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9th</b>, 2016. The conference will be held on 8th - 12th May
2017 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. Please
fill out </span><a
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Python in Astronomy conferences aim to bring together a wide
variety of people who currently use, develop or teach people
about Python packages in the context of all forms of Astronomy.
Participant selection will be made with the goal of </span><span
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the Python in Astronomy community and we particularly encourage
requests to attend from junior astronomers and people who are
new to contributing to open source software. This conference is
neither intended to be an introduction to Python bootcamp nor
only for expert-level Python developers, but we do expect all
participants to have at least a basic familiarity with Python.</span></p>
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Please fill out the application and indicate the level of
financial support you will likely require in order to attend.
Once the participants have been selected, we’ll get back in
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Craig</span></p>
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Cruz</span></p>
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