October was a very busy month! I participated in two back-to-back Jupyter events: the Jupyter Open Studio Day in London and the Jupyter Mini Summit in Prague. In addition, we finalized and launched the JupyterHub survey and continued the organizational work for the JupyterHub HubDash event. Finally, as a member of the Jupyter Community Building Working Group, I was involved in launching the call for proposals for Jupyter Community Workshops in 2027.
Jupyter Open Studio Day¶
On Friday, October 2, I participated in the Jupyter Open Studio Day at Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London.
The format of the event was quite interesting: they give members of the Jupyter community a nice room in a cool building for an entire day and let them do whatever they want. At first, it might seem very unstructured but it is actually very liberating!
People start out a bit shy. They introduce themselves and ask each other what they do. And then, the magic happens! Quite suddenly, people sit down and get engaged in conversations and collaborations. The time flies by, and before you know it, it’s evening!
In the morning, I joined a group where we had an interesting conversation about Jupyter Governance. I got to understand better the various bodies involved and the role of the Jupyter Foundation, which was established about two years ago and operates as a directed fund of the Linux Foundation. For example, its Governing Board, which is composed of representatives from private companies and members of the Executive Council, oversees the Jupyter Foundation’s resources and works to build healthy collaborations within the Community.
Another interesting topic that came up during the conversation was the need for events that are strategically distributed throughout the year, carefully planned well in advance, economically accessible, and held in locations that are easy for most participants to reach, such as London and Paris for the European community.
During the afternoon, Jenny Wong and I sat together and worked on the JupyterHub User’s survey (see below). Her technical expertise and explanations were indeed very useful in fine-tuning the questions!
Also in the afternoon, there were spontaneous presentations where we got to know about Whybook and learned about the latest updates to JupyterLab and JupyterLite.
We ended the event with a visit to the London Mithraeum, the ruins of a Roman temple that was discovered during a building’s construction in 1954. It is now hosted in an exhibition space beneath the Bloomberg London building and free and open to the public.
Jupyter Mini Summit at Open Source Summit 2026¶
The following Tuesday, October 6, many of us met again in Prague for the Jupyter Mini Summit at the Open Source Summit Europe 2026, organized by the Linux Foundation.
I have already written extensively about the event in a post for the Jupyter Blog that will be published in a few days.
The Jupyter Mini Summit was a three-and-a-half hour morning event that I co-organized and chaired. I also gave a presentation about my work as a JupyterHub and Jupyter Book Community Manager. All the presentations were recorded and are now available in a YouTube playlist.
During the open-mic session, I also promoted the new Jupyter Blog, which is no longer hosted on Medium but is now owned and managed by the Jupyter Community itself. The nice thing is that the links to the posts remain the same as before, including the link to my very first post where I introduced myself.
JupyterHub: Launching the User survey¶
On October 24, we finally launched the JupyterHub User survey! If you run a JupyterHub, please take it! And if you know somebody who does, please spread the word! Take the JupyterHub User survey before the deadline on November 24, 2026. You can find more information in the Jupyter Blog post announcing the survey.
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the aims of the survey are to identify potential new areas for development and collect use cases so that users can learn from each other and we can learn from them!
During the two Collaboration Cafes in October, we worked to finalize the questions, making sure that the survey aligns with its aims and is as short as possible. We are very proud of the work we put into this survey, and we hope that we will receive a large number of responses and gather useful insights!
JupyterHub: Organizing the HubDash¶
During this month, we also continued organizing the 🟢 2nd HubDash, which will be held on November 30 and December 1, 2026.
This year the HubDash will be organized in collaboration with The Turing Way Book Dash, whose Community developed the concept. Thus, we had a few meetings with the Turing Way Community to define timelines, roles, and content. More details will follow next month!
In November, the JupyterHub Community will be closely involved in organizing the HubDash, with dedicated discussions during the Collaboration Cafes on November 3 and 17.
The HubDash registration form will be available in November!
Jupyter Community Workshop: Call for proposals 2027¶
Last but not least, some news from the Jupyter Community Building Working Group, which I am happy to be part of!
On October 30, we launched the new call for proposals for Jupyter Community Workshops to be held in 2027! We put a lot of care into preparing the three key documents, which are now online: the call for proposals blog post, the Community Workshops webpage and the proposal form.
The Working Group has 🟣 received funding from the Jupyter Foundation to support this round of Jupyter Community Workshops.
If you have any ideas for bringing the Jupyter Community together in 2027, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now!
And that’s it for this month! See you next month!