If you have questions about or infrastructure reach out in Discord or interested in volunteering email blackteam@neccdl.org
Expectations
- Attend a weekly one-hour Black Team meeting beginning late October
- Early meetings typically run shorter, covering theme discussion and infrastructure
- Monitor Slack and remain responsive to team communication
- Communicate proactively if conflicts arise that prevent you from completing assigned work
- Show openness to learning and cross-training on other infrastructure throughout the season
Ways to Volunteer with Black Team
- Development of a server or an application
- Helping write a technical inject, usually only needed for regionals
- Support moderation and tickets during qualifiers and/or regionals
Infrastructure & Automation
We lean heavily on automation-first principles when building and deploying the competition. While you don’t need to be an expert in all areas, a willingness to learn or existing knowledge of the following is expected
- Terraform – Infrastructure as code used to deploy our competitions environments
- Ansible – for configuration management and system provisioning
- Packer – for baking pre-configured images
- AWS – Not necessary to know but highly recommended since we use it to host our competition infrastructure
Supporting Tools:
- Git – for version control (GitHub)
- Slack – Communication thought the season with black/red/white teams
- Discord – Used during the competition for blue team communication
Requirements
Volunteers must have graduated or otherwise left their school for more than two years. If you are interested but do not meet this requirement, please still reach out, there may be other ways you can assist.
“Legalese”
- Individuals of the black team are not allowed to provide an advantage to a team.
- Sharing competition infrastructure or setup with a team.
- Answering questions or providing information that cannot be derived directly from public information (e.g., competition rules, challenge descriptions, or publicly accessible League resources).
- If a team asks you a question directly, you should bring it up internally to the black team. If deemed important, an answer will be shared over public channels.
- Violations of these rule may result in the disqualification or league ban of the team involved, and you will be removed from your black team role.