Hey everybody, welcome back to the Linux cast. I'm your host Matt. I'm joined by Tyler. How you doing? But how you doing Tyler doing good? I Am the least organized person in the world today, so be prepared for this to be a horrendous episode so because I have no clue absolutely no clue who we're talking about So that'll be a it'll be a surprise. So be good. All right So this is the Linux cast we talk about Linux usually and Foss related topics and we always start off the show by talking about what we've done this week in Linux We haven't seen each other in a couple weeks. So Tyler, what have you been doing in the last couple weeks in Linux? Livestreaming game development. I'm I'm working on a Resident Evil inspired little game. It'll be like a 45 minute free game on itch And yeah, yeah, I've been working on that live streaming it on Odyssey. It's been a lot of fun also have ran into some Issues with performance which has been awesome because I finally know how to fix performance issues, which is Great So yeah, it's been interesting for sure What's you've been up to? Cool, I would before we run mine. I just want to say I've watched some of your live stream what you're doing that like you Like are you using like is that program that you're using is that? Unity or is that blender? Unity and then I have popped into blender to do you things like Essentially all I've been using blender for is I'll take a 3d model Like let's say the gun and I'll take that into blender and just Render out the gun as like a 2d view and use that for a nice icon. That's really all I've been using blender for But yeah, I am using unity for most of it It looked very complicated. I was like, I'm very impressed That I don't know anything about any of that kind of stuff. So that was very cool All right, so on my end I've been window manager popping again as usual so I Went through and yes, it wasn't yesterday. What was the day before I decided I was gonna go through and triax monad again I did do it and I've been happy with it for the last three days. I mean The issues I've had aside with getting it to capture OBS to capture a window. I don't know what's going on there, but Other than that, I've been actually fairly happy with it and I started finally to understand a little bit of Haskell so I've kind of Made it over the hill a little bit in terms of actually being able to use X-monad again Whether or not I like it or not. Hmm. I'm not sure yet It's cool. It's I love the fact that it has key cords. So like q-tile has key key cords and stuff X-monad has those and those are really useful I really like those because that's something that you can't do very easily with DWM You have to use something like sx-hkd in order to do it So that's kind of cool. It's still very easy to get confused in the configuration file So I'm having a little bit issues there But I've also before that I was using q-tile for a little bit And I was having the stupidest issues like for whatever reason I'd I'd just be merely going out My day and all of a sudden my keyboard would stop working Like, you know, I was like, well, I was like, oh, okay. Well, I mean, maybe my keyboard's going bad So I unplugged the keyboard and plugged in a different keyboard. I got like four keyboards around me and same problem and After doing a little bit of investigation, it only happens the q-tile Like for whatever reason it will not register because the keyboard actually still works I can still enter a tty and everything But there's no key bindings will register at all. It's really really weird and I don't know what's going on there So that got me out of q-tile and then I installed herp slough. I haven't done much with it yet But that's another one that I'm going to be taking a look at here pretty soon on the on the channel I've heard good things about herp slough Never checked it out myself. So I will be interested to see that video for sure and you're using gnomes I know I know You poor bastard That's literally my experience. I don't I don't like the devs. I'm not a huge fan of gnomes and one of the choices They make why didn't you choose KDE if you had to use a desktop event? Why not Katie? I Don't like Katie. It's just personal preference I don't like it. I want to use You might also just like this one Oh, I know you're gonna dislike this one, but I would prefer to use elementary os 6, but it's not yet, so I'm not going to install something that I can't literally update when the official release comes out So, yeah, that upgrade path is stupid. Yeah.  No, but popo s did make skin home The best version of good. No, maybe possibly probably not. I don't think there is a best version of good No, but having said the best version of can almost probably mate All right Okay, so let's jump into the contact information You can follow us on Twitter at the Linux cast you can subscribe to Linux cast at work And you can contact us via email at the Linux cast at gmail.com You can support us on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast and you can follow Tyler at You prefer Odyssey so there is a link now in the show notes to his Odyssey page Follow me. He's also on YouTube the link for that will be there as well And of course you can like comment subscribe on this video on YouTube at youtube.com slash Linux cast. I Got that down. Yeah. Oh, yeah That's better. Okay, so each and every week we select two news items and the at least my link here is older Because it was from last week, but I think it's still relevant. We could talk about a little bit. So definitely yours first Your first all right well my link is pretty interesting I I found it just Browsing like Linux news and I just hadn't heard of it It's way less. I believe is how you're supposed to pronounce it we yl us, but it's just a little neat little program for your Linux install that can just turn your phone or tablet into essentially like a walk-in tablet and I just thought it was nifty I'm definitely going to be doing Like a video on it. I just thought it was it was interesting To read about it because they are they already have experimental Wayland support which I thought was Probably the only thing that made it all like really relevant for new, you know, Linux users Maybe somebody who's just popped in and is using good. No, or you know Ubuntu Like the newest version they might they might be running Wayland and just don't even know it So it's interesting that Wayland supports already, you know being worked on But yeah, I just thought this was a nifty little tool for anybody out there who I Don't know maybe wants to start doing some graphic design on On their Linux install, but it's not gonna show off the money to go get a walk-in tablet Hey Here's something that just just might think your interest and just might you know replace a walk-in tablet Make it not even necessary to go out and get one What are the like tablets and phones that it supports like will run on like any like Android tablet or whatever? I I believe it's Android tablets and phones I'm I'm not sure about iOS at all but yeah, it Just I don't think there's Any weird like support issues when it comes to your phone. I think just as long as your phones, you know Relatively up-to-date on his Android version. I think you should be able to install it It does also make a lot of sense though if you're gonna be using a phone You probably want to use something like the phone I've got where it's got, you know, like an actual stylus with it Just because I assume that's what you're gonna want to be doing is you know drawing and doing stuff. So But yeah It seems like a very interesting Project and as I do my video on it, I'm sure I'll find out any weird bugs or issues that I come into with it I'll definitely talk about those for sure. Cool. Yeah, definitely pay attention to that video. It looks really awesome All right, so mine My news link for this week is the system 76 mechanical keyboard now I don't you do probably don't know this about me, but I am a mechanical keyboard aficionado. I have So I have this one I Have another one that I use and there's another one over there and there's another one over there So I have like I don't know 15 can make a mechanical keyboard.  