Great, we'll go ahead and get started. So thanks to everybody for joining the Quality Team, Functional Group Update. This is the possible agenda items for today. We'll go through the list and then we'll end up with questions at the end. First of all, team updates. We have made one hire, an offer has been accepted Senior Automation Engineer. He's starting on June 18th. He's also part of the Selenium WebDriver Project which I'm very excited about and going to have more Selenium contributors and get some leeway there as well. We have a strong pipeline. We are interviewing four more in the pipeline. Christian has moved over to the Gidley team and Robert now taking on the release coordination role. He is still spending 20% of the time on quality. I just want to call out the releases. We merged a smaller amount of MRs when compared to 10 out of eight. Let's do investigating why this is the cost. But the number went down. The next item on the list is 11.0 release will be one of the most critical releases for us. There are many, many things coming in at the same time. I wanted to call this out. I think the team is doing a great job keeping production up. But in addition to that, we have 350 MRs alone for RC1. This is the biggest I've seen so far since my time here. The GC migration is happening. Moving to GILab is also happening as well and the performance of production. So keep your eyes peeled. This is one of the critical moments for us and the release. Accomplishments from our side. The Q-Way task is now a bird's-eye view for everything that's going on to release. We tried this out in 10 out of eight. We're doing this again in 11.0. It's still on ideal and it will not scale. I'll touch on this in the future I'll follow up items later in the next slides. The next is we started embedding quality teams with new features and test planning process where we were able to do GDPR, DCP migration and SAML. We still have a lot to do, but we're starting to embed more people and more test planning early in the game and not towards the end. We also, thanks to Jenshin, we have a Hamel render helper to help with separating concerns for CE and EE code. That's in the Hamel file. And we have CI jobs to check for EE and CE code organization for files and location. Last on the list, so quarter two, 2018 issue bash happened last weekend. Thanks to Mark, we're still determining the winners for that. Things that are in progress. So the completion of EE and CE files, we're tracking in this epic. This is roughly 55% done. I think we're almost done with files. Next up is Hamel and location of files. We're still working closely with other teams for this. I'll touch this on in the next slides as well. The next item, this is also related to OKR to deliver the first iteration of dashboard. So we've been blocked on the Looker ETL access, but we are now looking at to any backup plan because we have a view on prototype already up and running. Release process improvements. So we have automated the QA task list for the release, thanks to Mark. This is used in 11.0.0 RC1 and you see all the labels and all the names and also the MR, the names of the merge requests listed now instead of a SHA. And we will continue to iterate on this for the rest of the, for all the RC QAs. We're also looking to the barrier in checking out the QA tasks. You can click on the discussion issues there. We wanna try to make this as easy as possible and figure a better way to solve this because this would not scale. Given that we have 350 items in RC1 and that list may grow faster if we continue to shift things at the speed we are. The GTV migration failure rehearsal. So just a reminder, what happens every Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1300 to 1500 hours through TC, we're according to QA task and we're continuing to close out the test automation gaps. Thanks to Raymond for that. The last item that we are working on, we are doing the CE and EE issue triage rotation. Currently it is only on Mark that's handling all the load right now. We want to fan this out to the rest of the team in the future. Right now we are doing rotations in our team alone and we are also automating a triage helper that will automatically ping respective engineering managers and product managers when they are on the right labels. The roadmap for the team. So as I said before, the QA task would not scale and it would never scale. So we wanna enable teams to validate faster before changes hit master. So going forward, we wanna implement the new apps for CE and EE. So in the future, when you check up a QA task, this should happen in your feature branch, in your review apps environment and not in master. Things that come in master should be working and we should move, we should shift left and then test faster. We also want to run the automated regressions against review apps or feature branch environments. Currently it is optional right now, but we're looking to make this mandatory for every merge request that comes into master. And we continue to show up the test automation gaps and the QA, the tracking is in this issue if you're free to click and check it out. We also wanna make test planning part of feature planning because we need to ship integration and end-to-end tests. We need to