Thank you. Thank you all. I'm Ray Mitchell and I'm a proud member of the WordPress community and Also a proud member of a smaller lesser known part of the community Black press I will take a moment to introduce you to a couple of members of our big and growing community destiny Fox Hano George Woodard the third and Maestro Stevens So in preparation, I've got ten pounds of questions But only only have enough time for a five pound bag worth of questions So I'm gonna ask these guys to be kind of brief Answers of questions as fully as you can but be brief First because it's a word camp I'm gonna ask the official word camp question if you would introduce yourself and Tell us what you do in WordPress The lights Are pretty bright should have won my sunglasses. Hey, my name is Maestro Stevens. I'm a Brand webmaster. I have a creative agency. I built websites for the WordPress obviously And I love branding my escape orders will tune so we didn't rehearse this Probably should have hello everyone. My name is George Woodard. I am a marketing consultant and WordPress web developer I have my own agency by the name of L squared media group. I'm based out of Houston, Texas by way of Alabama I'm a southern boy by heart This is actually my second time speaking at work camp last year. I spoke To represent the underrepresented in tech So when this awesome group of people came with this idea, of course, I was like heck yeah Let's let's do this so glad to be here glad to see everyone. I Do have my shades, but I'll leave them in my bag and destiny conno coming to you all from Tokyo, Japan I am a sponsored Contributor by automatic working in the training team We work on learn WordPress check it out later.   Yeah, absolutely. Um, so I Within automatic I also helped co-found our black employee resource group Coco Maddox. There's a bunch of coco magicians in here, too And this idea of you know building community internally Really inspired us to break branch out further. So a co-founder of Black press nice a sweet who also is from automatician and I just kind of came together We're like, how can we think about this on a broader scale? How can we impact more people when we have some ulterior motives as well that I'll share with you but essentially in 2022 we started having discussions with other black professionals in the WordPress space and You'll see on our website blackpresswp.com that There before co-founders listed. So that's myself nice a sweet Alina men's and Joseph Simpson who's helping organize this work camp for y'all, too And we really came together with this mission of yes Creating a space for black professionals to network connect build community Mentor share opportunities Really build a safe space to foster that and but we also had a Goal that's not yet realized but we hope to of bringing the future generations into WordPress specifically hitting up HBCUs historically black colleges and universities and In going beyond just that to like what are the colleges and like Africa doing or other countries, right? But bringing in the global youth black youth Into WordPress at an earlier stage to education Cool. Yeah, so you talked a little bit about the community nature of it and you kind of alluded to Membership outside of the US can you talk a little bit about the group's makeup? And where the members actually do come from Yeah, so you can come from anywhere in the world We you know our mission is to connect folks that identify as being part of the black diaspora And so that includes me living in Tokyo that includes people black folks in Europe in the US Like we definitely don't see black press although it was you know founded in North America as being a you know US or Western Group we want to ensure there are connections fostered Throughout the world and we do have folks coming from like Ghana From the UK some of them spoke today. So we that's really our mission in earnest Cool. Well, my strawma ask you the next question Can you talk a little bit about the culture of black press?   I will definitely say that the culture was welcoming when I first entered I would definitely say destiny Just gave me so much insight and as well as just gave me opportunity to be able to have meetups And you know to do other things like that. So but the best part about I would say the culture is the fact that We we all are here right now and to me. This is history in the making You know what I mean? Like these lights are really getting on my nerves.  Listen, the culture is real And I'm saying this to say because if we can't do that if we can't if I can't call George out of some CP time They're saying, you know, listen, and I'm past the mic. We're my tell that I'm ready to get hot We're gonna take them to church and that's what the culture about black press is you take them to church But we do it in the WordPress way. So I'm a fan. I'm in love. This is this is my family. This is these are my people Yeah WordPress has always been about community and extending This project to community and there's definitely a big sense of Partnership and collaboration. I'm gonna ask George this question As a member of black press, I see as an actual member not just a moderator but a member but I've seen you and I've seen many other members to act Collaboratively as teachers and partners and guides, but I'm not sure you alluded to the welcome that you've received Why do you think that's such a big part of black press? For you and for the other members of the community. I mean when you come into any type of group you're looking for some sense of belonging and specifically in tech, you know Minorities make up less than 7% even though we're 13% of the overall US workforce So when you're coming into groups like this You're trying to find a tribe of your own somewhere you feel some sense of belonging So the whole goal behind black press is to bring Minorities and unrepresenting the tech overall to have a space where you know You're not walking into these camps like this is huge You know, you're walking in you see hundreds and hundreds of people and you know nobody I mean like if you're not confident enough for someone who just doesn't feel comfortable in a big space to be able to talk to people You don't know you want to find somewhere you can do that So that's the purpose with black press is having that type of group where you know, hey come on in You know, you have a tribe you have a place to sit somewhere that you feel belonging and Having individuals around you, you know maestro We have Ms. Destiny over here being all the way in Japan, but still, you know, having those people to guide you I mean even down to the co-founder Mike little we get a chance to talk with him and just getting that type of mentorship Having that type of organization where you have someone around you that can just