Hi there, I'm Anthony Chung and I'm the head of market analysis here at Amplify Trading. Every weekday morning I'll deliver a fundamental rundown ahead of the European Open, but if you subscribe to the channel you'll also get content from the rest of the team. So let's begin. Good morning. It is Tuesday the 22nd of September. Hope you are doing well. Quick shout out to my wife, 10 years today since we first met. Time flies when you are having fun. I did say to her yesterday, 10 years would be almost a life sentence in some worlds. But anyway, moving on, a quick look at what we've got on the agenda this morning, what I'm going to talk to you about is a little bit about the overnight session. Lower generally overnight, continued beaten down in terms of some of those big banking stocks like HSBC and Standard Chartered in their Hong Kong listed shares following that news about US anti-money laundering and their involvement potentially in that type of activity. So Asia Lower overnight, following on from the queue from the lower close on Wall Street, we did see a bit of a late bounce actually, particularly tech led going into the closing bell, which didn't narrow some of those losses, but generally lower. Japan still out on a market holiday. We had some comments from drone power last night, but largely a reiteration of what he said before very much just unveiling, I guess, his defensive policies that exist to now politicians, which he's going to be speaking to you throughout the week on Capitol Hill virtually at least an update on the UK COVID situation. Obviously, it's moving fairly quickly at the moment, and the PM is going to give a major speech later on this evening. And there's some big kind of policy U-turns about people now being encouraged to work from home. There's going to be some hospitality industry changes in regards to bars and restaurants. And I can get you up to speed on that. But definitely this could have well have implications on the speed and shape of the recovery in the UK. And that doesn't need to be factored into the pound, which obviously was really the main focal point of yesterday's session, not just the UK, but mainland Europe. The idea of then the kind of slow progression on similar talks coming out of the US. The simmering US-China trade situation, all of these things rearing their head at once and causing that negative session that we had yesterday. And then other things I can update you on is oil, Tesla, and the calendar ahead. So before I get into these stories in more detail, let's have a look at the charts and what have we got on the agenda. And a little bit of a slight repeat of where we kind of left things yesterday. The dollar has just started to bump up a little bit after a very sideways Asia-Pacific session. And a little bit of strength here in the Dixie has seen it come back towards basically unchanged on the session in close proximity to yesterday's highs now in the Dixie. And as a consequence, I'd be keeping an eye today on these major currency pairs. Once again, on the downside levels yesterday's low following the route that we had with the dollar led strength weighing on these major dollar FX pairs, then one 1750 in the euro worth keeping on cable actually even closer toward those loads we printed yesterday, which came in the evening around 6pm London. We're trading around 20 pips away from there at the moment, looking at sterling from a slightly longer time perspective. There's a really key area of course, which the market responded to very nicely, which was the 200 DMA only a matter of weeks ago, 10 days ago or so. And that was a key pivot point from when a lot of the focus, of course, wasn't so much on COVID, but on Brexit, when Johnson was playing the strong hand, going into that eighth round of Brexit talks, which obviously finished with the presentation of the internal market bill coming out of the UK. And that got Europe's backup and so on. So the deterioration of that increased risk of a no deal, that pricing hit that eventual low back on around the 11th before we bounce back up. And here we are back down at these key levels again, again, that also encapsulating around the highs that we were seeing on the recovery through May into early June as well. So quite interested to see how the market reacts here around these levels. You can see here, technically, that low on the 11th was also marking up some highs around the 21st, 23rd of July before the break higher. So we are within distance of there at the moment, around 50, 60 pips or so to the downside. Not for me, I just put an ellipse around here. This is going to be a really key area which could come into play later today's care of support. A break of that, then I'd be looking for a deeper move down to around 126, 74, looking on the daily continuation here. And then the next really technical level of interest isn't seeing down all the way to more toward the 125 handle. And obviously you've got to take out 126 even as well on that descent if that were to materialize. So key day dollar is seeing some strength here at the European Open. So I've definitely been mindful of that elsewhere. Otherwise, gold has had a pretty decent bounce and it's recaptured a 1900 handle, of course, from the quite abrasive sell-off we had yesterday, which is very reminiscent of what we were seeing during the portion of that kind of unwinding of the big tear that gold went on through 2000 initially. And so we're just trading around pivot at the moment. And just keeping on the range here in gold futures, just as we go through the main pickup in volume through the European Open, and that being the Asia-Pacific load that was seen down around 1911, we're just testing there at the moment. And that could be interesting if the dollar does continue to pick up and accelerate on the upside. Be looking if we get a triggered break on there, we could see a deeper heavier move back down to 1900 again in pretty quick fashion, given how gold as an asset typically tends to move on these breaks of technical levels. Otherwise, elsewhere in the equity space, obviously, negative sessions yesterday will be a quite aggressive bounce off those lows into the final half an hour of trade on Wall Street. Obviously, we were looking at the daily chart yesterday and hopefully my briefing kind of made sense because yesterday did kind of play out as we were describing in that we broke technically that 50DMA and trend line. A lot of negative COVID news talk about UK second national lockdown, albeit we're not quite at that point yet, but new restrictions coming in, similar developments on COVID front elsewhere in mainland Europe. And we did think that equities were susceptible to a pullback and we were looking at those lower down levels. And certainly the market did respond to some of these predetermined marks that we were looking at from the initial high that we saw from the US-China situation before that kind of is intensified. And the second wave also started to hit in regard to in the US and the Sunbelt region that was that high we printed back in early June. If you remember the kind of southern and western states in the US. And so, yeah, market responded to that. But look, we're under a bit of pressure again, just going the European open. So that continues to remain a key level and anywhere below there, definitely 3200, 3192, which would be the support level that was really a strong level through from mid to late July. Before then, we started to accelerate to the upside. That would be a very important level to keep an eye on. Meanwhile, in oil, following the general kind of demand reaction, I guess, to an increased threat of COVID concerns globally, it came under some pressure yesterday. So just to be keeping an eye on that for the time being, it's down 10 cents this morning. It's a relatively flat, but as you can see here, finding a little bit of resistance in the overnight Asia Pacific session at around the $40 handle, which was just short of the pivot and also that low point that we printed back on the 17th. It's quite a nice area of technical resistance kind of around this area here. If we get back down to retest the lows that we saw from yesterday, we'd be keeping an eye, of course, down at that low that we printed more like the 38, 83, 85 type level. Going to talk about oil in a moment. There's some other stories to be aware of as well in regards to Libya that's probably worth commenting on as well. Fixed income markets, tea notes pretty flat. Obviously caught a bit of a bid in yesterday's session, just giving the equity sell-off general kind of flight to quality move that we're seeing. But since then has steadied, albeit, it's held on to some of those gains that we've seen yesterday, and we're trading with support to pivot up a tick of $139.19. All right, let's get into some of the headlines. What have we got then? Let's focus on, as I said, overnight in Asia, a negative session. As I mentioned, HSBC Standard Charter Shares were down again another two and a half or so percent. That takes the two-day loss for those banking giants down to around 7% now. And again, just to repeat, that's after then they were named in a report about alleged international banks that have flagged $2 trillion in suspicious transfers to the US anti-money laundering authority. So this had weighed on other banks as well, DB being one, of course, yesterday. Other things that we talked about yesterday, which definitely was, I think, a contributing factor as well to some of the general mentality towards the negativity yesterday, was when we were talking about the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and what the replacement of that might mean is a real contentious issue now for politicians in Washington and as that detract from the timeliness of getting an next round of fiscal stimulus coming out of America, which is obviously crucial to support what is still a fairly precarious and fragile recovery at the moment. So, those are all yesterday. Jerome Powell did speak last night. He didn't speak