Q&A: NASA's Sean Herron and William Eshagh on code.nasa.gov

On Jan. 4, NASA added to its growing collection of open.nasa.gov websites with the launch of code.nasa.gov. The site aims to be a "community hub" by providing access to current NASA open source projects, information on

its open source release process and a forthcoming forum for project collaboration.

FierceGovernmentIT caught up with William Eshagh and Sean Herron of NASA's open government team to talk about newest initiative and learn more about where it fits into NASA's broader open government efforts.

FierceGovernmentIT: In the year in review blog post it said there were already more than 65,000 views on open.nasa.gov since it went live in July 2011. Any idea how traffic numbers look so far on the code site? Can you tell me about response and interest level so far?

William Eshagh: You said 65,000 since July? Yeah, we've doubled. And a lot of the traffic is for code.nasa.gov announcement. That post itself has nearly 40,000 views alone. There's been an unexpected and overwhelming response to the site--thousands of tweets, thousands of hits. We've been talking to people both internal and external, it's generated a lot of excitement. Read more...