GSoC 2014 Brainstorming

This is a brainstorming page, and is not the final 'ideas' page for GSoC 2014.

Indicate any ideas of projects for the core or affiliated packages:

• Work on WCSAxes which is intended for inclusion in Astropy in the long term.
• Further work on photutils to make it ready for inclusion in the core package.
• Work on reprojection code (e.g. python-reprojection) to make it easy to reproject images to different WCS (could potentially be included in Astropy in the long term).
• Work on simple FITS manipulation tools for header maintenance & reprojection (closely related to python-reprojection above, but FITS-specific; FITS_tools)
• Develop tools to read in a variety of spectroscopic file types into specutils objects
• Implement new query tools within astroquery
• Implement a TAP interface, also https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/issues/277
• Implement an affiliated package installer and improve the affiliated package infrastructure.
• Automate the release process.
• Improve test coverage in all sub-packages.
• Develop fancy website for tutorials with tagging, search, etc.
• Implement uncertainties for astropy.units.Quantity
• Implement all or part of the IAU2000 ICRS<->AltAz stack of transformations in coordinates

Mentors:

• Thomas Robitaille, MPIA
• Adrian Price-Whelan, Columbia (especially for the tutorials project, but could help with photutils or specutils)
• Adam Ginsburg, ESO (astroquery, specutils)
• Tom Aldcroft, CfA
• Neil Crighton, Swinburne (I'd prefer to help with tutorials or specutils, but anything is ok.)
• Erik Tollerud, Yale