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SUMMARY:The Astropy Project and open-source software development in Astron
 omy - Thomas Robitaille
DTSTART:20160427T151500Z
DTEND:20160427T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr B.-O. Demory
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will give an overview of the Astropy project\
 , a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Pyt
 hon and foster interoperability between Python astronomy packages. This pr
 oject has become the largest open-source project in Astronomy in the space
  of only a few years\, having brought together over 150 contributors from 
 many different countries. In addition to talking about available and plann
 ed functionality\, I will talk about the process of how the project came i
 nto existence and has become sustainable\, and the factors that have made 
 such a collaboration possible. I will also talk more broadly about how the
  field of software development and data analysis in Astronomy is changing\
 , and the implications these changes are having on how we think about care
 er tracks within Science.
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Theatre\, IoA
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