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# 2024-11 CZI EOSS 6 Bokeh grant meeting

## 👥 Attendees

* Full name / Github handle / Organization
* Pavithra Eswaramoorthy / @pavithraes / Quansight Labs
* Tania Allard / @trallard / Quansight Labs
* Gabriel
* Mateusz
* Smera / @smeragoel / Quansight Labs

**Moderator**: Tania

**Note taker**: Pavithra

## 📝 Agenda
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- Introduce Smera - UX Designer

- Progress check-in
- Frank has almost completed the initial audit
- Pavithra to add plot<>table interaction to include in the review
- Gabriel
- Onboarding to the Bokeh codebase
- Working on a couple of issues, including webkit display issue
- Mateusz
- prev, dual-canvas rendering PR included a large internal redesign focusing on the legend, Next focusing on the axis - PR yet to come
- themeing aligned with CSS
- Started PR with early work for keyboard support
- keybinding managed, and better defined bindings
- PR for focus management
- fixing tooltips, broadly elements that had issues in full-screen mode,e tc.
- writing down themeing design ideas
- Pavithra
- Docs site for audit: https://bokeh-a11y-audit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- Discuss next steps for accessibilty audit overview and feedback gathering
- [Results synthesis](https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/czi-bokeh-mgmt/issues/17)
- cluster common theme, prioritization, and roadmap - present to the Bokeh community
- Bokeh theming & styling refact goes hand-in-hand, so that we can implement audit findings

- Smera will be working on theming colours audit https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/czi-bokeh-mgmt/issues/18
- deafult theme is hardcoded, ["built-in" themes](https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/reference/themes.html#bokeh-themes) are tweaks on top of it.
- Final goal to create something like https://www.figma.com/community/file/1443191723065200671 for Bokeh
- Start with `less` files which is what users get by default (without customisations or themes) https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/tree/c829640ac4e244e55153c3f5d5f70d9b9bda320d/bokehjs/src/less
- Themes in `bokeh/bokeh/src/bokeh/themes`

Documentation:
- Basic plotting https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/basic.html
- Appearance https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/styling.html

- PyCon US, submitting a talk - 19th of December deadline (need to sync w/Frank)

- Work planing session with Mateusz?

## 🚀 Action items

- [ ] Mateusz - Share theming refactor ideas by next week
- [ ] Tania - will cancel the December sync and move the January one a bit earlier