Alright, now let's see what these scrolls say. I've been avoiding putting the fiberglass on this. I've waxed it a lot. And you know, I'm still nervous that I'm going to put the fiberglass on here and it's not going to release, so I'm doing a little test. Okay, several hours later now and this is fully cured, I'm sure. Maybe this is going to work out alright. I'm still going to wax it one more time before I risk it, but I think I'm good. This is going to come out so good or so bad. This morning I woke up, checked the weather, the weather looked good. So I said, that's it, I am doing the pontoon mold. So it's out here in position. I put a bunch of newspaper under it so it won't stick to the board under it. I just re-waxed the whole thing. I'm letting it sit in the sun to make sure that all dries. I've got my umbrella, I've got to stick over here so I can put the umbrella up to keep this in the shade while I'm putting the resin on.  Okay, this is my plan. I want to make sure this doesn't have any bubbles in it or anything. So first I'm going to take this resin, which is really thick because it's kind of a little bit too old. I'm just going to roll it on the whole thing, real thick layer. I'm going to let that cure a little bit, enough to let it solid, then I'm going to take this and put it on it and when it's in that solid state in the early stages it's really sticky. So this will just stick right to us, I'll just get it right stuck to it. And then I'll put more resin on that, but thinner resin, I'll thin it out with some new resin. And then probably put, I don't know, that's as far as I have actually laid out and planned right now. Once I get to that point, everything else is a piece of cake. I'll probably put like another two layers of fiberglass on after that. And I've got my pontoon holders just tacked in with a few dots of resin here. So anytime I have extra resin left over from doing a section of this, I'll come over here and fiberglass in some of this stuff and some of that, like in the edges here. I have a bunch of little rectangles right here for that. So I think I'm ready to do everything. Everything. All right, phase one complete. This is now coated in shiny, shiny resin, which will hopefully not stick too hard. And I did have enough to get some fiberglass on this and fiberglass that thing in. I was hoping I would have enough space to mount this up here, which it looks like I totally will, because I'm putting my hinge here for the pontoon holders. Plenty of space. So one concern I have with this is this makes a pretty tight corner in here. And this stuff does have some rigidity to it. So I might, you know, trying to get it to take that sharp corner might be an issue. It might kind of roll around and it'll lose some of the shape. And I was thinking, hopefully I can just jam it in there, but I don't think I want to risk it. So I'm thinking I should take this, prop some wood under it, lift it up like, I don't know, a centimeter, centimeter and a half. And then this will be able to go right down to the bottom edge of this. And then in the space between, that's where it can curve out. And that's like a work of art. Got another layer of fiberglass on there. Two layers should be plenty strong to pull it out and have a look. I'm kind of freaking out a bit right now. Over a conversation I just had over lunch with my daughters, six and seven years old. To sum it up, the conversation ended like this. Aurora, should I make my house a giant robot turtle? And she said yes. And that is going to keep me up all night tonight. Anyway, I got to get back to this right now, though. OK, just, yeah, I'll think about that tonight. Oh, I'm so not sleeping tonight. Well, I got that all waxed. So once it dries, I can put fiberglass in it. It'll take a while to dry because it was the first time I waxed it. And there were a few little bubbles in there. So they're kind of full of wax right now. So they're going to take a while to dry. In the meantime, I'll secure these guys better. Because this is going to have a pin through it, which is like pipe. And then off the top and the bottom, it's going to have an arm that comes out to these pontoons. So one here, one there, and two on the other side. So these are going to have to be nice and strong. And they're going to be able to swing in and out. So they have to be strong, with force going on them that way, but also force going that way and that way. And I also tilted them back so that when the pontoons swing back, they go lower. And when they swing forward, they go up. So I'll be able to control the height of the pontoons just by swinging them forward or back. That should make that pretty stiff just at the bottom.


This is the second session of the funding. We're proud to have Catherine Walle there. She is the Chief Operating Office of Stingtex Technology Solutions, which is a company that's designed to help business owners improve their business, improve the use of technology. So please welcome Catherine. Thank you, everyone. Good morning. Good morning. It's day? It is. OK. I'm going to be talking today about how you can view successful stores using WordPress. So I'm sure we already have a background on what WordPress is. At least we have some days here yesterday, right here today. And I'm going to be building up on that. So I want you to know that you can make more money. You can attract higher paying clients and impact more lives when you view the successful store. And you can do that easily using WordPress. So let me just tell you a little bit about myself and why I can talk about this topic today. OK, my name is Catherine. I can introduce me. And I have a full-time number one by selling auto. Amazon by selling auto. I also coach people on how to write, publish, and leverage the best selling books for marketing to grow their business in order to establish authority to be the good two person in their niche. I'm also a business coach and consultant. I help people to double, triple, and ten x their businesses using technology solutions. A website designer and a WordPress consultant. So today, we're looking at how you can use WordPress to grow your businesses, grow your income, double it, triple it, ten x it if you so desire. So this is just some of my books, number one. And it would be lovely if you could tweet during the program, the session, at Street and Tech, at Catherine Igrali, and you use the WCJax hashtag. If you have questions, you could always let me know. Preferably, you got the end of the session. So that would be your address. It's all. So I would like to find out how many here are business owners. OK, lovely. Got a number. How many here are designers, developers, and how many here are maybe internet marketers? You help people. OK, maybe use Facebook cards, Google Ads to promote businesses. OK, beautiful. So we have quite a number that are business owners. And we have quite a number that also design us and develop us. So if you're a business owner, trying to make money and attract higher paying clients, you're going to find this training useful. Another person I'll find this training useful is if you're an entrepreneur that would like to impact more lives. You have a product, you have a service, and you believe you can be of value to people. You want more people to know about it. You'll find this training useful because this training is about how you could take your business that might be offline, or if it's full store, and take it online, which makes more people get to know about it. For example, we have this WordCamp here. And there are people here from different parts of the world, including different parts of Florida. And that's simply because they've got to know about WordCamp, Jacksonville, online, and the Gobiattics. So I'm sure we're definitely impacting lives through this WordCamp. Does anyone agree? I listened to someone yesterday. I was really inspired. I kept telling almost everybody, oh my goodness, I'm so inspired. And I would say it's because I could relate with what it was talking about. So yeah, we're impacting lives through WordCamp, Jacksonville. And that's because they had a store online. And they made people get to know about this event. So if you fall into that category, you know you have a cost to believe in. You have a product or service. You really feel you could less lives, make an impact, take your store online. You're able to do that. So if you're an internet marketer who desires to sell more, you're going to find this training useful. And your designer or developer who wants to get higher conversions for your clients, you're also going to find this training useful. Yeah, lastly, maybe you're wondering, I'm not an internet marketer. I'm not a business owner. I'm not necessarily selling my things here. Am I going to get any value from this class? I will say yes, because this class is to help lay the foundation, let you know what's possible, let you know that you can achieve more, you can aspire more. This is what's possible in your hands. So maybe right now, you're actually working somewhere. You have your day job. You have your night job. You have your typical night to fight. And you desire more. You want more time with your family, more time to sleep, or you want more freedom.  