---
title: "GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-02-11"
description: |
A monthly gathering of the GeoJupyter core community. Open to all!
date: "2025-02-11"
author:
- name: "The GeoJupyter community"
categories:
- "Meeting notes"
tags: [meeting-notes]
---

# GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-02-11

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

- [Join us on Zoom](https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99659397059?pwd=519zZJlcAa1TCyJWRYyYbaYDfuaXNo.1)
- [What time is the meeting in my time zone?](https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=4pm)
- [Previous meetings](https://geojupyter.org/blog/#category=Meeting%20notes)
- [GeoJupyter](https://geojupyter.org) handy links:
- [GitHub org](https://github.com/geojupyter)
- [Community calendar](https://geojupyter.org/calendar.html)
- [Zulip chat](https://jupyter.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/471314-geojupyter)

## Attendees

Your name / GitHub ID / affiliation / When you take a break, what's your favorite thing to do?

* Name / GitHub ID / affiliation / ?
* Matt Fisher / mfisher87 / Schmidt DSE / Sit in the sun outside and pet my dogs, Ricky & Waffles!
* Greg Mooney / gjmooney / QuantStack / Make more coffee
* Nicolas Brichet / brichet / QuantStack / ?
* Martin Renou / martinRenou / QuantStack / Chop wood
* Arjun Verma / arjxn-py / QuantStack / Usually go for a walk
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### Standing items

- [ ] Event planning
- Hackathon in-person Boulder, CO, May 22-23
- No updates. Will have updates for next meeting!
- [ ] Team communication
- :tada: What is working well?
- Hackathons! :100: Productive and great for building social connections! :heavy_plus_sign:
- Zulip! I love topics.
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- :wrench: Opportunities for improvement? Be nitpicky!
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- I think we could use more networking within GeoJupyter between distant organizations, e.g. DevSeed + QuantStack or DevSeed + Clark University Geospatial group.
- We did awesome brainstorming during hackathon, i'd be really nice to see these discussion continuing asynchronously over zulip or github
- Some people are reluctant to jump in to discussions where they don't know what's going on. We can be more welcoming and encouraging for those who are reluctant!
- (personal take) I find interaction on Github easier to track and follow than Zulip, we could try to encourage people to interact more on Github, less on Zulip?
- Can be difficult to follow notifications in Zulip. Can keep up with notification backlog in GitHub more easily. Can be difficult to find discussions in Zulip 3 months later. GitHub can be less chit-chatty.
- Zulip for non-devs, GitHub for devs? Zulip as "upstream" of GitHub
- Also GitHub Discussions. More oriented to users. Could use this as a "when in doubt" bucket -- if you're not sure if it's an "issue", just open a discussion and we'll move it if it's an issue.
- Jupyter has used [Discourse](https://discourse.jupyter.org/).
Should we check there from time to time?
Matt: Set up notifications!
- Nicolas: Create a read-only GeoJupyter channel which links to Zulip! Redirect folks from Discourse to Zulip. Matt: Look in to this.
- Arjun: Should we add a GeoJupyter category to Discourse.

### Follow-up from previous meeting(s)

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### New agenda items

- [ ] [Hackathon debrief](https://geojupyter.org/blog/20250205-virtual-hackathon/)
- So much fun :D Thanks to all who attended!
- Please spread the word to help keep the momentum going :)
- Next in 1 week from tomorrow, Feb 19.
See the [community calendar](https://geojupyter.org/calendar)
- [ ] Governance & stuff: What do we need? Looking to your expertise.
Goal: [Align with Jupyter subprojects](https://jupyter.org/governance/software_subprojects.html?responsibilities-of-jupyter-subprojects=#responsibilities-of-jupyter-subprojects)
& clarify current project status (i.e. NOT official subproject)
- Voila started as independent, became a subproject officially.
QuantStack (Sylvain) has experience with the process!
- Team compass: source of truth for community resources, policy, & practices.
This is something we can start now.
- Steering council: Not needed yet?
- SSC rep: Not needed yet?
- [ ] Distributing power in the community
- Not going to solve today!
- Please start thinking about what roles need to be defined in our community.
- Ciera: Make sure we include a younger generation, maybe undergrads!
Reach out to Qiusheng for undergrads.
Empower to participate and make decisions!
**Ciera point of contact for Berkeley undergrads!**
- [ ] Coffee chats!
- Cross-org coffee chats!
- [ ] Update from JupyterGIS:
- [ ] The Python API now works in the JupyterLite deployment: https://jupytergis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lite/lab/index.html?path=france_hiking.jGIS
- [ ] Soon to be publishing JupyterGIS 0.4.0 https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/milestone/3 :tada:
- [ ] Working on a blog-post announcing JupyterGIS on the Jupyter blog :tada:
- Martin will share draft in GeoJupyter Logistics channel

### Pushed to next meeting

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