Organization

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.

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.