Well, that was quite an intro. Shout out to Pop. He made that video for me. Alrighty, welcome everyone to the very first episode of .edu. And this is for the students by a student. And this is the very first episode, so I'm super excited to be presenting this to you. I am a student right now, so I'm gonna be graduating next year and we're gonna be talking more about that. But all the opportunities that I have gotten and all the experiences that I've gotten, so many amazing people that I have met. Open source community and to be more specific, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has played a very crucial role in that. And that is what this particular show is about. So we're gonna be sharing about how to use students or even if you're not a student, if you're a beginner, let's say, and you wanna get involved in the community, how you can do that, how you can connect with other people. There are so many amazing resources that the CNCF has provided us. And that is something that we're gonna be sharing in this particular talk. So before we get started, see a hundred plus people have already joined. Make sure you hit the follow button for it so that you don't miss out any updates of all the other amazing shows that we have. And yeah, let's get started. Let me just quickly share my screen, believe it or not, I made this PPT today. All right, so .edu, your time is now. So for those of you who don't know me, my name is Kunal, I'm a junior from India. Well, my exams got over last week, so I'm a senior now, I believe. And I'm gonna be projecting next year and I study computer science and engineering and I'm from New Delhi, which is the capital of India. So a little bit about me. I'm your friendly neighborhood open source dude. That's me giving a conducting a workshop on Docker when I was in my sophomore year. And I will talk more about public speaking and how it can help you and how everyone, how basically when I say everyone, I literally mean everyone. It does not matter if you know coding or not.  And every contribution counts. So yeah, I've been a little bit more, like a little bit about me. I've been contributing to open source since my freshman year. So I started contributing to a Q and A decline of Java. And then I did my Google Summall code in that. And that's when I realized that when I first saw that particular project, I was like, oh, this is a really big project. How am I going to contribute? And now remember that I was in my freshman year. So I was like, I can't do this. Now this is not going to happen. But that's when the community came in, when I got a few PR members, then I realized that if it wasn't for the community, it would have been really difficult for me to actually contribute to these projects. So they were really supportive and nice and they guided me, for example. So we'll talk more about that later. But that's how my basically open source journey started. And I never looked back. So I started helping other people as well. So to partner mentorship programs, started conducting local programming boot camps as a teaching assistant instructor, conducting workshops across Indian colleges. That's when I also got to meet the Kubernetes community. So went to KubeCon in 2019, which was the last in-person KubeCon, believe it or not, it's been two years. So that's pretty much about me. I love teaching and I love playing video games, listening to music. So yeah, that's pretty much. All right, so my journey with Cloud Native, which is what we are here for. So how did I decide, you know, a student right from the freshman year, never heard about Kubernetes, never heard about Docker, how did I decide that I wanted to contribute to these projects that I wanted to go in this domain? To be quite frank with you, I only knew Java and a little bit of Maven and stuff, like build tools. And I was just one day attending an event in my city. There was some open source event, I believe, happening in near my house. So I went over there and they were speaking about open source and stuff. And they were sharing about all these programs, like Google Summer of Code, Outreach and stuff. So I was like, that looks pretty cool. What is open source? Like you have so many big projects and we'll talk more about that later. So basically I did not have much idea about that. So all I knew was, okay, I attended this workshop and basically, you know, we have such large scale projects that people around the world are using. And that person told me that you can contribute to these projects. I'm like, get out of here. Are you sure I can contribute to these projects? There's Linux kernel or like Kubernetes or, you know, so many other projects. So that is when I realized that they told me a very good thing that open source is everywhere. Even if you're not a developer, you're using it in one way or another. I'm like, how? They were like, well, you use an Android phone. Android has an open source operating system. For watching videos, I used to use VLC for example. So that was also open source, Firefox and other stuff. So I was like, yeah, it need is everywhere. And I was like, okay, cool, I'll see what I can do. Then I went home and I was like, okay, I only know Java. How am I going to contribute to projects related to Java? So I just went to some website and started Googling about it. That's when I found the Kubernetes Java client by Red Hat Middleware, JVOS community. I was like, okay, this looks, well, to be quite frank, I was like, well, this is not going to work out. Because that particular project, you can see that project right now as well, it's very big. And I was like, I don't know what Quarkus is. I don't know what Kubernetes is. I don't know what Docker is. What am I going to do? So I just went on the mailing list and I was like, hey, I'm a freshman and I just know a bit about Java. I would really love to contribute to your project because I want to learn more. So I was like, yeah, cool. That sounds good to us. And then they pointed me to some resources. They shared a little bit about the docs and stuff. I also started attending a few meetings. I asked my doubts over there. That's when I started with good first issues, beginner-friendly issues. And that's how the complexity grew. And then I did my Google Summer Code with the same project. That's how basically my journey started. Believe it or not, my first pull request in that project was deleting a file. So I literally did not do anything. I just deleted a file and opened a pull request. And initially I thought, well, are they going to take this seriously? And they did. So that gave me a little bit of motivation that every contribution counts and the work that I'm doing is actually being appreciated. So it does not matter if you're a beginner or not, if there's something that you can do for the community, which we'll talk more about later. So if you're just joining in, in this particular session, I also definitely want to share some action items with you. Because that's the best kind of sessions when you have something to follow up after this session. So in the end, I'll be sharing a few 7 to 8 programs and mentorship programs, internships, and all these other scholarships and stuff that are provided by the CNCF that you can take part in. And I've also personally been a part of these few. And to be honest, it was really helpful to me. So that is basically how I decided that I wanted to do Kubernetes. I did not really decide that. I was like, okay, I'm just looking for Java projects and I found that. And I then really loved Kubernetes. So then my GSOC mentor also told me like, hey, there's this thing called KubeCon. Since you're working with Kubernetes and stuff, you should definitely go check out KubeCon. So then I failed the KubeCon diversity scholarship form. And then I got to meet everyone, like nice, nice people in San Diego in 2019. So that was like, another best experiences of my life. By the way, the KubeCon North America virtual, it's free for all the students. So make sure you fill the form. It's on, I'll share it with the CNCF students' Twitter handle. So basically I'll share, it has been shared over there. So just you can find that and you can fill the form and you can get a free ticket for the virtual KubeCon North America in October. Alrighty, challenges that I faced. This is a very dramatic picture that I clicked in the San Diego port. So I thought it might look cool here. Might be wrong, might not be wrong. You tell me. So let me know in the chat. So challenges that I faced as a beginner. Right of the bat, I was overwhelmed at first. So basically, I was like, the thing I mentioned already, taking a very big project and I'm like, how am I going to work with this? And there's this thing called the imposter syndrome that, okay, so many big, so many advanced and pro-level people are working on this project. Like literally, the GitHub looked like a garden. The map looked like a garden. I'm like, I don't compare with them. I can't do this. So that was one of the feelings initially that I had. And if you want to contribute to large-scale open source projects, oftentimes this is something that I get asked quite a lot. And I'm sure you can relate as well if you have ever looked into a larger project. And that is that the code base is really large. Like, hey, this code base is huge. Where do I start? How do I understand the entire thing? So all of these questions were in my mind as well. I'll go through how I resolve these one by one. So asking help, very important. Communication is key in open source. So all these big projects that are really active, they have, for example, mailing list and group chats, for example, Slack or Gitter, whatever that might be. So you can join that. You can ask your questions in the public channel.  First one is that when you're first starting out with a project, right? So let's say you have picked up a project. Speaking of picking up a project, you can attend meetups for that. We'll also share like the entire, we have a really nice guest speaker today who's gonna be sharing the entire landscape of CNCF with you as well and a little bit more about the CNCF glossary. So that will make things more clear regarding how to actually find projects. Let's imagine you have found a project. Then first of all, communication is key. Make sure you join the mailing list and the Slack channel and whatever. And before actually contributing, you can try to use that project as a user. So you find it difficult to contribute to if you don't know what the project does. So try to use it. If you face any questions, if you face any issues, if you have any questions, ask those in the public channel and try to set it up on your local system. Try to run all the test cases. There's a few ways by which you can get started. Second point, look for the beginner-friendly issues. Now, beginner-friendly issues are basically issues that not many people are, that are like relatively easy to solve. If you are not able to find good first issues in the GitHub issues tab, so it will be like low hanging fruit or something, difficulty easy or something. You can just filter out with the tags. If you're not able to find that, you can just go on to the Slack channel or whatever and you can say, hey, I'm a newcomer. Can you maybe suggest me some beginner-friendly issues? So shout out to the Cades community. There's an in-depth channel where they are dims and everyone they share. Regularly they share Kubernetes beginner-friendly issues. So I would highly recommend joining that in case you're interested in contributing to Kubernetes. It's a very nice resource. And they also help you a lot in getting started, which we'll talk more about later on.  