## Fab Ecosystem Recitation - Computing
## Main tools used:
* **GitLab** - For storing work / hosting websites + collaboration
* https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/
* **NuEval** - for student evaluation / feedback
* http://nueval.fabacademy.org/
* Video conferencing
* Zoom (bluejeans, jitsi)
**GitLab** allows us to:
* Store text files in version control
* Allows us to undo anything / see history of each file.
* Collaborate and do project management through **Issues**
* Publish and serve **Static** websites
* **Dynamic** websites need databases to write to
### Our GitLab statistics
* 1841 Users
* 650 Groups
* 2180 Projects
* 2039 Issues
* 9746 Notes (comments on Issues / Merge requests)
* Self hosted on AWS server:
* 32GB RAM
* 8 core CPU
* 1 TB external drive for data
## Other services used
* Google Apps for emails / spreadsheets / calendar
* SendGrid sends all mails from NuEval + GitLab
* DigitalOcean & Linode for other servers
* Total of ~12 servers
* Archive, mercurial, nginx, finalprojects, dokku, mailing lists
* Vimeo for hosting video recordings
* Fablabs.io