I would like to welcome you on the presentation for a test case of offshore wind park operation. We have been starting to talk about test cases very early in this action and it has been some time until we really developed a test case and this is what I would like to present now. We are working with structural health monitoring and we are basing our action, our research here on what has been done in the last decades and that's why we can say traditionally, traditionally SHM is focused on loadings or structural reactions to monitor this in structural systems but also internal structural properties. However, in the perspective of that we should address the value of structural health monitoring or the utility in conjunction with the utility of infrastructures. Then we also must say that the value for society is highly related to the functionality and the benefits earned with infrastructures so we need also to include this utility in our modeling and at the same time the value or the utility for society can only be realized when costs and risks are sufficiently low. So that's why our value of information analysis should build upon a benefit cost and risk-informed assessment of the infrastructure performance and this is the perspective I'm going to take here in this presentation and where we have been seeing this in the last presentation I think it was on the first slide. An overview about the framework and related to different system states. We have the intact systems here, we have a system under exposure events under constituent damage states and system damage states accounting for the scenarios and then for each of the system states we can quantify consequences, benefits in terms of economy, health and environment and with a consistent formulation we may be able to formulate such a utility function and to optimize our actions. When we have a closer perspective in terms of the value of information and the structural health monitoring we see that we have various strategies here for monitoring the intact system, hazard threats, constituent damage states and system damage states. So this is symbolized with a mini Bayesian network here with the observation node. This would be a decision node and this is a cost node. So this is symbolizing the SHM decision information precision and cost and what we also have developed is a decision tree for value of information analysis that goes to the fact sheet by Dimitri Waal and Robi Kaspehler I think also and Cheng Singh. So the very basic representation of a value of information analysis and composing experiments or SHM strategies, the outcomes of the SHM then actions and system states. This is the very basic formulation of a value of information analysis, a very basic decision tree. This is what we have to account for when we are doing a value of information analysis and we then calculate the value of information as the optimal utility for doing structural health monitoring or minus the optimal utility when not doing structural health monitoring or we can also have the related value of information which is then just divided by the utility optimal utility without doing structural health monitoring. So maybe we have both. We have a visualization of the framework. First my first slide and now we have this decision tree. So where is the connection? The connection is the system states. So it's this branch here and it's this system stage which we find in the framework here also. So this was basically the introduction, shortly outlining the framework how we can use it and now we take the perspective of offshore wind park operation. That's a very actual problem as there have been substantial investments in Europe in wind parks in the last decade and now the focus of the industry is on operation because that's crucial for energy efficiency. This is very important for society but it's also about the economy of operating the wind parks and for earning money, for earning benefits. And the last point is there's a large number of identical structures so that's unusual to what we normally have. We have rather unique structures. There's not a high number of identical structures in civil engineering and exactly this was something I came across when I started working in the field of offshore wind energy 10 years ago. So there's a large number of identical structures and there is dependencies. To define a decision situation or decision scenario we can think of that an operator wants to assess in the commissioning phase of an offshore wind park what amount of data needs to be collected to facilitate a service life extension. We will see in a few slides why a service life extension is something which the industry is after but that's the usual situation. We have been in contact with a few wind park operators which are also included here in our in our action. So it's the commissioning phase the investment has been done and of course the operator aims at the highest utility throughout the service life that's the decision objective and where the solution is SHM systems but which one and then there are all kinds of questions which is which SHM system at how many turbines at which locations and at which locations in one wind turbine so this is all open questions. So let's take basis in this decision scenario and let's have a look at the intact system state. The intact system state is characterized by power production and operation costs. So there's an income due to power production so here we have the parameters like the capacity of the wind turbine the nominal capacity then availability factor of this wind turbine and then there is a factor of the nominal capacity when it is available because that depends on the wind speed on the mean wind speed and then there is there's numbers yeah percentages of what needs to be invested in the wind park operation yearly and then there is a discount rate so with these numbers this is very on a very generic level but still we can do here a cost benefit analysis and we see that there is a return over investment over 20 years operation of 15 percent and 25 years it's 30 percent so but this is this is exactly why operators are requesting service life extension also already in the commissioning state and this goes exactly to the challenge I've outlined so in the last years these systems can be very efficient and can help to to earn money so when we just take this cost benefit analysis then structural health monitoring is seen as something which goes against the benefits so why should we do this and this this is the situation I've been experienced over years that the discussions are always going to the direction yeah why should I use SHM then there's a lot of people which can do SHM which can implement very well systems which can analyze data this is very very developed but the benefits the utility of SHM is unclear so but we we also need to look at the other system states like the exposures so I'm considering here extreme exposure events and fatigue so I narrow down the context for this test case there's of course more yeah structural performance models there's also corrosion and so on but let's look to fatigue and extreme exposure events where fatigue is caused by the environmental loadings winds and waves and in conjunction with the operation and extreme events may be caused also by extreme winds in combination with extreme waves normal and abnormal operation so this is some of the basic assumptions the wind turbine fatigue damage is characterized with the fatigue design factor of 2.5 so that should be that should characterize a wind turbine fatigue damage we we have many components there and so the usual fatigue design factor is between two and three and we also characterized the wind turbine failure with the failure probability of five times 10 to the power of minus four this is in line with the JCS basis of design for minor consequences because wind park has only economic consequences and we we can on this level neglect any consequences in regarding to human safety and also the environment so well in wind park any of the wind turbine can be damaged or can fail so we are considering a wind park of 50 wind turbines so that's why we have to take here a serious system model to model the fact that there can be a fatigue damage or a failure at any of the system constituents and we account also for a correlation of 0.8 so when one turbine is damaged or has failed then there can be a failure of the wind park or damage or a failure of a wind park and we are also accounting for this cascading event with the brittle daniel system also utilizing a correlation of 0.8 and it's brittle because there is production capacity loss after failure the consequences in case that the wind park fails is that when it is damaged it's part of the wind park investment that's one percent if it was if it fails then the consequences is the wind park investment and there's also the production loss as a consequence so this is the damage or failure probability here on this axis and this is service life in years so we have it until 25 years here and where the probabilities of complete system damage or system failure are significantly lower than the failures and damages of one of these wind turbines now coming to the SHM strategies so we can think of an SHM strategy also highly simplified here we are monitoring each of the of the wind turbine we can we may be able to yeah monitor the fatigue loading so that goes to the exposure at each wind turbine location and we can utilize here a model to for the fatigue loading in the context of the pre-posterior decision analysis meaning that we are assuming that the model uncertainties have realized here for the fatigue loading in the fatigue damage model the second SHM strategy can be hot spot hot spot monitoring so here we would also measure very locally at each of the wind turbine structure and here we assume that more model uncertainties have been realized or realizing no have been realized because the structure is there so then we say that the loading model uncertainty the far field stress uncertainty and the hot spot stress uncertainty are realized so this is the way of modeling the SHM data in conjunction with the design models which we are already having and we can think of a further third SHM strategy where we model the extreme system loading the SHM precision is accounted for so we have yeah limited precision I think it's a standard deviation of 10% normally distributed and we also account for the statistical uncertainties so again a simplified model so we are assuming to start monitoring in the first year of the service life but if you just have one year of measurement and we do a statistical analysis we have very high statistical uncertainties because we just have one observation and then the statistical uncertainty decreases as I'm collecting in the consecutive service life more observations so this is accounted here in this model before and then structural monitoring is about costs so we have been assuming an investment of 500 thousand euros installation also 500 000 euros operation 20 000 euros per annum and we also assumed here a replacement interval of 10 years I've been involved in in tenders for SHM systems where this is was not accounted for but it's rather obvious that 10 years is rather high lifetime for SHM system okay SHM strategies so then we come to the decision tree so now we are back into our value of information