First time you're looking at a very big project, but I believe the imposter syndrome thing, this is what I'm gonna end this slide with. It does not mean that, see imposter syndrome does not mean that I don't know anything. This is a very important point for you all. Imposter syndrome means that I know something else and they are working on something else. So to sum up, if you find yourself in a place where you don't know much about a particular project and you're a student, let's say, then it's a good thing. Take it as a positive thing. Now you're asking me, Kunal, why? Well, because you'll get to learn a lot and you'll also get to contribute. So win-win, right? Imagine you're contributing to just one single project that let's say you're a student and you're just contributing to very basic project that is actually let's say no one is using and it's like no one is actually using that and it's not even that complex and you're not basically learning anything new. So are you really growing as compared to as much you could grow if you were working on a real-world project that, say, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Thanos, all the other CNCF projects or even, let's say, not CNCF projects, other open-source projects, you know? So if you face these challenges, you are on the right track. So you have a great learning opportunity ahead of you and the community is there to help you. That rhymed. I can rhyme as well. All right, so community to the rescue. I mentioned this already. This is a picture of all these scholarship winners and everyone in North America 2019. So basically, whenever you get stuck, this is another important point, how to ask questions, right? So before asking the question, Google is your friend. So try to Google that error and if you're not able to resolve that, then just go to the public channel. Ask in the public channel. I don't like sending DM to everyone. Imagine if 100 students wanted to contribute to a project and all the 100 students started, you know, sending a DM to the maintainer. So that would not be good. So basically ask your question in the public channel and that is going to help you as well because more people will see your message. Hence, your doubts will get resolved very fast. Last point over here is ask good questions. So basically, yeah, so ask good questions. So basically, don't just say, hey, I'm not able to understand this. Actually put out some resources like, hey, this is what I'm trying to do. This is the error that I'm facing and this is how I resolved this. Can you maybe suggest me how I can get started? So now the person actually has enough context. So basically help them help you. Just give me a second. All right. So what is open source? So open source is basically, there are a few licenses to projects, right? So depending on the licenses, it may be free. It may not be free, but the code is like available on GitHub. For example, free as into access for modifying. So let's say open source isn't like Android is, let's say an open source operating system, but many other companies are using that. For example, let's say Linux is an open source kernel and we have so many operating systems and distros that use it under the hood. So that is basically the idea that according to the license may be free to use, may not be free to use, but free as into access to modify and a good open source community. It's basically like inclusive, free as in for anywhere and people can contribute, they can modify it. And one more thing I would like to mention over here is that a good open source community is an inclusive community. So basically every contribution counts. If you check out the Kubernetes community days, it's like spread across the world. So you have KCD, Bangalore and Africa and in North America and all these other regions around the world. So basically that's the idea for you as a student, the best part about open source is like the cooperation and the community because you're gonna get to learn a lot. All right, so that was quite a lot of information. I'll be answering a few live questions as well. So make sure you send all your questions in the chat and also make sure you give a follow to the Twitter. Sorry, not Twitter. If you could do Twitter as well, that'd be great. Make sure you follow the Twitch channel. So button right here somewhere, follow. And so that you will be notified of all the amazing streams. You can also see the schedule over there, right? So we have like so many nice amazing shows. So .edu is one of the shows. We have so many other amazing shows that you saw in the introduction. All right, so what is CNCF? So as you can see over here, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution. So containers are basically, let's say your application are running in isolated environments. Maybe in the future, we'll do another workshop on that. But you might have heard about virtual machines. So containers, for example, it's not a this or that question, like containerization versus virtualization. This is not a technical talk right now. So maybe we'll have a separate one on that later. And I would also recommend checking out all the other shows that have covered such content related to more technical stuff. So basically, it's focused on container technology in the Cloud. And it also serves as a vendor natural home for many of the projects, which is something we'll talk about next. So so many open source projects come under the CNCF. So you might have heard about like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Hanoz, Envoy, so many other projects. So speaking of projects, we have a really amazing guest speaker with us, Catherine. So I'm just gonna stop sharing my screen and add Catherine to the show. Hey, Catherine, how's it going? Hey, very good. Thanks for inviting me, Kunal. Thanks a lot for joining. I really appreciate it. When I first saw the CNCF landscape, I was like, what is that? It's like, you have played that game called Where's Waldo? So we could do that with the CNCF landscape, like where's this project? Find it in the puzzle. So basically, that is what Catherine is gonna be speaking about. So we're gonna be going through all the, what does the domain look like? What is it glossary? So for example, as a student, you might feel overwhelmed listening to these big terms. Like we just saw one, right? Container. So many people who might not know about containers, but like, dude, what are you speaking about? You said this was a beginner's talk and you're speaking about all these big, big terms. So thanks a lot for joining, Catherine. Before we get started, would you like to tell the viewers a little bit more about yourselves? Sure. So yeah, I'm Catherine Paganini. I am the head of marketing and community at Boyant. That is the creator of LinkerD, one of the CNCF projects. I'm also the co-chair of the Business Value Subcommittee and that's the group that created the glossary. And just because we were talking about students participating and so on, we actually have a LinkerD maintainer. His name is Tarun from India, who started as a student, right? Like he was a student. He started getting involved. He contributed to the project and we hired him. So that is also, I mean, of course that's like the perfect path, but it is a real path. Like so it's not only for learning, but it can actually become a career. So very much in line of what you're saying. So yeah, get involved. Yep. Well, definitely. And shout out to Tarun. I know him as well. And he has been doing some good sessions with CNCF students. I can give you so many names. There's like Nabarun. I believe Nikita who was a GSOC student and so many amazing people who are now, let's say, maintainers of these projects that they were first mentees. So make sure you stay till the end of this workshop and this session because I'll be sharing about all these mentorship programs and resources that you can also do because we were also beginners once, right? And we utilize these resources at CNCF provides. So Catherine, all yours. Maybe you can start by sharing the screen and explaining about the glossary and landscape to the students. Sure. Okay. Share. Okay, let me know when you can see my screen. I believe it's visible. Okay, so, well, first of all, like a little bit what it is, right? Like, so this is a, so this is a- Yeah, just before we get started, if you could zoom in a little bit, that'd be great. Yep. So let me just do this. Oh, this works too much. My computer is kind of going a little slow right now. Is that fine? Yeah, it looks good to me. Okay, great. So first of all, like what is it? So the CNCF, as you may know, has like different groups that create like different projects. So the business value subcommittee is one group that wants to create content around business value, but also educating people on cloud native technologies, especially specifically people who are just getting started, right? And so the glossary is the first project that we created and it has two goals. First of all, create, well, agree on definitions. People sometimes talk about different technologies in different ways. So we wanna really make sure that we are all talking about the same thing in the same way. And the other goal is explaining it in a way that is very easy to understand, even for people who are not technical. And why is that so important? I mean, as you probably have a realized cloud native adoption has really skyrocketed. And business people too need to understand what it is so they can actually talk to their engineering team. So that's basically why we're creating this. And we first, and so you can find it here on GitHub. We first launched a PDF for KubeCon EU. So you can see it here with 25 terms. So you can see and download it here. You see here the different terms and the way we basically break it down each term into what it is, the problem it addresses and how it helps. And that is, yeah, the first thing that we created. And now for KubeCon North America, we wanna create a dynamic website that basically feeds from this repository. So if you want to participate, and this is like an easy way to contribute to the CNCF project, you don't even need to be a coder. So of course, you're familiar with GitHub so you find the issues here. But the best way to see is to go to the project board. So we have here our project board. And you will see here, here are the things that are in review. Here are the things that people are already working on. Here are the things that are up for next release. So if you wanna work something that we wanna press or work on tackle next, pick