Update for 2023 Q1

[choldgraf]

We should provide an update about what we've been up to in 2023 to our team and our external stakeholders.

Example structure

• Short summary
• Highlights
  • Community and Partnerships
  • Engineering
  • Org-wide
• Financial report for 2i2c
• Major upcoming goals
  • Community+Partnerships
  • Engineering
  • Org-wide

Actions

Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Update our financial KPIs board with the new CS&S structure #688
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2. Prepare a Q2 2023 financial report for the team #720
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3. Get highlights and upcoming goals from engineering / community+partnerships
4. Record a short video of our financial situation to share with the team (video link)
5. https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/555
6. Add blog post for Q1 2023 update 2i2c-org.github.io#155
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7. Post to our mailing list

[choldgraf]

A few blog posts

• Yuvi blog post about active users: https://blog.jupyter.org/accurately-counting-daily-weekly-monthly-active-users-on-jupyterhub-6fbec6c6ce2f
• CILogon: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/security-made-simple-with-ncsas-cilogon/
• OpenScapes: https://www.openscapes.org/blog/2022/11/17/nasa-earthdata-cloud-infrastructure/#cloud-optimized-data-formats

[damianavila]

What is the deadline for contributing content?

[choldgraf]

Let's say in one week, so Wednesday, April 5th. For content, what is most useful would be 1-3 of the most notable things that have happened, as well as short links to any issues/PRs/websites/blog posts/etc that you'd like to highlight.

[choldgraf]

CZI talk:

• https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/458

[damianavila]

Engineering

NOTE: This is just a subjective and short list of things we have done during Q1. I am probably forgetting a few things and purposely avoiding very granular stuff. Complete information about what we have done lives in the Sprint board for each of our sprints (1-6).

Several new hubs:

• [Request deployment] New Hub: researchdelight infrastructure#1949
• [Request deployment] New Hub: UToronto R Hub infrastructure#1961
• [Request deployment] New Hub: demo-drakkar infrastructure#2049
• [Request deployment] New Hub: NASA VEDA Hub infrastructure#2017
• [Request deployment] New Hub: QCL aka QuantifiedCarbon infrastructure#2118
• and several new cloudbank-based hubs.

Events:

• [EVENT] OceanHackWeek February 27 - March 3 infrastructure#2108

Migration from Auth0 into CILogon

• [blog] 2i2c CILogon integration summary #621
• Simplify our authentication workflow by migrating all communities to CILogon authenticator and away from Auth0 infrastructure#1304

Improving support process:

• https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/452

Maintenance:

• Upgrading the underlying kubernetes version
  • Upgrade openscapes AWS EKS k8s version 1.21 to 1.24 infrastructure#2125
  • Document procedure and migrate existing AWS EKS based hubs from k8s 1.21+ to 1.24+ infrastructure#2057
• Improvements in the deployer
  • Change deployer sub-scripts into deployer actions infrastructure#1472
  • Remove all config generation in the deployer infrastructure#1925
• uptime check optimizations
  • Revise uptime check configuration as exceed free quota infrastructure#2320
• sharing nodes optimizations
  • Transition LEAP cloud infra to use shared nodes infrastructure#2209

Fulfilling support-related requests such as:

• Publicly accessible bucket
  • Setup a publicly accessible bucket that hub users can write to infrastructure#2123
• Enable GitHub authentication to our Grafana dashboards for all dedicated clusters
  • Enable GitHub authentication to our Grafana dashboards for all *dedicated* clusters infrastructure#1827

New engineers and manager:

• Onboarding Erik #595 (Erik)
• Onboarding Pris Nasrat #651 (Pris)
• [Proposal] Damian as engineering manager #670 (Damián)

Docs improvements:

• Rewrite our documentation structure page infrastructure#2055

GESIS-related work:

• Overview of technical work planned for the GESIS collaboration infrastructure#2120
• https://github.com/2i2c-org/binderhub-service/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

[choldgraf]

Thanks @damianavila, this is great. @colliand and @jmunroe please share your updates ASAP. (it doesn't need to be as large as the one above!)

[colliand]

Partnerships

Grants and RFI submissions

• https://github.com/2i2c-org/leads/issues/111
• https://github.com/2i2c-org/leads/issues/113
• https://github.com/2i2c-org/leads/issues/116

Workflow

• https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/478

New Partnerships

• [Request deployment] New Hub: Smithsonian infrastructure#2323
• [Request deployment] New Hub: QCL aka QuantifiedCarbon infrastructure#2118
• [Request deployment] New Hub: CosmicDS/Harvard infrastructure#2128
• [EVENT] OceanHackWeek February 27 - March 3 infrastructure#2108

Presentation

• https://github.com/2i2c-org/demos/blob/main/Events/2023-03-06-UC-Merced/intro-to-2i2c.ipynb

[choldgraf]

Hey all - I am sifting through the list above and wanted to note a few things that we should reflect on in the coming months. This is mostly just me reflecting and generating some data, I am not sure what actions to take next but wanted to get the ideas written down. I've captured them in the retrospective issue linked below:

• https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/555

[choldgraf]

Blog post draft is up

Here's a PR with a blog post draft:

• Add blog post for Q1 2023 update 2i2c-org.github.io#155

I'm happy to iterate with feedback from folks this week if others have thoughts, otherwise will plan to post at the end of the week.