analysis and the generic decision tree we have here now SHM that's easier that's our prior decision analysis and then we have the three SHM strategies one two and three would also follow here we by how we modeled the SHM results or outcomes we have no indications so if indications are related to probability of detection so we don't have this branch here but we have the action branch so this is a zero is service life 20 years as it was designed and a one is a service life extension to 25 years and then we have the desystem states so that's the overlap with the framework we have a safe state we have wind turbine damage or failure or wind park damage or failure so this is the decision tree we are going to analyze and when we have done that we can quantify the relative value of information so for SHM strategies 18 percent two is 31 percent and three would be 0.7 percent how does it look like in more detail so that's the decision tree only considering the experiments so SHM no SHM here SHM strategy one two and three here and we see the utilities for each of the of the actions and it's interesting to observe here the utility for our prior decision analyzes here it is not optimal to extend the service life because we'll see this in the slide later the risks are too high here here in the prior decision analyzes taking now SHM information the a zero is optimal here and the same number like here should also be here sorry that's a mistake and well when we look at SHM strategy one so that was fatigue load monitoring then we see it has been it was shifted so it's now the highest utility is is here in this branch related to action a1 to service life extension so looking further at SHM strategies two and three we have the same picture here for also for SHM strategy optimal action is a1 service life extension and for SHM strategy a three so that was the extreme system load monitoring we see that the optimal action is not to extend the service life so that's that's further breakdown of the results we have the expected benefits over 20 years that's the utility for the optimal prior decision so we have the expected benefits here we have indirect risks here going to system damage and failure and the direct risks here going to wind turbine damage and failure so when we look at the utility for the optimal preposterior decision so that's related to SHM strategy two then we observe first now that we have a service life of 25 years and that the indirect risks and the direct risks have been substantially reduced especially the indirect risks here in comparison to the previous slide so well this was rather complete for SHM strategies one to three but well looking at one of the first slides here for the intact system we see that we have factors like the wind park operation here it's also the availability factor so I thought it would be good to explore what if we could also reduce the wind park operation costs or we could provide a higher availability of the turbine so if our SHM systems can also influence actions related to the availability and to the wind park operation so I I calculated here for more wind more efficient wind park operation there would be a related benefit of 2.6 percent and if we can achieve lower down times or a higher availability by 10 percent then we can achieve a value of information of 15 percent and the interesting thing to note here is also that as we are in the in the parameters of the cost benefit analysis then we see also in the cost benefit analysis for the intact system the effect of SHM strategies of course when we think more about that more efficient wind park operation so lower number of inspections for instance we also have an interrelation by the observations we are accounting for and the risks meaning the direct and indirect risks so well this is a modeling issue which we have not been accounting for here but in other publications so to conclude this is a test case to be further developed by adding complexity and and to calibrate to assess and to illustrate issues of interests in the future to calibrate also to case studies from the test case here from the basic modeling I've been presenting we can conclude that the wind park service life extension may only be optimal with relevant information with a relative high precision and I think this is also a very important aspect there's a wide range of SHM strategies not not just about the loading and internal structural properties but taking a wider perspective including different system states the intact system how can structural monitoring be beneficial for the operation I think there's a large potential I would also like to explicitly address the working group interaction so this is what I was referring to in the in the opening presentation so we should also work together across working groups so we hope for working group two this test case may be an orientation and inspiration of how we can build SHM strategies and structural performance models together for working group three and four it may be starting points for each of their challenges one for working group three is tools and and also adding complexity to the models and working group four is for the case studies so what we will do further is to use our network to get feedback so this is this is one this is why I'm standing here and requesting feedback but we will also address wind park operators here in our network which are not here today where we will further develop and then I think there should be further test cases we have identified at the very beginning reinforced concrete structures so we would need a test case here as a starting point but I've been observing in the last workshops that there is a lot of people working from different sites for concrete dams and also earth dams and levees so this could be another field for developing test cases thank you for your attention


attentional or not now I did not think that kick would backhand me like that oh my how's it going everybody dots and I hear back with some more dragon ball fighters rank matches this time going back to the original Kamei team of master Roshi Krillin and base Goku and it looks like we'll be going up against an angel rank opponent who's using to see assist to really annoying ones to go Jida and Vegeta something about both of those I don't know why maybe it's the angle but I always get copper let me see if I can't get a quick start okay I can't get a quick start actually we're back that quick starts back on the menu boys don't listen to what I said quick start is back on the menu okay pretty decent start for us overall can take the down heavy route get a little bit more damage oh let me take up stick to I don't know if we need to switch out here you know what I'm just gonna do it master Roshi exclusive why not keep the point character in that was crazy I love that level too it is so good oh barely reflected that in time oh we didn't beat him out there in terms of buttons I really thought we were about to get that route going instead we're going to be sent to the corner all a go to oh no this is not good all right that's fine talk to me oh I got to stop throwing out the jabs he is probably going to be able to kill us here that jab was a massive mistake probably should have switched out Roshi when we could I don't think he'll be dropping anything after this point and now the game is even it's so it can even up so quickly if you get if you get a bit too excited to have a character out there it can even up pretty quick oh I'll take that though beating out the go tanks beam he did that really late if that's the case we still have two of the stronger versions of the comedy here oh no block that's tough please don't switch out to Vegeta though that is a little too much blue health for me to be okay with seeing a switch oh no he's gone oh wait this level three staying in he wants to he wants to go tanks match up now how long he's going to stay in after this level three is unknown but I think we have to spark all right now we're gonna go out in a base Goku still not enough to kill I'm trying to I'm trying to make this into a way where we can somehow get the kill here I don't think it's gonna work two three four five no it's not gonna work it's not gonna work we just have to take this oh I should have matched lights I don't know why would for down heavy big mistake base Goku's in trouble now the sparking should almost be up and he's going with another level three he really wants that Vegeta anchor huh or maybe he wants the Vegeta assist I don't know something's definitely got to be for like making him want to do that though I will take this a quick raw tag has never been my strongest soup but sometimes you got a raw tag now we got to see what this raw Vegeta is all he wanted this limit break Vegeta he's been super dashing from that range a lot there it is of those moments where you're just standing across the aisle I was just waiting to see if anything would have oh I didn't think he'd super dash there it dash I've been back okay next time we vanish I mash next time we vanish I'm out he had too much confidence there I need to go ahead and mash oh we got caught I was really looking for that super dash if I could punish one of those super dashes I think we're in a comfortable spot for the game if I can't that might be the end of it dude another round start with Vegeta Vegeta has a lot of round start options actually I'm a dash up okay beautiful beautiful use of the beam to get through those Vegeta projectiles some of the honestly Vegeta has a really strong projectile game and I'm gonna I don't know if this is smart I'm spending all my bar it's the final gambit it wasn't smart it wasn't smart I regret it I regret it I didn't think he'd reflect reflect all we could hope is that he somehow I meant vanished he did drop it like I said we're looking for that super dash nope there it is there it is that is all we need we needed that to age we didn't even get a super dashing with it but we were able to clutch it up in the final moments we shut up for a long time a lot of nothing going on in the screen on the screen but behind the scenes that was looking pretty rough behind the scenes my brain was firing on all cylinders last time we jumped in I don't want to do that again yeah don't want to do it again we got a tree ourselves to a master Roshi oh run it back though I dropped the easy part of the route no the easy part and I'm getting text messages probably insulting me for dropping that combo I tried to DP I gotta stop I gotta stop just hold back to block we might be dead see assist we're dead see assist just adding that bit of extra damage the last bit you need to see and it looks like go Jesus coming back out so he wants to do it on point interesting here let me see if I can't turn on do not disturb but I don't I missed the button I missed the button it's not on I just can't be disturbed anymore oh I try to hit Super Dash to think maybe if we were a little higher but that now you hate to see it I might have to spark just to get a bit of momentum running up again it's time I'm I'm I'm back in business nope all right good we didn't get caught by that take a base Goku hit whoo all right we're good we're moving up we're almost tied that that was a fine sparking in my opinion if you get a knockout it's hard to say the sparking wasn't worth yes beautiful I don't really know what I want to do here that was not even