GMT Community Zoom Meeting, Thursday May 06 (UTC 1900)

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The next GMT Community Zoom Meeting will be on May 06, 2021 at UTC 1900! All are welcome! 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:

  1. Status update on GMT development
  2. Update about GMT UNAVCO workshop
  3. Update about summer developer workshop for PyGMT
  4. Discussion about GMT ftp and data server
  5. Discussion about how to track long-names for options and modifiers across the GMT ecosystem
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We should have an update from SciPy re: PyGMT tutorial by then.

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Notice: The GMT Community Meetings are recorded and posted on the GenericMappingTools YouTube channel.

Please note that the zoom link has changed from past meetings. See below for the link to the next meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 944 9255 2336

Shared meeting notes are here:

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Youtube recording: https://youtu.be/0q6C6w_Gmzo

Meeting minutes

Participants:

  • Paul Wessel
  • Leonardo Uieda
  • Meghan Jones
  • Wei Ji Leong
  • Will Schlitzer
  • Federico Esteban
  • Dongdong Tian
  • Joaquim Luis
  • Walter Smith
  • Liam Toney

Agenda

  • Status update on GMT development
    • 6.2.0rc1 on 04/19/2021
    • Number of open issues (194) / PRs (16)
    • 04/06/2021 - 05/06/2021 - 59 merged PRs; 20 closed issues; 13 new issues; 9 authors; 17 files; 152 additions, 19 deletes
  • Update about GMT UNAVCO workshop
  • Update about summer developer workshop for PyGMT
  • Discussion about GMT ftp and data server
  • Discussion about how to track long-names for options and modifiers across the GMT ecosystem

Notes

  • GMT 6.2.0 release candidates
    • Bug fixes, a lot related with those found in wrappers (e.g. PyGMT)
    • Added Federico’s Anim 14
    • Will have a GMT 6.2.0rc2 in the next few weeks
  • GMT for Geodesy workshop
    • Close to 200 people signed up, 70 from UNAVCO affiliated instituted, 20 from last year, the rest from others?
    • Hopefully with 4-5 instructors it should be ok to handle the numbers
    • Date: 20-21 July (UTC time)
    • Event page: https://www.unavco.org/event/2021-short-course-gmt-for-geodesy/
    • Will have a pre-workshop thing to sort out installation and other basic issues
    • Gather town to have people working in virtual groups https://gather.town/
      • Can set up designated ‘places’ for troubleshooting problems (an ‘SOS’ table)
      • We could do a demo for the next meeting to get a feel for it
      • Can get some funding from UNAVCO for it perhaps
  • PyGMT workshops
  • GMT FTP and data server
    • About time to move to https
    • Find long term solution to not have server physically at UH
    • Already have source tarballs over HTTP here: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/releases/tag/6.1.1 and will archive on Zenodo
    • Will check number of FTP downloads, put out a note, and stop the FTP sometime soon
  • Long option names in GMT
  • GDAL Geometries
    • OGR file reading, GMT.jl can convert simple Point/Lines/Polygons to GMT somehow…
    • Receive pointer to data structure, there is some mechanism in place in GMT core, but a few more things to be done
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