so much as in his text got released of where he's gonna be speaking later on today to the House Financial Services Committee. Powell said that the US economy, flash it up, US economy is improving but has a long way to go before fully recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. So this is the text before he's scheduled to deliver these comments live later today. He does speak actually three times this week. He's, of course, gonna be joined as well by the Treasury Secretary Steven Minchin as they appear before lawmakers to talk about the various different monetary and fiscal responses that they've put into place since the pandemic began and how they're looking to support the economy and where things might go in the future. Generally speaking, these types of events when central bankers speak to politicians is more about defending their decision making, the success or not of the policies in which they have implemented the politicians typically say they should have done more, they should have acted quicker and so on. So it doesn't really have too much in the way of market related implications. However, of course, this is too very senior people speaking and of course Powell has the propensity to move the markets violently. Should he say something off cue? But the likelihood of that is particularly low. So I wouldn't be expecting too much from this but just to be aware of. So that leads us then into one of the main stories which is in the UK, a really fast developing story. And the latest news I'm sure you saw last night was that Boris Johnson, the prime minister will announce new restrictions on bars and restaurants. Hospitality venues across England will have to close by 10 p.m. from Thursday and will be limited to table service only. He's also reportedly told MPs that he'll be telling the nation tonight that people should work from home if they can. So continued political pressure here for the Tory government because there's a lot of changing of policy that's happened multiple times, a lack of then therefore clarity and what people's understanding are of restrictions for one. And this whole idea of encouraging then people back to work which has been quite a mainstay of general comms coming out of number 10. For the last couple of weeks, that's gonna get flipped just given the gravity of the situation of what the medical advisors in the UK were unveiling yesterday. I think strategically from a political strategy point of view very purposefully done, Boris not talking at those events, leave that to the medical guys and then he can come out and strike a slightly different chord of course and then he can just act or say he's acting upon medical advice that slightly disassociates himself from the end result of economic implications in terms of job loss and so on. So I think that all makes sense just to recap the Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance warned Monday that the current infection rate of which the number of cases is doubling every week could lead to 50,000 new cases by mid-October without urgent action, meaning the alert level is now being moved back from three to four which basically suggests now rising rapidly and probably exponential growth of the virus. Now that headline I think it was 48,000, 50,000 let's say new cases by mid-October that sounds incredibly sensational and obviously the media jumped on that. Now I wouldn't be surprised if I was thinking of again strategy from a government side that that was purposefully done. This virus has to be taken under control and one of the main things is people's adherence to the rules and the restrictions being put into place which obviously has been fairly loose as we've seen from the lack of social distancing that's been present over the last couple of weeks that's kind of led to a large portion of this situation. So don't believe though the 50,000 by mid-October the way that this works is kind of like when in the banking sector we do stress tests and so when we do stress tests for example we would run an economy through multiple different scenarios ranging from ultra positive to absolutely almost a devastating scenario that might occur like a black swan event. To see whether or not then the banking sector can withstand a shock of high magnitude. So here then it's kind of a similar type thing. I think the press obviously have an agenda it's obviously a great headline to run about the amount of how violently the virus is growing. And so yeah, I'd just be mindful of the fact that don't be a little bit more reading between the lines and what the government's doing here. I think it's government led trying to control if you can scare monger people to a certain degree then they will become more in line with the restrictions you're putting in place but equally so the media have an agenda to push these types of sensational headlines. So 50,000 is unlikely to happen. It's a very low case probability but does certainly explain then the actions and gives it validation to what the government is likely to do today and in the coming weeks if we lead to more nationwide type lockdowns. Now what does that mean? Well economically the reason why the pounds come under pressure is that even just a two week shutdown which was being talked about in the press and the FT just a couple of days ago about the potential half-term period in the latter part of October as the potential for a two week shutdown. That in itself according to analysts at JP Morgan could knock at least 2% of the nation's GDP. So remember the entire main lockdown we went through through the period of April really was when it was at its most strict. That basically caused second quarter reaction of a negative 20% growth in the UK. So every day that happens it has implications in the economy and even just a two week shutdown could add another 2% in terms of the potential for the UK and altering its trajectory of recovery. So hence the reason why this is a real delicate decision for the government to make is there's obviously huge implications for the economy. To give you an idea though, I think what would be quite interesting is Bank of England, Governor Bailey is speaking in actually an hour's time, 8.30 London time and a lot of people will be quite keen to what he has to say following the Bank of England meeting last week and they were talking about the fact that they've now started to speak to regulators about the implementation of potentially what would negative rates look like and how would it work. That's the most progressive conversation we've had on that particular policy tool and the market is kind of quite interested to see whether he provides any more insight on that matter. As I said in yesterday's briefing, I probably think it's less a case that he's going to be that explicit given the fact that he's kind of done his job. He's moved that talking point along but he doesn't want to over commit. And so Bailey is speaking though and given the context of what's happening certainly with this evolving COVID situation it's going to be quite interesting. Remember Bailey speaks today and Thursday and then PM Johnson's going to speak later on this evening and actually that's going to be at eight o'clock that's eight PM London where he's going to give one of his speeches about how they're confronting the virus and unveiling these latest measures. So yeah, it does put more downside risk on the pound and that was already present given the backdrop of what would have been happening with the fairly wide gap still between the UK and Europe in this Brexit negotiation. That's kind of been parked now and what the market's looking at is the implications of how bad is this coronavirus situation. So again, Sterling FX will become slightly more sensitive to these daily updates into ward then how big are the leaps that are happening and then what are the consequent actions that the government puts in place. The more onerous they are, the more impactful on the UK economy that will be and the more downside pressure that's going to add to Sterling currency. And as I said, the technical levels around that 200 DMA will be quite, quite key. Let's move elsewhere, just to wrap up things. Continue to keep an eye on the general weather patterns in the Atlantic at the moment. It's been particularly busy in different systems and particularly beta now is the one that people are looking at. As you can see here, tropical storm in the Gulf. Now, directionally, quite interestingly, it is basically moving perfectly along the Texan coastline, which is where the main bulk of the refining facilities do reside in that geographic region. However, from what my understanding is, is that the speed and intensity is nothing like what we saw say recently with Hurricane Laura. And so worth monitoring, given the fact that where it's anticipated to go, but at this point, unless it takes a surprising turn and starts to intensify quickly, then I don't think it'll be too much of a moving point for oil intraday. A few other things here though, for oil, obviously it was lower yesterday, prolonged coronavirus restrictions weighing on the kind of demand expectations here for energy products. One of the things, Libya, and I know Libya you probably heard about yesterday, but they're moving closer to reopening parts of it's obviously a very embattled industry for oil. Just given the ongoing civil crisis that they've been going through for many years, but companies have been told by the government at some fields that are free of foreign mercenaries and fighters to restart production. Now what does that look like? And Libya is a country that can fluctuate hugely. If we're not used to these production numbers, Libya in the height of civil unrest can literally go down to 50,000, 100,000 pounds per day being produced. When things are the opposite and there's an ability to switch on their network again, they can go in excess of a million. So the variance is actually quite large. And I know in the grander scheme of things when we talk OPEC, we're talking about 