# GMT Community Zoom Meeting, Thursday May 06 (UTC 1900) **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [April 28, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/gmt-community-zoom-meeting-thursday-may-06-utc-1900/1617 "2021-04-28T21:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maxrjones](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/maxrjones/32/2698_2.png) [@maxrjones](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/maxrjones)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/gmt-community-zoom-meeting-thursday-may-06-utc-1900/1617/1 "2021-04-28T21:14:08Z")
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 [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GMT+Community+Zoom+Meeting&iso=20210506T19&p1=1440&ah=1](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GMT+Community+Zoom+Meeting&iso=20210506T19&p1=1440&ah=1) ---
**Author:** ![liamtoney](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/liamtoney/32/2021_2.png) [@liamtoney](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/liamtoney)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/gmt-community-zoom-meeting-thursday-may-06-utc-1900/1617/2 "2021-04-30T19:36:54Z")
We should have an update from SciPy re: PyGMT tutorial by then. ---
**Author:** ![maxrjones](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/maxrjones/32/2698_2.png) [@maxrjones](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/maxrjones)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/gmt-community-zoom-meeting-thursday-may-06-utc-1900/1617/3 "2021-05-05T16:15:48Z")
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**Author:** ![maxrjones](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/maxrjones/32/2698_2.png) [@maxrjones](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/maxrjones)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/gmt-community-zoom-meeting-thursday-may-06-utc-1900/1617/4 "2021-05-06T20:50:52Z")
Youtube recording: [https://youtu.be/0q6C6w\_Gmzo](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/](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/](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 - August 17-19 ESWM workshop for PyGMT. Announcement will be on ESWN website [https://eswnonline.org/](https://eswnonline.org/) and GMT forum and news - July 11-12 SciPy tutorial for PyGMT, still waiting to hear back sometime in May - June-August ROSES for PyGMT. Will have dedicated Jupyterhub ([https://github.com/fdannemanndugick/roses2021](https://github.com/fdannemanndugick/roses2021)) - 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](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 - Have consistency across all wrappers - Could have a dedicated repo with a list of the long option names (or a database/dataframe) - Have a way to sync GMT docs with docs in PyGMT, GMT.jl, etc - [What’s the most Pythonic way for long GMT arguments? · Issue #1082 · GenericMappingTools/pygmt](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/issues/1082) - Have a database which can be query-able/searchable rather than just a bunch of text files, i.e. make it developer friendly - There is some code in GMT C to parse long options to short options - 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