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JupyterHub and BinderHub Team Meeting - March#

Link to Meeting Recording

Date: 21 March 2019 at 6pm Zurich time (10am PST)

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

Link to prior meeting’s virtual meeting report

The call will start with a quick round of updates from everyone present (you can pass if you want to), followed by bigger agenda items. There will be no feedback/questions on the 60s updates. Questions/discussion on the larger agenda items will be moderated by a speaker list (see end of this hackmd).

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

  • Zach / Jupyter Cal Poly / @Zsailer

  • Min / Simula / @minrk (absent: Hi from Min and little Hugo, born 2019-09-03) 🎉🎉

  • Patricia Herterich / The Turing Way & University of Birmingham / @pherterich

  • Erik Sundell / Sandvik / @consideratio

  • Sarah Gibson / The Alan Turing Institute / @sgibson91

  • Lindsey Heagy / UC Berkeley / @lheagy

  • Tim Head / Binder / @betatim

  • Joe Hamman / NCAR / @jhamman

  • Brian Granger / AWS / @ellisonbg

Quick updates#

60 second updates on things you have been up to, questions you have, or developments you think people should know about. Please add yourself, and if you do not have an update to share, you can pass.

  • name: update or pass

  • Patricia: pass as update will come in the agenda

  • Erik: update, lab coms, some oauthenticator stuff

  • Lindsey: went to the google HPC day yesterday, made some notes here

  • Joe: Pangeo-binder is now current with mybinder.org

  • Tim: first mybinder.org deploy since forever!

  • Chris: nbinteract + jupyterbook, discourse updates and new top-level channels: JupyterLab, Enterprise Gateway, Q & A

  • Sylvain: OVH deployment - put together a binder instance. Asking for feedback on how to hook it in as a potential alternative backend for mybinder.org

    • issue here

    • kick-off short mtg after next wednesday

    • Sylvain to post a calendar invive on the GH issues so anyone can join the call

Reports and celebrations#

This is a place to make announcements (without a need for discussion). This is also a great place to give shout-outs to contributors! We’ll read through these at the beginning of the meeting.

  • Leticia wrote her first Jupyter blog post on the NativeAuthenticator! :tada: (See it here)

  • Thanks to @kannes for helping improve the apt_install instructions in the binder-examples repositories (e.g., #4)

  • Georgiana wrote her first Jupyter blog post on the TraefikProxy! :tada: (it should be posted soon!)

  • Carol for sorting out “all the issues”! gif inside

  • JupyterLab team enters discourse.jupyter.org/c/jupyterlab, see this PR about communication in their readme.

  • add item here

Agenda items#

Let’s collect all potential agenda items here before the start of the meeting (closing time 24h before). We will then attempt to create a coherent agenda that fits in the 60m meeting slot. If there are similar items try and group them already.

  • meeting with OVH about their kubernetes offer and how that fits into mybinder.org

    • we should not drop the ball on this

    • OVH have a binderhub that is running well

    • schedule a meeting to discuss state of things

    • create an issue (or discourse thread?) to use as the channel for discussion instead of emails to help

    • jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#759

    • see if we can schedule a meeting “end of next week”

    • link to a poll for a meeting time on the github issue

  • New “speaking queue” format. [Zach - 1 min]

    • see if we can improve the instructions to make them clearer

    • we will keep experimenting with this over the next few meetings

  • quick report from the Turing Way workshops [Patricia/Sarah - 5 mins?]

    • 3 workshops over the last 2 weeks

      • how to use a public BinderHub (~30 ppl)

      • how to set up a BinderHub (13 ppl attended)

    • private data use cases, still useful

    • most people managed to get a BinderHub up and running at the end of the workshop

    • some problems but there seem to be solutions to most of them

    • thanks for opening the issues and threads!

    • the material and format for the “binderise your repo” workshop is getting good and will turn into a ready-to-go repo that anyone can pcik up for running their own workshop

    • setting up a BinderHub from a Windows machine is hard

      • workaround available but tricky

    • Q: Who came to the “Build a BinderHub” workshop?

      • a lot of research software engineers

      • someone from the open university

      • some of them were researchers

    • Feeling is that maybe research groups will run their own BinderHubs

    • Link to the collated “zero to binderhub” guide

  • a communications plan [Chris H]

    • Brian thinking about different types of discourse categories and how they can be mapped to groups and permissions.

    • Looks like categories can be nested in two levels and assigned to groups, with different levels of permission.

    • three primary channels for conversations:

      • discourse as catch all

      • gitter for sync communication, if they get longer than a few back and forths move to discourse

      • github: issues should be about things that can be closed when they are done

        • move “get feedback” or “idea around X” issues towards discourse in the future

    • Q: do you have to opt-in to threads? How to make sure you don’t miss things?

  • action items from the team meeting [Tim]

    • create a 30s introduction to binder video

      • who would like to help out?

      • what kind of equipment does one need for this?

        • Quicktime on Mac is what is usually used to record a desktop - not the greatest though

      • recommendations and experience needed

      • Lindsey here: I have used monosnap for video recording screencasts before. It also lets you include a small inset video from the webcam. It is nice to see the human behind the voice :smile:

      • Get Leticia involved with her podcasting experience

    • direct support questions and other persistent discussion to discourse, gitter for chatting

      • chat has “no history” and no need for people to keep up with things (use discourse for that)

      • should we switch chat tools?

        • -> let’s see how things change by changing to discourse and then later think about also updating gitter

    • raise-your-hand meeting moderator rules also for video meetings?

      • Zach has looked but not found a tool to help with moderation

  • Federation/redirection [Tim, 10min]

    • slowly but surely people are hosting BinderHubs (see TuringWay item)

    • we should provide a good way for all public hubs to stay in-sync (version of BinderHub, repo2docker, etc)

    • It is in mybinder.org’s interest to be able to redirect traffic to other hubs

    • Questions:

      • what is the motivation for other public hubs to let us direct traffic to them?

        • E.g. the Turing motivation to do this would be exposure as contributing to/supporting open source projects

      • should the redirect be transparent (user cna’t see they are being redirected) or explicit (user see the location in their browser change)?

      • do we want to implement redirection at the level of mybinder.org?

    • -> make sure to highlight other deployments

    • -> make the loading page template-able to give exposure to BinderHub hosters

    • discuss

  • All-Jupyter community call next Tuesday [Zach - 5 minutes].

    • Tim is happy to show a binder demo (if you record it for me!)

  • Permissions, scopes, roles, etc. Brian and Zach are thinking a lot about how to leverage OAuth scopes in Jupyter, and how those relate to notions of permissions on files, kernels, APIs, etc. Discussion on GitHub [Brian - 3m]

  • ADDED LATE: erik: transition away from github.com/jupyter/help repo - quick OK to act?

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