Software Contributions to Mars Missions

This week we’re talking about open source on Mars. Martin Woodward (Senior Director of Developer Relations at GitHub) joins us to talk about the new Mars badge GitHub introduced. This collaboration between GitHub and NASA confirmed nearly 12,000 people contributed code, documentation, graphic design, and more to the open source software that made Ingenuity’s launch possible. Today’s show is a celebration of this human achievement and the impact of open source on space exploration as we know it.

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Featuring:

• Martin Woodward – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Open source goes to Mars 🚀
• Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter
• The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity
• nasa/fprime
• The .NET Foundation
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Maintainer Week
• The Changelog #436: Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) with Daniel Stenberg
• The Changelog #411: Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
• The Changelog #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors with Devon Zuegel
• GitHub Skyline
• dear-github/dear-github

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