[AstroPy] next astropy coordination meeting

[Adrian Price-Whelan]

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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>> 
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Adrian Price-Whelan
Department of Astronomy
Columbia University



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