# PySAL Meeting 2023-06-01

Chair: Martin
## Agenda

1. #### GSoC update
- two meeting this far, good progress
- may be good to document the onboarding process (setting up dev env, pre-commit, linting...)
3. #### nsf-pose update
- Wei and Taylor on the team, James may join
- some onboarding docs could be a part of the proposal
5. #### sea-narsc 23 plans
- workshop approved, not listed yet (@sjsrey & @knaaptime in the morning, @lanselin & @pedrovma in the afternoon)
7. #### Shapely 2 transition
- all PRs merged, Pysal main is PyGEOS free
- releases are needed
- pointpats
- lib
- esda
- spaghetti
- tobler done
- momepy done
8. #### distutils deprecated
- https://github.com/pysal/pysal/issues/1277
- all packages depending on versioneer and direct import of distutils need to switch over to setuptools_scm
10. #### scipy summit report
- scipy deprecating sparse matrix
- https://scipy.github.io/devdocs/release/1.11.0-notes.html#highlights-of-this-release
- https://github.com/pysal/libpysal/pull/529
- dependents testing
- https://github.com/scientific-python/reverse-dependency-testing
- https://github.com/martinfleis/libpysal/actions/runs/5072473281/jobs/9113216106
- we need to do some work on our test suites to ensure they can be cleanly exectued in this way and that all the tests pass
- minimum supported versions
- https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/
- https://github.com/scverse/spatialdata/ & CZI
11. #### geograph update
- There is a branch with new object based on pandas.DataFrame representing adjacencny list
- https://github.dev/pysal/libpysal/tree/geographs
- aim for a release of the experimental namespace in the next meta (July)
- Serge will send a Doodle to organise next sprint
12. [portland insna](https://www.insna.org/sunbelt-2023--schedule-of-sessions)
- Serge is attending to talk about networks/graphs
13. #### Other
14. #### Next meeting chair

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