ship the whole test pyramid with a feature if you want to move to true CD and remove all this manual checking and staging and all this ceremony going forward. Last but not least, as I said before, we wanna fan out charging issues, not only issue issues, but merge request as well to the whole team. So we're considering embedding this in the reaction rotation that Tommy has proposed or maybe a weekly task for the team, but these are still the discussions going on. Please feel free to weigh in your discussions if you're interested. Challenges, so currently quality is down to 3.5 person and we're still taking on a lot. We're doing all that we can right now and the way to fix this, we need to meet or exceed our hiring targets. The quality and test automation is currently not involved in all feature planning. This will be better as we exceed or meet our hiring targets so we can allocate more test automation engineers for a feature team, but that's way down the roadmap but we need to make our hires first. So the EEN code organization, the quality team has the big picture but we're not experts in the backend or front-end areas so we still need to work closely with the front-end and backend engineers to close this out. Thank you for everybody that has contributed and helping us out. The last, the list, so we are reverting to our V1 prototype while waiting for the ETL look at dashboards. This is built on charge CS and that's, we have a good feeling that we can finish this by within Q2. Questions, John, I see you have one. Are these best practices that we believe should be done for customers? Could we make it part of our auto DevOps? Are you talking about embedding quality teams in feature teams? Which part of the... I was talking about the ability to do the, doing the review apps. Right. And could we just sort of make that a standard part of our DevOps, auto DevOps process that we spin up a review branch as part of our DevOps and have customers test in a similar fashion to help them shift left? Yes, definitely. So these are called feature environments in other namesake in other companies. So yes, I believe so because before things get into master, like the true CD world, you need to make sure everything is green. Like master should always be green and testing before master is always a good practice. So yes. Paul, do you look at support tickets as a quality metric? No, we currently not. That is, we're collaborating with the support team for any support requests, but currently we do not. Do you have any suggestions there that would you like to give us or any concerns that you've seen in the support? No, I'm just wondering in best practices from a quality perspective, typically we see quality issues will result in support tickets. So I was wondering if we look at trended data or anything like that to get a gauge on whether quality is getting better or worse. Great question. So we are doing that for, not for the support tickets, but for our issue tracker. And that's the dashboard that I mentioned earlier. So we want to track that. Correlating with the support ticket is definitely something that I think would be great if we could do. I'll do a reach out to the support team to see if we can, is there anything we can do there to help looking at the support tickets? But we've seen a trend of, so the numbers may trick us. We've seen a trend of five support tickets duplicating one issue tracker tickets. So looking at the numbers alone might not be the truth in the numbers if what you're seeing because it may be reported for multiple customers, but it boils out to just one issue in our bug tracker. So just a heads up that's a conditioner. Anybody else? Okay, great. I'll give it five more seconds and then I will end the call and give 20 minutes back to everybody. Great. Thanks guys. I'll catch you guys in the next FGU. Thank you so much.


not leaking now but I mean you come over here and look at this nightmare of wiring and you look at this rat's nest this is ridiculous nothing's labeled you got insulation missing wire just twisted together I mean this is just how it hasn't shorted out it's beyond me this is jumps from in switch in switch it's that broke off soon as I moved it and I'm redoing this crap because this is just ridiculous this video is brought to you in part by true tech tools quality tools essential support all right guys we got us a boiler here that's residential let's go see what's going on hi there how's it going it said the boiler went out on you yeah now the upstairs uh-huh if I click it it comes seems to click and it'll come on but this one here it's like the zones are the temperatures came up because we've got here's right okay got you yeah because it was down to 59 yeah they're a little bit of warmth in the radiator but yeah a little bit okay I see what you got yeah so if we look here there's a rubber gasket right there and that should be up tight to that and it's not it's leaking exhaust fumes in there yeah and that's causing moisture in here which is causing all this other nasty corrosion and stuff in here which can cause some issues which ain't probably why it wasn't running but definitely ain't right don't know why it sunk down like that or if it was like it from the factory or what but you can feel the hot