[Idea] Using Jupyterlite for interactive tutorials and workshops

[teonbrooks]

Creating this issue to get my thoughts out on paper. Something I have been thinking about for a while that would go along with the Education objective of the MNE Roadmap.

A long wild back I added support for MNE to Pyodide. It has since added pip support for all pure Python packages so it's now up-to-date with the latest released version with no updates needed.

Jupyterlite has greatly matured as a project and is at a point where we could consider adopting for interactive tutorials. Jupyterlite takes the Jupyterlab ecosystem and wires it up with either Pyodide (and pip) or Xeus-Python (and conda+pip)
I think a bit of work would be needed to ensure the sample dataset could be added to the workspace.

We could use this setup for workshops to get up and going quickly.

Some few examples of Jupyterlite:

• https://jupyter.org/try
• Embed REPL on https://numpy.org

cc: @larsoner

[teonbrooks]

this could be a good GSOC project as well. I would be happy to mentor if we went that route.

[larsoner]

sphinx-gallery has some support for this, it's worth checking out at some point!

[teonbrooks]

very neat! just stumbled upon this demo: https://github.com/jupyterlite/sphinx-demo

[drammock]

@teonbrooks I'd love to see a GSoC that brought interactive tutorials to MNE's website. We might even be able to get an additional mentor from one of the other Scientific Python projects... there's a lot of expertise there. Alternatively we could consider trying to tackle this at the next Scientific Python developer summit; they usually happen early summer. Would you be interested that? If so we can touch base off-list about dates, funding, etc.

[teonbrooks]

@drammock yes, I would be interested, feel free to loop me in :)