IT Volunteer Day Coming July 12th!

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Hi all,

Join us for the next iteration of our IT Volunteer Day this Sunday July 12th from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM in the MPR! Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just curious about how the digital side of Asmbly works, there’s a place for you here.

There are a few ongoing projects that folks will be working on:

  • Wiki LLM: A few members have been working on making an LLM to interact with the Asmbly wiki, enabling members to ask plain-English questions and get answers from and links to specific wiki pages
  • Unified Tool Status Dashboard: We want to make it easier for members to determine the status of specific machines based on problem reports (before driving to Asmbly!), and make it easier for volunteers to identify current problems or clear out stale problem reports
  • Asmbly Central Server: Ongoing work around setting up the central server for remote maintenance and updates of all of the Asmbly computers, focusing on making it easier for volunteers to keep things running without needing to drive in

Whether it’s hopping into one of the above projects or bringing your own, we’d love to have you join us!

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New member here, planning to come. Long time dev and sys admin, interested to see what it’s all about

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Thanks all for joining today! We spent a lot of time talking through different aspects of Asmbly’s infrastructure like our Unifi network topology, the central PC, and spinning up a Vaultwarden password management server.

Just as a quick summary of what we got done:

  • Evan and Aaron went through the recent rebuild of the wiki server, both for knowledge sharing and to check for any additional improvements or fixes.
  • Natanael and Kasif worked on getting Docker and Podman spun up on the central PC - part of our discussion was around running services like the 3d printer restreamer locally rather than in AWS, and being able to run Docker in the space is the first step towards this.
  • Robby and I walked through some recent membership access bugs and made sure the solutions that were recently put in place would actually work and prevent this type of issue from happening in the future.

Overall, this felt like a good volunteer day, and I appreciate you all taking a few hours out of your weekend to help keep tech at Asmbly running! :smiley:

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