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to someone! -- who can use it (which is permitted by EAS). If that's you -- or a friend or colleague -- let me know!
Meeting info: eas.unige.ch/EAS2025/
This is only for registration; so probably best for someone in Cork.
Let's get this registration to a better owner!
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Free hybrid event
- in-person at ASU Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center in DC [limit of 50 people]
- online via Zoom
- brings together scientific software users, developers, metadata curators, managers, & editors to tackle challenges & drive progress in research software
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Panelists are:
- Ana Trišović (JOSS, MIT)
- Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz (Software Heritage, swMATH)
- Sandra Gesing (US-RSE, SDSC)
- Tom Morrell (Caltech Library, SciCodes)
Don’t miss this chance to shape the future of research software! Register now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Agenda includes
- keynote address by Katherine Skinner from Invest in Open Infrastructure
- facilitated open discussion w/ expert panelists and attendees (both in-person and online)
- discussion moderated by Daniel S. Katz (NCSA, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Join the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) mailing list to get the Zoom link:
groups.google.com/g/virtual-as...
And please, (please!) when you ask to join, include your real name and institution if they are not part of your email address. Thanks!
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Thanks very much; this is really helpful info!
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The goal is not only to download from the web onto the Google Drive, but also to keep the file(s) from being downloaded to my laptop.
IOW, the Google Drive will *not* be mirrored/synched with the laptop.
We maintain an archive that is now too large for the laptop to handle.
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Good question! Manual use only.
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... free/inexpensive options?
Being able to do this would be really helpful for the ASCL, and am hoping the #hivemind can help!
Thanks!
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To get the Zoom details, join our mailing list!
groups.google.com/g/virtual-as...
More info about VAST is here: vast-seminars.github.io
Have a good topic for VAST? Propose it by creating an issue: github.com/vast-seminar...
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Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Info: Washington DC (limit of 50 in-person attendees) & remotely via Zoom
- Keynote address by Katherine Skinner from IOI
- Panel discussion w/ ‪Daniel Katz
(NCSA, UIllinois-Urbana) & Hervé Ménager (Institut Pasteur)
- Facilitated open discussion with all attendees, both in-person & remote
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Yes, even larger than the largest IAU meeting.
And one third of those here are, IIRC from Kevin, are students!
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Thus endeth the last session.
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Q&A is over.
Grant is now letting us know about some of the prizes being given away at the closing reception, which will be in the Riverside Ballroom.
He also mentioned something that had been said a few days ago: this is the largest assembly of astronomers EVER.
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One of the lessons learned is that we should not be using proprietary software. One of the driving forces in adopting python was the cost of IDL.
Another factor is how much easier it is to find support and help for open source.
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Now taking Q&A
Erik makes the comment that astronomers change languages only every 20 years, so you have to make it count!
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Community is the core of the project
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Governance: Get involved!
astropy contributers: get involved in leadership
have your voice heard -- come to development telecons
Join slack and follow channels you care about
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Funding: Get involved!
Astropy has dedicated funding that gives them
- support for critical admin and manintenance work
- supplement to "do-ocracy"
Have an idea? Submit a funding request!
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Another place where there's a lot of growth is in Astropy Learn.
Please contribute if you can! Contribute tutorials on your favorite techniques, on your most used science analysis tasks, on tutorials you use in your classroom!
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The growth is less in the core package, much greater in the affiliated and coordinated packages
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Now Clara is speaking on where Astropy is going.
Will always be tasks that need to be done
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Astropy is on solid ground
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Kelle's last slide:
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Allocating Funding
- Challenge of changing culture to include "paid volunteers"
- Anyone can make a funding request
(Watch #project and astropy-dev mailing list for next call)
- Requests are reviewed by community, final decisions are made by Finance Committee
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Acquired funding from 2020 and 2024 NASA ROSES included a call specifically for software maintenance.
What helped this happened is talking to program officers.
The Open Source Tools, Frameworks and Libraries call was key for this.
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Astropy has many institutional contributions. This provides a lot of stability.
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Astropy governance has policies balanced with radical transparency.
Formal roles and committees
Annual coordination meeting of ~ 20 people
Has a charter adopted in Feb 2021. Established voting members
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learn.astropy.org has a Zappo's shopping experience, allowing people to select the learning they need in different ways.
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Astropy project can't teach folks how to code... but can provide infrastructure, such as learn.astropy.org for tutorials. 25 Jupyter Notebook tutorials, range of python and astro topics. Can be downloaded and run locally.
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There are also affiliated package -- 52 of them! -- which are domain specific codes. These include Glue, ZodiPy, Stingray, and more.
They meet a specific bar of s/w dev practices.
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Astropy core is very stable
but contributing now is harder.
Astropy supports a package ecosystem, with a lot of coordinated packages, which the Astropy project takes responsibility for maintaining.
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Kelle Cruz is now speaking on Where Astropy Is Now.
In just over 10 years, Astropy's first paper is on track to be one of the cited astronomy papers ever, with over 10,000 citations (w00t!).
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Learn from the nay-sayers and listen to them, but do not give up the vision
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- Have a neutral partner (who can handle the $$$$ and copyright)
For Astropy, that's Numfocus
- Dream a grand vision and follow it, despite the nay-sayers
Shockingly: T/hey are still following that vision!
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Key Lessons from Astropy's origin story
- Build on what already exists
- Scientists need to be open to s/w engineerunug practices. For Astropy, meant partnering with unstitutions that have s/w engineers
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There are more than 500 contributors to the core AstroPy code.
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