[AstroPy] ESA Summer of Code in Space 2013

[Slavin, Jonathan]

Hi Wolfgang,

Well, I'm far from being a student and am not a European.  So I think that
disqualifies me.  And I have my hands full just doing the work that I get
paid for. I'd like to help in some way, though.  I'd be willing to provide
feedback and suggestions on the code.

Jon

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Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
fax: (617) 496-7577            USA
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Wolfgang Kerzendorf
<wkerzendorf at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I think that's a fantastic idea! Are you raising your hand to put the
> application in ? I'm happy to help with some of the sections. Maybe Kelle
> is interested as well to join this effort. The workload divided by three
> might be worth it.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> Cheers
>     Wolfgang
>
> On 2013-06-18, at 1:54 PM, "Slavin, Jonathan" <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Tom's post reminded me of what I was thinking after Kelle's post earlier
> today: a really good project for someone would be to create a
> matplotlib-based spectral line fitting package.  Maybe this ESA opportunity
> would work for that.  Like many others I have my own routines that I've
> written to do this, but they are neither general enough nor user-friendly
> enough to be widely usable.  I think that a focused effort on this could
> produce something that would be very helpful to many people.  The
> requirements would be (just off the top of my head):
> - gui interface, for example for placement of line centers
> - general methods for inputting data (fits, hdf5, ascii table)
> - robust fitting routines that return error bars on fitted parameters
> - a range of possible line shape functions (e.g. gaussian, lorentz, etc.)
> and continuum fitting
> - able to deal with both emission and absorption lines
>
> I hope someone out there is interested in doing something like that.
>
> Jon
>
> ________________________________________________________
> Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
> phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
> fax: (617) 496-7577            USA
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>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM, <astropy-request at scipy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:15:55 +0200
>> From: Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [AstroPy] ESA Summer of Code in Space 2013
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The deadline for mentoring organizations for the ESA Summer of Code in
>> Space (SOCIS) 2013 is this coming Thursday.
>>
>> http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/
>>
>> Since we were successful with the Google Summer of Code, the Astropy
>> project will not be participating as a whole, but if you are leading
>> the development of a Python package for astronomy, and are interested
>> in having a student work on your project, you should consider
>> applying! As part of this program, students are paid 4000 euros.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
>>
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