GeoJupyter core community meeting

GeoJupyter core community meeting (2025-02-11)¶

• Join us on Zoom

  • What time is the meeting in my time zone?

• Previous meetings

• GeoJupyter handy links:

  • GitHub org

  • Community calendar

  • Zulip chat

Attendees¶

Your name / GitHub ID / affiliation / When you take a break, what’s your favorite thing to do?

• Matt Fisher / mfisher87 / Schmidt DSE / Sit in the sun outside and pet my dogs, Ricky & Waffles!

• Greg Mooney / gjmooney / QuantStack / Make more coffee

• Nicolas Brichet / brichet / QuantStack / ?

• Martin Renou / martinRenou / QuantStack / Chop wood

• Arjun Verma / arjxn-py / QuantStack / Usually go for a walk

Action items¶

• Matt: Establish a way to redirect folks interested in GeoJupyter from Jupyter Discourse to Zulip or GitHub. Either:

  • Set up a notification alert on Jupyter Discourse for the term “GeoJupyter” so we can start directing folks from there to our communication channels.

  • Set up an empty / read-only category in Jupyter Discourse for GeoJuypter which redirects folks to our communication channels.

• Undergrad outreach.

  • Ciera: Berkeley.

  • Matt: Stanford, Clark, UT, more?

Standing items¶

• Event planning

  • Hackathon in-person Boulder, CO, May 22-23

    • No updates. Will have updates for next meeting!

• Team communication

  • 🎉 What is working well?

    • Hackathons! 💯 Productive and great for building social connections! ➕

    • Zulip! I love topics.

  • 🔧 Opportunities for improvement? Be nitpicky!

    • I think we could use more networking within GeoJupyter between distant organizations, e.g. DevSeed + QuantStack or DevSeed + Clark University Geospatial group.

    • We did awesome brainstorming during hackathon, it’d be really nice to see these discussion continuing asynchronously over Zulip or GitHub

      • Some people are reluctant to jump in to discussions where they don’t know what’s going on. We can be more welcoming and encouraging for those who are reluctant!

      • (personal take) I find interaction on Github easier to track and follow than Zulip, we could try to encourage people to interact more on Github, less on Zulip?

        • Can be difficult to follow notifications in Zulip. Can keep up with notification backlog in GitHub more easily. Can be difficult to find discussions in Zulip 3 months later. GitHub can be less chit-chatty.

        • Zulip for non-devs, GitHub for devs? Zulip as “upstream” of GitHub

        • Also GitHub Discussions. More oriented to users. Could use this as a “when in doubt” bucket -- if you’re not sure if it’s an “issue”, just open a discussion and we’ll move it if it’s an issue.

    • Jupyter has used Discourse. Should we check there from time to time? Matt: Set up notifications to be alerted if anyone mentions GeoJupyter on the Jupyter Discourse. Then we can comment to let them know how to participate!

      • Nicolas: Create a read-only GeoJupyter channel which links to Zulip! Redirect folks from Discourse to Zulip. Matt: Look in to this.

      • Arjun: Should we add a GeoJupyter category to Discourse?

Follow-up from previous meeting(s)¶

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New agenda items¶

• Hackathon debrief

  • So much fun :D Thanks to all who attended!

  • Please spread the word to help keep the momentum going :)

  • Next in 1 week from tomorrow, Feb 19. See the community calendar

• Governance & stuff: What do we need? Looking to your expertise. Goal: Align with Jupyter subprojects & clarify current project status (i.e. NOT official subproject) - Voila started as independent, became a subproject officially. QuantStack (Sylvain) has experience with the process!

  • Team compass: source of truth for community resources, policy, & practices. This is something we can start now.

  • Steering council: Not needed yet.

  • SSC rep: Not needed yet.

• Distributing power in the community

  • Not going to solve today!

  • Please start thinking about what roles need to be defined in our community.

  • Ciera: Make sure we include a younger generation, maybe undergrads! Reach out to Qiusheng for undergrads. Empower to participate and make decisions! Ciera point of contact for Berkeley undergrads!

• Coffee chats!

  • Cross-org coffee chats!

• Update from JupyterGIS:

  • The Python API now works in the JupyterLite deployment: https://jupytergis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lite/lab/index.html?path=france_hiking.jGIS

  • Soon to be publishing JupyterGIS 0.4.0 https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/milestone/3 🎉

  • Working on a blog-post announcing JupyterGIS on the Jupyter blog 🎉

    • Martin will share draft in GeoJupyter Logistics channel

Pushed to next meeting¶

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