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Hi, I’m Chris Holdgraf 👋

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A bit about me...
💼 Executive Director @ 2i2c
☁️ Former Cloud DataHub team @ Berkeley CDSS
🌕 Distinguished Contributor @ The Jupyter Project
🧠 PhD graduate in neuroscience @ UC Berkeley

I also work extensively with Project Jupyter, particularly the Binder Project and Jupyter Book.

Recent blog posts

Jupyter can align the needs of its community and its foundation by enabling contribution

This week was my first time attending the [Linux Foundation Member Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lf-member-summit/). This is an annual meeting for all of the Linux Foundation member organizations and projects. I joined because of my new role [on the Jupyter Executive Council](./jec.md), and so I tried to go into this meeting with the

Date: March 22, 2025 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
The relationship between the Jupyter Executive Council, Software Steering Council, and Foundation

This is a question that I've been asked many times now that I'm serving on the JEC and the JF. I'm writing up a quick response so that I have something to refer back to and align my own thinking on. **How most Linux Foundation projects seem to be structured**. Linux

Date: March 02, 2025 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
Ways the Jupyter Foundation could support open source projects

The Jupyter Foundation has a pot of money and it aims to use that funding quickly to support the Jupyter Project. But what should it use the funding _for_? There are many things to do, and not enough time or money to try everything. This is a brief brainstorm and

Date: February 26, 2025 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
Why I'm running for the Jupyter Executive Council

This year, I decided to nominate myself for the [Jupyter Executive Council](https://jupyter.org/governance/executive_council.html). This is a brief post explaining my rationale for doing so, the kind of service I'd hope to provide the project, and where I imagine the project moving. The [Jupyter Executive Council](https://jupyter.org/governance/executive_council.html) is the highest governing body within the

Date: January 14, 2025 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
How I'm trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again

Some quick thoughts on moving from Twitter/X to BlueSky and how I'll try to use social media after being burned once by Twitter.

Date: November 22, 2024 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
Better blog lists with the MyST AST

On my journey to learn more about writing with [the new MyST engine](https:///mystmd.org), I built upon [my recent update to my blog infrastructure](./programmatic-myst-with-jupyter.md) and made some improvements to my blog post list. Here's what it looks like now: ````{note} Click here to see how it looks now :class: dropdown ```{postlist} :number: 3 ``` ```` Here's a quick rundown

Date: November 09, 2024 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
Generate MyST with Jupyter and insert it into content programmatically

While I've been [converting my blog to use the new MyST engine](./mystmd-with-the-blog.md), I discovered a useful MyST feature. It's not yet possible to [natively parse Jupyter Markdown outputs as MyST](https://github.com/jupyter-book/mystmd/issues/1026) but there's a workaround if you don't mind generating a temporary file. The trick is to _write to a temporary file_

Date: November 04, 2024 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
Re-building my blog with MySTMD

Wow it has been a long time since I've last-written here. It turns out that having two small children and a very demanding job means you don't have as much time for blogging. But that's a whole different blog post... I've decided to convert my blog to use the new [MyST

Date: November 01, 2024 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
A few random opportunities in AI for Social Good

Recently a few friends have reached out asking if I knew of any opportunities to work on AI-related things that also have some kind of pro-social tie-in. I think a lof people see AI as a technology with a lot of potential, but in an environment of companies that don't seem

Date: October 02, 2023 | Author: Chris Holdgraf
A Sphinx directive for social media embeds

:::{note} This probably doesn't work anymore I've since moved my blog to use [the MyST Document Engine](https://mystmd.org) so this example will no longer work on my personal blog. See [this permalink for the latest working version](https://github.com/choldgraf/choldgraf.github.io/blob/ae8ee9792c74aac72f46c645d19352abc439d572/blog/2023/social-directive.md). ::: I often want to link to social and other types of web-based media in my Sphinx

Date: February 15, 2023 | Author: Chris Holdgraf