{"id":21420,"date":"2023-02-07T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=21420"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:49:01","slug":"closing-the-nasa-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/closing-the-nasa-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the NASA loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

curl is actually something which is critical, especially to our data management system. It is being used very widely across NASA.<\/p>Dr Steve Crawford<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2020 I started getting emails from NASA<\/a> asking for details and specifics about curl’s origins and in particular about where contributors to the project works, and I first replied eagerly trying to be helpful, but over time I kept receiving very similar emails from other NASA departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It puzzled me, and out of frustration I posted this tweet in April 2021. A tweet that received a lot of attention and more than 3,000 likes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a closing keynote at the FOSDEM 2023 conference, Dr. Steve Crawford did a talk titled NASA and Open Source Software (video<\/a>, slides<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 24 minutes in, on slide 28, Dr Crawford shows a screenshot of the above tweet and talks about NASA’s use of curl, and says that piece I quoted at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I was<\/em> at the FOSDEM 2023 conference, but unfortunately I had to skip the last hour of presentations so I had just<\/em> left the campus when this talk was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would have been a blast to have been present in the room at that time. Now I instead got an avalanche of messages from friends and acquaintances who notified me about this talk and mention of me, which was of course also fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takeaway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m glad NASA is aware of some of their problems and that they listen. It is a comfort that my text was taken with the right attitude. It also feels good that I used the correct tone in that Tweet: I figure it is rarely someone’s actual desire to appear clumsy or bureaucratic, but organizations and companies can easily get trapped in processes that still make them act that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a celebration of NASA, the top image<\/a> is taken by NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and features the central region of the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light years away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, I use a lame downscaled version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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