Sesto InterOp

[Tim Staley]

Hi Steve, all,

this is something we're trying to provide, at least in the near-term, 
via the 4 Pi Sky broker. We've been running it for a while but have only 
recently started actively advertising:

http://4pisky.org/voevent

(I say near-term because our funding horizon is drawing near - approx 1 
year - but fingers crossed that the VOEvent broker will live on. That 
part at least can be run on a shoestring budget).

Since John Swinbank is mostly offline until Hotwired, it's probably also 
worth mentioning that he has recently put together a fairly 
comprehensive tutorial on voevent, which we'll be drawing on for the 
hands-on session:

http://voevent.readthedocs.org

The code examples are biased towards Python and to some extent the 
libraries we've built (and are actively using), but a lot of the 
information is generally applicable.

HTH,
Tim.


On 30/04/15 19:20, Steve Groom wrote:
> “Me too”, I’ll be at Sesto but unable to attend
> Hotwired, so I’d be interested in a recap of that.
>
> Also would be interested in an operations-oriented
> discussion on event brokers,
> services where projects working with events
> can send-to or recv-from. Would like to get in
> touch with attitudes and options on building/operating
> such broker systems. The success of event networks clearly
> relies on some institution(s) operating network(s) to
> distribute events, a task somewhat independent of the
> production or consumption of the event streams themselves.
> Is this a well-solved problem or an infrastructure gap
> in need of filling? Are interested projects expected to
> develop&operate their own from scratch, or are there
> existing services/implementations to tie into or
> build upon? As something of an outsider
> to the event community that would be helpful in
> better understanding the lay of the land.
>
> -steve
>
>> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:55:13 -0700
>> From: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
>> To: John Swinbank <swinbank at transientskp.org>
>> Cc: IVOA List VOEvent <voevent at ivoa.net>
>> Subject: Re: Sesto InterOp
>> Message-ID: <D8B95CC7-5312-4250-A943-0796451D70CA at noao.edu>
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>> Hi John,
>>
>> Needless to say I will not be attending.
>>
>> Sesto is post Santa Barbara, so a Hotwired summary would be useful.  I see that Patricia Whitelock is attending.  We have been working with the South Africans on various IAU issues, including a possible time domain symposium in 2017.  Perhaps others from the outside world might also tunnel through the VO potential barrier?  Maybe a session inviting such folks to present a summary of their activities and perceived needs in the time domain?
>>
>> Rob