The interactive computing solution your university actually needs

Reliable infrastructure without the friction, vendor lock-in, or AI hype.

 

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Learn and discover

The heart of 2i2c’s service is a flexible and customizable Community Hub. Hubs eliminate accidental complexities so communities can advance toward their goals. Scientists focus on collaboration and discovery. Instructors and students focus on teaching and learning. Instead of getting bogged down with tooling and technology, users can click a link, log in, and get to work!

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Innovation by sharing

Your freedom. Your control. 2i2c eliminates vendor lock-in with the Right to Replicate. Feedback shared by your Institution and other communities enables 2i2c’s team to improve the open source ecosystem, ensuring a healthier and more sustainable digital commons for education and research.

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Manage your cloud spend

Modern, scalable cloud infrastructure to reduce and manage costs. Spin resources up and down in response to your community's needs. Dashboards give insights into costs by resources and groups.

Membership plans and pricing

Essential

For communities that want a space to explore and create knowledge using cloud workflows.

$5000/year

Essential Membership includes

  • A pre-configured powerful hub with the necessary documentation for small teams to get started on their journey into open interactive computing.
  • Cloud infrastructure operated by 2i2c on AWS with SSO access control using CIlogon.
  • Essential Memberships are established under 2i2c’s standard service agreement.
  • Monthly performance reports.
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Advanced

For research communities looking for more powerful and flexible open science workflows

$15,000/year

Advanced Membership includes

  • Everything in Essential +
  • 5 pre-configured hub configurations to cover common research and education scenarios. Any of these configurations can be chosen to power up to 3 hubs.
  • Advanced Hubs allow community admins to flexibly build and manage their own custom environments following 2i2c documentation.
  • Cloud infrastructure operated by 2i2c on AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure (additional fees) with more access control options.
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Premier

For institutions with multiple communities, or more complex workflows and resource needs.

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Enterprise plan includes

  • Everything in Advanced +
  • Up to 10 customized hubs customized for specific needs and scenarios. Premier Hubs get access to 2i2c’s entire technology stack, in any possible configuration.
  • Dedicated consulting time (40h/year) with 2i2c’s Community, Product and Engineering experts.
  • Guidance and technical support with configuration, optimization and cloud costs management.
  • Opportunities to collaborate on grants and open source projects.
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Frequently asked questions

What is 2i2c?

2i2c.org is the short name for the International Interactive Computing Collaboration. 2i2c is a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science and Society (CS&S). CS&S is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon, USA. 

What is 2i2c's mission?
2i2c supports a global network of community hubs for interactive learning and discovery. 
 
Our interactive computing platform gives research and education communities a digital home to create and share knowledge with a global network of communities to learn from.
 
2i2c contributes to the upstream open source ecosystem that co-creates the technologies we operate. 
How is 2i2c funded?

To sustain and grow our operations, 2i2c receives funding from the following sources:

  • Revenue from managed services. We build self-sustaining cloud services that generate revenue through annual memberships and usage fees.
  • Project-focused grants. We lead and collaborate on several projects that involve developing and supporting infrastructure for research and education. 
  • Core organizational support. We raise core funding that covers the costs of strategically-critical roles that are not easily linked to specific deliverables and contracts.
Who are 2i2c's customers?

2i2c operates  more than 140 hubs for a diverse collection of organizations, agencies, universities and institutes. For example, 2i2c operates hubs for NASA, the University of Toronto, the University of California Berkeley, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, EarthScope Consortium, the Alabama Water Institute and many more. Rather than using a traditional vendor <> customer perspective, 2i2c considers the communities we serve as members of a consortium that shares common goals.

What is The Community Right to Replicate?

The Right to Replicate gives communities the right to replicate their infrastructure in its entirety elsewhere, with or without 2i2c. This set of commitments acts as a business continuity plan for our partner communities, ensuring 2i2c will follow best practices within the open source, open education and open research ecosystems. 2i2c believes that the vital technologies used for research and education should be a public good.

Who works for 2i2c?

The 2i2c team includes engineers, educators, researchers, business leaders, technologists and more. We are curious, generous and grateful people. Our team includes contributors to Project Jupyter, JupyterHub, JupyterBook, BinderHub, and other open source projects. 

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