Organization

This quarterly post is coming out a little bit late - our goal was to post this in early January, but the year has been more complicated than we bargained for :-)

In this post, we’re sharing our Commitment to Open Technology. It is focused on software licenses for reasons we’ll describe below. We hope that it clarifies what kind of licenses we’ll use, and assures our communities that we will not change our stance towards open source technology in the future.

2024 has been a busy year for 2i2c, with many highs and lows, a lot of impact, and significant organizational change. As the year comes to an end, I want to reflect on the work we’ve done in 2024, and where we aim to go in 2025.

We are proud to announce that 2i2c has received financial support from The Navigation Fund to assist us in our mission to design and build a sustainable and scalable model for helping communities create and share knowledge with open infrastructure.

We are proud to announce that 2i2c has received financial support from The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to sustain our efforts at helping open science communities create and share knowledge with open infrastructure.

As an organization committed to broadening access to interactive computing for global communities, we believe that a team embedded with diverse insights and lived experiences can more effectively advocate for underrepresented voices in our socio-technical partnerships.

Over the past several years, 2i2c has built a platform for serving community-centric hubs that provide a digital home for workflows in creating and sharing knowledge. See our three-year retrospective for a report about the growth and impact this service has had.

2i2c recently finished it’s three year retrospective after closing out its original seed grant. As part of this process, we’re revisiting our organizational strategy, structure, and overall plan, in order to incorporate the learning that we’ve done over our first three years.

This is a follow-up to our 2023 report of organizational strengths and weaknesses, describing some improvements we’ve made on our team’s coordination and delivery. In 2023, we released a report describing our organizational strengths and weaknesses.

We’re pleased to share a three-year retrospective report that was created to close-out 2i2c’s original seed funding grant provided by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. See the Zenodo entry here: See the MyST website for the report at 2i2c.