GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-05-13
Meeting notes
A monthly gathering of the GeoJupyter core community. Open to all!
GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-05-13
Please add new agenda items under the New agenda items
heading!
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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
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- Seems like lots of folks are talking about GeoJupyter :)
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- 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
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- 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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