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We're having an Astronomy hack day at UT Austin!
The tentative date is January 12-16, 2015, which is before classes start, but after AAS.
Hack day events are already popular in many domains and are increasingly popular in astronomy. The term hacking in this context is synonymous with "creative computing", and has no relationship to its use for malicious programing popularized in the news media. A hack day consists of collaborative focused work effort, typically on a self-contained coding project. Ideas are pitched at the beginning of the day. Self-assembled teams work together with limited time to achieve a common goal. At the end of the hack day the teams present their product. Above all, a hack day is useful to learn from our colleagues, and maybe create something novel that could not have emerged without the confluence of skills unique to the people in the room.
Here is a list of astronomy hacking events in the last year: