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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We invite you to participate in the third annual “Snakes on a Spaceship” session at CEDAR, a place to highlight developments in the python and open source software in ITM physics.</span><span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><span class="s1">This year we will focus on community building, strategy for development, and advanced topics. The session will be held on Monday from 13:30 – 15:30 in the Zia / Eldorado room.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Tentative Agenda:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Overview of Python in Space Science Survey (5 min) — Angeline Burrell</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Community Organization (10 min) — Alex deWolfe</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Application Usability Levels and software (10 min) — Adam Kellerman</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Advanced python - unit testing, etc. (20 min) — Russell Stoneback</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Repositories and DOIs (15 min) — Steve Morley</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Development on an Academic Timeline (5 min) — Angeline Burrell</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">• Discussion</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Updates and a summary of the session will be posted at the wiki page:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2"><a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2018_Workshop:Python_for_Space_Science">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2018_Workshop:Python_for_Space_Science</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Angeline, Jeff, Russell</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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