help guide you through your career And even just from a networking aspect, you know, you want to one of the articles I recently wrote for Master WP is about access having access to opportunities Being able to meet the people who have access to those opportunities to help you further your career So the whole purpose of this collective is to help more people Underrepresented in tech to have access to have a sense of belonging to feel like when they come into tech They have somewhere to be rather than getting burned out by just trying to fit in somewhere They don't feel like they fit in so that's definitely interesting comment. I mean a lot of people have the experience of particularly if you're in In a minority group and I use that phrase Rather than underrepresented minority group. Sometimes you're just the only one I can think back to being in elementary school. And if you look at the class picture everybody sitting in front You can definitely pick yourself out of the picture, right? so coming to a word camp and being able to see people and Still, you know, we have pretty good representation and I see over the years that I've been coming to UIS I Guess one is it 2015 was the first one didn't get to go to that one, but 2016 I got to go and Just seeing faces and be able to wave at people. Hey, I see you there and Being able to kind of come together and seeing the numbers increase Over the years. I think has been a good experience and this being kind of a found age It's actually maybe a little more active effort to grow the population. So I see that I'll ask you a question and toss it to anybody who may answer Black press serves a black community, but it's not exclusive, right? That's unique. It's black press. We've got the black t-shirts on but it's not really exclusive community How does the community manage to balance the interest and needs of its black members? But also welcome and embrace the members of the broader WordPress community Yes, this is a well-asked question for sure And I would preface it by saying black press as he's noted is is not exclusionary But it is black by priority, right? And this is a space We are building to help amplify empower black professionals within the WordPress space But that can't only be done From within we also need the support of our allies who can also beat our drum with us and You know share those other opportunities that we might not be privy to or provide that mentorship in a way that is with shared language with shared mission and also in celebration of an effort to just in general increase Expand the touch of WordPress, right? Because because it is it is black press, but it is definitely not exclusively black and having that Additional seasoning helps too Yeah, just makes you know salad tastes better when you have more than just plain lettuce It's been interesting at least in my in my experience. Yeah, I agree with everyone's Up here just having you know people that you can reach out to in the community That might not necessarily be in the black press crew, but also that wants to champion our mission I mean, you know, we all have to survive with relationships somehow So just being able to have those allies outside of the organization that say hey, you know, we're with you We hear you we agree with your mission. We see you, you know Being able to team up and partner that's crucial I mean you you can't get through life period just by being in one silo You have to learn the branch out and you never know what those opportunities may bring So yes having our allies are it is extremely crucial in this case Not only just for black press but black and tech and just people in general So yes, we need our allies to help us with this mission to further along to partnership to grow, you know Maybe there is some training out there that we might not necessarily have access to that some of our allies might have Access to and having those type of partnerships are just vital for for growth of this organization All right, and I think growth is an important component because It's nice to see You guys, but I know that there are a lot more people here that are not necessarily participating and not necessarily just at the word camp but larger so I'll ask you this question maestro in terms of communicating the message Um, what do you think or how do you think that we? black press can do a little better job at communicating our message and What are some asked that we can ask the audience to do to help communicate our message? I think this is the start Just being here. I Mean while everybody's been talking I've been looking at everybody's eyes like I'm an eye-looker I'm looking at everybody's eyes right now And I'm saying this because you know Being able to see you you've been able to see us. I think that we definitely need to really So for example, I met somebody yesterday and we were all taking our group picture and we just grabbed this random You know person this random black man. He had no idea that black press has even existed next to you know He's hanging out with us, you know, and we're just going in chilling when taking it with them And that's how I feel like we need to continue to just keep like we're going back to the allies We have to keep continuing to ask for help ask for support. I know that destiny. I Don't know a few others as well and shout outs to a Ken and Ali. They're not here And I'm gonna shot them out for real for real. See it's about that I try to shout out everybody I can as much as possible show love I think that black press we need to do that a lot more. I know that we have The website which I hope everybody goes to everybody should know the website We we did some highlights. We've highlighted You know ourselves. I think that we definitely just need to continue to amplify, you know our voices And I feel like this whole place should be feel I mean I can speak for myself I didn't promote like 15 minutes or 30 minutes beforehand just asking me are you coming into here coming? Are you coming in coming in? I feel like maybe we could have done that Am I wrong? That's reasonable. That's reasonable So it's just you know, I'm calling us all out, you know, I'm calling myself out I need to do better and I'm gonna be honest, you know for a while I had kind of backed off for a little bit because I just got burnt out I got overwhelmed but when I got back in it felt like home again And it was really really great to be able to see like it grew and every single time somebody's new is coming in And then I see in the chat welcome this person welcome that person welcome this person So if you are not black it does not matter you belong with us You know, especially if you support and that's something I think that we definitely need to be able to help out a lot more with Thoughts George destiny Mean he