Morning Space Hackers! The Internet is buzzing with your great activities. I’ll be writing a few global updates on my blog to give you an overview. Magic is connecting us:
I’m in Toronto, Canada watching CJ Hendrix present via ustream about Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) in Lausanne and chatting on IRC with Alp who is in Istanbul and Herr Flupke (of the virtual coordinator ops team- vops).
What is the Space Apps Challenge
The International Space Apps Challenge is a global event hosted by NASA.
Check out this summary video including Space Stars like Clay Ellis on the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica and Unity Node’s Ron Garan.
Big Picture
ISS is live on Ustream (@panggi thanks for the pic):
How can you watch online?
Global collaboration is always a rush. Here are some of the components to help:
Ustream channel (all the cities have a separate channel connected. There is a ustream scroll bar below the main window complete with all the city ustream links.
We have a global IRC live chat. You can dive into projects like the Open Data API lead by Sean Herron. Each of the projects have their own window. Running commentary is brilliant. I’m participating with Herr_Flupke as a global dispatch coordinator aka Human API.
I set up a live blog to aggregate social media content. Thanks to the folks at ScribbleLive for the great software!
International participants
Here is a summary of how to get engaged online as International virtual participants. Ping me on IRC or anyone and ask for help to be connected.
Gov 2.0 interviews
Here are some amazing audio interviews by the Gov 2.0 team with SpaceApp leaders, including Simeon Oriko of my homebase ihub Nairobi and Ali Llewellyn of NASA.
Also see this article from the BBC.
The Global International Space Apps Tour….so far
Sydney via @auspaceapps
Great pix etc! We also are helping matching.