Andrew, you'll be taking notes, is that right? Or did we change that? I was going to ask. I can read this here today. I am, and I am taking notes. I just made a doc, and I don't know. Anyway, I don't know how to find you. All right, well, you guys sort that out. I guess we get started. As usual, we have an open session followed by the executive session. So for the open session, the agenda is in the board packet. But for those that do not have access, I'm going to talk about just an operational update as we do normally. And then you special agenda items today, a little talk about time management and our board meetings, or meetings in general. And then we're going to do updates from the different board committees. Very quick two minutes for each of the five committees. And then we get an update on the content strategy, as well as an update on the advertising strategy for Drupal.org. So with that, I'm going to give the floor to Holly for the operational update. Thank you, guys. So just a few notes about some of our key areas that we've been working in from the month of January. You'll learn that the whole board packet has turned over in terms of the metrics that we're reporting on. Just to start with, then I will just make the callable announcement that we're definitely going to be working on how those are presented throughout the year. So last year, we got in a habit of collecting data and trying to use that more to understand where what it says about our work and what kinds of tricks we need to make. And we present that in table format throughout the year in the board packet. And we are currently working on revisiting, having to present that data so that it has a little more meaning behind it for you. So you'll see those change from month to month as we implement some new systems. But I wanted to say a note about that. And if you have questions or feedback or thoughts, we definitely want to hear those. If there's something that does or does not work for you, definitely feel free to send me a note as we work out our dashboarding stuff. So the logistics aside, some of the highlights from January. Obviously, we're all starting to work around releasing Drupal 8 with the community. So the de-accelerate program kicked off strong in January. Huge thanks to the branch. Sorry. Holly, I'm finding it really difficult to actually hear you. I can hear that you're speaking and that it's just a bit fuzzy and indistinct. Can you get close to the mic or something? Yes. And or it's totally ignoring the mic. Oh, that's so much better. Thank you. That's so funny. We moved it like six inches. OK. Thank you. I'll also face the microphone. That also helps. Good deal. So we, as I was saying, we're working on a Drupal 8 accelerate that project a lot. And I wanted to send a huge thanks to the branch meetingers and Angie in particular for all their work to vet the proposals that come in and also get to give them things that they want to see funded. We've made nine grants so far. Lots of entity field work in those grants, but also a couple of events, including the Drupal Camp New Jersey Sprint where they did a lot of work on menus. And our next big sprint that's being funded through the program is a CI sprint that'll happen at the end of March. So Jeremy and Nick and actually Shyamalan, a number of people from the community will be here in Portland working with the Drupal.org team here to get that next set of testing issues tackled for the Drupal 8 team. So we're excited about that program. And we've definitely seen an uptick in community submitted applications lately, which is good. So hopefully we'll see more of that and more ideas from the community. On the roadmap side of things on Drupal.org, the team has really been working hard at the board and working group priorities, in particular, better account creation and log in. So I think we have the majority of the account creation improvements in place. And this has been huge in both making it easier for folks to sign up for an account in a meaningful way while also reducing the number of spam accounts that we have. And so the next focus on that side is on the user engagement path. And you'll see some notices go out to the community about some of the work that we've done there so that we can give our folks the right level of permissioning on the site as they engage with the community. Issue credits is another area on the roadmap that we're still working on. We've made an initial commit on that issue. But the progress has definitely been slowed down by a couple of things. One is a set of internal projects. We moved Drupal.con sites over to events.drupal.org. And that was a huge lift. But it will hopefully the ideas end up giving us more time or end up making sure that we spend less time launching each new site and also getting elections off the ground and improving on the experience that folks had last year. And also, I think that the other thing that really slows that work down is that we're excited because we've had a lot more community contributions to Drupal.org lately. But we're also then responding to those community contributions. So that definitely takes up a chunk of time. So it's going a little slower, but we're still working on that front. On the Drupal.con side of things, not technically in January, it happened technically in February. But Drupal.con Latin America, we did one. We had one. It was a big moment for us to actually get that done. And the event was really positive. And I just will have lots more details for you next month. And there's some more detail in the packet even. But I just want to send a huge thanks to Hyro and Camotek and all the folks who helped us pull that event off. Nixida, Leandro, really helped make that a wonderful space where I think we've really learned from each other through that process. So it was wonderful for that. Los Angeles is launched on events.drupal.org, as I just discussed, which is great. Reg should be opening up very shortly this week. We should see that open up, which will be great. And also, I just want to make sure that everyone is aware that we are getting ready now that Latin America is behind us for our next Drupal.con in another location. And we're planning Drupal.con Asia in India. So Megan and Rachel took a site visit in January. They visited a number of cities, really spent time with the community to understand what their needs were in general in India, as well as what each community looks like in those locations, which is pretty amazing. And I have to say that the most amazing part is just the reception that they got from the community. Everywhere they went, the community put together events specifically for them and really showed them the best of what's happening in India. So we really are excited about that event. Things could be really spectacular. That's the momentum on the Drupal.con side of things. And then the other big push right now is elections for the board, of course, the at-large seats. So we launched nominations in January. Right now we have 18 candidates who have nominated themselves and they represent 12 countries, which I'm really excited about. We have much more Drupal representation than we did in the past. Several folks from Latin America, several folks from Europe, someone from New Zealand, someone from China. So I think that those are all really good, positive steps. That's awesome. Yeah. And two women, so I'm gonna take it. Although I did tweet yesterday, where are my ladies at? Nomination closed on Friday and then meet the candidate sessions are next week. So I'm just scheduling people into those meet the candidate sessions now. And then just a reminder about the schedule. Voting opens on March 9th and we'll run through the 20th. And then we'll be able to, we'll ask the board to ratify the results via email and make the announcement publicly on March 25th. March 9th through 20th with voting and we'll announce it on March 25th. So I think those are the highlights. Any questions from the board packet? I think there's no questions. All right, well, I think we can keep moving then. Thanks, Holly. That was great. Some exciting updates, a quick item that I wanted to tackle real quick is that after the board retreat and after some of the last board meetings, a couple of us huddled about how we can do a better job of staying on time in some of our meetings. So we've, the last few meetings, we've kind of run over every single time. And so we all agreed. Those that were part of this conversation we should do a little bit more time management. And so as of today, we would like to try two things. One is time boxing, the conversations. And as you can see from the board packet, for each of the agenda items, we added how many minutes we want to talk about each of the topics. So that's a new addition. And so I'll try to help manage things towards that right now we're doing fine. We started actually five minutes late with the call. So we're actually right on time. The other thing that we would like to ask people to do is to save your questions to the end. After each topic, we can use the remaining minutes that we have to do Q&A, but not to ask questions during the actual presentations itself because chances are these questions will be answered later. So we're gonna start with these two things, you know, time boxing and saving the questions to the end. Hopefully that works. If it doesn't work, we'll try some other things. There's many other things we can do, but we figured we would just start with these two actions. Is there any questions on that? Yes. Angie asks if we should use the question box and go to meeting. That's right. So that's also a very good thing to do so that whoever the presenter is of a session or a topic they can look at the questions in the go-to meeting. And if we're limited on time, that person can pick maybe the most relevant or the best questions or whatever judgment he or she may want to use. And then if not all questions are answered, we can always answer them after the call or an email or some other means. Great question, Angie. Any other questions? Awesome. Well, in that case, I suggest we keep going to make up a little bit of lost time in the start. So let's move on to the board committees. So two minutes each, starting with the revenue committee. Sure, this is Megan Sanaki. I'll just make mine short, but January was looking really good for us this year with revenues and we are just keeping our eye on Drupal jobs. Carrie is going to give a presentation of where we are with our digital advertising in Drupal jobs. And we're also pulling together the Drupal 8 Accelerate Fundraising Campaign. And so that's something that we'll be kicking off publicly in the next couple of weeks. In the executive session, we'll be talking more about that and Jeff can give an update there of some of his initial efforts. And also, I just wanted to point out that one of the things we're doing to grow the revenue team is we are staffing up. We've already hired Rachel Rivera as our junior sales rep working on Drupal jobs and we have a position open. We're currently looking for someone to be our digital ad sales rep. We're already 33% of goal right now for the year. We had some great early wins. There's lots of room for growth and we're looking for the right person to help us accelerate revenue in that area. Awesome, that was it? Or was there more? That's it. All right, thanks Megan. Governance. Governance. We didn't meet this past month. However, we did make the changes that