said it, you know just being able to be more vocal be more out front, you know Have having more of us on these panels Even the speakers in the different sessions, you know letting everyone know like we're here You know myself I tried to to his point. I tried to tweet about stuff But you know, we all get busy things happen, but we have to do better about that, you know being more proactive about our Exposure And it works as a two-way street, you know, we have Many of us working many different facets within the WordPress community So, you know reaching out to our allies and say hey, this is something that someone has going on That's real big that we think should be highlighted making sure that announcement gets out and just overall being better about just You know letting people know that it's a lot of people out here doing a lot of different things for a lot of good causes Whether it's solving tech problems or just volunteering in general and just making those things known So you will know that these people exist these causes exist these products exist these services exist and just everything That's being done within the black press community. Just making sure that thing is out there and in front of the community Yeah, I think that definitely is a is one thing that destiny is a big champion of Celebrating our successes and prompting people to say what you're working on and say What's good and share it? I think it's just a matter of seeing the small successes and the big ones But seeing those successes over time encourages you and inspires you to push a little bit harder To move forward so as the Queen mother of the panel tell us Tell us why and tell us how right because you All right, so now it's time to thank destiny, but you put a lot of time and effort Into keeping us going so I want to personally say yes destiny you Your efforts a lot of times in our chat You know highlighting people making sure that we are speaking out about what we're doing what everybody's doing Whether it's bigger or small that effort does not go unnoticed I'm bad at taking compliments We can do this for the rest of the time because I think we're gonna finish early. I will shrink I But I just I Hope you are feeling just like the love that we're trying to build in this community the support that we're throwing out there for each Other being vocal about it as well as really important And yeah, I I think of myself as like a community builder That's what I do in the in the training team with for the WordPress community at large and it's Joy in my life to be doing that so yeah kind of one thing about that is like Setting up the space for it one and trying to follow up so like small steps who I like we're all talking about like How we felt like we could have done better to like we also can't be too hard on ourselves because we do have our other jobs This is volunteer work. So also just celebrating those little wins is really helpful to keep us going So yeah, and I always love hearing your stories whenever it comes up yeah Celebrating successes and we celebrate big and small but also it's not participation trophies I think part of it is Maybe it's part of the black nature, but yeah, you'll get cut if you're not doing your your role So yeah, you get clowned occasionally in the chat. We do that often too, but it is in the spirit of Lifting and building each other up And you talked about this potentially being a model for other groups as well We're laying out a process and Other affinity groups Can maybe adopt some of the principles that that we've had We have a very very as we've alluded to a very very active slack channel We've built a website to kind of make things a little bit more public-facing But it is a growth process for us over the last couple of years Why didn't I wind it down? Let me see if I don't get anything else in here No, I'm not gonna say that one because I'm saving that for the last question I guess also talking about other groups and other unrepresented groups talk often about allies and we definitely have our share Would you like at the risk of forgetting or naming somebody? Do we want to talk about the types of allies rather than just specific names? anyone Listen, I'm not afraid Michelle That has helped me been significant in my growth. Joe has been significant in my growth Now I help me get you know here when Stina I got spot I mean, but George, I mean I can't I mean I can keep going the name can keep going now I'm just giving you clear examples of people who have been significant in my growth of understanding that you know This is a family.  We know that She got some she got some blackness to her though.  I'm shot them out. There's a reason why I'm here You know as far as you know paying for some pain pain helping me pay for some sponsorship So it was you know WP Tavern, you know, I can go down the list I'm just being honest with you like if I can't be honest with you We got to hide this that's the problem with WordPress sometimes. We're not honest with ourselves We're not honest with ourselves, and we're not we're not get showing love when we have the opportunity to do so So that's why I'm saying like, you know, whether it's an ally whether it's somebody who is a business a company a Sponsorship what doesn't matter whatever the case is. I just want to thank you if I haven't said your name trust me you in my heart And I still thank you anyway. I just want to like plus one this idea of like the transparency and in that like Sharing these processes. That's kind of another reason why sometimes you feel like you have to build a Separate space to to be able to shed light to those things. So like as an ally definitely coming in and sharing whatever opportunities you have but kind of switching back to what Ray was saying about how they can also take learnings from what we're doing and tie it into their community is like to me a form of like transparency and knowledge sharing that We can all give each other as well All right, I'm gonna ask Maestro to bring us home since since he is a Passionate advocate for black press and all that is black press How would you recommend someone to get started? What's the easiest way to dip their toe in the black press pound? What's their next up? I'm gonna conjure up my inner Bernie Matt Let me tell you something right now.  