NASA International Open Data Challenge 2015
by
Sharath Chandra Ram
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last modified
Apr 27, 2015 01:08 AM
As part of the initial NASA Open Government 2.0 plan, the NASA International Open Data challenge brings together the FOSS community, citizen scientists, open data practitioners , open hardware enthusiasts and students for collaborative problem solving with the goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in Space.
Event details
When
Apr 11, 2015 09:00 AM
to
Apr 12, 2015 06:00 PM
Apr 12, 2015 06:00 PM
Where
The Centre for Internet & Society, No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560071 (opposite Domlur Club and very near to TERI complex)
Contact Name
On April 11 and 12, 2015 2015, the event will be organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with mentors from Team Indus, one of India's leading Space Technology Start-Ups. The event will start off with the following keynote and workshops at 9am on Saturday, April 11th, 2015:
Pre-Hackathon Workshop: 9 a.m., Saturday, April 11, 2015
IBM Blue Mix Team + OpenCube Labs
(Big Data Analytics using Cloud Services like Bluemix/Heroku, with node.js implementation and Android APIs)
Keynote: Amar Sharma, 12 p.m., April 11, 2015
Amar is credited as being the youngest and first Indian amateur astronomer to have an Asteroid named after him in 2014 at the age of 29. (380607 Sharma) He will talk about CCD Astro Imaging and his travails and journey as a self-made astronomer and comet hunter.
We will then break off into teams to commence the hackathon that will end on Sunday,April 12, 2015 at 6pm, after which teams will upload and present their solutions for Local and Global Nominations.
Registration is free and you are required to confirm participation at the below link:
Participants are requested to bring their own laptop/computing devices.
Please see last year's event's focus on Open Science and Big data, and the various Open Data solutions developed at CIS, to get an idea of what the event is about:
https://2014.spaceappschallenge.org/location/bangalore/ This year, we will have a workshop on Big Data Analytics conducted by IBM BlueMix Labs followed by Heroku implementation and Android Programming by friends of CIS from OpenCubeLabs, that will follow a very special Keynote speaker who is first amateur astronomer to have an asteroid named after him, to join the likes of Ramanujan and Vikram Sarabhai.
