Talk:Chris Kemp

Article needs revision when talking about Openstack
I think the information about the closure of the OpenStack Carnage - Nebula is inconsistent and the references (21, 22) are not correctly interpreted. The Openstack Foundation (www.openstack.org) is apparently in business, and is supported by big names in the technology world. I believe that this information should be reviewed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silviobonilha (talk • contribs) 14:23, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Edit request
Hi, I work for Chris Kemp and therefore have a conflict of interest. Below are some suggestions for updates and improvements to the article. I look forward to working with you.

Intro: and the founder, chairman and CEO of Astra, a publicly-traded spacetech firm based in California. His career included serving as the Chief Information Officer for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for IT, as well as founding and leading several companies. While at NASA, Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft, helped create Google Moon and Mars, worked with the White House to develop the cloud computing strategy for the United States Federal Government and co-founded OpenStack, one of the most active open-source software projects for cloud computing in the world. He was a founder of Nebula, a company which tried to commercialize the technology, from 2011 to 2015.
 * Replace " information technology executive" with "spacetech executive" in the first sentence, and add the following at the end of that sentence:
 * Amend the second sentence to read:
 * Revise the second paragraph as follows:

Early life: Kemp was born in Buffalo, New York in 1977. He held his first job at 15 years of age, working for Apple as a part of its Apple Dealer Network. Kemp studied Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before leaving to found his first company, Netran.
 * Revise this section to read:

Thanks for your help, Lauren at L Strategies (talk) 17:41, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I've implemented almost all of what you requested. Thanks for providing sources for everything. The only changes I made: "space technology" is a more accessible term than "space tech". Kemp's career as described in teh article is substantially in information technology rather than space technology, so I've used that as his description but space technology is also mentioned in the first sentence. The source gives Kemp's alma mater as "University of Alabama, Huntsville" so I take University of Alabama in Huntsville to be a more relevant wiki-link than University of Alabama. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:08, 6 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for your help with this! I appreciate it. I have some additional suggestions for the article, and plan to post them here soon. Will ping you when they're up in case you have a chance to check them out as well. Thanks again, Lauren at L Strategies (talk) 12:28, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Edit request 2
Hi there. Below are some additional suggestions for the article. Thanks for your help!
 * 1) Please update "Employer" in the infobox from Nebula to Astra
 * 2) Please add in "Career": Kemp founded Netran, an online grocery shopping service for Kroger, while concurrently enrolled at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Kemp held the titles of CEO and President at Netran from 1997 until 2000. Following Netran, Kemp joined Classmates.com as Chief Architect. In 2002, after a personal attempt to book a beach house rental online, Kemp co-founded Escapia. He served as the CEO from 2002 until 2006. Escapia was later sold to HomeAway in 2010. 
 * 3) In the Nebula section:
 * 4) *Please remove the sentence that reads: "In April 2012, NASA shut down its Nebula project, after a test showed that similar offerings from the private sector were more reliable and cost-effective", as the NASA program is unrelated to Chris Kemp's company.
 * 5) *Consider the following edits to the text: In February 2013, Silicon India named Kemp as one of ten pioneers in cloud computing.[20] Kemp held was initially in the CEO position for two years. but after a year, In September 2013, Kemp became the Chief Strategy Officer and brought in veteran Gordon Stitt to lead Nebula as a public company. In April 2015, the company ceased operations. abruptly without warning its customers in advance or providing support until service contracts ended.  The last statements are unsourced. Propose removing them.
 * 6) In the Astra section:
 * 7) *Please add to the existing text: In October 2016, Kemp, together with Adam London, founded the startup Astra with the aim to develop a small-lift orbital rocket that would “carry critical technology to improve life on Earth from space”. In July 2021, Kemp and London stated that their goal is to reach daily rocket launches. Astra became the fastest company in history to demonstrate orbital launch capability with its launch in Kodiak, Alaska, breaking SpaceX’s record of six years, four months. Astra began building a 250,000 square foot factory at its headquarters in Alameda, CA. Astra became the first space launch company to list on Nasdaq on July 1, 2021, at a valuation of $2.1 billion. Kemp rang the opening bell alongside team members at Nasdaq headquarters in New York City on Astra’s listing day. 

Pinging who helped with the last request. Thanks again! Lauren at L Strategies (talk) 16:42, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Broadly looking good. For this claim "Astra became the fastest company in history..." the source says "If Astra makes it to orbit this year, it would do so remarkably fast for a private company...". The source was written before the successful launch. So there needs to be an additional source which confirms the date of the launch. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 13:31, 2 November 2021 (UTC) We need a few words to describe what Escapia is. From context I infer it's a service for booking holiday property, but we need this spelled out because it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:33, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for looking this over.
 * You're absolutely right, here are two additional sources to confirm the launch:
 * https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/15/astra-rocket-3point2-reaches-space-after-launch-from-alaska.html


 * https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/launch-startup-astras-rocket-reaches-space-for-the-first-time/
 * As for Escapia- I'm having some trouble finding a source that isn't a press release. How about this one- https://vrmintel.com/homeaway-software-consolidates-software-systems-migrating-v12-and-yesbookit-users-to-escapia/, which calls Escapia a property management platform?
 * Thanks again for your help with this. Lauren at L Strategies (talk) 15:48, 11 November 2021 (UTC)