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?