Right there Just all you gotta do Tell you right there. You go to the website. You sign up. You're in the button. They got slashed up. We got everything That's all you gotta do. Just go to the website Is that simple enough for you Ray? Well, I've had a good time Thank You destiny. Thank you George. Thank you Maestro. I'm Ray Mitchell I think we're done except for the question taking and and please address the person you want to answer the question Is it on is this okay? It's on I have a question about the WAPU the black press WAPU. What was the inspiration behind it? I'm gonna leave somebody else to answer that question because I just found out recently what what the significance was to oh my gosh If you haven't seen our WAPU yet, please go to WAPU.com or for this site is and look at it. It's major poo Which is based off of like HBC use Typically have drum lines and we have majors and so you'll see that inspiration of the drum culture In that so that was the inspiration and I'm gonna do a shout out to Channing Ritter who is previously in the open verse team she helped design Our shirt she helped ally She helped design that WAPU with us in collaboration with us and yeah, I Go check it out. It's really cute. We want to get swag some time Another question Yeah, yeah, so yeah curious on your thoughts on this from all you really You know, I'm from San Diego, you know, and I work camps in Santa Ebony when I was a kid You know like San Diego is about 12% black now.  It was like our token black dude, right? so like for for like for us like How do we like, you know kind of increase that that community without marginalizing tokenizing Make it feel like we're like trying to hit quotas, right? Like how do we increase that diversity? You know like going forward like increasing that that community in a community that is Like increasingly diminishing, right? I was kind of curious about your thoughts on that Well, I know one of the things which actually brought me into the black press crew was hbc use Historically back colleges and universities. I myself was a hbc graduate graduate from Alabama A&M in 2008 and 2017 I got my master's in computer science and to your point with You know having local meet-ups Being able to tap into that pipeline My personal experience in grad school was my time to study wordpress It's all self-taught, but I had no one in my local community. I'm originally from huntsville, Alabama No one in the local community who had any knowledge of what wordpress is So having now I live in houston texas, you know having the meet-ups being able to reach out to like pv Which is prairie university, uh texas southern any other hbc use or even going to the inner cities You know a lot of um young black kids myself growing up in the inner city of huntsville You know having a computer was a luxury You know a lot of kids don't get a chance to get access to that type of stuff And exposing them just going out and show them You know instead of spending 10 hours on the ipad in front of it. You need to learn how it works You know exposing them to that type of stuff creating that pipeline into inner city kids hbcu students To give them the opportunity to understand that tech is out there You know you don't have to pick up a basketball. You don't have to go be an entertainer You can be a programmer. You can be a developer if you have a creative mind be a designer Um, you might not have any of those tech skills, but you can be a qa. You could be a project manager You know, there's so many different Fastes of this job in the wordpress community that many of black and brown kids and just underrepresented all together don't even know exist And just reaching out to uh those type of mediums, you know myself being hbcu grad That's one of the things I brought to the table is that the hbcu community is such a closely guarded community because of the reason hbcu's were started in the first place So as someone who's a hbcu grad I have that access to be able to say hey You know, here's an organization that's out here trying to represent black and brown people in the tech community And we want to give more exposure to black and brown kids in school whether it's in the elementary level all the way up to the collegiate level and Let them know like you don't have to go be an engineer if you don't want to you don't have to feel forced into that There's other ways that you can you know, explore that creative mind to have a different career So I mean there are so many different ways to do it, but I know with us hbcu's and the inner city kids That's something that we're actively trying to champion to create a pipeline to bring more of them into this space So they have exposure and not even just wordpress. This is just one instance just in tech in general You know, there's many in the black press community You know wordpress is the only thing they do they can do full stack development You know, some may have cross platform development ai development Just anything to help them break into tech and know that these opportunities are out there that you can build a career Working in tech and have fun doing it too Yeah, I think to that end. I'm I'm definitely indebted to wordpress Uh, I've been doing it for a while and started my company for $250 Shout out to dream host one of our sponsors, but I bought a domain name Got a year of hosting Uh, I bought a theme from theme far. Sorry about that. Um But that's how I started it right we have the phrase or we talk about uh democratizing publishing And that's what wordpress can do but people have to know that and the way that we get more people to be a part of our democracy To have the opportunity to still today you can start your business For $250. So it's actually cheaper than it was 10 years ago, right? The only way you can do that is to get more people involved in the democracy By sharing wordpress and helping that local small business Helping that nonprofit to get rid of that janky wick site that they put together and give them something that they can work And when I talk to clients I say, you know I work with wordpress You know something that the pta and the boy scouts and the little church ladies used to build a website But nasa and rolling stone and harvard business review and new york times Use this as a backbone and it's the same thing that you can use So getting people to understand that there's opportunity through wordpress Is something that whether you're in black person or not if you're a wordpresser you should be spreading the gospel of wordpress Right? I'm I'm a wordpress evangelist. So I'm sorry. I did just want to underline that you know our shared language is wordpress, right? So that we can bring that in any community and I I don't know if anyone saw but just down the hall There's like blacks in government another convention Why aren't we yelling about wordpress? The convention right now too, right? So Taking your wordpress our shared language and Seeing who's willing to hear is a way of bringing people in, right? So I have kind of a two-part question. My name is Courtney Robertson. I work at go ready As a developer advocate and I get to as part of that contribute to the training team with destiny And I've been doing so for A while we'll say I first met some of this crew george. You and I