---
title: "GeoJupyter core community meeting"
description: |
A monthly gathering of the GeoJupyter core community. Open to all!
date: "2025-12-09"
image: "../images/community-meeting.jpg"
author:
- name: "The GeoJupyter community"
categories:
- "Meeting notes"
tags: [meeting-notes]
---

# GeoJupyter core community meeting (2025-12-09)

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://compass.geojupyter.org/meeting-notes/)
- [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

* Matt Fisher / `@mfisher87` / Schmidt DSE
* Nicolas Brichet / `@brichet` / QuantStack

### Standing items

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

### New agenda items

- [ ] JupyterGIS updates
- Story maps: Greg making lots of cool progress!
- Ex: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/kincade-fire-origin/
- https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/pull/994
- Can set landmarks, attach text, advance through the landmarks, configure transitions (maybe more!)
- Currently, the story text is in the side panel
- Do we need a kernel for story maps? Maybe not for the first iteration on this feature. Enables embedding in static sites! But later, with a kernel, we could have cool features like widgets in the story!
- Interactive story maps could enable new playful/sandbox experiences that are powerful persuasion or decision-making tools
- Data model binding to the renderer
- It would be nice to support more renderers for situations when OL doesn't do what we want (e.g. large geoparquet dataset!)
- This could be confusing to users. But maybe we have a default renderer and offer the ability to swap it out with e.g. `pip install jupytergis-deckgl`?
- Our data model needs some work to not be coupled with openlayers concepts, and instead model for simplicity and use adapters between our data model and renderers.
- STAC:
- Greg working on adding Copernicus catalog
- Interns working on generic STAC interface. Should have progress by Feb 15, but it may not be fully releasable at that time (?); more of a base for some finishing touches like additional filters to help users navigate large catalogs.
- Strategy:
- How do we support making the architecture more robust?
- Path to more funding and capacity: More people and orgs using JGIS as a daily driver, a critical dependeny
- What's stopping people from using JupyterGIS as a daily driver?
- Bugs or features?
- Path to getting new daily driver users?
- Develop a single use case "happy path" and make it very robust, including necessary architecture improvements. E.g. tight integration with a Notebook workflow using Xarray and GeoDataFrame datasets.
- Estimate number of developer hours required with team
- Submit for funding
- As more daily driver users onboard, more willingness to fund additional features and robustness will come.
- Matt: Discuss with Sylvain!

### Pushed to next meeting