The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration held its semi-annual meeting in La Serena April 23^rd through April 26^th. Over 50 international visitors arrived from 20 different organizations spread over three continents. The meeting was based at the Hotel La Serena Club Resort.

The DES Collaboration meeting provides an opportunity for this large and distributed project to have face-to-face contact on a regular basis. Each DES participant organization will host at least one DES meeting over the course of the project. This was the first chance for many of the collaboration members to see the site where the Dark Energy Camera will be placed: on the Blanco atop of Cerro Tololo.

Two additional technical meetings were held during the days before the larger collaboration meeting: a Front End Electronics meeting and an Integration and Installation meeting. Ricardo Schmidt and Tim Abbott organized these two groups who spent much of their time at the telescope working on the more challenging details of integrating the large DECam instrument onto the Blanco 4m telescope.

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