# PyGMT Community Calls 2023

## 2023-03-14 (UTC 18:00)

Youtube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyahKqgaafg

Participants (please add your name):

- Claus-Peter Rueckemann
- JingHui Tong
- Max Jones
- Wei Ji Leong
- Will Schlitzer
- Yvonne Frohlich

Agenda:

1. PyGMT v0.9.0 release due end of March 2023
2. PyGMT paper (for core-team)
3. Mastodon account for PyGMT?
4. Potential workshops? Upcoming features?

### Discussion

- Introductions
- PyGMT v0.9.0
- Max Jones volunteered - 31 March 2023 tentatively
- Will open release issue
- Fig.tilemap - default output map projection lat/lon or Web Mercator?
- ResearchGate project getting removed, how to put announcements
- 31 March 2023 deadline
- Open issue on GitHub to discuss
- Download projects before deadline, possibly reupload
- Mastodon account for PyGMT
- Maintain twitter channel
- Email account to share? Gmail can be a bit tricky to share, but since we're not posting regularly, it might be ok
- Wei Ji will set that up
- PyGMT paper
- Not many authors still in academia
- Some text exists, but also open questions
- Usually one person write, many co-author review
- Aiming for G3 journal
- Schedule a collaborative writing time, split out tasks for different sections?
- Sections on
- Intro
- ...
- Comparison with GMT
- Integration with PyData ecosystem
- Examples
- Community
- Further development
- How long to write? Need to look at G3 guidelines.
- Copy one or two gallery examples, something that illustrates what PyGMT can do (over GMT).
- Writing for people with a background in GMT (e.g. GMT paper's section on comparing GMT5), and people who are coming from the Python world
- Timeline (tentative):
- First draft by end of June
- Submit by end of July
- Discuss authorship order early on
- Workshops, other things
- GMT EarthScope workshop
- Organize in April, lectures posted by June
- Need to pre-record lectures, about 15min length
- PyGMT office hours, need volunteers to answer questions
- Is a pre-requisite for GMTSAR
- Will volunteering to help record something
- There is still funding to present at conferences (though quite a bit of paperwork involved) for anyone wanting to present GMT/PyGMT stuff
- GMT Dev Summit? Up to us to discuss still, need Paul's input, and someone to organize for in-person. Or just have a virtual/hybird one.
- Can send Slack to Max with opinions
- Next next release v0.10.0
- Planning for maybe July
- May be dependent on GMT 6.5, before mid 2023
- DMG mac image
- Option through conda/homebrew/source
- Some restrictions on who can upload things, which can only be done by Paul at UH currently
- Probably ok to stick with conda-forge for now