You can't go Trying to go like you just use your laptop or whatever and have to type on those little butterfly keys like oh, it's like torches It's like it's like using canome I'm not letting that go but anyways, you won't System 76 is a brand that I have talked a few times before on the show before your time, but They have really good hardware in terms of like computers and stuff like that. They make really stuff But we've I've always said they're like the the apple of the Linux community. They are very very expensive and Now they've released a Mechanical keyboard and first of all the keycaps that they've chosen Are ugly. I mean I Know what they're trying to do there They're trying to go with like the old-school like IBM keyboard aesthetic, but then they placed RGB in the background Like those those colors just don't go together. Okay. I mean, that's just I mean that's the first time I saw that was the first thing that I thought that was before I knew that it costs $290 now if you know anything about like the custom mechanical keyboard community or whatever or you know marketplace you'll know that you can get a Custom mechanical keyboard granted you have to put it put it together yourself Which is really easy because they don't have a swappable Key switches and stuff you can get one for like 150 to 180 dollars And that includes the key switches and the keycaps, you know and that's something that you do yourself now Obviously, it's not open source But you know, it's about a hundred dollars cheaper And if you don't want to put one together yourself, you can get a you know a pre-built one That's really good for a hundred dollars or hundred and twenty dollars the one I just got is an IQ Unix L80. It's always 180 dollars And this is like top of the line pre-built, right? And if I wanted to I could go through and take out all the key switches and put in my own because it's hot swappable now the Papa West one is also hot so but which is good But again, two hundred and eighty dollars So the question I have is is the fact that the hardware and software is open source Justify the fact that it's at least a hundred dollars more expensive then Similar boards, what do you think? I don't think so. I mean, I've I've actually done a whole video on System 76 and their hardware being just too pricey But so the keyboard that I'm using right now, this is the Logitech TKL It's wireless slim. I believe these are like brown switches.  That's those spongy keys I cannot stand that whatsoever So I end up taking it with me and I like something slim This thing is two hundred twenty dollars and the only reason it's that much is because it's slim Mechanical keyboards and it switches and it's wireless It also comes with a whole bunch of extra buttons and stuff. I I don't need them But still I would not pay a one hundred dollar premium for essentially Not a key chron keyboard like if you think about it the the keyboards aesthetics It's very close to a key key chron and you could pick up the same You know form factor keyboard here for 60 bucks on Amazon Well, yeah, even if you went with the key chron that was hot swappable and stuff That's a hundred dollars, right and that comes with you know everything you need But like I said, it's not open source. So I My view on the whole open source thing is that I don't care about the hardware and who cares if the hardware is open source I I don't I'm not an electrical engineer So I can't get in there and start looking at the the PCB and you know, whatever the software the fact that that's open source is Great and I understand that it costs money now again. I don't care that there's a premium on this I think two hundred dollars would have been a great price It would have been you know, and maybe it's about fifty dollars more than really what it's would be worth if it wasn't open source That extra fifty dollars is a great premium for whatever $300 is is just too expensive now you go on and on about the price because the price is really the thing that you know Caught my eye and made me say you want, you know, this is and no, no, sorry, but I mean there's the The problem is is especially in the 65% keyboard market or whatever. They're just so many options You know in terms of And they're really good. I mean, it's not as if like we're talking. I mean you mentioned the key crown at $60 There's a ton and ton of like 65% keyboards between 65 and $8. I mean, there's like hundreds of them go to Amazon and search for them You got like every Chinese brand you can imagine has some You know razor has one There's the and pro there's all you know, there's all these ones right and they're all less than a hundred dollars There's just this is the reason why open source hardware Never works is because they have to chart I mean I understand that they they can't do the whole mass production thing that other companies can do so that's going to Be more expensive. I understand it just They always take the more expensive part and then just push it way out of the park in terms of just you can't justify $300 for keyboard because at $300 you can get a Whole kit and get like Top of the line.  I mean you can almost buy I mean you at $500 you can get a computer, right? So you're $200 away from actually buying a computer now this and this is just a keyboard Right, I mean if you look at it you can buy that raspberry pi 400 or whatever for like a hundred bucks that is it now It's a crappy keyboard. Now if this had a raspberry pi in it for $300 That'd be cool, right that that that would be much more interesting because I mean in Arduino or something Yeah, just anything it'd be cool I mean that that'd be really neat because Then it would give it something that makes it more than just something that is you can buy for 150 bucks Yeah, I think that's our thoughts on the system 76 thing It's disappointing because when they first said that they were going to do this like when you want That's really kind of cool But there was always that niggling back in the back of my mind like well, this is system 76 You know, they're gonna charge, you know If if system 76 made wheels, they'd be the exact same price as the Mac Pro wheels Yes, they would so They're the Apple the Linux community That's in it. Yeah, whatever what was mostly disappointing about it is the system 76 seems to be the only Vendor here in the states that we can actually get this kind of hardware from now You can talk about Dell and IBM or whatever But there I mean if you want to buy an Ubuntu based Dell laptop good luck finding on their website I mean, yeah, they bury that thing like they don't they're ashamed of it Even their technicians if you were to call them up, I'm pretty sure they'd they'd be like what? Sure, I'll ask my manager if we have it, but no Anyways What was I gonna say, okay, let's go ahead and move on to the main topic. What is the main topic this week Tyler? the main topic is so does Google actually care about Linux security at least they Talk like they do. I don't know if you saw the link that I put in here, but it's About Google funding some Linux kernel developers full-time to just maintain and Focus on the actual like Linux kernel security and continue the development so apparently the two the two full-time maintainers that they've Funded is guess Gustavo Silva and Nathan chancellor and I Just wanted to talk about this deep. I I find it Good, but very I'm very wary of the fact that Google is actually funding and Making it seem as if they do care a ton about Linux security and they for