The next GMT Community Zoom Meeting will be on April 01, 2021 at UTC 1800! Here’s a preliminary agenda for the meeting - feel free to suggest more agenda items by commenting in this thread. A zoom link will be posted shortly.
Preliminary agenda
- Status update on GMT development (new features, release schedule)
- Recruiting volunteers to help with the UNAVCO GMT for geodesy workshop
- Plan for developer workshops over the summer
- Update/discussion about GMT twitter account
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Thanks for a great meeting. Seems as though things are going very well for GMT. Also thanks for the ultra-fast responses on helping squash code bugs and fielding my silly questions! Cheers!
You are welcome John. And no question is silly as you know - they usually reveal a bug or bad design! Keep’em coming.
Youtube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7d3xwL2-w
Meeting minutes
Participants:
- Paul Wessel
- Meghan Jones
- Federico Esteban
- Dongdong Tian
- Leonardo Uieda
- Joaquim Luis
- Wei Ji Leong
- John Robbins
- Kristof
Agenda
- Status update on GMT development (new features, release schedule)
- Recruiting volunteers to help with the UNAVCO GMT for geodesy workshop. Also finalize UNAVCO registration form for GMT Course: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjM0iEue4vcuE--DbFuU5rwUFeF3EgpADfgNYr036NeAvxHw/viewform
- Plan for developer workshops over the summer
- Update/discussion about GMT twitter account
Notes
- GMT 6.2.0 release candidate issue open https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/issues/5070
- UNAVCO GMT course
- Want to hold it before GMTSAR
- Last year’s online course was pretty good, even though run across several timezones
- Had about 80 students before, and had good student volunteers helping out, but also happy to take on more
- Will polish last year’s material for this year, will be a 2021 repo for it, and a forum announcement
- Material can also be used by anyone else to run their own GMT course at their institution
- Need to smooth out GMT installation issues still though
- May add something about wrappers, GMTmex, GMT.jl and PyGMT
- Will make sure it doesn’t clash with SciPy 2021 from 12-18 July
- Dates for 2020: June 30; July 1, 6, 13, 20-21, and 28, 2020
- Summer based workshops for training GMT developers
- Sometime in August perhaps, after the UNAVCO workshop
- Leo suggested to reach out the the Earth Sciences Women’s network who have about 6000 people on their mailing list
- Will send out a survey to plan out what the course will look like, based on the interests of people, and how many people there are
- We could also try to recruit the people from this year for next year
- Biggest hurdle may be learning bash and git, should have a crash course so that people can get up to speed on that, e.g. like the Software Carpentry
- May also be helpful to have more GMT specific git tutorials
- GMT Twitter account
- https://twitter.com/gmt_dev
- What content to be on there?
- Sporadic release announcements, animations, maybe also retweet other user content
- Maybe good to be targeted at big conferences e.g. AGU and SciPy
- Tweetdeck can be used to schedule tweets every couple of hours, do it ahead of time
- Can point to showcase forum category with code
- Ask for help on any questions in the forum
- PyGMT logo, Leo’s been taking another stab at it (Design for PyGMT logo)
- There’s some work on getting line wrapping for gmt help commands on the terminal (https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/pull/4796)
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