Recent blog posts

When we first committed to offer Jetstream2 support at 2i2c, Jetstream2, Magnum, OpenStack, ClusterAPI were all new concepts that we hadn’t used at 2i2c before. And although the initial exercise of reading about each of them independently was confusing, learning how they actually glued together was the key.

This is a summary of major progress we made in Q1 of 2025. Its goal is to summarize our major accomplishments and important context before we prioritize for Q2. We hope this gives our community stakeholders a more strategic-level insight into our progress and organizational plans.

As we head into Q2 of 2025, we continue to focus our work delivering on a small set of core themes that reflect our communities’ most pressing needs. As a part of this process, we want to continue sharing our platform and service goals in an effort to remain transparent, as well as to provide our communities with an opportunity to give us feedback on our direction, and on what’s important for them.

These describe the major service improvements that we rolled out in Q1 2025. See this blog post describing our product enhancement goals in Q1 2025 for the targets we intended to hit this quarter.

Thank you to Emilio Mayorga for sharing this publication. Several community members, including Paige Martin (Australian Climate Simulator), Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries), and Emilio Mayorga (University of Washington) published case studies in Oceanography magazine’s “Vision for Capacity Sharing” issue.

We are proud to announce that 2i2c’s Executive Director, Chris Holdgraf, was recently elected to Jupyter’s Executive Council. The 2i2c team discussed whether Chris should run for this position last year, and concluded that it was a way for our non-profit to both support Jupyter’s mission at a strategic level, and represent the interests of research and education communities in Jupyter’s direction.

A blog post on the Jupyter blog about a recent experiment to significantly reduce the cost of runnign a node on the mybinder.org federation.

Building upon our previous work developing per-user storage quotas for our AWS infrastructure, we are pleased to announce that this feature is now available for GCP-hosted hubs! To provide this feature on this vendor, we have updated our infrastructure provisioning system to create persistent disks, and enable automatic backups of the disk for disaster recovery purposes.

Project Pythia and the “Jupyter notebook obsolescence” problem # Project Pythia provides educational resources for essential software tools that enable open, reproducible and scalable geoscience, such as the Pangeo stack of packages (Xarray, Dask, Jupyter).

Last December I had an opportunity to discuss the current and future state of the open publishing ecosystem at a workshop hosted by HHMI1. While 2i2c doesn’t primarily focus on “publishing” workflows, we do support communities on a journey that often leads to publishing, and we make choices about technology in our community hub platform that can support different kinds of publishing outcomes.