their own purposes They do care about Linux security and I think that's sort of the Problem I don't know. How do you feel about Google funding? Full-time maintainers for security It doesn't surprise me at all because they if you look at the biggest contributors to Linux kernel actually one of them is Google So and that's been that way for quite some time So it's not that I think that they probably do care about Linux security the the real question is do they care about it because of Linux security or because They use Linux and I think that that's the where it goes They're doing it for selfish reasons and you know, whatever. I mean, that's okay as long as we benefit from it Who cares what their motivations are behind it? I Don't think that this is something that will happen for very long because eventually they're gonna ditch the Linux kernel But I mean if you look on your phone and look and see what Linux kernel you're using on your phone You'll probably find that it's probably four dot fourteen or one earlier than that. There's a ton if you look There's a ton of three dot stuff out there in terms of Android phones because they just don't get updated at all Like if you buy a sure if you buy like a $40 phone from You know your local Kroger And it's made by ZTE that thing is never ever ever going to get an update And it's you know, maybe it starts out like with Android 9 or 10 or whatever and you're maybe using like 4.14 or whatever it is But you're never gonna get an update to that so I think that they're they're really focused on the top tier Android stuff Which is unsurprisingly because that's where they make their money, right? Yeah, well, I think what what sort of Puts me off about Google being So Willing to Can't put in cash towards security on Linux is It makes me worry that eventually the Linux Community will get to the point where we're so used to having full-time Maintainers and stuff that we just won't be able to handle it when Google leaves and those full-time maintainers are no longer getting paid Consistently or at all to put in as much work as they do. I think that's what worries me about it Is maybe it'll change the way we treat security on Linux I think maybe It's possible if that happens, but I don't see that the Linux community at Large doing that mainly because I don't think that the Linux community and in general the specific like kernel maintainers Are ever going to give up enough control to Google to have that happen? Now that being said there are organizations in the Linux community in the FOS community that are much more Buddy buddy with Google then the Linux kernel maintainers are so for the like the the Linux foundation Obviously Google sits on that board, right? So they're very close together But also canonical, right? I mean canonical and Google work together a lot canonical and Microsoft work together a lot And now I don't necessarily think that that's a bad thing But I also think that it's something that You have to be a little bit wary of because you know that Unlike canonical unlike open Susa, you know those company Microsoft and Google are very much companies that are They need to make profit right at the end of the day. That's what there's their entire goal. They Their goal isn't to forward FOS software their goals to make money for their shareholders, so You know, well, I excited like I don't think that like those come companies and organizations working together is a bad thing It's just something that you have to be Vigilant about and always kind of think about in the back of your mind and just you know That's necessarily something we have to worry about. It's just something that you know You have to understand that sometimes the motivations especially like I mean To go back to the main topic, you know, I would talked about her, you know, when I first started was that I don't think that Google Contributing this to the salt to the kernels Linux security is a bad thing You just kind of have to keep in mind their Reasons for doing it, right? So that's the whole thing Yeah, I I don't know. I just What what makes me nervous is what happens when we have enough corporate backing or enough corporate Positions in the Linux space for maintaining the actual Linux kernel to where there's no incentive to maintain any portion of the Linux kernel without You know getting a job for it. If there's enough jobs in maintaining the Linux kernel And it gets to be that way for quite a while like let's say even a decade I what what makes me nervous about that is it might it might Make the people willing to maintain the Linux software or Linux kernel Unwilling without being paid to do it if you get what I'm saying That's what just makes me nervous about it. But I could see that That that's also probably just a Conspiracy nut sort of idea. It's really I don't say that's likely. It just I don't know That's why I'm wary about so many jobs coming into actually maintaining Linux Itself. I think it's a great thing But it also makes me wary. So yeah, I mean cuz I mean obviously we the more people get paid to do it The more people would want it, but all right exactly The question you have to ask is then would those jobs go away, but I don't I think even if like For what exit even if we lose companies along the line Let's just say Google eventually decides they don't care about first of all Google stop listening to me you bastard Dumbass phone Even if we lose The Google, you know, you know along the way I don't think we'll ever see all of the jobs that this creates to go away, right? Cuz Linux and we always kind of fear that like one day we're gonna wake up and Linux is going to go away Or because you know not be what it always is and I don't think that that's ever going to be the case. Um, I Have a hard time seeing Linux ever becoming At least in terms of what the important parts like so like like we all know that the desktop Linux is Unimportant nobody cares about that. I could see the desktop Linux going away someday or becoming so marginalized It's just a community maintain project like I Could see it someday canonical saying you want we're not going to do desktop I could see it. I don't think it's going to happen But I you know, I can imagine that happening But the important parts of Linux Which is the parts that make money that in terms of like servers and stuff like that that stuff here is going to stay It's going to stay open source. I believe Probably forever because I think that it benefits too many corporations that share the code, right? The the part that the biggest thing we have to worry about as a Linux community isn't necessarily the corporate influence Which is it is worrying But the biggest thing we have to worry about is actually bringing in new fresh young developers because right now we have Very how do I put this? Senior development They're the people who developed the limbs kernel have been doing it for a very long time and eventually Linus Torvalds and all those guys So they're gonna retire like we need somebody whether they're getting paid or not to to take To be able to be his protégé or whatever and take over him when he decides to eventually, you know Go spend his money or you know, whatever You know because eventually I think that's gonna be the the the biggest The the biggest thing we have to do as a community over the next 15 to 20 years is replace the OGs right, you know the the people who started Linux that are eventually going to age out of the system I mean when I was there, that's anyone. Oh, I'm killing Linus Torvalds off You know eventually he's gonna like I said, he's gonna retire and all these guys that work with them have been with him since the beginning basically and that was like the 1980 like the mid 1980s, so it's it's been 35 36 years, you know, so it's been a long time and eventually he's going to retire so we need the