It's one of the ways they get away with it, right? Universities buy site licenses centrally and so it "costs" the research group using it "nothing"(i) (i) Not actually nothing as central costs are top-sliced from grants.
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Replying to @owainkenway @SfPRocur and
It's analogous to the costs of paying for journals.
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Maybe the path to sustainability for
@mybinderteam is to hire a sales person who goes around universities closing deals with the central purchasing people. For extra credibility and realism we don't tell anyone it is open-source and make them sign a NDA ;)5 replies 3 retweets 11 likes -
Replying to @betatim @ctitusbrown and
I can't tell if you're joking or not but I think I agree...
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Replying to @choldgraf @betatim and
a slightly more palatable alternative or addition would be to do what
@thecarpentries have done here https://carpentries.org/membership/ , and provide advocates with the materials they need to make their case. Still takes effort to process, engage, "sell" tho...2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @ctitusbrown @betatim and
yeah I think that makes a lot of sense. You could imagine an org "The Binders"? ;-) that provides training material, some amount of tech, maybe hands-on learning for those who wish to deploy their own BinderHubs (and/or JupyterHubs?) for their edu/research purposes
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Replying to @choldgraf @o_guest and
As someone who works in central IT, a significant barrier to a lot of these things is actually their reliance on technologies that are simply too... modern for central IT. For example, I’m not sure where I’d run something reliant on Docker within that environment.
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Replying to @owainkenway @choldgraf and
We (actually
@DVDGC13’s team) run a Jupyterhub instance but there was quite a fight for them to get access to, for example, a modern version of Linux.3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @owainkenway @choldgraf and
right, same here. The strong advice I got from multiple people (mostly
@yuvipanda) is "don't run your own kubernetes cluster", which you need for binder.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @ctitusbrown @choldgraf and
I don’t think any of us over on this side of the fence have heard of your “kubernete”
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LMAO but also 
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