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I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware that it is a large component of the use case. The very typical prototype in jupyter .. to ..Rewrite in production code is shortened significantly by doing this.

All the tools already exist in jupyter - except one: lightweight multiuser. I would argue that building this is going to be a fairly trivial thing for you guys (as compared to other features you build), but the end user benefit is immense.

Jupyter becomes much more than an interactive scratchpad - it becomes a full blown prototyping environment for data science and reporting. I would say, you would even go against tableau in a lot of use cases.

Please do think about it. My company will be happy to contribute to a gofundme on this.

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Reply to this plus 2 comments up. Hub spawns _servers_, not kernels. There are a lot of indirection layers, and indeed, being able to _view_ a notebook without starting a kernel is on the todo list. The multi user collaboration is in progress, it's more complicated than it looks. One of the issue is that if this is a "solved" [with many quotes] problem for static documents, as soon as you have code execution it becomes really tricky. The kernel need to run as someone, but who ? The owner of the document ? What are the permission you give to who and how ? There are some case where there are possible answers, but which are really hard to tackle in a generic way across programming languages and various kind of deployments. Ian has an already well advance JupyterLab Prototype that you can connect to Google Drive for live editing. If your company is interested in funding something like that, feel free to write to any of us privately (git log, and grep to find emails), and we can likely setup a contract with numfocus (non profit that handle our funds), the advantage will be that it will be tax deductible for your company (unlike most of gofundme campaigns).

I wish we had the kind of money to fund the full development - I mentioned gofundme because a small startup in India will not be able to do that, even though we want to. But I have a feeling that a lot of us will want to us as well.

I'm talking specifically about the usecase of code-execution (especially dashboards).

Here's a small point from me - perhaps you are overcomplicating the usecase for 90% of us. Give a proper ssl/tls+bcrypted password setup and roles: Editor and User.

I dont think you should be worried here in the context of people wanting to run a full on sagemath cloud kind of a thing.

If you can give me a low resource way of letting 100 "Users" on a dashboard form and one "Editor" (who can actually edit the underlying notebook), I'm golden. And I'm willing to bet that so will 90% of your audience.

check out http://gryd.us ; it looks somewhat like what your describing

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