A bit offtopic -- I saw a mention of Jupyter in your original message -- if you're a student, maybe you want to participate in GSoC this year:

- http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Cod...er_Integration Jupyter Integration (Summer of Code Project Ideas (GNU Octave))
- https://wiki.octave.org/GSoC_2018_application

I just bumped into that page today and saw a familiar word. Figured it's perhaps worth asking just in case you're a student and you are willing to participate. If you are not a student yourself, perhaps ask around