PyGMT Community Zoom Meeting, Friday 5 Feb 2021 (UTC 1700)

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Hello all! The PyGMT team will be having our 2nd ever community meeting on 5 February 2021 (UTC 17:00). The agenda is as follows:

1. Scipy 2021 tutorial organization (https://flint.soest.hawaii.edu/t/pygmt-at-scipy-2021/1242)
2. PyGMT Release v0.3.0 plans (Release v0.3.x · GitHub)
3. Medium-to-long term development stuff
4. etc

The main focus will be on submitting plans for the SciPy 2021 conference and getting a new PyGMT release out (both around mid-Feb), but there should hopefully be time to chat about other things too.

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2021-02-05 (UTC 17:00)

Youtube recording: https://youtu.be/nerWMe-ZL9c

Participants (please add your name):

• Liam Toney
• Meghan
• Will
• Jason
• Rasheed
• Dongdong
• Wei Ji

Agenda:

• Scipy 2021 tutorial organization (PyGMT at SciPy 2021)
• PyGMT Release v0.3.0 plans (https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/projects/4 2)
• Medium-to-long term development stuff
• etc

Discussion:

• Scipy 2021:

  • Deadline should be 16 Feb
  • Discussion happening on Slack, ask for invite to get involved!
  • Adapt ROSES 2020 talk, but expand some topics and make it more general and add newer stuff that has been wrapped
  • Need to write an outline for the application
  • 3-4 hour tutorials
  • Liam to start a new repo under GenericMappingTools organization to put some Markdown files and Jupyter notebooks
  • Have a look at older SciPy tutorials on the internet

• NASA proposal Building Developer Community

  • Advertising workshops to the Earth Sciences Women Network
  • Hear back in 3-6 months
  • Half-time technical writer for documentation/tutorials
  • More beginner focused tutorials and repeatable examples on Binder/JupyterHub
  • May also get her/him to contribute to development
  • Will be great to onboard people from more diverse community

• PyGMT Release v0.3.0

  • Date: Friday 12 Feb 2020 proposed
  • Big move of many modules to src/ folder (plotting and non-plotting modules)
  • Should try to be compatible with GMT 6.1 and GMT 6.2
  • GMT themes - default autoscaling for all the frame parameters - figures may look different
  • Need to update tests to change from @mpl_image_compare to @check_figures_equal
  • subplots - a priority to finish wrapping (https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/822)
  • some bugs on Windows and xarray inputs to shading of grdinfo that are upstream issues to be fixed by Paul
  • grdinfo/grd2cpt/solar - being wrapped by Will
  • Will will start a Release issue
  • Test GMT release candidate 6.2.0 when that comes out

• Documentation

  • FAQs? or direct folks to GMT forum. PyGMT section of forum?
  • Have a PyGMT specific section/category on the forum, for those people coming from the Python/Matplotlib ecosystem
  • Have PyGMT showcase for figures and source code
  • Community contributed examples on Github of people’s cool figures made for papers/publications

• Future Meetings

  • Quarterly releases and quarterly meetings