something here. You can also always add an issue for something that you think that we should add. It may go into the backlog or we may put it here. But if you want something that gets like addressed fairly quickly, pick one of these. So yeah, I mean, it would be really great if anyone would contribute. I think it's fun, it's easy to get started. And maybe later, once you're familiar with all the terms, just join the Linkerdee community or any other one. A few questions a few students might have is actually how do we get started with the contributions in glossary? Yeah, you pick one of the issues and you say like you wanna contribute and then we assign it to you. Don't pick more than one because we don't want people to kind of like block like five terms and then just, because sometimes work it in the way and you're not able to do that. So pick one, finish that one. There may be like some feedback from the maintainers and then once that is done, then pick the next one. Any other questions or we can move to a landscape? There's one more question. So we can see issues over here and projects over here. So Rahul is asking, do we check out the issues or the projects? So this is the project board. So they're all issues, right? So the project board simply, these are issues. So this is exactly the same thing that's here, right? So all these issues, we pull them into the board so we can visualize it. I think the board is something fairly new in GitHub. So maybe not everyone is familiar with it, but it's really nice, oops, it's really nice because you can put the different verticals and then you can see where everything is, whereas here, you see all the issues and you would have to click and you see like, so it's really easy to see where, what is, but it's basically, these are all issues. Yeah, most definitely. So in project boards, you have like the issues linked to the, also we can also link like PRs and stuff. So yeah, all righty. Thanks a lot for the shout out everyone in the chat. Don't see any more questions, I believe we can move forward. Okay. Now for the main part. Okay, so I know this is very tiny right now, but we have to show the whole thing because I'm sure you've seen this, it's the CNCF landscape and it's pretty massive. And if you feel overwhelmed, you're probably not alone, because it's like, it's all these little projects. So where do you even get started? But once you understand how it's organized, it becomes a lot easier to navigate it. So let's just have a look of how this works. First of all, if we have down here, service providers and training partners. So these are companies that help other people adopt cloud native technology. So it's not necessarily, so it's not technology. So it's not really part of that. There are simply people helping other people. But we see here four layers and two columns. And these are the ones that are part of the technology ecosystem. So in the layers, we see provisioning, runtime, orchestration and management, app definition and development. And we're really kind of starting with the infrastructure and moving up the stack up to application tooling. So that's how it is organized, right? Each of these layers is grouped into different categories, right? So let's look at orchestration and management because that's where our famous project Kubernetes is. So it is part of the scheduling orchestration category. And then you see there are also other projects that do similar things. Then you have orchestration and service discovery, remote procedure call, service proxy, API gateway and service mesh. And if we go and maybe let's now zoom a little in, it's very slow. Okay, maybe one more time. Okay, so we see all these different boxes, right? And they look different, right? So we see there are white boxes and gray boxes. White means it's an open source project. Gray means it is proprietary. White does not necessarily mean it's a CNCF project. It may just be a company that has an open source project. Then we see big boxes here. The big boxes are CNCF projects and they are, you can see it here. The helm, for instance, is a graduated project and build pack is an incubating project. And the CNCF basically has three types of projects, sandbox, then incubating and graduated. And that kind of reflects the maturity, right? Like a project starts with as a sandbox project and then as it matures, it becomes an incubating project. And at some point when the CNCF says it's like a very mature project, it becomes graduated. So, but where are the sandbox projects here? It's basically not, there is no way for you to see here, right? You have like only these two and then these are either gray or white. So to see sandbox projects, you have to go to the cart mode or just click on this section here to see the more information about these projects here. And here you see a little bit more information and you see these light blue boxes. And these are the sandbox projects, right? So you have here, these are white. So these are open source as well, but here you see the company that owns them and here these are now owned by the CNCF. Here again, you see a graduated project and this is how the incubating projects look like. Okay, let's move back. There's a question. Maybe we can also go through it briefly, like what are sandbox projects what are graduated incubating? Yeah, I don't know too much to be honest about how were they have to be, but like sandbox is really the very first step. And it's not, it's probably a little bit of experimentation seeing how if they're getting adopted first, they're not really, that's kind of the first stage, right? And then I'm not sure what like the CNCF has very defined things that you have to do to become to each next step. So you'd have to look there. I mean, but it basically means the higher up the more mature, graduated being like the most mature face you can get, yeah, according to the CNCF. Yep, it's like the entry point of the project, right? The sandbox, then you have incubating and then you have the graduated ones, yeah, makes sense. Yeah, and you may have like projects here that are from different companies that are still belong to them. And then at some point they donate them to CNCF and then they would probably, if they're small starters sandbox. Okay, so these are the layers. And then you see suddenly, you know, like if you look at it, this is like, wow, huge. But if you look at it now, and you know exactly where you're looking at, you have like as much smaller group. So it becomes a lot easier. Even like here databases, which has like a lot of tools. I mean, you're looking a lot less projects and products than if you see the whole landscape, which is pretty overwhelming. Okay, so let's look at the columns here. So first we have observability analysis. And why is this a column? That is because you need to monitor your entire stack, right, across all layers, right? And because it runs across all layers, these tools are a column. Platforms are a little different because they basically bundle together different technologies across these layers into one platform. So they pre-configure and fine tune it really making it a lot easier for companies to adopt Cloud Native because you could whatever these tools do, you can all do it with this tools, right? Like it's all in here already. But like being able to do that requires a lot of know-how, engineering capacity, and so on, not every company has that. So this is like a really nice way to speed up Cloud Native adoption. So yeah, a little different there. So that's basically the Cloud Native landscape on a very high level. Thanks a lot for sharing, Catherine. Cool, so basically I don't think there's a single person who knows every single project in the landscape. Is there? I don't think so. I would be very impressed. Yeah, that would be very impressive. All right, cool. Well, thanks a lot for sharing, Catherine. Is there anything else you would like to share with the students? No, no, I think just like what you said, right? Like it's really important to get involved early on. It can become a career. If it doesn't become a career, you're really learning lots of qualification that are super important. And I think if one thing that the whole COVID thing has done is accelerating the whole work from home, like basically like the whole, it's become such a like, we don't have borders anymore, specifically in the Cloud Native space. So people can work from everywhere. So it's like, it's one thing. Like if you become part of the community, if you learn, you know, like if you learn English too, like English is also like a very important language. So for all the students who come from countries that don't speak English, it is important to learn that and to learn the skills as well. And yeah, just get involved and yeah. Yeah, do it. Definitely, could not agree more. Well, thanks a lot for joining, Catherine. Really, really appreciate you joining. And thanks a lot for sharing all the insights with the students. And yeah, really, really appreciate it. Once again, thanks a lot. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Alrighty, so I believe that was a great introduction to the, you know, CNCF landscape. Speaking of which, if you wanna learn about what each of these, we saw so many projects, right? And you might be, okay, these are so many projects. What, how do we get started? How do I know which project does what? So Sayum, who's also a really good friend of mine and he has a playlist and he also has his own show in the community. But this is a playlist that he has called CNCF Minutes. So I've just shared it in the chat and basically the idea is that explain what a particular project does in as simple language as possible. So in like two minutes and three minutes. So basically that's the idea. All right, if I'm doing a plug, then check out all the people. See, in the cloud native world, there are so many amazing people doing great work in the community. So there's Anayis and there's, you know, Popcast, Pop. Rocker, Rocker, Rockeradmi, I forgot the name. Dave, there was some Academy, I forgot the name. Anyway, Pop and everyone is in the chat, so maybe they can share all the nice links. So yeah, let's get back to the presentation. Cool, check out, yeah, Rockeradmi of David, nice. Cool. So now to the interest more, like the part that you were waiting for. Here we go. Resources, interesting part, like what people, mostly people, you know, get, send me the questions for like, what are the resources? How do we get started, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Alrighty. So first one, these are like a few resources in this side that I'm going to share. So these are like basically mentorship programs, scholarships, internships you can be a part of. All of these are by CNCF. And after this, I'll also take some live questions. So make sure you send me all the questions in the chat. So for those of you who are interested in research, there's a program by CNCF called Cross Research Experience Program. So it's, as you can see on the screen, it provides support for undergraduate and graduate students contributing to the cross incubator projects. And