Desire a particular kind of lifestyle. Yeah, you're going to find this training useful. Let me just tell you a little bit about myself. I don't live in the United States. Of course, I got to know about Wadcamp Jackson Rail online. I actually spoke at Wadcamp last month in my own home country, Nigeria. And I run an online business. So I'm here. It's not like my business is rounded because I'm in the United States. And that's because I have my store online, either using WordPress or otherwise. So there was actually a time I was working. So this story is going to relate to the person who does irregular job and desires more. I was working as a system administrator in telecommunications firm. There's also an ICT firm. And I was asked, not satisfied. I was tired. I actually wanted to leave my job. I didn't leave anyone here, I can't relate. But the thing is, I looked at it, everyone's going to leave my job. And I was going to go back home. Yeah, my mom was working. Right now she's retired. But it wouldn't really be so nice if I had to start depending on her for leaving just because I was tired of my job. That's not enough. So it might be OK to say you're tired of your job. The question is, what next? What are you going to do if you're tired of your job? Are you going to just say, I don't feel like working anymore.  Or are you going to say, even if I'm going to leave my job, I am going to find a way of making money. I'm going to find a way of not being a liability board, making impact, helping those around me. Well, fortunately, I didn't resign immediately. I got married and my husband was working in the UK. So I was able to resign properly, not just leave my job for nothing. And I relocated and I started my online business. So that's wonderful, the fact that I was able to move from the state of not being happy about my job, tired, frustrated, being tempted to just drop my resignation letter without knowing what next to do, to a place where I can have my own business, I can choose to travel down here to the United States because I want to, because I love helping people build their businesses using technology solutions, WordPress, and I can choose to do so. So if you love that kind of freedom, I think you should consider taking your business online. OK? So we already have an idea of what I'm going to be talking about, but I will be letting us know a bit more of how to get this done, having your online business using WordPress. Just in case you don't know, do I think you know? WordPress is an easy to use content management system that you can use to view beautiful websites without having programming knowledge. So in case you're wondering, I don't know how to use HTML, I don't know how to use PHP, all this code. I'm not a typical developer. Well, you could use WordPress to design beautiful websites, and you don't have to know all that, you don't necessarily have to learn programming language. So today, I'm going to be talking about how you could get that store online using WooCrammas. WooCrammas is a plugin. Easy to use, wonderful, fantastic. There are actually so many shopping cart software, but WooCrammas has really been so terrific. Everybody talks about them. I'm sure that some people that don't even know that you could use all that things. That's because WooCrammas is like a popular name. So I'm going to be talking about how you could use WooCrammas. I'm not going to go so deep into when I'm really going to go into the practical sections. I think yesterday we had someone who did show us how to use WooCrammas. But today, I would relay the foundation, let you know what's possible, let you know that you can achieve this if you want to, and you could always be learning. And if you have questions, you could always meet me at the Appelazvar or any of the speakers. And I'm sure we could answer your questions. So I'll also be talking about how you could use FAQs, frequently asked questions to improve customer service delivery. How to use cross-sells and upsells, where they are. How to use abandoned cat recovery. Facebook ads to drive traffic to your site and sell. There's only so much I can cover within 14 minutes. I don't think it's working within 14 minutes, but I'll try my best. So I'm going to ask a question right now. What does having a successful site or store mean to you? Anybody wants to share? Lovely. Lots of sales. Oh, good. Anyone else? Repeat customers. Wonderful, wonderful. Lovely. So lots of sales, repeat customers. Anybody else? Anyone else? Having set up right and giving the customer a good experience. Lovely. Having it set up right and giving the customers a good experience. Well, like I said, I can cover everything. Because I know some of you, maybe at the end of your experience, you might be wondering, OK, shouldn't talk about something. Yeah, I can talk about everything. But I'm going to talk about things I believe you will still find useful. If you apply them, you will get results. Lots of sales, good customer experience, and repeat customers. Fantastic. Fortunately for us, part of what I'm going to be talking about today will cover that. So that's what having a successful store means to the three of them. And I'm sure that probably covers what other people do, I think, and even if they don't mention it right now. So what problem am I trying to address with this solution with my talk? I don't know if you fall into this category. You actually have a great product or service for most of your target audience who know about it. You actually think, I have this beautiful product. I really think it can bless lives. But I'm not really getting sales. Well, not as much sales as I would have loved to. Or most people that I know have the problem that I'm not really asking me. Well, maybe they don't really know about your product and service, and you need to get it on the internet so that they could get to know about it. But even if it's a problem your current experience in, people that don't know are not willing to pay you enough for the solution to provide. Can anybody relate? Maybe you think you have this product, you have the service, but the people around you don't seem to want to pay you enough. And most times, that's because it's probably not their present need. You know most times, people are willing to pay for perceived value and something that is a present need, something that addresses the frustration that they have. So if you're meeting someone and you're trying to sell your product to service, it's not really a present need. It's not really addressing a pain point. They're not really going to see much value in it. They're not really going to want to pay you what you think it's worth. They'll probably be calling it a very funny price. But then, if you can reach the people that really need that solution, they'll be thanking you. They'll be like, thank you, thank you, as in they'll be so excited. Why? Because you're bringing a solution that addresses the problem. You're helping. It's like, you know, they'll be so excited. They'll be thanking God. They'll be thanking you. I don't think we've ever experienced this before in which you're letting someone know about something and the person is so excited to hear about it. And that's because maybe the person has been looking for that solution all over the place. Now if you're going to tell the person, oh, it costs this amount of money, the person will probably be saying, thank you so much. Like, oh my goodness, it's so cheap. It's so affordable. But if something the person does not need, the person will not be willing to drop their money for it. So in case you fall into this category that people that need what you have don't really know about it, and you're talking to the wrong target audience and therefore they're not willing to pay for it, you need to consider taking your business online and also knowing how to reach the right target audience. So thank God we have developers and designers here. And I believe our goal is to add value to our clients. That's how you make your money anyway. By adding value, by helping solving problems. I am someone that believes that, well, for me, I'm not just viewing websites. It's not about, OK, I'm viewing websites for you. It's about you're solving a problem. You're solving a problem using a website. You're solving a problem using WordPress. So you need to know what problem is. So just in case your client is not selling as much as they would love to, so I mentioned more sales. By helping them take their business online and also integrating several other things, they should be able to make more sales. And I did mention also ability to drive traffic to the website. So, excuse me, if you're also able not to attend to most of your clients or customers during office hours, taking your business online will actually help them because they can do self-service. It's like having an auto attendant. And like I said, I love what you mentioned about having good experience, because also that's part of what this presentation addresses. You can help your customers have a long experience by taking your store online. You could integrate different things. It could be having FAQs to quickly address questions that would have had objections so that you could still make the sale. Proactively, questions that would have looked to us. Or having live chats for engagements just in case they have questions. And they really need to make a decision at that moment. So by having some of these things, you're able to improve your customer experience. You're able to attend to your clients even when you're not there. OK, so quickly, let me talk about the three opportunities to make more revenue. Attract higher paying clients and impact more lives. Because at the end, it's all about adding passion. So opportunity one, impact more lives. I mentioned earlier, if you have an online store, that means you can impact more lives. You can reach out to more people from different parts of the world. Opportunity two, attract higher paying clients. You can connect to your target audience. You can connect to people. You will need what you have, and they'll be willing to pay you more. Because you're seeing more value, you watch out