30 million kind of plus type level. However, don't forget the size of the types of supply cuts that we're talking about when we talk about OPEC plus. And a change of one nation by several hundred thousand barrels per day really does jeopardize the OPEC deal quite severely. An analyst at Goldman Sachs have been kind of looking at the numbers and they anticipate in their forecast that daily output could rise by 550,000 pounds per day in Libya, if of course all things remain status quo and those facilities are able to open without disruption from militants and ongoing fighting within the country. So that definitely would be another component to monitor for the success or not of this OPEC ongoing plus deal that's in place at the moment. Yeah, moving on, final thing. I did tweet about this last night, just happened to be at my desk last night and I saw Elon Musk was tweeting and he tweeted this and I don't really look too much and we don't trade or amplify single stocks but obviously Tesla's always a talking point and Tesla's got his shareholder meeting this battery date happening today. And so he tweeted last night, important to note that Tesla battery date unveil which is today, this affects long-term production especially semi-cybertruck and Roadster but what we will announce will not reach serious high volume production till 2022 and their shares consequently in aftermarket did fall in excess of 6% at one point. They actually finished in the aftermarket trade at about 5.9. A quick word on this then. It's interesting as an example, I think that if anyone who's new to trading and they're definitely new to the fundamentals and how markets react to price. One thing that's very common is market reaction in stock prices often are a reflection of human psychology. Now let me just, before I get too deep, let me just give you a very quick overview. So negative bias refers to the fact that humans tend to overly focus on negative events in terms of information or emotions more than their positive counterparts. So if you think about normal, forget markets for a second, if you think about normal human emotion, we react much more sharply to negative things than positive things. So corporations know of this type of human fault, if you like, in terms of our imbalance of emotional reaction. And so if you are a listed company, what you want to do is mitigate then any type of negative reaction in your share price. So if you have a negative story, like Elon Musk knowing that there's high anticipation for a battery date unveiling of information on his tech and he knows that that can't live up to the hype. So what does he do? He comes out the day before and he drops in then the precursor to the main event, which means when the main event occurs, we're already aware of a large portion of the information and so as a net result, you see a much more, I guess, rational reaction when he brings it up ahead of time. And this offsets then a shock system one, system two type reaction that can consequently see a violent sell-off in a company's shares. Big banks and notorious are doing this. Big banks who have faced obviously massive, multi-billion dollar litigation fees in the post-financial crisis era, they would always come out ahead of their earnings report, kind of clear the deck. Yes, we're gonna take a $2 billion charge because of FX manipulation and then the quarterly earnings come out and the stock price actually rises. Apple is notorious for this type of, I don't wanna call it manipulation, but it is almost that. It's this kind of management, if you like, of the human investor which ultimately is the dictator of the value of that share price. So yeah, I just wanted to give it a context to this. I thought it was another kind of example of Elon Musk's kind of one of his main skills, which I think is kind of like Trump in a way, which is an ability to use these types of platforms like Twitter to curate a narrative to his benefit in that sense. All right, moving on to the calendar. This is a quick summary, the top portion obviously. Tuesday, what have we got today? It's a baby speaking in a short while. You've got Feds Evans speaking later as well at three o'clock London time. Evans discussing UK economy and monetary policy and then Fed share, Powell testifies to the House Financial Services Panel later on this afternoon, but we've already had those pre-release text comments, don't forget last night. US data, there's nothing really coming out otherwise elsewhere of great significance in UK and Europe. So in the US, no one 30s, but you've got existing home sales and the Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index. From a speaker's point of view, perhaps this is a little bit easier. This incorporates everyone. So these times here on this column are London. So Bailey 830, you've got ECB's Panetta speaking at one, Feds Evans non-voter at three, ECB's Lane, Philip Lane of course, was one of the most interesting speakers of late who was one of the first to raise those concerns about the firm Euro, the chief economist he's speaking at three o'clock, Powell 330 and then Barking non-voter, albeit he's speaking at 5 p.m. And then for any fixed income traders, you've got a Schatz auction this morning and a $52 billion in a two year no auction. All right, that is it. Any questions at all? Just give me a shout in the comments. Absolutely happy as always to help if you're watching this on YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel as well. Really appreciate you helping be a part of the Amplify community online. Okay guys, have a good day. I'll speak to you tomorrow.


So thanks. It's really great to have you in our in our fun car interviews while we negotiate to make sure we don't try to go to Canada, which is always kind of an exciting little moment here because if you get trapped in the wrong lane, you all of a sudden are customs. So that's not something we want to have, because I don't know if you have your passport. I don't have my passport on me. I don't have and I don't even have a visa. So yeah so why don't you tell me a little bit about what you've been working on since we last talked. Sure. So first of all, thanks for having me here in this interview. It's been absolute pressure and I really enjoy these. Off late I've been working on a project called Conveyor. I'm really really excited about it. It's about application modernization. Every company goes through this like right now they're all heavily investing in hybrid cloud and cloud and containerization. They have this giant working apps and they're still working and if it's working no one wants to touch it, but then they have already invested so much money into like cloud and whatnot and you want to move those apps. So if you're saying that paying for a data center in a cloud know that is not you know goal in itself? Like people don't want to just pay for it to do nothing. They do. But the thing is that it's like getting revolutionized and like when everyone does that you also want to like get on the train and then like be a part of this awesome journey. So that's what like I'm doing right now. In the modernization we have the older applications and we try to give them an estimate assist and what needs to be changed to refactor and the platform and Kubernetes. So that's what the project's about and it has like super cool interesting things and the most interesting part for me is I'm building the community. Nice, yeah. It recently got accepted into CNCF. So it's a CNCF Sandbox project so that gives me the awesome opportunity to actually build it. Right. And you know the beauty of whatever I learned in Kubernetes I'm taking them all and not the heavy process because this is a small project and so I'm taking them all and like distilling it and then taking the little things that will work for the current project and I'm like doing that to convey it. So it's been like working pretty great. Let's work for me. Yeah, right. So okay so here's the question I have to ask here. So I've built a number of communities you know kind of over my career. What have you found to be like the most surprising thing that you learned while trying to build this community that you just it never would have crossed your mind? Yeah, anything like that? Yeah, I'm still building the community but the one thing that stumbles me these days is the amount of like the waste that you have to use. It's just not about mailing list anymore so I have to be a savvy with all the technologies that kind of like stumps me on top of the human factor. Like these days the attention span of everyone's like super limited and be a part of the community or anything to keep them interested. It's really hard to like keep someone interested so you have to do really really good work. So like I'm trying to balance like not to introduce so many stuff but also like give them a safe space. I want to create a safe space for everyone. That is the part that I find the hardest because I can do all the work that needs to be done but still there are like X number of things that's like out of my hands. So I should know how to react in that moment and how to handle a particular given situation. So all those things I'm still figuring out I'm not an expert and it's good to know that you have done a lot of these so I can like you're a text away. Yeah, I am happy to help. Yeah, the reason I'm always curious about that sort of thing about most kinds of activities like what you know so I relatively recently became you know academic full-time right and the thing that one of the things that's been most surprising to me is how different the cadence of fall semester is versus spring semester and because it's where the break falls because Thanksgiving is so late relatively speaking in spring break is kind of early right and so it throws off the the cadence or like the you know speed or whatever of the entire semester or changes it and that's been the hardest thing one of the weirdest things for me to like wrap my head around because I never would have guessed