[fitsbits] ADASS FITS BoF on Sunday

[William Pence]

ADASS 2004 FITS BoF on Sunday Afternoon
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The FITS Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at this year's ADASS meeting in
Pasadena will be held earlier than usual, on Sunday October 24th from 4:30
to 6:00 pm (i.e., shortly before the opening reception).  I hope many of
will be able to attend.

This BoF session will present a summary of current activities in the FITS
user community and will provide a forum for the discussion of current
issues. The tentative agenda is:

  * Recent changes to the IAU and Regional FITS committees and
    their membership
  * Overview of new streamlined approval procedures for FITS proposals
  * Status of current FITS proposals
     - FITS MIME types
     - World Coordinate Systems Papers III and IV
     - TDIMn and Variable Length array conventions for binary tables
  * Ideas for establishing a registry for FITS conventions
  * The role of FITS in the VO era: are any changes desired?
  * Open forum for short presentations on FITS topics by attendees
     - Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) representation of distortions
     - any other topics


Please let me know if you have ideas for other topics (regardless of
whether you plan to attend the meeting).

Bill Pence
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