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Best licensing practices
Y. G. Grange, T. Jürges, J. Schnabel +2
The principle that research output should be open has, in recent years, been in-creasingly applied to data and software. Licensing is a key aspect to openness. Navi-gating the land…
Moving Towards Greater Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Astronomy
Nuria P. F. Lorente, Michèle Péron, Jessica Mink
A diverse workforce and open culture are essential to satisfaction in the workplace, to innovation and creativity, and to the ability of an organisation to attract and retain talen…
Starbug fibre positioning robots: performance and reliability enhancements
David M. Brown, Scott Case, James Gilbert +9
Starbugs are miniature piezoelectric walking robots that can be operated in parallel to position many payloads like optical fibers across a telescopes focal plane. They consist of…
March of the Starbugs: Configuring Fibre-bearing Robots on the UK-Schmidt Optical Plane
Nuria P. F. Lorente, Minh Vuong, Christophe Satorre +4
The TAIPAN instrument, currently being developed for the Australian Astronomical Observatory's UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, makes use of the AAO's Starbug tec…
The Future of ADASS
Nuria P. F. Lorente, Keith Shortridge
ADASS has been a successful conference series for 24 years. If it is to continue to be successful and relevant we need to ensure that it provides what we as a community need from a…
SAMI Automated Plug Plate Configuration
Nuria P. F. Lorente, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin
The Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) is a prototype wide-field system at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) which uses a plug-plate to mount its 13 x 61…