Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Featured
- Popular
- People

Everyone agreed this duplication and incompatibility was bad. Agreement is crucial to shared development. A grassroots discussion started in June 2011, followed by a series of votes (~100 astronomers), some initial dev work (by astronomers and engineers), and a workshop. The Result: the Astropy Project

Download link

Everyone agreed this duplication and incompatibility was bad. Agreement is crucial to shared development. A grassroots discussion started in June 2011, followed by a series of votes (~100 astronomers), some initial dev work (by astronomers and engineers), and a workshop. The Result: the Astropy Project
https://media.astrodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/853/937/490/075/579/original/9c0f96628ed349e0.png

Notices where this attachment appears

Embed this notice
Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 01:34:59 JST Kelly Lepo
in reply to

And the final talk of #AAS245 was the Berkeley Prize Lecture by Erik Tollerud, Clara Brasseur, and Kelle Cruz on Astropy.
In 2011, Tollerud was a grad student who wanted to write a unified library of astronomy packages. There were many astronomy packages, leading to duplicated work and incomparableness.
This somewhat naive desire started a discussion that eventually became the Astropy project.

In conversation about 18 days ago from astrodon.social permalink