Announcement | 2i2c

BIDS joins the mybinder.org federation with help from 2i2c

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has joined the mybinder.org federation, contributing a new node alongside 2i2c and GESIS. BIDS is the birthplace of mybinder.org, so it’s great to see them back as an active federation member.

We helped out with development, setup, and operations for the new federation member on OVH. Here’s the initiative we just closed out ».

This is a win for the resilience of mybinder.org - the BIDS node runs on a different cloud provider than the existing nodes, reducing the risk that a single provider outage takes down the whole service.

Read the full details on the Jupyter blog.

Introducing Jupyter Book 2 at FOSDEM 2026

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our teammate Angus Hollands gave a talk at FOSDEM 2026: Introducing Jupyter Book 2.

The talk shares why the Jupyter Book 2 and MyST stack was rebuilt, and how it supports open, reusable computational publishing workflows.

Slide from the FOSDEM 2026 session introducing Jupyter Book 2.

Learn more #

Acknowledgements #

Thanks to Project Pythia and to BIDS for supporting deeper foundational contributions like this in Jupyter Book.
Thanks to the Jupyter Book team for helping out with slide creation and doing all the work Angus spoke about here!

Adding User Group Insights to Cloud Cost Dashboards with Grafana

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce that we have extended our cloud cost dashboards to support display costs filtered by user groups using Grafana! This new feature allows administrators to monitor and manage cloud expenses based on user group memberships in JupyterHub.

Available for dedicated AWS clusters only (and excluding CloudBank managed accounts). Other deployments on GCP will be supported in the future.

Learn more #

Take a look at the Community Hub Guide to see what’s new
Check out the documentation of the 2i2c-org/jupyterhub-cost-monitoring project to see how it all works
Jenny recently presented her work on the cost monitoring system at JupyterCon 2025 earlier this month. Watch a video or look at the slides.

Give us feedback! Click here to provide feedback that will help us make this more impactful.

Acknowledgements #

Tarashish @ Development Seed for collaborating on this project with us.
NASA VEDA and the DSE Team at NASA MSFC ODSI for funding much of this work.
Kyle Lesinger from the NASA MSFC Office of Data Science and Informatics for providing valuable feedback and bug reports during development.

BIDS joins as 2i2c's first premier member organization

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We’re thrilled to announce that the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has joined as 2i2c’s first premier member organization! This partnership marks a significant milestone in our sustainability strategy and recognizes a relationship that’s been central to 2i2c’s story from the very beginning.

BIDS Executive Director Kirstie Whitaker and 2i2c Executive Director Chris Holdgraf discuss the partnership at the membership launch event.

What this partnership means #

As our founding premier member, BIDS is financially supporting 2i2c while helping us design our member network services and relationships. Together, we’ll work on:

Co-designing member services - BIDS will provide feedback and guidance as we develop how our member network operates
Technical collaboration - Partnering on JupyterHub development, cloud infrastructure improvements, and other open source projects
Strategic input - Advising on 2i2c’s direction and approach to strengthening open source communities

This gives us a foundation for both technical and social collaboration, and we hope it opens doors to deeper partnerships across the Berkeley community.

Berkeley has long been a leader in open source software development. This partnership lets us share our knowledge and support community development of open source infrastructure across institutions.

Kirstie Whitaker, BIDS Executive Director

Why we’re excited about this #

For open source: BIDS has been a leader in supporting open source and cross-disciplinary open science for many years - helping to shape projects like NumPy, scikit-image, NetworkX, and JupyterHub. Their feedback and partnership will help us improve our impact across the entire ecosystem.

For sustainability: This is the first paying member of our new membership model, which is a key part of our long-term sustainability strategy. It demonstrates that organizations value what we’re building and want to invest in shared open source infrastructure.

For 2i2c: BIDS has been part of our story from the beginning, and this partnership recognizes the continuing influence and support we’ve received from the organization.

Learn more #

Read the full announcements from our partners:

Acknowledgements #

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the entire BIDS team
UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Celebrating BIDS as 2i2c's first premier member at UC Berkeley

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We’re celebrating BIDS (the Berkeley Institute for Data Science) as 2i2c’s first premier member at an event at UC Berkeley on Thursday, October 15th. If you’re in the Berkeley area, we’d love for you to join us! Event page here.

This is a milestone for 2i2c and demonstrates BIDS’s commitment to open infrastructure and partnership. As our first premier member under our new membership model, BIDS is helping us build a more sustainable path forward while strengthening our collaboration for shared impact in open science.

Learn more #

Acknowledgements #

Thanks to The Navigation Fund for funding the strategic roles that have led to this new membership model.

Openscapes is hiring a new team member

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Openscapes is hiring a NASA Openscapes Suborbital Team Member to engage with NASA suborbital science teams and support open science practices. This is a part-time contract position (20 hrs/week) starting as early as December 1, 2025, with a 6-month initial term and potential for extension. The position is fully remote ($100/hr) with applications due by October 26, 2025.

Learn more #

Openscapes job posting

Acknowledgements #

Openscapes for their continued work in empowering the research community