Jupyter Newsletter 11•February 28, 2017
Announcing JupyterCon
JupyterCon
In partnership with NumFOCUS and O’Reilly Media we’re excited to announce an open call for presenters for JupyterCon, our first global conference. The event will be held in NYC from August 23 to August 25, 2017. The submission period for talks is open through March 7 and we are committed to supporting you in all stages of the speaker proposal process. Whether you’d like early advice on whether your topic/idea is a good fit for the conference, or feedback on your abstract before you make your submission, our program committee is available to help. Feel free to contact us at speakers@jupyter.org with any questions or requests for feedback. To stay up to date with the latest news follow the event on Twitter @JupyterCon and remember to use the hashtag #jupytercon when posting about the event through social media.
State of Jupyter January 2017
Are you interested in learning more about how Project Jupyter came to be and where we’re headed? Take a look at a recent post by Fernando Perez and Brian Granger that outlines the state of Jupyter.
Openness, Diversity and Dignity: a Foundation for Global Collaboration
On January 31, the Jupyter Steering Council released a statement confirming a strong commitment to the principles of equality and non-discrimination for all, regardless of creed or national origin. To read the full text of the statement visit our blog.
Pachyderm’s newest release allows Jupyter users to collaborate on versioned data and debug distributed data pipelines
The latest release, 1.3, of the open source system Pachyderm enables users to attach Jupyter notebooks to versioned data that is part of distributed data pipelines. This allows users to deploy distributed data processing in the form of DAG pipelines and, with Jupyter, interactively debug unexpected behavior, develop new pipeline stages, and visualize data at any point in the DAG. It also provides a chronologically ordered record of data (because Pachyderm data is versioned like “git for data”), which can promote collaborative use of Jupyter within an organization on shared and versioned data sets.
Featured Community Members
Stacey Dorton is the administrative assistant for Jupyter, rOpenSci, and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, serving as their Office Jedi. She is an administrative professional with 20 years’ experience in office management and extensive experience in event management & social media.
Stacey is also a disability activist, running a Bay Area support group for multiple sclerosis patients (Fight Club), and she frequently gives speeches on disability awareness. She is also a native of the Oakland/Berkeley area and a graduate of UC Berkeley (class of ’95) with a degree in women’s studies. GO BEARS!
Afshin Darian is a software engineer at Continuum Analytics. In addition to his contributions to Project Jupyter, primarily on JupyterLab, he actively contributes to open-source projects in the JavaScript and Go (Golang) communities. Darian holds degrees in philosophy and medieval history. You can find him on GitHub as @afshin and @ursiform. His blog is at: http://darian.af
Upcoming event
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE17), February 27–March 3, 2017 Atlanta, GA. Min Ragan-Kelley from Simula Research Laboratory, Norway and core Jupyter developer will present both a poster and a tutorial.