folks asked for the language for the bylaws and we're looking to get an email vote on that. Very good. Finance. So Finance Committee did not meet in person but we did review the October, November and December 2014 financials and notes by email and we'll be presenting those in executive session today for board approval. All right, thanks Tiffany. The executive committee, we didn't meet. We can go straight to marketing. All right, I am still working on finalizing commitments for members of the committee. So I hope to have our first meeting next week where we can build out more of an official plan and so hopefully the next time that we'll meet I'll be able to give you a list of who is on the full marketing committee. All right, great. So a reminder that that was Gina Montoya, marketing committee chair extraordinaire. Hello, hello, thank you. Yeah, thank you and you know, welcome. All right, is there any questions on the board committees? Just to disappoint the exact committee we did meet. Oh, we did meet, I'm sorry. Sorry. We talked about time-boxing meetings and things. That's right. We did meet about that. Direction in the minutes, please. As you see it. All right, any other questions? I have a feeling. All right, great. All right, so let's move on to the content strategy updates, please. All right, close that out and move this down right here. Yeah, just so you know, they can't see that on the screen, so you're fine. They can't see questions. Okay, perfect. All right, I'm going to kind of walk through this as quickly as possible here. So as most of you on the call though, we started the content strategy project earlier this year with the objectives to improve quality and findability for all of the content on Google.org to reframe the Drupal project around user roles and proficiencies, really taking a look at that user research that we've done in the past and using that to make all of our decisions or at least a large portion of our decisions, to develop a content governance plan for Drupal Edward to work on the quality of content on Drupal Edward and also to have a real focus on user engagement and helping to promote contributors that are giving back to the project. We've been working with Forum One and one of the things that we noticed in this project pretty early on is that it takes a while to get a new contractor up to speed on just kind of the scale and scope of Drupal.org. It's a huge site. I often throw around the numbers of 1.2 million nodes and 2.4 million comments and that's an awful lot of content. And so it just takes a long time to get people up to speed with a lot of the history, a lot of the background. I felt this myself when I was coming on board with the role of CTO. So to get them started, we gave them a whole bunch of background documents. We walked them through the content ecosystem, all of the subsites of Drupal.org. We showed them all the communication channels that we've documented and we know that we have. We did an initial content type inventory that shows content types over, content type counts over time so we can kind of see what content types are growing and shrinking on Drupal.org. We also did a user task to content type mapping and a current site map. This is a very high level site map but it's gonna be important in some of our ongoing work. One of the things that we were really trying to get out of this project was a messaging framework and part of that messaging framework is a series of what we call big ideas. These are, I've heard it described by some community members who reviewed this is very marketing in terms of the language being used and I would say that's absolutely correct. These are the big ideas that we used to really market what Drupal.org is, what Drupal the community is. So people need to know that Drupal.org offers the best Drupal resources on the web that is supported and maintained by a welcoming and cross-disciplinary community of Drupal practitioners. So that's one of the big ideas we wanna throw out there. Related to that, we want to inspire people by the wide and active global network of Drupal users and their passion for the software and we want that to come through in all of our messaging that we're using. Joe can talk to this a bit too but we're definitely collaborating between our marketing and communications teams and the Drupal.org team to make sure that we're kind of infusing everything we do with these messages. The next big idea is to get people inspired in order to get people inspired we need to confirm their opinions about Drupal by making it easy for them to find community conversations, user resources and the vast catalog of contributed projects, case studies and really show them opportunities to learn and build their proficiency around Drupal. One last big idea is to cause them to use Drupal, create a user account, post a question, attend an event, volunteer and contribute to the Drupal project. We don't actually expect that every single user will do all of these, but as many users as we can get to convert on all of these activities, the better. And these are some of our key measurements of engagement with users is that they're doing these types of activities. I keep popping back up the user research, reminding people that the real focus of our efforts is that transition from learner to skilled and that talks a little bit about getting people to build their proficiency so getting them out of the I'm learning about Drupal to I'm actually doing things with Drupal and ideally that they've moved into that area that they're making some part of their income in a Drupal related field. Project deliverables for the content strategy project, we have quite a few deliverables in here. The vision brief which has been shown to the board kind of outlines those big ideas. There's also some key messages and the objectives that we started with are all included in that vision brief. We have a content audit template in place and we're gonna be starting soon working on what our content audit strategy is going to be to make sure that we know what the majority of our content is. And we've already done one thing in this area that was really fascinating. We took and we looked at our books and we were able to calculate that of all of the book pages created on Drupal.org, 35, I'm sorry, I just saw that sound drop. Can you guys hear me okay? Yes. Okay. Okay. Sorry, Matthew, it was just you. So one of the stats that we found is we were really digging into the research is Drupal 7 having been released in January of 2011. If we look at everything prior to 2011, it gives us a really good litmus test of content created before Drupal 7. And book pages, 39% of our book pages were created prior to 2011. Of that 39%, 25% of all book pages from that timeframe, or I'm sorry, of all time have been updated. So basically we have this kind of sweet spot of about 24% of our content. You're right, Tiffany, those are different. I actually have a graphic up here that'll give me the correct number in just a second. But 25% of our content on book pages has not been updated since 2011, even though it was created prior to 2011. That's the stat I really want to get across. You have three minutes left. That's good, I've got like two minutes of content I can get through. We're also working on a site map, taking that high level site map that we currently have, updating it into the new one. We're working on a governance and community management plan. This is gonna be a really important deliverable. It's gonna take a lot of work with the working groups to make sure that we get something that we can share with the community that we think they're gonna buy into. But the idea is if we're gonna improve quality, we're gonna have to implement some workflow and content lifecycle into the content that we have. To address those things like the 25% of content that hasn't been updated, even though it was created in this case almost five years ago. On-going staff work, we continue to map our message to our audience and our audience to our channels. So we have a full map of when we communicate with different user types and what messages we approach them. We're also doing some work to do some rewriting of key content. We're working on communications editorial calendar. And we're trying to define the role of community manager and what that looks like. We certainly have community managers in the community right now. A perfect example would be like Angie, that's her title with Aquia. But as it relates to Drupal.org content and onboarding new people as they're coming on board, we wanna make this a little bit more formal and we think that there's a need to staff up in that area as well. That's certainly one of the recommendations that's coming from forum one. And here's that stat I was talking about. 55% of Drupal.org book pages were created before Drupal.7. 32% have been updated since this launch, which gives us that 20. One. 23. 23% of all book content. See, I should have had that before I used that stat, sorry. 23% of all book content is essentially out of date and has not been touched since Drupal.7 released. Rollout planning, we have a lot to do. I'm actually in the process of meeting with the documentation working group, the content working group. We have our all working groups meeting next week to kind of reiterate much of the progress that we're making. I will say that this presentation here is almost out of date already because we have a content model that we're gonna be putting in front of the working groups for feedback starting this week. So there's some really exciting work in this and I think we're kind of, we keep stumbling across new things that are just showing us just how vast our content library is from our community generated content. And we're coming up with some great ways to kind of restructure it and make it a lot better quality, which I think is gonna help Drupal in the long run. Joe, is there anything you have to... No, I think you can come with it. Okay, cool. All right. Did I make it on time? You made it just on time, excellent. I'm actually, I don't actually don't know if the time includes time for Q and A. I actually also don't know if there are questions. I don't think I can see the chat. The ones that popped up, Tiffany pointed out that the stats were different on what I was quoting there. I should have had the number in front of me before mentioning it, but the 55% of all book content being created before Drupal 7 was the real thing that we wanted to kind of throw out there is that we've got a lot of content that is years and years old. But that was the only question, Dries, so. All right, good. Yeah, I don't think, I think only the presenter can see the questions, maybe. Yes, I will look, work on next time I get the mouse back, I'll see if I can let you see the questions. All right, yeah, no worries, or it can help me manage the questions. There's no question. Then, Josh, I think is very helpful. And then the last part of the open session is the advertising, and we have 20 minutes for that, so. All right, and that includes time for questions as well. So hopefully I can, my primary focus is gonna be on our advertising strategy for this year, but if time permits, I'm gonna give a brief update on jobs and then open everything up for questions. So just a quick update of our goals and your today revenue so far. I just wanna pause you and say, welcome to Carrie Wessina. Hi. Hi. I don't think you guys have heard from before, but I wanna make sure