[AstroPy] next astropy coordination meeting

[Tom Aldcroft]

I'm on travel Oct 28 - Nov 11, so time alignment with ADASS would be bad for me.

- Tom

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Perry Greenfield <perry at stsci.edu> wrote:
> I meant time as well. It will be here (STScI) regardless.
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Kathleen Labrie wrote:
>
>> 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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>>> --
>>> Adrian Price-Whelan
>>> Department of Astronomy
>>> Columbia University
>>>
>>>
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