that that was such a pronounced effect you know so that's why I was curious so what is so the project is officially a sandbox project now which is very cool what does that change like what do you feel like that brings to the table for the conveyor project? So it's again everything for me bubbles down to the community but the another portion of it that is that there are no open source modernization tools available so that puts conveyor at the unique place where it has the potential to collaborate with so many folks so it's gonna be like one big community and everyone it's like even though they work for so many different companies at the end of it it's just gonna be community and that's one part like I'm super super excited about and the next thing is that the potential of like all the new stuff that you can add like for example my friends are working on so right now the project supports like analysis of Java application so like you can supply a binary or like a old Java code and then it will do a deep analysis based on some of the rule sets and then it will spit out telling like oh to modernize is in like to be platformed from the current VM to a Kubernetes cluster these are the things that you need to change and these are the things that are risky and these are the things like the amount of time it'll take to do it and these are the places where you have to like do like for example you cannot hard code the secret anymore you have to like inject from outside so if it finds a secret and I like highlight it and then it'll say like oh your imports are outdated so you have to like do this you have to upgrade the language like all the little things that you would miss in general so that's what the current capability is the things that people are working on in this project is adding multiple languages to it in an extensible way so anyone could come and plug in stuff so today we had this career workshop and then we met a couple of folks who attended it and they were saying like they did not have like one of them mentioned that they did not have such a questioner which could just give them an all 360 degree view of like how they can they didn't know what they got into kind it would have been nice that if they had the opportunity to see all these things beforehand and so many it was like nice to have such conversations seeing that bringing so many folks together and I think that is possible because it is CNCF project so it kind of even though like it was conveyor was always conveyor has always been an open source project Red Hat has kept it open source from the start and right now but once it became a CNCF project it kind of gets its own you know it's like status bump yeah I should say like yeah so like a lot of eyes on the project and so many completion folks want to collaborate so it's so cool yeah yeah I would imagine I mean it also kind of I feel like it would also give it a certain amount of almost like ratification right like you know it's a pretty good chance this project is going to stick around so like investing in learning how to use the tool stuff like that isn't I mean one of the hardest problems you have in the open source world right is that anybody can build anything they want and then they can stop working on it also anytime they want and so I think one of the hard choices is like you know should I go with this path or this path because if you invest in the wrong one and that project goes away you know you're often in quite a lot of trouble talk talk tell me about it I used to be a platform engineer yeah one of the biggest no-no things for me is like pulling in a dependency that is being maintained by one single maintainer right and which is fine like one single maintainer is still good but then you look at the commit history and the project hasn't been touched for like two years and then you don't want to build your infrastructure around it and it's like setting it up for failure because like your entire thing is just like built around one little thing which is not maintained anymore so that's a big no-no for me and like to put something in prediction I always make sure that it's not maintained by a single maintainer because things happen life happens I'm not like saying that they should be responsible for doing it anyone who's like a single project maintainer should be like doing it lifelong it's not feasible it's not possible so having a good section model or like having multiple people actually helps right yeah no I fully agree I think you know I much prefer excuse me sorry we just started so I used to do some theater work in college and you know one of the things that you had to create was like the stage manager's book right and it was the run book for the show and it had every single little detail in it and in those days we used to call it the hit by the bus factor you know where you know but these days we've been trying to get to take off right something more like the win the lottery factor right so you know a positive experience instead of a negative one but you know sometimes as you said life happens right and people want to go in a different direction making sure that your you know infrastructure isn't going to fall over it's really important you know you got to have you know some way to back that up yeah even like the cube project got pretty hit during the pandemic yesterday I was to contribute so much and someone mentioned that that it saw like a 25 percent decrease in the amount of contributors oh really so and such a project can like it can still withstand because it's huge so many contributors but you can think about the single maintainers or like the projects which are like small maintained by like few people it was a lot and it's still a lot like so many people are still going through burnout and whatnot so yeah yeah it's one of the things so I have anecdotal evidence of this as well but there's actually been some research done about like the new students like freshman coming in as you know this year are kind of very very high strong like you know very kind of their baseline stress level is already very high and so they're having a lot of trouble with college because yeah and there's no real nobody's really sure why yet you know but it's probably pandemic related right but yeah like it's people are not back yet you know like there's some of it and I think there's a lot of particularly politicians who want us to be back but it's just not really true yet you know and I think you see that in the open source community just as much as anywhere else yeah yeah it's like no one's like psychologically ready to be honest to be out and about because like everyone was like confined to their own space for a really long time so it takes time sometimes it takes like double the amount of like it's like a cause and effect it's not like immediate on and off switch so you say like oh you cannot come out of the house for like 10 days and all of a sudden you are like oh you should be in a room full of like 10 000 people yeah it's a little bit of an adjustment well I mean I think that's why you know you mentioned kind of a safe space you know it's like that's why I think one of the things I also like about open source you know particularly ones that have strong communities is it's a lot easier to kind of re enter society you know if it's with a community of people that even if you don't know them particularly well you at least share a lot of like something with right you know in you know in the case of conveyor right it's you know we we all work on this kind of problem right you know but it doesn't matter what it is it but it gives you that that community and it it's almost like safer to kind of re-engage again and you know kind of ease into it rather than you know I take public transit all the time right a whole bunch of random people who are getting on the bus you know and you know I'm the only one there in a mask so it definitely takes some time getting used to it and the fact that now if you like it almost feels like the rules have reversed so it's like if you are wearing a mask it's like it just gets teared down so you have to have a strong willpower to like keep that going my family back home like I keep telling them like wear a mask and they're like no one's wearing anymore and like they are like they are stuck between the social construct right now like where if they were then they will be like cost out or like right right ostracized yeah yeah I will say Boston is nice in that regard like as in there's not a lot of that sense of you know you're giving in by wearing a mask you know so it's pretty tolerant but on the flip side there's not a lot of people wearing masks you know even on like public transit with like enclosed spaces and stuff so it's a little you know it's a little crazy but you know you do what you got to do I guess so let's see what else can we talk about there oh so I wonder I noticed you looking out the windows I mean isn't the view out here this is Bell Island it's called for Bell Isle and it's we're still in the U.S. even though the river right is basically the demarcation line between the U.S. and Canada and I don't know I just thought this little drive-around was really pretty it's super pretty I'm like it's so peaceful too and thanks for not taking me to Canada yeah exactly we we aren't we aren't completely done yet there are still opportunities for us to get trapped and go to Canada so we'll just have to keep our eyes open but yeah so you've been a lot more involved in at least the insider show have you been getting more involved in Cuba example as well or kind of more broadly I guess I would look forward to that I'm hoping that I could bring a little bit of conveyor into the Cuba insider what like there are like tutorials in the Cuba insider which I really like learning parts sorry yeah I was exactly looking for the word but I want to like bring this in so like there is a chance that folks can pick it up and like someone wants to contribute or someone wants to participate it's just like you know