you know who's talking. Carrie. Welcome. Thank you. Another voice to memorize. Yeah, exactly. So our goals for Drupal.org web ads, as we're now calling it internally, digital advertising is $250,000 for the year. And as Megan mentioned, we're pretty strong there. Year to date, we're at 34% already. So there's a lot of room for growth there, but we are making good progress so far. And then Drupal jobs, the budget is 216,000. It's a little bit soft right now. It's only at about 5%. We should be closer to nine or 10, but I'll be talking about some new marketing initiatives that we're working on to try and remedy them. So since I started here in October, I've been doing a lot of research and trying to address some of the challenges regarding our new initiatives and our existing advertising opportunities. So I've been doing a lot of interviews with the Drupal Association and a lot of the board members, community members and then various Drupal businesses, both large and small, just to get a good scope of what our marketers are looking for and what the community will support on Drupal.org. One of the challenges that we need to address is that while there are banner ads on the site right now, there's a relatively low amount of pages on those pages. So one of our initiatives is to continue to grow that traffic and grow those opportunities directly on the site. Something that we need to be aware of is that as an industry standard, larger, more intrusive ads are becoming the norm. So it's not necessarily the direction that we're gonna go in, but it's just something to keep in mind as we're trying to compete with, I guess, other potential publishers. And on that same note, there are a lot of concerns over the user experience and the community impact of these new initiatives. And we're trying to be respectful towards the Drupal Association's engineering team. They've got a really big roadmap this year, a ton to do, and while we're gonna need their help, we're trying to be completely disruptive. We're also working towards addressing the shift of programmatic advertising. What that is is data-driven, real-time, automated buying and selling of digital media. So if you take a look at this chart over on the right, this shows total US ad spend in the programmatic category. This year, 55% of all digital advertising spend is expected to be programmatic, and that's gonna jump to 63% in 2016. So in addition to ramping up our direct sales force, there's a really keen focus on some programmatic efforts as well. One way to do that is to introduce ad networks and exchanges on your site, but that does pose some risk. Ad quality is really hard to monitor and maintain as is the ad's relevance to the Drupal community. And there are relatively low prices just because of all the middlemen involved. It's definitely a volume game. So when you think of kind of the risk reward, it's not necessarily worth it at this stage in the game to introduce that risk to our site. And here's an example of what... Sorry. What a typical publisher portfolio looks like in the advertising realm. Many publishers are employing this barbell strategy where on one side of the spectrum, there's a premium direct sold side, and on the other side, there's this programmatic automated side of things. Their inventory could include display advertising, which are basically banner ads on a desktop site or mobile or in a newsletter, email marketing. So for example, renting out a list for dedicated mailers and the various custom programs, which is basically a way to describe anything that's not a standard banner ad. So it's more out of the box or outside of the box. And then some sort of indirect or programmatic efforts, which could include ad networks, open exchanges, and then private marketplaces. And just to help visualize and explain the difference between programmatic and manual and direct and indirect, this graph up here shows you on the manual side and the direct side, so the bottom right, that would include a direct sales team. So they're calling people and taking people to lunch and sending, you know, insertion orders and sending creative back and propagand. It's very manual. A lot of the shift is trying to address some of that waste and making sure that things get a little bit easier with a more automatic process. And that's where we get to the programmatic side. So in the indirect programmatic side is a real-time bidding platform. So that would be something like Google AdWords or Google AdExchange where people are bidding in real time on available inventory using data to inform their ad decisions. And then programmatic directs. So that's a situation where you might create some sort of automated platform, but there's a wall, so you would have to invite advertisers to participate in it, which is good for the publisher because it keeps the level of quality and control and it does also require some direct sales force. So the biggest takeaways and guidelines from all of this research is that our new product should appeal, not only appeal to advertisers, but also support our users and or our mission. When possible, we wanna monetize users to our logged out and not contributing. We're gonna be handling that in a few different ways, but one way is to avoid the issue queue altogether, but places like the home page is okay because it's not necessarily where people are coming to work. We don't wanna clutter the site or interfere with navigation or disrupt visitors, especially contributors. One of the biggest takeaways that I came across, especially when talking to Drupal businesses, is that these products need to be inclusive, so we really need to focus on offering some low-cost options so that smaller players can take part in them as well as the larger players. Create, we wanna create more high-impact opportunities for our partners and then address this large shift to programmatic advertising. So we get together as a team. Everybody came with a huge list of advertising product ideas and we ranked them against certain objectives like user experience and ROI scale and our ability to execute. And we came up with about six new products. So this is just general category view of what our product portfolio is gonna look like for 2015. So we'll have onsite and newsletter display banners, a dedicated email program, a couple custom integrated programs, and then a programmatic marketplace. And I'll delve into each one of these individually. Onsite newsletter display banners are pretty straightforward. I'm sure you've heard a lot about the content that we're curating, like Josh mentioned in his presentation, that the marketing team has been working on these resource guides and content by industry and eventually blog posts that are not only really useful to our users and there's a big need for it, but it's also a good opportunity to increase our banner inventory onsite and allow advertisers a really targeted advertising opportunity. We're gonna be rolling out an ISV marketplace program. So this is gonna be very similar to what we're doing right now with the hosting listings in the marketplace where a supporting technology partner can bid on a placement here. The ISVs are definitely a market that we're trying to go after more. We're gonna do this pricey model on more of a performance basis just so we can entice them to try advertising on Drupal.org and hopefully expand those opportunities. We are creating an opt-in third-party dedicated mail-air list. So when a user creates a new account on Drupal.org, they have the option to opt-in to special offers from our supporting partners. This is gonna take some time to implement. We started to work the opt-in placements on existing profiles, but it'll take probably at least through Q2 and Q3 to build up this list in a meaningful way. So it's not available yet, but we hope to be able to start sending them in Q4. And these are, I anticipate, being really high in demand. Dedicated mailers usually work really, really well for the partner. It's a win, especially if they can offer something special and unique to the users who sign up for it. So again, it's something that's good for the advertiser, but also benefits the user who partakes in it. This tried Drupal program is one of the first kind of more custom integrations that we're doing. This is a brainchild of Josh. So we've been working on kind of the ins and outs and the details of it. Essentially, it's a lead generation program where a prospective user can try Drupal in a free dev environment. We're gonna be showcasing different hosting partners, but there are gonna be certain tests in place just to make sure that it's a really positive experience for the user. So for example, you have to be able to set up a free account and create a site in under 20 minutes. So it's really a consult though. We're gonna be working really closely with these partners just to make sure while it is a revenue opportunity, it's also a really good, it fills the need of a feature that doesn't really exist on Drupal at all right now. And then the last product that I'm gonna go into in more depth is what we're calling audience extension. It's similar to a private marketplace except that it's all occurring off of the site. It's a secure, anonymous and non-interruptive way to advertise to Drupal.org visitors. And it's essentially allowing advertisers to programmatically reach visitors of Drupal.org while they're on other websites through ad networks and exchanges. So anonymous visitors are tagged with a cookie and then when they leave the site, the cookie follows them and then allows advertisers of our choosing to serve them ads across the web. There are a lot of questions that come up with this often just because it's really different and unique for my thing that we've done so far. So here's just kind of a list of some answers to our most frequently asked questions. It is anonymous. No personally identifiable information is gathered and no data is sold or exchanged. All this is doing is allowing, we're plugging into this larger platform and allowing advertisers of our choosing to bid on a potential ad impression. We're not actually giving anybody or exchanging data. The way we implemented this in a very careful way so that we're supporting do not track browser requests and we're just completely excluding logged in users and any traffic from the issue queue. It also does not conflict with EU privacy rulings. The partner that we're working with to do this perfect audience does not allow you to bid on European traffic and that's how they kind of avoid that. My biggest, the reason I'm such a proponent of this particular product is that it's really inclusive. It's affordable for small businesses. It doesn't cost anybody to join a program. It's a lot like Google AdWords, it's self-serving. You can sign up for free. You don't have to have a minimum spend so if you wanted to test it out for a hundred bucks or less, you could do so. And it's a huge plus that we can monetize the site without flooding it with ads and disrupting user experience. Even though the ads will appear off of Drupal.org, we're still working with perfect audience to vet the potential advertisers and make sure that it's only high quality and relevant advertisers that are able to participate. So this program, it does have the potential to generate a significant amount of revenue as we continue to roll it out and invite more advertisers to come on board and it requires very few resources from the association. The implementation