together. Opportunity three, you can increase revenue. When you sell to more people within the same period of time or a longer period of time, you're able to make more money. Because if your store is online, then that means you have your office hours open, practically 24, 7. That means your business is not being affected by different time zones. Because someone in another time zone different from you can do self-service by your online store to make their orders. And at the later time, you need to do anything physically when you wake up to get to do that. If you need to send it to the shipping location. So if you have questions, please don't forget to write them down so that towards the end, I can answer them. I can address them. OK, so steps to building successful stores using WordPress. Number one, like I always say, identify your business objective. It's not about just viewing websites. I don't know. For those of us that design us here or developers, have you had a client just tell you that, oh, I just want a website? And sometimes they don't even know why they want a website. Does anyone relate? Maybe they just want a website because everybody else is taking a website. Or they want, OK, you do? Yeah? So pardon? Oh, has anybody else experienced maybe having a client that after one year or two, the client doesn't want to renew their hosting and domain name simply because they feel, I didn't get anybody from it. Lovely. I've also experienced that before. And that tends to happen for clients that in the first place didn't really know why they were getting a website. Oh, maybe they did have an idea. But they were not willing to make the full commitment. Because when you're designing a website, it's an investment. You should see it as an investment, and it must get a return on investment. You should see it that, OK, this is what I want to achieve. This is my business goals. And by having this website, I should be able to achieve this, this, that. I should be able to get more sales, like you said. Or I should be able to give my customers a better experience whatever it is you need to define it. So as a designer or a developer, it's important to ask your customers, your clients those questions so that you can help them gain value and have a return on investment. So I asked earlier what a success meant to you, having a successful store. I said, does it mean automation? Maybe it reduces the time you spend attending to customers. Does it mean more sales? You could sell more products within a short period of time. Does it mean more revenue? You're able to make more money. Or does it mean improved customer service delivery? That means your customers are able to have a better experience with your business. And you're also able to have less support you request. So the next thing you need to do after identifying your business goals, your objectives, either for yourself or for your clients, is to look for the tools that will help you achieve it. The teams, the plugins, the tools, the resources. And for automation, part of it could mean having a shopping cart and ability for people to shop online, ability for them to just put their credit card, make payments, depending on how you have integrated your store. If it's digital products, after they make payments, the products automatically get delivered to them. Or even if it's physical products, maybe your shipping provider gets the alert, especially if it's going to be already at the warehouse and they automatically get a mail, letting them know that, OK, this product with these details should automatically be shipped to this address. So you can achieve all that using your online store automation. More sales, cross sales, upsells. I'll be talking a bit more about that. If you're looking at having more sales, cross sales, upsells will be very useful. I think she also mentioned, she said that now, about repeat purchase. If you love to have repeat purchase, this will be very useful because you are able to make more sales, more signs from the existing customers than from new ones. Because existing customers, if you are giving them a good experience, if you have given them value, it will be willing to buy from you again and again. Why?  Most times, people get to buy from those that know they like the trust. So if they bought from you before, you've given them a good experience, they'll be more willing to definitely buy from you. So for more revenue, you can choose to accept online payments, you can integrate an abandoned cat recovery system, improved customer service delivery, you could add an empty queue section, you could add a support ticket system. So next step, I'm going to be assuming they were starting from the beginning and you're wondering how should you get started. So you need to get a domain name, you need to get a hosting plan from a good hosting provider. You should install SSL certificates. So hosting providers will actually give you SSL certificates for free, but even if they don't, they'll always buy one. It's easier to actually install your SSL certificates before building your sites than after building your sites, now trying to install SSL certificates is a bit more complicated. So you can install your SSL certificates, you can install WordPress either manually or you can use the auto installer if it's been provided for you, if it's been provided on your hosting plan. Then you can install and activate a WooCommerce Compatible team. Usually WooCommerce compatible teams are teams that have been stowed to good with WooCommerce. So those pages that have to do with selling that WooCommerce controls, they would really look nice. So if a team is not WooCommerce compatible, by the time you install it, some of the pages might not be looking so nice or attractive, they might just be looking for it. So if you just want to, for aesthetics, you need to make a move here. So you can also install and activate all the recommended tools and I'll be mentioning part of it, security. I mean, I was here to leave security is important to an online store, anyone? Okay, I don't know if we know, but because Google is trying to encourage people to secure their sites, regardless of if it's an e-commerce store or not, if you go to some sites and they don't have SSL certificates, just going to tell you that this site is not secure. I'm going to people who love to go to an online store and see the site's not secure. Would you want to buy from that site? Anyone? Okay, because you're going to be wondering, are they going to use my credit card to do something else?  So that's why you need to use you need to ensure that you encourage people to trust you by installing an SSL certificate. But not only that, this aspect right now is talking about security in terms of ensuring that your website doesn't get out. So that people don't come to your site and have their information stolen, maybe their credit card details, or come to your site and then explain that they have malware on their devices simply because they got the malware from your website. That's not going to speak so well. Just imagine someone that gets malware from your site. The person can go to social media, they need to just maybe tweet about it or talk about it, that'll disturb your site. And they got malware, they got viruses. And that's not going to be very good for your brand. You can actually destroy that person's brand and their sales. So that's why you have to ensure you secure your site. And you can do this using a free plugin called WorkFriends. They actually have a premium version but the free version works very well. So you could ensure you download it. It helps to keep your website safe and secure. It allows you security vulnerabilities. Letting you know if you need to update your teams, your plugins and what kind of, if it's urgent or not, especially if the update is addressing security vulnerabilities. If you want to not download it, you could use that and keep the access to my slides and you could get that. Or just check the WorkFriends repository, the plugins, you can always download it from there or even from your dashboard. So shopping cart system. I mentioned WorkFriends. I said it's not the only one but it's so popular. Everybody just assumes it's the only one but it's really good. So you could always download that. And you can use it to sell digital products. You can use it to sell physical products. You can use it to asset payments online by connecting it to PayPal, to Stripe and if you want to go old school and say okay, no online payments. I just want to accept checks and they doubt you will go to New England or bank deposits are still the last if you so desire. Another thing is FAQs. Sometimes we take it for granted but it's really good for you to have FAQs on your website. That means frequently asked questions. It can help you to reduce customer service. Customers request can help to increase sales and promotions. How? Usually when you want to sell or perhaps you're having a webinar or you're having a presentation. Part of what you do is you ensure you address objections. You know, people might be wondering how does this apply to me? Okay, I know you're telling me this thing is good but I don't think it's good for me. So before they get to the point where they're wondering I don't think it's good for me. You let them know what it's good for them.  