GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-05-13

Meeting notes

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

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The GeoJupyter community

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May 13, 2025

GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-05-13

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

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

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

    • 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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