Our Collaborators | 2i2c

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that supports research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics.

Grants from this funder #

Executable Books Project: Grant funding to develop tools for building beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational content, including Jupyter Book and MyST Markdown

Berkeley Institute for Data Science

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The Berkeley Institute for Data Science is a research institute at UC Berkeley that advances data science education, research, and open source development.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a philanthropic organization that supports open source software development and scientific research to advance human health and education.

BlueSky: @cziscience.bsky.social

Grants from this funder #

Core Support (2021): 2i2c receives core support from CZI - ~$1.4M over three years to establish 2i2c’s foundational operations
Extended Support (2024): Support from CZI to sustain 2i2c’s mission - ~$700K over one year for continued operations
CZI Global Communities Grant (2022): New project: Open science cloud infrastructure and training for communities in Latin America and Africa - Support for international collaborative programs

CIROH

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CIROH (Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology) is a NOAA-funded institute hosted by the Alabama Water Institute at the University of Alabama. CIROH advances national water prediction capabilities through research and technology transfer. 2i2c operates JupyterHub infrastructure for the CIROH community, supporting hydrological research and training across their consortium of partner institutions.

Cloudbank

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CAL-ICOR is a “Browser-based Interactive Programming and Data Science Platform for Every California Student”. It gives educators and institutions a shared, scalable JupyterHub platform that removes hardware barriers, supports modern data science instruction, and expands access across the state.

From their website:

The California Interactive Computing Open Resource (Cal-ICOR) initiative is a statewide effort to expand high-quality, accessible data science education across the University of California, California State University, and California Community College systems. Led by UC Berkeley and supported by the California Education Learning Lab, Cal-ICOR builds shared infrastructure, curriculum, and instructor support that lower the barriers to offering data-enabled learning, no matter the size, resources, or technical capacity of an institution.

Our mission is simple: ensure that every student in California has access to the tools, skills, and learning environments that prepare them for data-rich careers and civic participation.

Cloudbank

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Cloudbank enables and provides “anaged Services to Simplify Cloud Access for Computer Science Research and Education”.

In particular, the CloudBank Classroom project is driving a lot of collaboration with 2i2c via our shared work on JupyterHubs for education.

Code for Science and Society

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Code for Science & Society is a nonprofit organization that serves as fiscal sponsor for open science projects and empowers communities to build innovative technology for the public good.

CryoCloud

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CryoCloud is a collaborative cloud platform designed to accelerate discovery and enhance collaboration for NASA Cryosphere communities. CryoCloud provides cloud-based computational tools, shared resources, and educational materials to support researchers studying ice-related environments and climate systems.

Development Seed

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Development Seed is a data and software engineering company that specializes in using satellite imagery, machine learning, and open data.

EarthScope Consortium

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EarthScope Consortium is a university-based organization that supports transformative global geophysical research and education. They operate NSF’s GAGE and SAGE Facilities, providing geophysical instrumentation support, data services, and educational resources to the scientific community.

GeoJupyter

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GeoJupyter is an open and collaborative community-driven effort to reimagine geospatial interactive computing experiences for education, research, and industry.

GESIS

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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is a research infrastructure organization that provides data, tools, and services for the social sciences. They also work with CESSDA.

Grants that fund this collaboration #

In cooperation with NFDI4DS, (project number: 460234259)

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is a private foundation that supports scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and patient care improvements.

Grants from this funder #

Pangeo Climate Data Lab (2020): $500,000 over two years for managing and developing cloud infrastructure for the Pangeo Project through Columbia University

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is one of the nation’s largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research, investigating fundamental biological processes and supporting innovative research that transforms biomedical knowledge.

Grants funding this project #

Several projects with HHMI are supported by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), grant number RF1MH130623.

Invest in Open Infrastructure

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Invest in Open Infrastructure helps funders and research institutions understand how to effectively support digital infrastructure, while JROST is a collaboration between funders committed to supporting open tools for science.

Jupyter Book

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Jupyter Book is an open source project for building beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational material. It allows users to create interactive books from Jupyter notebooks, Markdown files, and other computational content, supporting rich formatting and cross-references.

