## 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