FOSS4G Oceania 2019 outreach

[weiji14]

So my city (Wellington, New Zealand) is hosting the next FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference from November 12-15, 2019, and I'd like to put my hand up 👋 to do some outreach for PyGMT (or even GMT in general). I know you're all busy with the UNAVCO Short Course at the moment but I'd like to mention this FOSS4G conference now so you might have it in the back of your heads, and also because the Call for Presentation/Workshops just opened up (early bird tickets on sale now too).

Key dates (NZ Standard Time, GMT+12):

• 17 August Call for Workshops deadline.
• 31 August Call for Presentations deadline.
• 1-15 September: Community vote (on what workshops/presentations get selected)
• 21 September: Presentations selected, conference program announced

Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Yes!

Depending on how much time/resources we have, there's a range of things we can do:

• 5 min lightning ⚡ talk (quick advertisement for PyGMT)
• 18 min presentation 👩‍🏫 (more in-depth showcase of PyGMT, welcome more community contributors)
• 3.5 hour workshop ⌨️ (guide people around using PyGMT at their computers)
• Community Day (~9-5pm) code sprint 💻 (get new contributors working on some pull requests!)

Personally I'd be keen on hosting a workshop and I've got some computer lab tutoring experience that should make it work. It would also be fantastic if one of you are willing to come over and we can set up a code sprint to finish some of those longstanding pull requests!

I actually know some of the organizers here at the university it should be easy-ish to set the software side of things up or we can just use Binder/Google Colaboratory. Once GMT 6 is released, we should work on getting a proper PyPI release out for PyGMT too and I'll try to get some more sphinx-gallery/jupyter notebook examples ready for the incoming tide 😆.

Comments/Questions?

[leouieda]

Hi @weiji14 this is a great idea! Sadly, I don't know if any of us can make it down for the conference but would you be willing to host something yourself? If so, then feel free to choose whichever format you think best.

We can surely help with developing the material and anything that can be done remotely. We'll surely have GMT 6 by then and as soon as that is out I want to get a 0.1.0 of PyGMT out on PyPI and conda-forge.

What do you think?

[weiji14]

Cool, I'll definitely submit an abstract and see how that goes. Still debating on whether a presentation or workshop would be better. Having done the Scipy2017 and UNAVCO2019 Short Course what do you think worked better in terms of outreach @leouieda? Any lessons learnt from those 2 that might be helpful this time round?

I've also emailed to ask about the Community Day thing (still waiting to hear back) but I feel that it would really complement an introductory presentation/workshop - having people working on the code itself! It would be good to have a few more good first issues on our list, plus get that 'try-gmt' repo set up as you mentioned in GenericMappingTools/try-gmt-python#1 (comment).

[weiji14]

Alright! Workshop has been accepted and confirmed 🎉 ! I'll start to put in some extra effort to get the neccesary material 📝 set up and make sure there's a 0.1.0 PyGMT release by then 😃

I've sent in the workshop abstract! See https://submit-workshops.foss4g-oceania.org/fso2019w/talk/review/ECVJ8X9MBE8JSGWX7XAWGLNFLXRZTLHS.

Edit: Voting time! The FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 Workshop Community Vote closes on August 25th, go place your vote on what workshops get selected at https://bit.ly/2MqQzdE!!

[weiji14]

Hi @leouieda, just following up on this since the PyGMT workshop is now 2 weeks away! There's about 6 people signed up so far and possibly more coming! It would be great if you and the @GenericMappingTools/python-contributors team could find some time to review the features I've tagged v0.1.0.

I'll start to set up a FOSS4G Oceania repo and populate some jupyter notebook tutorials, but it'll be great if those Pull Requests can get merged in on time for the workshop. Could definitely use some help with getting a 0.1.0 release out of the door 🚀

[weiji14]

Thanks for the permissions troubleshooting everyone. Moving on...

I've got 8 confirmed attendees and have just churned out my 2nd tutorial at GenericMappingTools/foss4g2019oceania#7. Just started working on my 3rd tutorial on processing point clouds last night, and could really use someone time to review blockmedian #349 and grdview #330 by this weekend, especially grdview as I've promised 3D plotting in my abstract and it's also (quite frankly) the killer app for PyGMT.

[weiji14]

Closing as workshop is now over. Rendered jupyter notebooks of the workshop can now be found at https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/foss4g2019oceania. Just note that the version of PyGMT used in the Pangeo binder environment is from a 'foss4g2019oceania' branch at https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/tree/foss4g2019oceania. I.e. pip install https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/archive/foss4g2019oceania.zip.