1st apologies for messing up the time as the US east coast switch to daylight savings time. (I will get it right in December)

Below are the notes:

• We are going to do a Mesa 2.1.5 release this week once we merge docs: Convert HISTORY.rst to HISTORY.md #1866 and possibly convert the README to markdown as we continue to convert all .rst files to md. The primary reason for this is @rlskoeser identified that under the new construct the plots are flickering as the render each time. and @rht edit with jupyterviz agent space and measures flash on mesa 2.1.4 #1867 fixed this.
• AAG mesa and mesa-geo submission is complete for April conference.
• The Mesa community is growing we added several more people to the distro list after CSSSA and the last release.
• As we look at the front end @ankitk50 is working on building tests for the new front end and doing some additional cleanup. As we look at additional features we are thinking the ability to zoom in (imagine a plot with lots and lots of agents with a similar feature to a typical GIS zoom ability) and the ability to scroll over to get information about specific agents. The question for the team (specifically @rht, @Corvince and @wang-boyu ) Should we try and do this organic with matplotlib, or use another library like mpl-interactions, plotly, or bokeh? Please let us know your thought in this discussion.

Regarding interactive plotting, Solara already has support for Plotly...? If users can extract agents as dataframe, they should be able to do something like this: https://github.com/wang-boyu/mesa-examples/blob/gis%2Fsolara-frontend/examples/schelling/app.ipynb

There're some small issues with the code above, but it's also inline with what we discussed here mesa/mesa-geo#157 (comment)