We’re happy to announce that .Astronomy 8 will be held at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK on June 20th-23rd 2016. Details are available at http://dotastronomy.com/events/eight/
Registration is now OPEN until 31st January 2016. The sign-up form is available here.
.Astronomy 6 Conference Photo [Image Credit: Dimitri Muna]
.Astronomy is all about developing web tools to enhance research, public engagement and teaching outputs. The conference will include a series of talks, multiple open “un-conference” sessions (where participants will be able to propose their own informal sessions) and a full day hacking on awesome, innovative projects. We will also offer an optional .Astronomy Day 0 – an opportunity for people to hear about previous Hack Day projects and learn about the tools most frequently used to make them.
We typically get many more sign-ups than we can host at the conference and we use the information you provide on the form to select a group of participants with diverse ideas, experience and backgrounds: so please tell us what we need to know about you! Also feel free to nominate anyone and anything you think is interesting. We’d like to particularly encourage women and minorities to sign up.
To read about what occurs during .Astronomy and the Hack Days, see the blog posts here: http://dotastronomy.com/blog/2015/11/ or checkout the hashtag, #dotastro on Twitter.
Three of my personal favorite hacks include
1) D3PO – Interactive plotting for astronomers: http://d3po.org/
2) AAS Job Register Visualized - http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~vmoss/jobvis/
3) “Don’t Call Me Colin” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFMoEpj-v7o
Please email info@dotastronomy.com or any of the LOC if you have any questions. Thank you!
SOC:
Becky Smethurst
Sarah Kendrew
Chris Lintott
LOC:
Edward Gomez
Mark Richardson
Sandor Kruk
Ellen Schallig
Sam Vaughan
