GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-04-08

A monthly gathering of the GeoJupyter core community. Open to all!

GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-04-08

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

• Join us on Zoom
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• 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 😉
    • ?
    • ?
  • 💡 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.
    • ?
    • ?

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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