fresh blood and What we really would be really great is to see like a benefit from this whole Google thing of them bringing in Developers or whatever because if they can bring in developers and pay them and then get those developers interested in open source Those developers may eventually go on when they leave Google because people leave Technic companies all the time to move around Right, maybe eventually they go work at a Mozilla or they go to work for the Linux Foundation and develop the kernel or whatever Maybe this brings in some fresh Developers that'd be one positive way of looking at it, right? Yeah, I think I think you're definitely right. Yeah, mom I mean, hope we could hope I'm right It's also possible. We could look at it completely the other way around and say this is the doom of the Linux kernel And everything is going to be terrible and we're all gonna be using Chromo s in a year and it's gonna be just horrible. You know, the only thing worse than you know Chrome Chrome OS Yeah, Chrome OS and I don't know if this is true. Do you know if it's true the Chrome OS is based on gentoo? Is that true? Uh, that is true. Yes, if they're gonna base it on a Linux Base, why would they base it on gentoo? That's just like come on man arch by the way I Have no idea why they went with gentoo, but there has I mean there has to be some technological reason why they went with gentoo um I mean Obviously chromo is so far removed from its gentoo base that it probably doesn't matter what they built on. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, but it's weird that they built it on a Linux distro at all instead of just building it on a kernel Like they did with android Well, it's amazing to even think that it's based on Linux because I don't know Have you seen the steps it takes to get Linux running on a chromebook? It takes? Yeah, well now I mean base wise. I've seen some of the Like the stories behind it, but even just using the apps within chromo s At least for a long time there was actually quite, uh, burdensome It's a little lot. It's apparently a lot easier now, but Um, yeah, it's it's a pain. Yeah, okay. Let's go ahead and um, move on to the apps of the week, so Let's uh, why don't you go ahead and talk about your app of the week? So my app of the week is called dust 3d and it's this really neat and simple 3d Modeling software. Um, I'm definitely going to be exploring it some more. Um It's completely free and open source and it's not meant to Compete with like blender or anything. It it's It's completely different. It's meant for just if you want to model something Um, and you need either a very simple model or you're not trying to get very advanced with the model Like you just you just need something as say a good placeholder or something like that Um, it's really what what this is for or just making simple models very quickly It's very interesting and unlike blender You can hop in this and know nothing about it and just start messing around for a few minutes and end up with a Pretty decent 3d model even not knowing what you're doing. Um, it's very fun piece of software to mess around with Cool. Um, I don't know anything about 3d modeling. I'm not, um Artistic At all like not even a bit. So, um, all right, so I can just fake my artistic. Yes. Yeah, I can't even fake it I if you if uh My limitations of our art, you know art is probably stick figures and even then Uh, not good So, um, cool. Uh, so my pick this week is a terminal based application surprise surprise called beats b e e ts And basically what this is is a it's it's written in python. So if you're anti python, I'm sorry about that A base basically what this is is a media library management system. So basically what you'll do is you'll run this in your in your Music folder and it will go through an attempt to tag using various methods to Tag your music collection so that organizes them in the proper folders It organizes them with you know artists album and all that kind of stuff. Um, it's not as automatic as the Uh, the github page makes it seem unfortunately There's quite a bit of stuff that you actually have to add in to it in order for it to actually work Uh, there's plugins and stuff like that. You have to add in order to Get access to all the media libraries and stuff that it will actually check. Um, and Uh, it will actually transcode audio and stuff like that too. So it has a ton of different features If you want to go through and check it out. Um It's if if you are one of those people who Uh back in the early 2000s used Nefarious, I don't want to say nefarious uh various means of getting your music Not so legally line wire Napster before term, you know nap, you know legal Whatever if you're one of those people and just downloaded just tons and tons of music and whatever your library is probably a mess And tools like this it would be definitely be something that you could look into to help you organize your music library Uh For the first time so without actually having to go through and do it, you know, um manually which would suck So that beats uh and I links for both of these And the news items will be in the show notes whether you're watching this on youtube or through a podcast catcher So you can get all the links and stuff like that to these things in the show notes That's a very nifty little program. I'm definitely gonna have to be using this. Yeah, it's cool. Um, it's uh And it still is being updated. So it's it's been around for A long time, but it's just there's been Commits and stuff to it within the last five days. So it's definitely not been abandoned. So um, I did have a few A bug in it, but I don't think that they're bugs necessary more just the fact that it is a complicated program so Getting it up and running is a little bit of a you know A task so make sure you check out the wiki and stuff like that because it has really good documentation as well. So Anyways, that is beats. All right. So uh, that is it for this week uh coming up Next week we're going to be talking about Uh using pipe wire. Is it time for prime time? So, uh, I don't know if you've ever used pipe wire or not Tyler, I have not either. So this is we have homework Uh between today and next thursday we have to install pipe wire on it. It doesn't have to be your main system Uh, whatever And use it It's or at least try to use it All right, this is gonna be fun. Right. Um, so that is coming up next week Along with the news and the apps and pics of the week So, uh, we'll be before we go actually before we go I should go ahead and um Thank our current patrons, uh, if I can Uh, Devon, Marcus, Megalyn, Donnie, Sven, Merrick, Camp and Mitchell. There's no uh, like the video here So I'm kind of half-assing this but thanks everybody for your support patreon.com slash linuxcast if you want to support the channel and um Thanks everybody for watching. We'll see you next week. Mm-hmm. Say it


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And still on the Edefitri celebration, Chief Imam of Ibadun land, Sheikh Abdul Ghaniou Abubakari has led some Muslims faithful to observe the Eid prayers at ground in Agodi in Ibadun. The prayer has come in despite the directive from the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs that fasting should continue as a result of the non-siting of the Shawal Moon by authorities last night. However, the State Deputy Governor called on all in Sondri to pray for sustainable peace in the country and urged Muslim faithful to adhere to all lessons learned during the fasting. To remain steadfast, prayerful, and live peaceful with one another. The lessons learned from the month of Ramadan, we should keep it in us. We should reflect. We shouldn't say this banner has gone. We go back to our usual coat-and-coat, normal behavior. We show only something to live. I call this debate of all my ti'ala.


