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Weekly reports archive#

This is an archive of weekly reports.

2018-02-05#

Actions#

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

  • 1.1 Open PRs

    • [CH] We should discuss Matthias’ PR about Federation, with the goal of having a clear path forward to merging! (PR)

  • 1.2 Open issues

    • [CH] If anybody would like access to any of the accounts they don’t have access to, please say so and we’ll get you connected! (e.g. twitter, google analytics, pip rights, etc) issue

    • [CH] From last meeting: come up with rough guidelines for blog post / communications (e.g. don’t post too close to one another) (issue)

    • [CH] Discuss merging the BinderHub helm chart into JupyterHub + maybe some docs. (issue)

Organization highlights#

  • Min + Chris are going to France for a Jupyter Days event! There will be a talk of some kind

  • The organizers are interested in setting up a JupyterHub for a cluster of French universities, we’ll hopefully work with them while we’re there.

Thanks, Things to Celebrate, and anything else#

  • Binder made it into Nature! Thanks to Carol + Tim for being awesome and representing the project :-) (link)

  • The Berkeley Data 8 class connected their online textbook with Binder, and twitter was really excited about it

2018-01-29#

Open issues#

Next actions (team)#

  • Please add yourself to the Team Organization list

  • Come up with rough guidelines for blog post / communications (e.g. don’t post too close to one another)

  • Figure out how to remove tracking all subdomains of mybinder.org on GA

  • List all potential blogpost that should be publish and blog.jupyter.org create drafts for them with date ranges.

    • Binder browser extension (Matthias)

    • JuyterDays France (Sylvain, Loic?)

    • JupyterLab release (Brian)

    • What’s new in Binder / Happy New Year (Chris H)

    • JupyterDays CFP (Brian/Fernando)

  • Follow up on Matthias’ suggestion to come up with a list of access/keys/etc. by repo/service/etc. so that where information is stored and who has access

    • Read the docs

    • PyPI

    • Analytics

  • check out and improve the ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md for Binder vs binderhub issues. Proposed additions:

    • binder is for users

    • binderhub is about the software

  • Review and improve step by step deployment checklist for mybinder-deploy

    • review which steps can be automated

    • Carol will create an incident report from my experience this morning. The goal is to increase confidence in deploy process for those that are not deploying on a regular basis. [COMPLETED]

    • when to deploy to mybinder after merging into binderhub (releases of binderhub would mitigate this)

    • review jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#225

    • can we create more visibility into what is working/not working when we made a deployment that isn’t working

Team News and Informational items#

  • February 2018 Video Call scheduled for February 8, 2018 6pm Zurich time. Details

  • Chatted with Sylvain + Loic in France, they’re interested in a JupyterHub for French unis.

    • French HPC/Loic have spent some effort in setting up something that looks very much like binder, interested in maybe using binder/jupyterhub

    • Hosting on OVH (something like google cloud/AWS but more Euro).

    • Some ‘JupyterHub federation’ similar to berkeley MOOC work

  • Prepared a draft blog post (blog.jupyter.org) for the MyBinder browser extension.

    • try to avoid conflicts with other posts

    • to get a list of other posts ask steering council/mailing list to find out what other sub-projects are doing

    • raise as an issue on the weekly Jupyter meeting under communications (Carol) COMPLETED

Organization highlights#

  • Reaching out to JOSS COMPLETED

    • Tim is reviewing a paper and will mention that it would have been nice to have a binder link

  • Ask eLife if they want to fund a project to integrate with binder for their “archive to GitHub” idea?

  • Jupyter Days event coming up in March in France.

    • Conversation with Sylvain and Loic

    • Date early March (5th??)

    • 300 to 500 attendees

    • Prepare a blog post annouce (ask Sylvain)

    • Chris might be in the area, Min will probably go, who else is interested?

  • JupyterCon CFP website online (restricted access) let’s not try to cram blog post too close to the CFP annouce.

  • Hackathon with Data Carpentry at BIDS next week (Jan 9th and 10th), Chris H will work on Binder teaching material.

BinderHub projects#

  • Security update for meltdownattack.com performed (Thanks Yuvi)

  • Prod cluster scaled down to 3 nodes and switched from n1-standard class nodes (equal CPU + memory ratio) to n1-highmem (more memory than CPU) based on our usage metrics (as part of meltdownattack.com fix)

  • npm refactor merged (yay @minrk! @rgbrk & other nteract folks)

  • playground.mybinder.org now redirects to play.nteract.io (yay cross-promotion) (this was down for Chris H today. Others? (is down for me too, should check with nteract folks)) I just checked again and it’s back up - CH

    • Works for Matthias, Tim, Chris. Is that exectuing on same machines as MyBinder.org ? (nope it’s not)

  • Working on fixing binder badge being blocked by privacy badger (jupyterhub/binderhub#379)

    • our badge.svg is served from same host as some cookies we set which triggers a tracking warning

    • now served from static.mybinder.org/badge.svg but apparently still triggers warning

    • how to respect DNT headers?

