Upstream-Impact

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.

Chris and Yuvi recently wrote a blog post on the Jupyter blog about a recent experiment to significantly reduce the cost of running a node on the mybinder.org federation. Acknowledgements # Project Pythia provides support for some of our work with the Binder project.

If you’re interested in supporting mybinder.org with cloud resources, financial resources, or human resources, please see the Support Binder page for how you can help. tl;dr: The 2i2c team is joining the mybinder.

A key challenge in the open source space is that projects are often independent and autonomous, with relatively few formal ways to collaborate and coordinate efforts. While this usually isn’t a big deal, it means that there is a missed opportunity to grow the impact of an ecosystem because it requires coordinated development among multiple stakeholders within it.

A non-exhaustive list of things 2i2c and Development Seed did with the NASA VEDA project last quarter! Automated backups and alerting with jupyterhub-home-nfs # Tracking Issue jupyterhub-home-nfs is a young project to provide flexible per-user home directory limits on JupyterHub - an important feature for controlling cloud costs.

Cross-posted from the Jupyter Book blog. Note that some MyST functionality is not supported on the 2i2c website – please see the original post for previews. Over the last ten months, the Jupyter Book team have been hard at work; Jupyter Book has become a Jupyter subproject, and the team1 announced a plan to release Jupyter Book 2.

See the Executable Books blog for a post on the future directions of the Jupyter Book project, which will be built on top of the MyST Markdown engine. Acknowledgements # This post relates to our ongoing collaboration with the Jupyter Book project.

The Jupyter Docker Stacks project provides a collection of ready-to-use Docker images for Jupyter environments. These images are used by many in the Jupyter community, including 2i2c which uses them as base images for our JupyterHub deployments.

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Introduction # Mybinder.org enables researchers across the world to replicate computational environments in the cloud. It allows researchers to turn static code into interactive literate coding environments with a click of a button within seconds.