the goal of the program is to, you know, build the community in terms of like, you know, the research and, you know, basically working with incubator, cross incubator projects and promoting the research among university students. So basically you can either be an undergraduate student or a graduate student. So one more thing about this is that Cross is being announced like in 2021. They're taking part for the very first time. Share all the links in the, I'll share all the links in the chat after these slides. The next one is LFX mentorship. This is the one that I was also a part of. So previously it was known as Community Bridge. It's an online internship program by Linux Foundation and CNCF also takes part in this. So LFX mentorship, you can think of it as like GSOC as a service. So any company wants to, you know, have mentorship programs, they apply to LFX. So for example, CNCF also applies to LFX and then they, you know, have their projects that, you know, they get started with. So basically it's a developed by Linux Foundation and it's basically students or mentees get to contribute to open source projects. So in the client-oriented company foundation, there's so many, you know, CNCF projects that we just looked into. Few of those take part in this particular mentorship program. Now, what is special about this? Special about this, that special thing about this is that you don't have to be a student, right? So if you're not a student, you can still contribute. If you're a working professional, you can still take part. Alrighty, next is outreach-y program. So this is basically supporting diversity in type. So CNCF takes part in the outreach-y program for a few hosted projects. These are also like open source projects. For example, Kubernetes has been participating in the outreach-y program for a few years now. And yeah, it's a great program. I know some great people who have done this. I was just looking at the stats and I saw Ellen did this in 2017. So like really nice, you know, so many nice people basically on Twitter in the cloud-native world. So example, like there are other people like, you know, we mentioned Nabar, Nikita, and Savita, and so many other people who were, you know, who started also as like, you know, like students, for example. So outreach-y is also something you can take part in. And I'll also share the link in the description later on. It's similar to GSOC, but I believe around a handful of students are selected. One thing I wanna share about all of these programs, that is also, you know, this is really important to share. Don't worry about whether you will get selected or not, okay? So these programs are not like really about, you know, actually getting selected. It's actually about staying with the community after the period is over. So they're looking for actually, you know, these organizations are looking, these, the programs are looking for people who are passionate about open source. They're not just there for the program. So the thing that I would recommend is that try to give your best, try to show interest in the particular project and learn as much as you can, build your skills, contribute to that project or whichever one you're interested in, irrespective of whether you get selected or not. And that is the sort of mindset that is going to take you to places. So obviously, if you're an active open source contributor, your application also gets, you know, enhanced. But the end-term motivation should not be like, oh, I will only contribute if I get selected in these programs. No, that should not be the motivation. Motivation should be that I will contribute to these programs irrespectively and I will definitely give my best because you can contribute to these, you know, CNCF projects irrespective of whether you get selected or not. So no one is going to say like, hey, you can't contribute to Q and it is because you're not a part of this mentorship program. So that is not going to happen. It's open to all and everyone can contribute. Alrighty. Cool. So Google season of docs, this is for people who really like contributing to documentation for technical writers. So basically, if there's one thing a project cannot get enough of, it's good documentation. So if you're into writing good documentation, this is the program for that. Next one is Google Summer of Code. Everyone knows about this. It's been running for the past 16 years, I believe. And CNCF also takes part in this particular program. And yeah, a lot of organizations take part around 200 plus, I believe CNCF is one of them. So it's a, I believe no introduction is required for Google Summer of Code. Everyone is aware of it. But if you're not, you can go to the website SummerofCodewithGoogle.com. So now some of the mentee stats for all of these programs at CNCF takes part in. So example, in 2017, for the very first time, only eight mentees were there. In 2018, also only eight mentees were there around the world. In 2019, we see a jump around 20 mentees were there. And last year, 71 mentees were there from all of these programs. And now in 2021, it's like half the cycle. We have already 55, I think we're gonna cross a hundred. So I'm gonna share the link shortly and then you can go and all the information is given over their timeline, how to apply, whom to reach out to links to the projects, everything you need, you can find over there. Other than that, you can join the CNCF Slack. And in the CNCF Slack, there's a mentoring channel. So make sure you join that. And in the Kubernetes Slack, there's a students channel. So make sure you join that. The next one is the release team shadows. So release team, basically Kubernetes has its own releases, right? Currently 1.22 is going on. So they have the release cycles. And in order to train, there are few basically release team leads. So in order to release the version of Kubernetes, a lot of people are required in a lot of fields, like communications, API, documentation, so many other things, so enhancements. So basically we need people who can sort of like coordinate all of these tasks. So you have like the release team leads and who basically coordinate the entire release process. And the shadows are basically people who volunteer to learn more about how a release team lead functions. So that for the future releases, they can become release team leads. Currently, I'm a release team lead for, release team not lead, sorry. I'm a release team shadow for 1.22 for comms. So yeah, basically learning a lot and working on documentation and stuff. It's a great learning experience. You don't have to know any coding or anything for so many like the comms and stuff, but you should definitely have the open mind to learn and explore. The next one is KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. This is a picture that I took in San Diego. So you can see thousands of people under one roof. I am not sure when we are going to be back like this. And it's fine, precautions are important. So let's just wait. All you can do is waiting. But it's really one of the largest conferences in the world. So basically as a student, you get a lot of nice resources. So you have like the sponsors whom you can reach out to. You can reach out to some amazing speakers. You can attend workshops and you can network with a lot of people. In Inthperson, KubeCon, there was also like a lot of amazing networking opportunities. I met some really nice people. Got to learn about a lot of nice projects. There's also the Kubernetes contributor workshops over here, like the basic one and the intermediate one. Not sure if they're doing it right now in the next one. Previously we used to have. So basically if you want to check out the recordings for that Kubernetes contributor summit, check out that on YouTube. So just make a simple YouTube search. You can find that Kubernetes contributor summit. And over there you can find the entire process. They're explaining about what a SIG is, how to be a part of a SIG, path to known code contributions. Basically everything is mentioned over there. From first starting with a project to getting your pull request merged. There's a really nice playlist. I'll share that shortly as well. But yeah, KubeCon itself is a vibe. It's amazing and the next one is like hybrid.  Alrighty, that was it about my presentation. Shared a lot of links with you. So I shared a lot of opportunities with you. Now let me just share the link real quick. And let me just stop my screen sharing. So I'm gonna take a minute, just give me a second. So it's actually CNCF slash mentoring. There we go, got it. So here you go. This is the link contains all the programs that I mentioned about, right? So all the programs that I mentioned about are given in this link. All right, cool. So let's now take a few questions. Let me just crawl up a little bit. See if I see any nice questions over here. How can we join the meetings? Sorry for the silly question. It is not a silly question. This is a very valid question. And I also had this doubt, like where are the meeting links? Are they going to magically appear? No. So basically whatever project that you are a part of, you can check out their readme file. In the readme file, you can maybe find the link to the mailing list and stuff. If you join the Google group or something of these projects, most of the time that's the case, then you will automatically get an invite in your calendar. At least that's how it happens with Kubernetes. So for other projects, I would recommend directly reaching out on the public channel, like, hey, I'm a beginner. I would love to attend if you have any, you know, weekly meetings or regular meetings. So you can just ask your question. Feel free to ask. All right. You can definitely lower the quality of Twitch in your settings. So yeah. Keep the questions coming. Okay, so many questions. My chat is like going, what is the most beginner-friendly CNCF project for coding contribution? I would not worry about that. So you should not limit your mind to beginner-friendly contributions because even the most biggest projects, the most complex projects in CNCF have beginner-friendly issues. Kubernetes is one of the largest projects in the world and you have issues that do not even require any coding. How much more beginner-friendly do you want? So definitely you can contribute to large-scale open source projects as a beginner is what I'm saying. And once again, if you have just joined, make sure you follow the Twitch, you know, this particular channel, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, so that we can bring you more such amazing, you know, amazing shows. Check out all the other amazing shows of CNCF, like the Cloud Native TV. And in the future, basically the future of this talk show, if you like to call it, .edu, is all the programs that I mentioned, all the people that we mentioned, we'll try to get them on the, you know, channel where they can share more in-detail experiences about, you know, how they made it. So basically how they got started, what are the struggles they faced, how they, you know, resolved it. So you get to talk to them live and we can also