Another person might be thinking oh, I think this thing is too expensive then before they get to the point where they get to tell you that I think this thing is too expensive you let them know why it's expensive. You let them know the value that you're going to get from it. You let them know why it's different because perhaps they're comparing it to something else. So if someone is comparing a Lamborghini to maybe a different kind of car, a smaller vehicle, you let them know the kind of comfort they're going to get from the vehicle. You get like let them know different things they're going to get from it and that's why it's a bit more expensive. So by the time they have a better understanding of the value they're getting from it they're more likely to buy it. So these are some of the things you can address. Frequently asked questions could be the questions ordinarily they would have asked you again and again, a question that someone would have loved to know before they buy. If you can put that on your site in a place where they can easily see it then that means the person can easily learn about it, make their decisions on time and you'll have to think about it and say oh I'll come back then they'll forget. Also if you can address the objections perhaps they'll probably say oh I'll probably ask the person later or they're never interested in asking out because it's already an objection and they are thinking okay I don't think I can afford it, I don't think it's worth it but if you're already addressed it in the Frequently Asked Questions section then they now know why they should afford it or why they now see that an investment as against an expense and why they should go for your products and services. So even though you might not be there to know what they're thinking and you might not be there to know why you should convince them to buy because it's not like that's how they do you. You have already used this opportunity to sell yourself, to sell your products and services and let them know why they should choose you not tomorrow or today so that you can have more sales and increased revenue. So life charts. Is there anyone here that's been to an online store before and you would have loved to make a purchase? You had a question but there was nobody to address that question so you probably said oh I'll probably get around to this and you continue checking online, you saw another store and there was someone who could address that situation on time and just bought from the other store anyone here? Okay, so what I want first is now just imagine if that was your store you probably would never have even known that that person would have bought from you because there was no way to communicate. Oh yes you said oh yeah I do have a way to communicate. I do have a contact phone but yeah the person really wants to get an answer right now make a decision right now or maybe say okay I'm gonna wait for them to reply well let me just keep browsing and the person keeps browsing and the person sees someone to help them so ensure you have life charts on your site you can help address questions quickly. So benefits include reduce the shopping cart to abandon commitments, improves customer service experience, increases conversion rates, increases the ability to practically close the sale and these are some of the plugins you can integrate to help you. Upsells, cross sales, upsells, helps you with repeat sales. So it occurs when you wanna buy something and they now tell you that okay I think this thing will really help you more it's gonna make the experience a better one for you you're gonna enjoy it more and in the process you get to pay more. So definitely the owner of the business is making more money from you but they're helping you have a better experience they're helping you gain more value. So think of it that way not just oh I wanna collect more money from the customer but that I'm gonna be able to add more value the person's gonna see it as you hold up more value and be willing to pay more. For example it could be that you've purchased your ticket on the flight and they say oh would you like to have the window set? Just pay the stocking. Would you like to have more left room? Just pay this extra amount of money. Or okay you're at the hotel and they say oh would you like to have breakfast? Just pay this amount of money ordinarily it would have cost so some amount maybe like $40 but if you're adding it to your purchase right now you're gonna get it for $20. So you as the service provider you are actually having making more money and you're giving the person more value and the person is saving more money. So that's a way to increase more sales. So upsell is easier to sell to new customers it's easier to sell to new customers and it helps you to grow. Cross-sells is complimentary products. So like often bought together making suggestions if you add that to your site you say okay you've just bought this bag you could have this dress along. It looks lovely. Most people that buy this pair of shoes tend to buy this bag. Things like that. So these are some of the plugins of providers you can consider. Abandoned cash recovery simply means you automatically send them an email. Like happens they go to your store they add something to cards maybe they have a question so something distracts them and they say oh I'll get around to it then they forget. But if you have a way to automatically contact them maybe by sending them an email sending them a text message they can get to remember what some people do is in this email you might actually offer a coupon saying oh why don't you just come back and buy these things like you forgot it. And you can have it 10% less than what it was before by using this coupon. So that's a way to increase your sales and the download could be asking them did something happen? Did you experience any problems? And they can get to reply you and let you know oh yes I did. I couldn't use my card, it was failing and that can help you discover issues on your site that probably you didn't know about. Okay so these are some of the plugins you can consider. You can use promotions, it's gift certificates, coupons to encourage people to buy more.  Remember if you're using credits paying for the credits if you're already putting your money up front it's like you're paying to the bank the money's no longer with you you can get to use that at any point in time so they're collecting more money up front and it's almost like you're saving a little less but you can get to buy things later on. So that way you encourage these people to drop their money more with you.  So on the closing note, we've identified that you can impact more lives you can make more money you can improve sales conversions you can improve your customer service delivery you can attract higher paying clients you can sell more when you take your business online and you enable people to buy from you easily. So that will be all I don't know if you have questions you can ask me if you'd love to there's an email I have on essential tools to skyrocket e-commerce, combustion routes and sales if you'd like to get in you can send me an email and contact me and decide in different ways on which you can reach me. Okay, any questions? Do you work with affiliates, affiliate programs? Yes, I have. You know any good sources? Yeah, I do. Local or? Community. No, I'm talking about using WordPress building an affiliate system on WordPress. Right. Yeah, yeah. There is, I think, affiliate WP for them so you can check it out there and use that to view an affiliate system. Any other questions? Okay. You mentioned having a chat directly on your website. Do you just recommend Messenger or is there something else? Yeah, Messenger is actually good. You could integrate Messenger as good because most people are on Facebook so that way you could always continue the conversation and nowadays people are using Messenger bots to view these skyrockets sales. So yeah, Messenger, fantastic. Can I add to that? Yeah. Live chat is a great solution and they have an affiliate program so you can build your clients and then you make a little money off of it and install it, you have to register as a live chat affiliate resource. O-Lark is another good one too. Huh? Look at O-Lark. O-Lark is a good chat system as well. And any chat system that you can integrate with Salesforce, if you want to use Salesforce as a CRM, there's tons out there. You can integrate it through Slack or Jabber so that way just like Slack so you get internally, it can open up a chat window as well and give you the details of the customer for whatever fields you have them fill out in terms of contact and fill out so it's pretty cool. You spelled it. Pardon me? O-L-A-R-K. Any other questions? No, fine or good, no questions? What's your Facebook page? I can't read it. Okay, it's Katrin and Wally. Yeah, that's my name so Facebook page slash Katrin and Wally. Any other things? How do you spell that after? Okay, Katrin, C-A. It's on our website too. A-C-E-R-I-N-E, then a Wally, E-G-W-A-L-I. Any other questions? Anybody can help you? Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