Hello, everyone. Welcome. I'm Elsa Huxley from Heritage Preservation, and we're so glad you're joining us today. I'll just give a quick introduction to the community and these webinars, and then we'll move on to our subject for the day. Heritage Preservation is moderating the Connecting to Collections online community in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The site is designed and produced by Learning Times. The goal of the online community is to help smaller museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies quickly locate reliable preservation resources and network with their colleagues. In developing the community, we have drawn on many resources that were developed for the C2C initiative, including the bookshelf and the Raising the Bar workshops and webinars. And links to these resources are filed under the topics menu on the site at www.connectingtocollections.org. We'll also file a recording of today's webinar there. About twice a month, the online community features a particularly helpful preservation resource and hosts a webinar related to it. The resources we posted for today's webinar can be accessed by clicking this photo on our web page. So today, I am very pleased to welcome our featured expert, Wendy Clark, who is a museum specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you so much for joining us, Wendy. Will you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Oh, sure. Hello, everyone. I'm the museum specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. I've held a few different positions here. I've been working with museums officially as a specialist for two and a half years or so. Prior to that, I was in visual arts and dealt with smaller nonprofits and smaller shops that do programming in the visual arts. And we also did some granting with special exhibitions that were traveling. And so I've been around museums for a while. Prior to that, I was in design for a few years. And before that, I was in Chicago with the Illinois Arts Council. And before that, I was at the University of Michigan. And I hail from Dayton, Ohio, but I've been living in Virginia, working at the NEA for more than 20 years now. OK, great. Thank you, Wendy. I will pull over your presentation and then start pulling over our poll questions. We asked these so we can get an idea as Wendy and I discussed about our audience. And let's see here. Some of these are open-ended. Our first question is about what type of an institution you're joining us from. If you'd please describe it there. These are open-ended chat questions. So we'll be selecting respondents from these to win door prizes. And those are some books that we offer from the Connecting to Collections bookshelf. Ainsley in Los Angeles, as Proxen Recreation. Region Conservation Center at NADCC, I'm thinking Angelina, University Art Museum, Museum of Art and Design. OK, and that's OK, Dee. Devote in saying collection mixed materials, associate curator, preservation specialist. OK, this is great. I'm going to go ahead and keep pulling over some polls. We've got a lot to get through. If you were applying or choose to apply for these grants with the responsibility all solely on you, 100% so far say no. That's good. Yeah, I imagine so. OK, and now to make some space, I'm going to pull away our first two poll questions. Wendy, is that OK? Have you had a chance to delicate them? Yep, that's fine. OK. If you answered no to question number three, can you tell us how many people you think will be involved in this application? And here's question number five. Have you ever applied for an artworks grant in the past? Are you applying for a grant of, this is a question about whether you'll be applying for the next deadline, which is in August 9th, or the 2013, the first deadline in 2013? More space here. Now, did you get rid of the one about anyone's past experience or applied before? Number five, let's pull back up one second. I'm afraid so. I'm trying to pull back up, but I don't see it. OK, but two-thirds are thinking about August deadline. Looks like. OK. Which makes sense, since we've got this time. OK, and then our last question was, what is the greatest challenge you're anticipating? There you go. We have a few more participants, too. Good. OK, you can continue. OK, there we go. Sorry about that, everybody, we're back. OK, so let's just look at these last couple questions. Looks like between two and four people will be involved in helping with these applications. And then two-thirds of the people are definitely planning on applying for this year. And the question about next year, more people were unsure. OK. Oh, and poll number eight was the question about how, do you know where that is, isn't that chat pod? Can you see it? I can't. Well, I'll pull these aside, and we can start with the presentation. I don't want to lose too much time, and I'll look for that question number eight. Actually, in the meantime, if you want to just answer the question number eight in the text box where we're typing now, what we were asking in that question was, what do you anticipate will be your greatest challenge in doing the application? So, and I see Nancy's. Actually, we have a question off the bat here. Wendy, if you don't mind, Nancy Ravinel from Shelburne is asking, if we're applying for a grant in August, preclude us from applying for one appropriate for the March deadline, too. No. You can apply for both August and next March. What you cannot do is apply in March and August of the same calendar year, which is our fiscal year. OK, Nancy, let us know if I didn't answer the question, but I think I probably did. OK, Wendy, so there's the presentation. Go ahead and start whenever you have a chance and to our participants, if you want to put in questions at any point, if we don't answer them during the presentation, we'll certainly address them at the end. OK, hold on. I just made it full screen. I wanted to go back to. It's probably one of those buttons on the top. Yeah. If you tilt the rest of that dropdown. Yeah. Now my arrows are gone, but I could probably use now my advancing arrows. Susan, do you know how to pull it off of full screen once you're in there? Oh, that looks like it changed. It's a toggle switch. So you just toggle back full screen, or I think if you hit your escape key. No, I don't think so. So you've toggled on full screen, correct? Yeah, well, on the side, I have the chat. I have everyone to chat. I just now don't have a way to advance my presentation. This is also, I'll just do a little experiment with my screen and see if I can answer it. No, I'm full screen. No, I want to go back. So you can see the chat and the slides. Right. But you can't see the bottom of the slides. That's right. And are you on a Mac or a PC? PC. Oh, do you know what I see? I'm sorry, excuse me, but I see that she got dropped to a participant instead of the presenter. So I think that's it. There you go. Does that look better, Wendy? Yes. Good, good, good. OK, and I think I've got the arrows all right. Well, anyway, sorry about that, everyone. I'm going to walk you through a relatively short presentation on the process for applying for an artworks grant. And then I've got some specific examples dealing with conservation and collections care. And I'll look forward to hearing any questions you might have when I get through. The NEA is obviously a public agency, a federal agency. We were founded in 65 to advance artistic excellence in the country. And we do this by awarding more than $130 million of grants per year. We support a variety of disciplines, as you see here, from dance to musical theater, music, theater, music, musical theater also. And of course, media arts and these other ones listed, of course museums. We partner with the 50 state arts agencies. And there are also a few territories. And then we have partnerships with regional arts organizations. To plan and prepare your grant, we basically recommend the first thing you do is to call a program specialist. We fund non-profit organizations with 501C3 status from the IRS. You have to have three years of programming under your belt. And we also fund government institutions like units of local government, colleges, and universities. We don't fund a few things too, such as construction or bricks and mortar. We don't fund general operating support. Everything is project-based. You can't re-grant our money. And unfortunately, we don't have individual grants either. The review process, you apply to the NEA. It's a peer review panel. It's the first level. The National Council on the Arts reviews the grants. That's a presidentially appointed body that they serve three-year terms. And then the chairman, Rocco Landsman, has the last final review. And the review criteria are artistic excellence and artistic merit. The next deadline for grants for arts project is August 9. And a couple other initiatives we have are Challenge America and Art Town, which those deadlines have passed for this year. We anticipate having them next year. First thing you do is you decide what your discipline is. And most of your cases here would be museums or visual arts, I imagine. And you select an outcome, which are creation, engagement, learning, and livability. