Jupyter Community Workshops
Bloomberg is a long-time partner and supporter of Project Jupyter. Earlier this year Bloomberg announced funding of $120,000 to enable Project Jupyter to host a series of Jupyter Workshops in 2018. These workshops will bring together small groups, approximately 12 to 24 people,) of Jupyter community members and core contributors for high-impact strategic work and community engagement on focused topics.
Much of Jupyter’s work is accomplished through remote, online collaboration; yet, over the years, we have found deep value in focused in-person work over a few days. These in-person events are particularly useful for tackling challenging development and design projects, growing the community of contributors, and strengthening collaborations.
We are now soliciting proposals for Jupyter Workshops for 2018. We are particularly interested in workshops that explore and address topics of strategic importance for the future of Jupyter. We expect the workshops to involve 1–2 dozen participants over a 2–3 day period, and have a total Jupyter-funded budget of approximately $10,000 to $20,000, which may help cover expenses such as travel, lodging, meals, or event space. It is our intent for the workshops to include both participants who are core Jupyter contributors, as well as stakeholders and contributors and potential contributors within the larger Jupyter ecosystem. While not the primary focus of the workshops, it would be highly beneficial to couple the workshop with broader community outreach events, such as sprints, talks, or tutorials, at local meetings or conferences.
An excellent example of a successful, sponsored workshop is the Jupyter Widgets Workshop organized by Sylvain Corlay in February 2018. This workshop brought together the core developers of Jupyter Widgets and JupyterLab, community members developing libraries on top of widgets and JupyterLab, and new collaborators wanting to learn how to contribute to development, design, and documentation. After the workshop, a participant gave a JupyterLab introduction at the PyData Paris Meetup.
Another workshop idea would be to bring together the core maintainers of the Jupyter Kernel Message Protocol, developers of different third-party Jupyter kernels, and other interested collaborators to chart the future of this protocol to add different programming languages, debugging, and enhancements. While the maintainers of different Jupyter subprojects are likely to propose workshops, we are hoping that others in the community will propose and organize workshops as well.
The proposal process for these Jupyter Workshops is being managed by the Jupyter Operations Manager, Ana Ruvalcaba ([email protected]), and the Steering Council. Applications are due by August 1, 2018 and our vision is that these events would occur anywhere from September to December of 2018. We encourage you to submit a proposal and complete the following Google Form.
This initiative is organized by Jason Grout, Paul Ivanov, Brian Granger, and Ana Ruvalcaba.