And I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. Welcome back to another Foundation Friday. If you are new to my channel, I review foundations every Friday. I do curly hair product reviews and tutorials on Sundays, so make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any more videos. But today I'm going to be reviewing a brand new foundation for me, which is the Emon Stick Foundation. I have never tried a stick foundation, so I'm very excited to try one for the first time. But I'm also very nervous because I've heard that stick foundations aren't really good for oily skin because they're pretty creamy, so we're going to experiment today. This is the Emon Second to None Stick Foundation. I got the color Clay Number Four, and it says it's going to be paraben-free. It is full coverage, oil-free, and long-wearing matte color, so that's always a good word for us oily skin girls. Here is the beautiful little stick. It says Emon. It's very sleek. All right, there's a little plastic thing inside that'll pop out. I don't think I need that, and it looks like almost like a big, chunky lipstick, but it's going to be my foundation. I'm so excited to try it. Let's do it. Let's do it right now.  Sorry. Calm down. Got a little excited. So I will be using the Stay Matte by Reml Foundation Primer. I've just been using this one on all my videos lately, just been getting all the love. I don't know how much I even like this primer, but I've been using it on my videos. So we'll see. Let me know what your favorite primer is for oily skin as well. Okay, now that I'm primed, now we can get started. So I'm going to kind of dislike, start painting this on my face, maybe blend it out. I don't even know. We're just going to, we're going to learn together today, so here we go. Oh, so this is probably too dark for me. I'm going to out the gate. Let's figure this out. I'm using this like as an eraser, like, oh, here's a problem, let's delete. This is probably way too dark for me. I'm going to make it work. I'm going to make it work. Let's not freak out. So I'm going to buff it out with my Beauty Blender. Okay, that's better. Getting there. Getting there. It's definitely going on matte, not shiny at all. I'm getting really good coverage. And I've learned that if you do have kind of like acne prone skin, if you have a little bit of a shade darker, it's going to be doing a better job at covering your blemishes. So keep that in mind if you have a lot of like scars or acne problems that you want to hide and or cover. Okay, this is pretty cool. Let's add, let's draw some more. You know, can we get something? Can we like make a heart? Oh yeah, now we're having fun. Yeah, I'm like those really annoying Instagram videos where they do pointless makeup things. Yeah, everybody loves those, right? I will say that because it's not a liquid form, it does take a little bit more of like a smearing motion to blend it. But it's getting there slowly but surely. Okay, I think I'm all blended out. I think it looks really nice. It's definitely extremely matte so that always makes me excited to start off on a very matte canvas. Took a little while to blend. The color probably could be a little bit lighter for me that could be my fault but I don't recall anything lighter at the Walgreens that I went to. And now I'm going to finish the rest of my makeup. There we go. Now my full face is complete. It is currently two o'clock so I will come back and we'll see how well the Stick Foundation does on my oily skin after a couple hours. Alrighty. I'm now back. It is currently 10 p.m. so I've had on this makeup for eight hours. That's a full work day. This is how I would be at the end of the day. So, per usual, I am a little shiny. It just happens to me all the time because of my oily skin. I always get oily here and on my forehead but it's not too bad. At this point I am going to get my Cleaning Clear Oil Absorbing Sheets and this is the way I do all of my Foundation Friday videos. And I'm now going to blot and see how it looks because usually I would not just walk around oily, I would blot but I did not touch my face for the video. So this is definitely more of a matte finish and this is all of the oil that came off of my skin. It did pick up some of the makeup so the makeup is kind of coming off and this is only really supposed to pick up the oil so that's always something to keep in mind. Okay. So pros and cons. I like the packaging. It's cute. I'm a sucker for cute packaging. I like how easy it is to just apply it straight onto your face. It does have a lot of skin colors for brown skin which is something that we don't always have. I like that it is available in select Walgreens and Target. I also enjoyed that it went on very matte and it did a pretty good job with my oily skin. My cons would be that it does take a little bit more effort to blend it out because it is more of a thicker, creamier texture and not a liquid form. Now this foundation is $14.99 so $15 is a little high for a drugstore foundation. Because of my oil blotting test I will think that this might transfer and it might have transferred like on the side of my face here because maybe I touched it. So it's good. It's just not going to last you all day but I don't even think on the box it's claiming to last all day so you can't be mad at products for not doing what they say they're not going to do. I will probably continue to use this so make sure you follow me on Snapchat and Instagram at MsBeyondGrenet. That way you can get an update from me if I do have any other thoughts on using this more than once as well as a first impressions review. If you have tried it yourself please leave a comment and let me know what you think or maybe what your favorite stick foundation is as well. I was very curious to try them and I'm very glad that I did. Before you go asking this video a thumbs up and subscribe. Make sure you push that little bell so you are notified as soon as I post a new video. I post foundation Fridays every Friday and I post curly hair products and other fun videos on Sundays so I hope you come back on Sunday because that video is going to be amazing just so you know you're going to love it. I hope to see you all next week. Thanks for watching Beyond Grenet today.


So happy Mother's Day mom. Love you, and thanks for going out to breakfast With me at the original pancake house.  All right. Love you all just checking out my land before going to work boom There's the grass Hopefully it's gonna be grass here in about a week. It'll pop up like that once the sun comes back any who Have a great day. Everybody. It's Friday Tg if Whether I'm back. I'm back. The Sun is out. It's amazing.  So this whole as you guys know like these 30 shots in 30 seconds is just I Just love it. I love it and I know you hopefully you're not getting getting sick of it But I'm on my way down to a meeting downtown and I've got you know, maybe 20 30 minutes extra time So I'm gonna get once again Dave 30 shots. I'm gonna get 30 shots not 20 not 22 30 shots Make sure you're counting and this is once again to communicate what it feels like to live in Denver All right, and unfortunately, it's you know, 36 degrees and it's almost June, but hey, this is Denver So 30 shots 30 seconds for you. Keep in mind Denver is booming right now booming So lots of construction happening all right and lots of big trucks driving by at any moment Dave did I get 30 did I get 30 huh? How to do so Denver's growing as you can see there's cranes all over the sky and It's it's insane. In fact, I think in 2016 Denver was the fastest growing city in the United States. Don't quote me on that But definitely top five for sure, but I believe I read somewhere that Denver was the fastest growing city in America last year So listen, I would rather have people living in Denver than up in the mountains Let's you know build cities well build cities efficiently help people live You know through public transportation and like just have efficiencies so you can enjoy life Whereas if you're up in the mountains like I'd rather I don't want the mountains to be busy with millions of people I'd rather have people living in the city. So I don't mind the growth now It's changing the face of the city literally before our eyes as I'm looking across the interstate at downtown But it's okay like people human beings need to live Somewhere right we all need a roof over over our heads. Can you imagine being homeless? That's no good man No, no one should be homeless, but Obviously got a fight for your you know your housing, you know You're not just gonna get something for free in this world But at the same time like people got to have a roof over their head what they're building in Denver just happens to be very Expensive roofs over people's heads, but hey people live how they want to live all right into this meeting at a coffee shop and Just Friday Right and left bower right and left bower, do you know a game that's from card game that might have to be the question The day at least question one a are you a yuker fan? I just gave it away and Do you know how to play if you come to Denver? We'll have to turn to me Right and left that's a good hand right there Not a bad spot in the Highlands metropolis, but their Wi-Fi was Incredibly slow the first 45 minutes And that is one of my pet peeves. I cannot handle slow internet, but and then it kicked in what? Any tech people out there watching like what's up with the internet being slow and then just kicks in just kicks in All right Days almost done. It's Friday tg if tg if Now onto a run here we go people new thing new addition to the vlog I love it I love it and I have to give a shout out first to bud who sent me text me last night a Lightning bolt that he captured. I believe on his iPhone. Maybe an Android. I'm not sure bud in Oklahoma, so this is an epic lightning bolt now Not too shabby not too shabby right well, I would say that's bud see can beauty right bud Maybe can I make that argument? So I have a new idea Send me your video clips of you seeking beauty working hard and loving others Okay, but when you send the clip when you film the clip if you feel comfortable, you don't have to but if you say okay my name is Brian I live in New York, and this is how I seek beauty. My name is Jessica I live in Australia, and this is how I work hard. My name is James I live in Singapore and this is how I love others, okay, and then email me text me Facebook however you want to get it to me comment below and I'll get you some contact info You'll get it to me. You'll get it to me. I know you will and then of course I'll give you a shout out in the vlog You'll get to show others your skills with the video, and we're talking short clips like you know, let's say 10 to 30 seconds, you know nothing too long Keep it fairly concise. I'm excited Bobby over on is as lush as the Gardens of Japan appreciate that sir. All right. I am cruising leave in the house on a Friday night Whoa, whoa, whoa everybody just calm down. Basically. There's a you know by monthly event called beer bonding So I'm on my way there where we go drink beer and bond so and watch James Bond So that's good. That's good, but I don't know if I you know, I've already I just looked at the camera the memory card I've already filmed 98 clips today and usually I only film About like 50 to 70 roughly on average. So I might just be calling it now We'll just see how the party evolves. We'll see how the beer bonding evolves. All right, come on 106 clips You might be calling it here in case I don't fire the camera up again. See beauty work hard love each other See tomorrow