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000. Arts education projects have undergone a little bit of a change. There are two deadlines a year, one for community-based projects in March and one for school-based in August. Challenge America is designed to help first-time organizations in smaller outfits access the endowment with smaller grants. Art Town is all about the community and creative place-making. They stress partnerships. You have to have a partnership with a unit of local government or a nonprofit designer cultural institution to carry out those projects. That's a relatively new program. To submit your application, you first go to our website and arts.gov you have to register with. Grants.gov, sorry. That's a process that you should allow a couple of weeks for sometimes, because you might have to get other people within your institution to be authorized with you to have access to what is essentially a portal that's a requirement for all federal contracts and grants now. Everything goes through this central portal, and then it gets sent on to whatever agency. The artworks application, you download, fill it out, and then you submit it through grants.gov. And you send your work samples. Usually they'll be, in this case, digitized digital images that you'll submit electronically through something that's new. And it's sort of a portal that we have established, and it's called NEAGO. All this will make more sense once you're really in the process. But this is a screen capture from our website. So it takes you, you go click literally on this, apply for a grant, then you select museums, and funding stream, which is artwork. And then you identify your project. I've included here a sample of about six projects that were successful in the past couple of years that dealt, deal with specific conservation projects or collections care. You'll see the Courier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire. They were in a multi-phased collection access project, and they were awarded $50,000 to concentrate on their European and contemporary holding. The Indianapolis Museum of Art recently was awarded money to conserve and document their Western European contemporary design collection, which is a really important collection of theirs. Scripps College in California, conservation of Chinese textiles, and the support was for seven specific works. Wichita State, we had a request for a second phase to conserve a mural, that is on the exterior of the Ulrich Museum. And then at Winniter, they asked for help to digitize their collection of works on paper. And then finally, the Noguchi Museum in Long Island got $20,000 to conserve specific drawings in their holding. This just shows you how you access specific instructions when you're actually working on the application. These, again, are just screenshots from our website. Grants.gov, I touched on it before. The most important thing, I'm not going to walk you through these, are really bureaucratic points here. But bottom line is do that as quickly as possible if you're thinking about applying. And you also have to update your registration once you've established an account with Grants.gov. I think it's either once or twice a year. You have to confirm that it's up to date. NEA Go is this new portal I was talking about, which we've designed to make it much easier to receive work samples. We used to get them through the mail, and that presented issues with what a carrier you were using, because some of our mail is still irradiated. So we had to use private shipping. So now we don't have that problem anymore. These are just some helpful hints. Make sure you contact someone at the agency. In this instance, it will probably be me. Look at the past recent Grants. Decide exactly what your timing is, because there are specific rules about the earliest possible start dates for each of the deadlines. And to make sure the work samples appropriately reflect what your project is. And then finally, my boss, Robert Franklis, director. And there's my contact information there, too. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Stacy Walsh in Lincoln asked that, I see the winter tour grant was a digitization grant. Are items such as hardware or a database for digitization excluded from the funding? No. As long as they're integral to the nature of the project, funds can be a line item in the budget. We like to see some other aspects, too. Of course, staff time and whether there's travel, or some other materials, or other things. But yes, that's fine. Purchase of hardware that's directly related to the project is OK. Thank you. So I just want to encourage our participants to go ahead and type in your questions now. In the meantime, do you want to tell us about an unusual application that you saw that was successful? Let's see. I'm just curious. Yeah. Well, let's see what. There was a really fascinating, relatively new organization in Greensboro, North Carolina called Elsewhere. And it's not a museum, per se, it's more of an artist space. But they hold, they invite artists to come work with their quote unquote collection, which is essentially a five and dime sort of notions store that one of the staff people had literally inherited from his great aunt or something. And it sort of sat vacant. I mean, all the contents of this store were still there. It had sort of like military surplus stuff, but also like an old fashioned variety store, five and dime store with fabric, both the fabric buttons, jewelry, socks, you name it. And they're basically creatively using this collection. And it's a real community space. They have a lot of events there. And that was funded in visual arts. So that's probably one of the more unique. Yeah, Google it. Google it. They have a really interesting website. I'm sorry, it was something special. It's called Elsewhere. Not here, Elsewhere. D-L-S-E-W-H-E-R-E. Now I'm going to check that out. We've gotten a couple of questions in. First one is from Angelina and Andover. Are applicants applying for conservation treatment funds required to have had a preservation needs assessment? Ideally, yes. But you can also apply for a needs assessment, taking it a step back. But usually, if there's a treatment report, it's going to make it more competitive. OK. Angelina, let us know if you have a follow-up to that. In the meantime, we have a question from Martin in St. Joseph, Missouri. Have you awarded grants to many libraries? Yes. Over the years, I think we have a project comes to mind that was in, I think it was San Antonio. There was a specific collection of posters and lithographs from, I think, was World War I and World War II that they did a traveling exhibition request. So it really depends on what the project is. But libraries are eligible. OK. Nancy in Shelburne says, in looking at the guidelines earlier, I see that you'd like to see individual treatment proposals for conservation grants. For a group of objects, could one submit samples of conservation proposals written by a specialist conservator along with condition and treatment needs information from an object-by-object survey? Yes. I think I need a little clarification, right? Do you mean if you don't have it for each object? Samples of conservation proposals. Specialist conservator. Comparing that with the survey. Nancy, do you want to write in and clarify that? That's what it sounds like to me, but. I should mention too, while she's doing that, that the short answer is yes. But like I said, after this session, feel free to call me and we can talk in-depth about specifics of projects. Thank you. And I'll also mention too that Wendy very kindly has said that we can save this presentation and post it online with the