get some mentors. For example, if you're applying to LFX, we can get some mentors over. They can share about, you know, what they look for when you're, you know, when they're selecting mentees, for example. All right. Cool. So make sure you check out the, click the follow button and let's see if there are any other questions. CNCF minutes. Yeah. Most definitely check that out. Shout out to PopCast as well. And which open source projects related to app development. So basically you can go to the landscape and you can check out over there. Not really sure off the top of my head, if in Cloud Native, because if we do have that, but I know that many projects are using like front end part. So like React and stuff. So even though it's like cloud based projects, definitely it's using front end and stuff as well. So I know Thanos is using React. You can contribute to that. Prometheus is using some. So yeah. All right. Any other questions? Any other questions? There are diversity scholarships and there are a few programs in Linux Foundation that also sponsors the trips for mentees. But again, the end-term motivation should be learning and being a contributor. All of these things like, you know, swag and other things, they come on its own. So your motivation to contributing to these projects should be actually helping the community, being a part and learning, asking questions. And also once you are there, helping others. So once you are already a contributor, help others get started with the contributions. Thanks a lot for the shout out. Really appreciate it. One more thing I want to share is that because I saw this question right now, coding is not the only way to contribute to these projects. So there are non-code contributions. There was a talk path to non-code contributions. Maybe we can do a session on that later on. So basically, let's say if you're helping someone else contribute, that is an open source contribution. If you found an issue and you're opening up an issue, that is an open source contribution. So you're writing a doc, improving the documentation. That is a valid open source contribution and an important one. If you're reviewing someone else's pull request, that is an open source contribution. You're conducting a workshop or an event regarding the project. That is also a valid contribution. Basically, coding is not the only way to contribute. You can do so much other things. All right, all right, all right. Oh, Matthew McConaughey, anyway. Never mind. Yeah, it will be available when this stream ends. All the links I have shared, there was just one link, CNCF organization slash mentoring. So in that folder, in that repository, you can find every single thing that I just mentioned. Thanks a lot for sharing. And yeah, do share about your learnings on Twitter. So you can tag CNCF students. You can tag Cloud Native TV and you can also subscribe and check out the follow and basically check out all the future shows because the people are here to help you, all these other shows. It does not mean that this is the only show for students. That is not what I'm seeing over here. All the other shows are also like, you can definitely get started and definitely attend. Syam has a great show on certifications. I'm a student and I'm gonna be graduating next year and I am right now preparing for my certifications. And Syam's, the certificate show has helped me quite a lot. So all of these shows are running regularly. So you can definitely check that out. And Ice has her own show that you can check out. A hundred days off like Kubernetes and stuff. So basically really great, amazing resources for people who want to learn more on the technical side. All right, for that, just follow the particular one in the Twitch channel. Keep applying, keep learning exactly and everything rest everything will fall into place. That's correct. All right, exactly. As a CSE first year student, you can definitely contribute, yeah. All the recordings will be available. Kubernetes is a part of CNCF. So it's not a this or that question. Yes, you can join, check out the non, you can definitely start with non-code contributions and let me just find the particular video and share with you in the channel. So path to non-code contributions. Oh, actually I did one on the CNCF students group. Let me share that one second. Check out this talk, path to non-code contributions. Yeah, so Savita and Divya, they have shared from the basics with resources. If you check the description, you can find so many links. The important thing is, see, everyone gets a roadmap, but the thing is, you need to follow that, right? So all the resources are everything is provided in the link. So make sure you go through that particular talk. All right. Yeah, I am aware of that. There's a travel ban going on right now. So that is why to make it more inclusive, the CNCF is very inclusive. So in order to incorporate that, they have the hybrid model. So you can also attend virtually, which is also pretty cool. All right, there's a, there are a lot of projects. So there are many react projects. I know, yeah, Thanos, Prometheus, other projects. There are also C++ projects. I believe NY Proxy is there for people who want to contribute to C++. Yeah, most definitely. We are a family. Any prerequisites? I would recommend checking out Sam's channel. He has some nice resources over there and also check out, I believe, 100 Days of Kubernetes by Anais. She has a really nice roadmap. So I think that can really help you. Again, this is just the beginning and we're almost about time over here. So we will be doing individual sessions on all these topics to go more in depth. Yeah, I believe there's NY Proxy and stuff. We can definitely contribute to CNCF projects that are in C++ as well. Okay, any other question? Yep, most definitely. I have something, we have something like in mind and a lot of people are already doing that in the cloud native TV. So that is why, check out just once after this stream or tomorrow, check out all the other shows and what they have to offer. So you can check out on the Twitter. Let me just share the Twitter handle as well of cloud native TV. Where is it? Oh, it's cloud native TV only. That's nice. So you can follow that and you will get all the updates. It will be heavily on YouTube and it's definitely gonna be on Twitch. Yeah, you can join the Cades calendar by joining a particular SIG. Again, if you wanna learn more about how to do this, I've shared the video link for this as well. But just Google Kubernetes SIGs. Select the SIG that you want. SIG is basically a special interest group. And once you do that, let me just share with you. I'm like Googling so much right now. Kubernetes SIG. So this is the list. And in this list, you can check out, there's a link in every particular table that says mailing list. Once you join that mailing list, you will get a calendar invite automatically in your calendar. All right, yep, there are web development projects. I definitely answered that. Do we need to have good DSA knowledge to join? So the thing is like, you don't even need to have coding knowledge in order to get started. But since you're talking about code contributions, basics would do, but you don't have to, if you're talking about competitive programming, then the answer is no. Most of the projects are written in Golang. So I would recommend learning Golang. You can improve the documentation. You can write a blog. You can do all sorts of things like that. Cool. I think you can share your experiences. So basically, I'm contributing to SIG. Like there's a marketing team. So basically, we are doing highlights of various SIGs. So I recently got my blog published in Kubernetes on SIG usability. So if you wanna learn about basically what SIG usability does, so I wrote a blog for that. So that is the same thing that you can do as well. Ask a lot of questions, get involved and don't be overwhelmed. Try to have an open mind. And basically just ask a lot of questions. I think we answered, Sanyam also answered a lot of questions already. Pre-requisites one is also already answered. Thank you for the shout out. Again, for LFX mentorship and other things in particular, so we shared a lot of resources. So we will have like separate sessions on each of these resources. But I believe those are all the unique questions that we had, but specifically like you're saying Java projects, Golan projects, just check out the landscape ones. You can find it out over there. And you know, Kathleen is over here also, the shout out to Kathleen. Kathleen helped me a lot when I was first starting with marketing. So yeah, just get involved and people will definitely help you out and yeah. Cool. Well, thanks a lot for joining everyone and I believe that was it for today's session. Just one last thing you can do, anything you can learn, anything. All you need to do is ask questions, get involved, you know, Google a little bit and yeah, that is pretty much about it. Thanks for joining everyone and we will see you in the next stream which is gonna be bi-weekly, but that is not over. You're gonna have so many other nice streams, you know, of other cloud native TV shows. Once again, make sure you hit the follow button, show your support and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


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Felly, mae'r ddwyf yn gweld i wneud i wneud yma yma yma yma yn y cyflawni, o'r ddysgu yma oherwydd, But when you asked me for one was that I never know from one way to the other what's going to be going on in Washington. It's really one of the facts of life of living in Washington and trying to understand what's going on and pontificating about it afterwards. Is that you so often sit there and pinch yourself and say did that just really happen?  So, with that caveat, that I could be wrong in a week or something, something else happens, and everything shifts. Let me give you sort of 20 words that's worth of what I think, what my thinking is today this morning in Dublin. I went to the Munich Security Conference, which is sort of the people are with me is a key bell of weather of what's going on in the transatlantic alliance and other relations. I was also in Washington last week for the NATO Schindig and if you went to those two you could probably think you'd be excused for thinking that well this wasn't you know in German you would say Aber hattwch gan ddychgybwyrd, y Dentist wasnt that bad. In Munich for example people had still had a searing memory of last year's military security conference where you just had an incredibly glum sense that the western order was falling apart and nobody knew what to do about it and nobody had an answer to the challenges of the disruption coming out of Washington. This time at least you had a I have to say really robotic speech from the vice president in which he essentially you know the essential message was our way or the highway but you had a really feistian spirited response from Nadia Mackle which she got standing ovations for something that is quite rare in Munich. And you had a speech from Joe Biden reassuring everybody know the other half of America loves you and you had I think most importantly a historically congressional delegation that went out of its way to engage with Europeans and others that was very very present visible and very determined to make an impact and it aims to demonstrate support. And then at the NATO anniversary meeting in D.C. I sort of at the last minute got an invitation to listen to Secretary General Stockberg's speech in the rotunda in the capital which is really quite unusual. I had never done that before and I have to say it was most impressive not least having to navigate what seemed like kilometers of tunnels underneath the capital to get up into the visitors gallery. And then you had you have a secretary general who really gave a good country speech and a Congress that appeared to be determined on both sides of the aisle to show love and support. He got standing ovations after every third sentence.  