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What happened # The STRUDEL team hosted an all-day workshop with over thirty participants prototyping web applications using the STRUDEL Design System and AI assistants in a custom hub environment designed and managed by 2i2c.

We’re pleased to share that our People Operations Lead, April Johnson, has joined the Jupyter Community Building Working Group! This kind of work reflects how we think about foundational contributions and upstream support: strengthening the social infrastructure that helps open source communities grow and thrive, not just contributing code and running infrastructure.

As we wrapped up 2025, we felt compelled to incorporate what we learned over the year into our strategic direction, and to update our organizational documentation accordingly. Here’s a quick rundown of what we learned and how we’re adjusting.

Openscapes ran a NASA Champions program in November, bringing 30 participants together to learn about NASA Earthdata and the earthaccess Python library. We provided JupyterHub infrastructure for hands-on breakout sessions - a good example of using shared infrastructure to facilitate learning and collaboration in remote events.

This year several team members attended JupyterCon 2025 to show off our own work and the upstream work that we’ve been doing in open source. JupyterCon recently shared the videos of all talks, so here’s a quick run-down of 2i2c’s contributions and where you can watch more.

Yuvi has a recent post on the Jupyter blog on how his “maintainer intuition” about reviewable pull requests grew into the open-source pr-triage-board-bot, a reusable workflow that keeps GitHub Project boards curated for the JupyterHub, JupyterLab, and GeoJupyter communities.

We spotted a great post by Debisree Ray about JupyterCon 2025 on the Women in Technology blog. It’s full of thoughtful reflections about the community and the conference, and we wanted to share a few highlights.

One of our favorite things to see: communities learning from and building on each other’s work! MAAP recently contributed infrastructure configuration inspired by EarthScope’s approach to handling authentication tokens. Both communities need to pass OAuth tokens into user environments so their SDKs can access protected data - and MAAP adapted EarthScope’s pattern to fit their needs.

Documentation is what turns open source code into products that people actually want to use. We recently spent a few days refactoring the Jupyter Book documentation to prepare for the upcoming Jupyter Book 2 release, and we’re excited about how much clearer the docs have become!

The Science Platforms Coordination IHDEA working group (which includes our own Jim Colliander) is developing international standard software computing environments for Heliophysics. The working group recently presented their work at two major conferences: ML-Helio in Madrid and DASH/IHDEA in San Antonio.