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## 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?