was pretty quick on the engineering team and instead of our sales force we're working with the perfect audience sales force which is much larger, about 15 people plus and rely on them to kind of do the heavy lifting in the selling. This is a general picture of the timeline for when all of these products are gonna be released. It's a little bit hard to read but basically the gist is we're trying to space it out a little bit so we're not completely taxing the engineering team. But we're trying to front load it with some of the more higher revenue generating products just so we've got a nice little cushion that if some of the smaller products have to fall off the schedule we're still really prepared revenue budget wise to do that. That's all I have for advertising so I'm just gonna do some quick jobs, updates and then if people have questions at the end we can answer those. You have about four minutes right away. Oh, okay. Or maybe a little bit more, five minutes. Okay, thank you. So we launched a homepage redesign. I think you're probably familiar with this already. We just cleaned it up a little bit, created some new more specific calls to action for an employer versus a job seeker. We added this featured company block up on the right side as an added benefit to anybody who purchases a Drupal job subscription. So not only would you get unlimited postings for a year but you also get regular rotation in this really high profile placement. And starting yesterday we actually just launched the ability for a job seeker to save a job search and then receive regular job notification email updates on it. So it's really good, good user experience. You know, some of you doesn't necessarily feel like they have to hit the site every day just to be abreast of new jobs and it's good for new job postings because you know that relevant candidates are gonna be aware of your posting as soon as it's up. We simplified the job store. We used to have five products. We narrowed it down to three. We've got a single job posting, a featured standalone job posting and then the Drupal job subscription which is still the same which now includes this added branding of the homepage promo as well as exposure in those daily email notifications that just went out. We were a little bit hesitant to flood the site with a lot of traffic before some of these changes went into place. Our customer service ticket to purchase ratio was a little bit high in the beginning. We just had a couple things that we needed to fine tune. It was around 25% and now since these changes have been in place, it's dropped significantly which is really good. So we're down closer to the 10, 15% range and that can always be improved upon but now we can go ahead with some of these larger initiatives to drive lots of traffic and feel confident that we won't get flooded with customer service complaints. So we're working on some integrated placements on Drupal.org including a jobs link up in the top and abs and then rolling out a more integrated block down in the bottom. And we're continuing to run banner ads across Drupal.org. We're doing a lot more in terms of testing trying to create campaigns that are catered towards job seekers versus employers just so we can drill down and do better targeting on Drupal.org so we can make those a little bit more efficient. But we also realize that we need to reach beyond Drupal.org. We're working with EVQ which is a marketing lead gen firm that we've been working on for some other initiatives and we've recently tasked them to help us identify and reach out to some recruiters and end users and make sure that they're aware of Drupal jobs. This month we're gonna be rolling out targeted email campaigns both for existing customers who've purchased and who want them to come back as well as leads who've come to the site and posted a job for free but haven't been converted to a purchaser. And then continuing our presence in the newsletter the Drupal Association newsletter and then dedicated mailers to accompany our banner ad campaigns to our Drupal business list. It might not happen anytime soon but we are talking about developing an affiliate program for Drupal jobs so partner sites or newsletters can promote Drupal jobs and then we can give them a rev share and any sales that come of it which is just a really good way to expand our reach without necessarily having to invest in an ad budget and then continuing to have some kind of presence at upcoming Drupal cons. Awesome, thank you. We have one or two minutes for questions. There's any? Kieran had some questions and it is, oh Kieran wants to know on the ad revenue is it 33% or 33% of bookings or 33% of earned revenue at this point? Bookings, yeah. And let's see, will we invite only new accounts to opt in and I assume Kieran that you here are referring, oops, I assume Kieran that you are referring here to the email list, I'm guessing. Right now the only opt-in has actually has been added to existing accounts so you can actually go in your account and then opt-in and then we will shortly be rolling out the feature for new members but obviously we wanna roll this out to as many existing members that we have so. Well the field is added to a new account creation as well. Oh it is, okay yeah, so on both fronts the opt-in is available and we'll probably work with the marketing team to try and make sure that there's some more awareness around that. Yeah, and then Matthew wants to know what we're using for the email newsletter. We as of this week actually, Friday I think it was, we made the last push to move our newsletters over onto MailChimp. They're one of our premium technology supporters and they're actually doing a very generous donation to get us kinda off the ground being able to move our entire list over to that. So the Drupal Association newsletter was already there but this is gonna move Maintainer News, the Drupal newsletter. Eventually we haven't moved security or we haven't moved security or maintainer yet but we've moved all the other newsletters over to MailChimp, so. Now is it. Awesome, all righty, I think that concludes the public part of the board meeting. Yeah. Thanks everybody and then we are the board members and Holly and Meg and I believe we're gonna regroup for the executive session. We'll see you over there. All right, thank you.


Just smelling the air, what do you smell? Your ignorance? Saratash.  Rick, false and innocent. Just squeeze the teats. That's gross. And I think we're supposed to have a page on our father's official Twitter account. Have you ever squeezed the teat? Yeah. It's weird how worn they are when you touch them. And floppy. Would you stop it? Stop it. And the new... The second trailer for Tanhanji? Tanhanji? The epic looking Saratash one. Correct. That's coming out this next January. I think. I don't know. I think I heard that the Rajnakant one, this one, and the Dupika one are coming up on the exact same day. Unless they're going to move it. Who knows. But I believe that's what he said. But this is the second trailer for that. It didn't have subs even though it's a T-series. When are those coming up? Do you remember? I think January 14th or something around there. Okay. Man, we're going to be watching a lot of stuff. But here we go. Yeah, for something this big. I think it's because of the hearing. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're really cool. I think. The first trailer was better. I liked the first trailer better. I didn't dislike this. I think the first trailer gave it a little more epicness. But a couple of things I'm excited about this film for are, one, the songs, you know, they're gonna be really good. I could tell, they didn't show a lot of near, but you could tell from the background. Like, it's T-Series, they're good at making songs. Like, remember in the war, like the song with Rithik and Tiger and Hank coming in, it was just a really good song. They're good at making really fun, catchy songs. Also, I think Saigvali Khan looks really cool in this. And I think he's, I think, since Sacred Games, he's now wanting to be flex a little more, that's been mostly maybe learn some stuff from Nawaz or, so I can't, obviously we've never seen him before that, but from the trailers we've seen him before that, although we haven't seen him on the car. People say we need to see him on the car. Yeah, we really do need to see that anyway, because we haven't completed the, when you have finished the trilogy. The trilogy. I think he looks good in this. I think his character looks cool. I think his acting looks top-notch. The CGI on this doesn't look as good as even some of the stuff, I'm not even comparing it to an American stuff. No, just the previous trailer. Yeah, previous trailer, Side Rock. It just doesn't look like it's as clean as other stuff, even in India.  But even in terms of other Indian epics that we've seen, Bhaji Ramasthani, the Side Rock, and those other epics, it just, the CGI doesn't look as clean. This wasn't even as clean as the first trailer. Yeah. Which is strange to me. Like, because you've had more time and you think that would be, you would try to show it off, but. And how familiar are you guys with this story? Obviously for us, we don't know this story at all. No, no. And as far as we know, this may be the 50th time you have heard the story or seen it portrayed in some way. Or maybe this is the first time. It says, I'm not a warrior, so. Right. Like the first time this guy's ever been told on screen, the guy that, what's his face is playing? Not Saif Ali Khan. What's the other actor's name? We saw him in Trishyam, right? Trishyam, yeah. Do we know his name? We do. It's just I'm drawing a blank on it right now. I'm gonna look it up real quick. I feel like he's the hero in this. Here we go. AJ. Yeah. Yeah. Devon. Devon. Saif Ali Khan. Kajol. Yeah. Kajol's in there. I didn't see her in this. Oh yeah. Maybe I wasn't looking. No, you did. Okay. She's the one, her, she was the main female. She was the main female. Oh, was she? Yeah. Okay, I just didn't pick it up. Directed by Olm Raut. Raut? It doesn't look like I know anything he's ever done. It's based on the life of Tanaji Malussar, a 17th century Maharashtrian Marathi military leader. Okay. So he's a Marathi leader. Okay. So I look and since the title is an unsung warrior, I assume this is like almost the first time it's been done. And apparently this one of AJ's production company is behind this kid. So I don't know how often he produces his own types of films. Right, but guarantee it. I mean, if it's his production company, that means it's his money. So he's got a vested interest in this for whatever reason. Yeah. Who knows? I don't like a release date is January 10th in India. So yeah, it's didn't inspire as much confidence as even the first one of it. So I'm hoping it's not like the CGI doesn't take me out of it. Like I said, I'm not even, I'm not even comparing it to like an American Avengers or anything like that. Not at all. Or stuff like that. I'm just, we saw a side rod just a few months ago and it was so good. It seemed like that had a lot better CGI. So it seems strange to me. I was surprised in a couple of spots that helped for the CGI. It looked like green screen. And they were just flat out animation. There were a couple of spots. I was like, wow, really? Yeah. And that sometimes it'll take you out of it, you know? Like it'll 100% if there's bad, bad CGI in a scene that's all you're looking at. You're not looking at the actor. 