Conference cool links

During the talks a number of links (#coollink) were posted by the conference participants on the twitter stream (#dotastro). Here is a list of them: Around the World in 80 telescopes Behind the scenes of Around the World in 80 telescopes Sixty Symbols: Videos about the symbols of Physics and Astronomy This stuff is FAR!: The video to George Hrab’s theme song for the 365 Days of...

Conference Quote Board

Every conference generates moments of clarity and wisdom. Inspiration drives people to say things that are quite profound – or just funny. Here are some of the best from this week – feel free to comment if you have heard any others. “[In Australia] we measure population density in nanopeople per hectare” – Robert Hollow, PULSE@Parkes on the difference between where...

.Astronomy Trailer

This fun video was made by .Astronomy participant Markus Poessel durting our Hack Day. Take a look – it is short but...

Day One: Citizen Science

The first day of any conference is always a busy one and .Astronomy was no exception. This morning I gave an introduction to update the participants on the various services at their disposal and the sponsors that allowed the event to take place. The morning then proceeded with talks from Gijs Verdoes about AstroWISE and Robert Hollow about PULSE@Parkes. Gijs’ slides are already available...

Press Release: .Astronomy

P R E S S   R E L E A S E ————————————————————- .Astronomy 2009: Workshop on Astronomy and the New Media Next week, from 30 November to 4 December, an unconventional workshop takes place in Leiden, The Netherlands, to discuss novel concepts of thinking and working in astronomy...

2008 Proceedings

If you’re interested in buying a copy of the proceedings of the 2008 .Astronomy Conference in Cardiff then now’s the time! Since the 2009 event is about to kick off we’re reducing the price to £15/€17. If you’re attending the conference then postage is free because you can collect your copy next week during the conference. If you’d like to pick up the previous...

One Week to Go

A week from today will be the beginning of the 2009 .Astronomy conference in Leiden. If you have any questions about the event then please email the organising committee with them ahead of time and we shall try to get back to you ASAP. There will be various ways to engage with the conference online during the event, UStream, Flickr, Twitter and others that will be set up this week. If you are...

Unconference

We’ve had a few emails from participants recently, asking whether or not their talk was accepted for the conference. On our programme page you’ll see that we talks some formal organised each morning (except on the Hack Day). Every afternoon we will be an unconference - where the talks, workshops and discussions are user-generated and organised organically during the week. We have a...

LEGO in the Age of Aquarius

Rob Seaman is open to the idea of bribery. To those of us who know him well this will not come as a surprise. All in a good cause though… Rob has this to say: This is a blatant attempt at bribery. Lego in the Age of Aquarius The VOEvent working group has been shameless from the very beginning in seeking ways to promote its agenda of world dominion. An early notion was to build a LEGO NXT...

When in Holland…

If you’re coming to .Astronomy, friggin’ awesome, we can’t wait to meet you. We at .Astro towers thought that maybe it was time to send out some local information to help you all plan your trips and get as excited about the week as we are. Most of the practical arrangements are smoothly taken care of by our excellent Lorentz Center assistant Corrie, so we have the luxure of...