    • fix that the GA cookies is set on *.mybinder.org not just the top domain

  • Loading page PR is almost ready (jupyterhub/binderhub#384)

    • this is better than watching a washing machine

    • Looks like Tony Stark Visor in his Iron Man suit.

    • Matthias has one concern about css animations power draining.

  • Chris H will give a go at the BinderHub setup instructions w/ a more recent dev version to make sure they’re still correct.

  • Matthias will rebase the Federation PR. Thoughts on it ?

    • lots of details to work out, but let’s label it as a prototype

    • how do we keep versions in sync, how to handle when they are out-of-sync, etc

    • do we create a separate prototype service from mybinder.org

    • look into what the grant covers related to federation

    • which privacy policies apply when on a federated deployment

    • vision for federation blog post to see what others think?

      • make sure users see who is providing the CPU to them

    • step 1 before pushing the federation idea is to start having good releases that users can rely on

  • More eyes on this deployment process proposal jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#225

5.3 JupyterHub projects#

2017-12-25#

Organization highlights#

Communications, Social Media, Conferences, Outreach

BinderHub projects#

  • network firewalls/throttling landing on mybinder.org this week, so keep an eye out for issues

  • KubeSpawner update

JupyterHub projects#

Related projects#

  • part of making a repo2docker release a pypi account was created (mybinderteam), ask Tim to share password/login via lastpass if you are interested. It should be connected to the gmail account as well. (#136)

Next actions (team)#

Thanks, Things to Celebrate, and anything else#

  • Thanks Tim for submitting a Moz Science mini grant proposal.

  • Welcome Gladys Nalvarte to the team! Great to see you on board as an intern at Simula. Congrats on the PRs. Please let us know if you have questions :D

  • Congrats to Yuvi Panda on his KubeCon talk!

  • http://carreau.github.io/posts/31-open-in-binder-browser-extension.html !!!

  • Congrats to the entire team for the very successful launch of mybinder.org and write up in Jupyter Blog and eLife.

2017-12-17#

Team News and Informational items#

  • Hired Gladys Nalvarte as intern at Simula. Getting to know the codebase, tools involved. Made a couple of PRs already! Welcome Gladys! Please let us know if you have questions :D

Organization highlights#

  • Created new Twitter and Google group: mybinderteam COMPLETED

  • Binder 2.0 blog posts nearly ready, Chris has been awesome wrangling this, lots of little things left to do, please help, jupyterhub/binder#22 COMPLETED

  • Tim is thinking about submitting a proposal to Mozilla mini grant to fund ~3 one day events around “using binder to do cool things” in Europe. Etherpad with thoughts/details REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

  • Reaching out to JOSS STATUS? Completed?

BinderHub projects#

  • network firewalls/throttling landing on mybinder.org this week, so keep an eye out for issues

  • KubeSpawner update

  • We need to get grafana back up and running for monitoring +1 (landed! https://grafana.mybinder.org) COMPLETED?

JupyterHub projects#

Related projects#

  • part of making a repo2docker release a pypi account was created (mybinderteam), ask Tim to share password/login via lastpass if you are interested. It should be connected to the gmail account as well. (#136)

Open issues#

Next actions (team)#

Thanks, Things to Celebrate, and anything else#

  • Welcome Gladys Nalvarte to the team! Great to see you on board as an intern at Simula. Congrats on the PRs. Please let us know if you have questions :D

  • Congrats to Yuvi Panda on his KubeCon talk!

  • http://carreau.github.io/posts/31-open-in-binder-browser-extension.html !!!

  • Congrats to the entire team for the very successful launch of mybinder.org and write up in Jupyter Blog and eLife.

2017-12-04#

Team News and Informational items#

  • Hired Gladys Nalvarte as intern at Simula. Getting to know the codebase, tools involved. Made a couple of PRs already!

Organization highlights#

BinderHub projects#

  • network firewalls/throttling landing on mybinder.org this week, so keep an eye out for issues

  • KubeSpawner update

  • We need to get grafana back up and running for monitoring +1 (landed! https://grafana.mybinder.org)

JupyterHub projects#

  • KubeSpawner 0.7.1 release

Related projects#

  • part of making a repo2docker release a pypi account was created (mybinderteam), ask Tim to share password/login via lastpass if you are interested. It should be connected to the gmail account as well. (#136)

Open issues#

Next actions (team)#

  • Let’s tweet from Jupyter (and give Ana an FYI) to publicize the browser extension for Firefox in Matthias’ blog post

Thanks, Things to Celebrate, and anything else#

2017-11-26#

Organization highlights#

  • Created new Twitter and Google group: mybinderteam

  • Binder 2.0 blog posts nearly ready, Chris has been awesome wrangling this, lots of little things left to do, please help, jupyterhub/binder#22

Open issues#

Thanks, Things to Celebrate, and anything else#

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