Michael Doornbos » mobile http://michaeldoornbos.com Just your average evil genius Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:39:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Jumping in with both feet: An Open Source NASA Android app http://michaeldoornbos.com/2010/04/12/jumping-in-with-both-feet-an-open-source-nasa-android-app/ http://michaeldoornbos.com/2010/04/12/jumping-in-with-both-feet-an-open-source-nasa-android-app/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:50:29 +0000 mike http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=606 I've long been a lover of Open Source.  Both from a philosophical point of view, and a quality of software point of view.  When I got serious about Linux in the 1990's, I spent a lot of time contributing back to the community.  As time has gone by, I've been giving back less and less. In 2010, I've been working almost entirely commercially.  Sure I do Evadot for free and give all of my content there away as Creative Commons, but it's really not enough.

I've been working on some Android apps for a while and as of today, there are few Space related apps in the Android ethos.  I've been following the excellent work of people like Rob Schingler at NASA, and been reading the Oreilly book "Open Government".  It seems like a good fit to launch an Open Source Android project around the "new" NASA.

Ideally, we, the Android user and developer community should be able to contribute a little each to a project like this.

If you had a clean slate for an Android app with a NASA theme, what would you want on it?  What parts of NASA would you want in your pocket or purse, and always at your fingertips?

A few things I'd like to have with me are:

But that's just me.  Tell me what you want to see!

If you're interested in helping, the project page has just been put on Github.  It's just a skeleton project at this point, so let's light this candle and get to work!

]]> http://michaeldoornbos.com/2010/04/12/jumping-in-with-both-feet-an-open-source-nasa-android-app/feed/ 5 The must have Winter Olympics phone app http://michaeldoornbos.com/2010/02/13/the-must-have-winter-olympics-phone-app/ http://michaeldoornbos.com/2010/02/13/the-must-have-winter-olympics-phone-app/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:43:54 +0000 mike http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=587 Handmark has an excellent (and free) app for tracking the winter olympics called Winter Sports Live.

Scan to install on your android phone

Get it while it's hot!

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My favorite part: "Current Sprint customers will be able to switch to the Simply Everything plan without extending their contracts, according to Sprint."

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