GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-05-13

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

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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!

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- What time is the meeting in my time zone?
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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

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)

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!
  - /

Pushed to next meeting

Talk to Felt folks; can we establish a mutually beneficial collaboration?
- Ciera will talk to Felt CEO!