Arch Course Meeting Notes: 2018-11-28

Agenda 

  1. Overview of Alerting and Monitoring course updates
    1. Meeting with Feanil
      1. Narrative arc: building → deploying → monitoring
      2. Mergeable material
        1. Terraform material ports naturally into our course
        2. They hadn't worked on alerting and monitoring, which we've done: synergy
      3. Feanil + Cory offered to edit materials
    2. Integrate Devops Course with our course
      1. Action item for Matt: move Terraform section
        1. write assessments
    3. Add in "Building" section
      1. Brian Beggs and Doug as points of contact for team-specific IDA information
      2. Asking individuals 
      3. Action item: schedule meeting with Brian Beggs 
    4. Merge Alerting and Monitoring sections
      1. Question about Jenkins section in Alerting and Monitoring
      2. Some teams/workflows don't use it, however
      3. Invite Jeremy to write Jenkins section: a possibility
    5. Deployment section - still needs to be created.
  2. How do we spend our $150?
    1. Brainstorm:
      1. change incentive structure: for use to incentivize involvement/gift structure
      2. Open Source Team: buy doughnuts w/dedication highlighting specific contribution
        1. visibility for the effort
        2. also celebratory
        3. note next to doughtnuts
      3. working event
        1. invite
    2. Goal: maximal inclusion
    3. Questions
      1. When do we doughtnut folks
        1. concrete contributions to the course
  3. Update from Nimisha
    1. Architectural Principles
      1. What's a good form for these? OEP?
      2. Tech Radar from Thoughtworks
        1. Visualizing information about different technologies
        2. Every two months recurrence envisioned for keeping this up-
    2. Architecture Review OEP
      1. Maybe focusing on long-term goal of targeting whole open edX community premature?
        1. Is it more work to keep things closed, however?
  4. Review last meeting's notes

Action Items