recording, which should be up in a day or so. So this will be accessible to you later. OK, so Nancy says, yes, it's unlikely that we could do individual proposals, but we do have similar information within the survey. And she'll be. Good. Good. Good. That will say the same. If there is any particular screen to a page of the presentation, that would be helpful for everybody to see again. I can pull that up if you have questions about anything more specific in there. Well, I didn't get into too much of the details about the actual project narrative, but it's essentially three pages, limited to three pages. And we help you with writing it, essentially, because we structure it with specific questions that we're trying to get at. So it's not as laborious as one might think. I mean, OK. And the project budget also is only two pages. There's an expense side and an income side. And then one sort of a one-page sheet asking for financial information of the whole institution from the past, current, and proposed fiscal years. OK. Those are sort of nuts and bolts. And we ask for biographies of key personnel, but not entire resumes, usually. And then we do ask for three years of programming history, just to see what sort of programming the institution has undertaken. That helps them assess the organization's ability to undertake a certain project. OK. Nancy has another question about multi-phase projects. She's asking, I guess, if someone's submitting an application concerning them, can you read where previous phase is funded by NEA? In other words, do you all tend to look favorably on multi-phase projects? They could be. I guess a few answers. Let me just jump in. Sometimes, an organization will submit a request, and the project will be huge. And they'll ask for $100,000, and we'll have only been able to give them $50,000, whether it was because it was at the middle of the pack in terms of its competitiveness, or if we just didn't have enough money, and one approach to working with that discrepancy is an organization can then turn around and say, OK, well, then we're going to phase this, and this will be the first phase, which is going to include the simple documentation step. And then they can come back to us the next year for the second phase. We don't, however, make it a practice to alert the panel. We wouldn't jump in in the second year and say, we funded the first phase of this, you should fund it. Because first of all, it is a peer review, and we're not trying to encourage, you know, continued funding of anything. And everything is evaluated on its own merits, too. So if the applicant has said that they received funding, that's fine. But there's no formal sort of structure for multi-phase. OK. We have a question from Stacy Walsh. But I think I'm going to jump ahead and then go back to it. Just because Erica Blumenfeld's question relates to what you were saying before we address this last question from Nancy. The programming history that you mentioned is that general programming of the entire museum or the programming of the department that's asking for funding? That would depend on, I guess, your institution. Typically, it's for the whole institution. If they were coming in for an exhibition, they would then highlight their exhibition funding. So I think that's really case by case. And it might be good to do a combination. Like if it's a conservation request, it would be great to talk about recent conservation, you know, recent objects that were conserved, say, as well as, you know, a reinstallation or a public art commission that the museum also did. OK. Stacy's question, are grants typically more successful when a project is focused on a particular portion of the collection, for example, 20th century American paintings rather than submitting a project idea that seeks to do all the paintings in a collection? I think so. I think it's better to zero in on just so that the panel can I think from writing of the application, it would probably be easier to get into the issues about impact, urgency, if it was a little more targeted. OK. Maybe it's easier for your panel to compare. Yeah, I mean, that's not to say we do get funding for entire collect. We do get requests for, say, all works in a collection.  And our panels do constantly change. No two panels are the same. So the other variable, of course, is what else is coming in in a given round. OK, participants, do we have any further questions here for Wendy? Wendy, thanks for making your contact information available later. Also, we have these group discussion boards on connecting to collections.org. And if people want to continue a conversation there, it's possible. I'll give our participants just a minute or two to put in any other questions they may have. OK. And Wendy, I don't know if there's anything else that you wanted to address. I'll pull over another question for them. No, it just looked like we had a little variety of institutions. A little, some good geography, too. I noticed we had Nebraska, Missouri, Vermont, Canada, Gambier, Ohio. I don't know if they're with Kenyon or not, but two people live from Vermont, Virginia, and Shelburne. OK. Ainsley, I hope I'm saying your name right, has a question from Los Angeles. How much time should one budget to apply for these grants? If you mean how much time it would take to work on it, I think you can do it in a week with working a couple hours on it per day. There are a few steps when you have to coordinate with other staff members with the budget and phone calls just to check in with us and everything. But it's quite manageable. And I've heard our application process is a little more streamlined than I think some other federal agencies. Pull up that screen with your contact information again while I pull over one last little link. This is for an evaluation. This is a really brief evaluation, and we pay very close attention to the responses that you give us on here. I hope I'm not covering up the contact information there on my screen. I'm not, but I hope I'm not doing it for everybody else. We review these evaluations, and we also ask for suggestions for future webinars. So I'm hoping our participants will take a minute or two to fill that in. I'll do the last call for questions. And I think that we're all set. So again, Wendy's very generously given her away here. There's Stacey for each of the deadlines when her awardee is notified. That's a good question. It's about an eight-month process. When you apply, if you apply in August, that round will be reviewed by a panel in the fall. And late fall. And then the National Council meeting that reviews that will be in March. And you'll be notified, basically, April 1st. And that's the August deadline is for projects beginning no earlier than June 1st of 2013. And similarly, in March, those applications are reviewed in the summer by a panel. And then they go to a November Council meeting. And those projects begin of January 1 of the following year. OK. I encourage everyone to review the recent grants. And that'll give you a really good sense of the range of what we fund. OK. And they can find that under our home page. Click on Grants and then Recent Grants. And then navigate to Museums. We listed it also as one of our featured resources for today. So if it's any of these people, you can click there. And I'll make sure that I post it with the recording, with the presentation, and one stop for everybody. OK, great. I want to mention our next two webinars. One next week is on Wednesday the 13th. It's on care of plastics. That's going to be with Christine Frohner, the conservator of contemporary art, modern materials, and media. And let's see here. I'm sorry, I think I've mangled that. But the second speaker on that will be Odile Madden, who's a research scientist at the Museum Conservation Institute at the Smithsonian Institution. And in July, we're having one webinar that's going to be on Tuesday, July 17th. Also at 1 o'clock Eastern. And Rachel Perkins-Erenstein is going to join us again. She's a conservator in private practice. And she presented one of these live chat webinars on data loggers in the past. This one will be specifically about wireless one. So I want to thank all of our participants for joining us today. And for all your questions. And Wendy, thank you so much for joining us and for the presentation. Thank you. It was my pleasure. Oh, great. Thanks. Susan, thank you. Thanks, Nancy. OK, everyone. Have a wonderful afternoon. Thanks so much.


