October 2018 – maravelias.info

XXXth General Assembly of IAU – week 2

grigoris October 31, 2018 December 11, 2018

The second week of the XXXth GA started very early actually as they were actually 3 plenary talks of the IAU 346 Symposium on “High-mass X-ray binaries: illuminating the passage from massive binaries to merging compact objects” (which actually deserves a post of its own, if I ever manage to …

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A FOSSCOMM talk on Openess in Astronomy

grigoris October 22, 2018 June 24, 2019

On the previous weekend (October 13-14, 2018) the 11th Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting was held in Heraklion of Crete (Greece). This is the Greek conference of the communities that develop free and open source software (such as Mozilla, Fegora, etc.). Although the meeting focuses on programmers and …

Astronomy