JuliaGeometry meetup?

[yeesian]

After the extrication of geometries from Base, I think there's been development that took place across enough packages, e.g.

• https://github.com/JuliaLang/Graphics.jl
• https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl
• https://github.com/JuliaGeometry/GeometryTypes.jl
• https://github.com/JuliaGeometry/GeometricalPredicates.jl
• https://github.com/dcjones/Compose.jl
• https://github.com/JuliaGeo/GeoInterface.jl
• https://github.com/JuliaGeo/LibGEOS.jl
• https://github.com/Keno/Shapefile.jl
• https://github.com/zyedidia/SFML.jl

for us to want to re-visit the conversation again, and hash things out abit. I'll talk more about it tomorrow (in the talk on JuliaGeo), but in the meantime it'll be good to start getting responses for a meetup for julia developers who're in the Boston area.

(Tentative) Date/time: Saturday, 27 June 2015, 10 AM

Do reply with the dates/times of your availability, so I can book a room.

cc: @dcjones @SimonDanisch @sjkelly @wkearn @jminardi @timholy @shashi @Keno @lobingera @ViralBShah @rohitvarkey @KristofferC @garborg @randyzwitch @jheinen @tedsteiner @zyedidia, others?

[yeesian]

AFAIK Here's a collection of the conversations that have taken place (in no order of importance):

• Remove Base.Graphics from Base and make it a package JuliaLang/julia#9862
• Minimize allocation of single element arrays JuliaGeo/LibGEOS.jl#6
• Support for Geospatial Geometries GeometryTypes.jl#3
• Abstract Types for Primitives GeometryTypes.jl#4
• Interoperability rohitvarkey/Compose3D.jl#2
• 3D GiovineItalia/Compose.jl#105
• Performance GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl#555

Others:

• Interfaces for Abstract Types JuliaLang/julia#6975
• Graphs is too general to be useful JuliaAttic/OldGraphs.jl#171

[IainNZ]

(if you make it a bring-your-own-lunch meeting, you can avoid workshops)

[randyzwitch]

I’m fine with lunch meeting

On Jun 25, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Iain Dunning [email protected] wrote:

(if you make it a bring-your-own-lunch meeting, you can avoid workshops)

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[SimonDanisch]

Me too... Lets do this =)

[lobingera]

Thanks for inviting me. I wish everyone a fruitful meeting. Unfortunately there is some physical distance between myself and the meeting...

[dcjones]

Lunch meeting works for me.

[sjkelly]

I will be gone on Saturday. Please take minutes so we can all stay up to date. I also proposed doing a monthly google hangout. Maybe we could schedule one in about 2 weeks as well?

[rohitvarkey]

Sorry, won't be able to make it. Not in Boston. I'm up for the hangout though!

[jiahao]

I have reserved the videoconference room 32-262 for this working group, Saturday 9:30am-7pm. People will need keycard access... we'll have to figure out something.

[jheinen]

Lunch meeting would be OK for me - but I have to leave by 13:00 ...

[shashi]

Will be there. 👍

[jminardi]

I will be there Saturday as well

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Will be there. [image: 👍]

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[zyedidia]

I'll be there Saturday, and slightly prefer lunch time.

[yeesian]

Let's meet in room 32-262 at 12noon then. Don't forget to bring your own lunch!

[yeesian]

I will be gone on Saturday. Please take minutes so we can all stay up to date. I also proposed doing a monthly google hangout. Maybe we could schedule one in about 2 weeks as well?

Yeah sure, shall we put it in the wiki on this repository?

[jiahao]

For those looking for the conference room, please follow the Julia signs from the Dreyfoos elevator lobby.

[yeesian]

Hey everyone, I'll be going down to the room now. You can reach me at (857) 999-1805 if you're there and need access.

[yeesian]

Sorry I'm still out stuck in a lunch queue. Simon is alr there, so please feel free to post here if you need access, and start (introducing yourselves/etc) without me

[zyedidia]

Hi, I'm having trouble getting to the room. The door near the elevators is locked and I can't get in. Thanks!

[sjkelly]

@dcjones thanks for posting minutes!

I have purchased JuliaGeometry.com/org and I think we could start advertising our objectives a little bit better with a website. Would everyone be up for a recurring monthly video chat to stay in sync?

[lobingera]

@sjkelly ... dcjones posting minutes
Pardon my ignorance, but where?

[rohitvarkey]

@lobingera The minutes have been put up on the Wiki of the meta repository. You can find them here.

[yeesian]

I have purchased JuliaGeometry.com/org and I think we could start advertising our objectives a little bit better with a website. Would everyone be up for a recurring monthly video chat to stay in sync?

Sure! I'm not sure I'll be developing regularly enough to have updates each month, but it'll be nice to stay in touch in some way.

The gist of the meetup so far's that we don't yet have a good way of reconciling each other's concerns (even though we did get to understand where everyone else is coming from). We'll still have to play around abit and see how things play out.

[yeesian]

@sjkelly, shall we open up a separate issue for the next meetup? I'll close this one.

[sjkelly]

@yeesian great! See #6