If you can move here, I would appreciate it very much, but well, first of all, to introduce it a little bit, having sponsors for academies is very important. It's what makes it possible for us to be here, like it or not, it's very expensive to bring people together from all over the world and we couldn't, we wouldn't be able to do it without all of those lovely sponsors. And wow, I mean, look at them, how pretty they all look over there. First of all, let's start with our first Gold Sponsor Shells video in. We don't have audio, we should be having audio from the video, I think. Over 25 operating systems. Can we maybe play it from the start? This means you can connect to your shell from your phone. Hi, my name is Jason and I'm the CEO of Shells, a cloud-based device as a service, or wise known as a DAS. The DAS is a service which allows you to connect to your virtual devices from anywhere in the world that has an internet connection and the browser. This means you can connect to your shell, which can have a choice of over 25 operating systems.  We offer over 25 operating system choices, including many different versions of Linux, like Ubuntu and Manjaro to privacy-centric tales. We also offer Windows and Android for those who prefer it. We partner with several Linux development teams, some of which maintain their own shell image, meaning it comes directly from the source. This also means that shouldn't issue a rise, we can raise it directly to the development team. Our applications are open source and available and I'll get help for people to read, compile or improve should they wish, as we have a strong involvement and bias for the FOSS community. This year's we've launched several programs as well as made significant improvements to our data centers and infrastructure. Similar programs launched include Shells and Schools, which gives students access to Shells at school and home, ensuring fast access to information and educational software. We also launched Shells for journalists, which allows for free privacy-centric operating systems like tales to be used in alignment and best practices to ensure privacy and security to those who need it, whilst reporting sometimes in conflict zones. As we move into 2023, we have a host of projects and plans for building a better customer experience, infrastructure, network and future for all. Thank you for listening. Thank you Shells and now the video from KDAB. Hi, I'm Jesper Pedersen from KDAB. I'm sorry to not be there with you this week, which I had looked much forward to, but sometimes life happens. KDAB and KDE go way back together. When Matisse Etrich sent out his email about anybody want to join me on this quest of developing a desktop environment for Linux, one of the first people was actually the founder of KDAB, to reply to him. And Matthias Kelle del Heimer had quite a bit of code in the very first version of KDE out there. I myself also had quite a bit of code in there. Well, that might be an exaggeration. I had some code in there, namely my cave regular expression, it is her, which I hear is not in there anymore. Anyway, as I said, I would have loved to be there this week and I plan to be there. But unfortunately, we had our yearly company meeting last week.  Personally, I'm still at one bar still. I don't feel sick. So I likely ain't sick. But I didn't want to risk any of your your well being in coming down there after being around quite a few sick people. So first of all, I urge you all to take good care of each other. I got three minutes and half of my time has already passed. I guess I don't need to explain to you who KDAB is. But if you don't know at all, we're a cute consultant company. We are a sponsor of KDE. We have sponsored quite a bit of work in tools like gamma ray and hotspot. And if you don't know those, go and look them up right away. We also have quite a few videos online on cute and QML in on YouTube, you might be able to see my face quite a bit. And what I'm going to tell you about today in my last minute is that we are actually hiring. So if you're looking for a job involving QT, QML, cute widgets, anything around cute, we might be a good place for you to work. And if you are asking yourself, why should I come and work with KDAB? Well, let me just give you a few bullet points here. So you want to work on cute, but you also want to continue working on KDE. And I very much encourage you to do that. Well, in KDAB, we don't have that much KDE work, but we do have a good work life balance. So you have a chance to work on KDE in your spare time. You're not going to end up with 60 hours work week. You're going to get a 40 hour work week and nothing more. You want to continue grow as a developer. We can definitely help you with that. You want to work from where you actually live. Don't want to move somewhere else. And we do have remote work opportunities in KDAB. And finally, you want to make a difference in the world. We work on many very interesting projects involving especially medical. So do send me an email to careers at KDAB.com. Do take care of yourself and each other at Academy this year. And I wish you all a great conference. Yeah. Thanks very much, Jesper. And we all missed all of these people from KDAB that are very close to our community. And now Adam is going to tell us about his other hat, I believe. Okay. So again, hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Adam from Canonical. I'm a product manager for desktop experience. You might know Canonical for these things. Ubuntu in particular might be something you know about, but Canonical does a lot of different things as well. Here's a screenshot of the website. Take a look. Maybe your business needs some of these things. Contact us. What does Ubuntu have to do with KDE? Well, for example, you might know Ubuntu with an official flavor, which uses KDE technology. There's an update to 2210 coming soon, which will be using Plasma 526, I believe. The current Ubuntu base is on 2204, which is an LTE release of Ubuntu. You might also know the KDE Neon project, which is using the LTE's releases of Ubuntu as a base for that technology. You might also know Canonical's product called Snapcraft, which is their app store for Linux. Currently, 106 KDE apps are available. The most popular have tens of thousands of active users. Aleš actually, during his goals presentation for all about the apps, gave you even more stats about how Snap is important to KDE. We have a booth or a table, as it were, here. If you want to talk to us, I'm here. Mauro is here as well, and Omar, I think, also is available. You can talk to us about all stuff. Ubuntu, Canonical, and KDE. There's some swag for you there as well. Thank you very much. See you at the table and talk to us everywhere. Thank you, Adam. Vision, round of applause. Let me get this light deck, but you can say hi first. Hello. Hello. Great. Welcome. Hi. I'm Victoria, TD Fisher on IRC. I was involved in KDE about 10 years ago. I'm back. Hello. And these are my colleagues from Ambition. We've got... Hi, you probably know me. I like it. You've seen me today. So, we are Ambition. We are doing automotive things in entertainment. We were found in 2017. There's more than 750 digital talents in two hubs. There's one in Berlin and one in Sofia, Bulgaria, and there's more than 40 nations working at Ambition. So what we're doing, the mobility world is changing and cars are pretty much computers on wheels. There's all of these things, connected cars, updateability and all of those things that are coming. So, FOS is a big part of our success story. So, we're working hand in hand with all of these different partners and different FOS communities. And, of course, we love KDE because our tech stack is very similar to what you are all doing. So, actually, we just contributed our 50th contribution to KDE. And I guess I wanted to add more on that. Yeah. Thank you. But this round of applause actually also goes to you. So, we at Ambition, we know that open source is not a one-way street. And, of course, we love a good street and connecting people across distances. So, 50 patches in all so represents a lot of your efforts, your help in reviewing the code and improving our contributions. You donated that time to us very generously. We are very appreciative. We hope that you will continue to do so because we will keep showing up with more patches. Thank you. Yeah. I guess we have another minute and 30 seconds or so. So, yeah, come work at Ambition.  