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Ottawa Unconference in May: Building Software for Climate Resilience

2024-12-21 by Deploy_Admin

Ottawa's Deploy Software Solutions specializes in climate change software R&D. We are pleased to facilitate an unconference, focused on building software for climate change resilience.

The emphasis of the event is on community building, knowledge sharing, and collaboration around using software and data for climate resilience use-cases. The knowledge gathered will then be shared.

While Deploy will provide organizing help, the exact schedule, venue, and agenda of this FREE event will be determined by its participants (you!).

Whether you're a developer, scientist, project manager, designer, or just passionate about the environment, this is the perfect opportunity to network, learn and share your knowledge and experience. Don't miss out on this chance to connect with like-minded individuals and work towards a more sustainable and positive future!

Event Details

Date: Late May 2025, exact date TBC
Price: Free
Location: A physical (non-virtual) event hosted somewhere in Ottawa, Ontario. Exact venue is to be determined based on the level of interest and involvement of our participants.
Format: Unconference-style sessions organized and delivered by participants. The knowledge gathered will be shared under the CC BY-SA license.
How to participate: Register using the form below, and we will send you regular surveys where you can provide feedback and help assist in shaping the event. Your registration email address will only be used to communicate information and shares surveys about this event.

NASA International Space Apps Hackathon in Ottawa 2024

2024-09-10 by Deploy_Admin

Deploy Solutions is proud to be a continued Ottawa organizer of the eight Ottawa version of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge hackathon, which is the local version of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. That event is now celebrating 12 years!

This FREE and entirely VIRTUAL event will run from October 4 to 6, 2024. The weekend hackathon provides a fun and creative introduction to the world of open source and space industry projects.

The solutions to the challenges rely on publicly available open sourced data from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and manyother international space agencies and organizations.

This year’s event will be hosted by the Carleton University Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at the Nicol Building on Carleton Campus, in Ottawa. Find out more, including how to register, at https://www.spaceappsottawa.com.

NASA International Space Apps Hackathon in Ottawa 2023

2023-10-10 by Deploy_Admin

Deploy Solutions is proud to be a continued Ottawa organizer of the seventh Ottawa version of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge hackathon, which is the local version of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. That event is now celebrating 11 years!

This FREE and entirely VIRTUAL event will run from October 7 and 8, 2023. The weekend hackathon provides a fun and creative introduction to the world of open source and space industry projects.

The solutions to the challenges rely on publicly available open sourced data from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and ten other international space agencies and organizations.

This year’s event will once again be held virtually in Ottawa. Find out more, including how to register, at https://www.spaceappsottawa.com.

NASA International Space Apps Hackathon 2022 in Ottawa and Canada

2022-09-29 by Deploy_Admin

Deploy Solutions is proud to be a continued organizer of the sixth annual Ottawa version of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. That event is now celebrating 11 years!

This FREE and entirely VIRTUAL event will run from Friday evening, September 30 to Sunday, October 2. The weekend hackathon provides a fun and creative introduction to the world of open source and space industry projects.

The solutions to the challenges rely on publicly available open sourced data from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and ten other international space agencies and organizations.

This year’s event will once again be held virtually in Ottawa. Find out more, including how to register, at https://www.spaceappsottawa.com.

Introducing our new service, “OASIS: Software Solutions for Climate Change Problems”

2022-07-31 by Deploy_Admin

The world needs software solutions for Climate Change problems.

In 2019 we set out to investigate if there is a need for a solution that gives citizens personalized help preparing for and recovering from climate change impacts and lets trusted authorities assist them and report on their results.

As part of this effort, a great deal of market and technical research was conducted over the last few years. Over 140 students have been involved so far, in dozens of academic institutions in Canada and internationally.

Our greatest finding is the willingness of citizens to take responsibility and use climate change impact platform to help themselves, their neighbors and community plan for, mitigate and recover from climate change disasters. We also confirmed that software solutions can be built to help.

Software can help respond to climate change issues - but the world needs a better way to build it.

Climate change software applications pose unique challenges that aren't always encountered in other areas. Climate change is causing impacts and disasters to occur more frequently, with little or no warning, and with increased danger and complexity. Each impact or disaster is unique and responding to it places complex burdens on individuals, communities, and authorities.

Custom software development is needed to meet the unique needs of each situation and it must be built in a way that is most useful to affected people and communities. But, building software from scratch is traditionally complex, time-consuming, expensive, and has a high failure rate.

A new software development approach is needed, that addresses the issues and challenges raised by climate change.

While there are many ways to build software, when you follow a standard approach, using common tools, resources, patterns and practices, you achieve better and more consistent results. This approach is called a "software methodology".

We believe solutions for climate change impacts are at their best when they are Open; Accelerated; in agreement with the latest Science (as stated by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change); Insightful; and meet SMART goals and objectives.

This is OASIS methodology!

Sharing Knowledge and Technology

But a software methodology without working software, or one that nobody uses, is completely useless.

