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One of our favorite things to see: communities learning from and building on each other’s work! MAAP recently contributed infrastructure configuration inspired by EarthScope’s approach to handling authentication tokens. Both communities need to pass OAuth tokens into user environments so their SDKs can access protected data - and MAAP adapted EarthScope’s pattern to fit their needs.

The Science Platforms Coordination IHDEA working group (which includes our own Jim Colliander) is developing international standard software computing environments for Heliophysics. The working group recently presented their work at two major conferences: ML-Helio in Madrid and DASH/IHDEA in San Antonio.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has joined as 2i2c’s first premier member organization! This partnership marks a significant milestone in our sustainability strategy and recognizes a relationship that’s been central to 2i2c’s story from the very beginning.

NASA Openscapes mentors recently hosted a workshop attended by 401 participants from 68 countries to learn how to use airborne data and machine learning for environmental research! They gave participants computational environments on a community hub managed by 2i2c to teach skills in data science like image classification with airborne spectroscopy and accessing data from NASA JPL AVIRIS-NG data from Earthdata cloud.

As I attend the CZI Open Science 2025 meeting, it’s a good moment to reflect on the many ways CZI has positively impacted both 2i2c and the Jupyter Project. The funders who support organizations like 2i2c and Jupyter have a difficult task.

We love when collaborators contribute back to the tools we maintain! Andy Teucher from OpenScapes recently fixed a documentation issue in jupyter-sshd-proxy that benefits everyone using the tool. jupyter-sshd-proxy is a tool originally created by Yuvi to help 2i2c communities connect to their JupyterHub instances via SSH.

We wanted to share a short vignette about two of our communities learning from one another. At the latest Project Pythia community meeting, Project Pythia met with representatives from ICESat-2 to share learning about notebooks and cookbooks in educational settings.

Understanding how people discover and navigate your project’s web presence is valuable for open source communities, but there are a lot of options out there and many maintainers may not know about them.

We’re celebrating BIDS (the Berkeley Institute for Data Science) as 2i2c’s first premier member at an event at UC Berkeley on Thursday, October 15th. If you’re in the Berkeley area, we’d love for you to join us!

The analytics archive at archive.analytics.mybinder.org powers the mybinder.org usage dashboards and provides a daily-published dataset that researchers and communities use to understand how Binder is being used across different domains and scientific communities.