display Jupyter community announcements and calls (workshops, events)
highlight recent papers or news stories where Jupyter tools were used.
I appreciate putting this together would detract effort from core service, but it could provide a useful comms channel to the wider community. (In terms of skills requied, it would also open potential for contributory support to web designers / webdevs in putting this together? As the community gets bigger, it needs to call on a wider range of skills to sustain its activities.)
Variations on it have been discussed a few times but so far no one has gotten around to doing something about it. Ideas that lead to a concrete proposal or PR would be great. Iād help get that merged and deployed.
SO issues taggged e.g. āJupyterā with and without answers
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In the interests of demonstrating my personal and individual capacity to credibly curate notebooks well paired with the often highly subjective content contained in BinderHub hosted notebooks, furthering my agenda, and increasing the UX for everyone, Iāve prepared a playlist of videos that I think we can all agree optimally represent the Jupyter and Binder projects at all times:
āHall & Oates - You Make My Dreams Come Trueā
āRedbone - Come and Get Your Loveā
āOrbital - Halcyon on and Onā (Hackers Soundtrack)
āEagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonightā
āGoo Goo Dolls - Nameā
āDave Matthews - Ants Marchingā
āFatboy Slim - Praise Youā
āThirty Seconds To Mars - Up in the Airā (Restart and Run all)
āLet It Goā (Frozen Soundtrack)
āAvicii - Waiting For Loveā
āAvicii - Wake Me Upā
āSymphony of Science - Onward To The Edgeā
āSnow Patrol - The Lightning Strike (What if this storm ends)ā
I may choose to add more videos and/or MIDIs that I like later. A āKeep Listeningā option may make JupyterHub GCP instance launches even more desirable.
It also strikes me that thereād be an opportunity to sell sponsorship spaceā¦ (filthy lucre arguments aside, things like MyBinder do cost someone $$$ to run, although that requires another person on the team - managing ad salesā¦ A restrictive approval policy on what ads are acceptable could also help mean ads were likely to be relevant to the wider community. Iād be wary of going down the adtech / profile your user route thoā¦).
Does someone know someone at readthedocs? They have been running ads for a while to support their platform and invested a bunch in making their ads not-repulsive. So maybe we can get some advice from them.
The cynic in me thinks that we (mybinder.org) by far donāt get enough traffic (90000 clicks per week) to make a dent in the hosting cost (~$1000 per week). Does anyone know how to estimate ad revenue from number of visitors?
From an UX perspective, a notification telling me my binder awaits me would go a long way ā while your ideas are cute 'n all I will still most likely do something else in other tabs.
Do you guys measure the abandon rate, i.e. binder started but never used?
Re: abandin rates; I read that as the difference between a binder page redirecting to the notebook server (ie user gives and closes tab) or whatever page user wants to open on and the binder launch page being closed before it redirects? Is that easily measured? Is it useful to know?
I donāt know anyone at readthedocs but I do know a thing or two about estimating costs and some about advertising.
At 90k clicks per week, you are WELL within the possibility of advertising being worthwhile. A $10 CPM could pay ~90% of your maintenance costs (where does that budget come from, by the way?). I could build a model to help demonstrate this stuff under uncertainty (computational mathematician here, after all), if youāre interested, but in my opinion all you need to know is that āinfluencersā with 10-20k engaged followers can rake in thousands a month. Itās all about curating the right relationships with advertising partners.
Kind of related to this discussion: could you have some example binders on the mybinder home page, so if someone arrives there they can click on something and launch an informative example? Or alternatively have a ādefaultā URL so if you click launch without filling any fields it still launches? At the moment itās not obvious what a new user should do if theyāre directed there.
That is a good idea. We could copy some things from http://jupyter.org/try as a start and then replace with new/other/popular repos.
I think a blocker so far with editing the landing page (and other pages on mybinder.org) is that we currently have the design we have, which doesnāt foresee changes. Maybe someone with an eye for design could make a suggestion for small changes to create a new layout that was meant to have these additional elements in them. Compared to us ārandomlyā adding things. If anyone knows someone like that ā¦ please put as in touch
I will still most likely do something else in other tabs.