We are three out of 750 or so, as Kai said. The funny thing is, Harald gave a cool talk earlier about taking a break from KDE. I did exactly that. And then Aika came to me last year at Academy and said, hey, would you like to get back in? So, here we are. So, we're doing really cool stuff with KDE, a lot of stuff with Qt. Our latest biggest project we're proud of is, I'm sure people know that Quinn is an amazing Wayland compositor, can render thousands of frames per second. But now, it can render thousands of frames a second at thousands of kilometers per hour in a car. Because we're putting it into a car. It's great. So, if you want to work on that, if you want to work on Qt stuff, if you want to work on multimedia, graphics, and the next generation of in-car infotainment systems, drop us a line. Check us out at Ambition.io slash jobs, I think. And if that year rolls wrong, you can find it yourself on Google. So, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Ambition. Keep company. Hello again. I'm still Volker. You have seen a lot of slides from yesterday, so I'm not going to present you with more than that. Earlier, I was asked how we are doing in the Qt company. And I think that's something worth talking a bit about. We have now been an independent company for about five years and doing pretty well. And it's a lot of fun to work in a company that is doing two things. One of them, first of all, building open source technology for me as a software engineer. It's very satisfying to work full time on an open source project, contribute that back, make it possible for communities like you to use our technology to do fantastic things, while at the same time also, of course, making a living from that. So doing that kind of thing full time is really great. And we have today 150 people or so in our R&D organization in the Qt company doing that kind of thing. Of course, software engineering or rather library development is not everybody's cup of tea, let's be honest. It's a bit of a special thing to do, but it's a if you find this kind of thing interesting, then we are also hiring both in our Oslo site where I am, for instance, we have teams in Berlin, where we are doing very exciting things with QML where we're doing exciting things with the web engine or the build system. Also different platforms we want to support that is happening in Berlin. We have a team in North and Finland, if you like the midnight sun and sauna, that might be something for you to look into. So yes, we are a traditional, perhaps maybe even a little bit outdated company in respect of the time that we spend together in the office. That is again, not everybody's cup of tea, but if you are at that point in your career, where maybe you want to look at somewhere else to move to, then that is something we would very much like to welcome you. Yeah, so like I mentioned, we have been now an independent company for five years. After quite an interesting ride, I think you might know a lot about that already. So I'm not going to repeat that, but being now a company that is independent, profitable and able to grow and steer our own way has also in the last couple of months, of course, enabled us to make decisions that allow us to work again, more on things that you are finding interesting, hopefully, like the desktop, like mobile, like platforms, working with the community. You saw that we now with with Pedro have a community manager. So I hope that we will see much more of each other in the future. And I'm looking forward to working with you. I have personally very much enjoyed the Academy event, my first event. It was lots of fun, lots of interesting conversations, lots of interesting talks. So thanks for that. And thanks for welcoming me and my colleagues from the Q company. Bye bye. Thank you, Volker. Neil, coming up. Fedora time. So hello, y'all. Unlike, you know, some of the other people here, like I think I've probably bored y'all with slides earlier today. So I don't, you just get to see the lovely new fangled Fedora logo that we launched. I think it was last year. Yeah, I think it's last year. Man, that took a couple of years to figure out. I'm very happy to have this because now I get new t shirts, new fanciness, lots of swag. It's very cool. This is my first time actually being at an academy in person. I've been to academies a couple of the couple of times with the virtual ones. It's been super awesome to meet all of y'all and like actually have a stronger connection with the KD community. It's been great to put faces to names and be able to have, you know, much more high band with conversations and really kind of convey how much I love working with y'all in KD development and supporting it in Fedora. And it's been very empowering and very enriching for us to be able to support KD technologies within our platform. That's why we have the Fedora KD spin and we launched Kinoite last year. And I'm crossing my fingers for Fedora mobile edition that we may have with Plasma Mobile next year. So we're going to do our best to provide what we can and make an amazing experience for people to use and contribute to. If y'all are interested in helping us make a better KD experience for on the Fedora platform, feel free to come by to our SIG, check out our booth table thing that's outside and talk to me or Timothy, who, you know, we're the Fedora folks that came here. And with all that, I don't really have a whole lot of other words left. So thank you very much Fedora. Will you come up? So we're from Collabora. We're a consulting company. We work in embedded boards. We put distros together. We go, we do a lot of work on multimedia, which is streamer and also graphics, Vulkan, DRM, Mesa, all of that. But basically we are an engineer company. And it's all about open source. I am proud to say I'm the project manager who will check new sales opportunities and say, if there's nothing in open source interesting for us, then that we're not going to sell it. So that's something that I really like about it. And also working in the open, whenever we can, we try to do it in a polygroup of story and just push it out. So since we are basically all developers, I wanted them to just talk about what they like about working here. Hey everyone, maybe you know me. I'm one of the engineers at Collabora. One of the things that strikes me the most is the flexibility to actually work on various open source projects and not only to work but to actually contribute back. As I mentioned, yesterday I actually have contributed a couple patches to KD, which kind of makes me feel bad here. But it's better than zero, I would imagine. And it's a way forward. So that's how it starts, right? But apart from that, personally I have worked with Collabora on more than 1,000 different open source projects to various degrees. So that's the piece that actually strikes me the most and I enjoyed the most. I'm Jeremy. I used to be a KD contributor years ago. This is my second Academy. My first one was 12 years ago. Yeah, I know. I disappeared for a bit. What I wanted to say about Collabora is that I like that the slogan or motto or whatever is open first. We definitely pursue open source contracts the most. And then the other thing is community time. Every week, every engineer gets at least two hours a week to work on whatever open source project they want to. And that's been a boon to the communities, all communities, not just KD, all open source communities. And I appreciate that myself. So yeah, all in all, what I like the most is we make cool stuff happen. And yeah, like SteamOS and Steam Deck this year. I mean, it's a project I've been working on for three years and even more. And I'm very proud of it and how it's coming up. So it's just I like working here. Thank you very much for Collabora. All right. Hello, everyone. My name is George. This is Stathis, my colleague. We are actually students from the University of Macedonia. And we are open source members of the community. And we're going to introduce you with a brief description of our team in the university open source team. First of all, let me introduce Stathis who I organized the open source community in Greece. He acquired a good amount of knowledge in order to create an open source team. He also hosted the GUADEC 2019 in the University of Macedonia in an effort to promote the free software in the university. And then he created a volunteer organization. He formed a golden organization in order to strengthen this promotion of the free software through FOSCOM, the Parkelemic conference for open and free communities in Greece. And this is where me and Stathis met. And this is me, Stathis and Pares Bacalis, who created the open source team in order to strengthen more and more the effort for promotion of the free software in Greece. This is some of our events in Greece. As you can see here and here we're very happy, as you can see. Despite the fact that we were a brand programming team, the software development team, the university committee actually recommended us to create an open source app for the students in order to have a really easy access to their data because they were dispressed across the university website. And so we complied with the open source community's guidelines for software development. This is us in our office developing our app. This is me on these lines. This is me again. And this is us solving an error right there. And this is the app we produced since now. We produced this in one month from July to August of 2022. And they're using it now in the University of Macedonia. So we tend to utilize open source to introduce open source to the first year students and utilize it for other university students. We also, in order to do that, we create the script that installs all the applications for the learners in the following years for the students. And also these features will be included in ISO for an open source to be to them. We are pleased to have