connected when I was teaching my underserved underrept high school kids That were being paid as summer interns to learn wordpress And in that bootcamp experience george and I connected kind of along those ways and some of the other people that came together that are Now a big organizing force of black press Destiny I would like to continue collaborating on outrage to let organizations like this know About the work that's happening on learn because I see that there is an avenue whether it is through Bootcamp programs this one my kids were getting paid They weren't paying to be there. They were getting they were high school kids getting paid And and joe introduced emcee them in philly Which is just amazing Oh when I continue collaborating with you on maybe some outrage to programs like that so that we can foster Continuing the education and awareness But I guess maybe the next question wearing my other hat as go daddy Are we have similar to coco press? We have gd black and tech Would black press like to come and kind of present to maybe groups like that employee resource groups Hey, here is what's going on in the wordpress community and perhaps how you could get involved because I would really love for you to do that Mama Oh any any auntie So definitely in our slack we have an opportunities channel So if you're like, hey, I think this is a great collaboration opportunity We would like to have some folks come and speak, you know time permitting Yeah, we want to hear about that. We want to see because we don't know everything We don't we don't know all black people either. So like we want to be introduced We want to know who they are we want to share our space And so I would say yes, let's continue those conversations Um And what I have been intentionally doing is like when I started Helping folks put on like online sessions as I would cross post them to the learn wordpress Online workshop meetup as well because that's also exposure, right this cross posting a little bit of mixing And then people are like, oh, that was brought on by black press. What's that? And I'm like, yeah hooked another one So, um, I think those parts where we can, you know I don't know if there's a better phrase for this Killed I'm sorry birds metaphorical, um Let's keep talking about that because I think you know our time is limited and precious and we want to make the most of it out of it Hello, great panel. My name is alvaro grudian and I work for a Spanish language media company called la noticia And not just for my company, but also fellow publishers that I know across the country I really love seeing this because we struggle to find talent that has both the technical competency And the cultural competency. So I heard a little bit about How to help other Affinity groups get started. I just want to get down to the concrete part. You know, how do we do it? And because we got to find these people I think that well, bienvenidos y gracias por visitando Um, I think the opportunity is there. I mean, it's a template. I mean and the tools are out there and they're free Wordpress is free Slack is kind of free It's really time and be willing to get together Yeah, so i'm a christian and we often say we're two or more gathered Things happen, right? Two more latinos two more women Two more whatever get together There's power in that number and if Those two tell two more I can't do my You know exponential math, but you can understand the process, right? So it is something that we can talk to you about It's something that you can see for yourself by coming and joining us and I guess in the technical space george would say it's r&d rob and duplicate It's the opportunity to do this, right? So yeah, I would encourage it It would at least help me with my Spanish a little bit if I can get into another group so So to your to your point um to your question Because I know I don't think she's in here, but I got a shout-out uh william and aida too Um and the reason why is because we've been talking about kids and helping out and they do a lot in the community And as a matter of fact, if it wasn't for them, I would have felt stranded in europe when I was a speaker Um aida speaks spanish as far as I know and william is black their combination So if you were and she and they're in black press Right, so i'm just trying to make it more practical and realistic You know the ally, you know Modeling as you had mentioned I don't know how many people speak spanish in the black press, you know community Not had a razor I gotta I gotta learn but i'm saying to say like maybe we well We had will make the site bilingual, you know, and our first mode is to make it spanish, you know And that way we're we're uh We're adding more to what you're saying, you know what i'm saying, but I definitely would suggest you you will reach out to aida I'm gonna guess last question because I see the uh probably the last question. Yeah, what's going on? Yeah, um So you talked about the kids and you talked about making stuff and advocating in different businesses and things like that What about And my issue we already talked about this yesterday What about that one person man or woman who in a different career And found that they want to do something else and they don't know how to get started or that person Who's been training and putting it off putting off putting off and then they find a way to You know what let me try it But I don't know what resources I need or how to get started because it's easy to fail and then be like i'm good So what would you say to that person who is trying to get in? Especially if they are a person of color somebody who's black like what would you say to that person? Keep going persistence You know no no battles won overnight Personally, you know, I'm not the strongest developer in the world But I've worked along some very bright minds And if I would have quit I would not have made it to year 12, which is where I'm at now So it's really that mean that's kind of the the spirit of black press too is having that accountability to help push you to keep going You know, we all get beat up. We all get discouraged failures are part of the process But having a community to rally around you in those moments to help lift you up and keep you going You know, that's that's something you need to be around Um, but really it's just persistence keep moving.  Good friend of mine. He actually was a mailman at one point And then he in his downtime while delivering mail Study wordpress to now work at pinsky So, I mean if he had given up just imagine where he could be that's just the the overall Model you just have to keep going but also get around people who have that same collective mind That's willing to encourage you to keep pushing along because I mean in any job any career any profession You're going to hit walls. You're going to fail.  