JupyterHub at JupyterCon 2025

[KirstieJane]

Hi folks!

I'm chairing the outreach and engagement committee for JupyterCon 2025 so you're about to see me do lots of outreach to say "hey - do you want to submit a talk / workshop at JupyterCon!?!"

(In fact, you could boost these linkedin and bluesky posts if you'd like to!)

AND - related - what presentations would we like to share from the JupyterHub community?

A few suggestions from me - but PLEASE add more!

• Voices of JupyterHub presentation - this could either be a submission from Organizational Mycology as they did the work OR from @choldgraf as PI or me as Co-I or [insert other options here!]
• Binder tutorial / workshop - I haven't been part of delivering a Binder workshop for a long time BUT they were so fun and enjoyable when @sgibson91 originated them with The Turing Way.... maybe worth re-upping? - @sgibson91 - you'd be great for this but I'm not sure if a California trip is on the cards for November? Any other suggested presenters who would like to come?
• JupyterHub for campus data science education - @ryanlovett? What about you giving that talk? Or nominating someone else 😁
• @minrk / @consideRatio / @yuvipanda - is there a technical topic that would be fun to cover? Maybe if we have other talks that are hitting a broader audience around community and the users there could also be a talk that's a deep dive into something thorny / new?
• @maryamv - a JupyterHealth presentation? I think that's already in the works ⚕ ⭐

The most important thing to note here is that 1) if you're a speaker you don't have to pay registration so that's a great reason to get a CfP in, and 2) this is a great opportunity to get a few "calls to action" and invitations to contribute out to an interested audience!

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Update on the day of the deadline 😂

Here's a list of our submissions! They're all SO GOOD!

• Dan, Beth and Jonah: JupyterHub at JupyterCon 2025 #788 (comment)
  • Are the 🍄 🕸️ folks comfortable providing the additional details? Title, speaker list, which type of talk etc?
• Yuvi: Rebuilding user trust in mybinder.org
• Arielle & Dan: JupyterHub User Workshop See also Users of JupyterHub workshop at JupyterCon 2025 #794
• Yuvi: Can your JupyterHub handle your workload? Performance testing with jupyterhub-simulator
• Yuvi: Not just for notebooks: JupyterHub in 2025

Were there any others? @balajialg - did you submit anything on A11y?

(I'm going to put in one for JupyterBook: Build-a-Jupyter Book with The Turing Way)

[ryanlovett]

@KirstieJane I think "JupyterHub for campus data science education" has become so widely adopted that a talk on it would seem familiar. (to the credit of jupyterhub's/z2jh's devs)

A couple of alternatives:

• @balajialg has been leading a student team to develop https://github.com/berkeley-dsep-infra/jupyterlab-a11y-checker which aims to help notebook authors create more accessible notebooks.
• @cboettig has been doing some interesting things with JupyterHub on The National Research Platform. @fperez is thinking about adapting Carl's work for a class starting in Fall.

I think a talk about https://github.com/2i2c-org/jupyterhub-fancy-profiles from someone at 2i2c would be cool. It can put more control of hub singleuser resources and environments into the hands of facilitators and instructors. At Berkeley we think it will be useful in being able to launch course-isolated environments on shared hubs. (like LMSes)

[KirstieJane]

Really love both of these ideas @ryanlovett ! Thank you!

@balajialg - would you like to submit a talk to JupyterCon?

@cboettig - are you able to attend? Is there a good deputy if not? This is also something that folks at 2i2c might be able to present about as we're hoping it will be part of BIDS membership of 2i2c 😺

[balajialg]

Thanks a lot, @ryanlovett for the recommendation. Appreciate it! @KirstieJane Yes, I can submit a proposal for the talk as soon as possible. Thanks!

[KirstieJane]

Yay!! That's great news @balajialg - thank you!

[cboettig]

@KirstieJane not sure I can make it with my teaching schedule but looking into it!

