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Open Toolchain

Canadian Open Data Society Board meeting

2021-08-27

People, with the right data, tools and resources, can do good things working together.

People, with the right data, tools and resources, can do good things working together.

James Colliander

  • Professor of Mathematics: UBC
  • Cofounder: 2i2c, Callysto, Syzygy, Crowdmark
  • Past Director (2016-2021): PIMS

Background

PIMS: Distributed Mathematical Sciences Institute

Inspirations

Jupyter

Jessica Hamrick's Post

hamrick

Data 8 at Berkeley

data8

Pangeo

Crowdmark

Partners

Compute Canada

Cybera

Idea: Jupyter for 🇨🇦

Development History

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    title Timeline

    section Syzygy
    23 universities, 10 research teams: 2020-02-25, 25d
    25,000 users : 2020-01-01, 25d
    16,000 users : 2019-08-22, 25d
    8,000 users : 2017-08-24, 25d
    Syzygy service announcement : 2017-03-15, 25d
    PIMS + Compute Canada Agreement : 2016-06-02, 25d
    Compute Canada Discussions : 2015-12-03, 2016-06-01
    Jessica Hamrick's Post : 2015-03-24, 25d
    JupyterHub for 🇨🇦 idea : 2015-02-01, 90d
    
    section Callysto
    CanCode 2.0 🇨🇦 $1.5M : 2019-10-15, 25d
    Callysto content creation : 2018-05-01, 2018-08-31
    CanCode 1.0 🇨🇦 $1.5M : 2018-01-30, 25d
    Callysto Launched: 2017-10-01, 25d

Syzygy

syzygy

Callysto

Examples

Lessons Learned

  • Research and education transforming
  • Demand can be met with cloud strategy
  • Scaling programs like Data 8 requires infrastructure

Sustainable business model?

2i2c

International Interactive Computing Collaboration

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