It became a little bit absurd but after everybody was good natured and went along with it. But if you look closely you'd see that I started counting empty seats on the Republican side and the 45 empty seats and the Republicans did not get up every time the Democrats go up. And then you looked at the Democratic sides and some of the people looked a little too young to be members of Congress. I assume that they would send staff, kids and interns to take empty places as well. So it was actually helpful to be there as it's so often is. I then went to this reception where Pompeo gave a quite warm, pernative speech and stood there for a group picture with the foreign ministers and all of that seemed to be reasonably cheerful. And of course the key news item of that week was nobody left the alliance. And I have to say I think some of us including me had sort of been holding their breath on that one because it would not have been difficult for the boss to have tweeted that this was that he had had it with all this pomp and ceremony. And of course this was a NATO ministerial not a NATO heads of state summit on purpose so that the president wouldn't have an excuse to be there. So I would say on the whole while this all the optics of all this were okay and nothing bad happened, I'd say that the impression of stability and harmony and agreement is deceptive. And I will try and explain why I think that and why I'm still really really worried. If you look at the state of transformation relations right now in the third year of Trump, I think you have to say that on both sides things are looking pretty great. You've got on the American side transactionalism coercion or threats of coercion support for nationalists and authoritarians, not just in the rest of the world but in Europe, notably Hungarians. But a lot of this is in a sort of state of suspension. We now have a new threat of economic sanctions and we'll see where that goes. But it's actually taken Washington surprisingly long to get to that point. And for the longest time you have threats and repetitions of threats and more threats but nothing really happened on those sanctions. And that I think has been a notable part of the atmosphere there. It reminded me of what in World War II people used to call the board again, which of course was followed by a real game. So I hope that's not an accurate association. The other thing that you see of course is that where the administration does carry out policies, they often end up bogged down in coherence. And because there's less and less politically appointed staff, because there are so many vacancies, not just at the top levels but at the lower levels, and people are coming in as acting office holders who are sort of ripped out of another function or are actually too junior for that office and therefore can't be acting as a designated sort of placeholders until someone is found and then it takes a very long time for this to be filled and the result of that is that on the levels underneath them people sort of operate on autopilot without sort of, not just without instructions I think but also without a sort of coherent sense of strategy. There is a general sense of incoherence about American foreign security policy as a whole, that for somebody like me who has been used to thinking about people who execute and make policy in America as sort of like nuclear engineers on the bridge of a big aircraft carrier or a big nuclear power plant is really quite disconcerted. I mean my experience of policy discussions in Washington is one of sort of very carefully calibrated, minus fuel sort of adaptations of policy and a general sort of unwillingness except in sort of very remarkable circumstances to avoid major disruptions. And here of course you have the opposite, disruption is the rule but it so often remains oddly sort of non-invetted in overall framework or remains without consequence. On the European side you have a variety of approaches from strategic autonomy to like-minded alliances, that of course is the German approach, I think a quite healthy increasing refusal to be triggered by everything that the President tweets in the morning, that I think is actually a good development. And I think you also have a fair amount if diplomats on both sides, actually Americans and Europeans are to be believed in Washington, a fair amount of sort of very quiet but professional cooperation on urgent and current issues underneath the waterline. But I think that we also need to see that the perception of Europe in Washington and I think it is not inaccurate sadly, is one of a continent that is weakened by its own severe divisions on key policy issues that is also rarely capable of coherent approaches that when it tries to produce coherent approaches such as trying to resist the cancellation of the JCPOA, the formation of a separate Iranian financial vehicle, these things end up not really shifting Washington in policy, they end up peaturing out. And add to that of course any amount of national aligning, not least from my own country, but give me the same as Ambassador, all of us are capable of being nationalist opportunists when we choose and we do do this. And there is an abundance of national egoism on view when you look at Europe and Washington. And I say that as a committed European. So what I think we have currently is something of an unstable equilibrium of mostly inaction. And you have that in transatlantic relations, you have that in the relationship between what you used to think of and I still think of as the West versus the rest. And you have it also domestically in the balance between mainstream politics and the populace. It's not true certainly, things haven't been settled but they're sort of suspended in there. And the reason why this worries me so much is that I think that I see the risk of the exhaustion and delegitimisation of western rules and institutions of national democratic institutions being exhausted and delegitimised. That creates a vacuum for challenges and adversaries to explore. It's very real. I see an increased risk of miscalculation, misinterpretation, accidental escalation. And if that weren't enough, what worries me most under these circumstances is the toxic impact left mostly unchecked of an increasingly hostile and dark narrative in America about Europe and indeed about Germany. For which as I see some factual basis, I see things that one might be concerned about or angry about or just criticise in policy terms, but he is embedded in a sort of larger approach to the world that I find genuinely not just concerning but distressing and actually makes me afraid. I don't say this lightly but it makes me afraid for the future. And here I've brought some things to quote at you. Many of you will have to have some motive or even read the Pompeo speech in Brussels, which got almost no coverage oddly in the American press, but of course was widely reviewed and commented on here, and in which you will recall he said that he thought from what he could see the EU was clearly an institution headed by unlikely bureaucrats. Many said at another point that as far as this administration was concerned they were there to protect nations and nationalists and sovereignty and that international institutions that didn't protect the interests of nations and of people ought to be disassembled. And people in the room and elsewhere read this as exactly what it was meant to be, which was a very fundamental critique of the EU. You add that to the president's known penchant for tweeting or for referring to the EU as a foe and you have reason to be concerned. Now you will presumably know, Ambassador, that there have been reports coming out of Washington that the recently departed most senior Europe diplomat in Washington, West Mitchell, told German diplomats that if they wanted to have a general explanation, a blueprint of the EU administration's Europe policy, in other words if they wanted to have the meaning of the Brussels speech and explain, they should read Yoran Hozoni, the virtue of nationalism. I don't know whether any of you have tracked that. I have seen an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal. Somebody over breakfast looked at this and thought, Jesus, what is this? This is the Wall Street Journal editorial board going sort of batch it crazy again, dropped it. Then I heard the story, bought the book and asked our library to get me all the reviews that they could find since its publication. I came back with a snack this fat. They're all glowing reviews. He's since received the Conservative Book of the Year Award and he has just published another piece which I recommend to you last Sunday, Why America Needs New Alliances, together with another Israeli author, to explain. Yoran Hozoni is a, somebody I hadn't heard of before, until then. He is the head of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, a little think tank. He is a historian and a political philosopher and the virtue of nationalism is, I will, I mean I'm going to be, it's a very frank review. I think it's terrible political philosophy and inasmuch as it is attempts to be an exegesis, particularly of European history, I think quite egregiously gets the facts of European history wrong. It is quite easy to dismiss it on those two counts, but that would be a huge mistake because what he does of is an incredibly powerful narrative that connects the small O small Z, orthodox Zionism, with American evangelical fundamentalist political thought. And for that I would urge you to read the book and also to read what's recently written in Wall Street Chamberlain. And basically what he says, and I wrote a piece about this in EFT if you want, that's the sort of short, the executive summary for the nervous of what I'm about to say. Basically he says, empires of bad nations are good. There's two kinds of bad empires, one is liberal interventionist America and the other one is the European Union. He doesn't spend a lot of time with liberal interventionist America because he thinks that America under Trump is now in its way to self-reform and betterment because it is now a rediscovered sovereignism and nationalism. But Europe and the EU particular are the problem, not least because he seems to be