV1.47/params’
make: *** [params_objs] Error 2

In file included from initialGUI.cc: 3:0:initialGUI.h: 5:28: fatal error: gui / fileObject.h: No such file or directorycompilation terminated.make [1]: *** [initialGUI.o] Error 1make [1]: Leaving directory `/ home/sergsh/Загрузки/OPEN_NASA_Code/Segmentation/core_rhsegV1.47/params’make: *** [params_objs] Error 2
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The unpacked file is on my drive here:/ home/sergsh/Загрузки/OPEN_NASA_Code/Segmentation/core_rhsegV1.47 /

I would be grateful for any advice and comments

Serg
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7X3ESFTK7V52SWGLU44WSG5E4 lakshmy

Great idea NASA..The most effective way to have the services of the best coders all over the world..
http://twitter.com/prunesti Alessandro Prunesti

An excellent initiative, congratulations! I already shared this news within the italian association “Indigeni Digitali” (Digital Natives) to which I belong. Have a good job!
http://twitter.com/laurentbourelly Laurent Bourrelly

You need to understand Search Engine Optimization, in order to be visible. This website is a SEO disaster !
Great concept, though…
- http://open.nasa.gov Sean Herron
  
  Hi Laurent, do you have any suggestions?
  - http://www.cleanroomsupply.com/ Cleanroom Supply
    
    Yea. His suggestion is to waste your money paying him to do what you already did. I doubt he even read the article
  - http://www.cleanroomsupply.com/ Cleanroom Supply
    
    Yea. His suggestion is to waste your money paying him to do what you already did. I doubt he even read the article
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sujay ssa

good move by nasa to move forward with open source.
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Jhames Wayne Mensor de Araujo

Great ideia with this we from Brazil and others country can share our project, ideas and help yours with many discovery.
thanks NASA
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Anonymous

Greetings from Bulgaria!I am student from bulgarian aviation school .Thank you people for this site.
Anonymous

Greetings from Bulgaria.I am student from bulgarian aviation university and i am excited about this site.Thank you and sorry for my bad english
Vinod Pandey

It’s very solid step to open, source of knowledge to every one , by this not only users will benefit but NASA also some brilliant people and ideas if everything will go fine. after all extraordinary Genius born they can’t be created through books.
http://twitter.com/25autumn ray peaslee

you’re off to a good start by using WordPress
- http://open.nasa.gov Sean Herron
  
  Thanks! We’re trying to use OSS as much as possible.
Ben Francis

Now this is what good government is all about: marshaling the talents of the general public for the greater public good.

The best code submitters will probably get hired by NASA. Unemployed coders should consider this project as a wise investment of their time.
http://www.facebook.com/fslurrehman Faisal Rehman

I need download link for source code of nastran. Anybody?
Anonymous

Just hope i do not smell a rat here thats all anything to do with the American Government is to be checked and double checked before being cleared if you value your code just be careful that is all i am saying for now , Not that i dont trust them i just plain DONT
Nitin Reddy

The NASA open source portal would be a great way to have programming contests and offer bounties to develop software for NASA. It can also be used to connect with research communities and offer an insight into new research developments while attempting to build software that utilizes new research.
- http://open.nasa.gov Sean Herron
  
  Hi Nitin,
  
  Check out NASA Tournament Lab: http://community.topcoder.com/ntl/
http://twitter.com/arclight arclight

Thank you! Both NASA & NIST have been forward-looking enough to engage the public both in the use and development of technical software. If only there was a way to ratchet ORNL into making public their large library of mouldering codes at RSICC. I wish you the best of luck!
http://twitter.com/simpler_life 이강원

멋진 계획이네요. 감사합니다. / Looks great. Thanks.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Benjamin-Pinaya-Gutierrez/1379760536 Benjamin Pinaya Gutierrez

Very nice idea! I am looking forward to help!!
holger.mayer

What I really like to see from NASA is information, guidance and tools for quality assurance besides the known tools for debugging, defect tracking and unit testing generally used in the open source community.

If I remember it right space shuttle software development was the first to be CMM 5 certified. It would be nice to start an open source community that improves the software development process far beyond what is common in the open source community today. Especially if the software one day may be part of an interplanetary endeavor.
Brian Kirkpatrick

I’m liking this–very good idea!

Some questions:
* Do you anticipate all projects to be governed by the NASA OSA?
* To whom can we address questions regarding licensing questions, for contributions to projects and for using projects in the private market?
* Do you anticipate using a branched, NASA-specific version control system to address the particular requirements of NASA software projects (i.e., ITAR, etc)?

Thank you for sharing NASA’s great work! I’m looking forward to contributing.
http://www.horoskopiditor.org/ Horoskopi Ditor

I just want to say that I think NASA is doing a very good job. I hope that oneday i will have the chance to contribute on one of the NASA-s projects.

