[csp] Astropy - IVOA - pyVO follow-up online discussion in May

[Bruno Merin]

Dear all,

I hope my email finds you all and your families well and with good health.

It is now roughly two years since some of us got together at a nice hackathon in Paris between astropy, astroquery and IVOA software engineers to identify possible synergies and to try to put a collaboration on motion.

In preparation for the upcoming IVOA online interop meeting from the 25th to the 28th of May, we would like to ask whether you could be available for a follow-up discussion of approx. 1.5 hours, on what worked well, what is ongoing, and what could still do to better for the benefit of the astronomical community as a whole. Among other things, we would like to understand what is pending for pyvo to become an astropy affiliated package and to get your advice on what could be the best use of people’s times in this collaboration or by contributing to astropy.

Please share your thoughts about this conversation and this collaboration via email and let me know whether you could participate in a session, whose exact date and time is still TBD.

Many thanks in advance for your time and I look forward seeing you soon,

Bruno



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Dr. Bruno Merín
Head of the ESAC Science Data Centre (SCI-SAA)

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
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> On 20 Mar 2019, at 18:32, Bruno Merin <bmerin at sciops.esa.int> wrote:
> 
> Dear Tom, Erik, Thomas, Brigitta and Adam,
> 
> We are planning to organize a hackathon on May 15th 2019 in the afternoon at our Paris IVOA interop meeting <https://indico.obspm.fr/event/64/overview> where we would like to invite people to do hacks that explore the links between astropy/astroquery and the VO infrastructure, in particular focussing possibly on time-domain use-cases. 
> 
> Ada Nebot, who is coordinating the IVOA time domain interest group (TDIG), she proposed the following two areas of possible interest / overlap although there might be others:
> 
> 1 - VOTable <—> astropy: Conversions between VOTables with the TIMESYS element and the astropy.time class.
> VOTable: http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/20190318/ <http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/20190318/>
> astropy.time http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/time/index.html <http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/time/index.html>
> 
> 2 - T-MOC & astropy : The T-MOC format is a time-dependent Multi-Order Coverage structure, e.g. a healpix structure that indexes spatially the existing data in the sky (that is the MOC), but chopped off in time intervals to allow easy visualization and access to data in both space and time (that is the T-MOC).
> https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2018TDIG/TDIG-TBoch-TMOC-MOCPy.pdf <https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2018TDIG/TDIG-TBoch-TMOC-MOCPy.pdf>
> https://github.com/cds-astro/mocpy/blob/master/notebooks/tmoc.ipynb <https://github.com/cds-astro/mocpy/blob/master/notebooks/tmoc.ipynb>
> 
> The reason of my message is to inform you about this hackathon, ask for your feedback on whether this would be of interest or not for some of the astropy developers and to ask for advice on how do you think this event could be more useful to both the astropy users and IVOA users. It would also be great if you would know some astropy contributor who might be based in Paris and might want to come in person to the session.
> 
> Finally, should you be interested, you are all of course invited to join any of the two telecons described below where we will discuss what to prepare and how to organize the hackathon.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time,
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 


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