Team Sync - Monday, December 6th

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This is a @2i2c-org/tech-team sync 🎉🎉🎉! This is a way for 2i2c Team Members to provide status reports on what they've been up to this week and request help and attention for things they are working on. This issue will be closed at the end of the day.

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Response Template

**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
- So-and-so helped me out a lot with XXX...
- Thanks for Jo's work on the XXX repo...

**Updates from last week ✔**
- I worked towards deliverable: <link-to-deliverable>
- I had a meeting with ABC

**Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏**
- I had a hard time figuring out ...
- Could somebody take a look at ...

**My availability for next week**
- I'll be off on XXX day...
- I've got several meetings this week...

[sgibson91]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @choldgraf for sympathising with me on the anti-patterns of academic conferences

Updates from last week ✔

• Put terraform config in place to create Service Principals for authentication to Azure clusters (like GCP's Service Accounts) Create a Service Principal for Azure clusters infrastructure#864
• Put scaffolding in place to support automated deployment of Azure-based hubs Support and automate Azure deployments infrastructure#865

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• Not happy about short (and changing!) deadlines for https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/262 No assistance required per se, but UGH

My availability for next week

• Should be 100% but I might be a bit in and out. As well as the AGU stuff that needs doing this week, my car is in the garage and there'll be some repair work going on in my flat

[damianavila]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to @choldgraf for interesting conversations about project management stuff
• Thanks to @GeorgianaElena for her work on the new UToronto hub!!

Updates from last week ✔

• PyData theme stuff
  • Review and deep tested
    • Version switcher PR: ✨ NEW: add version switcher pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#436
    • Switch to sphinx-theme-builder review and deep testing PR: Switch to sphinx-theme-builder and improve webpack.config.js pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#514
    • Workflow updates after stb landing: CI: update github action workflow after sphinx-theme-builder switch, remove Python 3.6 pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#519
  • Opened several follow-up issues raised after my (and others) reviews
    • Migrate version switcher JS from the jinja templates pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#522
    • Contributor page needs updates after landing stb-related improvements pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#521
  • Also tiny PR 😉 so unbroken docs-live: Add step to install needed dependencies to build the site pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#520
  • Additionally, I was able to learn more about nox and its interrelationship with the conda world
• Review UToronto-related PRs and commented on other running issues in the infra repo.
• Ongoing and interesting conversation with Chris about the project management side of things...

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• I had a little hard time syncing myself with the cadence and common practices in the pydata theme repo, but now I understand better the context/constraints and that will help me in the interaction with other contributors in the future!!

My availability for next week

• I'll be off on Wednesday because it is a national holiday here, otherwise 100%.