April joins the Jupyter Community Building Working Group

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We’re pleased to share that our People Operations Lead, April Johnson, has joined the Jupyter Community Building Working Group!

This kind of work reflects how we think about foundational contributions and upstream support: strengthening the social infrastructure that helps open source communities grow and thrive, not just contributing code and running infrastructure. April brings deep experience building teams and communities, and we’re proud to support her upstream efforts in this way.

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Thanks to the Jupyter Community Building Working Group for their leadership in building a stronger Jupyter community, and for welcoming April

A helpful contribution to our JupyterHub SSH README from OpenScapes

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We love when collaborators contribute back to the tools we maintain! Andy Teucher from OpenScapes recently fixed a documentation issue in jupyter-sshd-proxy that benefits everyone using the tool.

jupyter-sshd-proxy is a tool originally created by Yuvi to help 2i2c communities connect to their JupyterHub instances via SSH. Andy ran into an issue when using it with the VS Code fork that uses the open-remote-ssh extension - it failed unless double quotes were used around the authorization token in the ProxyCommand.

Through experimentation, Andy figured out the fix and contributed it back to the README. Now everyone using this tool will have clearer documentation.

While small, we think this is a nice example of a “Foundational contributions” from a community:

2i2c creates and maintains open source tools to help our communities
Our communities use those tools and run into issues
They debug, figure out solutions, and contribute improvements back
Everyone benefits from the improvements

This is exactly how we want 2i2c to help our communities - by making it easy for them to contribute back to the ecosystem and strengthen the tools everyone relies on.

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Thanks to Andy Teucher for the contribution and debugging!
Thanks to OpenScapes for being great collaborators places where can work with people like Andy

Foundational-Contribution | 2i2c

April joins the Jupyter Community Building Working Group

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A helpful contribution to our JupyterHub SSH README from OpenScapes

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