it's a nice place I really like the Cuba insider not just a show because I'm on it and not because like almost one of the coast but like overall I like the people and like the mission too it's catered towards any beginner too like if you look at some of the Kubernetes stuff there like part and like learn basic Kubernetes it's hard now everyone talks about Kubernetes but no one explains it like what it is like no one says like at the beginner level so it just goes above your head so I'm hoping that we could I I would participate more right in other avenues that are available like whatever it is I want to figure it out and I want to like be a part of it more yeah that's cool I yeah I've been working on a tecton learning path for Cuba example and I can definitely see a conveyor one I think one of the things what I was doing with the tecton learning path the problem I think with application modernization right is it's one of those like software engineering activities where you when you look at it to go start doing it it looks pretty straightforward and then you kind of get into the weeds and you're like oh my god this is so much harder and scarier and everything else than I realized it would be and so I think using a tool like you know like that and I've actually used similar tools years and years ago it's really useful because it gives you a sense of like like all the in the weeds scary bits before you go in right so you can kind of like get at least a sense of you were kind of saying this before it's like okay we're gonna have to like fix this piece we're gonna have to upgrade that part and then if you kind of can know all that before you get into it you can plan for it properly you know you're less likely to be terrified later so I think it's they're really useful even if it isn't a you know magic bullet kind of yeah and I think it's like some people expect you to be able to just like plug a button and you know magic happens here I like to think it off like this like in this awesome car we have like super many features right it's not like it's doing all the work for you but then it gives you like a awesome lane assist or like the blind view mirror like if some car comes by the right the all the all the nice things like you can think it think of it like that like it's not gonna handle you too much but then it will be like there to assist you with the journey and make your journey easier so that's all like I see it I know the sorry but the bad analogy I was actually gonna say it's like it's kind of helps you stay in your lane right and yeah because I think that is a deceptive it like you know I always talk about package managers databases those are also very deceptively easy pieces of software yeah and then you kind of get into it and you're like wait this transaction has to be atomic how am I going to make that happen if there's a power failure you know so database is much harder to write than people realize when they start writing one I'm super bad at it I would never touch any database the fun fact is that on my first two weeks of my first real graduate job I deleted prediction database without a backup that's no good yeah no good although on the flip side whose fault was it that there was no backups right yeah yeah and but I did learn stuff so I learned a lot of Linux that day because it was like stored as a file so the file never actually gets deleted even though it goes so well so like the worst part was it was a Saturday morning before my coffee and I was like oh I'm getting no no it's what is that let me check it out oh like I'll just do this and that's the bad thing so I made a rule in my life that I will never do anything just after getting up at that two over a weekend right well I don't know I mean you're doing this interview and you told me that you hadn't had coffee yet today so I don't know I'm not the one behind the wheel so yeah that's true but I completely agree with the rule of must have coffee first yeah and one thing that I want to also bring to kbi kbi whenever I have a chance is that I want to include a little bit more about the security tracks you know like security is also like important and I like to see more of those and I want to like if there's time if if someone would accept whatever I'm writing then I'll be like happy to like put all those things that's another thing that people like even the growing engineers and like students and you know hourly professional in the career they should like not it's not an afterthought and right there are like so many supply chain attacks and whatnot so yeah I think what's interesting is like as as our kind of infrastructure gets more sophisticated there's even more opportunities for us to not really know what's going on and as such really potentially bad security holes and so I think one of the things that I like about kind of a lot of the approach to how kind of Kubernetes works and things like that is that you have it's almost like the security is on by default you know red hat you know like rel a lot of that is like that too so it's it's super nice when you are trying to you know kind of build out an application you know is that as long as I know how to turn the security off you know I can kind of do my development or stuff and have things break because of security and then turn it off while I try to figure out what it is right then turn it back on I do this with like SC Linux all the time you know I leave it on all the time and then if I run into a problem I turn it off make sure that's the problem and then you know and then figure out what it is and then I can turn it back on again but I think that that kind of model is becoming ridiculously important because there you know so little about how like because you have this wicked long supply chain yeah yeah yeah so yeah I I definitely would agree so you want to talk I can't remember uh yeah I have a um so I am one of the I have a maintainer track section for sick security okay so like I help lead the sick security documentation sub project so I am a person who believes everything and starts and ends with documentation so like you want to hack a project you read the documentation you will have everything even including the loopholes that someone would have missed so Kubernetes documentation is quite awesome and extensive but there are places where it could be included improved in terms of security like when I you know used to work as a platform engineer I struggled to find the proper RBAC and RBAC is everyone's nightmare right so like we want to improve little things like that so when this SIG got they had the first meeting they said like oh we are forming a new SIG and everything I just raised my hand up and I said I want to volunteer for this I don't know much about security I'm willing to learn but I want to volunteer for this because this is what I want to see I want to make this document like documentation like one step like one stop like one stop shop yeah one stop shop for everything because it's already awesome and why to like look at something so if you have something official from the documentation the Kubernetes folks it's of the amount of issues that it'll run into would be later less and then to find some RBAC randomly on the internet and they copied and put it where it'll give access to every single thing and you would just like oh it worked so it's like it starts with an innocent poc like oh it works and then like you never intend to go back and change it I'm guilty of it I've done many times because well you intend to you just never get to yeah but you always want to yeah and then like there is less time and you're always on like something when you're doing a poc or like on a deadline telling like oh I want to like figure out what would work because someone pays your check so you cannot always be researching or like playing away with all this shiny new toys right so like I have been guilty of that so that is one of the goals that I personally tell myself that I want to like help make this thing better yeah more approachable simpler I was just going to say actually for the benefit of the audience in case you have never heard it out loud RBAC is how you pronounce the acronym for role-based access control and it's one of those things where you know like there's so many things that until you actually hear somebody say it you're like oh I don't you know I don't know how to pronounce that in my head so that's why I wanted to just offer that so okay so rolling back to the talk so you're giving a talk about the documentation for RBAC or you is it what is it you're you're leading exactly it's it's for the entire project so it's just not gonna so I will talk about the documentation so project but this the kip cons highlight it's going to be on the assessment so the security has like three or four sub projects audit that does the Kubernetes audit which is really really important because we need to know where we also like even a big project can have it's like a little fall so we need to be on top of it so that project helps with that and there is this security tooling sub project where like recent achievement of that it's automated cv list so website didn't have the automated Kubernetes cv list and you have to be subscribed to the mailing list and mailing list and I just control all like all delete them so I select all and delete them so need to find a place where you can have it as a feed or something so those are the kind of all the tooling does and then there is documentation that you heard about and there is also self-assessment so each sub project like each individual or like related project to Kubernetes can come and then like get the threat modeling threat modeling done and like some reports and stuff like that so this year's highlight is going to be that last kip con was documentation highlight so we talked in depth in detail about like the entire sub project this time it's going to be like five to ten minutes quickly saying like what was the things that was done between the last kip con this kip