gas yeah so we got that apart rubber gasket supposed to fit tight against this piece if it's down in there which it's got a little bit of a connection there we need to pick up a new seal or we can silicone it one of the other till we get the seal so that's the rubber that goes down in there it fits but it ain't as tight as it should be then I just go on down in the hole I'll put some silicone around it for now I've had helicopters and so I went ahead clean this igniter it needs replaced it looks horrible this up here I get some silicone just encompassing that it's not leaking now but I mean you come over here and look at this nightmare of wiring and you look at this rats nest this is ridiculous nothing's labeled you got insulation missing wire just twisted together I mean this is just how it hasn't shorted out it's beyond me this is jumps from the end switch in switch it's that broke off soon as I moved it and I'm redoing this crap because this is just ridiculous and what's bad is you don't know if this is the problem or any of the other 15 problems because I mean this is what tells the boiler to run is these in switches thermostats get powered by them they just send a signal over to boiler to run then circular pumps and stuff run off of the call for the heat and then it's own valves open to let the water through these are your thermostats this here yeah see you got one terminal missing on that middle one I don't even know what the valve controls yeah that just broke off that's great so that's probably half of that problem there it just literally broke right off this has got to be the first floor because they used green and red I don't know why people don't use crimp connectors yeah like that's loose jeez what a joke I do not show anything in history that we've been here before not this location it's kind of hard not to fix all these problems and not obviously show that there's some problems especially when somebody was out here December which could have been another company I'm pretty sure it was it's the transformer coming in I mean look at this wiring how do you feel so that's a good job let's get rid of this garbage just get rid of it you know when it's too short together the boiler should come on and there goes the boiler and see whoever skimmed this or strips these wires you can see they they they cut into the wiring on that all right we got this all unwired got this garbage out of here and just got to finish re doing this wiring here the 24 volts stays on the outside terminal to thermostat fits on the second third one kind of like that right there and then the end switch is just go to the boiler any of one of them closes and it sends power to the boiler over there it's not rocket science it's just obviously for some people now we won't connect both terminals just yet because we don't want it to short out where we're wearing it up okay get a little bit of this out let's even clean this up I think these do a lot better job connecting to the terminals than the wires themselves normally is are not good for solid core wire but they'll be all right it's a lot better than that garbage they did so go and get these end switches done first that's a lot more secure than the garbage that I just seen a minute ago I'm just going with the crimp-ons I think they're better and you can see why these only thing I don't like about these they do not strip thermostat wire that's why you're seeing me use it sometimes without the teeth so I got this done we got this all up and redone so you get the it's it still looks like hell but it's crimped in there you've got the transformer coming in on green and blue so blue is one side of it going to the thermostat and coming back and attaching there so your coil is over here and the other ones right here but you're making your junction on a dummy terminal off to the right right now if we close one of these valves like this it should get gone well no because thermostat wiring hooked up yet let's look up this last one here there goes the boiler so that one there's calling you can see there's no resistance there this one here's calling no resistance there and that one there's calling with no resistance there that was not happening before we only had like one or two that was calling so they weren't very good connections but yeah if they're all to the open position and the end switches should all be closed so it come in here with our meter we can verify that and check across each circuit closed and then technically they're in parallel but whatever yeah they've got air in this thing obviously you can hear hear it I don't feel any hot air leaking out which is good the seal was there just slightly a little bit of a gap so that little silver silicone actually sealed it now the gap that's between the rubber and the metal that's not such a big deal because the piece that's right there actually goes deep down into it and so we're good on that now you've got one bleed here and you got an auto or a spiral vent here which is open so you would think that this would get the air out that are just super high velocity yeah we're cranking some we're cranking some now and there's their fill valve which they put a anti-siphon there pressures a little low or barely 10 we're watching for a minute see what it