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 online if you’re interested. Unfortunately these two talks were accidentally not recorded on on our UStream feed so they cannot be replayed.

After coffee we had a talk about Galaxy Zoo and the Zooniverse by Chris Lintott and Arfon Smith. They described the way that the Zoo has evolved and expanded in the past few months and how it intends to expand into the future (Moon Zoo, Crow Zoo?!). The video of this talk should appear after UStream is done processing things…

In the afternoon – after a sojourn to the outer reaches of Leiden University for lunch – we had our first Unconference sessions. The first of which involved 101 workshops in Python, WordPress and LEGO NXT. The later session had participant-generated workshops and talks about APLPy and Radio Astronomy vs. Galaxy Zoo.

Links to participants’ posts:

AstroViz

Astropixie

Astrobetter

Starstryder

Related posts:

1. Unconference We’ve had a few emails from participants recently, asking whether...
2. One Week to Go A week from today will be the beginning of the...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.