obsessed with this. This is all a tool for Germany to require not just domination in Europe but beyond it. That of course is where I think would be a tactic to become a little alarmed. The other thing about the interesting thing about his EU narrative is that he suggests that Western Europeans and Germany in particular are essentially holding other European countries hostage. Particularly Eastern Europeans who have been so courted by this American administration. What he suggests is that Europe and European nations will only be free once the EU disappears and nations can be nations again. In other words, the idea here literally is that the clock is turned back. The EU as a framework disappears and you find you return to some sort of a notional and of course historically non-existence version of national statehood. It didn't exist in Eastern Europe or in Western Europe for that matter because we went down that route so quickly after the war. So this is an extraordinary historical suggestion but it appears to have an extraordinary amount of traction in Washington. Now again, I'm not suggesting that this is the party line of this administration. I've got this one data point and the fact that this guy is getting traction in the Conservative press, is getting prizes and so on. I have a couple of other sort of conversations and I think match this. I think that this is a good match but it is not yet sort of the perfect explanation. What I am saying to you is that we need to understand that this take on Europe is afoot and we need to have a narrative of ourselves that counters it. And I can say to you that I go to sort of all the round tables and speeches by European diplomats and economists and what not who come to Washington and I spend a lot of time travelling in Europe. And my overall assessment is you know what, we are far from having that kind of narrative. Not just because we are still so concerned about our own domestic affairs or about our own battles with populists with our fears of the European elections. But also because I think we are genuinely struggling to find a European unified voice. And even where we do find it, like on Iran, that is essentially a Franco-German-British interestingly still undertaking that the others let us do. But I think that we have not been able to counter this particular take. If we are not able to do that, we have a real problem. It is our problem, in other words, not theirs. And we should be grateful for this because this holds up a narrative which we may feel is distorting. But it does catch some of our nastier problems, doesn't it? And so I think that we are actually well advised to take this seriously, to take a look at it and to think long and hard about what to do about it. I mean, I'm conscious of the passage of time, so I will, I can certainly give you vings of literature recommendations. I'm not going to throw this at you, but it will, has only been worth following on Twitter because he seems to have a distinct purpose with this. And I think he's setting himself up as a political commentator on Europe and America, aren't he? And this new article by him is interesting because it also takes on meeting, not to see. Because it suggests that some allies are worth more than others and that if the Western Europeans in particular, and I will read you that actually, if the Western Europeans don't shape up, they should just be dropped. Well, let me read you this. A central question for revitalised airlines of democratic nations is which way the winds will blow in Western Europe. The democratic nations point is interesting because he also proposes that, I mean, because he thinks Hungary and Poland under its current government are good allies for America. For a generation after the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, the US administration seemed willing to take responsibility for Europe's security indefinitely. European elites go accustomed to the idea that perpetual peace was at hand, devoting themselves to turning the EU into a borderless utopia with general's benefits law. This isn't wrong. But here's what comes next. Europe has been corrupted by its dependence on the US, comes as a critique of Germany, world's fifth largest economic power, cannot feed more than a handful of operational combat aircraft etc. None of this is in America's interest and not only because the US is stuck with the bill. When people live detached from reality, they develop all sorts of fanciful theories about how the world works. For decades, Europeans have been devising transnationalist fantasies to explain how their own, supposed moral virtues, such as their rejection of borders have brought them peace and prosperity. These ideas are then exported to the US and the rest of the democratic world via international bodies, universities and so on, which is an extraordinary denial of America's role in the creation of multinational institutions and transnational norms. It's now all a noxious influence coming from Europe that I find quite remarkable. This is new. Having subsidised the creation of a dependent socialist paradise in Europe, the US now has to watch as the EU's influence washes over America and other nations. This is also the language of the hard right. It's the language of infection, of viruses, of the perfect body being rendered impure. This is quite precise in the way it's articulated. For the moment it is hard to see Germany or Spain becoming American allies in the new, more realistic of the sense of the term we have proposed. Trans is a different case altogether. Prospects are better with prospect to Britain. The UK may yet become a principal partner in a leaner but more effective security architecture within the democratic world. There you have it. There are other authors in Washington who you could read, in particular the conservative think tanks, who write similar things. I am inclined to think that a lot of this is aimed at creating coalitions between Israel and America, between the fundamentalists and orthodox Zionists. These are quite parochial interests at work. But as you can see the narrative that is being devised here is quite powerful, it's sticky, I think it's working and it's toxic and we don't have an answer to it. Now, we obviously have a couple of pressure points coming up for us which are now demanding a lot of our attention and political resources. For us in Europe it's the EP elections at which the populace are projected to gain between 30 and 40% of the EPCs, giving them not a blocking majority, but a distinct capability to gum up the works of governments and of legislation and of course the selection of the executive in the EU and there by possibly undermining even further the effectiveness and the legitimacy of the European project. On the US side we're already in the middle of the campaign for 2020 and it's not clear to me at all at this point that the Democrats or actually other Republicans have a good chance in this election. Trump has turned out to be an extraordinarily powerful force despite the fact that he is continually shedding responsible cabinet members and restrictions, maybe because of that. I mean there is a distinct possibility that this administration will found it on in a crisis of its own making because it is so clearly headed for a sort of quite fundamental conflict with the American system of constitutional governance. But it has survived so much so far that I at this point am sort of unwilling to place bets on that and that we have an electoral clock that is inexorable and the administration way may well power on past that. So that's a depressing picture I've painted, I'm sorry, but I do this because I think that we need to understand the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. I think I see fixes to all this, I think I see people responding, I think I see counter movements in our own policies and societies trying to grapple with our own vulnerabilities, which is where I think, which I do think is the first order of the day, is fixing all the vulnerabilities of the problems that the populists exploit to undermine and destroy mainstream institutions and politics. But I do not think that we have the luxury of ignoring the viability of the health of the European project or for that matter the transatlantic alliance and world order while we try and fix our domestic problems. That's where I'm going to leave you with. Again, it's not a happy mode, but I think this is quite literally the most serious crisis that I have seen in my working lifetime, not just of Western border but of democracy in Europe. I think now is the time to stand up and fight for it. Thank you.


the first item of business this afternoon is time for reflection and our time for reflection leaders today are Holly Cameron and Aidan Coleman, Holocaust Educational Trust ambassadors. Hi, my name is Holly Cameron and this is Aidan Coleman and we are ambassadors for the Holocaust Educational Trust. We took part in the trust's lessons from Auschwitz project as part of students from Cumbernaud academy in November 2022. As part of the project, we heard from a Holocaust survivor, took part in a one-day visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and upon our return we are sharing what we have learned with our school community. I want to take part in this because I have a passion for history and this was an opportunity to advance my knowledge and to ensure the stories of victims are remembered for as long as possible. As part of the project, we are privileged to hear from Holocaust survivor Eva Clark, BEM. Hearing her testimony, the story of her mother's survival and Eva's birth in Mouthhausen concentration camp was incredibly powerful. I am inspired by her dedication to keeping these memories alive when so many people cannot. The visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau was extremely impactful and I continued to learn about those who lost their lives as more than just a statistic, as individual people. I found visiting Birkenau particularly shocking. It was so vast and seemed never-ending and I don't think I'll ever be able to forget that. For our next steps project, we plan to deliver a presentation to the S3, S4 and S5 history classes. We will pass on what we have learned about the Holocaust and the importance of preserving its history and the memory of those who were murdered. It is so important that, as young people and especially as the trust ambassadors, we continue to encourage our peers in the wider community to learn about and remember the Holocaust because it is a reminder of the destruction mankind is capable of. It is crucial that the Holocaust is never forgotten so that it can never be repeated. The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day this year is ordinary people.  We need to study both the fate of those murdered during the Holocaust and their lives before they were victims to keep their memories alive and demonstrate the diversity that was lost. Thank you so much for the time for reflection, for inviting us to be here today to share our experience and reflections on why Holocaust education is so important for young people.


