WATcloud Team Documentation

Overview

As a WATcloud member, you have access to a variety of resources to help you get started and be successful.

First, you should get familiar with all of the services that WATcloud provides. Using these services regularly (e.g. run your homework assignments and personal projects on the compute cluster) will help you understand them from a user’s perspective¹.

Next, you should understand the WATcloud Guidelines. These guidelines are a set of best practices that help produce high-quality work and facilitate collaboration.

Finally, you should obtain access to various tools that the team uses. You can do this through the onboarding-form. Here’s a list of the most important ones:

• Discord: Our primary communication platform. Select WATcloud Incoming if you are new. Team leads decide when to grant WATcloud and Core Member, based on the amount and quality of work you’ve completed.
• Google Workspace: Your @watonomous.ca email account. Your 1Password invite link is sent to this inbox.
• GitHub: Our primary code repository. Select WATonomous Team to get access to internal repos.
• Compute Cluster: Our primary compute resource.
• WATcloud Internal Tools: A collection of internal tools (e.g. Prometheus) that you may find useful.
• Sentry: Our error tracking tool. Select WATcloud to get access to WATcloud projects.
• Additional Comments: We have moved away from onboarding projects for now. Admission is task-oriented, with an evaluation period of half a term in most cases.

As you get more involved in the team, you may need to access additional tools or upgrade your access level. A team lead will help you with this.

Meetings

WATcloud hosts weekly meetings. The meeting time is decided at the start of each term by existing and incoming members; for the Fall 2026 term it is Monday at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. These meetings take place on Discord in the General 1 voice channel. Sometimes, we may also have meetings in-person in the server room (CPH-3667) to perform hardware maintenance.

Each meeting is an opportunity to review ongoing projects, plan upcoming work, and discuss technical or administrative topics.

WATcloud members are expected to attend the meetings, and anyone else is welcome to join as well.

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