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A (scientific) software developer position that has just opened up in CEFCA for the development of Gnuastro for the data reduction pipeline of European Space Agency (ESA’s) newly approved ARRAKIHS mission (to be launched in 2030), as well as other data from our Astronomical Observatory of Javalambre (OAJ):
https://www.cefca.es/cefca_en/reference_0119
(For 2 years, deadline: January 15th 2024)
ARRAKIHS is expected to last until ~2035 and we will be applying for future grants to keep the core pipeline team until the end of the project.
The job will be based in Teruel/Spain, which is a beautiful city (recognized as a UNESCO World heritage for its “Mudejar” architecture). Teruel just 1.5 hours from Valencia by car and with a population of 35000 people, everything is nicely within reach and you will not waste hours every day in traffic or long commutes as in large cities! Our observatory (OAJ) is also just 1.5 hours away by car (we have one of the darkest skies with fewest cloudy nights in continental Europe)!
As the ARRAKIHS pipeline engineer, the successful applicant will also be visiting other ARRAKIHS consortium members: IFCA/Santander, ESAC/Madrid; UCM/Madrid, IAA/Granada, EPFL/Switzerland, Univ. Lund/Sweden, Univ. Innsbruck/Austria.
The job will involve major developments in Gnuastro for the missing features or things that can be improved for Low Surface Brightness optimized reduction pipelines and high-level science from it (Gnuastro’s MakeCatalog for example).
Once tested in the ARRAKIHS/OAJ pipelines, all those features will be brought into the core of Gnuastro for everyone to use in any pipeline! This is thus a major development in Gnuastro’s history!
Anyone with a B.Sc degree or higher can apply! So please share this email with anyone you think may be interested. People with a M.Sc or PhD are also welcome to apply; it is “scientific”/Research software engineer position after all; and we expect to publish many papers on the algorithms/tools that we develop.
If you can’t wait to get your hands dirty, and want to improve your profile for the application, there is a nice checklist in our Google Summer of Code guidelines to help you get started and fix a bug or two until the deadline to include in the application (you have almost two months from now):
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110827#comment0
Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions from the contact person in the main announcement above; we’d be happy to help clarify any doubts.
The OSI led a workshop to define Open Source AI and joined the subsequent presentation by the AI Community of Practice of the DPGA in Addis Ababa. This is how it went.
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Gordon started the race from the eighth place on the grid. On the thirty-fifth lap of the main event, he locked wheels with Bud Gilbert of Santa Ana, CA, as the two went into Turn 3. Gordon’s vehicle cartwheeled and, in a facsimile of Purssell’s accident of a few hours before, landed upside and was hit by another competitor – as Ron Rea of Sepulveda, CA, could not avoid crashing against the Gordon’s wreckage. The impact ripped out the fuel tank of Gordon’s car and flames spread across the track. Officials moved quickly to put out the fire, but Gordon’s roll cage had collapsed, causing the driver fatal injuries. Gordon was pronounced dead at the hospital. Ron Rea was able to walk away before the fire erupted.
Promoter J. C. Agajanian told the California Racing Association members on hand that he was ending the race at that point, and not a single voice of dissent was heard. Having lost Purssell, Reiff and Gordon racing had become a futile exercise. Jerry Blundy, who was leading the race, was declared the winner and registered his third straight victory at the 100-mile championship.
It is also of interest that one racing report indicated Gordon’s car had a chromed roll cage. It wasn’t too much later that chromed roll cages were banned as it was discovered the chroming process weakened the integrity of the cages.
The race was also marred by the death of Ernie Purssell and spectator Walt Reiff.
R.I.P
Beginning with Drupal 10, a new Drupal major version will be released every two years in even years (2022, 2024, etc.). Each major version will receive active support for about two years, followed by maintenance support and security coverage for about two more years. Each is supported until two more major versions have been released.
This is an example. The exact schedule varies, and will be published on the Drupal core release schedule.
Drupal 11 will be released sometime in 2024. Like Drupal 9.0 and 10.0, Drupal 11.0 has three potential release windows, in June, August, and December. The window used will depend on when the beta requirements are complete. For more information, refer to the Drupal core release schedule.
Following the release of 10.2.0-beta1, changes to 11.x that diverge from Drupal 10 under the continuous upgrade path will begin. Anyone can get involved in completing the requirements for Drupal 11. Join the #d11readiness channel in the Drupal community Slack.
Following the release of Drupal 11.0.0 in 2024, a long-term support phase for Drupal 10 begins, and it will include a new maintenance minor every six months. Each maintenance minor will contain a limited set of changes backported from Drupal 11. For more information, refer to the Drupal core release process overview.
Maintenance minor releases for Drupal 10 will keep adding support for newer PHP versions as they are released. The minimum supported PHP version for Drupal core follows the PHP core team’s support cycle. (Reference: What does it mean for a PHP version to be supported?)
Site owners wishing to take advantage of Drupal 10’s long-term support phase should ensure their platforms always use PHP versions supported by the PHP maintainers.
Announcement written in collaboration by Dave Long, Jess (xjm), Nathaniel Catchpole and Victoria Spagnolo.