Hey everyone, today we're talking about the Split Stance One Arm Ipsilateral Offset. That means it's on the same side as my working leg, deadlift, so Split Stance Deadlift Offset Variation. So this variation is nice because it really helps, having the weight over here pulls me into this side a little bit. And so I need to be able to keep myself from over-pulling into that side. It's really good for me on this right leg because I like to be over on my right leg a lot. And this is a good way to train my right leg without over-lateralizing or over-using the right side. I can kind of turn myself back to center. And my goal here is just to keep my headlights pointed forward, so my hips and my shoulders pretty much pointed forward. So here for a Split Stance Deadlift, I'm going to bend over a little bit more than I might be used to in split squatting, right? Squat means more knee bend, deadlift means more hip bend. And now from here, I just push gradually until I'm ready to float, and then up all the way, and then back down, can tap this. Again, I'm not split squatting, I'm bending over, and then I have this deadlift. If you really want to train the hip extension, I can shorten this step, and I can just use this kind of like a light kickstand and keep the other leg down really loaded here. As I shorten the step, it makes it easier for me to put more weight on the working leg. So if you're having trouble with it, maybe try it back here. And if you pretty much mastered it, you can try it with a little shorter stance, okay? But to deadlift, not to Romanian deadlift, I have to come all the way down, so a little bit of knee bend is actually okay there. Boom, nice step back, and good. And that is the, let's see if I get it right, Split Stance One Arm Ipsilateral Offset Deadlift.


Hey guys, it's MJ the student act tree and we've got quite a fun video for you today I've been going through the financial service board, which is the regulator here in South Africa And they've got this like billet and board where they they give you some news and they tell you what's what's happening But what they also do is they tell you to stay away from certain investments So here we have FSB warns against public Warns the public against the Dodder Forex Pty limited Okay, and what they do is they have their their little documentary where they say that they fake their Their numbers, they're not actually authorized in term of our act and all these type of things that they highly advise people to stay away from us But I couldn't help but clicking on and checking out this website So this is their website and first thing that you should be freaking out by is that it's a WordPress site That's one of the free WordPress sites I think that's yeah, if you're going to be investing your money with a company and they can't even afford or they don't want to pay for a Proper website, but they're using a WordPress that is so that's flag number one. Okay. Now what they have here is They've got their little statement Investments take Reduces the risk. I mean the English is brilliant as we are insured against any losses So that's flag number two is whenever something says there's no risk That's that's warning number two that there is a lot of risk if you look at all other financial Websites, they all say investing in us There is quite a big risk and you might lose your money as soon as someone says there's no risk Then you need to get get quite worried and it's very much, you know, oh invest now and they've got our successful formula We expand we provide blah blah blah all this type of stuff But what I did is I went and I copied just this text Okay, the text that we see here into this app called Grammarly. Yeah, so we where is my Grammarly? Yeah, here is Grammarly. So Grammarly, it's a it's kind of like word But it you know checks a few other things the worst thing that it does is check it all the Unoriginal text so they're very first statement that they're making here Reliability and assured profits or the main criteria when it comes to investing your finances, okay They have copied and pasted that from some other website called Bit Amplitude. Okay, then Holy, let's get back to Grammarly. This chunk over here is again an original text that they've just copied They've got something else here also an original text from Hippiecore and then the one right at the end where they even talk about their successful formula That itself is copied from another website called Lepid Finance So I think this is another flag. Look, we can excuse the poor English Maybe, you know, it's someone who English isn't their first language. So, you know, these are the things we don't mind too much You know with ten critical issues, you know, quite a low score But the fact that they're copying and pasting From other websites that is another flag. Okay, so now we have quite a few flags already Then what I wanted to do was I wanted to see these testimonies and these things are These things are actually quite scary. Basically this guy invests 5,000 rand and off the five working days He received 7,500 rand and I think this other lady here she received a hundred percent interest Okay, you can't get a hundred percent interest Of the five days unless you're gambling. Okay There's there's no investment out there that will guarantee you this hundred percent because so they've got all these testimonies All these people like, oh, wow, look at all these great people And they probably like just took pictures off of Facebook of random people and wrote some random random little stories But what I was quite interested in is how it works What are they saying minus 50% profit is because they say I don't know That's supposed to be like a bullet point where they say, you know 50% profit After every five days 100% profit of 10 working days I think they meant that to be a bullet point, but unfortunately they put it as a minus sign Which you know, maybe you could say, okay It's not a scam because they're actually telling you that you're gonna lose 50% of your money after five working days You're gonna lose all of it off the 10 working days And you're actually gonna lose even more money than you put in off the 15 working days So maybe they could you know tell the regulator? Hey, listen guys We did tell them that they were gonna lose their money But then they have this little table and I love the little colors like you can't even read read that 15 days in the little yellow There we invest 1,000 we'll start you invest as that 50,000 round then after five days you get 75,000 round and check up to 20 days you're getting 150 I mean these returns are are extreme Let's check out the frequently asked questions.  You know, we pay profits back straight away all that stuff stuff a lot of investment companies will have Like maybe a three-day period where it takes for the money to be transferred to different bank accounts They might have lock-in periods there might be a week You know, there's all these other things that you need to need to consider So that's another Another good flag is the fact that they're just gonna be paying you out Immediately. Also, what's quite funny is I took this image here Because I don't know maybe they portraying that this is their investor Sitting by his old 90s computers But I took that into to Google and you do a little Google image search for it And oh look at that look at all these other websites that are using the exact same picture So either this guy is just like such a brilliant trader And he's just set up millions of different trading rooms in various countries as you can tell by the different Languages that we're seeing here, or it's just a simply a copy paste. So That I mean if they're lying about their pictures There's something seriously seriously strange going on here So, yeah, just just really really be careful for that and then yeah I think one of the things is yeah, you click invest now and They want you to put in your date of birth your cell number all your banking details and then You know to contact them to make a make make a deposit and check they show pictures of a Bentley and All this type of stuff So I don't know I think I think your page only has these five pages that we've gone through Look, I hope no one is silly enough to believe I mean whenever you hear 50 whenever you hear double digit returns in under a week Okay, whenever you hear that Run away run away, okay? I know Bitcoin investments can go from like you can buy Bitcoin one day and tomorrow It can you know double in value, but the following day it can also have in value So you need to be careful of of trading in very risky things because their volatility works on both sides But remember these people are saying that there are no risk They take reduced risk as we are insured against any losses and their transactions are very fast Okay, it says choosing it is a wise choice. I don't think it's a wise choice Now what's interesting is I don't think the FSB is allowed to call them a scam That would be defamation So they're not allowed to actually say that instead what they can only say and what I'm also only gonna say is that you can advise people to Be cautious when looking at this website It's interesting. They have taken away. I'm trying to find out where they put their their number the FSB number I mean even these like little pictures that they've got at the bottom here are quite quite quite cute I mean they didn't even verify their phone number on Whatever platform this thing is over here So and I mean the other seriously looks like it's from the 90s. I mean what what a joke But anyway, I don't know. I just thought this was quite fun To go through it is sad that you know seeing pictures like this that they are marketing it at to you know the poor people and Telling them to invest money and it does seem very very dodgy. I mean this yeah These type of investments. I actually hope the FSB comes down hard on them Does a proper interrogation and gives them funds for misleading the public? Well, they've got another date on the 4th of March in Pretoria Come with your camp chairs invite your friends. Oh, yeah, that's another thing. There's this whole thing with Referrals and nothing nothing sounds more like a pyramid scheme than when they say come with your referrals and you know You get 5% of Everybody's else's money that that brings in here. So, yeah, I mean, oh I don't know what more to say about this this website because please be cautious I know none of you would be doing this But please tell your friends that you know because a lot of time is actually a lot of people will come to us and say Hey, check out this website. What do you think of it? And the rule is that if they promising zero risks with over 50% returns Then that is a massive massive warning flag. But who knows maybe maybe this is the best best website ever Maybe maybe we can get a hundred and fifty percent off the 15 working days Who knows like I said finance anything can happen. These guys might have a golden formula That just makes money out of thin air. They might actually have that So Yeah, anything can happen with finance, but it's definitely not going to be a risk or investment that I'm going to be taking Thanks guys so much for watching and if you have any questions, please feel free to use the comment section below. Cheers