phyr - Slashdot User

Comment Better pricing at SkyWatch (Score 1) 8

by phyr on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:35AM (#63548035) Attached to: SkyFi Lets You Order Up Fresh Satellite Imagery In Real Time With a Click

SkyWatch has better pricing https://skywatch.com/pricing across all providers and delivery time is just a few minutes for archive SkySat

Comment Public money (Score 4, Insightful) 61

by phyr on Monday August 08, 2016 @09:37PM (#52668625) Attached to: White House Releases Federal Source Code Policy To Help Government Agencies Go Open Source

Public software from public money. The model works well for scientific software at NASA, ESA, CSA, etc.

Submission + - ESA Summer of Code (esa.int)

Submitted by phyr on Friday May 02, 2014 @09:15AM

phyr writes: ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Applicants must be attending a European or Canadian university and will receive 4000 Euros for supporting one of the accepted open source projects. Applicants have until May 15th to submit their proposals and resumes. I'm particularly interested to have exceptional proposals for the NEST project.

Comment 28DaysLater (Score 5, Funny) 285

by phyr on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:33AM (#43525425) Attached to: Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab

Haven't we learned anything from the movies... this is how the zombie apocalypse begins

Comment Summer of Code Inspired Programs (Score 2) 20

by phyr on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:17PM (#41683309) Attached to: The Growth of Google Summer of Code

Don't forget the SoC like programs such as ESA's SOCIS Public and private money for students to code open source software is a great thing.

Submission + - ESA Summer of Code in Space 2012 (esa.int)

Submitted by

phyr

on Thursday July 19, 2012 @10:00AM

phyr writes: "The European Space Agency is looking for student coders to join the Summer of Code in Space. ESA will pay 4000 Euros to each student for contributing to a space related open source project for the summer. Accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. Mentor organizations have been selected. Students now have until July 27 to submit their applications. Check out the ideas pages of each project such as for the NEST SAR Toolbox"

Comment Just add more (Score 2) 292

by phyr on Thursday February 16, 2012 @05:39PM (#39066257) Attached to: SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future

Can't scale past 16TB? Why not just stack them?

Comment Re:Not exactly new (Score 1) 70

by phyr on Thursday December 01, 2011 @12:17PM (#38226814) Attached to: UK Plans Space Based Radar System

What's new here is that they are trying to get a constellation up very cheap (20M) and expect to get a 50:1 return on investment.
The sensors themselves aren't that impressive and low resolution when compared to RADARSAT-2, TerraSAR-X and CosmoSkymed.

Let's hope they fund some new work into the GPL SAR Toolbox NEST http://www.array.ca/nest

Comment Re:Toronto (Score 1) 614

by phyr on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:27PM (#37181958) Attached to: 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US

The 7th floor kept moving here in Toronto for quite a long time

Comment 100 years? (Score 1) 364

by phyr on Thursday August 18, 2011 @12:25PM (#37131174) Attached to: DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel

$500k stretched over 100 years isn't going to do much research. $500k over 1 year will produce a paper that says we'll need a lot more money

Comment Google Canadian? (Score -1, Troll) 205

by phyr on Thursday July 28, 2011 @08:58AM (#36906852) Attached to: Google Announces Google CDN

Dumping the US$ fast! All transactions on android market will now only be in CDN dollars

Comment Remote Sensing Toolboxes (Score 2) 18

by phyr on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @07:05AM (#36609092) Attached to: ESA Opens To Open Source Code Development

With all the new data that is and will be freely available to everyone, we could use some SoC help on the open source toolboxes BEAM, NEST and others.
Please send in your ideas on what could be worked on for NEST here
NEST could definitely benefit from more GIS functionality with more integration with GeoTools or other Java GIS libraries.

Comment Remote Sensing for kids (Score 2) 225

by phyr on Sunday March 20, 2011 @05:35PM (#35553578) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students?

Wathcing over our planet tutorial at the Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/resource/tutor/planet/index_e.php

Comment Re:Find project you like or use (Score 1) 151

by phyr on Sunday July 04, 2010 @07:35PM (#32794616) Attached to: Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help?

If you are interested in remote sensing or image processing, please contribute to an ESA open source project such as NEST BEAM or PolSARPro

Comment Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux (Score 1) 310

by phyr on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:13PM (#30834968) Attached to: What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?

Definitely not the best there is. Try the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA and you'll see what really helpful tools can do for you. Code with pleasure.

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