[AstroPy] next astropy coordination meeting

[Kathleen Labrie]

Personally, I was talking in time.  Like the week before or after ADASS.
Coming from Hawaii, once I'm on the mainland, it's a lot easier to hop around.

Kathleen

On May 3, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Adrian Price-Whelan wrote:

> In time or space?
> 
> I could do it at STSCI if it were in November, but probably couldn't make it
> to Illinois.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Adrian
> 
> On May 3, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Perry Greenfield wrote:
> 
>> 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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> Department of Astronomy
> Columbia University
> 
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