That's fine All right, let's get back up. Let's figure out what we're going to do next. Yeah, um along that line This is not what at some level it is what I wanted to do on this kid In eighth grade. I'm old Eight they used to call it commercial art what we call graphic art at this time I thought I wanted to do that and left it entirely Uh did a lot of things came out of financial services Started a different company Uh that didn't quite work out, but I built my first website to do that People asked me about websites and that's how I actually began doing this as a job I could have done much more Sooner had I not had to do it alone Having a community that will help you will help you go further faster and I guess that's one of those old black problems as well, you know, but uh It's an opportunity to do it in this community. So the person who's tried and considering a career change Well, you can find people in black dress group who've gone through the same thing Or who want to learn a little learn a little bit more about design Because they you know really can't tie their shoes when it comes to picking colors There's people who will uh Help with that too. So definitely. I think there's the opportunity for collective growth In collective organizations like this And we hope that we'll join you. You'll join us. All right, because we want you algo mas contentos Okay, then thank you very much


Now, one thing that I love hearing about when it comes to NFL contracts is the incentives. Why? Because we're all incentive-based people. We love incentives. Like, think about it, if you at your job and your manager comes around like, hey, we got this program and if you do X, Y, and Z while on a job, then you can get paid this much more extra money. And we're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll take it because we don't just want to make the base pay, we want even more.  If you do good on this test, you do good on this assignment, X, Y, and Z. He'll be like, okay, yeah, that'll give him that motivation to do that much better. So incentives is something that not only applies to adults, but children and really people of all ages. So with Jadevian Clowney, we got to hear of his incentives today and that is something that could give him a little extra motivation, a little extra push because he can make a little extra cash. So we know that he has, his contract is a $2.5 million base salary. That's what he gets no matter what, that 2.5 mil. But we did of course hear that his contract is worth up to six mil, but how can he make the remaining $3.5 million in extra cash? Well, let's take a look at the breakdown. So Phil Yates let us know. It said, Jadevian Clowney's incentives with the Ravens. So if he gets five sacks, then he gets $500,000, $500,000. And James and Hensley put this in perspective for us. He said, Jadevian Clowney has totaled more than five sacks just once in his last four seasons. So some people could look at this like, oh man, Ravens ain't gonna have to pay him that bread. But Jadevian Clowney could look at it like, oh, you know what, let me really put in some work. Let me really step my game up because I'm trying to get that cash, man. So I can't be mad at either side for the way that they structured this thing. But anyway, so if he gets five sacks, he gets $500,000. Now, if he gets seven sacks, then he gets a meal. So just two more sacks. You get an additional $500,000 for just two more sacks. If you get the five, it's like, all right, I got a nice 500K. You get the, you get seven, you get 500K more. Can you beat that? Well, you actually can because if you get nine sacks, if you get just two more than that, after you done hit your $1 million incentive, if you get two more than that, then you get 1.75 meal. So that's a beautiful thing. That's a beautiful thing. Now, it's not 500K, then one meal, then one point seven, no, no, no. It's 500K for the five sacks or for seven sacks, you get a total of one meal or for the nine sacks, you get a total of 1.75 meal. I think the way that I explained it before made it sound like it was additional and additional additional. My apologies if I confused anybody. But then now this part, it's another kicker. So if he plays 50% of the snaps, he gets $500,000. Just for being there and playing half the time, you get $500. I mean, $500,000. Now $500, because $500 of NFL player looking at that like, what is this? That's regular people. We looking at $500 like, okay, we'll take it, but NFL players like, please, what's that? Anyway, so he gets $500,000 for playing 50% of the snaps. Now, if he plays 60%, if he gets 60% of the snaps, plays 60% of the snaps, then he gets $1 million. So if he gets past the 50% play time and gets to 60%, then he gets an additional $1 million. It's like, okay. And then the same exact breakdown, if he plays 65% of the snaps, then he gets the 1.75 meal. So Judevian Clowney is out there on that field for more than 65 of the snaps, then he'll earn 1.75 meal.  Go do your thing. Then he gets 1.75 meal. So with Judevian Clowney, we heard the rumors and stuff that, hey, Judevian Clowney, money is a big motivator when it comes to him, but isn't that with most people?  Oh, he just doing it for the money. Oh, he just showed out that year for the money. It's their job. They do their job for the money. Do you go to work for free?  To get paid. So when people talk about football players wanting to get paid and they make it like it's a bad thing, to me, it just never makes any kind of sense. So with Judevian Clowney, if he wasn't motivated already, and again, of course, when he had his first interview as Baltimore Raven, he spoke with Garrett Downey real quick. It was super, super, super brief. He talked about winning. He said, winning, that's what matters. Winning is the most important thing. That's cool. Winning is great. I mean, it's more fun for us fans. And I'm sure it's fun for the players too, but this is also a business. And these guys are in this business to make bread. And Judevian Clowney, he made a nice amount of bread in his lifetime, but he can be motivated to make even more this year. And when you put that, like the way that the Raven set this up is nice. It's really nice because it's safe. Now, safe for instance, you can't even call it worst case scenario. It's really best case scenario. He gets the max value of this contract. That would mean you got a lot out of Judevian Clowney. You got a whole lot out of Judevian Clowney. Cause he got, if he gets max value for this contract, that means he got nine sacks or more. Nine or more sacks. And he played over 65% of the snaps. So that would be a phenomenal year for Judevian Clowney. So if, I hope he can reach his incentives. I really, really do. I really do. Yeah, Raven's gonna