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====== Technical Orientation ======

**Background** 

There is the normal scel orientation meeting, but I'm starting to think that it might be useful to have a technical
orientation as well as that one. This is a similar pattern I've seen applied to at work, where the main orientation
covers the culture and rules about the organization, the technical orientation is there to make sure that
engineers are familiar with the tools, processes and existing systems that the company uses.

**Things that could be covered**

  * Version control
  * Github (PRs and stuff)
  * Existing system overview/architecture
  * Deploying web services
  * Infrastructure (dashboard, scelserver-1, infrastructure github, etc).
  * types of work to expect (science/research, development, operational)
    * we need examples for this
  *  TODO - Add more topics
  * vpn?
  * linux basics (with cli)
  * installing SSH on your local machine
    * generating ssh certificates 
  * software engineering?
  * querying the control_tower database for information

I think this should be conducted in the first week or so, alongside the normal orientation.

**Couple of things I haven't considered yet**

  * what is the timing with the CDR/PDR/etc?
  * any reading ahead of time?
  * do we need a similar session for the 296 students?
  * what kind of hardware do folks need?
  * can mentors/previous lab members be included in this to help out?
  * can we record these sessions?
  * office hours?
  * pacing? is this conducted every semester? (probably)
  * what is covered in EE 160?
  * might be good to get a survey of who has what experience
  * how is training currently conducted?

**Tasks**

  * Review the current orientation, and see what content is covered there
  * Detailed outline of content
  * Documents
  * Background reading
  * Powerpoint presentation