100%. I mean, I was thinking about this the other day. I don't remember what I was watching, but I can basically boil down when in any film or a trailer, two things that are the most important thing for me above all, when it comes to the acting, and the production design, the costuming, everything. Details and believability. And the details will affect the believability. If the details miss in any way, shape or form, like this is what I love about Scorsese. When Scorsese was doing Raging Bull, he stopped production. Joe Pesci tells the story that I, and he stopped while they were filming one of the boxing match sequences. And he pointed out that one of the background actors was wearing a watch that wasn't period and needed to be changed. That's the director paying attention to details. I feel like somebody got fired then. I don't know if that happened, but I do know that's why Scorsese's films are so good because he's such a, he pay, as does Spielberg, as does Christopher Nolan, as does, I could go down a list of a bunch of directors who they pay attention to the details because those details can pollute the suspension of disbelief and the believability. If I don't believe you, then I disconnect. So when CGI does that, yeah granted, we understand they're not working with the same budget, but then don't do that shot. Because the details and the believability will disconnect me from what I'm watching. Well, like I was saying, I'm not even comparing it to that. I'm comparing it to Syrah. That's what I came out to, two months ago, that we thought was great and the CGI we thought was fantastic. Yeah, and so I'm comparing it to that and it doesn't hold up the CGI. Like I said, I haven't seen this films, I don't know. And it's also possible, I've seen this happen before. This happened with the trailers. If I'm not mistaken, we watched the trailers to Aquaman and the very first trailer we saw, we were a little bit unimpressed with the CGI and thought they probably had to squeeze something out and they're not done. Because usually post-production is being worked on until like right up until release. And then afterward, this film goes out in like 20-something days, from when this trailer was made to release, they could still be cleaning up CGI but they had to get the trailer out. But if that's the case, then don't create a trailer that shows your CGI floss. Yeah, that's my biggest takeaway. It's like, because I couldn't focus on a lot of, they're acting, like I said, I enjoyed Saif Ali Khan's part in this and the music sounds really good. More the story, the thing that I'm happy about and I would like to know more about is this two groups of Hindus fighting each other? Is that what this is? I have no idea. I think that's what it was saying. It was that it was war between two groups of people who both were Hindu. Yeah, but I wish I could learn more. And I did, I got pulled away a little bit with some of the CGI. Yeah, so let us know what you thought of it down in the comment section below, please.  Sorry, I'm not just gonna tell you I love something when I don't. But like I said, it wasn't really the acting that was the problem with you. Neither. It was the CGI of this that kind of brought me out of it. But let us know what you thought of it down in the comments.


So it's a little bit shocking, but it is true. We have made it to week three in our online class. Week two, you can obviously continue to turn in your quiz and your external brain, but we're tying up week two and we're diving into week three. This week we have two video lectures coming at you. One of them's already published, ready to go. We're talking about the cell and we're talking about the cell membrane. Next week we have one more lecture and it's on how stuff gets in and out of the cell membrane. My goal is to get next week's stuff ready sooner than we would normally get it ready and possibly even publish it a little bit early, especially if you guys feel like that would be helpful because the thing that I am particularly keying in on this week is that, yeah, our first exam is coming up in just a little over a week. The way that our exams, this is the first of five. Five. How many exams? Five. And they're all proctored. You do not have to come to campus unless you want to.  One thing that we have access to this semester, which is super awesome, you can use a service called Proctorio.  And if you're like, dude, I do not want it watching me while I take an exam, then you need to find another way to be proctored because you certainly do not have to use that service. The advantage is taking it at home. You won't have to go out and find a proctor or a proctor legit situation. So yes, I will be reaching out to you and yes, respond, I will hunt you down because we need to get that whole thing figured out. Okay. Lab this week. Let me show you what's going on with our lab. We are in lab three, which is why I'm going to close lab two. Look, it has its name on it. Lips and cells, what? And everything in lab three is not, there's no grocery list, which is a good thing, I think. It's nice to have a little break from the grocery list after last week. Next week, our lab is on our exam. And so again, and there will be a grocery list for that one. And so my goal is to get that published as soon as possible so that you can see it and get rolling. What was I going to tell you about the lab? Oh, we're going to use a virtual microscope. So I kind of feel like I want to go look at it. There, virtual microscope. I'm just going to open that thing up and see what we end up with. Look, it's the virtual microscope. And that guy talks to you automatically.  So this has all the parts of a microscope. It lets you actually like move things. So you can change the objectives. You can move the ocular in and out because look at how good I'm doing that. Oh, I have to go. Look through it before I can do it. You can grab a slide and bring it down here. You have to turn on the microscope. If you're like, dude, did I do everything? They gave you like this awesome checklist. And the checklist is such that, dude, I should, oh no, this is a good time to do this. I was thinking that I already did a talk about the lab and I didn't do this, but that was last week's lab. So basically you can do, look, this rheostat thing, you might be like, dude, what the heck is that? The rheostat is down here. See the one? You like switch it to 10 and then look, it tells you, chitching, you did it. So really if all of our face-to-face classes had a microscope like this, it'd be amazing because it doesn't let you go on until you've done it right. The specimen, you can actually center the specimen using this thing. And this is actually exactly like a real microscope. You can see the specimen is here and I am just trying to get it lined up so that it's in the light. The light is shining up through here. Look, this is a little iris diaphragm bit and when you're looking through the microscope it'll change the contrast of the slide. So let's start on low power because you always start on low power.  Oh, we have to start with the stage at the top position. Uh-huh, okay, that's awesome, thank you. Did you see this? This is my focus. This is my course focus. This is my fine focus. You can't really see the stage moving with the fine focus knob but it totally does. And let's go switch views and head into like this is the scope. Adjust our ocular so that we get like a nice view and so if you like boom and then it tells you, good job, you adjusted the oculars. We somewhere in here we can adjust the course focus and look, there's my onion root tip and I don't know, yeah. So the course focus is course and then the fine focus will let us get a little more detailed. I want to show you, see that red circle right there? You can actually move that toward the middle. That's the place in this simulation where you actually have focus. It isn't really a real microscope. I know, shocking. And so the quality of the image is best in that little circle. The telescope you totally would like look all around and go exploring and unfortunately you can't do that here. It's for some reason not checking me off in fine focus land because it thinks that it's not finely focused. So now it's finely focused. Awesome, looks the same to me. Then look, you can come over here. I didn't think, oops. And now I'm on 100x and I should go to 100x from 10x. But now I'm at 10x and look I can see that's so cool and now I can scoot it up and get even closer. Dude, these little onion root tip cells are going through my ptosis. Let's see if we can get it a little more clear. I guess I was moving it around. Now I want to try and focus it. With that magnification, it's often difficult to focus it anyway. And then look, I can actually adjust this thing and get different contrast. And that's the iris diaphragm and it tells you right here what to do. So I think this will be pretty straightforward. You are going to take some selfies and possibly some screenshots, throw some images up into your lab notebook, but I think this lab should be pretty straightforward. How are you? Did I say everything? I feel like it says discussions on there, which I can't remember if I said anything about the discussions. I don't know what I said. Did I say anything about the discussions? Yeah, really loud. Maybe I'll hear you. I wish I could. Be meaningful. I'm working through, I know I talked about this in the one where I was dealing with the lab. So it goes for the muddy fun discussions as well. I'm not totally ready to take responsibility. I'm not totally ready to make you take responsibility for the quality of the discussions because I feel like I need to offer you more guidance, but it's not far from now that I'm going to be looking at the discussions and be like, dude, you said one line three times, that's not a meaningful contribution. Come on. There's got to be stuff that you're confused about. There's got to be things that you're thinking about and engaging with. And if you're not engaging, then you don't deserve the points because the whole point of this discussion board is to make sure that you have a chance to interact with the material and with humans. If you want to have online Bio One as an option, then we're definitely going to have to step up the game. And I'm working on stepping up my end of it to try and make it so that you're not jumping through hoops and doggies, all of you doggies out there, there are things that you're like, rigs should be doing this. It would be much better if she was doing this. It would be helpful if she did this. Please tell me, just tell me. Be brave, just tell me. There's never consequences for as long as you're not mean, but I am a feedback junkie. Give it to me straight because I want to make this better than how we're doing so far. All right. I do love you even though I haven't talked to hardly any of you, but look, I have office hours. I have online office hours. Like, I'm hanging out in my office at that time. Apparently last week I forgot to log in, but I was in my office hanging out between 10, I mean 12 and 1 p.m. So I will be in this little zone. Just click on the link and come into the Zoom meeting and holler at me if you have questions, feedback, say hi, whatever you'd like to do. How are you? I wish I could talk to you. So come visit me in office hours because I want to talk to you. All right, have a good week and I will be talking to you because there's a lot of stuff going on this week.


