[Open Design + Hardware] NASA Space Apps challenge

Sat Oct 12 11:31:53 UTC 2013

Interesting

to what extent is there hardware involved?
any hardware examples from 2013?

/ Peter

On 12 Oct 2013, at 11:10 , Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:

> Everyone, 
> 
> Jarkko in Finland is involved in this and looking for others who might be interested - there's open hardware involved! 
> 
> Details below.
> 
> Laura
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jarkko Moilanen <jarkko.moilanen at hermiagroup.fi>
> Date: 11 October 2013 09:37
> Subject: OKF and Space Apps Challenge
> To: Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org>
> 
> 
> Hi Laura,
> 
> My name is Jarkko Moilanen and one of the Open Knowledge Foundation
> Finland "activists". Currently I manage open data activities and
> community development in Pirkanmaa region (paid post by Hermia Ltd).
> 
> I'm also organizing national level event called Spaceship 2014. Our
> event is part of annual NASA driven Space Apps Challenge event.
> http://spaceappschallenge.org/
> 
> I was co-organizer in the 2013 Spaceship event in Tampere, which
> gathered around 250 entrepreneurs, space specialists from national
> organizations and community developers. This year our event will be
> national in co-operation with Helsinki and Turku. This year we will have
> more partners and sponsors such as LinkedIn and Google to mention a few.
> Event in Finland will be taken to Baltic Sea cruise ship :)
> 
> I was wondering if OKF would like to be part of this kind open data (and
> open source/hardware) driven activities since NASA is pushing their data
> to open data as well. OKF could use the network around the globe to
> participate at local level.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> /Jarkko
> 
> 
> 
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