[AstroPy] next astropy coordination meeting

[Perry Greenfield]

Are there many others that would attend if it were near adass? Let me  
know.

On May 3, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Kathleen Labrie wrote:

> Hi Perry,
>
> I am a bit disappointed that there are no slots around ADASS.
> For those of us who come from afar, combining trips helps
> reduce the cost of travel and makes it a lot easier to participate
> to efforts like astropy.
>
> Kathleen
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 5:24 AM, Perry Greenfield wrote:
>
>> We would like to hold the second Astropy Coordination meeting in
>> October at
>> STScI (the first was held last October at CFA; the minutes can be
>> viewed at:
>> https://github.com/astropy/astropy/wiki/CfAMeeting2011Minutes.)
>>
>> The goal for the meeting is to coordinate software efforts in
>> improving and
>> expanding astropy. It is planned as a two-day meeting. Currently  
>> these
>> three
>> sets of dates are available:
>>
>> Tuesday - Wednesday  Oct. 2-3
>> Tuesday - Wednesday  Oct. 9-10
>> Tuesday - Wednesday  Oct. 23-24
>>
>> We'd like to know who is interested in attending the meeting and  
>> which
>> dates
>> are acceptable. A doodle poll has been set up; only the first day of
>> each
>> week has been given as a choice to indicate you can make the meeting
>> that
>> week. Please fill out the poll if you are interested in attending the
>> meeting but can't make any of dates. The poll will be kept open for
>> just over
>> two weeks and will close at the end of Friday, May 18.
>>
>> The link to the poll is: http://www.doodle.com/auvfbs6f4iiyt9cb
>>
>> Tentative topics to be addressed at the coordination meeting
>> (subject to revision depending on interest of attendees):
>>
>> * The current state of the Astropy core package
>> - What subpackages need to be improved?
>> - What new subpackages need to be made?
>> - How should we phase out stand-alone versions?
>> * Advocacy and communication to the community
>> * Highest priorities for additions to astropy
>> - who will be the advocate/coordinator for each?
>> * What existing packages should we target for making affiliated
>> packages?
>> - What offer will they not be able to refuse?
>> * Improving interoperability of affiliated packages
>> - E.g., supporting standard data objects (ND-datasets, spectra...)  
>> and
>>   metadata conventions
>>
>>
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