GeoJupyter core community meeting

GeoJupyter core community meeting (2025-04-08)¶

Please add new agenda items under the New agenda items heading!

• 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 / favorite flavor of ice cream (or other dessert)?

• Nicolas Brichet / @brichet / QuantStack / ?

• Fernando / GitHub ID / affiliation / ?

• Matt Fisher / @mfisher87 / DSE / adzuki bean (red bean)

• Greg Mooney / @gjmooney / QuantStack / Cookie Dough

Standing items¶

• 🗨️ Team communication

  • 🎉 What is working well?

    • Virtual hackathons, of course 😉

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  • 💡 Opportunities for improvement?

    • More virtual hackathon timeslots? What timing would enable you to participate in the hackathon?

    • Building more energy in Zulip channel.

    • Building up a larger contributor base.

    • ?

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Follow-up from previous meeting(s)¶

• Follow-up here

• Matt: Contact Jupyter folks about creating a GeoJupyter space in the Jupyter Discourse

New agenda items¶

• AGU2025

  • Planning on a session and a workshop

  • Session: Full day, posters in morning, oral in afternoon.

  • Workshop: 3.5 hours or 7 hours. Not GeoJupyter specific; open source and cloud native tools.

• EGU in May 2025, anyone in QuantStack going? Ask in Zulip.

• GeoJupyter Focus Group @ Berkeley campus

  • Super productive!

  • Insights:

    • ❌ “No metadata” still very common problem.

      • We can make our interface more usable than QGIS’, take inspiration from epsg.io for example.

    • 😖 Too many data formats!

      • 😭 “I feel despair when opening a NetCDF”

    • 🗨️ “I want my actions in an interface to produce a script to be reproducible.”

    • 🎮 I want to do it multiplayer.

    • ✨ “Too much prep work before I can even visualize my input data.”

    • 📈 Lots of R users.

      • :medal: “My favorite tool is R|ggplot|GEE|StoryMaps”

• Progress on a new dance called 💃 “The JupyterGIS bounce” 💃

  • ❤️ Awesome work Arjun, Martin, Nicolas!

  • Would love your review on WIP blog post

  • PRs:

    • 🔧 WIP: Add new function geo_debug(my_data) - opens a JGIS panel (new document) to explore my_data (including a basemap).

      • Better name for this function? Proposed:

        • show() - could be confused with other show() functions which open a widget to simply display an object; this function will create a new document and pre-populate it with a layer

        • Nicolas: sandbox() playground()

        • Fernando: geo_explore(), explore()

      • Update path for widget:

        • Filepath passed to model is only informative.

        • sharedModel, not model, is the thing that shares data with the server.

        • No way to update the file target, it’s a read-only property.

        • Better to create a new widget and replace.

        • Nicolas: Maybe we shouldn’t do this; re-running the notebook would replace the widget again

        • Fernando: It’s important that certain patterns of behavior are consistent across Jupyter components. Notebooks are documents, consoles are throwaway environments. Notebooks always live on disk, but if not named have a name slug.

          • Nicolas: What about a file naming convention to indicate that this is a temporary file?

          • Fernando: Untitled1.jGIS!

    • 🔧 WIP: Add “Save as...” to UI

    • ✔️ Add “Save as...” to Python API

    • ✔️ Display toolbar in widget/sidecar views

• GeoJupyter architecture documentation and contributor tutorials

  • ❤️ Awesome work Sanjay, Arjun, Martin!

  • 🫵 Could use your help!

  • Architecture docs first draft

  • Contributor tutorial - add keybindings

  • In progress contributor tutorial - add new command (no PR yet)

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Pushed to next meeting¶

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