Hey guys, welcome back come again TV the only place on YouTube. We're all geek culture collides I'm Shannon and today we're taking a look at another Ghostbusters collectible as you can see this is the Ghostbusters ready to believe you Peter Rankman for the adult collector This is from Maddie collector Com let me go ahead Bring this down just a bit There we go All right, so as you can see got the stay puff marshmallow man in the background there Got the Ghostbusters logo up top and I'm liking that. I like how they imprinted it into the actual It is cardboard in there, but they actually pushed it Did the mold around it and then put the cardboard in it that looks really nice. I might actually Keep that We have the zombie taxid cab driver And We got two terror dogs there on the cover and this Peter Rankman does come with the camcorder and the air pressure device Let's go ahead and take a look at the back Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters personnel file Peter ringman doctor of parapsychology and doctor of psychology Ghostbusters status possibly a legitimate possibly a legitimate scientist ghost torturer Quotable quotes have you or any of your family seen a spook specter or ghost Habits Accomplished pianist in the two-finger song category may not be lucky with women, but persistent totally self-assured yet completely overconfident Accomplishments hung the ghostbusters sign on the firehouse self-appointed supervisor for Jeanine Notes office supplies cologne hair gel breath spray remember to clean desk and At the bottom there it says six inch and 12 inch ghostbusters figures available on Maddie collector comm Very nicely. Now. Let's go ahead and Open the box and take a look at the figures All right, so first things first Inside the package. We have a little Little card ghostbusters the video game for Xbox 360 PlayStation Xbox live Nintendo DS we Blu-ray disc three-way Atari whatever I want to get that Looks cool. I know it looked it More than likely just like the other one, but I'm a ghostbusters collector, so sorry about that guys There's that Then 25th anniversary ghostbusters available now for the first time on Blu-ray high definition Includes all new special features slime mode picture-in-picture ecto one restoration and more I May have to get that I Know it's about a ten years late, but I Gotta get that All right, so We have here one Peter Wrinklin and as you can see from the box here And yes, I did actually start cutting into it before I realized that you can peel away the edges but Mmm That ghostbusters logo it's imprinted. It's molded on here as well and Take it out That Probably stick it somewhere. I don't know so anyway, let's go ahead and take these guys Of the package it does appear That the camera is held in there by a couple rubber bands So be careful with that There we go, Dr. Rankman is out and The cabbie is now out and we'll go ahead and take a look at the cabbie first pretty cool does have Arm articulation it's on a ball joint and hinge His head it does move, but it's tight at first This part does swivel okay Turns a little bit at the torso, but not much the wrists are on a swivel very cool and the detail Really awesome. It reminds me of cane from Poltergeist the face From Poltergeist to you guys you guys have seen that, right? Cain the head ghost Looks a lot like him. I always thought that if they did a Really dark and gritty Batman movie they should design the Joker to resemble Cain from Poltergeist, too Think that'd be cool So anyway He comes with we have Dr. Peter Rankman here comes with the air pressure device Yes, that is what they were taught he was testing in Dana Barrett's apartment was the air pressure It's like this pretty good His foot is on a hinge a slight hinge His pants kind of block it from moving too much right you got Need hinge You've also got a swivel at the thigh on both sides He does have what a waist swivel As you can see elbow is on a hinge His hand Does articulate it is on a peg it looks like There is a swivel at the bicep A ball joint a hinged ball joint at the shoulder and His head is on a swivel pretty cool Now one of the problems though is this camera If he's using this device The air pressure gauge If he's using the air pressure gauge you can't really hold His camera and it doesn't really come with this Yeah, it doesn't really come with a strap so camera Fits in his hand just like that And then you just kind of kind of let the air pressure thing hang But I really like this sculpt on this time. Let's go ahead and take a look at the Peter Rankman in Full Ghostbusters uniform for comparison It does look like this one's a little bit taller Maybe a whole head length taller and It's mainly because his neck his neck is a lot longer than it should be and His torso is a little bit longer than it should be to remember Peter Rankman is kind of Kind of an average height not really tall, but not really short either So I really think they might have used Egon's body For all three I could be wrong Because Egon was the taller slender of the three and they did do three figures in this mold Peter Egon and Ray and I believe each of them came with a different ghost So I think they might have just used Egon's body for all three of them Because this Peter really should be about the same height as this Peter and now let's go ahead and Take out the handy-dandy tape measure And we'll go ahead and see the height This is about six inches on this one about It's a little bit under six inches on this one and then the cab ghost If I can get him to stay is about five and a half inches so five and a half Five and three quarters and six So there you have it guys. This was the Maddie collector ready to believe you Peter Rankman for the adult collector. I hope you guys enjoyed this video And I'll see you again real soon.


What's up, everyone? Today is Monday. I think it's June 8th, June 9th, maybe. So I posted a video watch list earlier today. So if you haven't seen that yet, please check it out. It's on the video right before this.  So I want to kind of talk about some of my trades today. I want to talk about what I did right, what I did wrong, how I can improve and, you know, just some other general trading advice. So before I get started, I want to mention that our promotion for the Jumpstart Accelerator is ending in a few weeks. So the Jumpstart Accelerator is a course that takes you from not knowing anything about trading to placing your first trade in seven hours. We've gotten a lot of good feedback from it. We've gotten a lot of positive members. So members are watching it and they are using that foundation to dive more into the video library. So it's kind of like the syllabus slash curriculum that members have been kind of needing because we have like 800 videos now. So filtering through all 800 is very tough. So this is kind of like your your cliff notes to everything. So if you want to have access or you have any questions about it, you could text Tosh at<PHONE_NUMBER>. After two weeks, the promotion is going to go away and there is going to be an additional fee to have that course. So let's get started about trading.  It kind of sucked. I think I lost like three or four grand and total relative, but what really happened last week is I lost on Monday and then that caused me to lose on Thursday. And then on Friday, I didn't trade. So one loss on Monday at the start of the week ruined my entire mojo for the entire week going forward.  So coming into Monday today, I want to take it slow. I want to make sure that I didn't have FOMO and I want to make sure I stuck to my niche, right? So for the last three weeks in a row, bow has lost on Mondays too. It is because we are so excited to trade on Mondays, right? I mean, we love the weekend. We love refreshing, but by Sunday morning, it's like, shit, is the market open yet? So that's kind of the problem, right? I woke up this morning early at 4 a.m. I was so excited to get to the desk that I woke up like two hours earlier than usual.  So I mentioned in my video, watch this, and I mentioned to the members that if you are struggling with FOMO on Mondays, it's OK to size down. It's OK to take it slow. There's no reason to be a hero. There's no reason to be trying to nail everything. So I sent a message to Balintosh in the morning, explain the same thing.  And today, it bowed really well, and I did all right as well. So let me kind of recap today's trades, right? So there were two trades that I really, really liked today, and that was DGLY and Hertz, right? So HTZ was a runner on Friday. This stock ran up to $4 on Friday and closed somewhere in the twos. And then today gapped up to $3.50. So what I did in my video watches before this is I showed the lines. I showed there was a 350 line, a 370 line, and a 4 line. So my plan in the morning was to short that 370 line and to short that 4 line. We got 370s on the dot, shorted that level. This dot came down and I made my money. So that was really a very simple trade. That was right off the watch list. Those are kind of the gamey trades of the day. Now let's talk about DGLY. So DGLY was a little bit of a tougher stock. They were at $4 pre-market and then they had an offering pre-market at $2.15. Stock came to $3 and then 10 minutes after the offering, they released the PR pumping up the stock. Stock then rebounded from 3 to 4 and I think is at like $4.50 now. So these stocks are such games. They're all playing games every single day, right? So you have a stock that has an offering at $2 a share and then has a PR 10 minutes later to pump it.  So this is why I love these scam companies. This is why I love these small cap penny stocks because 99% of them are scams. 99% of them are going to go down. So knowing that we have an edge when these stocks go down gives me the confidence of this, right?  And people would buy it and people would fall for it, right?   So something like DGLY is very difficult, right? Because we are in crazy times in this market. This market doesn't make sense. You got stocks are going up from 1 to 10. You got stocks are tanking from 6 to 8, like tanking from 6 to 3.  So when a market doesn't make sense or when some trades don't make sense, you don't have to trade, guys. You don't have to trade. I'm getting a lot of PMs from members that are saying, I'm making money and it's going great. Now what? Or I'm getting PMs from members saying, I have no idea how to trade this market. This doesn't really make sense to me. So just because someone is trading it over here and nailing it and you are over here and you don't understand it yet, realize that maybe this guy has been trading for five years and maybe you've been trading for five days, right? Last week on Twitter, saw a lot of people posting massive days, posting six figure days, 100K, 200K, 500K, 600K. And that in the past used to discourage me because I feel like, damn, why am I not there yet? Why am I not there yet? But now I've realized, as I've gotten older and as I've been doing this for longer, is that no one else matters except yourself in trading. Focus on your goals. Focus on your individual skill set, right? If you didn't see those P&Ls on Twitter, if you didn't see those P&Ls on Instagram, do you still think you traded that stock well? If the answer is yes, then you should be happy, right? Just because someone else has more experience that shouldn't discourage you, it should only motivate you, right? So I saw a lot of people over the weekend making a lot of money and it's good for them, no problem. But for me, I'm focused on my niche and I'm focused on doing what works for me. So today was kind of like a weird day. I mean, if you had FOMO, you would be dead today. So what I've realized is every single Monday, we have very big pre-market moves up. Every single Monday, we have zombie moves that are crazy. So it seems like a lot of traders are struggling with the same things as us, which is having FOMO and being excited to work and that causes them to over-trade or get into early. So now, because I've been seeing this every single Monday for the past three, four weeks, I know that Monday now has to be a day where I am more precise, I am taking it slower and I am just sticking to the process religiously because I cannot afford to slip up just one time because all it takes is one slip up to fuck you up in this game. All it takes is one slip up that you don't place a stock or you hold too much stock overnight or something like that, where you're deviating from the process to kind of kill you.  