Fund Participation at AAS 245

[kelle]

The 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society will be 12-16 January 2025 in National Harbor, Maryland.

To further support the goal of increasing Astropy Project visibility at this meeting, we would like to make funding available to offset the travel costs of Project members’ attendance. If you are not fully funded by other sources to attend the meeting, please comment on this issue with a funding request and state the activities you plan to undertake that are beneficial to the Project. The funding request should include items and estimated costs. (For example, “approximately $1000 to cover two nights hotel and half of the airfare.”)

After the meeting, please comment the issue again with any results or take-aways that are useful for the Project as a whole. For example, “I spoke to folks from the AMAZING collaboration about functionality they need and possible new contributions. I got some feedback about the docs of the foobar package and opened issue ## describing the challenge in more detail.”

[ceb8]

My funding request for AAS 245:

• Airfare: $1,200
• Hotel: $1,140
• Local travel (train in UK, whatever it is in US): $100
• Meals: $250

Total: $2,690

[kelle]

My funding request estimate for AAS 245:

• Train to DC: $300
• Hotel: $1,200
• Meals: $250
• Registration: Covered by AAS Berkeley Prize.

Total: $1,750

[kelle]

Kelle has emailed the AAS seeking clarification on the travel support provided by the Berkeley Prize.