GeoJupyter core community meeting

GeoJupyter core community meeting (2025-05-13)¶

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

• Kevin Koy / @kevkoy / Schmidt DSE

• Matt Fisher / @mfisher87 / Schmidt DSE

• Nicolas Brichet / @brichet / QuantStack

• Arjun Verma / @arjxn-py / QuantStack

• Anne Fouilloux / @annefou / Simula

• Ciera Martinez / @iamciera / Schmidt DSE

Standing items¶

• What’s going well?

  • Seems like lots of folks are talking about GeoJupyter :)

• What needs work?

  • Our blog is possibly overpopulated with meeting notes in addition to announcements and analyses. Split it into two separate listings?

  • Community handbook created on geojupyter.org; should we move it to a dedicated “team compass” website?

  • “What is GeoJupyter?” make this information more prominent.

  • Since GeoJupyter has only JupyterGIS for sometime, Maybe we can start thinking about starting a new supporting project or something to represent Geojupyter better as a community?

    • Use a future community meeting to dig through our summarized transcripts of user interviews to inform this brainstorming!

  • Architecture documentation

    • Nicolas shared some LLM-generated documentation; how can we benefit from that?

  • In hackathons, we often start work but don’t work on it again between hackathons.

    • Would be useful to have more documentation to help support them between hackathons.

    • Ask at the next Hackathon: What can we do to support you continuing this work between now and the next hackathon?

  • Contributing to the JS side of JGIS has a high learning curve. The Python side is more approachable / familiar.

    • Separate Python API into a different package?

    • Can we add some Python-only functionality, e.g. a helper function that can produce static plots from the JupyterGIS document that’s been built up?

      • e.g. Helper to use geopandas to perform processing, but output a file instead of updating the map; then can use other existing functions to add that output file back to the project.

    • Need to think hard about compatibility, versioning!

Follow-up from previous meeting(s)¶

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New agenda items¶

• Events

  • Cloud Native Geospatial 2025: Matt

  • Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Annual Meeting 2025: Matt, Fernando

  • European Geosciences Union 2025: Anne.

    • Demoed JGIS.

    • Collected feedback

      • Support for gpkg

      • Planning on a case study!

    • Audience mostly GIS people

  • Galaxy Training Academy 2025:

    • Happening now!

    • Deployed JGIS collaborative instance

    • Worldwide async online training

    • Wide range of people, some scientists, some curious users!

    • Going well.

    • Feedback form at the end.

  • Living Planet Symposium 2025:

    • Will have a demo & training

    • Coming soon!

    • Using flood data, it’s top of mind for folks in Germany!

  • TODO: Perhaps a summertime hack event in Berkeley?

    • @ Berkeley AI Futures Lab

    • Asynchronous participation from Europe?

    • Synchronous remote participation in the mornings with European folks!

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Pushed to next meeting¶

• Talk to Felt folks; can we establish a mutually beneficial collaboration?

  • Ciera will talk to Felt CEO!