intentional I will fully admit that was not even intentional I am just that oh no I did this wrong I did this wrong I hate it here that combo what I didn't think that would combo I mean that was the worst Super Dash of all time but I messed that up I just wanted to switch out to Krillin I am an idiot I did not want to start Kyle Ken I'm a level 3 I'm at a level 3 I can't be messed with I will waste three bars for that amount of hell oh I don't know for it a good position we are down to sparking I'm looking for that Super Dash again he delayed it just enough he was in my comfort zone you saw the 2h come out I was like nah he's he's too close but that Super Dash holds you up for a second but just very strong I don't want to jump in yeah the spirit sword oh no dude oh no that was a miscard cancel rough yeah legido with spark this is so much damage on the board right now seven bars as well you just spend look at the limit break damage here oh okay I don't know if the reset was intentional or not now I think that tick would backhand me like that oh my god I did not think it had the range that would hit different that one hit me in real life I recoiled oh my goodness all right game 2 did not go well for us at all we can blame the rough start or just I mean we were rough all around to be honest oh I don't want to block right now I don't want to block right now you know what I'm not blocking oh I should have I should I should learn how to block one of these days I'm gonna have to learn how to block yeah I'm fishing for hits right now oh wow that was so lucky we have played really bad I definitely let my fear get to me if it's a second if it worked again all right all right we definitely got to switch out we made the mistake of I'm getting tech I know I made a mistake stop texting me these text notifications are just constant reminders all right we got to switch out we not have a character oh so obvious it was so if you stand back and walk like that for too long I feel like it gets more and more obvious bam don't do it oh my goodness that was so rough I don't think we're dead here but with the extra see it oh he has to see a system he dropped it I can't I can't I was like I tried to spark but I forgot right beat that no the medium didn't hit the Superdash now we're back on the CSS rotation oh what a whiff that was a huge one you hate to see it for the combat team oh no I don't I don't think we're dead here but this does suck we're gonna have to block a mix up he might go for Gugida's command grab me did it once before I don't I don't buy it though I don't think you will I yeah he just went for a standard overhead also I dpeed but even if I did get the input I probably still would have died oh that was close back it up back it up okay we need to get a we needed yeah man that early sparking was all fear yeah I couldn't do anything to stay safe after that I should have beamed or maybe even solar flared he still sees CSS having at least one CSS is very um don't block our go G to still too slow oh I couldn't hit a button at that range go G to put it on the sauce go takes assist ah I got reset I did hit a button I was like maybe I could jab here he's spending a lot of bar if we get go G to know that could have been our best chance to be just whiffs not whiffs but I think it to do it okay that was stupid you can tell I was getting risky there I was just mashed out I didn't want him to vanish or catch me off guard alright commitment was low there okay another decent hit with a beam the comeback is still going to be very hard to pull off here I almost kind of want to switch in Vegeta but that is just that is like a theory and that is not something I'll probably actually do especially with our low resources the only reason I would switch in Vegeta was because I want to see if he's less comfortable with Vegeta anywhere but anchor and not having to deal with the CSS would be nice thanks just everywhere on the on the map tonight I think this is this might be a kill I don't know I don't know what Kyle can damage will get me here three four five six seven times 20 it's not enough please vanish please vanish oh my goodness why why do you wake up level three I don't know I don't know why he did it but we got a look past it do we run up to win oh we should have done it dude I almost back dashed there that could have been the end he didn't do the key blast on the legs are gonna get me from that range it looks like that's going to be it barring a severe drop I would hate I would drop it I'm not I'm not talented drop the please oh no come a team going to take the L this time great games now we're going to move on and see who else we can find what is with the level of opponents online today great priest isn't that just one below Zeno my comic team is not good it's my master Roshi's too rusty to be thrust into this kind of competent damn we just got DP assisted right in the face that was unfortunate block low that was barely enough take a 6m oh why am I mashing I think Roshi might be dead here I don't know if that's true now that's probably not true but I do need to get him out we'll take that oh I'll wake up ex flip and just the dragon rush just to flex on the amount of time you have after that all right I'll take that I'll take a nice easy hit in the corner there for three bars do I want to you know what well let's let master Roshi do a bit of talking I'm trying to talk to him the original coming out let me teach him something I wish I wasn't built this way okay decent who let me see if I can't run that route on you trunks I can't I was looking for a superdash to I did a doubt heavy but way way way too early are we dead yeah wow that's a lot of bar he can low hit us with a level one from go away yeah he has to do a level one from trunks if he did the level one from Gohan he probably would have missed the command grab super that see the thing is that's what I would have done and I would have lost I would have dropped it I would have been like oh no I'm an idiot and I would have been it would have been a fair thing to say oh that's a lot of damage I'm not it's not even the damage is the bad part but I don't want to be in the quarter 2m starter that was rough okay this is probably where I use spark I'm not trying to okay take it that's a trunks probably not the most deserved character I'm so focused I'm so focused today and that that's what I'm getting as random two h's who DP assist was nice I definitely try to hit a risky button and got caught misses it oh I probably deserved to get punished there instead we'll just take a DP sparks to try to make this a kill oh the sparking does run out it probably will be yeah oh I don't even think of level three was a level three necessary with a double level one maybe maybe I don't know and it's not like it matters in the long run he still has a bar but you know these are the questions you got to ask I probably would have done the level two and then not kill base Goku the preferred anchor no we didn't turn around in time I tried to get a light there that would have been sick three bars again we might see another level three just because I have to purely block that one I wouldn't be surprised no instead he's just gonna rack up as much damage as possible reset neutral oh no thank you go on a sit man go on is gohan is on site with me today I think every gohanist is called hit me in the face whoo rough game one I'm hoping game twos a bit better I'm honestly I think I don't know what we could do to improve we dropped we dropped a lot of master Roshi combos maybe was it just the one I don't know that the drop hurt me a lot oh I remember I remember now we got it we got a block these go hot assist that is our easily our worst aspect command grab does hit what does he get off this the key last right no just I forgotten the corner you can just run up that's a great tool I want master Roshi to live oh go on assist I am just putty to the assist I just I just come out and get hit all right auto correct that's pretty cheap pretty pretty cheap stuff they're not gonna lie that was odd I gotta remember that time I just heard you I go crazy go on and I was like oh not again dude not again all right beautiful switch out I'm gonna drop okay no gohan assist that time cuz I think Goku took him out fight him back fight him back no I'm ready to the Goku I dashed too far now gohans out at least we don't have to worry about the assist ah not the level three I think this is where we spark honestly yeah with gohan out I want oh wow we lost that scramble with gohan out I wanted to try to push I tax on the key last I wanted to try to push offense as much as possible but it didn't it didn't work out he might even switch back into trunks here no he didn't kick we caught a kick I don't want to overextend here but I do want it there it is okay there's the DP key blast down I don't want to overextend again I'm so worried about over wow what did that auto correct whoa that was good the key the key blast beam into the quarter maybe I was just seeing things maybe I was already there when trunks did that but to me that was sick oh we didn't get that light off that's tough okay okay we're in a bad way now he still has spark to and cruel and so low okay catch this change the future I'm gonna say okay a lot at this part every hit is a surprise to me run the rocks he just jumped again I'm thought he would sit there and hold that whoa rough and again we're left with base Goku my base Goku is not super good I try to get him to face that command grab just hit him down okay I'm not interested in getting hit anymore our cancel out didn't really have anything I can't believe we dropped that that was rough okay we were out of gohan's range oh I tried it to age that I was a tad too slow on the draw beam assist gets me all the way to the corner now we face the threat of even more mix oh I hit a button though I'm challenging I am not just gonna sit here die we are definitely challenging stuff that we probably shouldn't be one two three four five six I can't believe we gotta spend that there it is I I try to get the grab it I can't believe we dropped it by the way that Kyle Ken drop was bad I tried to get the finish I might have missed the button but that's rough now you I go could get that whoo that has a lot of cascading effects on us there we go nice 2h though not completely over I think I take the second to charge up yep yeah right into the pool that's another reason that auto combo is so good is because at that range when you vanish a couple of L's will get you right up there what a video hopefully you guys enjoyed that if you did definitely make sure to go down below let me know your favorite moment and what do you think of Master Roshi now that it's I don't know has it been a couple months since his release or it has it only been one month I have no time really is moving differently in 2020 but let me know what you think of Master Roshi now that it's so late in the game whether you think he's top tier loads here mid tier or fun or not fun you check out some of the other videos that should be on your screen right now once again I wanted to thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video I have been Datsudoe and I will see you in the next one


