PyCon 2015 sprints
I am going to be hosting a 2-day _pandas_ sprint at `PyCon 2015`, on April 13-14, see [here](https://us.pycon.org/2015/). Thanks for choosing to partcipate!

We are in room 513D.

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)

List of issues that would be nice to fix:
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/5724
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/5677
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/7820
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/7872
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/9847
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/9862
- https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/9602

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

Here is a [link](https://gitter.im/pydata/pandas) to the gitter chatroom.
For people who would like to participate remotely, I will post a link to a google hangout.
