We used a 2i2c-managed JupyterHub for our QGreenland workshop a couple weeks ago, and had a great experience. A JupyterHub is a cloud-based system for provisioning dedicated JupyterLab instances for users.

That left me wondering about how NSIDC could benefit from a similar set up. With the addition of real-time-collaboration (like Google Docs, but in Jupyter Notebooks), so many possibilities open up: small groups working on the same notebook together in a tutorial setting, offering live user support in a collaborative computing environment, pair programming between developers and scientists to explore a problem space.

JupyterLab 4 was announced the other day. This release also includes real-time-collaboration extension at 1.0.0.