goes up to you who knows if they got the tank set up right look at the garden who's over here it's always a bad sign they left that hooked up no real good reason for that you can see they ran it over there so they've tried power bleeding it was what they was fairly trying to do which is where you force the boiler the water through the boiler and up to it stop and then like a garden hose up to it bleed it all out stop it go to the next section do it on and on from what I'm seeing here's your valve see valve it off here pressurize it the water goes wherever it's got to go and it's going to come down through eventually pushing it back to here it the saint really the greatest way of doing it that's probably why they didn't get all the air out of it because that's in parallel I think I'll do is I may just go around to some of the radiators and bleed it might be the easiest way to do it just add a little fast fill there and it already brought it up to about 12 and a half so I'm gonna adjust that screw just a turn or so see where that puts us out so it's be set for 12 generally this close lock that up start seeing if our valves are coming back hot because what we got here is this pump here feel which way it is that's sucking it in there so it's coming out through here that's why they're coming to the vent going out to all the different piping arrangements wherever they are which looks like it goes to that big pipe there and then eventually it must split and you're stopping flow coming back each one of them is coming back hot now we got a little bit of a rattle here on this because the strap broke so I'm gonna get that away from that so it doesn't rattle cause of the guy to call back in actually why are tying keeping that away from it would work good it's not the way I'd rather to see it but at this point I'm gonna get the system running before we go jumping and getting parts and going stupid on stuff it's generic but it'll work you would think we'd be getting some hissing out of this thing or not getting crap I wonder if they even cleaned any of this out I bet they didn't they just reused it but you can tell they did some major surgery what they really did from what I'm seeing looks like they mainly just added a fill valve a new anti-siphon and possibly a ball valve over there there's so much going on here with this I'm gonna jeesh I don't want to touch it get blamed for a bunch of I mean you can see them there's there's yeah I mean look so yeah that's something we can always come back and quote because I feel the feeling we're gonna you're gonna dig in you're gonna dig in all right so what we're doing is where we added a valve here found it off there open it up there so it comes in hits the boiler comes out of the boiler hits that ball valve it has no other place to go that odd on that supply as it goes out through the house it comes back and hits these zone valves I'm opening up one zone valve at a time and since that's partially plugged there when I quit seeing bubbles I know that I've got it all out of there and then I switch over to the other one I let go of it it goes shut and then you open up the next one and you start bleeding that one and that's gonna force all the air through the system for the most part and what I found out was the spiral vent is actually bad so I'm getting a price on that which looks like it's now leaking which is great just what I wanted so yeah we're just basically bleeding out each individual section that way I've done a video on this before just called power bleeding is what we always called it and long as everything's in series it works great if it's in parallel then it's a lot more difficult for it to work but that's what I'm doing because all the bleeders I went up there went through room by room that I could get to which was quite a few I couldn't that you know several didn't work then the ones that didn't work was the ones that I couldn't get into so you can only do so much in this right here is the best way if it works if the piping set up before that and I'm not seeing anything air wise out of that one so we'll let that one shut come back to this middle one so I'm pretty sure the middle one here is the one that had most of the air in it and then we'll do the other one closest to me which is right there and that should hopefully I mean it was getting warm yep see there was a little bubble there you go just pull that over and lock it you can see the water coming through and it's cold so that means we're pushed all the hot water out but by having it in there like that you can see if there's any air bubbles coming through I think when whoever did this work a month or two ago probably got all the air in the system so let's go ahead and close that one and we'll go ahead and open this one see if we get anything on that one yep there we go don't you heard something seeing see the little air bubbles there I'm hearing something else coming yeah you can hear it making funny noises now I got one at a time if you open up more than one at a time it won't work but up there's more so like I said just comes into one header goes out tripping over everything one inch and a quarter pipe and it starts jumping that's what they got yeah we're still getting some as soon as I think it was quiet we know