NRN: Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration Part II

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin

Part II of the Netroots Nation panel on Progressive NASA on 7/18/08…

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Obama’s Space Policy Platform

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin

I met with 15 other people in Austin on July 18th to conduct an Obama for President Space Policy Platform meeting, right after our Space Policy panel at Netroots Nation Convention. Our crew included Netroots activists, aerospace enthusiasts from the Austin area, and even former NASA officials. After several hours of debate, and dozens of [...]

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Space Policy @ Netroots Nation: 2 events Friday the 18th in Austin

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin

In addition to my reinventing government and science policy panels at Netroots Nation on Friday the 18th, I’ll be moderating the only space-related panel at Netroots Nation, entitled “Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration.”  We have a great panel lineup– Chris Bowers of OpenLeft.com, George Whitesides of the National Space Society and [...]

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Announcing the Space Policy Panel at Netroots Nation / Yearly Kos

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin

I’m very pleased to announce that for the first time, The Netroots Nation (Yearly Kos) Convention will feature a panel on space policy, July 18th or 19th in Austin, Texas. The panel, entitled, “Progressive NASA & Space Policy Under a New Administration,” is an opportunity to bring critical space policy issues to light within a [...]

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Video of the last NASA CoLab “Luna Philosophie” Salon at Yahoo Brickhouse

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin

Thanks to Salim Ismail for blogging the last NASA Luna Philosophie at his Yahoo Brickhouse facility. Luna Philosophie is a regular series of approximately monthly “space salons,” and is part of our NASA CoLab program, through which we’re building open collaborative communities for NASA. Watch the video of NASA Ames’ Tom Cochrane’s Luna Philosophie talk [...]

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Open Government Data Working Group

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Andrew Hoppin

An important meeting took place in Sebastapol last weekend (I didn’t know about it in advance, but I did wonder at the time why several folks in my Dopplr list were in Sebastapol concurrently!) to advance the cause of openness and accessibility of government data. Good timing– the CoLab team just spent the past two [...]

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Guest on The Space Show…

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Andrew Hoppin

Had a great time with my colleagues Robbie Schingler and Jessy Cowan-Sharp as the guests of David Livingston’s The Space Show last night. You can listen to it here.

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