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Week 2

Thursday​

  • Date: Jan 30th, 2025
  • Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm

🎥 Meeting Recording​

🚩 Agenda​

  1. General Introductions
  2. Presentation: Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
  3. Discussing what we do
  4. Breaking for Pizza and Socialization

📓 Kickoff Meeting Notes​

Starting meeting with introductions

Introduced club E-Board and general meeting agenda Details available on Agenda

Basics of the Cloud:

  • Infrastructure as a Service
    • Third party provider manages underlying infrastructure
  • Platform as a Service
    • Third party provider a platform where you can build, manage, and deploy your applications.
  • Software as a Service
    • Third party provider hosts and delivers the service over the internet.
    • IE MS Office, Gmail, OneDrive

Pizza as a Service:

What is AWS?

  • A Cloud provider that offers cloud computing services.
  • Offer computing resources (IE EC2), storage solutions (IE S3), and networking (IE VPC).
  • There are over 200 services.

Club projects:

How to get involved?

  • If not familiar already, please learn Git.
    • Tutorials are available online and within our website under the resources section (club account required).
  • Follow the contribution guidelines outlined for the project you want to work on (usually the README file).
  • Attend meetings to stay up-to-date on project progress
  • Reach out on Discord with any questions!

📄 Attendance

  • In-Person: 12
  • Virtual: 1

🗫 Getting invovled​

If you're confused on where you can get involved quickly, here are a few areas we've been looking for help in:

  • Immersion API Team (Ask more on Discord)
  • Immersion Backend Team (Ask more on Discord)
  • Immersion Front End Team (Ask more on Discord)
  • Website Account Page Design (Front-end) (Ask Gurpranked on Discord)
  • Terraform Scripting for Devcontainers (Ask more on Discord)

We're even looking for help in non-technical areas:

  • Writing blog posts on our website (Ask on Discord)
    • Interesting ideas within Cloud Computing
    • Project progress and developments within the club

🚀 Next meeting(s)​

Next meeting we will be creating Cloud Computing Club Account, and begin accessing Coder development environments. If time permits, we will begin dicussing the Immersion project and forming teams.

We will not be meeting in Lydon 110 for our subsequent meetings!

Next meeting will be at Olsen Hall Room 330.