we got it then we'll switch back to the other ones to make sure we didn't get no back flow and then hopefully we'll wrap it up because this was working pretty good if we do decide to replace the guts on the spiral vent which I obviously recommend because they're probably the better vents out there then we'll get that rubber seal for that thing to the same time which in theory it's fine but it's still just not the way I want to be known for doing work so and I need to order some igniters for that because they were pretty pretty eight up now since we have pressure on the boiler nine pounds area while we're still draining it I'm gonna kick this on so that it runs the circulators because that technically is coming back over to here and that should push anything up here to this one here as long as it still works which I haven't heard that's out of it yet all right I think we're pretty good so let's go ahead and close that up let's see how she does go open that so open that valve these are all still open and should be up to thirteen pounds area so that adjustment I did thirteen point seven fourteen that's good enough for me could hook the power back up and see what happens all right so what I took that apart we're cleaning that up doesn't look too bad you can blow through that in there so going to finish clean that float up and wipe the bowl out and then that way I make sure that thing is working because it didn't sound like it was bled some water up here and it rose and so it's it's open and it's not leaking so I'm happy with that I'm gonna bleed it one more time cuz when I kicked it on the pumps started sloshing a little bit which you know you can only do so much that's why I wanted to make sure that one's working like I said this one here and no it's not working and it's leaking which sucks so yeah go figure right we have to run some Teflon tape or something on that but not sure it's a bad thing about taking things apart you ain't got the freaking parts we're finally starting to get some warmth here we're at 97 degrees and just kicked on everything's kind of started and been running got the cover on to make sure everything fires with the cover on you can feel it starting like I said get warm going out so now I'm kind of just checking to see which one comes back hottest or comes back hot first come just a little curious there's another bleeder up there that should have probably been replaced it's funny they took all that apart and re-doped everything but they didn't replace the parts it's just so stupid now I do have one of those manually kicked open because thermostat must have satisfied they they were all getting pretty close but I do get a call back from the supply house they do have that just gotta get permission for that that's gonna drip very much I can do about it it'll be fine but yeah we're gonna have to get that replaced it really don't seem like that's an option so these two right here seem to have gotten gotten it both about the same maybe this one a little bit quicker but that's good it means we're coming back warm on those two at least this one here must be the slab because one of them has a slab it goes out and they're worried that maybe one of them's leak and possibly I don't know why they thought that maybe just because of they had another problem at one of their other buildings but yeah but that's what we ran into main problem we had was the wiring was not making good contact with these own vows they weren't giving a call to the boiler every time some of the zones were opening they had air in the system they had no way to really bleed it the auto bleeder over there was gummed up this one here probably could use a good cleaning but now that I've got the air out I'm not messing with it now didn't see it till just now and that pretty much it's gonna probably wrap it up other than coming back to replace that spiral vent which is like I said bad if you guys enjoyed 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Today, we'll be exploring the incredible world of iNaturalist, a powerful platform that connects people with nature and fosters a community of nature enthusiasts like you. In this video, we'll cover the basics of getting started on iNaturalist and primarily focus on submitting observations through both the app and on the web. We'll also look at how you can connect with a community of iNaturalist users and have your observations contribute to ongoing or future projects. This pine elephant you've been watching is a good place to start. This is a video I took a few years ago on my phone of a butterfly that happened to catch my eye in the parking lot as I was walking to my car.  