From: Johan M. <joh...@an...> - 2007-05-01 13:27:29
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All, I've prepared a news item about the recent meeting. Is there anything to add or remove? > Developers meet in Munich > > On april 25th the developers met in Munich, after years of working > together via the web. The meeting was sponsored by ESO, the European > Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, who > operate observational facilities in Chile, namely La Silla and the > Very Large Telescope (VLT) array at Paranal. They have their > headquarters in Garching, near Munich. > > ESO is interested in using Stellarium as a way to offer their > enormous archives of sky data to professional astronomers in an > attractive and easy to use program, and they hired project founder > Fabien Chéreau who is now working full-time on Stellarium. > > The meeting was used to talk about the upcoming version 0.9.0, and the > features that are needed to reach version 1.0. You can view this list > of development items with Google Docs at > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pzCE9lji7oA_mC9xe5j6cPw&hl=en_GB johan |