With love from albania
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Joel Parker

Great to see this happening, good work guys. So as a member of the team on one of the listed projects, how do we get involved? How can we contribute to the process?
Joel Parker

Great to see this happening, good work guys. So as a member of the team on one of the listed projects, how do we get involved? How can we contribute to the process?
- http://open.nasa.gov Sean Herron
  
  Joel, awesome! Send me an email (sean.herron@nasa.gov) – I’d love to chat with you about getting involved with the effort.
http://twitter.com/johnmark John Mark

Excellent. Out of curiosity, what software are you using to run the site?
- http://open.nasa.gov Sean Herron
  
  WordPress backend with a custom theme built off Twitter Bootstrap.
http://twitter.com/johnmark John Mark

Excellent. Out of curiosity, what software are you using to run the site?
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Marcelo Kuts

É um grande avanço, e esperamos participar não só dessa, mas de muitas outras conquistas. Estarei de olho !
Marcelo Kuts

É um grande avanço, e esperamos participar não só dessa, mas de muitas outras conquistas. Estarei de olho !
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Omid Kosari

I excited to have chance to be in a nasa project
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Thiago-Sena/100000261235494 Thiago Sena

Great initiative of NASA, I’m a student of computer engineering in Brazil and was really excited about this idea so innovative. I will be monitoring the site and waiting fornew news. NASA Thanks
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thiago-Sena/100000261235494 Thiago Sena

Great initiative of NASA, I’m a student of computer engineering in Brazil and was really excited about this idea so innovative. I will be monitoring the site and waiting fornew news. NASA Thanks
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thiago-Sena/100000261235494 Thiago Sena

Great initiative of NASA, I’m a student of computer engineering in Brazil and was really excited about this idea so innovative. I will be monitoring the site and waiting fornew news. NASA Thanks
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thiago-Sena/100000261235494 Thiago Sena

Great initiative of NASA, I’m a student of computer engineering in Brazil and was really excited about this idea so innovative. I will be monitoring the site and waiting fornew news. NASA Thanks
http://www.facebook.com/people/Breno-Barreto-Peixoto/100001377873092 Breno Barreto Peixoto

a NASA faliu porra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! agora tao pagando pau para as grandes impressas para nao falirem de vez a próxima nave que eles lançarem vai estar coberta de propaganda!!!!!!!!!!!!
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a NASA faliu porra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! agora tao pagando pau para as grandes impressas para nao falirem de vez a próxima nave que eles lançarem vai estar coberta de propaganda!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now we can all get closer to the next evolution,…
http://twitter.com/omoblaze omoblaze

Now we can all get closer to the next evolution,…
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Philippe Miron

I love this idea! Congrat to everyone involve in this decision.
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theta theta

I would love periodic data dumps that require novel ways to be dissected and visualized.
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http://superiorcode.com/blog Warspawn

This is really cool! Maybe someday I’ll write a function that gets to go into space!
Anonymous

Sweeeet! Great work Guys.. Love working here at NASA…
Anonymous

This is Awesome!! Great Work!
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Anonymous

This is Awesome! Can’t wait to get started!
Anonymous

This is Awesome! Can’t wait to get started!
Anonymous

This is Awesome!!! Can’t wait to get started!!
Anonymous

This is Awesome!!! Can’t wait to get started!!
Anonymous

This is awesome!!! Can’t wait to get started!
Anonymous

This is awesome!!! Can’t wait to get started!
Anonymous

This is exciting… excited to get involved!
Anonymous

This is exciting… excited to get involved!
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http://highdensitygames.com John Martin

Awesome! This is a big deal! I love NASA… using your info and images for a game : http://youtu.be/3xhVNlGTgDM Can we go to Mars first?! I’ll keep an eye on this for sure!
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http://highdensitygames.com John Martin

Awesome! This is a big deal! I love NASA… using your info and images for a game : http://youtu.be/3xhVNlGTgDM Can we go to Mars first?! I’ll keep an eye on this for sure!
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Wayne Moses Burke

Big congrats to the team on the release of code.nasa!
Wayne Moses Burke

Big congrats to the team on the release of code.nasa!
Ian Keough

You mean we, the tax payers, finally get the source to projects that we funded with our tax dollars? Novel.
Ian Keough

You mean we, the tax payers, finally get the source to projects that we funded with our tax dollars? Novel.
- http://profiles.google.com/marcusvfcarvalho Marcus Carvalho
  
  Not only you but we, all the other people in the world, will get that as well. Thanks man, for your tax dollars!
- http://profiles.google.com/marcusvfcarvalho Marcus Carvalho
  
  Not only you but we, all the other people in the world, will get that as well. Thanks man, for your tax dollars!
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Anonymous

Great plan NASA. Always nice to give back and share the love
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http://twitter.com/jonverve Jon Verville

Great work guys! Will this code site replace the http://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov and http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov sites, or augment them? I know the opensource sites have links to the source code, but the source code is not kept in an version control, like github.