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content/blog/2024/retrospective/index.md

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 2i2c's core mission is to support its network of communities that create and share knowledge with open infrastructure. Here are the highlights of how our community network has grown and had impact.
 
-First, we've grown our network of hubs and users through several new partnerships. We **grew the number of active hubs from ~75 to ~105**, and **grew the number of Monthly Active Users (MAUs) from ~8100 to ~9100**.
+First, we've grown our network of hubs and users through several new partnerships. We **grew the number of active hubs from ~75 to ~105**, and **grew our end-of-year Monthly Active Users (MAUs) from ~6000 to ~8000**.
 
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 Here are a few community highlights from this year:
 
-- We served around 20 communities from Latin America and Africa for the Catalyst project: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/catalyst-partner-highlights/
-- Our community partner Openscapes were invited to the White House to discuss the importance of open science: https://openscapes.org/events/2024-09-26-openscapes-whitehouse/
-- The NeuroHackademy used our infrastructure to support their annual summer school: http://2i2c.org/blog/2024/neurohackademy-summer-school-reflections/
-- We enabled ephemeral and sharable interactive computing environments for workshops in the geospatial community: http://2i2c.org/blog/2024/amerigeo-workshop/
-- We ran a pilot for an HHMI-funded Spyglass project for reproducing their pre-print with a live interactive environment using BinderHub to support publishing infrastructure: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/hhmi-spyglass-mysql/
-- We began a collaboration around biomedical infrastructure for 
-- We began a collaboration with [Development Seed](https://developmentseed.org/) around the NASA VEDA project, to support them with interactive cloud environments for geospatial research: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/veda-devseed-collab/index.md
-- Several members in our community network showed off their work at [AGU 2024](https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting): https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/agu/
-- We co-organized a workshop alongside [Project Pythia](https://projectpythia.org/) to create computational narrative content for geospatial analytics, and upgrade their stack to Jupyter Book 2.0: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/project-pythia-cookoff/
+- We served around 20 communities from Latin America and Africa for the **Catalyst project**: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/catalyst-partner-highlights/
+- Our community partner **Openscapes** were invited to the White House to discuss the importance of open science: https://openscapes.org/events/2024-09-26-openscapes-whitehouse/
+- The **NeuroHackademy** used our infrastructure to support their annual summer school: http://2i2c.org/blog/2024/neurohackademy-summer-school-reflections/
+- We enabled ephemeral and sharable interactive computing environments for the **Amerigeo workshop** in the geospatial community: http://2i2c.org/blog/2024/amerigeo-workshop/
+- We ran a pilot for an **HHMI-affiliated open source project called Spyglass** for reproducing their pre-print with a live interactive environment using BinderHub to support publishing infrastructure: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/hhmi-spyglass-mysql/
+- We began a collaboration with **Development Seed** around the **NASA VEDA** project, to support them with interactive cloud environments for geospatial research: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/veda-devseed-collab/index.md
+- Several members in our community network showed off their work at **AGU 2024**: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/agu/
+- We co-organized a workshop alongside **Project Pythia** to create computational narrative content for geospatial analytics, and upgrade their stack to Jupyter Book 2.0: https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/project-pythia-cookoff/
 
 
 ## Open source technology enhancements
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   https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/jupyter-book-2/
 - We built `frx-challenges`, a tool to help communities host data challenges with secure, automated evaluation of submissions.
 
-  https://github.com/2i2c-org/frx-challenge
+  https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/frx/
 
   This was built in collaboration with the **HHMI Cellmsp Challenge** competition:
 
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 ## Looking to next year
 
-2025 is going to be a critical year for 2i2c to build upon the work we began this year and achieve a more sustainable and scalable community model. Here are the main areas that will guide our work in the new year and into 2026, pulled from our [recent proposal from The Navigation Fund](/blog/2024/funding-navigation/index.md):
+2025 is going to be a critical year for 2i2c to build upon the work we began in 2024 to achieve a more sustainable and scalable community model. Here are the main areas that will guide our work in the new year and into 2026, pulled from our [recent proposal from The Navigation Fund](/blog/2024/funding-navigation/index.md):
 
 - **Goal #1: Delivery**. Develop the operating structure and team skills to
 efficiently scale our product and service delivery.
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ us resources to sustain and scale our service.
 
 These are the key goals 2i2c must achieve in order to ensure that its service remains impactful, sustainable, scalable, and accessible. We believe that we've laid a strong foundation to get there, and are excited to begin work next year.
 
-Overall, 2024 has been a challenging, but also a rewarding year for our team. We've encountered and successfully worked thorugh a number of scaling challenges for our team, and we've made significant progress at laying a foundation on which we can build for the years to come.
+Overall, 2024 has been a challenging, but also a rewarding year for our team. We've encountered and successfully worked thorugh a number of scaling challenges, and we've made significant progress at laying a foundation on which we can build for the years to come.
 
 I'm incredibly proud of 2i2c's team for all of their hard work this year, and also honored to be working with a network of communities that care about open infrastructure and its value for creating and sharing knowledge with the world. Here's to another year of impact!