[minrk]

These are all great suggestions. I'd especially love if the voices of JupyterHub work had a slot. I'd like to make that work as visible as we can.

[bduckles]

OM would be very interested in doing a talk at JupyterCon. Let us know what the best next step would be.

@jduckles and @dsholler

[yuvipanda]

I think it would be super important for the voices of jupyterhub to have a slot!

[dsholler]

FYI, here are the proposal components we submitted. Feedback is welcome up to the submission deadline (the proposals are editable until submission time, which is so great!). Also please correct me if this should be its own issue somewhere else, etiquette is hard.

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PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

This presentation highlights the successes and challenges of JupyterHub by telling the story of the project in the words of its community members. We synthesized findings from interviews with and observations of the community to build a set of recommendations and future activities that aim to improve contributor pathways, support the sustainability of the project, and enhance the wellbeing of its core team.

In just over 10 years, JupyterHub has grown from an experimental tool that reduces technical barriers via web based interfaces to a resource used by computing teams at top research innovation centers. These impacts are attributable to the small team of contributors and maintainers, working with a shared vision and purpose but little formal structure.

These impacts have not come without challenges and growing pains. Building on work funded by CZI and in the broader Jupyter Community Building Working Group, a team from Organizational Mycology and The Turing Way conducted interviews with members of the JupyterHub community, including project leaders, contributors, maintainers, and users. Insights from the interviews provided the materials from which the report is constructed.

BENEFITS TO THE ECOSYSTEM

We aim to help JupyterHub community members use these findings as a springboard for a set of three to four community initiatives that will help drive the community forward. This report serves as the “raw materials” for those initiatives, so that they are able to take into account the historical context and community “growing pains” that have been expressed in interviews and elsewhere. The focus of that work will be to energize the community and find ways in which JupyterHub, despite the complexity of its codebase, can be more inviting to new contributors and foster a diverse, inclusive environment. An additional goal will be to scaffold project systems and processes that can support and sustain the project for the long-term.

Through a combination of discussions about the report’s findings, facilitated workshops, asynchronous sprints, and community events, we will catalyze efforts to address a list of issues currently facing the community:

Roadmap Development and Review
Community Metrics & Health
Contributor Onboarding
User/Deployer Engagement
Development of Mission, Vision, and Strategic Planning
Documentation
Repository Auditing
Review and Development of the JupyterHub Team Compass
Community-building Meetups

Our goal is to generalize the results of the interview work and community initiatives to provide resources that help other Jupyter subprojects and the broader open source software community engage in similar project introspection and community development efforts. With some project-specific tailoring and implementation, we believe the general approach and outcomes of this work can be beneficial to other OSS groups seeking to make their projects more welcoming, inclusive, and sustainable.

[KirstieJane]

Hi team! I'd like the BIDS interns to contribute to capturing these abstract submissions in this repository. So tagging @TylerGHawthorne and @kcheng0222 and @jkarah-2.

The steps to close this issue are:

1. Collect all the JupyterHub related submissions together (I'll make a start in the top level of this issue).
2. Identify which folder in this repository to store them - I'm honestly not super sure what the right answer is here. I think at the moment the docs say to put these sorts of text in a google drive... but I think they'll be more discoverable if they're in a markdown format somewhere? So tagging @minrk, @choldgraf and @yuvipanda (but everyone is welcome to weigh in here!)
3. Harmonise all the submissions to whatever format and location is agreed in step 2. Do not include all the notes and any parts of the plan that were not part of the final submission. Those can continue to live in planning documents as they already do. Drop email addresses but keep speaker names.
4. Open a PR to have them reviewed and merged.

A quick note here that one of the NEXT steps that I'd like the interns to work on is to write up a blog post for JupyterHub that we'll cross post to the BIDS blog summarising all the different topics 😄 So being able to link to the submissions from the blog will be really helpful.

If folks don't want to advertise the submissions and only celebrate the ones that are accepted then please comment here.... I think we should be mega confident in all these ideas though - they're freaking excellent!