Open Toolchain
Canadian Open Data Society Board meeting
2021-08-27
Idea
People, with the right data, tools and resources, can do good things working together.
James Colliander
- Professor of Mathematics: UBC
- Cofounder: 2i2c, Callysto, Syzygy, Crowdmark
- Past Director (2016-2021): PIMS
Background
PIMS: Distributed Mathematical Sciences Institute
Inspirations
Jessica Hamrick’s Post
Data 8 at Berkeley
Partners
Idea: Jupyter for 🇨🇦
Development History
gantt
title Timeline
section Syzygy
23 universities, 10 research teams: 2020-02-25, 25d
40,000 users : 2021-08-15, 25d
25,000 users : 2020-01-01, 25d
16,000 users : 2019-08-22, 25d
8,000 users : 2017-08-24, 25d
Syzygy service announcement : 2017-03-15, 25d
PIMS + Compute Canada Agreement : 2016-06-02, 25d
Compute Canada Discussions : 2015-12-03, 2016-06-01
Jessica Hamrick's Post : 2015-03-24, 25d
JupyterHub for 🇨🇦 idea : 2015-02-01, 90d
section Callysto
CanCode 2.0 🇨🇦 $1.5M : 2019-10-15, 25d
Callysto content creation : 2018-05-01, 2018-08-31
CanCode 1.0 🇨🇦 $1.5M : 2018-01-30, 25d
Callysto Launched: 2017-10-01, 25d
Examples
Lessons Learned
- Research and education transforming
- Demand can be met with cloud strategy
- Scaling requires infrastructure