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Astro Hack Week 2017 Wiki

Astro Hack Week will take place from Aug 28 - Sept 1 at UW Seattle. For more information, see the Hack Week Website.

Quick Info

  • The workshop will take place Monday through Friday, 9am-6pm, in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library at UW Seattle. We'll be in Active Learning Classroom OUGL 136 on the 1st floor.
  • Doors open at 9:00am, and the morning sessions begin as soon as we are all in the room
  • A detailed Schedule for Astro Hack Week 2017 is now available
  • Lunch and snacks will be provided each day, except for lunch on Wednesday (we'll feed you dinner on Wednesday instead!)
  • Wednesday afternoon we will be at Galvanize in Pioneer Square for hacking, and you're invited to stay for an evening public talk by organizing committee member Lauren Anderson
  • If you're around on Sunday evening, Aug 27, we will have an informal meetup at 7pm (see Schedule for details)
  • All participants are expected to agree to and abide by our Code of Conduct

More Information

This wiki is set up for all participants to use, read and edit. All you need is to sign-in with your GitHub account, and you can click the "Edit" button in the upper-right of the page.

If you are registered for the hack week, please take a minute to do the following:

  • Add your name to the Participants List page here on the wiki
  • Have an idea for a project to collaborate on? Add your ideas to the hack ideas documents in this folder.
  • New to hacking? There's some guidance here
  • Have some expertise you'd like to share? Let us know at the Breakouts page
  • Interested in Seattle night life? Add an idea to the Evening Outings page
  • Follow some of the participants on twitter at #AstroHackWeek
  • Check your email for an invitation to the Astro Hack Week Slack and see what people are talking about

The success of this hack week is up to you: come prepared to collaborate on some awesome new topics!

Badge/Shield

You should also add the Astro Hack Week shield badge to the README.md file of your hack's source code (or GitHub repo) or Jupyter Notebook, by including the following markdown code:

![badge-img](https://img.shields.io/badge/Made%20at-%23AstroHackWeek-8063d5.svg?style=flat)

badge-img

This also helps us to demonstrate impact, which is important when seeking sponsorship ;)