DotWelcome! November 29, 2009
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.Astronomy 2009 is here! Yay. 10 months after submitting our first proposal to the Lorentz Center, and a few thousand emails later, the workshop week has actually arrived. And I’m really excited. There are some excellent talks planned all week, great 101 sessions and of course the Hack Day, for which we managed to get some fun hardware to experiment with.
A press release went out on Friday, check it our here in Dutch. The English version is here on the workshop webpage, and will be distributed widely next week.
I’ll be blogging as much as possible from the meeting, and there will be much more online coverage. Here’s a quick overview.
- The full programme and lots of info can be found on our workshop blog.
- The morning sessions will be streamed online via our own .Astronomy Ustream channel. This page also aggregates tweets about the conference.
- The official twitter feed is at @dotastronomy. If you want to keep up to date, follow us.
- On Twitter, the hashtag for .Astronomy is #dotastro. Tag your relevant tweets with this tag and we’ll be able to follow them. If you’re watching talks online and you want to ask a question, send us a tweet!
- The Flickr group is here. Make sure you send your pics from the conference there.
There are may tweeters and bloggers participating in .Astronomy and we expect the #dotastro feed to be a lively affair. Watch it and update regularly if you want to get the latest. Some blog posts on the conference from partipant bloggers are:
DotAstronomy: PreConference post – Pamela Gay
DotAstronomy 2009 – Rob Simpson
Have I missed any? Let me know!
