Journal JetScootr's Journal: Open Source At Nasa (rough draft)
This is a rough draft...will update later with links and backup info.
Nasa has released an Open Source license for use by civil and contract developers within the agency. This gave me an interesting thought.
Now first of all, I'm a developer, and what I say here is NOT from my employer (Unjted Spoce Alljonce) or NA$A. They have in no way approved or endorsed this - it's just me thinking. If I get a positive enough response, I may go to them with the idea.
I work in the Astronut trg facility on the simulators used to train spacefolk. Would there be a big response if the following software project was to be set up on OSDN? Project goals:
1> Provide Astronut training to real astronuts. This is not game software...
2> Run the real shuttle flight software, with emulated GPCs (General Purpose Computers - the shuttle's flight computers).
3> Provide portable code for the simulation so that it can run on any *nix box that is POSIX compliant and has the right hardware/software combo.
4> Run on any Xterm.
5> Display using Java and PDB.
6> Have extensions that can be easily added to the core simulation that will truly make it a game.
The idea is the core is built and maintained in one project at JSC by NA$A or the contractor.
The game extensions are maintained by a separate project of open source volunteer developers, outside of the NA$A/contractor environment. That means: Probably no $$$ for it *at all*. The game project would have the requirement to easily link and run with the core, not the other way round. I doubt mgt would buy the idea of NA$A money maintaining game software.
The volunteers maintaining the game project could contribute to the core, and would be expected to. These contributions would go thru the official software process of NA$A or the contractor, and would be used (if accepted) as a part of the baseline that is used to train the astronuts.
All copyrights would have to be gifted to either NA$A or the contractor, depending on the legal setup (of which I have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what that would be).
Would there be very many open source developers interested in working such a project, do you think?
Now first of all, I'm a developer, and what I say here is NOT from my employer (Unjted Spoce Alljonce) or NA$A. They have in no way approved or endorsed this - it's just me thinking. If I get a positive enough response, I may go to them with the idea.
I work in the Astronut trg facility on the simulators used to train spacefolk. Would there be a big response if the following software project was to be set up on OSDN? Project goals:
1> Provide Astronut training to real astronuts. This is not game software...
2> Run the real shuttle flight software, with emulated GPCs (General Purpose Computers - the shuttle's flight computers).
3> Provide portable code for the simulation so that it can run on any *nix box that is POSIX compliant and has the right hardware/software combo.
4> Run on any Xterm.
5> Display using Java and PDB.
6> Have extensions that can be easily added to the core simulation that will truly make it a game.
The idea is the core is built and maintained in one project at JSC by NA$A or the contractor.
The game extensions are maintained by a separate project of open source volunteer developers, outside of the NA$A/contractor environment. That means: Probably no $$$ for it *at all*. The game project would have the requirement to easily link and run with the core, not the other way round. I doubt mgt would buy the idea of NA$A money maintaining game software.
The volunteers maintaining the game project could contribute to the core, and would be expected to. These contributions would go thru the official software process of NA$A or the contractor, and would be used (if accepted) as a part of the baseline that is used to train the astronuts.
All copyrights would have to be gifted to either NA$A or the contractor, depending on the legal setup (of which I have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what that would be).
Would there be very many open source developers interested in working such a project, do you think?
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