I’m writing up monthly ‘work plans’ to plan what work I’m trying to do every month, and do a retrospective after to see how much I got done. I work across a variety of open source projects with ambiguous responsibilities, so work planning isn’t very set. This has proven to be somewhat quite stressful for everyone involved. Let’s see if this helps!

JupyterCon

JupyterCon is in NYC towards the end of August, and it is going to set the pace for a bunch of stuff. I have 2.5-ish talks to give. Need to prepare for those and do a good job.

Matomo (formerly Piwiki) on mybinder.org

mybinder.org currently uses Google Analytics. I am not a big fan. It has troubling privacy implications, and we don’t get data as granularly as we want to. I am going to try deploying Matomo (formerly Piwiki) and using that instead. Run both together for a while and see how we like it! Matomo requires a MySQL database & is written in PHP - let’s see how this goes ;)

The Littlest JupyterHub 0.1 release

The Littlest JupyterHub is doing great! I’ve done a lot of user tests, and the distribution has changed drastically over time. It’s also the first time I’m putting my newly found strong convictions around testing, CI & documentation to practice. You can already check it out on GitHub. I want to make sure we (the JupyterHub team) gets out a 0.1 release early August.

Pangeo Workshop

I despair about climate change and how little agency I seem to have around it quite a bit. I’m excited to go to the PANGEO workshop in Colorado. I’m mostly hoping to listen & understand their world some more.

Berkeley DataHub deployment

Aug 20-ish is when next semester starts at UC Berkeley. I need to have a pretty solid JupyterHub running there by then. I’d like it to have good CI/CD set up in a generic way, rather than something super specific to Berkeley. However, I’m happy to shortcut this if needed, since there’s already so many things on my plate haha.

UC Davis

I’m trying to spend a day or two a month at UC Davis. Partially because I like being on Amtrak! I also think there’s a lot of cool work happening there, and I’d like to hang out with all the cool people doing all the cool work.

Personal

On top of this, there’s ongoing medical conditions to be managed. I’m getting Carpel Tunnel Release surgery sometime in October, so need to make sure I do not super fuck up my hands before then. I’m also getting a cortisone shot for my back in early August to deal with Sciatica. Fun!

Things I’m not doing!

The grading related stuff I’ve been working on is going to the backburner for a while. I think I bit off far more than I can chew, so time to back off. I also do not have a good intuition for the problem domain since I’ve never written grading keys nor have I been a student in a class that got autograded.

In conclusion…

Shit, I’ve a lot of things to do lol! I’m sure I’m forgetting some things here that I’ve promised people. Let’s see how this goes!