Post on 13-Jan-2015
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robbie schingler | robbie.schingler@nasa.gov | @schingler | nasa ames research center
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18 billion dollars annually
80 thousand employees
10 major offices / centers
70 spacecraft through solar system
50 year old organization
50 average age of the workforce
42 answer to life, universe and everything
www.opennasa.com
a collaborative blog by NASA employees off duty
14 open innovation ideas
1 idea highlighted here
people.nasa.govpublicly available searchable directory for EVERY NASA
employee
This is me! It works!
(if you know I exist and can spell my name correctly)
NASA’s Internal Directory(if you know I exist and can spell my name correctly)
• mobile• office number• title
data is from a publicly available
LDAP server
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people.opennasa.com
pre-populated with publicly available LDAP info
E-mail sent to e-mail on file
one-time password to edit
Shows what is in the LDAP server – and ability to edit it
on NASA’s servers
with additional information to add
With even additional information to add
• biography• main project• map• gravatar/picture• mobile• title• tags• skills• side projects• previous projects• address• twitter• hire date• websites
people.opennasa.comsearchable across tags, skills, location, key words,
etc.
github.com/jessykate/nasaprofiles
all source code is publicly available, FOSS (many organizations use LDAP)
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