Recent blog posts

This is a (roughly) quarterly update for the 2i2c community, with the goal of providing transparency about what we’ve been up to, sharing what we are working on and where we have struggled, and discussing what we’re up to next.

This post was originally written for the CS&S blog. Code for Science & Society is thrilled to welcome the International Interactive Computing Collaboration (2i2c, for short) as a fiscally sponsored project!

It has been about six months since 2i2c first began operations (after receiving funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative). In that time we’ve made progress along several directions, and wish to use this blog post to provide updates about the ways in which 2i2c has evolved over the first months of its existence.

Data8. MIT licensed. Data8 began as a large introductory data science class at UC Berkeley. It uses a Jupyter Book for all course materials, and uses JupyterHub magic links to distribute course content from the textbook.

Last week we announced the creation of 2i2c, a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving and facilitating access to infrastructure for interactive computing workflows in research and education. Today we are thrilled to announce that 2i2c has received core support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

👋 hey everyone! We’d like to announce the creation of a new non-profit organization1 that we call 2i2c. 2i2c stands for The International Interactive Computing Collaboration. It is a non-profit dedicated to making open tools for interactive computing more accessible and more powerful for the research and education communities.