So let me kind of explain the story of kind of my trading and how my trading has kind of changed, right? So about a couple of years ago, I was trading massive size.  So by using that size, I was making 40, 50, 60 grand a day, right? A day. But I was also losing 40, 50, 60 grand a day. So when you see all these big numbers on the internet of these guys post 100 grand, 200 grand, 300 grand, yes, it is all possible, but realize that they are comfortable losing 200, 300 or double their P&L, right?  When I was trading, making 50, 60 grand a day, I was losing 50, 60 grand a day. I was unhappy, I was stressed and I wasn't really making much money, to be honest. But now after I've dramatically dropped my size, I'm making less money, but it is more consistent. I am happier and it is leading to a domino effect of more profits. So always remember that everyone has a different journey. People want different things out of their trading. I thought I wanted to make $10 million in your trading, but shit, I realized I'm making $1 million a year, working one hour a day is totally fine with me, man. If you want to sit there for eight hours a day and make $8 million, be my guest.  So people have different personalities. People want different things out of the market. Maybe you just want an extra $10,000 a year. Okay, no problem. Remember guys that all of these things, there's different traders around the world. There's different traders everywhere. People have different bank rules. People have different amounts of risk and money. But to me, if I'm able to show up every single day and make even $1,000 a day consistently, that's still a quarter million dollars a year. And that's plenty of money for working one hour a day guys.  So you go into trading school for 10 days, you're never going to get there. Trading is like college. Trading is like you are going to school, right? So in college, they have marketing 101.  They have calculus 101. In trading, you have lines, technical analysis 101. Fundamental analysis 101. Charting 101, right? Scalping 101. You have all these different types of lessons that you have to pass first before you are able to improve and pass the class, right?  In trading, you first start trading on paper trading platform, demo money, fake money to prove your consistency, to get used to the platform, and then you dive in with real money. So don't ever forget, guys, that I am on year six of my journey. Bow is on year 20 of his journey. And even if you are on day 20 of your journey, you have all the resources that you need to be successful.  Chances are you're not going to accomplish your goals. But if you go to the gym, there's a bench press, there's dumbbells. There's a bunch of different things. Maybe there's an elliptical here and there. You're going to be able to train different parts of your body. At MIC, we have all the equipment, all the lessons, everything that you need to reach your trading goals.  No one cares about it. No one does any work. Totally fine with me. The less work you do, the more money that we are able to take from uneducated traders. Remember, everyone is making fun of all these Robin Hood traders.  They're so dumb. They have no idea what they're doing.  Realize that the way to make money in this market is through education. These Robin Hood traders are uneducated, right? They are uneducated. That's what the root of the problem is.  And that's where we come in, right? Once you start trading in the stock market, you are in the ocean filled with sharks.   You are filled with sharks like people that have $10 million accounts.  So if everyone recognizes that there is an edge with all these Robin Hood inexperienced traders, why not spend that extra investment in yourself to learn how to take advantage of the dumb money in this market? Does that make sense, guys? I want to open up to Q&A because there was a comment on the previous video that said that they want to do more Q&A. So let's kind of open it up to a quick five, 10 minute Q&A here so that we can kind of get some questions from the audience. Does that all make sense, guys? I have learned so much in the last month with MIC. Nice, Kyle. Great to hear it. Questions, guys. Things that made me go from inconsistent to consistent. Number one was the zombie rule. I would sit there all day trading all day because I thought that trading for longer meant more money. It's actually the reverse. Trading for less yields to more money because then you don't gamble away your gains. Let me see if there's any more questions. Keep them coming, guys. How do you select your top to trade for the day and how do you go about locating? You locate prior to when the set up. So what I do is if it's a day one stock and I know I'm going to trade it because it broke down pre-market or whatever, I will locate my size that I'm looking for. Most of the time, what I do is I locate starters only and then I locate more if I need it because the truth is I don't want to have full size of six different stocks and only trade one stock. I'd rather take a small piece of everything and then if I need more, I will add to it. And the earlier you wake up, the better the borrowers are because with Cobra, you get some free locates and MIC members get discounts on commissions. What's a good size to make 10k a week? Wrong. Wrong. That's not the question you should ask. What is a good process to make 10k a week? If you're worried about making 10k a week and what size it is, you're going to blow up. I am using about five to 10,000 shares, right? At most, at most five to 10,000, right? And I see new members coming in and their max size is 20,000 shares and I'm thinking to myself, I've been trading for six years and I'm using 10,000 shares. You've been trading for six days and you're using 20,000 shares.  Less is more. It allows you to be more nimble. It allows you to wiggle more. So don't ask how much size it takes. Ask which setups are the ones that have the most edge? Which setups are the most repeatable? All right. Which setups make the most sense? And don't worry about trading well. Yeah, people don't realize this. Wow, this is a great color for a Jeep. Looks like the Hulk. Any other questions, guys? I like keeping these videos short and sweet. How do you prevent chasing and FOMO when the fantasy orders don't hit and is paper trading an absolute must paper trading is definitely an absolute must. How can you get out of medical school? And the first thing you do is operate on a live body. You should probably practice first before you do that. When you're learning how to ride a bike, don't you learn on training wheels first, right? All of these things, guys, all of these things. Now let me go back to that question, which was how do you prevent FOMO? So I've been dealing with FOMO my entire life and you will continue to deal with FOMO for your entire life. So I usually have a rule not to market. And remember today, I traded and remember what I said, my max size was five or 10,000 shares, right? Pre-market, I traded with 100 shares only. And the reason I did this is not to make money. I did this to cure the FOMO that I had in my system. I made 20 bucks, let's say, on that 100 shares, right? Nothing, absolutely nothing, but that small trade, win or lose, cured my FOMO.  If that trade didn't work out and I lost 20 bucks, again, the trade was not about the money. The trade was to cure this up here. I had to pay 20 bucks to cure my head up here. Any other questions? You guys always avoid stocks like ENOB. I think Bao traded it today on the backside, but I kind of missed it. How many green days on a stock before you start thinking about short, we have videos on this? How do you get your hair to look so good in the morning?   Is it better to buy stocks over five or below five? Again, that's the wrong question. You shouldn't just buy a stock because three dollars, four dollars, five dollars is wrong, right? Why are you buying a stock? Is it above VWAP? Is it easy to borrow? Is SSR on? Is the float rotating? Those are the questions you should be asking. Not is it above five dollars? And this, again, is the uneducated questions that you could tell people have not looked into or people do not care about. And for those uneducated questions, right, it's OK, it's OK. We are all the beginners, but I just want to show you that these are the things that people don't think about. They just think, is the stock cheap? Is it under five dollars? OK, it's a buy. They don't think, OK, what is the cat? What's the news say? What is the float? What is the overall market sentiment, right? These are the questions that these inexperienced traders do not ask. And that is why someone with more experience comes and decimates all these new traders.  They understand the mechanics.  And that's how people are making the shitload of money. They are taking advantage of all these uneducated people. So if you want to learn and you want to improve, you have to join. It's my ex. Does that make sense, guys? Let me go through some of these questions. That's it, guys. That's it. So let's do a couple more questions and let's wrap it up. Again, do you have any questions for me? Let me see some questions are coming in. So one last thing I will talk about it again is the accelerator course. So again, this accelerator course, we have a promotion, right? We have a promotion going on right now for a couple of weeks. The goal of the accelerated course is to take someone that doesn't know anything about trading to place in their first trade in seven hours. Right. So what we're doing now is we are doing a bundle for one year of M.I.C. If you join the annual membership, you will get the course for free. The course itself is worth fifteen hundred dollars. We are going to sell it for fifteen hundred dollars in two weeks. But we are doing a promo now for you to get it free with your membership. So not only will you get the accelerator course, you will also get a year of M.I.C. to learn and improve, guys. So a lot of people are saying Hertz is breaking down and Bow said that Hertz is not breaking down. And if you think it's breaking down, you should join and learn. And that goes to what it always says, guys. It always goes to the same thing. There is uneducated money in this market right now.    Right. So if you have any questions, guys, hit us up. Text us two, one, three, four, five, eight, five, nine, nine, seven. Write down one lesson that you learn from this video. Right. One lesson that you learn from this video. And I'll be sure to send you guys maybe a T shirt or a mouth of M.I.C. or just a special gift because I know that most people don't make it to the end of this video. They don't make it to the end of any of the videos.  So I like keeping an eye out for the hard workers because that shows me who I need to spend the most time with because I appreciate I appreciate those that work hard. Right. So that's it guys. I will see you in the room. If you have any questions, DM me in Slack and I will see you guys tomorrow.


