WIP: List the PyGMT talk at AGU24 in the "Overview" section | Keep large thumbnail images for "Overview" section ?

[yvonnefroehlich]

Description of proposed changes

List the PyGMT talk at AGU24 in the "Overview" section

• Create and add thumbnail image (orientation on existing thumbnails, used a photo @weiji14 made)
• Upload slides and add URL / DOI (recordings are not freely available, do not include an image of the presenter, and are not linked with the slides)
• Upload abstract to ResearchGate

Preview: https://pygmt-dev--3685.org.readthedocs.build/en/3685/overview.html

Fixes: #3683 (partly)

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[yvonnefroehlich]

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[seisman]

Two notes:

1. @maxrjones once proposed to move all presentations to the "External Resources" and had some ideas about what to be included in the overview page (Remove Liam's talk from the overview page #1764 (comment)). I'm unsure if @maxrjones still remembers the ideas.

2. As previously mentioned in Add SciPy 2022 talk to presentations #2053 (comment), I feel we should not add large binary files/images into this repository. Even if we decide to add, we should compress the image using tools like https://squoosh.app/

[yvonnefroehlich]

2. As previously mentioned in Add SciPy 2022 talk to presentations #2053 (comment), I feel we should not add large binary files/images into this repository. Even if we decide to add, we should compress the image using tools like https://squoosh.app/

Hm. I also was a bit wondering about the sizes of the image files. But when comparing the image added newly in the PR with the already included images, the file size is in the same range:

I reduced the size of my image via the tool @seisman mentioned and now it is 140 KB large.

[yvonnefroehlich]

1. @maxrjones once proposed to move all presentations to the "External Resources" and had some ideas about what to be included in the overview page (Remove Liam's talk from the overview page #1764 (comment)). I'm unsure if @maxrjones still remembers the ideas.

Yes, adding the conference contributions to the “overview” section is not directly intuitive. But maybe the idea of adding these materials to the overview page was to show how the PyGMT project developed over time (instead of any kind of history section). Some of these contributions are more an overview of the main ideas and aims of the project rather than a more detailed presentation on PyGMT.

[seisman]

2. As previously mentioned in Add SciPy 2022 talk to presentations #2053 (comment), I feel we should not add large binary files/images into this repository. Even if we decide to add, we should compress the image using tools like https://squoosh.app/

Hm. I also was a bit wondering about the the sizes of the image files. But when comparing the image added newly in the PR with the already included images, the file size is in the same range:

I reduced the size of my image via the tool @seisman mentioned and now it is 140 KB large.

These large images were added at the very early stage of the project and I think that's not a good practice.

[yvonnefroehlich]

These large images were added at the very early stage of the project and I think that's not a good practice.

Then we probably have to discuss / decide if we want to keep / continue the list of conference contributions as is or remove these images from the repo. Or we find a solution where we can just link to an image which serves as thumbnail image.

[weiji14]

Or we find a solution where we can just link to an image which serves as thumbnail image.

If you are planning to upload your slides to Figshare or ResearchGate to create a DOI, you can also upload the thumbnail image there, and we can link to that instead of uploading the thumbnail to the PyGMT repo?