EuroScipy 2015 pandas sprint
There will be a pandas sprint at EuroScipy (https://www.euroscipy.org/2015/sprints/) on Sunday the 30th of August. 
The sprints will take place at the Seminar Centre of the Hauser Forum (very near to the conference venue) from 10am to 5pm.

This issue will be the landing page for contributors.

[pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org) is an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language. 

See our shiny new [Contributing Guidelines & Instructions](http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/contributing.html)

Here are various issues that are open and would like your attention:
- [Difficulty Novice](https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Difficulty+Novice%22)
- [Difficulty Intermediate](https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Difficulty+Intermediate%22)
- [Difficulty Advanced](https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Difficulty+Advanced%22)

Please comment on an issue if you are working on it.

Here is a [link](https://gitter.im/pydata/pandas) to the gitter dev chatroom.
#### How to prepare?

If you want to prepare the sprint, the most important is to _set up a development environment_: forking the pandas repo, cloning your fork locally, installing all development dependencies in an environment and testing that you can build pandas locally, ...
You can find some information about this in our contributing docs: http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/contributing.html
#### What to work on?

There is no plan to work on something specific, but the idea is that everybody can choose on something they would like to work, and that there is some guidance to do that (but of course, if some of the attendants want to work together on a specific topic, this is certainly possible!).

You can work on whatever you like, but to facilitate finding an appropriate issue, we have the 'Difficulty Novice / Intermediate / Advanced' labels. 
I will also put some ideas of issues I would like to see tackled during the sprints here in the coming days.

Please comment on an issue if you are working on it.
