---
title: "GeoJupyter Collaboration Café"
description: |
A GeoJupyter event for technical, social, design, and other collaboration.
Open to all!
date: "2026-02-18"
author:
- name: "The GeoJupyter community"
categories:
- "Collaboration Cafes"
tags: ["collaboration-cafes"]
---

# GeoJupyter Collaboration Café (2026-02-18)

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

- [Join us on Zoom](https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92451699568)
- [What time is the meeting in my time zone?](https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=2pm)
- [Notes from previous cafés](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)

## Sign in!

Your name / GitHub ID / affiliation

* Matt Fisher / `@mfisher87` / Schmidt DSE
* Benny Szeghy / `@benjaminszeghy` / UC Berkeley L&S
* Esha Potharaju / `@e5ha` / UC Berkeley

## Agenda & notes

### ⚡ (5 minutes) Lightning intros

Tell us about you in 30 seconds or less!

### 🌐 (5 minutes) Lightning demo

What's new? Show & tell.
Post on Zulip to request a show & tell slot;
by default, QuantStack will demo awesome JupyterGIS progress each meeting!

### 💡 (5 minutes) What will we work on?

* **What do you want to work on today**?
* For ideas, check out the [hackathon](https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/labels/hackathon)
and [good first issue](https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/labels/good%20first%20issue)
labels on the JupyterGIS project!
* **Add your ideas to the “ideas” list below**.
* **Add your favorite emoji or a `+` next to ideas you’re excited about**.
* Press the colon (:) key on your keyboard or navigate to “Insert > Emoji” in the menu bar to open the emoji browser.

#### Ideas

* New example notebook for large 8GB bathymetry dataset
* Start prototyping integration with ipyleaflet
* Multidim/timeseries functionality?
* TiTiler built-in functionality?
* Leafmap built-in functionality?

### 🪄 (all the minutes) Work together!

Form teams from the ideas generated in the step above!

#### Breakout rooms

* Lobby: ?
* Room 1: ?
* ...

### 💬 (10 minutes) Share out

Think about:
What exciting things did you accomplish?
What loose ends remain?
Big questions? Big ideas?

Please write for people who don’t have full context; link to related issues and documentation!

* Share out 1
* Share out 2
* ...