Who is jovyan?

[dfrankow]

I understand that is the user created in the docker files, but where did that username come from?

Just curious.

[jakirkham]

ref: https://github.com/jovyan ?

[parente]

Jovian means "related to Jupiter", ergo jovyan and Jupyter.

I didn't come up with it. @rgbkrk or @minrk or someone who worked on the original docker-demo-image did and should chime in if I'm wrong.

[dfrankow]

Ah gotcha. Thanks!

[rgbkrk]

Jo·vy·an
/ˈjōvēən/

noun – an inhabitant of Jupyter

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I coined it some time ago to refer to Jupyter users.

[rgbkrk]

When I say "I" coined it I mean that I ripped it off from science fiction.

[vtslab]

Note that the spelling Jovyan instead of Jovian is awkward at first sight because of the original spelling in Latin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)
However, in analogy with the Jupyter spelling, the Jovyan spelling makes sense.

[TatianaShavrina]

Really thought for some time this was some Armenian developer's surname lol

[meeseeksmachine]

This issue has been mentioned on Jupyter Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-community-calls/668/66

[3-w-c]

Note that the spelling Jovyan instead of Jovian is awkward at first sight because of the original spelling in Latin

I (and apparently ~237 other people) typoed this as joyvan, which is a huge foot-gun because Docker will happily create a /home/joyvan volume without error, and you'll only notice that data is not as persistent as you think it will be when the container restarts 🙈

If it's not, as I guess it is, far too late to change this, I think jovian would be a lot clearer, because it's very visibly different from the typo'd joivan.