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Welcome to the UTAstroHackDay2015 wiki!

We're having an Astronomy hack day at UT Austin!

The tentative date is January 12-16, 2015, which is before classes start, but after AAS.

About astronomy hack days

Hack day events are already popular in many domains and are increasingly popular in astronomy. The term hacking in this context is synonymous with "creative computing", and has no relationship to its use for malicious programing popularized in the news media. A hack day consists of collaborative focused work effort, typically on a self-contained coding project. Ideas are pitched at the beginning of the day. Self-assembled teams work together with limited time to achieve a common goal. At the end of the hack day the teams present their product. Above all, a hack day is useful to learn from our colleagues, and maybe create something novel that could not have emerged without the confluence of skills unique to the people in the room.

Here is a list of astronomy hacking events in the last year:

• Hack day 2015 at AAS
• Astro Data Hack Week 2014
• Hack day 2014 at AAS
• SPIE Hack day 2014