Conferences and Talks
Presentations and other materials from conferences organized or attended by CoLab
Opening NASA 2008
During 2008, NASA CoLab has been contributing to the Gen Y and Open NASA efforts around the agency. Check out pictures from our first inter-center meeting, held in Cupertino, CA in February, 2008. Download the popular Gen Y presentation that's been causing a buzz.
3rd Space Exploration Conference
AIAA's 3rd Space Exploration was held February 26-28, 2008 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. There was a Plenary Panel entitled "Sustaining Space Exploration: A Generation Y Perspective". NASA CoLab Program Coodinator Delia Santiago
presented on how NASA CoLab is one possible way to engage with Generation Y.
AAS 2007 National Conference
On November 13, 2007, a panel was held entitled, "Downloading the Stars: the Future of Space Exploration." This panel focused on how innovative products and technologies that are transforming our world today can be integrated into NASA mission tomorrow.
Open Source Convention 2007
In July 2007, the CosmosCode team went to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and spoke about open source in the space community. Jessy Cowan-Sharp, manager of the NASA CosmosCode project, and David Boswell, from the Mozilla Foundation, spoke about the CosmosCode and Flight Linux efforts. You can download the slides here.
Participatory Exploration Summit 2007
Download the Proceedings of the Participatory Exploration Summit.
On June 26th, 2007, NASA and the National Space Society hosted the Participatory Exploration Summit at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. The Summit explored creative opportunities for individuals, organizations, and communities to engage with NASA's space activities through the use of new and emerging technologies. Participants themselves engaged in and learned these new technologies as the Summit progressed. Micro-blogging of astronauts from the International Space Station, designing missions collaboratively in virtual worlds, and making the volumes of data NASA has more available to the public were just a few of the many suggestions that arose from the Summit that can support Participatory Exploration.
Participants included Bill Nye, The Science Guy; Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science; Jerry Heneghan, CEO of Virtual Heroes; and leaders from Twitter, IBM, Creative Commons, Digital Space Commons, and O’Reilly Radar.
Check out pictures from the event on Flickr here.
CNET Article on the event
Great local ABC news clip
International Space Development Conference 2007
In May, 2007, NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden gave his plenary speech at the International Space Development Conference live from Second Life on NASA CoLab Island. Click here for links to a video, transcripts, pictures, and press coverage.
