OpenSpace In The Open Source Community
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NASA's International Space Apps Challenge convenes global citizens through open data to solve mission challenges. It is NASA's program to spur innovation by fulfilling mandates to open data. Since 2012, the challenge has grown from hosting 75 events to over 770 events in 2015, producing thousands of solutions. The challenge brings technologists and domain experts together to build solutions from well-specified tasks and maintain engagement through regular meetups, documentation, and tying projects to upcoming space missions. Organizers must ensure participation remains diverse and inclusive, prevent a loss of motivation, and continue evangelizing to engage new users.
OpenSpace In The Open Source Community
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- 4. Innovation through Open Data NASA’s open data convenes global citizens through the International Space Apps Challenge to solve mission- relevant challenges. Space Apps is NASA’s incubator innovation program to fulfill federal open data mandates to spur innovation. Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program Manager Office of the Chief Information Officer
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- 6. Innovation through Open Data 25 83 95 133 101 770 671 947 2012 2013 2014 2015 Events Solutions Produced Space Apps: 2012-2015 Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program Manager Office of the Chief Information Officer 2015
- 7. 7 http://www.spaceappschallenge.org/ http://spaceapps.nyc/ http://j.mp/toSpaceVideos Twitter: @SpaceApps, @SpaceAppsNYC Meetup: http://meetup.com/Space-Apps-NYC/
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- 11. 11 Over 350 people applied to attend the event, coming from a myriad of universities, institutions, and tech startups. We had participants attend from Buzzfeed, Condé Nast, Etsy, Microsoft, The New School, New York Times, New York Public Library, ThoughtWorks, Twitter, and Viacom.
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- 14. How To Organize A Community? • Communication: we need to connect with our technologists & maintain relationships ★ Regular meetups, work sprints, compensation / alternative forms of recompense • Low Barriers To Entry: tutorials (screencasts), glossaries, excellent documentation ★ Domain expert + technologist = FLAWLESS VICTORY • Decomposition: extremely atomic tasks paired with tons of instruction ★ A good technologist can build anything from a good spec • Planning: a highly detailed public roadmap, very specific objectives, identify skills ★ This keeps everyone on target, keeps confusion to a minimum • Organization: keeping clean records of everything ★ Searchable knowledge bases (Stack Exchange?), mailing list archives • Public Engagement: capture imaginations of all levels of contributor ★ Zooniverse, SETI@HOME, EINSTEIN@HOME ★ Tie-ins to upcoming NASA/ESA/SpaceX/Lightsail/Anybody’s missions 14
- 15. Stuff To Watch Out For • Participation Inequality: the 1-9-90 rule (Jakob Neilsen) ★ Build several levels of contributing activity into every major task • Bad Actors: nothing kills community faster than a few rotten apples ★ Code of Conduct, Conventions and Standards, Terms and Conditions • Loss of Diversity: inclusivity should always be top of mind ★ NASA has always emphasized this! (also relates to Code of Conduct) • Lost Motivation: sometimes nobody wants to do what must be done ★ There is nothing wrong with incentivizing or establishing bounties • Losing Users: we must know how users use it to build what’s needed ★ Make user profiles, understand the most common configurations and use cases • Obscurity: no one’s going to use it unless we tell them about it ★ Public demonstrations, highlight UGC - Evangelize!! 15
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- 20. 20 Thank You! Mike Caprio twitter: @mik3cap [email protected] http://mikecapr.io