con and like what we are planning to work in the next few months because it's nice to have little goals I'm not saying that it has to be done or like completed because everyone has got their lives but so that those are the things that I'll be like highlighting in the talk it's another thing that I want to like talk about when I talk about security it really warms my heart because the coaches put so much effort into making that a safe safe place for anyone and everyone that is my inspiration that I took from that and put it in the conveyor community to make sure that I bring it along it's not per se like a thing that you write down or it's not a rule or it's it's the it's like how do I say it's a quality or something that you learn and oh yeah yeah and practice I'm trying to think of a word for that I can't think of the word for that I'm like yeah kind of like a value or like a yeah I don't know it'll probably come to me in like three hours and I'll be like oh that was the word we were looking for so yeah so these are the things that I'm like doing um right now I'm excited about this cubecon because I have few free days where I'm just gonna go sit back and watch my friends talk nice yeah that is definitely nice I find conferences are significantly more relaxing after my talk yeah yeah um but uh yeah I'm always like stressed out up until then yep yep like last time I was so stressed out that I forgot my laptop in the hotel room oh yeah and it wasn't like Valencia in the hotels were like so far it's not like walking this yeah I actually because I was thinking about going and I thought the same I was like it's a like a 20 minute ride dude from the hotel to the conference this is like kind of ridiculous yep so and then they didn't have taxis so it's not like here they don't have that many taxis the entire city on the town had like 100 or 150 taxis it's about it and they also had some huge match or something like game um going on at the same time so like it was very very hard to get a taxi yeah yeah I imagine and they had their own um taxi app um like a uber something that was also very unreliable because they kept cancelling on you because um it was hard yeah um but like you learn few words along the way it was fun I really loved like it was it's a beautiful place yeah I would love to go back for vacation I haven't been to Valencia I was in Sevilla uh not that long ago and yeah I like I really wanted to go on that trip and um I was gonna take my wife and we're gonna like have like a bit of a vacation whatever and then she went and took a job what she hasn't had in I don't know how many years um and uh but you know it was a brand new job so she wasn't gonna like ditch for like a week and a half to go uh and I was like oh this would have been so much fun um so uh I don't know but I might be able to drag her to keep kind of Amsterdam maybe you know we can go to that uh but yeah I really liked uh the south of Spain I hear Valencia is different but still that I had never been there until I went to we said Sevilla a couple years ago it's it was beautiful it was my first um Europe a trip so I'm just gonna be like all awesome about it and they have the best orange juice no orange juice in the entire world yeah so that was something nice and I like there is a type of orange named after the place right yeah yeah I like their um art scene I really like chicken out art wherever I go I don't on that note have you walked around this beautiful city uh downtown and have you seen the mutants I've seen some of the murals yeah I'm not a ton but I did I walked around a lot on Sunday um and yeah it's funny because I was here like 15 years ago for like a sales call and like it's like a stark difference um and yeah like there's one right there yeah you know the elephant on the wall I mean there there's a lot of cool like there's a lot of cool kind of hidden art you know like you have to be like paying attention so I'm sure I've missed two thirds of it you know but yeah it's it's really quite cool it's so beautiful I was like oh my god um it's it's it it feels like everything has some meaning to to it and it's um it's I wouldn't call everything a super abstract to so um I could spend hours just standing at them and like yeah it's kind of walking around yeah yeah um I did that on Sunday too a little bit and then like I'm hoping that Friday I'll get to do a little bit because I really wanted to go to the eastern um market something like that yeah yeah uh yeah I went by I went by a sign for it um yeah that was eastern market it's supposed to be really cool um one of the other people who's involved in the show Tam um she said uh one of her trips here she went uh and said it was really awesome um like we were literally just talking about it last night or earlier today um but yeah I'm uh I'm sorry that my trip is like super tight but yeah uh because otherwise I would I would definitely do the same but I have to give a lecture on Thursday so that's all fun too I mean I would just write if I have to like sign a friend of like so many kids students yeah you do kind of get the hang of it um after a bit and you know and it's it's a little it's a lot easier if you've if you've already taught the class um but uh you know even so you know every every group of students right goes at a different pace yeah so I can't just like recycle the old slides immediately and just pop it up I gotta like work through it and figure out what exactly I'm gonna say and like which what what does this group of students seem to be having more trouble with than that group of students it was like really interesting like my first semester teaching it the students um really were not wrapping their head around like types of graphs um and and so I kind of the second semester I made a kind of a hyper focus and then all of the students seemed to get it just fine and so I'm not sure if I was teaching it better or if it was just you know so I don't know it's been a it's been a really interesting journey um you know teaching for a living um but yeah it's cool and um not to mention the vacation time that you would get over in theory in theory uh yeah so the um what's funny is that um because we we run a summer like internship program and I'm pretty heavily involved with that so yeah I did not actually get very much of my summer off I was I was a little disappointed um I was hoping to have some more break because there's a lot of software I want to build um you know all open source of course but um yeah fine in the time is still very difficult I'm hoping this summer will be more sane um because I think we like everybody else um have had the you know pandemic being over turnover so you know we lost a lot of people um you know and have to replace a lot of people and you know don't even have all the people hired that we need and the organization I'm with is like doubling in size every year um so it's been it's been a little crazy but we're getting I see a lot of intake in STEM I see a lot of people showing interest in STEM these days so when I went for grad school that particular semester there were like 300 to 400 computer science master graduate students and then the next semester there were like 600 or 700 like yeah like it was just like doubled in like less than a year yeah right so yeah I could imagine like it must be like crazy busy well we're yeah so it's we're getting a lot of more students and then on top of that like it's a new department right so we're doing data science and uh and so we you know our first freshman class was this fall um and we took I don't know something like 100 new freshmen but I think we want to like double and triple it but we also need faculty members to teach the classes so we had it we added like seven new faculty members last semester um and we're gonna add another seven um and while that doesn't sound like a big number for like you know like red hat or whatever like normally uh uh department adds like a person every year maybe a person every two years um you know so adding seven is like a lot a lot it's kind of it's been kind of crazy uh well so we're just about here uh so you have to say thanks so much for your time um and I hope you enjoyed the drive oh I really loved it as long as I didn't have to drive it and it's like really really enjoyable so thank you so much for having me yeah no problem I'm always glad to do it I'm looking forward to all the awesome things that KBEI is gonna do yeah yeah and it's uh you know you do co-host the KBEI show so maybe the next time we do something like this we're gonna make you actually drive people around or whatever we decide to do as long as we are going to be in the parking lot right exactly all right well thanks thank you so much