Could the lighting be any worse? Hold on a second. Hey guys, welcome to Monday morning. I don't think I have any footage from yesterday. We had a post-wedding open house here and it was just insane craziness. It was great to see everybody. It was great to finally be able to have a COVID safe event with all our friends and family and celebrate the kids' wedding and relationship. But I'm tired. We have some dear old friends who are still here in Oregon visiting for one more day. So I think we're gonna meet up with them for lunch today and we're gonna go get some grocery shopping for a few groceries that we're completely out of now. We're running very low on that we need to get through the week. And also my nephew as his girlfriend, who I just love, I met her, I just met her for the first time yesterday but she just seems like such a sweetheart. Anyway, she had a little bit of work to do while they've been up here. So she brought her work backpack and she came and borrowed my office so she could do that, which was fine. But she left her work backpack here. So they have to drive back up this way. They're in Salem and we're north of Salem. So they've got to drive back up this way to get the backpack because all her work stuff is still in my house. Anyway, so we have all that to do today. Last minute, wrapping up of stuff. Our new patio door comes in tomorrow or Wednesday, the cleaning lady will be by Wednesday. Plan that a couple of days after the events were over and the new patio door will be installed at the end of the week. So that's good. And I think Saturday we're gonna go up and help my dad with some stuff. So it's gonna be kind of a busy week but less hectic, maybe. I can get rid of these maybe, maybe, no guarantees. All right. So we are trying to get our lives back to our normal routine. Post wedding, holy cow. Anyway, holy moly, yeah. It's just after six o'clock and we are headed out for a walk.  So anyway, but they're gonna be a little while yet. So we are headed out for a walk and we should be back in plenty of time. So anyway, all right. That's it for the minute. Not a house for sale in our neighborhood. Interesting to see for how much. Anyway, all right. We're gonna go see what we can see. I'll see if I can take some pictures and I'm still exhausted. Can you tell? My bags are extra big. I didn't know that was a thing but yeah, all right. I'll be back. It is Tuesday morning. I wanna say March. It's not March, June 8th, I think. I think it's the eight. I still haven't caught up with my daily drawing. I think I'm still physically just recovering from the exhaustion of the wedding but it is on my agenda to do this afternoon. So that's a thing. But first I need to run to Walmart. I'm gonna go to the one in Sherwood. We have an organizing project to do at my dad's. Let's see how do I word this. Okay. For those that don't know, my mother has been ill and she is in full-time care. I am gonna be going up to my parent's house to visit with her at the nursing home on Saturday. I, you know, I'd like to say half expect but I actually fully expect it might be my last time I see her. Yes, it's that bad. In the meantime, my father is getting used to or trying to get used to living at home alone and getting the space to be something he can manage and is organized the way he prefer. She's never coming home. So it's time he does that. He's asked for my help.  So I am headed to Walmart to get some more bins. Let's be honest, my sister Elizabeth and I both love organizing and it's not that I don't have bins but I wanna make sure I have enough bins and we'll be bringing some bins and label making materials for said bins up to my dad's house and helping him with a couple of different new categories. And I think every time we go up we'll be doing something similar. So we got the blog edited and scheduled and the weekly writing done and caught up on and some of those are scheduled. Some of them had to be posted yesterday they didn't have them so they got posted now and then the one for today got posted now. Anyway, I got my car loaded with some bins and things for my dad's on Saturday. I got a blessing and organization bag. Oops, there behind my purse, ready to go for Saturday. I have to do the garbage, I've got to do the dishes. Pretty much we're all cut up. I just have to do the daily drawings just tell them cut up on but I'm gonna actually refill my water. I'm going to do the dishes and then I'm gonna sit down and put YouTube in one ear and my journals and notebooks in the other hand and I'm gonna, done. We've got a couple of hours until Bob gets off the work so we're gonna get it done. My daughter even called me and asked me about DIY ways to press flowers and she wants to do some resin work with some of her wedding bouquet stuff. She doesn't do crafts often. And yeah, so that was great, great surprise. Don't get me wrong, really great surprise. I told her don't buy any more resin stuff because I have so much. So anyway, all right, I'll be back everybody. It's Wednesday, June 9th, 915 a.m. Our dear friend and cleaning lady buddy is downstairs helping us out getting the house back to rights and I am going to put some shoes on and go out and pull a few weeds out in the front yard. Yes, I said pull weeds. I really do hate yard work but it's gotta be done. I probably should get on that and check on social media but after family discussions last night where that went, I am not excited to go then. Hey guys, all right, so the cleaning lady is done. She helped us get the house back to rights post-wedding. Yay, thank you, Letty, you are the best. We love you. Our new patio door was going to be installed tomorrow but it is a two-day project and our contractor is worried about leaving the trim and wall inside and out, well mostly out exposed to the elements overnight. And in normal circumstances, it wouldn't be a problem but we're gonna get some rain on Friday. So he said he won't have time to put flashing or anything up before the rain hits and he's worried about that. So we're supposed to have a big stretch of sunshine next week so he's gonna wait and do it next week which is good anyway because the company, the door was purchased from, it is a Millgaard door but they have misplaced the screen which is the main reason for putting the door in is so we can open it and get some fresh air. Kids are out to hear that. Anyway, so hopefully by the time he gets here to put the door in, they'll have found the screen, let's hope. I got this big giant sewing spool pin cushion thing at Hobby Lobby last week in the midst of all the chaos. I was like, ooh, that's interesting because I definitely have a pin cushion like the addiction now at this point. I knew that I liked it as it was but I wanted to do some things to it, just boost it up and I'll put a picture of it like here somewhere I think I have a photo of it after I stuck pins in the top but other than the pins that are in the top the way you see it is as is. And then today, I created, let's see if I can grab it, it's heavy, it is solid wood. This slow stitch part to it. So it has a little pocket and a pair of scissors, couple of sewing needles, it's real cute. Here's my Instagram sort of video, I'll put it right here. Anyway, so yes, I do now have family drama regarding my parents is not getting any better, it's getting worse and mom is in care full time but now we're all trying to figure out how to best to get dad to take care of himself. It's the best I can say about that. Anyway, and of course it's a disagreement and nobody thinks to like, I don't know, ask dad. Anyway, it's a thing. I'm gonna go downstairs now, watch a little YouTube while I am waiting for Bob to get off of work and then I think we're gonna go walking and we'll see what happens after that. I'll be back. You have a tag on. Look who you belong to, let me see. What's that, what's your name? Is this something, is that a? It's a number. Full number. Yeah. Well, we'll keep walking. We haven't seen the ducks in quite a while. Looks like we just found where they're hanging out. Cool. Could the lighting be any worse? Hold on a second. That's marginally better but you can only do so much with this face. And no makeup, anyway. I don't know that makeup would help. Anyway, we digress. So I have this journal here that I actually made and I have a few of them for sale in my Etsy shop. They are made with this super thick mixed media paper and watercolor paper with chipboard covers spiral bound. And in it, I have been creating compositions and practicing with different color palettes. If you wanna see why I'm doing that and what I'm doing exactly, I'll get an idea of how I got to this place. You need to take my class and I'm teaching with Bayard Grom and Chelsea and all of that because it's over there and that's where I teach that. Anyway, that's not why we're here today right now. I am using this as a way to experiment and play with composition and things and I'm gonna try something different. So I am currently fascinated with Felix Scheinberger. I think that's how you pronounce his name. There are, yeah, Scheinberger. That's how you say it if you don't speak German. I'm pretty sure he's German. Anyway, I love the way he sketches and paints watercolors and there are a few videos on YouTube featuring him mostly it looks like they're at the sketchbook school channel but Studio 56 for Creatives has one from him and looking to see. There's a few channels that have reviewed his book. He has a couple of books. So I would definitely recommend checking him out. I will leave his name, spelling of his name in the video description. Anyway, I'm gonna watch some of the videos with him. I have an idea for doing a composition inspired by him and a picture I took at the kids wedding venue. I will insert said picture here and I'm gonna try it on two different color of paper gray and traditional white watercolor paper. We're gonna use the Schminke watercolor palette and we're gonna see what happens. I don't know. It's gonna be a fun experiment I think. So let's get to it. My question is, do I wanna do this other side with the Schminke watercolors? See what it looks like on gray. Oh, do I wanna try the gouache? It was a lot of fun. I really liked the way both of them turned out. Do I like one better than the other? I think so. I think I like them both equally. The gouache of course was more challenging to keep the pen lines showing because this gouache is very opaque as gouache usually is, is opaque matte water-soluble paint. So I think we're both really good. I love it. If you're gonna do painting experiments like this, I recommend doing them in a book where you can make notes in the margin and figure out what you like and what you don't. And then when you go on to do future projects for clients, customers, or yourself that you're gonna hang on the wall, you have sort of a DIY reference guide of what's gonna work for you and what's not. So anyway, that was a lot of fun. Nice. All right, so this is the lesson in what not to do. Read your labels, read your labels, read your labels. Most of the products we use in our art room have some sort of basis in chemicals. There's just no way to avoid that but limiting the exposure to harmful chemicals as you can when you can is always a good idea. And I know better now and I know I should read labels now more than I do because in my interest in having the occasional medium around, in the interest of having some medium around that I can create my own DIY fabric paints with, I purchased GAC 900 a while back. I didn't thankfully get a huge bottle but as you can see, I have used about, I don't know, half ish of it, it's right about there. I didn't read the label on the back, I should have. And you know what? This product contains formaldehyde. I'm okay with a lot of things but not this. Yeah, so this is gonna have to go away and I don't know how exactly that's gonna happen because it is containing formaldehyde and there's probably no safe way to do that. I don't know. If you have any ideas, leave them down below and let me know. I, yeah, I mean, listen, in a former profession was a licensed dispensing optician. I was a lab tech who was licensed to make and measure you for eyeglasses. I worked with a lot of chemicals and unbeknownst to me, lots of them contained carcinogens and we in those days didn't wear gloves. We weren't told we had to wear gloves. We didn't have gloves on site in most of the places I worked and this isn't just one office, it's more than one office. And since then, I'm kind of usually more careful about things, making sure at least when I'm doing like resin projects, I've got gloves on and that I'm protected. Now I could use this up by just making sure I wear gloves that I'm in a well-ventilated area and all that stuff. Do I want to be bothered?  