<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear IVOA colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Developers from the IVOA and Astropy communities will participate in a joint hackathon during the IVOA Interop meeting. Hackathon dates are May 15 & 16. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">The hackathon sessions will focus on adding or enhancing VO tools within astropy/astroquery; the topics and goals of this "development sprint" will be worked out by the participating hackers prior to the Interop.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">The hackathon is open to anyone, but this is an experiment and we will need to limit the number of participants in order to make it productive. Participants must be fluent python developers that are already familiar with astropy (code, development processes, etc.) and they should be willing and able to contribute to astropy (preferably on an ongoing basis). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Please contact Janet Evans (<a href="mailto:janet@cfa.harvard.edu" class="">janet@cfa.harvard.edu</a>) if you feel you want to be one of the "IVOA hackers". In order to ensure broad participation, we ask that projects/data centres/institutions put forward no more than 1 name. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="">***Please respond by Monday, April 15.***</span><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Best Regards,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Janet & Pat</span></div></div></body></html>