How do you retain hope in a time that isn't hopeful? When we talk about the future of the planet and the environment, we feel bombarded by negative visions, dystopias, collapse, and degradation. And there's a good reason for that. When we look around at the unprecedented pace of anthropogenic change, it raises serious concerns about the future of the biosphere. But we know that people behave based on what they believe about society and what they expect for the future. So if we simply extrapolate current trends out into the future, we run the risk of being self-fulfilling, of creating the varied dystopias that we hope to avoid. So I'm here today to tell you that the future doesn't have to be bleak. In fact, we can point to an emergence of new ideas, innovative ways of thinking, and on-the-ground sustainability projects that bode well for the future. As people are confronted with challenges to society and to nature, they increasingly are responding with projects to bring about a more just, prosperous, and ecologically diverse world, what we call a good Anthropocene. And stories and visions are a critical component of bringing this good Anthropocene around. But so far, the inspirational visions that we've managed to develop tend to be these utopian fantasies that are unrealistic, or they overestimate the power of the mainstream changes to create real changes to the status quo when we know that the future, especially a good future, is likely to be radically different than the world of today, evolving different power structures different human-environment relationships, all sorts of different ways of living. So how do we solve this problem of needing stories that are both inspirational but remain fundamentally grounded and realistic? Well, I propose that we start with those emerging ideas, those on-the-ground projects, those new thoughts and ways of living. And we call these things bright spots or seeds of a good Anthropocene. One example of a bright spot or a seed of the good Anthropocene is a project called Health in Harmony. Health in Harmony is a project that works in Indonesian Borneo to protect both rain forest and people. And here's what they do. They offer communities free or low-cost health care in exchange for commitments to reduce deforestation. And over the five years that they've been working there, they've seen a 68% decrease in illegal logging and an improvement in every human health indicator that they measure. When they listened to the communities, they realized that people weren't cutting down trees because they wanted to. They were doing it because they needed medicine. And so what Health in Harmony does is they reconnect the feedback cycle between forest health and human health by ensuring that people can have good human health by protecting the forest health. What we're doing in the project that I'm working on is collecting examples of these bright spots from all around the world. We have 500 of them collected so far and we're aiming to collect thousands more. And we've built a database about these bright spots that enable us to understand how they emerge, why they grow, where they spread to and what kinds of change they inspire either in place or around the world. We're using that database to develop a theory of transformation in which we see that these seeds or small-scale experiments change people's meta-narratives about the world. That in turn fuels more experiments, more change in meta-narratives, more experiments. And over time, these growing experiments, people's lived experience in the world begins to change. And as that happens, we sometimes see a window of opportunity opening through a crisis and the opportunity to consolidate this change into a new regime, a new meta-narrative. We can also use our database to understand that individual seeds are often successful by doing what health and harmony does, by listening and by connecting feedbacks that have been broken through global trade. So scenario planning is the practice of developing stories, multiple stories about the future in order to help us anticipate or think about the future. And it's been used in the military community, in the business community, and in the international scientific community for many years to try to anticipate the future and adaptively respond to it. The scenarios that we've developed in the scientific community, like scenarios of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment or the group tasked with developing scenarios about climate change, they tend to follow the same handful of ideas about how the future is going to unfold. And they lack the surprises, the non-linearities, the rich detail that's the hallmark of how real history unfolds. So another thing we're doing with our bright spots is using them to develop better scenarios. We take a handful of these bright spots, we throw them together, we confront them with one challenge of the Anthropocene, and we ask, how do they come together to thrive in the world? By using these on-the-ground projects, it means that our stories are both more diverse and more realistic. Developing these sorts of inspirational stories about the future that remain grounded in reality, it is a critical challenge for the global community, especially with programs like the World Economic Forum itself trying to develop scenarios that help us bring about better governance in the world. By using things like bright spots, we can tell better stories about the future that help us change direction to a good Anthropocene before it's 2.8.


You can move mountains with just the faith of a mustard seed. Something so small makes such a difference as it grows. A pinch of salt, such a difference to add flavor. You are the salt of the earth. And when that voice comes in and says, you're not doing anything, you're not making a difference, they'll forget you. They'll forget you. What's this all about? What's the point? Why bother? No.


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Hello. OK. So today's my talk is called Stories from the Japanese WordPress community. First, let me introduce myself. As Tako said, my name is Naoko. How to remember this name is pretty easy now, right now, in the company, Naoko. That's how you say my name. I'm a globalizer at Automatic, which means that my team helps Automatic internationalize their products, including WordPress.com and several other plugins and other services. I'm not a developer. Right now, I do project management and marketing and community outreach, everything that are not coding within my team. And if so, that's my WordPress.com or my work-related role. But in the WordPress.org community, I've been a Japanese general translation editor for a long time. And I'm one of the six people who are on that role right now. So if you saw Cal and Sergey's talk, they talked about several areas that you can get involved. I'm going to show you how we do it in Japan. So WordPress in Japan. It's an old community. It's as long as WordPress itself. I think the first translation of WordPress into Japanese started the winter of the year WordPress started. So it's like maybe half a year behind the WordPress itself. So it's as long as WordPress, 13-year-old. Today, WordPress in Japanese is most actively used language besides English. So if you say there are 100% of WordPress sites, 54% of that is US English. And if you take that out and make another 100% with all other locales or languages, Japanese is the number one with 12.3%. So that's about 10% of English usage. It's counted based on the active sites. So the stats is now on worpers.org slash about stats. Japanese popularity is followed by German, Spanish, French, and Russian. We've been lucky. I mean, Japanese have many, many speakers in one country. So one culture, it's very easy to communicate to each other. It's like a monoculture. It's easy to form a community compared to many other locales that have different background in people's lives and customs. But not all OSS open source popular CMSs or services that are popular in Western countries, not all of them are popular in Japan. So what is different with, you know, WordPress and other services or CMSs? So WordPress powers 78.5% of Japanese sites with CMS. Number two is Adobe Dreamweaver. I don't know if it's CMS. I don't know. I'm not sure. I think it's like a site authoring tool. So it's kind of like in the same group as WordPress. And number three is what's called LiveDropBlog. It's like a hosted blog solution. You don't see Drupal or Jumla or Type 3, which are popular in other countries, WordPress wins by far because of the community, I think. I mean, WordPress is the same everywhere you go. It's the same functionality. I mean, the translation is different. What's different among different countries, you know, that's community. That's the strength of WordPress in Japan. WordPress is used by a prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, by a popular newspaper, the Japan Times. It's an English, one of the most popular English newspaper in Japan, also online. And other small sites like this Ryokan, it's a Japanese inn. I mean, they have different sites made with WordPress. There are many, many, many, many books in Japanese about WordPress. Some of the authors are in this room. All my Japanese friends came to listen to this talk. And I wrote some of the very, very old one with a WordPress, I don't know what was it, 2.5, something like that. Very old one. But since a long time, everybody's running WordPress on these books, also in Japanese. So in 2013, I came to the first World Camp Europe in Latin, and I talked about the kind of the same story about how Japanese community grew so much. And this was my answer.  By doing that, you can make one little dot into these many, many, many dots, and that's the part of the community. So I still believe in that. It's still going on today. So in Matt's talk earlier today, he said like weeks in Squarespace, they spent several millions of dollars into advertisement. WordPress doesn't have it. I mean, WordPress.com spends a little bit of marketing fees, but that's not why WordPress is popular in Japan at all. I mean, WordPress is popular because of the open source community and the people behind it. When I talk about WordPress community in Japan, I think of lots of offline events. I'm gonna talk about some of the online activities we do, but I think by getting people together in one place, there are some talks about meetups earlier today. That kind of kicked off the community, and it helped us a lot. So, you know, Keo introduced Takayuki Miyoshi, he's a contact form seven author. He started what's called WorldBent. It is a website powered by BodyPress, and it's a community website for WordPress users to start a meetup in your own city. Before, at the time, this was in 2008. At the time, there was no community rules about meetup.com usage, or there wasn't any community team on WordPress.org. We kind of had an early start by having a site like this. This site doesn't organize meetup by itself. It doesn't do anything on its own, but it makes it really easy for you to see that there are many other ones that are doing the same thing, and that you can do it too, because there's a sign-up form, there are other activities that you can see. So, I think that really helped it. But not just by saying, hey, you can follow me up, you can do this, that you see other people doing it by having this site. I think it helped it a lot. So, WordPress is a community meetup, so it's the same as what they call meetup. We have about 25 active groups in different cities, and meetups are held almost every weekend in Japan, somewhere, it's like World Camp worldwide. Every weekend, there's a meetup somewhere in Japan. This slide is from, I think, three or four years ago. We created this flyer, there's a designer who actually designed the Kabuki Wapu, that's in the middle. He designed this flyer as well to promote WorldBent at the Open Source Conference event. And since then, we have more and more WorldBent events. These are banners that WorldBent use for their own community website or their own event. Like every event has, sometimes, like Osaka, they create different banner for every event once a month.  