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# Jupyter Community Call 1/26

**Date:** January 26, 2021, at 9am Pacific (your [timezone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/Los%20Angeles/2021-01-26/9:00/Jupyter%20Community%20Call))

**Video-conference link:** https://zoom.us/my/jovyan?pwd=c0JZTHlNdS9Sek9vdzR3aTJ4SzFTQT09

**Discourse:** https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-community-calls/668

**Please note:**
- Community calls are recorded and posted to this [playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUrHeD2K9Cmkoamm4NjLmvXC4Y6E1o8SP)
- These notes will be recorded and posted [here](https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/community-call-notes/index.html)
- Everyone present is held to the [Jupyter Code of Conduct](https://jupyter.org/conduct)

**Welcome!**

If you are joining the Jupyter Community Call, sign in below so we know who was here.

| Name | Institution | GitHub Handle |
|--------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| Ross Stokoe | Refinitiv | @RR11WK |
| Julien Hoarau | Refinitiv | @julienhoarau |
| Greg Olmstead | Refinitiv | @maynardflies |
| Josias De Lima | Refinitiv | @JoshDL |
| Loic Huder | ESRF | @loichuder |
| Thorin Tabor | UCSD | @tmtabor |
| Gonzalo Gasca Meza | Google | @gogasca |
| Frédéric Collonval | ARIADNEXT | @fcollonval |
| Layne Sadler | free agent | @aiqc |
| Corentin Cadiou | University College London | @cphyc |
| Nick Bollweg | Proj. Jupyter, GTRI, Deathbeds| @bollwyvl @nrbgt @deathbeds |
| Wayne Decatur | Upstate Medical Universtity | @fomightez |
| Zach Sailer | Apple | @Zsailer |
| Simon Li | University of Dundee | @manics |
| Raman Tehlan | nteract, StockGro | @ramantehlan |
| Pete Blois | Google Colab | @blois |
| Ryan Spencer | GTRI | @ryspnc |
| A. T. Darian | Two Sigma | @afshin |
| Carol Willing | Noteable / Jupyter | @willingc |
| Karla Spuldaro | IBM | @karlaspuldaro |
| Martha Cryan | IBM | @marthacryan
| Isabela Presedo-Floyd | Quansight Labs | @isabela-pf
## Purpose

Think of it as a monthly, virtual JupyterCon. It’s a place to announce and share fun things happening in the Jupyter community.

For more discussion on the format of these calls, see the thread [here](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/reviving-the-all-jupyter-team-meetings/423).

## Short reports, celebrations, shout-outs

This is a place to make short announcements (without a need for discussion).

* **Frédéric Collonval** To improve visibility and group volunteer time on maintenance of popular JupyterLab extensions, a unofficial GitHub organization has been created: [jupyterlab-contrib](https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib).
* **Isabela Presedo-Floyd** In case you missed it, JupyterLab 3.0 is out! Congrats to the community and thanks for all the hard work that went into this release.
* **Isabela Presedo-Floyd** I've seen a resurgence of community interest in making multiple Jupyter projects accessible. This is awesome! We also have a group of people meeting every other week to coordinate JupyterLab accessibility work (and talk about accessibility in general) that you can join from the [community calendar](https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/content-community.html#jupyter-community-meetings).
* **Layne Sadler** Plotly updated jupyter-dash labextension for 3.0 and vows to prebuild. [issue](https://github.com/plotly/jupyter-dash/issues/49)

## Agenda Items

* **Nick Bollweg** [jupyterlab-lsp 3.2](https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlab-lsp/) on `pypi` & `conda-forge`. JupyterLab :three:. :eight: _[Language Client](https://langserver.org)_ features. Ju(lia)+Py(thon)+R _Language Servers_+_Kernel_+_Notebook_, plus [more](https://jupyterlab-lsp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Language%20Servers.html). [Pre-JEP Issue](https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/issues/67) to move towards an official sub-project 🚀.
* **Nick Bollweg** (_or someone better :muscle:_) [JupyterLab 2.3.0rc0](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/blame/2.3.x/docs/source/getting_started/changelog.rst#L6-L12) is a performance-focused prerelease, on `pypi`/`conda-forge`, these features will land in 3.1. Ready for [testing](https://github.com/robots-from-jupyter/robotframework-jupyterlibrary/pull/34)!
* **Frédéric Collonval**: Leverage JupyterLab modularity to customize the UI with a alternative [launcher](https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib/jlab-enhanced-launcher) and a [cell toolbar](https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib/jlab-enhanced-cell-toolbar) - demonstrate easier distribution thanks to JLab3.
* **Corentin Cadiou**: presentation of [ipysphaghetti](https://github.com/cphyc/node_editor) (name not settled yet) a JLab (3+) extension implementing a node-based approach to interact with your data.
* **Thorin Tabor:** Notebook Projects, a mechanism for encapsulating multiple user environments in a JupyterHub instance

## Other Links Shared

- Take the [Jupyter survey](https://blog.jupyter.org/survey-jupyterlab-and-beyond-88c7fbd27a79)!
- some nteract links after @raman's pre-demo:
- https://docs.nteract.io/getting-started-with-nteract/
- https://github.com/nteract/nteract
- semi-related "instant-on" compute/notebooks
- [jyve](https://deathbeds.github.io/jyve/lab/), static JupyterLab build
- [pyodide](https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide), full CPython in the browser
- hackmd's FOSS flavor is now [HedgeDoc](https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc)
- we need a Hub/Lab Extension :hedgehog:
- "run cells with tags"
- from `cell-toolbar` demo
- could this be supported in multiple clients, e.g. _JupyterLab Notebook_ UI and `nbclient`/`nbconvert` CLI
- workflows with (some) Jupyter integration
- [cylc](https://github.com/cylc/cylc-ui/issues/90)
- [dask](https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/graphs.html)
- [dagster](https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster) ([binder](https://gist.github.com/bollwyvl/0fe7a6f89251992ab1a542ac2b4051c4))
- [openmdao](https://github.com/OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO)
- [prefect](https://stories.dask.org/en/latest/prefect-workflows.html)
- [GenePattern](https://github.com/genepattern)and [GenePatternNotebook](https://notebook.genepattern.org/#gsc.tab=0)
- [Integrative Genetics Viewer](http://software.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/) and their [Jupyter extension](https://github.com/igvteam/igv-jupyter)

## Q/A

> **As a company, how do we start contributing?**
> - @willingc follow the projects that seem most within your team's wheelhouse
> - Visit the Jupyter [Discourse](https://discourse.jupyter.org/) and [community calendar](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-community-calendar/2485)!
> - @jasongrout JupyterLab [4.0 release plans](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/9647) are underway. There may be items there, or things you want to contribute.
> - translations always welcome! Check [CrowdIn](https://crowdin.com/project/jupyterlab) for more info.
> - [corporate guidance](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/blob/master/CORPORATE.md)
> - [team compass](https://github.com/jupyterlab/team-compass) is where many of these larger discussions may happen.
> - @jupyter/notebook is very starved for resources
> - has a weekly meeting just trying to keep the issue count down.
> - many are low-touch to at least get triaged
> - really any help welcome
> - @isabela-pf accessibility on all projects.
> - We have been starting with JupyterLab Components, etc. Notes for our meetings and all current team work live in [this issue](https://github.com/jupyterlab/team-compass/issues/98)
> - And documentation in [pydata-sphinx-theme](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pydata-sphinx-theme/pull/294) (upstream of `jupyter-book`, etc.)

> **What would you like to see in community calls?**
> - Overview of JupterLab 3
> -