JupyterHub and BinderHub Team Meeting - February#
Date: 21 February 2019 at 6pm Zurich time (9am PST)
Videoconference link: https://calpoly.zoom.us/my/jupyter
Link to prior meeting’s virtual meeting report
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:
name / institution / GitHub handle
Tim / Project Binder / @betatim
Kenan / GESIS / @bitnik
Arnim / GESIS / @arnim
Carol / Project Jupyter / @willingc
Erik / Sandvik CODE / @consideRatio
Min / Simula / @minrk
Zach / Cal Poly / @Zsailer
Kirstie / Alan Turing Institute / @KirstieJane
Patricia / University of Birmingham / @pherterich
Yuvi Panda / Project Jupyter / @yuvipanda
Martin O’Reilly / Alan Turing Institute / @martintoreilly
Lindsey Heagy / UC Berkeley / @lheagy
Sarah Gibson / The Alan Turing Institute / @sgibson91
Joe Hamman / NCAR / @jhamman
Chris Holdgraf / UC Berkeley / @choldgraf
Reports and celebrations#
Things people should know about:
new release of repo2docker v0.8.0 ~~coming up~~done!
new release of the helm chart should be nearly ready to go!
many thanks to @manycoding for doing some nice work in the documentation (jupyterhub/zero-to-jupyterhub-k8s#1150)
Shout-outs to our Outreachy projects:
Traefik-Proxy from @GeorgianaElena
nativeauthenticator from @leportella
Leticia is attending the team meeting in person (and is in this meeting!)
A BinderHub with auth and persistent storage!! jupyterhub/binderhub#794
they would like feedback on the setup
are there ways the current choices could end up being bad choices in the future?
feedback on the GitHub issue please or in person!
https://elifesciences.org/labs/ad58f08d/introducing-elife-s-first-computationally-reproducible-article eLife and Stencila recently put together a nice demo of an article that has computational elements in it that are powered by Binder tech!
Turing Way sprint yesterday planning 3 binder workshops: alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way
Looking for some help on the binderhub workshop, but feeling pretty good about the 2 binder workshops :sparkles:
18th March 2019 in Birmingham to build your own BinderHub
Any tips and already existing resources can be linked at this issue please :smile_cat: :pray: :sparkling_heart: alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way#183
Agenda items#
Update on Agenda Planning for March Meeting in Washington DC
context jupyterhub/team-compass#110
Tim’s proposal: we schedule something for half a day per day, the other half day is for people to do other things
if we don’t schedule anything I worry that most of the time most of the people are doing something else in which case it is a waste of time. The fact that the rest of the meeting is “unscheduled” makes me think we should propose and publicise when the Binder team is doing things and that those who don’t want to schedule their discussions should fit around that.
propose to use the morning slot on all days except Monday to allow remote participation from Europe +1
What method/procedure should we use to pick things to tackle?
Let’s have the March team call during the in person meeting
Decision: Let’s use Monday morning to distill a lightweight agenda for the week. Zach is bringing a big postersized calendar.
Outreachy internships
who has the capacity to organise and mentor interns for the 2019 round?
Yuvi can co-mentor, but needs another co-mentor + organizer
we need about $6000 per intern in funding
What it entails:
finding a person to mentor
organizing project for intern and mentoring them through project.
handling paperwork to make it happen
Discourse post about reapplying: https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/thinking-about-reapplying-to-outreachy-in-may-2019/404
If you are on the fence you should make up your mind by the end of 5th March 2019. After that it is too late.
Make an explicit effort to improve shout outs and highlighting of contributions to each repository
see jupyterhub/team-compass#119 for some context on this item
Proposal: we try and have one team member per repository who feels responsible for knowing the social dynamics and going ons in that repository. Part of that job is to highlight contributors and activities to the rest of the world.
they would also be a good person for people who are thinking of contributing to a repository or levelling up their contributions to talk to -> we should list them in the README/CONTRIBUTING.md as a person to talk to.
Decision: yes / no / needs more information for decision
suggestion from Kirstie: Make a template for a twitter thread:
this is person X - they contributed!
this is what they did
this is why binder is meaningful to them
this is how you can talk to them
Kirstie: One thing to discuss is how you humanise the message - there’s something really on brand about tweeting from the binder twitter handle, but I think having a specific person on the team nominate someone is really personal and feels much more special.
You can imagine a case where the individual contributor knows that they’ve been personally selected but that isn’t super clear to twitter followers etc?
I’m thinking maybe the second tweet says “Tim nominated Ellie (made up name!) because she really helped him with XYZ”
badges from the team to contributors to highlight particular kinds of contributions
Binder explainer comics/binder-compatible-repo creators interviews [Tim]
Some context on who Bianca/Jo’s Buero is
Graphic arts company
Requires us to have witty ideas. ;)
PDF link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1l9IpFedqMKcvAcCt4RCJVaFVfMBCQoHG
Goal is to reach people who aren’t using mybinder.org yet (don’t know of it, think it isn’t relevant or too complicated)
Two ideas for producing content to explain Binder to people or spread the word
Idea A: small cartoons or caricatures
“did you know?” style
each cartoon makes you smile
each cartoon teaches you something new
more timeless maybe
follow up comic on step 4 of the original comic from OpenDreamKit
Idea B: interview creators of repositories that run on mybinder.org
interview people
produce a blog post style page
highlight different users of mybinder.org
could be a negative experience if you don’t get picked.
Tim starts a discourse thread to brainstorm ideas.
Binder governance!
We have a form of governance!
https://jupyterhub-team-compass.readthedocs.io/en/latest/binder_governance.html
How do I become a team member?
existing members can nominate new members
Tim’s personal process: If you consistently help others use and/or contribute to Binder I will nominate you. If you’d like to talk to me about this @betatim on twitter, gitter or betatim@gmail.com
Can Binder help out people applying for funding by providing a letter that “looks official”?
In the past a lot of letters of support have come from individuals
On some occasions the Jupyter steering council has done this
Hold off on starting a public issue and report back after a discussion at the March in person meeting.
New members: how do we overcome the problem that no everyone is comfortable putting themselves out there
Run a workshop every 6months that is about adding new members, more inclusive than “contact Tim”.
(Note from Kirstie - thank you for doing all this work and having these conversations, it’s super exciting :sparkling_heart:)
mybinder.org backed by several deployments [Tim]
context/discussion: jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#759
Important because it removes the single point of failure.
how to keep the deployments in sync?
proposal: control all of them from one central repository jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy
What alternatives are there?
expose these separate deployments to the user or hide it from them?
should a user arriving at mybinder.org see that their binder is being launched on somewhere.mybinder.org or should we hide it from users that there are several clusters backing mybinder.org?
Copy Rust community call for roadmapping [Tim]
let’s copy the idea from https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/06/call-for-rust-2019-roadmap-blogposts.html for the Binder community
issue inside Rust with some details and more linked information rust-community/content-team#45
Things we need to do to make this happen:
define a hashtag, email address, discourse thread to report posts to so they can be considered
decide a date to launch this on: proposed 31 March 2019
write an annoucement blog post (copy&paste as much as possible from Rust one)
wrangler: XXX
write a few blog posts by team members so they are ready to go when the announcement happens
Tim will write one
Decision: yes / no / needs more information for decision
Maybe move this to later in the year when we have a better setup for adding contributors and answering questions about supporting funding applications, etc