Membership in 2i2c
Join a network of communities building shared open infrastructure
As a non-profit, we believe the best infrastructure comes from co-creation. Our membership model pools resources across research and education communities to operate shared infrastructure and to improve the open source tools everyone depends on.
When you become a member, your community joins a network where usage shapes development priorities, improvements flow back to open source, and everyone benefits.
Shared operations. One infrastructure team manages hubs for all member communities using a shared infrastructure repository. Each community gets their own hub customized to their needs, while benefiting from shared expertise, faster incident response, and improvements deployed everywhere at once.
Shared development. Members influence our open roadmap with feedback and co-funding. This drives contributions across the open source ecosystem, creating better tools for the world and improvements that we can rapidly deploy to our member hubs.
Learn more about our mission and the values that drive our work.
What members get
Our platform serves researchers, administrators, and community leaders with different needs.
Ready-to-use cloud environments with your community’s tools, data, and computational resources. Focus on discovery, not server management. Shared environments for reproducible collaboration.
Community-standard infrastructure you could run yourself. Manage users and monitor your community’s usage. Automatic upstream improvements and full transparency via the Right to Replicate.
Pool resources with other communities for greater impact. Influence 2i2c’s roadmap and priorities. Support open source sustainability.
Membership and project work
We offer two ways to work together:
Membership provides ongoing access to our managed hub platform. Membership fees sustain operations and support foundational open source contributions that benefit all members.
Project collaborations let organizations fund specific development work that addresses shared challenges. Project work accelerates our roadmap and creates improvements deployed across the network.
Many organizations do both: membership for day-to-day infrastructure, plus project funding for strategic priorities. See our collaborators and funders for examples of organizations we work with, or read more about our service model.
Our commitments
We make specific commitments to ensure your infrastructure remains open, portable, and community-controlled.
We guarantee your Right to Replicate - your infrastructure configuration is transparent and portable, so you’re never locked in. All our engineering work is open source with licensing that protects communities. We work transparently and contribute upstream to the projects we depend on.
See our public roadmap for current priorities, or read more about our open practices.