New committee announcement

Project Jupyter is happy to share some exciting news in key efforts to connect the global Jupyter community. First, we’d like to introduce a new committee that was created to act on behalf of the Project Jupyter Steering Council with the objective of growing, building, and connecting the global Jupyter community of users and contributors. You can learn more about the Jupyter Community Building committee here.

We’re hiring!

We are hiring a Jupyter Community Events Manager to help manage Jupyter Community Workshops and the JupyterCon conference. Check out the blog post about the position at NumFOCUS blog.

Jupyter Community Workshops

The Jupyter Community Workshop program has been an outstanding success in bringing together small groups of Jupyter community members and core contributors for high-impact strategic work and community engagement on focused topics. Community members have hosted 11 community workshops since 2018 exploring using Jupyter in specific disciplines (education, scientific facilities with supercomputers), promoting Jupyter around the world (Hawaii, South America, D.R. Congo), and developing core Jupyter projects and attracting new contributors (Jupyter server, Jupyter widgets, Jupyter kernels, nbgrader, Voilà).

Many more workshops were in planning stages when the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly paused in-person gatherings globally in March, 2020. All workshops were put on hold until 2021, and organizers are currently working through how to best proceed in the still-uncertain environment around global in-person gatherings (for example, scheduling far into the future, or moving to a virtual gathering). Two upcoming workshops have been scheduled for 2022 (on accessibility in Jupyter and Jupyter in musculoskeletal research), and more workshops are in the planning stages. Stay tuned for more details.

JupyterCon

In 2017 and 2018, our first two global user conferences were made possible through a grant from the Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust and a partnership with O’Reilly Media and NumFOCUS.

Unlike in 2017 and 2018, JupyterCon 2020 was entirely led by the community. Together with NumFOCUS, a team of community volunteers made the event possible, despite the enormous challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 170 tutorials, talks, and posters, and over 700 attendees, JupyterCon 2020 was a huge success. We are incredibly grateful to all the volunteers who worked on the conference and to all the participants for their contributions.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to our generous sponsors! These community building efforts, including the hiring of an Event Manager, is made possible through significant donations from our partners at Bloombergand AWS.

About the Authors

This post was written by the Jupyter Community Building Committee, currently composed of Ana Ruvalcaba, Jason Grout, and Sylvain Corlay.