So, we are currently building a working technology prototype to accelerate the creation of climate change solutions and demonstrate how this methodology works. It shows how software can address and help overcome common communication and other barriers that prevent individual and communities from preparing for, responding to, and recovering from climate change impacts and disasters.

Now we'd like to share our knowledge and progress with you.

Learn how software can help respond to climate change impacts.

Our free OASIS newsletter will hit your inboxes every Tuesday. As a sign up gift, we'll provide you our detailed 42-page report, "Why Won't People Act on Climate Change?" (read the excerpt, below). Become an OASIS+ subscriber for a monthly or annual fee, and unlock access to private webinars, premium resources and content, while directly supporting our ongoing R&D work.

Why Won't People Act On Climate Change? (An excerpt from our initial research report) from Deploy Software Solutions ("Deploy Solutions")

Deploy Proudly Supports 2021 NASA International Space Apps Hackathon in Ottawa and Canada

2021-09-26 by Deploy_Admin

Deploy Solutions is proud to be a continued organizer and sponsor of the fifth annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon event, which is the local version of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. That event is now celebrating 10 years!

2021 marks the tenth annual NASA International Space Apps Challenge. In honor of this event, the theme is, “The Power of Ten.” This year, NASA will commemorate ten amazing years of community, collaboration, and innovation by forming a power team of ten international space agencies, including our own Canadian Space Agency, who’ll work together to make Space Apps accessible to more communities worldwide. This FREE and entirely VIRTUAL event will run from Friday evening, October 1 to Sunday, October 3. Find out more, including how to register, at https://www.spaceappsottawa.com.

The solutions to the challenges rely on publicly available open sourced data from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and eight other international space agencies and organizations.

Each year this event is provides a fun and creative introduction to the world of open source and space industry projects. Due to COVID-19, this year’s event will be entirely virtual.

See you there!

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2021-02-11 by Patrick Javier

15 Feb 2021

8am - 9am PST

2021 Space App Webinar

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COVID-19 Special Edition Hackathon, and Impact on Space Apps Ottawa 2020

2020-05-24 by Deploy_Admin

Space Apps Challenge – COVID-19 Special Edition

NASA will hold a virtual Covid-19 Special Edition of the Space Apps Challenge on the weekend of May 30-31. This is in addition to the annual event which will still be held in October. You will find more information about the special edition event here.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will take this opportunity to release data from MOPITT and Radarsat 2 satellites in the hope that participants across Canada and elsewhere will use them to tackle one of the Covid-19 challenges.

Space Apps Ottawa 2020: Online Only?

Our first concern is to hold our annual event in a way that is not only fun, inspiring, and educational, but safe and secure for all participants.

COVID-19 pandemic will require us to comply with new public safety regulations and bylaws and there is an enormous amount of uncertainty about what October might look like. We may not be able to physically hold this event.

Having said that – our hackathon is still a go!

The organizing committee has begun to plan for a version of this event that will be primarily virtual / online. We will provide updates when we know more.

Register now to help us plan your hackathon experience

Although event details are uncertain, it will be held October 2 to 4 as originally planned.

Please register online in order to ensure your space and allow us to provide you with the best possible experience. In addition, if you would like to assist with sponsorship, volunteering, organizing, or mentoring; or have feedback or suggestions on what a great online hackathon experience could look like, please email us at info@spaceappsottawa.com or contact me directly on LinkedIn.

We hope you will join us for another great year solving “out of this world” challenges in a fun (and now virtual) environment!

A New Horizon – Space Apps in Canada

2019-11-29 by Nicholas Kellett

In October Deploy Software Solutions was an organizing sponsor of the third annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon, which is the local branch of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. The event is

…an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with nearly 200 cities around the world, Ottawa teams will form and build products and prototypes against NASA-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial and science data.

This is a fun introduction to the world of open source projects and the space industry. The challenges are designed by both NASA and our own Canadian Space Agency. Solutions to the challenges rely on NASA’s publicly available open sourced data and require teamwork and creativity!

At this year’s Canadian Space Society annual summit, CEO Nicholas Kellett had a chance to speak about the opportunity Space Apps hackathons can play in Canada’s space industry. The presentation, called “A New Horizon: Space Apps in Canada” provided a

…satellite-eye view of hackathons and space apps globally and in Canada. What are they, what business problems and technical challenges can they solve, what is their history and how can the Canadian space industry leverage them to achieve downstream software excellence?

View the full presentation on SlideShare.

Space Apps Ottawa is back, October 19-21

2018-07-03 by Nicholas Kellett

Deploy Software Solutions is once again proud to be a host sponsor of the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon, which is the local branch of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. The event is

…an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with nearly 200 cities around the world, Ottawa teams will form and build products and prototypes against NASA-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial and science data. This FREE event will run from Friday evening, October 19 to Sunday, October 21.

: Hackathoners

: Some of the volunteers and organizers of Space Apps Ottawa 2017

Last year’s teams used artificial intelligence, GIS and mapping technologies, industrial design techniques, and many other cool ideas and technologies to meet their chosen challenges. Find out more, including how to register, at http://www.spaceappsottawa.com

We hope to see you there!