NASA is looking for vendors as it has plans to open source its NASA.gov website. For this, NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) for reimplementing the NASA.gov website with open source software and open standards, states a report from The H.
The task of making the website open source is sure to be huge as there are around 6,00,000 unique visitors and over 1.29 TB of traffic per day on the website. Also, there are 140 different websites and applications involved along with over 7,00,000 Web pages in the task.
NASA has published the RFI as it is looking for companies that are "visionary, that get open source, cloud computing, and citizen engagement using the latest online technology," states Nick Skytland, Open Government program manager at Johnson Space Center.
The RFI was posted by NASA on 6 February 2012 on normal government channels and is also available online. The RFI lists down 19 questions regarding the approach that would be taken by vendors to handle problems like cloud development, incremental growth, backup and restore, service level agreements, compliance and bandwidth. Also, the objective of the project is to "leverage open source to drive down cost of software", but it also lists that it will "strive for vendor independence through the use of open source software" and implement open standards-based solutions.
The potential applicants for the project need to respond by 15:00 ET on 6 March 2012.
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