have to shed out that extra money, but okay, he bought out for you, great. But worst case scenario, if he doesn't, then okay, it's just a one year, either a one year, $2.5 million deal, or a one year, a $3 million deal, just depends on what incentives he did hit or did not. But again, I'm hoping that he clears all of them incentives. He gets all that bread. He gets all that money because that would mean that he just simply balled out for the Baltimore Ravens. And see, Judevian Clowney, see, this is some motivation for this year. But Judevian Clowney could also be thinking a little long-term too. He could be thinking more into the future. Because yeah, he's on a one year deal with the Baltimore Ravens. So he's only around for this year. Ravens seem to be having a more all-in approach, which I love, I appreciate it. But with that being said, he could be thinking beyond just this year and thinking, man, if I show out this year, if I really put in that work this year, and I really do my thing this year with these Baltimore Ravens, then that could set me up for success somewhere else. That could set me up for not necessarily a big payday, but a decent-sized payday, maybe for one more team. Maybe for a couple more years. Because if he shows that age, Judevian Clowney, oh, he still got it. Oh, he looking like that. Oh, you know what? Yeah, let's sign him. Other teams could be looking at him, be inquiring on him, be wondering about him, and be like, oh, he do still got something left in the tank. And he got plenty left in the tank. You know what? Let's take a fly on Judevian Clowney. Let's see how he's looking. Let's see how he could fit in with us. But we'll see how it goes. Regardless of what incentives Judevian Clowney hits this year, the biggest incentive I want to see Judevian Clowney get is that Super Bowl ring. Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Make sure you subscribe to the channel. Turn your notifications on, please turn them on. Leave a like on the video. Hopefully you're liking what you're watching. I appreciate you. I love you and we out.


Right well Adam Schefter reports the NFL has suspended Josh Gordon indefinitely for violating the league's policy on performance and So maybe that's why Seems weird So did they get inside dope on it? No pun intended was it an it was yeah, that's weird It's a lot going on with that was never that was never an issue for Josh Gordon, right? That's how it was marijuana Yeah, this is this is specifically performance enhancing the PD Schmead the situation Yeah, so I don't know boy. There's a lot of talent wasted there But I guess we'll get to the bottom of that or Adam Schefter will get into the bottom of and we will report it to you as soon as we can Steve young


In this video I'm going to talk about identifying parent functions to model data sets okay So again identifying parent functions to model data sets basically what we're going to be doing in this video is taking a data Set taking some coordinates plotting them and then seeing what turns up What what kind of what kind of parent function does this look like is it going to be is it going to be a cubic function? Is it going to be a constant? Is it going to be a linear function? Is it I mean there's a bunch of different parent functions that we have okay? So we're going to see we're going to graph this we're going to see what it looks like so again graph the data set Which we have down here from the set of ordered pairs Describe the parent function and the transformation that best approximate the data set so not only are we going to identify The parent function itself. We're going to identify how it looks differently from the original parent function Okay, so we'll take a look that here in just a second Okay So the first thing I need to do is I need to graph the data set not to not too troublesome now as I look at this data set I like when I look at some of my bigger numbers, so two negative 12 or excuse me negative 212 and then 212 12 is kind of a big number and as I look at my graph here I Don't have a lot of space So this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to change the I'm going to change the The number that my graph goes up and down by now I'm going to do that not for the x coordinates But I'm going to do that for the y coordinates so on my y-axis I'm going to go up and down by twos or threes or fours or something like that Okay, now as I see here, I have one two three four five Okay, so I might want if I go by twos it'd be two four six eight ten which still doesn't get me to twelve So instead I'm going to go by three so three six nine 12 15 okay, so that will actually get me so I can actually graph this to 12 here So again, I'm gonna go by three, so I got three six nine 12 and then that's that's it I'm not going to change my x-axis because I'm with my x is I'm going negative two negative one zero one two So I'm there's no need for me to change the x-axis only the y-axis has given me trouble Okay, so I'm going to graph this there's gonna be negative two and then 12 which is all the way up here And then I'm going to have negative one three so negative one three right here Kind of get in the way of the three there zero zero right there at the origin Right there at the origin one three so one one two Oh gotta be careful gotta be careful if I change the increments I don't I go up by threes not up by ones almost made that mistake and then I got two twelve So one two and then one two three four five six seventy nine ten eleven twelve It's handy to put those numbers right there on the side so you can see them as you're graphing All right, so now As I look at this as I look at this what what parent function does that look like well We're gonna have to connect the dots before we can see that so we start at zero zero. I'm gonna come up here The arrow I'm gonna start my zero zero.  