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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for your commitment to make this event remote-friendly!!! ❤️

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 19d

We had a great time at the first Berkeley OSPO meetup yesterday! Jarrod Millman and @kirstiejane.bsky.social discussed what the OSPO can do for the #opensource community now, a time when #openscience is more important than ever.

Join us at upcoming OSPO + BIDS events: events.berkeley.edu/BIDS

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 22d

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website

(with a lot of help from other folks who work on the website)

git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

Git Cheat Sheet

git-scm.com

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Aug 8

Jupyter Community Workshops are back! Workshops will be held through February 2026.

The call for proposals is open until September 7th! Learn more and submit your proposal here:

blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm...

Jupyter Community Workshops Are Back!

The Jupyter Community Building Working Group is pleased to announce that the next call for proposals for Jupyter Community Workshops is now…

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 Congrats to @lucialayr.bsky.social on our team for publishing new research on how #ClimateChange and increasing disturbances, like #wildfires, are impacting boreal forests. Explore Lucia's findings: bit.ly/4miqme3 🌲

@tum.de @anjarammig.bsky.social g.bsky.social @egu.eu
📸 National Park Service

Image of the Copper River in Alaska surrounded by boreal forests and mountains. Credit: national park service

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :)

Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit:

events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...

A flyer for our AGU sesion "IN029 - Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud: Tools and Techniques for Data Access, Analysis, Visualization, Storytelling, and Sharing in the Python and Jupyter Ecosystem". Includes a URL and QR code for our website (https://events.geojupyter.org/conferences/2025-agu/). Lists invited speakers (Dr. Fernando Pérez, co-founder of Project Jupyter, Dr. Tasha Snow, co-founder of CryoCloud, and Dr. Julia Lowndes, Openscapes Founding Director), conveners (Qiusheng Wu, Max Jones, Chelle Gentemann, Tyler Erickson, Wilson Sauthoff) and organizers (Matt Fisher).

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David Brochart @davidbrochart.bsky.social · Jun 24

New blog post: "Create your own layers in JupyterGIS".

Use the power of notebooks to compute custom tiles on-the-fly from Xarray (big) data, interact and collaborate on the map right from JupyterLab.

david-brochart.medium.com/cbb995a89b16

Create your own layers in JupyterGIS

Introduction

david-brochart.medium.com

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Jun 30

📣 We're #hiring a full-time Administrative Manager! Apply now to lead operations, event planning, and day-to-day administrative support for our team at UC Berkeley. First review date is July 11: bit.ly/DSE-Admin-Ma...

📸 UC Berkeley by Mathew Burciaga

Image of four Schmidt DSE staff members smiling and standing around a conference table. Credit: UC Berkeley by Mathew Burciaga

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · Jun 28

My "Introduction to GIS Programming" book has been translated into Spanish

Grab your copy here: leanpub.com/gispro-es

What’s Included:
All code examples are freely available.
Access to 26 hours of free video tutorials to complement your learning.

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks Stace! I wasn't aware of and like that approach. The reason I'm asking is to help determine what path we should take with #JupyterGIS :)

Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · May 18

Hey Matthew! It was a great time! It was my first time teaching to such a large in-person audience, so it was a bit intimidating. It was a wonderful growth experience for me overall :)

I didn't realize you were local! We should meet up for coffee! I'll DM you on Jupyter Zulip :)

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Apr 26

Would you prefer that QGIS opened new projects with a reasonable default basemap? Or do you prefer a blank canvas? Why?

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Apr 13

geojupyter.org/blog/2025041...

Community insight: 💃 The QGIS bounce 🕺 – GeoJupyter

A common pattern: Bouncing between writing an analysis in a Notebook or scripting environment and validating work in QGIS

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Mar 3

🌱 DSE is #Hiring! Are you a (current or soon-to-be) postdoc with experience in #DataScience, #Agroecology, #AgriculturalEconomics, and/or #AgriculturalPolicy? Apply by 3/15: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04804

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Earthmover @earthmover.io · Feb 27

Denver folks — join us for a Geospatial Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 12th at 7 PM MST. Come enjoy drinks, tacos, discussing geospatial data, and meeting the Earthmover team. Register: lu.ma/o6r39p6j

Denver Geospatial Happy Hour · Luma

Come have a drink, grab a bite, and nerd out with the Earthmover team on geospatial data. Earthmover will provide food and drink tickets. Our event will be…

lu.ma

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Feb 27

🙌 🎉 🥳 🪅 Congrats to the QuantStack team!! It's been such a privilege to tag along on this work, and I've learned so much from you all! Thank you :)

Martin Renou @martinrenou.bsky.social · Feb 27

Announcing JupyterGIS 🌍 🌐 🎉

Real-time collaboration for #GIS workflows with #Jupyter and #QGIS

@qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy @jupyter.org

blog.jupyter.org/real-time-co...

Real-time collaboration and collaborative editing for GIS workflows with Jupyter and QGIS

The QGIS open-source project is a cornerstone in the geosciences ecosystem, providing robust tools for spatial data analysis and…

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Feb 19

Yeesssss! It's difficult to express how much of a relief the ergonomics of `pixi` and `uv` are. A world without the "conda base environment problem" felt like a dream for so many years, and we're here now!!! So much easier to teach when you don't have to warn about footguns :)

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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @sebastianraschka.com · Feb 15

It's 2025, and I’ve finally updated my Python setup guide to use uv + venv instead of conda + pip!
Here's my go-to recommendation for uv + venv in Python projects for faster installs, better dependency management: github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
(Any additional suggestions?)

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Feb 19

HUGE congrats to the amazing QuantStack team for their work on releasing JupyterCAD 3.0!!!

I feel so privileged to work with you folks :)

Arjun Verma @arjxn-py.bsky.social · Feb 17

JupyterCAD 3.0 is here! 🎉
We are excited to announce JupyterCAD 3.0, bringing major improvements to the web-based collaborative CAD editor for JupyterLab:
blog.jupyter.org/announcing-j...

✅ Color Customization
🐍 Embedded Python Console
🎯 Improved UX
🖱️ Mouse-based 3D Controls
🤝 Suggestions Support

Announcing JupyterCAD 3.0

The latest iteration of the web-based collaborative CAD editor

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Feb 6

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Feb 7

💻Yesterday the #GeoJupyter effort hosted its first hackathon! 9 attendees w/ @quantstack.bsky.social, @developmentseed.org, U. of Tennessee, ClarkCGA, & DSE collaborated on the JupyterGIS #Python API and a new Docker image! Join a future hackathon: geojupyter.org/blog/2025012...

Announcing GeoJupyter Virtual Hackathons – GeoJupyter

Come hack with us! Generate ideas, give feedback, write code, and make friends!

geojupyter.org

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Feb 6

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.

Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Feb 7

Amazing work, y'all! Thank you!

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · Feb 6

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

lil.law.harvard.edu

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Chris Holdgraf @choldgraf.com · Feb 6

The JupyterHub team is switching their chat application to the Jupyter-wide Zulip!

Blog post: blog.jupyter.org/join-jupyter...

Jupyter Zulip chat: jupyter.zulipchat.com

Join JupyterHub on Zulip chat!

The JupyterHub team have just moved all their chat to a Zulip channel!

blog.jupyter.org

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