JupyterHub and BinderHub Monthly Report

Goal: Continuous improvement

• Meeting Date: 21 Mar 2018, 6pm CET or your timezone

• Videoconference link: https://calpoly.zoom.us/my/jupyter

• Link to prior week’s virtual meeting report (needs archiving)

Welcome to the Team Meeting

Hello!

If you are joining the team video meeting, sign in below so we know who was here. Roll call:

• your name / affiliation / github

• Tim / Wild Tree Tech / @betatim

• Carol / Project Jupyter (Cal Poly) / @willingc

• Min / Simula / @minrk

• Jessica / Jupyter / @jzf2101

• Erik / IT-Gymnasiet Uppsala / @consideRatio

• Chris H / UC Berkeley / @choldgraf

Actions

1. Help or discussion needed; Agenda Items for Monthly Meeting

   • Open PRs

   • Open issues

     • repo2docker next release 0.6 mid-April

     • z2jh - support for k8 deployments - issue

       • NOTES: two biggest differentiators deploying k8s on baremetal vs. cloud provider is “LoadBalancer” and “PersistentVolume”. Would be valuable to make it clearer which kubernetes objects/concepts we’re using, and which can be “assumed” vs. needed.

       • TODO: create issue to discuss which parts of the jhub deployment depend on which components of kubernetes - create documentation on this.

       • TODO: reach out to the Orsay people about what they’ve done to set this up and what problems they found

       • TODO: reach out to CERN about how installing z2jh went (Tim)

       • k8 incubator: kubespray

   • Kubeflow (JupyterHub and Machine Learning/Tensorflow) Link to JHub issues

     • involvement

     • 15 minute presentation on Friday, April 6 9am Pacific

     • influence direction

     • kaml-d

       • like kubeflow but from RedHat?

     • service bundles and svcat (service catalog)

   • Jessica asks: How do we get better information about interactive computing from Binder?

     • who uses mybinder?

     • what kind of repos are there?

     • Jessica is looking for information to share with the community on how everyone uses binder combining repo info from GH

     • GA gives us an idea of what repos people click and when but not how long they stay

     • can we extract something about “minutes in a binder” from stackdriver logs?

     • we can extend the pages in a user container to include GA in each container

     • investigate GitHub activity stream on bigquery

       • PyCaribbean talk on BigQuery, link?

     • Chris would like help with extracting data out of GA

       • there is a repo: jupyterhub/binder-data

       • Jessica will follow up

     • https://twitter.com/betatim/status/974710693902635010 scientist using mybinder for publication

   • dumping data task:

     • turn this into an issue on jupyterhub/binder, there might already be an issue

     • where to put data from prometheus?

     • how long does the prometheus data last?

     • how do we extract information and what information should we extract?

     • Note that right now prometheus does not log which repos get launched, so we need to figure out the right way to do this, I think Yuvi had thoughts on a path forward there

   • Is anybody interested in a reproducible document collab with eLife / substance.io ? There’s a similar interest w/ a team at the Turing institute in London

     • eLife and substance.io working together on reproducible document format and UI

     • eLife might host their own binderhub

     • maybe interested in helping create tech for publishers

     • Turing institute interested in finding published papers and enhancing their public version

     • Jessica, Tim, Min and Erik would be interested in hearing more

     • Erik figures that that it would be an awesome resource helping out communicating the benefits of mybinder.org to universities.

2. Decisions needed

   • do we want to commit to a BinderHub release schedule for 0.1?

     • Potentially treat “releases” more as a marker of “which versions work with other versions of other tools” as opposed to defining it by major features. Cut a 0.1 release around the next release of JupyterHub and make it clear that BinderHub is still in big-time alpha version.

3. Next actions (team)

   • Working toward JupyterHub 0.9 release

     • rough timeline: ~weeks

     • there will be a (short) beta release

News, Information, and Thanks

1. Team Metrics

2. Team News and Informational items

   • Organization highlights

     • Four(!) JupyterCon CFP submissions

   • BinderHub projects

   • JupyterHub projects

   • Related projects (repo2docker, nbgrader, others)

   • Google Cloud Podcast Interview Monday with Yuvi, Chris, and Jessica

   • Meetings with Orsay in Paris

     • Orsay and OpenDreamKit talking about JupyterHub in education with Min and Chris

   • JupyterDays talk

   • Oxford / Cambridge interest in JupyterHub

   • eLife/substance.io collaboration on reproducible documents?

   • Binder / Turing institute collaboration on “reproducible stars”

   • Had a nice meeting with CZI people at Berkeley, seems like there’s opportunity for collaboration there

3. Thanks, Things to Celebrate, and anything else

   • Two big milestones that went well: JupyterLab related traffic spike and try.jupyter.org now uses mybinder.org!