This was World Volcano, which was like a festival type of conference event. And we have WorldBent Tokyo and organizers are here. And we had World Udon, Udon means like the noodle, because in Kagawa, it's a popular food there. So, you know, they create something very unique on its own. So this is a calendar. We have linked from ja.worldbest.org website. This also helps to see there's so many other, you know, communities having meetups.  So when people say, when's your next meetup? You can point to this and say, like, it's gonna be updated, you know, next time. And WorldCamps, we have lots of WorldCamps. 17 WorldCamps in eight years. I have a short story to tell about this too, but I don't have much time, so I'm gonna skip it for now. And please don't tweet this one, because we haven't announced this yet. WorldCamp Tokyo image. But that's the one for this year. So we're gonna have WorldCamp Kansai in July, and WorldCamp Tokyo into, I mean, September. Yeah, all welcome to come. And in both of the, this is the one that you can tweet. It's a good one, it's a good one. It's a secret one. And on both WorldCamps, we can have English speakers and WorldCamp Tokyo, it's gonna have an English track. It's called Global Track, and we're gonna have lots of speakers from outside of Japan too. Cal talked about, we have different festivals, WorldCrab, they eat a crab after a meetup, or bash where they have beer while they're having meetup. Many unique events. They learn from the sessions, they teach each other, they get connected, that's the reason you want to try to have meetups and WorldCamp and other events. And meeting people and having real offline events are great, but the power of WordPress community also goes on line. So, translation. We have six GTEs, there are people on the top. We can translate and validate or approve, decline anybody's translation, including core and plugins and themes. We have project translation editors. They can translate certain specific themes and plugins and we have contributors. They don't have rights to approve anything, but they have contributed to the translation suggestions. Global translation, they was mentioned earlier. We did participate and then also we achieved part of our goals which was to make the top 100 themes and plugins that are popular to be 100% translated. We are 100% with the themes, so the 100 themes are translated into Japanese 100% and 100 plugins are not yet there, not there yet, but 42% of the top 100 plugins which means 42 plugins are translated. There are some of the red ones we marked. It's not translatable actually. So we have some issues also, but by setting a goal, let's try to get this top 100 done. We were able to get closer to the goal without thinking, oh, we have 45,000 plugins and thousands of themes to translate, which seems a lot of work, but we are able to get close to the goals by setting an infinite number. We have lots of documentation contributors. 480 people signed up to this Japanese codex. We have a separate install, thousands of pages, and these are some of the top contributors. We have very active support for our members and also these are the top members from the last release cycle. We actually... Museum announcement. Okay, I'm not sure, okay. So we have lots of forms of contributors who are actively participating. Some of them answer hundreds or hundreds of questions every couple of months. We have a local SAC, Tai, he's also a GTE for a long time. He studied local SAC so we can communicate in Japanese. And we also have core contributors. There are some in here also. We have a page about how to report the bug in Japanese and what to do if you find anything, any issue. They might not be able to report it in English, but we also have a forum thread where they can report it in Japanese and we take it from there to help them out too. And also, WAPU. We have lots of WAPUs, but of course not every WAPU is from Japan. Let me tell you the story about WAPU and World Camp Europe. So in 2013, when I was on stage, I showed some of the WAPU creations, not just illustrations, but people making WAPU or different creations. They liked WAPU so much that they made. And actually, one of the people who are also here, Scott and Simon from Code for the People at the time, they made their own WAPU for the Christmas card. And then there's also the World Camp London punk WAPU, and then it kind of spread all over the place. So I think that's the punk WAPU. So I think it's very exciting for people in Japan to see the power of open sourcing something. WAPU is kind of unique. It's an illustration, so it's not cold, but you can create something cool and let other people do whatever they want to do with it. And it will be like this, like you can do it by yourself. You have to let other people help you to make something cool, right?  There's 3D WAPU in production right now. Yeah, this is a project for World Camp campsite that's coming up. There's a model like actual WAPU being created. It's in the process, but you can follow with that GitHub report. So in the last section, I only have a few minutes, but I'm going to talk about ways to get others involved. Okay, so you can do a lot of things, but you're going to burn out if you're the only one doing it or only a few of them doing it. So how can you get others involved? We created this Get Involved page. It's kind of like make.worldpress.org in Japanese, but not so much into details. We just showed some of the things you can do in Japanese, and we also linked to make.worldpress.org to say you can contribute in many different areas. These are people who translated and made the pages and Michael is here. Nuka is here. And we also do Contributor Day and Meetups. Contributor Meetups, not just regular Meetups, but there's like World Press Contribute Club is the name of a Meetup series in Japan in Tokyo. They get together once a month, and they teach each other how to contribute to World Press, like how to translate, how to create a patch, how to create a theme for release or plugins for release. Because things are not always easy for people to understand, especially everything is written in English. By helping each other at the same place, you can learn from each other too. Then we made some Contributor badges for World Camp Osaka and Tokyo too. So it's a good way to help others get involved. Make sure you come to the one-end on Sunday. And we recognize people by saying who helped each release, like translators, testers for Japanese-specific things, and forum contributors for the duration of one release cycle. And whoever reported bugs that are specific to Japanese or things like that, we include that in the... So this is common, World Press 4.5. At the end of it, we announced them too. So by giving other people help to get involved, you can create more contributor... more people who can contribute. And by connecting these dots, we can create a world with many more contributors. You can't do it alone. So World Press need you not to work on your own so much, but to grow the community, right? So you want to keep that in mind. You want to help other people, and you want them to help others too. So be creative, have fun, and keep it going. That's my advice. Thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspeescasebrakes.com doing random number block six for one football mixer spot. I think everybody kind of knows how this works. First of all it just works just like our random number block break except it'll say R&B number six in the names column. That spot will get a random team when we do the football mixer randomizer and so that will be a number block for that team. Now there are going to be possibly non-numbered cards, we'll randomize those to one person in the break in one list, then if there are non-numbered hits we'll do those separately and if the spot wins a wax party spot then we'll do a separate randomize for that as well. We'll re-randomize that. So all the instructions are here if you're curious, if you want to get all the details but that's the little overview. Big thanks to everyone here for making it happen. There are the numbers right there, let's do it, let's roll it, randomize it three times. One and two, one, two and three. Got Josh down to James after three times, one and a two three times for the numbers, one, two and three. Zero down to eight. Now remember zero gets any and all redemptions including one of one redemptions for whatever team this group is randomized. James, you'll still get live one of ones. Josh, you'll get any and all redemptions. Carl with four, Jesse with seven, Carl with two, James with six, Josh with three, James once again with one, Riley with nine, Carl with five and James with eight and obviously James gets live one of ones for whatever team gets randomized to this group, random number block number six. There's one more in the store, number seven is in the store. So go check that out, jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll see you whenever that football mixer gets full. We're getting there. So keep chipping away at all the fillers and the full spots, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks. Bye-bye.