The answer to that's no. It's expensive, I'm glad I didn't buy a bigger container. I like golden products, don't get me wrong, but I don't necessarily think this is worth it. So there you have it. Anyway, I don't know what to do with it now. If you all have some ideas, let me know. Yeah, that's disappointing. All right, hey guys. Oh my God, I got so much painting done today. It was such a nice change of pace from what my normal routine has been lately. I am back to work on the lips journal right here. I will insert the three pictures I got done today right about here. Some are good, some not so much, but that's okay. This lips journal is all about picking a particular item or body, in this case, body part, and practicing painting it in different positions, different colors, different techniques. With the eyeball journal, there's a series on that. I did some doodly eyeballs, some painted eyeballs, different colored eyeballs, different shaped eyeballs. You get the idea. You could pick flowers, you could do anything. Anyway, I'm doing lips right now. And that was really nice to get all of that done. And the three other journal pages I got done this morning. So it's only three o'clock. I think I'm gonna turn the devices up here off. And I think I'm gonna go for a walk. I've still got two and a half hours or so before the husband is off work and we go for a walk together. But in the meantime, I can go for a short walk by myself. And I think I'm gonna do that. It sounds like a great plan. I'll be back. Hey guys, so it's, what time is it? It's before lunch. I don't know, 11.30 a.m. Friday, June 11th. I'm looking at the computer. So I don't know if I mentioned or not, but we're having some weirdness going on right now. So evidently, our insurance company thinks that this house I'm currently standing in is not our primary residence. And the agents called to confirm that because they got a letter from the underwriters and I thought that was a little weird. And I said, no, that's inaccurate. I'm standing in the house right now. Yes, we do live here. So that's still not being taken care of. Hopefully that's resolved today. And then I'm getting a letter from the franchise tax board of California. It's only addressed to me. So it must be regarding the art business. I'm not sure if it's related to the homeowner's insurance issue or not. I don't know what the letter says and I can't get through to the state of California because of course not. I'm waiting for a callback, which could take an hour or more.  So yeah, so that's a thing. There are many phone calls and much paperwork. And yeah, I think we have today's weirdness taken care of. I think State Farm really knows I actually live here, maybe. And the state of California has the idea now. I don't do business in California. Really hard to do YouTube videos in California when you live in Oregon. Just saying. Anyway, I'm printing out paperwork right now for that and I'm gonna be sending that in the snail mail. I filled their forms out that the state wants and holy cow. In the meantime, in the midst of all that, I painted the rest of the rocks I had. Some of them turned out better than others I think. I'm not so sure about my turtle's face, but I think they're all kind of cute. One of them was kind of house-like, so I painted a house. There's a couple I'm gonna have trouble letting go of like the rainbow rock. So yeah, they were a lot of fun. So I got them done and I got some painting papers done trying to use up some stuff. So yeah, that part was good. Now, if I can just get my printer to cooperate, we're gonna be great. Cause you know, yeah. Oh, I also got a new book in the mail that I'm dying to read. I'm gonna sit this week and I think I'd read it. It's from a German artist and I love his style. His name is Felix Scheinberger and this is one of his books. He's got a new one, but it's not been translated to English yet. Not a read German, so. But I love his loose, expressive style of watercoloring and drawing. Makes me wanna go down to Washington Park, which is, no, the King City Park, which is not far from my house and go sit on one of the benches and go just do some drawing and sit there. Not today, cause it's raining, but anyway. All right, I'm gonna see if I can get this to print so I can get this in the mail. And yeah, maybe do something else with my time other than trying to get ahold of people that work in the government in California, cause that was a nightmare. I swear, my printer, yeah, anyway. I'll do that. There goes this right here under the tree because she is not budging an inch. Nope. Good morning, everybody. It is 8.33 or so a.m., whatever time it says back there. I'm finishing up my morning coffee and we are headed up today to my dad's house to help him out with some things and cleaning out closets and stuff like that, organizing things and spending the day with him and then we'll be checking in on my mom. Is it weird that I'm already calling it his house? Feels a little weird, but she's never gonna live there again, so I don't know. Anyway, we're gonna discuss some legal things that have to happen now going forward and some things he needs to do for himself, paperwork-wise and all that stuff. All right, I've got my chicken broth, put in a go cup, my bone broth and all the organizing stuff is gathered. We just have to transfer the baskets out of my car into the kid's car cause I think we're bringing their car not mine. And yeah, we'll put it to go, we'll hit the road. I'll be back. She drooled over, that's okay, I'll be right back. I don't know, that's funny. It's a Pappuccino evidently, it's just a cup of whipped cream. I gotta be honest, this has been a tough day today. So the fact that we can watch that, that we're all smiling and laughing, that's great. Take it away from me. She is covered in whipped cream. Hey guys, it is, what time is it? 10 o'clock on Saturday, June 12th. We've been home for a little bit. So we've got home for my dad's. About nine o'clock, I think we did something bad. We stopped and got Taco Bell on the way home. I didn't have much, but I had a Taco Supreme. I know it was bad, but it was just that kind of day. Anyway, we helped dad with what he needed help with today and what he was ready to have help with today. I did make sure to print out the Medicaid application for him to fill out for himself. There's no rush on that, but I do want him to get it filled out. And I told him, if he has any trouble with it, he's I think gonna come down on Friday and spend the night down here. And I told him to bring the form with him if he has any trouble with it and we'll help him get it filled out in the mail before he goes back home. And I am gonna try to get him to come down and spend the night or the weekend here, I think periodically. I'm gonna shoot for once a month. Let's see how he likes doing that. We'll see. Yeah, so my mom is being, so my mom is being. My mom is in a condition where the only help and aid they can offer her is to make her comfortable. And there really isn't any treatment that is going to make her better. Yes, there are things that could do, but the risk really outweighs any possible benefits. So for that reason, she is going to have a couple of blood tests and probably they started on some antibiotics because she does have another UTI, I think. Sorry, I'm getting a text message from Rebecca. Okay, so anyway, I'll check on that in a minute. I'll tell you what that's about in a minute.  So they're gonna start around some antibiotics to treat that, but only in the sense to make her comfortable. She has some other issues and not the least of which is the dementia, lesions on her brain and a problem with spinal fluid draining, which it should as part of your natural normal process and her spine, the drain in her spine is blocked and it's fixing that is too risky. As I'm very fond lately of saying, the juice is not worth a squeeze and she is at the end stage of life and what we are more focused on is keeping her comfortable. So she will be transferring to hospice. I don't think she's got long. I don't think the doctors think she's got long and it's very sad, but I think my dad is resigned and ready to do what's needed to keep her comfortable, but I don't think she's long for this world and it's tough. So we're doing what we can for my dad and to make the transition as easy as we can for him and encouraging him when he's ready to do what he needs to as far as making changes in his life and living situation. And so yeah, inviting him to come down and I told him, look, we have family dinner at every single Friday night and you are always welcome and usually it's Becca and Polly's, but sometimes it's Rebecca Polly's, Jenny and Brian and I know they would all welcome you and so I think he's gonna come down this weekend. So yeah, so that was that. And then my daughter, now that she's married is into drying her flowers from Hubukai and she is having fun doing that and asking me about doing things with resin and she's getting crafty. I don't know where this is gonna lead but I'm very excited about that. And yeah, I think it's gonna be a good thing. So anyway, lots of stuff going on and yeah, never boring around here, that's for sure. Anyway, it's been an interesting week and we're just gathering together as a family as one does and supporting each other as you know, as you should and that's all we can do, right? So anyway, I hope you all have made it through the week safe and healthy. Please wear a mask if you're still required to do so and take care of each other, have some fun, go out and breathe the fresh air. It's beautiful weather outside right now. Most importantly, please besides doing the obvious, check the video description, like, share and subscribe, hit the little bell icon for notifications about new videos when they come out, support that channel as you can by shopping in the Etsy shop or joining Patreon or something like that. I will be restarting Patreon live soon. And soon as things settle down a bit with my parents and yeah, all of that stuff. Anyway, the most important thing of course, go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. We'll see you next week. Bye guys.


