Difference between revisions of "SpaceApps2015"

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Informations

• Participation to the NASA hackathon SpaceApps
  • https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/about/
  • https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/location/renens/
• Open to everyone who loves space ! We'll need graphist/artist, coder, science nerd, etc
• REGISTER HERE: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/account/login/?next=/register/renens/
  • you can register during the event, and drop by anytime to see what's happening

Schedule

11-12 april 2015

• Saturday
  • 09h00 - Kick Off, presentations
  • 10h00 - choose themes, form teams
  • 10h30 - Start coding !
  • 12h00 - Lunch time
  • 16h00 - Mid challenge update
  • 19h00 - Lunch time
  • 20h00 - Coding
  • 22h00 - Closing for the night
• Sunday
  • 10h00 - Coding
  • 12h00 - Lunch time
  • 20h00 - Submission deadline
  • 20h30 - Projects presentation and vote if applicable

Challenges

• Solutions to the challenges have to be published under open source licenses (if none specified, NASA will use http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
• Challenges has been presented: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/challenge/
• Who is interested in what at FIXME: https://pad.fixme.ch/p/spaceapps2015
• Question on the challenges: https://spaceapps2015.hackpad.com/

Teams

• We have to form teams
• Ideal size is 3+ people, at least 2 coders
• 2 team's projects can be presented to global judging from the venue
• Every project as subject to poeple's choice on the spaceapps website
• Create the project page! https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/create/
• Submission deadline will be during the evening, we have to pick 2 project before 22h !

Ressource

• http://celestrak.com/
• https://data.nasa.gov/

Organisation

• https://hackpad.com/Space-Apps-2015-Running-FAQ-KPtz1PD5JIV
• Register on SpaceApps website !
• Events communication:
  • http://www.meetup.com/SpaceNerd/events/220750790/
  • http://techup.ch/1900/spaceapps-2015
  • https://www.facebook.com/events/355127281355651
• Use #spaceappslausanne hashtag on twitter !
• Find some catering sponsors
• Have plenty of Club Mate !!!!
• Contact every space actor around for participation (already contacted: Hackers@EPFL, Swiss Space Center, S3)
• Posters Media:spaceapps-poster-a4.png Media:spaceapps-poster-a0.png
• Your ideas here

See Also

• Spacenerd
• Satnogs