# meeting minutes [![hackmd-github-sync-badge](https://hackmd.io/s1uzkwMcS2i5BoK7P99X6A/badge)](https://hackmd.io/s1uzkwMcS2i5BoK7P99X6A) ## December 7, 2020 * Attending: Ian Allison, Jim Colliander, Francis Jones, Henryk Modzelewski, Charles Krzysik, Patrick Walls, Phil Austin, Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, Stephen Michaud, Pan Luo, Sara Harris ### Topics 0) CTLT update 1) building/deploying docker containers 2) nbgrader infrastructure 3) NDRIO white papers ### CTLT update * Stephen: still hiring -- offers out. * 2 senior analysts, cloud computing/jupyter mixed. * Jim: interest in seeing the original job ad -- some possible candidates ### Docker containers * question -- who is responsible for building a docker container for a hub? - Stephen -- central hub will handle enterprise-level components (billing, quotas, pod configuration, authentication), instructors will be responsible for their custom course containers, with common default environments available. * question -- how will a container be linked to a course and a cluster? - TBD -- pulldown menus, but also need to to be able to give a course hub a specific url for jupyterbook config. ### nbgrader infrastructure * Trevor/Tiffany -- need support from the server in order to freeze a snapshot of student notebooks so they can be sent to an autograding server * Ian -- need to separate generic from course/grader specific - privacy issues will be important - Reach out to CPSC 103 instructors to see what they would need from the server, help define a base set of services * Separation of concerns 1) scheduling, snapshotting and collection on the server 2) marking on separate autograding hubs -- crucial for TA coordination ### NDRIO * Jim -- NDRIO https://engagedri.ca/ is soliciting white papers on current issues/future developments for strategic plan priorities 2021-2024. Opportunity to highlight cluster/cloud/pangeo as a focus. https://engagedri.ca/news/ndrio-call-for-white-papers-on-canadas-future-dri-ecosystem ### Followup * Next meeting in late January/early February with new hires? * Stephen to circulate a copy of the ad * Tiffany to get in touch with CPSC 103 instructors * Jupyter stories - Trevor/Tiffany to outline nbgrader workfow with notebook/screencast - Phil to do the same with jupyterbook, EOAS hubs/containers - Other volunteers?