Okay, well, we have some. Let's go ahead and get started. This is the final buff wrap up for Academy 2021. This morning in the first session of the day, we had a handful of buffs and sessions that the three of you were a part of. Some and others were part of more. Yay, I see David Edmondson's joining. So that's great. I'd also like to ask Alish to come back because he also hosted a buff today. Getting into it. Alish, you hosted the kitty goals over the apps automation. Would you like to speak to it? Tell us how it went. Yeah, sorry about that. That was our first buff in the morning, where we talked with Cisadmin. So we had been doing buffs all over the week about different app topics, mostly based around the platform. And well, one of the most common things was it would be great to automate X or Y. And actually, most of the times it was all the same thing. So we thought let's have a discussion with the Cisadmin team who did join and discuss those different topics. It ended up orbiting around how amazing our life is going to be when we embrace GitLab, CI. They are working on it. So they kind of said, please wait a little bit and be patient. It's going to be amazing. And then we went through the different levels of amazingness. You can see more specific notes. If you look at the kitty is all about the app's goal chat, they're not super more specific. The Cisadmin team, I think I would like to think at least that they promise that they will provide a bit more of documentation on what is the status of things and how to help them better, but what it seems like they have it under control. Well, good luck to them. And to all of us, it's going to be amazing. Sorry, I couldn't find my unmute button first. Thank you, Alice. How did your distribution box go? Right. So it fairly naturally flowed on from the one previous, so it was, yeah, splitting the two was kind of fun. But basically, the idea there also was to try and streamline the way we get stuff actually to end users in a way that puts the least amount of pressure on people effectively. In other words, automation for the distribution side of our software production efforts. And we came up with a sort of procedure that we think might work which would then be tied into how GitLab works so that we can kind of use that as an excess so that we have a straightforward, consistent process where the release effort from the point of view of someone maintaining an app who doesn't necessarily know how to get their software built for 15 different operating systems and all of that sort of stuff and get it on stores and so on, and make that as straightforward and sort of effortless as possible while still remaining safe. So there's a couple of things that we can't automate because there needs to be a manual intervention step, but there are a lot of things that can be and which are almost there and which then kind of just need the dots connecting. Obviously, there is no such thing as easy, but yeah, we've got a way forward there and it looks really neat. And of course, the details are all in the KDE All About the Apps Matrix group as well. Thank you. Let's go over to Kenny, Kenny is the slay, for the KDE Fundraising Working Group. Thanks Alison. So we mainly focused on two core themes. One of the core themes was the KDE 25th Anniversary that's coming up and the opportunities that's going to give us in regard to our fundraising efforts, so lots of exciting things going on there. The other theme which was kind of, we managed to relate the two was the ongoing efforts towards trying to get our CIVI CRM instance to do what we need it to to be effective for the community and what we're doing with fundraising. I think most of us, I think all of us in the BOF agree that CIVI CRM as it currently stands doesn't really do what it needs, doesn't really do what we need it to. And so we're going to start actively looking at alternatives, not to replace it as a whole. I mean, it's still doing things like CEPA payments fairly well, but to look at things like paypal immigration and try to find something that fits some of those requirements, start experimenting a little bit, and hopefully try to build something new for the 25th anniversary. We've currently got a requirements document that's getting put together just now by Carol. If anyone wants to get involved in that effort, you're more than free to join, you can get in touch via the mailing list. We're also going to be opening up a new set of matrix literacy channels that people can join. We're really hoping that by changing our tooling and changing the technology, we can try and get a bit more energy into the community and use that as a driver for improving our fundraising efforts. All right. Thank you. Okay, next up, Plasma and Promo meeting, Mr. David R. David R. Want to take it away? Tell us how it went. It went great. We first, the Promo people explained to us what they want, their goals with the Plasma announcements and the general strategy for reaching more the public in general. And then we talked about how we as Plasma developers can help them make their process easier and help them make better Plasma announcements. And we also decided that the next release in October will be called the Plasma Anniversary Edition and will release on the 25th anniversary of Plasma, of KDE. Well, let's go on. There was a Plasma bug triage. Ooh, very nice hack, David. Would you like to take it away and tell us how it went? Yeah, so in previous years, nobody really liked doing bugs. So if you lock everybody in a physical room, it generally helps. Here we had a virtual equivalent and the idea was to go through and we went through all of the lists of bugs that were tracked as very high priority and went through which forms actually were. And going through it as a group, making sure everyone in the core Plasma team had an awareness of what big things that we needed to focus on and getting lots of ideas on some of the same bugs. And it actually resulted in several of these very high bugs getting immediate fixes that day. But there's still lots of bugs left and you should all be helping. Well, you heard it here. Go help with bugs. All right, well, the final boss for today is the Qt4Python. It was a follow-up on a previous boss and Anupram's talk that we heard last weekend. It is very late at night and I have to read out the updates for this. So let's do it. On public demand, there was another hosted session for Qt4Python. Like the earlier one, this was a live coding session meant to be like a workshop for the topic. Today, this discussed about passing arguments of type lists, passing lists of custom Python data objects and parsing the data on the QML side, the QML list view and its population from custom Python data objects. And finally, properties, notifiable properties. That is the Qt4Python update. It was really exciting to see there was so much demand for it, at least on my side of things, because it was great as Anupram was a new speaker at Academy this year. And I think we were all very welcoming. And overall, I hope that everyone had a great experience, especially the new speakers we had this year, the returning speakers we had this year and our attendees. Okie doke. Well, I want to say thank you very much for a great week to all of our boss folks, to all of our speakers and to all of our attendees. We've done it without you and let's hope that next year we get to see each other in person, wherever in the world it is. If we don't see you, if you can't make it to 2020, I thought of me, we hope to see you in some form at the 25th anniversary coming up in October. Please keep a lookout for more information on it. And we are planning like crazy. So if we reach out and ask you for some help, please consider helping and being a part of the plans. It's very important. It's a huge milestone. And let's all show how much we love and appreciate KDE. Thank you very much.  Or both of you. I will take my leave and thank you so much for such a great week as well. Your session share skills are far beyond what mine could ever be. Absolutely. But anyways, take it away and let's find out who got the awards this year. Thank you. So thank everyone. I'm here to introduce you to the winners of the Academy 2021 Community Awards or just Academy Awards. For people who don't know about them, this is an award from the community to the community. It's been around since 2005 and it was lucky enough to follow the first instance of the Academy Awards back then in my first Academy. What happens is that the recipients of the award becomes the jury next year, which means that there should be three persons here, but due to time zone issues and other logistical issues, I'm the only one. So I will also cover for Bouchonsha and for Karl Schwann. But you will see them in a minute because they are here also. They have video to introduce their part of the award. And just, okay, finally I have the slides as well. So without just a technical annotation, we are going to introduce all the awards. And if you are one of the winners, please follow. If you know how to join this room, please join it. Otherwise, follow the trail. The chat moderator will show you the way to come here. I just need to show you the first video. So Bouchonsha will introduce the first award because we are all transparent here, ready to... Hello everyone. So this is about application category award. And I am happy to announce that we want to give this award to Alexander Samke for his work on lab plot. The lab plot is graphing application for the scientific data. And I believe it deserves this award for reaching out of our own small free and open source software bubble and creating more user base in the community where we don't know much about. So yeah, congratulations and thank you for your work on lab plot. Thank you. Thank you so for lab plot. And just to show you that this is all true. As soon as I stop sharing, I apologize. So yeah, the first award goes to lab plot, Alexander Samke. I don't think Alexander is around, but in case, please join us. The second award goes to Bouchonsha. The second one is presented by Karch Fan. And we will be there in a minute. I guess I cannot see the shot right now, but I guess the uploads are going. And let's go for the second award. Hello. I'm happy to announce that we are giving the non-application Academy Award to Paul Porn. Paul Porn has been working on the promo site of KDE for three years already. He has been on top of announcing our applications release, plasma release, and scenery apparatus reaching outside of open-source software bubble smart. Thanks, Paul, for your work. So thanks, Karch. And thanks, Paul. And I'm pretty sure you are around somewhere. So feel free to join us in a second. And let's go back to the slides for the third recipient. If I manage to... Okay, thanks again. For the third recipient, so the jury award, for the several years of service to the community as a developer, presenter, speaker, and board member, and for all with reminding us there is life in Classic Unix outside the Linux kernel, the Academy 2021 jury awards goes to Adrián de Gruyte. So congratulations for the long-term contribution.  