Okay, so again, I want to describe the parent function So I've already done that. This is gonna be quadratic quadratic Looks like a quadratic function where everything's curving up into kind of a smiley face and now what I want to do is I want to and then also describe the transformation the best approximate the data set well Basically what that saying is how how is it different from the original parent function? How is it different from the original quadratic? Well, what we would need to do is we need to graph the original to see kind of how they differ like is it and Especially with changing our increments right here is it has this has it's gotten bigger smaller scrunched Widen's like what what is that? What has done what has been done to this? So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna graph the parent function on this other side here Let me use a different color Okay, so I'm gonna graph the parent function now This is where a good knowledge of the parent function. This is where the knowing the coordinates is to be really really handy For the for the parent function, I'm gonna write this in red I'm just gonna write the coordinates over here if I if I plug in a negative two So I'm kind of gonna plug in the same x coordinates if I plug in a negative two into my original parent function Which is just x squared if I plug in a negative two that's gonna give me four if I plug in a negative one That's gonna give me one Okay, so if I again if I plug in negative two negative two squared is four I plug in a negative one negative one squared is one If I plug in a zero zero squared is zero if I plug in a if I plug in a one One squared is one and if I plug in a two two squared is four So what I just very quickly did is came up with a bunch of coordinates that are gonna be used to graph this So now I'm gonna graph those real quick So negative two and then four which is about right here Okay, three four remember my increments are different and then negative one negative one which is about right here Zero zero which is right there. Well, so it looks like that they showed that coordinate and then I'm gonna have one one So one one and I'm gonna have two four so one two one two three four right about there Now I'm gonna draw this in red Okay, so the blue one the blue one is the data the red one is my parent So this is the parent this is the parent and if you can't keep track of either of them You might want to do what I'm doing here. You might want to write You might want to write what they are so that there's the parent one and this one's gonna be the data This one's gonna be the data Okay, so now now we can more accurately now that we actually see it now we can actually say okay describe the transformation Describe the transformation. Okay. Well, what I'm gonna say is Well, it looks like it got looks like it got a lot taller or you could also say everything's been compressed everything all the Everything's been kind of compressed in so there's two ways you can describe this you can say it either got taller Which now if we get to the technical terminology if you make something taller You are vertically stretching it vertical stretch or you could also say well Everything came in it kind of compressed everything you could also say this is a horizontal compression. So there's actually two There's actually two descriptions. We could have for this and either one of them would be correct Either one of them would be correct We you could either say what I say vertical stretch. I could say vertical Vertical stretch or you could also say this could be a separate this one would also be valid you could also say horizontal horizontal I Forgot my can't spell horizontal correctly horizontal There we go horizontal compression Horizontal compression. Okay, so there's two ways you could have described this and again either one of those would be correct now as I look at my points There's one of them without I would use above the other Okay, so now look at if you look at the points themselves notice that here. Okay. Here's the red Here's the parent function Everything went up this point went up this point stayed there this This point here went up this point here went up that would lead one to believe that actually a vertical stretch This thing was stretched vertically up that might be a better description of what kind of transformation this was now Again depending depending on how picky your your your instructor wants to be It doesn't really I would think it doesn't really matter which which one you used to describe it But I think both of them are valid But if you really want to be picky it looks like these points went up points went up if the points go up like that It would be a vertical stretch so a vertical stretch may be a better description of what happened but I would also say the horizontal compression still has a good argument also because Everything everything came in came in to get kind of a narrower type of graph All right, that's a that's a quick video quick example of using a data set to kind of model a parent function Identifying the parent function and then identifying the transformation describing the parent transformation from the parent function to the data set


Wires are bendy. You can twist them into all sorts of shapes. Current-carrying wires generate magnetic fields. So if you combine these two, what will happen? It can get complicated very fast, as you might imagine. So let's look at a simple loop first. We found the electric field around two charged particles by looking at the electric field around individual particles and then adding them together. We can apply the same idea to the magnetic field around a loop. Where we look at the magnetic field of each individual part of the wire and then add them together. I can find the magnetic field around each individual part of the wire with the right hand rule. So if I twist this wire into a loop and then rotate it so one side faces you and one side faces me. Now let's say I had a current in this wire going towards me down the bottom, up, up the back, towards you on top and down the front. Now because the current goes towards me down the bottom, the magnetic field is clockwise and up the top the current goes towards you and the magnetic field is anticlockwise. You'll notice that my fingers always point towards the right on the inside of the loop and it always points towards the left on the outside of the loop. This tells us that the overall magnetic field because of the loop points to the right on the inside of the loop and points to the left on the outside of the loop. Here's a 2D visual representation of the magnetic field around a loop. For the side-on view that we were just looking at, the magnetic field due to the bottom bit of the loop would be circular in a clockwise direction. The top bit of the loop would also have a circular magnetic field. However, it would be anticlockwise since the current is travelling in opposite directions. And as we've previously discussed, the magnetic field would be stronger in the middle due to all parts of the current reinforcing it, pointing to the right. Around the outside it would be weaker, pointing to the left. So the magnetic field around a loop looks like this. You'll notice that this looks similar to the magnetic field around a bar magnet, except more squashed. If we lie the ring flat and look at the magnetic field from this perspective, we get the bottom bit of the ring generating a magnetic field going into the page on the inside of the loop and out of the page outside of the loop. The next bit of the ring would do the same, and so on. Overall, you would end up with this field, where the field lines are denser inside the ring and sparser outside the ring.