Our goal is to get that information into the iNaturalist database. The key components of each record are knowing what species is being reported, when it was encountered, and where. Let's skip ahead for one second and look at this eastern pine elephant record on iNaturalist.org. By clicking on the species name, we're brought to the overview page for this species and we can see what all of our observations are contributing to. There are nearly 3,000 records contributed, showing us things like the phonology or seasonal distribution of those records, and I especially want to point out the geographic distribution by looking at the map. This really illustrates the power of a contributory science project like this. Thanks to people like you and me, researchers can access real-time data on the distribution of any living thing and in much larger quantities than they'd ever be able to do by themselves. While I won't focus on it in this video, you should know that there are lots of tools that you can get out of iNaturalist, like it keeping track of all the things that you've seen and organizing the photos that you've contributed. Let's focus on getting started. You can use iNaturalist either on the web or as an app on your smartphone. We'll start by looking at downloading the app. Here's a screen recording of the Apple App Store, and by searching for iNaturalist, you'll see it comes up as a top option. There are plenty of other apps that will identify things for you, but this is the one to make your observations useful to researchers. Once downloaded, you'll swipe through an overview, which is much of what we'll be covering in depth next, and you'll eventually get to a sign-up page where you'll create a username and provide an email address. This is the same process that you'll go through if you use a web browser. Go to iNaturalist.org and click Sign Up. Now let's look at how to submit an observation on the app. With the app open on your phone, you'll click Observe at the bottom of the screen, then select your camera. Let's switch over to that perspective for easier viewing. Find your subject and snap a shot. When you tap Use Photo, it'll open to the share screen, where your phone will automatically add the date and time, as well as the location thanks to the phone's connection with GPS satellites. This is worth noting that it is pulling information from your phone's GPS, not through cell towers, so it should work even if you don't have service. Next, we'll tap on the What Did You See area, which will use a photo recognition software to suggest an identification. Here it suggests a couple of species of meadowhawks, but we can also submit a just a member of the genus Sympetrum. I recommend always being conservative in using a higher taxonomic classification if you are unsure of the ID. Tap on Share at the bottom, and your observation will be uploaded. I want to take a quick pause to acknowledge anyone feeling hesitant to use this. I often hear from new users that they are nervous they'll do something wrong or break something, and let me just give you the encouragement that everything will be fine. iNaturalists just crossed the 150 million observations mark, and your contributions will only make this grow. Even just here in Maine, over 28,000 people have shared over 640,000 observations. Let's do one more quick one. We'll tap on Observe, and select the camera. Find and photograph your subject. Once the suggestions have loaded, we can compare a couple of these. I know this is some type of dock growing in my yard, and I can tap on Broadleaf Dock to see more information on it, including seeing more photos. I want to see what the basil leaves look like, so I can compare it to Curly Dock, a species that I've seen before. It definitely looked like broadleafed, so I'll select that, and I can even tap the plus button in the top left and add another photo. This is kind of extra credit, but it will make for a better record if it includes diagnostic photos. Speaking of using good photos, here's a quick example of how iNaturalist is only as good as the information you give it. The first example is a plant with pretty distinctive leaves.  It is jewelweed, or you may know it as spotted touch-me-not. The next example is less distinct, and while it does suggest daylily, also note that daylily leaf miner is at the top of the list. So the software can't quite tell if we're talking about the plant or possible insect inside the plant. And this last one, just a shot of some bark, iNaturalist misidentifies this sugar maple as some oak, even suggesting species of moths that are often photographed against bark, or yellow-bellied sap sucker, because people upload photos of their sap wells that are drilled into that bark. It's always good to be critical of the suggestions that it gives you, and think about what else you can include to get a proper identification. This is where the iNaturalist community comes into play. After you've submitted observations, others will have an opportunity to contribute to them as well. Here's what that looks like. When I go to iNaturalist.org, I'll get a notification if anyone has interacted with my observations. Here was a margin tiger beetle record that I submitted that now has had two other people agree with the identification. When the community has reached consensus on an observation, it gets tagged as research grade, which is a higher data quality indicator for researchers using these data. You can also see these comments and ID suggestions on the mobile app. Here's another example of a butterfly uploaded. Out in the field, without any guides, I didn't remember what species it was and decided to submit it at the genus level. By the next time I went on iNaturalist, Dr. Herb Wilson, a Colby College professor and coordinator of the main butterfly survey, had suggested it was an Atlantis Fritillary and even wrote great notes