So I can see you here, coming. But before giving some voice to the winners, something they surely deserve together with a responsibility for the next year award, we always need to remember that the Academy doesn't... It's not created by itself. There are a lot of people who are working for months, even for a virtual one, which presents different kind of complexity than in present ones. So we don't really have the usual local team, but still we have a lot of people working. You can see us as a public faces, like, but I'm just a volunteer. There is a lot of work ongoing. So we have also the organization award going to the Academy team for their work on this Academy 2021. And I'm pretty sure everyone will agree that this went very, very, very well. So thanks for all the work in those months and all the behind-the-scenes work. Thanks. And now I really hope that someone will join me because I'm not... I don't know what else to say at this point. I can provide an history of all the past awards. No, no, no. We just really want to see, hear the voice, see the people if they are around and hear the voices. Things are happening. I see a lot of applause, claps, people exploding. I see the chat exploding with, wow, there is the... Loading chat. That's pretty good. Yeah. Hello, hey. Hello, Adrian. So who else want to join? I guess there is nothing more apart from the... I get to do the closing talk as well. Okay. But you can show yourself at this point, right? If you want. We have Paul and Alexander also joining. Oh, great. That's a great news. So all of them here. Thanks for showing them the way. This is all live. So no one knows the... Well, only like a limited number of people knows about the awards before the awards. So this is all live. Hello, hello. Hello. Yeah, my screen is over there and my webcam is over there. So that makes things a little difficult. Okay. But we will manage. Yeah. I was going to show off another very yellow t-shirt that I have, but now you've completely spoiled all my setup. I'm sorry for that. I appreciate it. Hello, Paul. Hello, Paul. Welcome. Hi. It's interesting because the moment... When you were saying it, I wasn't actually in the room. My son from the other room said, oh, congratulations. And I said, for what? Because I was telling Alexander. Alexander, congratulations. I went into the chat to tell him he had won. Because he didn't know either. And he was doing his own thing. So I would say, Alexander, come.   So he didn't hear his and I didn't hear mine because I was telling you. Seems legit. Okay. We have Alexander who, as you said, already joined. Alexander, you just need to change the way you are connected from the speaker only to... or listener only to speaker also. You just need to click. The interface is a bit... That's the only a bit awkward thing of big blue button or the things that people notice most. I think it's also partly the surprise you get to say something to. All those viewers out there. Yeah.  Right. If we start planning for a physical academy in 2022 already, then we need to figure out where the three jury members should meet. I mean, Paul is in the south of Spain. So that's a nice place to head to. But maybe Alexander has an even nicer location to offer us. Hi, guys. Can you hear me? Yes. I just rejoined. So let me check whether I can manage to activate my camera. I'm here. Hi. Hello, everybody. Hello. So we are everyone. Yes, it's a bit surprising for me. You know, I was joining my... So the end of my very busy week and I started Paul. So this was again, I think a Spanish red wine. You know, I was joining my evening and then Paul is writing to me. Alexander, congratulations. And I was, what's going on here? So if you could give me a short summary of what has happened, you know, short background, short context, so I can put the news into the proper context would be great. So I didn't, sorry, I did manage to go through the recent news and recent communication. Yes. So this is an application award for the Academy, which is the community award we give every year from the community to the community. And we have three categories. So you won the one for the application award for the work on Labplot. Great. So thanks for all the work there. It's one of the small jewels that maybe people don't know too much about still want to share something. Now that's the time for the some speech. Yes, maybe. So let me, let me maybe spend some, some time talking about this. So yes, it's a jewel, you know, but, and not so many people know about this. Okay. But we are in the process of changing this. And I think so with the help of people like, you know, what I mentioned last time during my talk at Linux app summit. So there are many people behind this scenes contributing also to this. Okay. And people like Paul and people doing, you know, all the CI stuff and so on and so on, so there are many people contributing to the success of our people. Okay. So this is not only the work of the core developers, but of all these contributors, you know, this is the advantage of being part of such a community. Okay. It's not a result of a contribution of one or two persons. Okay. So there's a whole community behind this. So this award is not only going to us directly. Okay. So thank you, of course, for this, for this, for this decision. Okay. But it's not only us. Okay. So there's a whole community. So there are many people contributing to this directly indirectly. So there are many people responsible for this, for this success, so to say. Okay. So, but yes, of course, a very surprising result. Thank you all for this. Okay. Thanks a lot for this appreciation. So I hope, you know, we will be able to continue working on this, you know, to keep this high bar of whatever goals and desires we set for us for this application. So I think this is just the beginning for us. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Well said, Alexander. That's wonderful sentiment. It is the community that makes things possible. And I see, and I see Fabian, Fabian commenting here. They chat, you know, so maybe for people who don't know this, so Fabian, Fabian was one of our Jesus students two, three, four years ago. Then he next year, he was one of our students who went and he next year, he even mentored. So he stopped being a student. Okay. He was done with the university and then so next year he became already a mentor, KDE mentor. So he mentored another student. So now he disappeared for one, two years, but I hope he will be back, so Fabian, the accounting on you. So we need you, right? So you don't disappear again. So we need you again. Okay. Well, hopefully not. But, you know, with people coming and going, so I'm going and coming back. So that's, thank you. So Paul, let's go in order. It's your time. Well, I am like Alexander. I'm totally completely surprised. I mean, I didn't even know that I would be eligible. All I can say is a lot. I mean, I do really honestly love this community. Although, and they have been connected to the community. Well, I have been a user of KDE software since 1998 or something like that. When I got it on Mandriva and it was amazing then and still amazing now. And I've never stopped using it. And I've been to the academies in Canarias before being part of KDE proper, let's say. And in Malaga and I've been to the academy. Yes. And I have tons of friends here. And this is really, I mean, this is really important for me. I must say. And I appreciate it a lot. So very softly speech, but there you go. Thank you. Thank you. Really, really thank you for all of the work. Even more than there are no eligibility things. I mean, that went far and beyond what was needed. So thanks again. Oh, hey. So I'm a dinosaur. And I think I'm being recognized as a dinosaur here, I think I have in my hand a business card, a KDE business card from 2008, I think, when I was on the board and I'm on the board again. So I keep coming back or I keep orbiting KDE in all kinds of different ways. And yeah, still happy to be here. And thank you for the recognition. I believe that this is also just a trick really by you and the Academy organization to make sure that I'm around next year and actually do something, do one of the things that I promise to do, because that's suspect. That's interesting. No, we decided totally in a separate way. So I can assure you that. But so thanks again for all those years of service. And let's see that they are not the last ones. So they will continue again. So thanks again. And so someone from the organization team. So I'd like to leave the screen to them to, for them to say something so that they can live happily and make sure things are going to the conclusion today. Yeah, people are calling the chemist. So I suspect that the thing they're going to say is, and are to close the Academy. Here's aid. Well, but I'll leave that to them. Let's see if I see some movement. So something is happening. So maybe we will see someone. Yeah. Hello again, Allison. I mean, I'm really just here to say and he was aid, but this is a team effort. And I would love if at least the counties could come up here because they do most of the hard work. And the infrastructure that was built for this year to help bridge into hybrid events for future academies. The work that they did was phenomenal. I'm joining because you believe me, Allison. Hey, welcome. Hi. So thanks again. So do you want to have some bit of speech, which is just not, here is aid. Well, welcome everybody. It's good to see all of you. Well, I don't really see all of you because you're over there on my screen and the webcam is over there, but I'd really like to thank the people running the show. That is Kenny, Kenny, Allison, Ciss admin is sort of in the shadows, but they are keeping the things running. Even when it is Allison and Kenny and Kenny that you see upfront as fronting the organization. So once again, thank you for your efforts this year and every year. And I hope to see all of you organizing next year again. With my board hat on. You just saw Dave doing the ball wrap up with an excellent actual hat on. This is a virtual one. Board hat on. I'd like to say a special thanks to our sponsors, Ambition, KDAB, the cute company or cute group, GitLab and Fedora for helping us run this thing, making Academy possible. I'd like to thank our keynotes, Patricia Oz and Jerry Ellsworth for providing a very interesting side channel to the conference. Patricia's title was I can't work like this, but I hope she can work with us. We're just about to wrap up Academy for 2021. That's the end of this event is not the end of our KDE work and there's upcoming events as well. I'd like to remind everyone, Alice already mentioned it, the 20 and oh, and Kenny, Kenny Coyle also mentioned it for the fundraising. KDE turns 25 on October 14th. So on October 14th, we should all be ready to party. That will mean our party hats. And if you haven't had enough Academy type flavors, there's Academy ES, the Spanish Academy, which runs every year. And this year it is November 19th to 21st. So those are our upcoming KDE events, our anniversary and Academy ES. I'm personally looking forward also to seeing another conf KDE in once we can travel and a physical Academy 2022. Thank you all for watching. Thank you all for speaking and participating in the buffs. And we'll see you next year. Cheers.


