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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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