on how to tell it from Aphrodite or Great Spangled. I updated my ID and Bill Sheehan, another Maine expert from Marusta County, chimed in, bumping this up to research grade. You too can suggest identifications if there are families or species you know well. By clicking on the explore tab, I can filter the observations to only those from Maine and I want to just see birds. Here's one. A gull-only ID at the genus level, Loris, which are all the large white-headed gulls. I know this is a juvenile ring-billed gull, so I can suggest that here. Notice that changes the ID, but not enough people have agreed on the ID to make it research grade yet. The next one I see here is a mallard. And yep, that is a photo of a female mallard, so I can click agree and you'll see that with community consensus it has bumped up to research grade. I'll just go down to this bird. ID does a great cormorant. This is a tricky ID and if we zoom in it does look more like a double crested cormorant to me. So I can suggest that and since it differs from what is already there, I'll try to be helpful and include some notes on why I disagree. Now notice that bumped this down from species level to a family level and will require more consensus on an ID to get it back up. There are many more features under the community tab, including seeing top observers and top identifiers for each month and various projects set up on iNaturalist, which is a nice segue to talking about how your observations are contributing to science and conservation. I'll share the story of the first time I had a researcher contact me about my sightings. This was a ribbon snake I photographed years ago at my parents' house, and shortly after submitting it I was contacted by one of the coordinators of the main amphibian and reptile atlas project. I sent a quick description of how I could have that contributing to their project on iNaturalist. Fast forward a couple years and I heard from them again after finding another ribbon snake in the next town over, and now they pointed out how those observations are being used on the main inland fisheries and wildlife page and will be used in the maps from the forthcoming third edition of the Reptiles and Amphibians book. I do want to emphasize that all observations of any species, even very common ones, are just as important to these projects. You never know what questions someone might have in the future, so these virtual specimens may hold more value than we know. We can see an overview of the main amphibian and reptile atlas project on iNaturalist. It is pretty amazing that there are nearly 20,000 records submitted just to this project. At Main Audubon, we have set up projects at most of our sanctuaries, mostly focusing on documenting the biodiversity at each site. Here is a map of all the observations around our nature center at the Scarborough Marsh. We hold yearly bioblitz, bringing in experts and targeting volunteer efforts to take snapshots of the wildlife in the marsh. Before wrapping up, it is important to acknowledge the need to put the welfare of any plants or animals first. iNaturalist does have safeguards to help protect species that are threatened or endangered. With this New England Cottontail Record, if I switch out of my own account, you can see how the date and location are obscured from public view, since this is an endangered species. One more example is with these Ramshead lady slippers. These are rare and the data are obscured in Main, but a more common species, like these yellow lady slippers, will show all their data. However, you, as the observer, do have the option to change the geo-privacy and obscure that information if you'd like. In closing, there are lots of great tools on the iNaturalist website to answer your questions and help you get started. Click on the More tab and you'll find a Help section and more video tutorials. I hope this helps, and I look forward to seeing your observations on iNaturalist.


Welcome! Today we're on board the Heritage 241. The Heritage 241 is designed around family comfort and features a high capacity layout with seating for up to 12 adults as well as standard hardtop, standard electronics and so much more. This boat measures in at 23 feet 8 inches with an 8 foot 16 inch beam, 118 gallons of fuel, 16 inches of draft and 18 degrees of dead rise at the transom. So let's start the walk-through at the bow. Now up front here at the bow of the 241, plenty of space for entertainment and family and seating. Notice this wraparound seating arrangement with bolsters and handrails as well as cup holders and this nice removable centerpiece. This actually allows you to walk forward all the way up to the anchor locker compartment and we do have a pull-up clip right up there. Now for storage up here we have two large boxes underneath each of the sides and in the floor we have another large compartment with a nice lid. Now this boat also comes standard with the table that is removable and it stows away in the head and of course you can add the optional cushion to turn this entire front section into a sun pad. Very nice option to have. So then moving back from that we have the front of the console. Now this does feature a two-person bench with the upholstery and the hourglass stitching and opening