2i2c + Berkeley


James Colliander
Cofounder

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Berkeley Tech Strategy Meeting
2021-10-21

slides: bit.ly/2i2c-progress

  1. Berkeley is unique
  2. 2i2c progress
  3. What's next?
  4. Berkeley + 2i2c?

Berkeley is unique.

Raise your hand if you've worked for 5+ years at another university.

History of Cal

Features

  • Faculty-led university: Budget Committee; Faculty Senate
  • Collegial governance \(\leftrightarrow\) Academic freedom
  • Grows its own instead of buying its talent
  • Berkeley mission is a call to public service

Berkeley's success grows within this unique context.

Progress

gantt
    axisFormat  %Y-%m
    title 2i2c Timeline
    section What's next?
    TOPS    : 2023-01-01, 2023-11-19
    Partnerships? : 2022-01-15, 2023-11-19
    alpha product/pricing : 2021-11-01, 2022-06-30
    First sales revenue    : 2021-10-01, 2d
    section Creation
    CSS:     2021-09-30, 2023-11-19
    Initial Team : 2020-11-19, 2023-11-19
    CZI awards $1.4M : 2020-11-19, 2023-11-19
    Hello World!    : 2020-11-07, 3d
    ICSI    : 2020-08-15, 2021-09-29
    Director Holdgraf    : 2020-06-07, 2d
    Founder's MoU    : 2020-06-07, 2d
    section Consultation
    Skydeck Presentation    : 2020-02-25, 2d
    MSDSE Presentation      :2019-11-07  , 2d
    Jupyter Blog Post      : 2019-08-22, 2d

37 pilot hubs

  • nonprofits
  • universities
  • institutes
  • liberal arts colleges
  • community colleges
  • California initiative
  • Cloudbank collaboration
  • word-of-mouth demand

What's next?

Pricing Rationale

  • $250K/engineer, salary + benefits + admin
  • 20 hubs-per-engineer
  • fraction of an FTE vs. cost to self-host
  • values-based mission alignment

Alpha offering

Hub Type fee/month fee-with-dedicated-cluster/month
Education $1,000 $1,500
Research $1,500 $2,250
Partnership Let's talk! Let's talk!

Partnerships?

What will these look like?

Transform to Open Science (TOPS)

TOPS logo

TOPS

A new communications medium?

  • The web, so far, delivers remote reading of documents.
  • Jupyter ecosystem goes beyond the DOM.
  • Berkeley should define the new medium.
    • student + teacher relationship?
    • future of research publications?
    • data-informed citizens?

Berkeley + 2i2c?

  • Use 2i2c orchestration for Berkeley hubs
  • Split FTEs
  • Help define partnership; template MoU
  • Anchor communities of practice

Thank you!

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