Come to Cambridge For .Astronomy 5
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We’re happy to announce that you can now sign up for .Astronomy 5! Our fifth event will be hosted by Harvard’s Seamless Astronomy group at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA, USA. Mark your diary, iCal, Google Calendar (or whatever system you’ve rigged up to wrangle Twitter into being your PA) for the date: September 16-18, 2013. We’ll be collecting together 50 attendees for a three-day conference, unconference and hack day: all about astronomy online!
Sign up will be slightly different this year, mainly to avoid a race to fill up limited spaces. We limit .Astronomy to roughly 50 people: a number that we find is large enough to inspire productive group work, and that everyone can contribute, but not so large that participants can hide in anonymity. So this year we’re opening up this sign up form today, and will keep it open until February. At that point we’ll pick 50 people based on the information on the forms received, to try and produce the most varied and awesome event yet. We want to ensure a good mix of new people and old hands – as well as good representation of all the different skills participants bring with them.
We’ll post further information about the event as we have it, such as the estimated registration fee (we aim to keep this low) and keynote speakers. If you have any questions about the signup process, then drop us a line. For updates, follow this site or keep an eye on the .Astronomy 5 information page at http://dotastronomy.com/events/five.
Jim Gray (MS) was reported to like astronomy data sets because they were big and free.
Are you interested in really “big data?”
This may be the conference for you.