Welcome to the official openNASA community feedback and ideas forum. Do you have an idea for the open NASA website, project or activities? We want to hear from you!
Please do NOT put general ideas about NASA here-- we have another forum for that. This is a place for feedback on the openNASA.com community, web site, and affiliated projects. Thanks!
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14 votes
Hold an openNASA workshop
Hold an openNASA workshop to bring together anyone and everyone who would like to talk about the development of openNASA and how to use it as a platform for opening up the agency. Stream into secondlife for anyone who could not attend in person.
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12 votes
Feature spacehack.org projects
Collaborate with SpaceHack on it such that a monthly project is "introduced" concurrently and with fanfare on SpaceHack that month, and content about that project flows between OpenNASA and SpaceHack during that month. Goal would be to achieve escape velocity for the project during tha... more
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11 votes
Combine all open_____ communities into one site
A number of great websites have started recently, such as opennasa.com, opengoddard.com, openlarc.com. There is an endless possibility for others. Use openNASA.com as a platform for all these websites via tabs at the top that can be expanded to include any community who would like a website. T... more
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8 votes
Featured Bloggers
Invite featured guest bloggers from inside and/or outside NASA to blog on openNASA.com.
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8 votes
Recruit people to create OpenXXXX Sites at Every NASA Center
Currently OpenNASA.com, OpenGoddard.com, and OpenLARC.com exist. Actively recruit people from Stennis, Dryden, Glenn, Kennedy, Johnson, GISS, Langley and JPL to create their own version of OpenXXX sites with a consistent template and approach.
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6 votes
Incorporate a better NASA employee Directory system
http://people.nasa.gov is a public website for the NASA employee directory and you are able to find search for NASA employees (either contractor or civil servant) and get their center, name, e-mail and phone number. While this is useful, it would be better to incorporate more information about N... more
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5 votes
Community Calendar
Add a community calendar to the site which feeds in all other community calendars as well as allows users to add their own events. Link to cafe philosophies in various cities and events at NASA centers. Also allow people to use this to coordinate co-working meetups to either flesh out ideas or ... more
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4 votes
OpenNASAGoddardLangleyEtc.
Make prominent feeds to OpenGoddard and openLangley on OpenNASA. openLangley has feeds for OpenNASA and OpenGoddard and it helps folks see what everyone is doing on these sites at a glance. I also have these feeds on other sites less used, such as our New Media Team page.
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3 votes
work with Google to create and iGoogle for NASA
Design a new Web 2.0 site with gadgets that people can create, document sharing, with gadgets for email, blogs and calendars, just like iGoogle.
Web 2.0 is about more than just writing and discussing ideas...it's about building and sharing new apps, working on projects as teams, using web conf... more
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3 votes
better searching for images and other documents
There must be 5 or 6 different nasa.gov web sites that purport to be the definitive place for NASA image searches. They all work differently, have different content, and all lack good metadata for efficient searches. Situation is even worse for pdfs and other documents. Pick one site and stick wi... more
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2 votes
openNASA on the news
Create a page on the openNASA webpage that links to all the articles, blog posts, or news mentioning openNASA.com.
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2 votes
live feed timeline re-write
Re-write the timeline code (right hand column) so that it groups like updates. For example, when NASA HQ updates their flickr account, it spams the livefeed since they update 20 pictures or more at one time. Instead, have an approach where it groups these together and says something like "... more
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2 votes
Comments Policy
Write a comments policy and add a flagging feature so that the openNASA community can self-moderate comments that violate the policy. Flagged comments would go to moderators on openNASA for review to make sure they are in actually in violation of the policy.
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2 votes
Create a save button on the comments box
Many times when inputting a comment something happens and the comment you spent some time creating gets lost. This could be alleviated by having the comment be saved. This is especially useful for people that have an account on opennasa.com. Making the comment box bigger can be done at the sam... more
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1 votes
Author and Guest Avatars
Use open Avatar's for authors of the post (in place of the calendar) as well as for guests who have open avatars. Makes the site much more personal.
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1 votes
fotos
naves
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1 votes
let people see and hear the tapes
and you know what tapes I am refering to
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1 votes
mailing list for authors
create a wordpress plugin which automatically adds new authors to a mailing list.
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1 votes
Setup (and use) an openNASA Twitterfeed
We had one on openNASA in the past, but we need to revive it and, at a minimum, feed the posts into twitter so people can subscribe to openNASA news.
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1 votes
Polls
Add a polling feature to get quick feedback on everything from topics for blog posts to features for the website. Keep as simple and non-intrusive as possible.
