👋 Announcing GeoJupyter! 🎉

[mfisher87]

👋 Hello!

I'm excited to announce GeoJupyter, a new community-owned initiative to re-imagine geospatial data workflows from a blank slate, prioritizing accessibility (like graphical "desktop GIS" programs), real-time collaboration (like Google Docs), reproducibility (like a Jupyter Notebook), storytelling (like those amazing NYT "scrollytelling" articles; see Andrew Bray's work on Quarto), and ~effortless playfulness (like Legos). We want to lower barriers and increase confidence for students, researchers, educators, and citizen scientists exploring, analyzing, or teaching with geospatial data.

To do that, we need your help! We will be conducting interviews (big thanks to our first participant for helping smooth the bumps!), and we'd love for you to help shape a user experience that we hope will bring joy and success to future generations of GIS users. Please sign up! From the same page, you can see what to expect from the interview by viewing the interview template.

Under the GeoJupyter umbrella, work has already begun by QuantStack, funded by European Space Agency (ESA), on JupyterGIS, a JupyterLab extension which adds a real-time collaborative desktop-like GIS environment! For more details on currently-ongoing and upcoming work, visit about GeoJupyter.

Every aspect of this project is open to feedback. Please use GitHub Discussions for the time-being. We are considering real-time chat options and an official project e-mail. Follow the project on GitHub for more updates!