Hello there, it's Sandy Almak, artist and crafter here on YouTube, and today I'm going to be coloring a quote-unquote Dutch rabbit family.  I see them when I go to the fair every year, and I thought it would be fun to do them on an Easter card because I don't know that I've ever seen anybody do this kind of rabbit for an Easter card. And with these Anita Jerome stamps from Colorado Craft Company, I thought it would be fun. The colors are going to be listed over on the blog, so if you want to see what those are, you can check that out. These are Prismacolor pencils, and I'm coloring on a Neenah Environment Desert Storm. And it's just like Neenah paper. It's the same texture as the Neenah Solar White if you're used to using that, except it's brown, and it's got little flecks in it, so it looks very natural, even though it's just a flat manufactured paper. It's not a craft. You could do some things on craft, but I found a lot of the craft papers have something in them that makes them a little slicker. It's just kind of a weird thing, depends on which brand, but this one is at least very consistent because it's manufactured the same way as the Neenah is. I've stamped it in no-line ink, which on this paper comes out a little bit darker than it might on, say, a white paper. And I didn't have to stamp over it as many times because my ink pad I have refilled, but it just doesn't seem to get very dark, which is part of the idea. You want it to sort of disappear. So I'm going to be coloring over top of these lines in as much of an area, much of the areas as I can.  There's a lot of people that don't like this look, or they're not ready to try this look. That's perfectly fine, but I enjoy it. I find it a lot of fun. Now, a lot of people ask how do you color an animal when it has black in it?  And here I've got a black rabbit. And I need to find a way to create dimension within that black. Even though in a photograph you kind of see a wall of black, sometimes even an eye will disappear, you can still create some difference in it. I know where the stamp lines are. You can refer to the little sheet that comes with the stamps in order to see where that is, but I can create with a black pencil on top of a gray a bunch of dimension. And when I do that, I can make the ear in the back darker so that the ear in the front pops forward. Color in the center of the ear, so it sort of looks like they're bowl-shaped ears. All kinds of stuff that you can do to create dimension even though it's a black section of the animal. These particular Dutch bunnies, I don't know anything about rabbits, I'm just going to tell you that right up front. Probably going to say things wrong in this, but I did look up black and white rabbits. There's lots of different kinds of markings on them. And these are called Dutch markings. I don't think it's a Dutch breed, I think it's just Dutch markings.  They normally have like little smaller ears or kind of little portly bunnies. But you know, this is a card, so I hope anybody who is a bunny aficionado will forgive me for not having the right kind of bunny to be coloring in this. I'm trying to add some shading using the gray pencil on top of the white to create some difference between each of the planes of the rabbit tube. There's an arm, or do you call it an arm when it's an animal? Is it an arm with a paw or is it just the four legs? I don't know. I don't know what these things are called. I'm not an animal person in that kind of a way that I've studied those sorts of words. But nonetheless, I'm trying to create some difference so that one of the parts of the rabbit moves to the back, another moves to the front. There's a shadow under the chin, all that kind of stuff. It is important in trying to create some realism. The two little bunnies are going to be done the same way as mama bunny or daddy bunny, not sure which it is. I considered adding something grillish to the mama bunny just to say that it was a mama bunny, but I opted not to. But when you're doing no-line coloring, you could do that. You could add a bow to the mother's neck if you wanted to. Whereas it's a little harder to do that when you've stamped it in black and you're trying to rely on those lines to carry the whole image for you. But again, I'm doing the gray first, and then I'll add the black on top to create some dimension. And when I do my colored pencil work, I keep my pencils really sharp, and I use the quiet sharp pencil sharpener. I'll link that in the supplies. And it's a BMF. It's a giant, giant, giant machine, and it's not quiet. I don't know why they call it the quiet sharp. But it does have an auto stop, which means if you put your pencil in, and once it's sharp, it doesn't keep sucking your pencil in. It'll keep turning, but it won't keep eating at your pencil. And sometimes after that, if I want a super sharp point, a machine can only get it so sharp. So I'll take a handheld sharpener, just a little one. Almost any of them seem to be, they seem to work about the same. You can just take one or two turns in order to get that super, super, super fine sharp point. So if there's an area that you need an extra amount of detail, sometimes I keep that on hand to just keep my pencil really, really sharp in a particular area. You can see how I'm creating dimension in this little bunny's legs because I've made some roundness to that shape. It still looks like he's got a little black leg down there on the bottom half of him, but he's got some dimension in there. It's not just a solid black. And of course, adding some gray to give him a little bit of roundness in the whites all over him as well. And then there is a little bow on this bunny. So that's why there's a gap there. You may not be able to see that real well on camera. And there's mama's toes. And I filled in the leg behind there. I had forgotten to do that as well. So that helps to pull the little bunny on the right in front of the mama as well. So I gave him a little blue bow on the neck and then started coloring in each of the little Easter eggs. I debated whether to make them colored eggs, you know, like patterns and shapes on them. And this was so realistic, I thought I don't know that these bunnies would actually decorate their eggs. And I know I'm not going for hyper realism here because these eggs are not the right size for bunnies. If they were actually holding eggs, the eggs would be like uncariable by little bunnies. So since we're not going for realism, I decided I'm at least going to make them feel like, you know, the bunnies didn't do something other than color them. So they just have one color on them, not little details and stuff, but you could put that on yours if you wish. And then I'm giving a little bit of roundness and dimension to the basket as well. The basket will be darker on the inside and that sort of thing, then dark over on the left. And I'm trying to keep from drawing in too much of the detail, just do a few lines around one side, going horizontally and then a couple going vertically just to indicate the basket leave and leave it at that, not get too crazy about it. And then some grass. Now I had colored this once before I did this and I wrecked it because I chose too bright of a color for the grass. It was like this screaming bright green. And it stole all the attention. It just sucked the attention directly to the grass. So I put with a really soft green instead, a very muted neutral kind of green. And then added just a few little strokes of a brighter green, not the bright green that I had started with on the other one, but a few strokes of a brighter green just to pull a little bit of brightness out of it, but not enough to take over. Because when one element that isn't your main element starts to just go crazy, you need to pull that back if at all possible. So it's always good to test your colors. I thought I needed a brighter color on this craft paper, or this desert storm paper, because when you're coloring on a colored paper, most of your colors need to be a little bit on the opaque side.  I overdid that call when I did the grass, so everything else is much more simply done and that sort of thing. So you might wanna test on a scrap sheet of paper. So I added a few little clouds to the sky and then decided I was gonna take the sentiment and go over it with my colored pencils so it would just kind of go with everything and feel right. I would never try this if I were trying to use a font in the sentiment that was like computer driven. Now these might be computer driven, but they feel handwritten. So you can get away with doing that by hand, but if it's really sharp edges and stuff, I wouldn't bother with trying to do that. If you are a lover of all things bunny, then you're in luck because all week long, I have videos planned with bunnies in them. Yay for that, make sure you're subscribed so you get those in your inbox, click the little bell so that you will be reminded when one of my videos goes live as well as you can go to the inspiration tab on my blog and find all of the bunny videos that I've ever made. They're all in one place in all different mediums just for you. All right, thanks so much for clicking the like button and I will see you again very soon with more bunnies. Bye-bye.


The project is called Happy Place, and what I plan on doing for the rollout, it's gonna be next month, right? So what I'm gonna do is have, like, create these teaser trailers, right? And what I'm gonna do, my new brand, in a sense, will be like me being my own therapist, in a sense. And I'm gonna make these cinematic therapy sessions. They consider it like a skit to each of these songs, but like it's a teaser conversation between myself. When somebody watches that teaser and they're like, oh shoot, he's gonna be talking about the rapper versus radio. I have like different songs, I'm gonna tell you about that. But like different talking points or subject matter that this project's gonna address. So leading up to the drop, they'll be looking forward to it. It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! It's the network! So the question is, who, like, who am I gonna target now, in a sense, because I feel like my bank, this is not a Bangladesh crowd music. And I don't, they won't be my, like for this music, it's not gonna be that fan base. And I'm trying to figure out, do I entertain, like as marketing goes, do I entertain them or try to move to this area, which is what I've been trying to do for a while, like the American fan base that I'm trying to develop? Well yeah, I mean, target the people you think are, that are gonna like it. And then you say you wanna move that brain direction, this is the opportunity. So, you know, reverse engineer, think about the people that it sounds like, it sounds like you already did that to the extent enough and all those people. For the skits, you probably would be better off marketing them more heavily after the song was released. So don't. So you might drop them beforehand, but don't really bring the hype.  So a lot of these, like people make popular music and then it pops off on TikTok. But this song is much more like emotional, more conceptual, more transparent, right? So how does something like that translate over to TikTok? I was thinking about doing like a live performance of it, maybe like a minute of it or verse of it, but like I'm trying to grasp that. I'm forcing man, everything isn't for TikTok. You might have a song that's for TikTok, this might not be the one. I haven't heard it yet, but if you're already getting that feeling, it's probably not for TikTok at the very least. You said you did this therapy session back and forth type thing. So maybe you create some TikTok videos along the lines of that concept and hope that that part, those videos go viral and bring attention to the song and you. As far as marketing things goes, best way to bring the traffic to Spotify. Like we, it's an EP, right? Now it's not like a single that one person. I mean, most people just gonna listen to the first few songs and then be done with it. And that's why it's kind of like a hard way to drive the traffic onto Spotify. I mean, running ads, man, you need a fan link for one or a tone-den link. Do you use any of that stuff? I'm aware of them. I used them before. Okay. So you, at this point, because of the amount of ads that you run, you should go ahead and get one of those, run those and let that be your center point in between Spotify. You don't need to keep running stuff into Spotify and not being able to retarget or truly understand what's happening. This is not the album or project that's gonna blow me up. It's just gonna keep my fans and introduce a new audience to a new side of me. You have to realize, man, yeah, every song has a different fingerprint. You can't market everything, the exact same logo. There's some that happen multiple days. Get a certain formula. If this one is that different, then you need to look for other songs that were conceptual and look at where those songs got placed, all right? Who talked about them in your category and then start reaching out or getting them placed in those areas. Is there leading up to some kind of rollout like this, whether it's pre or post? Is there something that I should look out for that I didn't consider? I'm like trying to like cover all bases, heading into this. Yeah, I think you just need to, if it has that concept, you need to just amplify that concept. You can take that, create memes around it. When I say meme, I don't mean funding necessarily, but the caption and that makes people question what's going on in the theme.  The page, the YouTube page Jubilee does a very good job with that. Jubilee, I remember Jubilee. It's the one that like they have like people and they try to guess who's not the millionaire or things like that, right? All types of social experiments. Yeah. It sounds like your concept was going to play in some conversation point space. So look at what they've done and then figure out how to mold that for your own conversation. And then also look at this artist's name, Yellow Pain. He does an excellent job of that as well. And then figure out how you can mold that around your conversation. And then distribute it there. But you need to really hone in on the narrative because for those types of songs is either highly visual and that's a large part of our people. Like how you create more of a viral effect or impact with it or it's just the narrative of the concept and being able to communicate that well over and over again.