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---+ VOEvent Session at the [[IVOA.InterOpDec2010][Dec 2010 Interop Meeting]]

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---++ VOEvent Session: Celestial Transient Event Alerting 

Matthew Graham will be chairing VOEvent discussions in Nara.  This session will consist of a status update delivered by Matthew, followed an open discussion on any related topic.  See Matthew if you have slides to present.

Recent activities of the VOEvent Working Group:

   * Roy Williams has been confirmed as Vice Chair

   * Many thanks to Alasdair Allan, the former Vice Chair

   * Roy and Rob Seaman hosted a very successful tutorial, <i>[[http://adass2010.cfa.harvard.edu/ADASS2010/Program/presentations.html#tutorialp][Techniques for time domain astronomy]]</i> at the Boston ADASS

   * <i>[[http://hotwireduniverse.org][Hot-wiring the Transient Universe]]</i>, a book authored by several members of the WG, was published with about 300 copies distributed to date

   * A [[http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent/voevent_v2.html][working draft]] of VOEvent v2.0 was released in September

   * A revision is in progress, responding to comments to date.  Further comment would strengthen the draft!

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