Experimenting with Mesa.
I had trouble installing Mesa from pip for some reason, so you may want to do what I did and install the repository directly.
After that, make your virtualenv, install my requirements.txt, (which is just what I got when I installed everything Mesa wanted), activate it, and optionally install the iPython kernel with python -m ipykernel install --user.
You can run a model from its directory with mesa runserver, or from the relevant notebook in nbs/.