Okay, let us move to next, these two, all right, you are not able to solve the first one, 20 second, see when the ray will pass through a glass slab, the emergent ray will be parallel to the incident ray, so this ray has to be parallel to that, okay, similarly here also, this ray which will come out will be parallel, okay, this ray is parallel to that and this ray will be parallel to this, okay, and hence the angle remains alpha only, that is option 2 is correct, okay, what about 23rd, see in 23rd if you have equal widths then intensity coming out from both the slits will be I0 and I0, okay, if you increase the width of one of the slits to double, the intensity of one of the slits becomes 4 I0, okay, because area actually defines, area defines how much will be the intensity, so if you in, if you double it, intensity becomes 4 times, so 4 I0 and I0, so this is I1 and this is I2, alright, now you will see that the maximum possible intensity is root I1 plus root I2 the whole square which will come out to be 9 I0, okay, and minimum possible intensity is root I1 minus root I2 the whole square, okay, which is I0, so earlier the minimum intensity was 0 and maximum was 4 I0, now minimum is I0 and maximum is 9 I0, so both, maximum and minima, both of the intensities are increasing, alright, any doubt on these two questions, anything, alright, others, what are you getting, so if the person is able to see the object then the light from the object should reach the person, right, and light will follow law of reflection, so it will get reflected from let us say edges, from these two edges it will get reflected, then it will travel like this, so if this ray and that ray the person catches then he will be able to see the object, but if he goes beyond this point, if it suppose is here then he will not be able to see the, see this source or object, because this is the maximum distance up to which the light from the source can reach on this vertical line, fine, so you just need to find out what is the distance between this point and that point, so that is the answer, okay, so if I draw let us say this line and that line, okay, so due to symmetry you will see that this distance is D, okay, and then you will see that you know this is D, so this is D by 2, okay, and this distance will also be D by 2 because these two triangles are congruent, alright, and then you will see that 1, 2, 1, 2, 3 and 1, 4, 5, so triangle 1, 2, 3 is similar to triangle 1, 4, 5, right, and 1 to 5, distance 1 to 5 is 2 times the distance 1 to 2, so if you use ratio of sides, this length 4 to 5 length will be 2 times of 2 to 3, so if 2 to 3 is D by 2, this has to be D and similarly this distance will also come out to be D, fine, so the total distance will be D plus D plus D which will be 3D, that is why option number 4 is correct over here, fine, alright, so I think alright, so break time is over, fine, so let me upload new question, try solving this question, it refers to a figure, so I will just draw the figure over here, outside refractive index is N2 and inside refractive index is N1, okay, now try this, so if rate comes out from CD then it has to undergo total internal reflection on AD, okay, so that's the hint you can use, so N2 is more than N1, right, so it will bend away from the normal, so it has to at least graze the surface in order to reach CD, so angle of refraction over here should be 90 degrees, so this angle let's say this is theta has to be critical angle, should I solve this, okay, any other answer, alright, so let's see, this angle let us say is R, okay, so N2 sin of alpha should be equal to N1 sin of R, okay, so sin of R is equal to N2 by N1 sin of alpha, okay, or R is equal to sin inverse N2 minus N1 sin of alpha, fine, so if R is this, the angle of incidence at the surface AD has to be 90 minus R because this is right angle triangle, right, so theta has to be equal to pi by 2 minus R, now R is sin inverse of that, so this will become cos inverse of N2 by N1 sin of alpha, okay, so this is theta, okay, now we need to find the maximum value of alpha such that the ray comes out, okay, so if you increase the value of alpha beyond alpha max then cos inverse of that will come out to be less, okay, if this bracket term increases, cos inverse will decrease, so theta will decrease if you increase alpha, fine, so lesser the alpha better it is, okay, now at an angle when it just undergoes total internal reflection or there is this critical angle, in that case you will have N1 sin of theta which is N1 sin of cos inverse N2 by N1 sin of alpha this should be equal to N2, wait, N1 is more than N2, so this light will actually bend towards the normal, so R is less than alpha max, so this ray diagram is wrong but the way we have to do this whatever we have done is correct because we have not used the fact that R is less or more than alpha, okay, so this is N2 sin of 90 degrees, fine, so we will get sin of cos inverse N2 by N1 sin of alpha is equal to N2 by N1, alright, so then you rearrange this term you will get alpha to be equal to sin inverse of this, so that is why option number one is correct over here, okay, so lot of inverse technometric function usage is there in this particular question but if you just move ahead in a logical manner you will arrive at the correct answer, okay, so I am moving to next question, okay, what refracted ray will pass through CD without TIR, see we are assuming that AD is very large, the length AD is large, okay, so if it has some angle with the horizontal it has to cross the AD, so that is the assumption we are making, okay, is it clear, okay, now solve 26 and 27, two beams of light having intensity is I and 4I interfere to produce a fringe pattern, the phase difference is pi by 2 at A and pi at B, the difference between resultant intensity is at A and B we have to find out, so again this is direct application of the formula, resultant intensity is I1 plus I2 plus 2 under root I1 I2 cos of phase difference, okay, so initially when phase difference is pi by 2 intensity is I plus 4I that is 5I and when the phase difference is pi then it will be 5I plus 2 times under root of 4I2 cos of pi is minus 1, so this is I, so difference in IA and IB is 4I, alright, what about 27, for 27 there is a Young's double slit experiment, 12 fringes are observed to be formed in a certain segment of the screen when wavelength of 6600 nanometer is used, now wavelength is changed you need to find number of fringes observed in the same segment, now first of all you should know that all the fringes will have the same width in Young's double slit experiment, right and the fringe width is given as lambda D by D and the segment length will be same in both the cases whether you use 600 or 400 the segment length is L only, so number of fringes will be L divided by beta, right, so let's say initially beta 1 is the fringe width and number of fringes is N1, so N1 is equal to L by beta 1, okay, so this will be L divided by beta 1 is lambda 1 D by D, so small D will go up, fine, this is N1 and N2 will be similarly L D divided by lambda 2 capital D, right, so this is equation 1 and that is equation 2, so if I divide these two I will get N1 by N2 to be equal to lambda 2 by lambda 1, okay, so N2 will be equal to N1 times lambda 1 by lambda 2, all right, so this will be 12 into lambda 1 which is 600 divided by 400, so we will have 6 by 4, 3 by 2, so it will be 18, so that is why option 2 is correct over here. Any doubts on these two questions? Anything?