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PyGMT Community Calls 2021

2021-10-06 (UTC 18:00)

Youtube recording: (don't forget to hit the record button!) https://youtu.be/xKPAP4a3Fns

Participants (please add your name):

  • Meghan
  • Will
  • Wei Ji
  • Richkard
  • Claus-Peter

Agenda:

  1. PyGMT Release v0.5.0 plans (https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/projects/7)
  2. Discussion about how to handle the upcoming GMT 6.3 in PyGMT v0.6.0?
  3. AGU 2021 Fall Meeting poster/presentation ideas
  4. Questions/comments from community members

Discussion

  1. PyGMT Release v0.5.0
  2. Preparing for GMT 6.3
    • Tentative date for October 22, or about one week after PyGMT v0.5.0
    • Few dozen major changes, the 3 main things that will affect PyGMT are:
      • More modifiers to GMT functions (need to update PyGMT documentation too), so do we need to pin to minimum version of GMT 6.3? Probably yes, but after PyGMT v0.5.0
      • The @earth_relief dataset now has an auto-resolution feature, solely for the plotting modules and grdcut. May need to update the load_earth_relief function or something to get this feature into PyGMT.
      • Update to plotting defaults for various projections, including -JG, which may break some tests
    • GMT data server will have new SRTM15+v2.3, see https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmtserver-admin/issues/105
  3. AGU 2021, we have a 3 min lightning talk!
    • Friday 17 Dec. 4.21pm-4.24pm EST. Meghan will be presenting virtually, and should have some material prepared by early December.
  4. Questions/Comments from community members

2021-06-16 (UTC 17:00)

Youtube recording: https://youtu.be/HowgOWHxGiE

Participants (please add your name):

  • Meghan Jones
  • Michael Grund
  • DongDong Tian
  • Will Schlitzer
  • Jiayuan Yao
  • Wei Ji Leong

Agenda:

  1. PyGMT Release v0.4.0 plans (https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/projects/5)
  2. Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN) PyGMT Professional Development Workshop (https://eswnonline.org/29375-2)
  3. (Tentative) Scipy 2021 sprints (https://www.scipy2021.scipy.org/sprints and AGU 2021 Fall Meeting abstract submission?

Discussion:

  1. PyGMT Release v0.4.0
  2. Earth Science Women's Network PyGMT developer workshop
    • https://eswnonline.org/29375-2
    • Meghan, Wei Ji and Paul will be working on the workshop applications, announcements to be made early July
    • A lot of good applications, will probably get 15 people, assuming 1:5 instructor to participant ratio. Could increase number of participants to >15 if more people volunteer to help out!
    • Quite a few who are keen on learning PyGMT rather than development work, need to find a way to cater to that demand.
    • Could see if we can get more than 15 people in for the 1st day refresher workshop (there are 50 applicants), for those who just want to learn how to use PyGMT in their studies/work.
    • Need to get more beginner friendly issues in for people to work on during the workshop!
    • Have a recorded tutorial so that other people can have access to it at a later date
    • Liam is running ROSES tutorial again - possibly will provide an updated video recording on the PyGMT website's front page.
  3. SciPy 2021
    • Not running a tutorial this year
    • Hosting a two day code sprint (hackathon) over the weekend
    • https://www.scipy2021.scipy.org/sprints
    • Open up a lot of beginner framed issues so that people can work on it!
    • Wei Ji posted a https://gather.town environment that could be used for running the workshop interactively, will test things out within the dev team before running the actual sprint
  4. Miscellaneous

2021-02-05 (UTC 17:00)

Youtube recording: https://youtu.be/nerWMe-ZL9c

Participants (please add your name):

  • Liam Toney
  • Meghan
  • Will
  • Jason
  • Rasheed
  • Dongdong
  • Wei Ji

Agenda:

Discussion:

  • Scipy 2021:

    • Deadline should be 16 Feb
    • Discussion happening on Slack, ask for invite to get involved!
    • Adapt ROSES 2020 talk, but expand some topics and make it more general and add newer stuff that has been wrapped
    • Need to write an outline for the application
    • 3-4 hour tutorials
    • Liam to start a new repo under GenericMappingTools organization to put some Markdown files and Jupyter notebooks
    • Have a look at older SciPy tutorials on the internet
  • NASA proposal Building Developer Community

    • Advertising workshops to the Earth Sciences Women Network
    • Hear back in 3-6 months
    • Half-time technical writer for documentation/tutorials
    • More beginner focused tutorials and repeatable examples on Binder/JupyterHub
    • May also get her/him to contribute to development
    • Will be great to onboard people from more diverse community
  • PyGMT Release v0.3.0

  • Documentation

    • FAQs? or direct folks to GMT forum. PyGMT section of forum?
    • Have a PyGMT specific section/category on the forum, for those people coming from the Python/Matplotlib ecosystem
    • Have PyGMT showcase for figures and source code
    • Community contributed examples on Github of people's cool figures made for papers/publications
  • Future Meetings

    • Quarterly releases and quarterly meetings