Greetings, I am Al Seminoffs, I am a software engineer at Google. I work on the embedded controller within our Chromebooks. I'm here to discuss our vision for a full developer workflow with West. First, I'll go over what is West and how we want to streamline and simplify the developer workflow with West. This involves setting up your workspace, handling your tools with dependency manager, integrating Twister, and managing your PRs. For those who are new to Zephyr, West is Zephyr Swiss Army Knife command line tool for syncing, building, and flashing your builds. West adds its core that you manage multiple Git repositories under a single directory, which is a single file, called the WestManifest file. The Manifest file contains all projects used within your workspace. You'll typically run West init, which creates your workspace, followed by West update, which parses the manifest file that clones a list of Git repositories. West is pluggable, allowing you to add your own commands, which are referred to as West extension commands. These extensions are defined in a YAML file as pointing to within the WestManifest file for a project. As Zephyr project itself adds some commonly used extensions such as build, flash, and debug. This is what we're looking into to help streamline a developer's workflow by adding new sub-commands for West. So we're working on a few sub-commands and enhancements that should help simplify the developer's experience when working on Zephyr. I'll go over these extensions in more detail in the following slides. First, we have a setup command, which will configure your workspace in a single step. Next, I'll go over the dependency manager, which reduces the sync time of tools needed for your project. After you have your workspace configured and updated, you'll create a branch and start writing your code and making commits. You'll need to test your changes with Twister, which is Zephyr's test runner tool. Once you have validated your code with Twister, you'll need to push your commits to a PR and get them reviewed. We are currently looking to waste and simplify the process of setting up the Zephyr project. With Zephyr, there are multiple steps needed to get your local workspace up and running. You'll see that in the Getting Started Guide there are around seven to 10 steps needed to get going with Zephyr. We'd like to simplify this into a single step, the West Setup command. This will create your Python virtual environment, install the Zephyr's Python dependencies within the virtual environment, and download and install the latest Zephyr SDK. We'd like to make this command overridingable for a project-specific setup. For example, if your project uses additional tooling, you can invoke this via Super Setup API and then install your specific tools. All right, so now that we have a set up our workspace, we did some coding and made some commits. As per usual, something else comes up and we need to switch gears and work on some other higher priority issue. Coming back a week or two later to this project, your Latinas have made much progress and we're told we need to update our tool chain. Sometimes the tools you use are pretty large and so it can take a while. We like to make this experience quick. This is where we like to have a dependency manager built into the West Update command. The currently installed tool chain version can exist within Manifest. When invoking West Update, West can compare tooling versions of what's installed and the latest released version. When applicable, it will download and install the appropriate tools in the unneeded time of reinstalling the same version of the tool. This will be similar to how West Update currently handles fetching code within the Git by comparing shots. Now currently, West doesn't support overwriteable commands for security reasons, but that's something we're looking into as we see it allow better flexibility with sub-commands. Next, we have integrated Twister in West. The issue we were having was that when we were developing on separate Zephyr projects such as Project A and Project B, we would accidentally invoke Twister from Project A and it was meant to be used with Project B. This led to inaccurate test results as Project B was using a newer version of the Zephyr test framework with running what's Twister. West will identify the path to Twister for the current project we were working on and executed. Now you don't have to worry about inaccurate test results. The difficulties we encounter here with the managing PRs involve working with multiple branches for different features that have dependencies on each other. In the example below, we have three commits, A, B, and C. Commits A and B are reviewed under a PR. Adding commit C to the PR triggers a new review for the entire PR. This is kind of undesired as commit C should be reviewed on its own. One way we can mitigate this is we could make a separate PR for commit C. To do that, we need a separate branch for commit C. This has two issues. First, C can't be posted for review without A and B being bundled in the same PR. Second, every new feature built on C will also require a new branch. Now, if we add another dependency D as illustrated here, A and B created PR and are reviewed together. C creates a second PR. It was reviewed in parallel to A and B. D has a dependency on A, B, and C. This cannot be reasonably reviewed until all dependencies are merged. So our goal here is to make the upstream workflow PR management easier with a West Push sub-command. A developer will have all their commits in a single local branch. Commits can be grouped by adding a topic keyword in the commit message. When you execute this sub-command, it will cherry pick all commits matching the topic keyword to a new branch and then create a PR for this new branch or update the branch PR if it's already exist. This should help alleviate some of the pain points experienced with PR dependencies as the sub-command manages these dependencies for you with some help with keywords in your commit messages. Thank you for attending my talk. I hope you found it informative and helpful. This is how we can see West can improve a developer's workflow. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me on Discord. Thanks again. Bye.


Hello everyone, I am Dr. Murli Krishnan, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon in Manipal Hospital, Role Airport Road, Bangalore. As all of you are aware, we are in the midst of coronavirus pandemic and due to the rapid spread of coronavirus and simultaneously treatment protocols have also been evolving and now how do we use the heart to beat cardiovascular disease? It is very simple, by following the tried and tested protocols for maintaining heart health, like regular walking, running, cycling or even climbing stairs for that matter and follow a healthy lifestyle in diet, avoid food switching, cholesterol and trans fats. Please do not ignore symptoms of heart disease like chest pain, breathlessness or palpitations. Nothing has changed much in the treatment of heart disease in spite of coronavirus. The only important thing is prompt and effective treatment of the symptom onset. At Manipal Hospital, all safety precautions are being taken to address all these problems of coronavirus and sanitization of commonly used surfaces. And there is no added risk to surgery coming to the cardiac surgery in particular. Because of corona, there is no added risk of cardiac surgery and all protocols are being set to handle surgery in both positive cases and negative cases. And please do not hesitate to come to the hospital for treatment fearing corona. This is the only effective message I want to say and for so stay safe, be aware, don't panic, trust Manipal Hospital to do everything possible for your safety and healthy heart. So the theme of this World Heart Day, don't ignore symptoms, use heart to effectively beat cardiovascular disease. I wish all of you to have a healthy World Heart Day.


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