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<h1 id="about-the-astropy-project">About The Astropy Project<a class="paralink" href="#about-the-astropy-project" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p> The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a core package
for astronomy using the
<a href="http://www.python.org">Python programming language</a>
and improve usability, interoperability, and collaboration between astronomy
Python packages. The core <i>astropy</i> package contains functionality aimed
at professional astronomers and astrophysicists, but may be useful to anyone
developing astronomy software. The Astropy Project also includes
"affiliated packages," Python packages that are not necessarily developed by
the core development team, but share the goals of Astropy, and often build
from the core package's code and infrastructure. </p>
<p>Aside from the actual code, Astropy is also a community of astronomy-
associated users and developers that agree that sharing utilities is
healthy for the community and the science it produces. This community is
of course central to accomplishing anything with the code itself.
We welcome anyone who
wishes to contribute to the project and expect everyone in our community
to follow the <a href="code_of_conduct.html">code of conduct</a> when interacting with others.</p>
<p>For more details on the plan for the project, you can read the
<a href="http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/overview.html">documentation overview</a>,
or the
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from when the project was founded. </p>
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<h1 id="astropy-core-package"><i>astropy</i> Core Package<a class="paralink" href="#astropy-core-package" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The <i>astropy</i> package (alternatively known as the "core" package)
contains various classes, utilities, and a packaging framework intended
to provide commonly-used astronomy tools. It is divided into a variety
of sub-packages, which are described in detail in the
<a href="http://docs.astropy.org/">documentation</a>.</p>
<p>The core also provides this documentation, and a variety of utilities
that simplify starting other python astronomy/astrophysics packages. As
described in the following section, these simplify the process of
creating affiliated packages.</p>
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<h1 id="affiliated-packages">Affiliated Packages<a class="paralink" href="#affiliated-packages" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The Astropy project includes the concept of "affiliated packages." An
affiliated package is an astronomy-related python package that is not
part of the <i>astropy</i> core source code, but has requested to be included
in the general community effort of the Astropy project. Such a package
may be a candidate for eventual inclusion in the main <i>astropy</i> package
(although this is not required). Until then, however, it is a separate
package, and may not be in the <i>astropy</i> namespace.</p>
<p>The authoritative list of current affiliated packages is available at
<a href="http://affiliated.astropy.org">http://affiliated.astropy.org</a>,
including a machine-readable
<a href="http://affiliated.astropy.org/registry.json">JSON file</a>.</p>
<p>If you are interested in starting an affiliated package, or have a
package you are interested in making more compatible with astropy, the
<i>astropy</i> core package includes features that simplify and homogenize
package management. Astropy provides a
<a href="http://github.com/astropy/package-template">package template</a>
that provides a common
way to organize a package, to make your life simpler. You can use this
template either with a new package you are starting or an existing
package to give it most of the organizational tools Astropy provides,
including the documentation, testing, and Cython-building tools. See
the <a href="https://github.com/astropy/package-template/blob/master/README.rst">
usage instructions</a> in the template
for further details.</p>
<p>To then get your package listed on the registry, take a look at the
<a href="http://affiliated.astropy.org#affiliated-instructions">
guidelines for becoming an affiliated package </a>, and then post
your intent on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/astropy-dev">
astropy-dev mailing list</a>. The Astropy
coordination committee, in consultation with the community, will provide
you feedback on the package, and will add it to the registry when it is
approved. </p>
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<h1 id="license">License<a class="paralink" href="#license" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Astropy is licensed under a <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause">three-clause BSD license</a>. For details, see the <a href="https://github.com/astropy/astropy/blob/master/LICENSE.rst" target="_blank">LICENSE.rst</a> file in the astropy repository.</p>
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<h1 id="fiscal-sponsor">Fiscal Sponsor<a class="paralink" href="#fiscal-sponsor" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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