the bottom of it reveals a 15 gallon cooler box that of course can also be dry storage. Let's wrap around and take a look at the features inside the console. Now inside of the console plenty of space for storage and the nice thing with all that space you can actually put in all of the cushions keeping them out of the elements. Now for the family you're gonna need a porta potty and one can be equipped inside and if you ever need to access the back of your electronics simply removing this white vinyl makes that a breeze. Another great key feature here is the battery switch location very easy to get to and then the table from the bow it actually stores in this front wall right here and it is a nice place to keep it in place when the boat's underway. The door on this compartment is lockable making it a great place for your belongings. So let's turn around and take a look at the electronics. Now for electronics on the Heritage 241 we feature the SportLink electronics integration system. This is a factory installed set of electronics that comes standard with every single Heritage 241. It includes this Garmin 1242 XSV touch and that is paired up to a B60 through hall transducer. If you want to add a second Garmin 1242 the cutout is already there. Also notice this black acrylic dash this is to help reduce glare when you're out on the water. For charging ports we've got a USB on the right and we've got a 12-volt receptacle on the left. Underneath to that all of your 12-volt toggle switches with backlit labels and for steering on this boat we've got C-stars hydraulic tilt helm with a sportsman steering wheel with a knob. For trim tabs we have electro tabs trim tabs with LED indicators. Very nice feature. Yamaha binnacle, two cup holders and then a Helm Pad below. Now for tunes we include JL Audio's MM50 head unit with M3 speakers all the way around. However if you want the best of the best this is JL Audio's M6 ultra premium upgrade. This upgrades the head unit to an MM100 M6 speakers all the way around and includes JL Audio's brand new MVI amplifiers with built-in DSP. Now every single ultra premium upgrade is hand tuned by JL Audio to give you the best sound when you're out on the water. Another great standard feature of this boat is this hardtop. So let's take a look. For those long hot days in the summer you're gonna want some shade. Now this hardtop is definitely up to the task. It includes speakers as well as lights for rod holders across the back, kingfish rod holders and if you opt in for some outriggers we do have the plates already welded in. Additional storage in the back as well as the front and it also includes the Garmin VHF radio. And the boat we're on today also has the powder coating package in white. We also offer it in black or you can opt out of powder coating altogether. To finish everything up we do have these nice handrails over here. So now let's take a look at the deluxe leading post. For seating at the helm we have our dual premium chair leaning post. Very comfortable and it does have high backs making it very comfortable. It also has these individually adjustable boasters. This allows the captain to be standing up while passenger is seated. Very nice. To grab handles on either side for safety and planning a space underneath for a cooler. And we do offer the 65 quart yeti slide out and under leaning post tackle storage. Nice options to have. Over the back we have four rod holders and speaking of rod holders let's check out under the gun. Now for some additional rod storage you could fit three rods on either side under the gun. We also include this tow rail for safety. Over the top we've got two flush mounted rod holders as well as cup holders and pull up cleat. For your raw water the hookup is underneath and then the same thing for the fresh water but up front. Wrapping around we notice this edge-to-edge bench back here. So let's take a look. This rear seating area here can accommodate up to four adults and it has this nice high back for more comfort. Underneath the left and right cushions you have nine gallon insulated live wells which can double up as cooler or dry storage. Now the coolest feature back here is our total access hatch. Opening up this large lid reveals the best in class access to your bilge for any maintenance or service needed and also additional storage. Now this lid is lockable making it safe for your belongings. Now removing this backrest over on the port side actually reveals a walk through door. Very nice feature to have because it makes it easy to get in and out of the boat. A three-step boarding ladder out back with a handle completes the package. Now for engines on this boat the one we're on today has the Yamaha 300 and we also offer 250s and 300s in mechanical and digital. The Heritage 241 is truly purpose-built with family and mind. With its spacious layout, comfortable seating and the array of standard features this boat truly stands above the rest. This boat as with every other sportsman boat is NMMA certified and built to ABYC standards representing the highest in safety standards in the boating industry. If you have any questions on this boat or any other sportsman model visit our website SportsmanBoatsMFG.com or contact your local dealer. Thanks for watching.