JupyterHub

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JupyterHub is a multi-user server that manages and spawns multiple instances of single-user Jupyter notebook servers. It enables organizations to provide managed Jupyter environments to groups of users, supporting authentication, resource management, and scalable deployment on cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

NASA Open Science

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NASA’s Open Science initiative supports the agency-wide shift toward open, reproducible, and inclusive science. It encompasses multiple programs that fund training, tooling, and infrastructure for working with NASA Earthdata in the cloud, including Transform to Open Science (TOPS) and the community-developed ScienceCore curriculum.

2i2c partners with the NASA Open Science community as a curriculum author, developer, and infrastructure provider. We co-developed the Determining Climate Risks with NASA Earthdata Cloud ScienceCore module with MetaDocencia, and we operate the shared sciencecore.opensci.2i2c.cloud JupyterHub and opensci BinderHub services that deliver hands-on exercises for ScienceCore modules from multiple teams.

Grants that fund this project #

NASA TOPS-T award 80NSSC23K0861 (“Reproducibly Analyzing Wildfire, Drought, and Flood Risk with NASA Earthdata Cloud”, solicitation NNH22ZDA001N-TOPST) — funded the ScienceCore climaterisk module and infrastructure for the broader ScienceCore community

NASA VEDA

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NASA VEDA (Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis) is NASA’s cloud-based data visualization and analysis platform that makes Earth science data more accessible and usable for researchers, policymakers, and the public.

2i2c provides interactive computing infrastructure for VEDA, enabling users to explore and analyze NASA’s vast earth science datasets through JupyterHub environments in the cloud.

NumFOCUS

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NumFOCUS is a nonprofit organization that serves as a fiscal sponsor for open source scientific computing tools in Python, R, and Julia.

Openscapes

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Openscapes is an approach and a movement that helps researchers and those supporting research find each other and feel empowered to conduct data-intensive science. They champion open practices in environmental and Earth science to help uncover data-driven solutions faster.

Pangeo

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Pangeo is a community platform for Big Data geoscience. It promotes open, reproducible, and scalable science by building tools and infrastructure for working with large datasets in the geosciences, including support for climate data analysis on cloud platforms.

Project Jupyter

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Project Jupyter is an open source project that develops interactive computing tools including Jupyter notebooks, JupyterLab, and JupyterHub. The project supports interactive data science and scientific computing across multiple programming languages, providing a foundation for reproducible research and education.

Project Pythia

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Project Pythia is an educational initiative that provides open access training resources to help geoscientists learn cloud computing and open science tools.

Grants that fund this project #

NSF award 2324302

STRUDEL

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STRUDEL is an open source project creating and stewarding resources to enable more usable scientific software experiences.

It is housed at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) at the University of California, Berkeley. The STRUDEL team includes members of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Scientific Data (SciData) Division UX team, Superbloom Design, The Carpentries, and 2i2c.

STRUDEL project is generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liz Vu & Josh Greenberg Program Officers, grants G-2022-19360, G-2023-21098, and G-2024-22557.

The Catalyst Project

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The Catalyst Project is a collaborative initiative focused on advancing scientific computing and cloud infrastructure for research communities. They work to accelerate the adoption of cloud-native scientific computing tools and practices.

Grants funding this project #

A $1.5M award from CZI funded this project ( Zenodo entry).

The Navigation Fund

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The Navigation Fund focuses on supporting organizations that are building critical infrastructure for the future of research and education, particularly those working to create sustainable models for open source and open science initiatives.

Grants from this funder #

The Navigation Fund awarded 2i2c approximately $1.5 million over 2 years in 2024 to identify and build a scalable sustainability model for the organization. This strategic investment enables 2i2c to develop comprehensive sustainability strategies and establish long-term financial resilience.

University of Toronto

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The University of Toronto is one of 2i2c’s longest-running community partnerships. 2i2c has operated a university-wide JupyterHub for UofT since 2021. It supports thousands of educators and learners across many departments and is one of our largest educational hub deployments.

UofT’s large-scale usage has been a major driver of improvements to 2i2c’s core infrastructure, helping us improve our operational practices around scalability, storage monitoring, and cost sustainability.