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Winter 2019 Astropy Coordination Meeting

Running notes

Logistics

Hosts: NRAO
Dates: December 9–13, 2019
Venue: NRAO, Socorro, NM, USA
Timezone: Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7)
Running notes

Travel information: Fly to Albuquerque airport ("Sunport", ABQ) and drive about 1 hour to Socorro, NM. Taxis are extremely expensive and there are no taxis or ride share services available in Socorro in general. Renting a car or sharing a rental car is the best way to get around.

Mailing List

Google Group: astropymeeting2019

Lodging

We have a room block at the Best Western in Socorro checking in Dec. 8 and checking out Dec. 13. We have 25 rooms at the gov’t rate. To book a room in this block, please call (575) 838-0556 (don't use the online web page!). The group name is NRAO-Astrophy (yes...). This block will expire on November 21 so please book enough in advance! two weeks prior to the arrival date. It is a short drive or a ~25-30 minute walk from the Best Western to the DSOC.

Visitor Information (intended primarily for science visitors)

Meeting Location

DSOC Auditorium, DSOC 1003 Lopezville Rd, Socorro, NM 87801

The Very Large Array (VLA) is not far and is worth visiting. We will have a group visit to the site on Wednesday (details TBD).

Available breakout rooms:

  • Room 220 (available 12–5:00 PM)

Remote Participation

UPDATE: we are now using Zoom:

https://ufl.zoom.us/j/7026837926

Meeting ID: 702 683 7926

Find your local number: https://ufl.zoom.us/u/abE0Vt3RfI

Slack

To join Astropy Slack workspace: http://joinslack.astropy.org/

#meeting2019

Other non-meeting specific channels are also available for use in the workspace. New meeting specific channels can be created as needed; please name them #meeting2019-... for ease of discoverability.

Slack only keeps the last 10k messages, so it is not a place to keep permanent records.

You can also join using matrix, here: https://chat.openastronomy.org/#/room/#astropy_meeting2019:openastronomy.org where the whole history of the room is searchable.

Attendees

  • Aarya Patil (remote)
  • Adam Ginsburg
  • Adrian Price-Whelan
  • Axel Donath (remote)
  • Benjamin Alan Weaver
  • Brigitta Sipocz
  • Bruno Merín (remote)
  • Christine Banek (remote)
  • David Shupe
  • Erik Tollerud
  • John Parejko (remote)
  • Kelle Cruz
  • Matt Craig
  • Matteo Bachetti (remote)
  • Nadia Dencheva
  • Nicholas Earl
  • Perry Greenfield
  • Pey Lian Lim
  • Siddhartha Sen (remote)
  • Simon Conseil (remote)
  • Steve Crawford
  • Stuart Mumford
  • Thomas Robitaille
  • Tom Aldcroft
  • Tom Donaldson

Agenda

The rough daily schedule will be morning talks and discussion, afternoon hacking each day. Each day has a theme (see below).

Crowd-source meeting notes is the main Google doc for writing down meeting discussions and breakout/sprint results. You may document a specific topic in much detail in a different Google doc, but please link that back in this main document and please make your doc group viewable and editable.

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Schedule by day

Sunday (pre-meeting social)

Meet at Bodega Burger Co. (the lounge section) any time after 5:00, but message on Slack to coordinate. There are pool tables!

Monday

Theme: Status of the Astropy project and core package

Tuesday

Theme: Infrastructure

Wednesday

Theme: Astropy+CASA

Thursday

Theme: Affiliated packages and roadmap

Friday

Theme: Hacking

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Local Restaurants

Adam's recommendations:

  • Bodega (American, bar - best restaurant in town)
  • Don Juan's (lunch-only)
  • El-Camino (24h diner - good hacking spot)
  • El-Sombrero (Mexican)
  • Food Trucks (lunch only)
  • Jackson Ranch (steakhouse)
  • La Pasadita (lunch only, cash only)
  • M-Mountain Manzanares Coffee (espresso, lunch only)
  • Socorro Springs Brew Pub (pizza, American)
  • Sofia's (breakfast burritos, Mexican)
  • Yo Mama Grill (sandwiches, dishes)

Other options:

  • Capitol Bar (Bar - no food)
  • China Best (Chinese buffet)
  • Desert Diamond (Mexican)
  • M-Mountain Golf Cafe (lunch only)

Chains:

  • Dominos Pizza
  • McDonalds
  • Blake's Lottaburger (NM Chain)
  • Sonic

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Code of Conduct

This meeting will be governed by the Astropy Code of Conduct. Our goal is to keep ours a positive, inclusive, successful, and growing community. We hold our community members, especially our core developers and project leaders, to a high bar of inclusive behavior.

Please report violations to any member of the SOC or Ombudsperson.

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SOC

  • Steve Crawford (STScI)
  • Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron)
  • Nick Earl (STScI)
  • Adam Ginsburg (NRAO -> Florida)

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LOC

  • Lori Appel (NRAO)
  • Adam Ginsburg (NRAO -> Florida)

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