Pycon 2023 Mesa Sprints

Welcome to the Mesa Sprints! To get you started, we wanted to make sure you had some resources.

Overview links

• contributing overview
• chat room to connect with other Mesa developers
• 2020 mesa paper for an overview
• tutorial

Main repos to focus on

• mesa
• mesa-geo, the geospatial extension for Mesa
• mesa-examples, the examples folder for Mesa

What to work on

There are lots of different things to work on depending on your interests or experience. Here are some suggestions, but feel free to ask questions if you need help navigating for figuring out a good thing to focus on.

• Anything tagged with "sprints" in any repo
• Cleaning up PRs by reviewing or making recommendations that we might want to kill them. We collected a few and some of them are out of date and we may have had other related work happening and overriding them.
• Updating tutorials - there are a few tutorial tickets and there are always bugs and improvements to be made.
• Porting over an example from Netlogo to Mesa. Where the functionality doesn't exist -- discuss it with us & possibly add it. (For some of the functionality we are discussing if it goes into core mesa or a mesa utils library.)
  • One suggestion specifically by one of the devs was the Anasazi model, but anyone would work.
  • Another suggestion is simulating ant colony/colonies (eusociality). It requires a division of labor and stuff - Maybe it should start as a simple mold network in the sense of https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/
• Improving Mesa-Replay
• Look at our GSOC idea list for more in-depth projects -- https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/wiki/Projects-for-Google-Summer-of-Code-2023
• Deploy mesa runs to the cloud