We invite you to join a group of roughly 25 brilliant and friendly developers, researchers, and educators to develop ideas & software to implement the GeoJupyter mission: to enable more researchers, educators, and learners to confidently interact with geospatial data in Jupyter.
Our first day will be dedicated to technical development, and our second day will be dedicated to gathering input from geospatial educators and practitioners.
To participate, please contact us (see below) or fill out our registration form.
Location¶
At the University of California, Berkeley.
TBD -- either in Wellman Hall on campus, or the AI Futures Lab just off-campus.
Schedule¶
August 13 & 14, 2025.
We will start at 9AM Pacific Time each day, and finish at 4PM.
August 13, day 1 - Hackathon¶
Day 1 will be focused on technical development. Developers will convene, break into focus areas (see below), and work together to explore problems, and design and develop solutions.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM PT | Meet @ venue |
| 9-9:45 AM | Introductions & icebreaker |
| 10:30 AM | Snacks & coffee provided |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch provided |
| 2:30 PM | Snacks & coffee provided |
| 4:00 PM | Done for the day! |
Focus areas¶
Focus areas include, but are not limited to:
- Design and development of a reproducible “processing toolbox” for JupyterGIS. How do we enable users to run processing operations (for example buffering, finding centroids, or generating contours) in the visual GIS environment, and record those operations for inclusion in a notebook that can be reproducibly executed from top-to-bottom?
- Designing for JupyterGIS interoperability with other tools in the scientific Python ecosystem. For example, how do we move vector data bi-directionally between a GIS project and a Python Notebook?
- Solidifying the JupyterGIS Python API for ergonomics and future evolution?
If you have more ideas for hackathon focus areas, please contact us (see below)!
August 14, day 2 - Design Dialog¶
Day 2 will be focused on use case & user experience development. Practitioners, educators, and developers will convene, identify areas of interest together, and break in to interest groups.
For developers who want to continue hacking on work from day 1, space will be provided.
August 15 - Berkeley Geospatial Education Summit¶
On August 15, the Berkeley Geospatial Innovation Facility will be hosting a Geospatial Education Summit.
We encourage you to sign up for this event as well and join us!
Please let us know if you’d be interested in submitting or collaborating on a talk at this event.
Amenities¶
Lunch, coffee, and snacks will be provided!
TBD -- We may provide childcare. Let us know if this would help you participate.
Please bring¶
- A laptop or other portable computing device
- A reusable water bottle
Contact¶
Please contact Matt Fisher and/or Ciera Martinez with any questions or feedback about this event!