Make the federation member infrastructure provider more prominent

[choldgraf]

I suggest that we make it easier for mybinder.org federation members to be recognized for their service contributions to mybinder.org - either by putting their logos somewhere, or displaying a more prominent recognition on the "launch page" when being launched on their respective BinderHub.

Current challenge

Currently, the mybinder.org federation gives acknowledgements of its launches in a text banner at the top of the page:

This is not super prominent, and feels easy to skip, which reduces the incentives for others to participate as federation members if they'd like acknowledgement and credit for the support they're giving the project. It is also the same space we use for user-facing announcements, which mixes different types of content in one location.

Benefit from this

Running a federation member can take significant time and resources, so the more we can recognize this work, the more likely people will be to step up. I'd hope that this would incentivize other organizations to pitch in to cover mybinder.org through being a federation member.

Implementation discussion

Questions to ask:

• Is one logo per member enough, or would we want to have separate thanks for infra costs vs. operations labor?
• Would this require changing the BinderHub of each federation member config, or could we do this in one place?
• Would this require front-end work in BinderHub to expose this functionality?

We discussed this a little bit here:

#jupyterhub > Binder UI Design and visibility of Federation members @ 💬

And it might be related to this issue:

• Use this repository as a source of truth for federation members and their logos #3227

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COI disclosure: I work with one of the organizations that is currently running a mybinder.org federation member so I'd benefit from this!

[minrk]

I don't think this requires front-end work, depending on precisely how we want to do it.

Where do you think we should put what? It's easy to add blocks to templates, if we don't have them where we

What might be trickier is specifically serving one logo for the currently selected federation member, rather than a single acknowledgment for the whole federation.

[manics]

Why don't we start with a mock-up of what we'd like in an ideal world, ignoring any technical constraints? Then work out how much is achievable now, or what an acceptable compromise is between new features and development time required?

[manics]

We could also incorporate #2156 in any mockups

[choldgraf]

I imagine two kinds of improvements we could make:

Landing page

In the landing page of mybinder.org (or generally, in any page that isn't unique to a federation member binderhub) have a cloud of logos rather than a small text at the top. Maybe we could put this below all the UI for users so that they don't clutter the page.

Loading pages

On the loading page for any BinderHub, make it possible for them to inject some custom HTML that would display their logos. Then we could let the federation members decide what to put there but put some guidelines around what we expect. E.g. something like "This Binder session made possible by [list of logos]"

[arnim]

Thank you for this thoughtful thread, to which I can only add a point.

Federation members may provide their contributions through projects. In the case of GESIS, our contribution is done as part of two consortia within the NFDI. We are currently acknowledging this

[...] support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the project grants NFDI4DS (no. [460234259 (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/460234259)) and Base4NFDI (no. [521453681 (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/521453681))

in https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/supporters.html Most of the work we do is supported through third-party funding. Making this visible would certainly help.

Just my two cents :)