open source support us. And we have taken on the motto have a lot of fun. And thank you very much open source. This is us. Biking software, thank you very much. Thank you. So I didn't want to just show our logo. So hopefully there'll be some random images just trung along and we'll see if they actually do switch or no it doesn't. Then I'll just do some switching. So thank you for having us. When Alex reached out to us some time ago and asked if we wanted to join this list of sponsors. I thought, hmm, I need a reason. The first one sponsor Katie. Fairly good reason. There are a lot of people here who don't know me or because you're too young, I guess I was actually active in Katie from 1997 to 2004. If you find really old change logs and you can see my name all over K mail and stuff like that. And I've actually been to a lot of Katie at these academies. Well, too, is that a lot? This is number three to us a lot. So the first one was in 2004. I immediately I came there and then I quit my job at KDAP and then I left. And the second one was in what 10, 9 years ago in Bilbao. I left. I met our first developer at the first one we ever hired at Viking software. So when I thought about this, I thought, OK, maybe I can do it again. Maybe I can find the next Viking here. So reason number two, that was all I needed. I told my wife who's sitting on the money in Viking software. We have to sponsor this. So here we are. And no, how do you become a Viking? Oh, sorry. So a thousand years ago, you'd grab an axe, sail to England. Don't do that anymore. It's frowned upon. Boring people out there. So instead, you have to do five things. First of all, you have to be good at remote work. I have a theory that is something that all of you have done. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't sit in this room. The other thing is you have to be a good cute developer. And it's actually surprisingly hard to be in an open source environment and community without being a fairly good developer. So I would assume you are. I have also assumed that you actually know a bit about QT. Maybe. Third one, probably need a degree. Master's degree in computer science, I hope. Bachelor maybe. There are a few that doesn't in the company or something related. But it really helps when someone asks Viking software to come in and help on their code. Then we send experts and they assume they'll get an expert on their job because, well, I didn't tell you what Viking software do. We send people out to help customers with code. That's not important. You come here for the work. But then you actually need to be sort of an expert. And that's not that easy. The fourth one is you have to work without micromanagement. You have to be able to work on your own. And I think that's also something that happens a lot here at Viking software, here at KD. And fifth one, you have to be nice because I don't want to work with someone who's not nice because why would I? That's hard. All these five reasons, maybe 1% of developers in the world. But I think in this room, it's a lot higher than 1%. And that's why I'm here. So now there are. Ah, funny pictures. Thank you. And thank you Vikings. Next, we have Slimbo who couldn't be there, but they asked me to remind you that there's a discount on the laptops with KD software on. So keep that in mind if you're thinking of new hardware. But next, Tomas is going to tell us about code thing this year. Hi. So I am code thing this year. I was another company a few years ago, a few months ago. I feel sometimes I go. And code thing deals with many, many things, including automotive, including also free desktop SDK, flat packs. And I'm sorry, I'm really tired. So we are hiring and I don't know what else to say. Say that you love it. Yeah. Thank you Tomas. Thank you code thing for sponsoring us. As well as Slimbo, they couldn't be here, but also, well, say hi to Academy. And next, GitLab, we have a video here. Video in. Greetings, KDE community. And thanks for this opportunity to speak with you at KDE Academy. I'm Brian Behrenshausen, senior open source program manager at GitLab. And I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you all on hosting a great community conference. GitLab is proud to call KDE an open source partner. Communities like yours are the backbone of the open source ecosystem and we're delighted to be able to support the great work that you're doing. If you'd like to learn more about the ways that GitLab can help open source communities grow and thrive, go to this URL here about.gitlab.com slash open source. Thanks again for letting GitLab be a part of your conference. And again, thanks for all of your hard work. Enjoy the rest of the show. Thank you, GitLab. Next time, they didn't want to come here, but they are around. Be sure to talk to them and ask all of the questions that you wanted to ask them. And thanks to all of the sponsors who cared for Academy, wanted to be here and participated by being sponsors. Thank you very much. It's very important for us.


One, two, three, four, five, that's right. Thanks for coming. Yesterday afternoon, a police from Task Force Maxima arrested a 29-year-old male at the Kilmungo airport. This person is the national president of the Comanchero criminal motorcycle gang, so it's a significant arrest. He was arrested in relation to threats he made in December 2012 to a Queensland police officer where he threatened to harm that officer's family and also kill the officer. That incident related to his arrest and extradition back to New South Wales on a freight charges which he'd just done 12 months ago.  If you think that you're not known, think again. We speak with our colleagues in the state and federally every day about the activities of criminals and criminal organisations and we share information and we act on it daily. Some things you don't see in the background but these arrests at the at the front end of our activities. He tells us about the police officer that he allegedly threatened. He's a detective on the Gold Coast. He arrested him in relation to a warrant from New South Wales to have him extradited back to New South Wales to face charges from an offraided man. Is that detective still with the Queensland police? Yes he is. He's a member of the Gold Coast CID. Is the uh the bike he in question aware that he'd be facing charges in Queensland? No. So you just landed and then you arrested him? That's right. How did you know he was going to be arriving? As I say we share information daily with our our counterparts in other organisations and other jurisdictions and we received information that he was arriving. So he's probably under his own name? Yes he did. Is he watching in New South Wales for any other matters? Not in New South Wales but I understand he's on bail for matters in Victoria. Is there any reason why Queensland police waited for him to arrive and not make an arrest or an extradition order before? He was serving at Tenman Imprisonment in New South Wales and he was only released on the 2nd of January so he's just out of town. Why didn't you get an extradition order while he was in jail? We got information that he was coming up and it was a matter of operational expediency for him to arrive and we'd arrest his arrival. But you could have done it. We could have done this. Any idea? Sorry just operational expediency. What's that? Well it's more effective. It was a more effective use of resources. Do you know what he was doing at the Gold Coast? Why he was troubling? He told the arresting officers he was here on holidays with his family. Was he with his wife and children? Yes he was. I'm the threats to the police officer from Gold Coast CIV. Where did he make the threats and what did he say? He was during the course of the arrest at Hope Island. He made threats to harm the officer's family and also killed the officer. He during the course of the arrest he became quite violent. He was headbutting the police vehicle and had to be restrained and also so he's headbutting it to the extent that he received a laceration to his forehead. What do you make of this arrest? Is it a big move? Like haven't you taken out the top guy I guess? Well I think anyone who's a member of criminal assault again it's important that the fact that he is the national president and generally we find that other underlings and associates take the rap for the for the office bearers. This is a clear indication that it shows if this is the way the leaders operate the the underlings that's where they get their leadership from. They follow the the examples of the leadership and it's clear indication as to why they're an issue for the community and safety in general. So he tries not to tell him when he was in? No I can't answer as to why he wasn't told. He wasn't aware when he arrived. He was surprised. Communication that went to him or he just like? No I don't know. What does it mean for him to matter in other states? He was on bail or just going to jail if he's breached me if he's paroled if he has any paroled situations? It's a matter for those jurisdictions but obviously he if he doesn't get bail here in Queensland he can't answer his charges in other jurisdictions but if he gets bail in returns it's a matter for them as to what they decide to do. Are you worried now though that you've taken the national leader that there could be anger among the other office bearers? No. It's important that we let them know that we're not you know we're not afraid of the we'll take action when we find the evidence regardless of where they are in in Australia we will we'll hunt them down and we'll arrest them. Is he actually arrested under which law? It's not the anti-biker laws is it? No he's been arrested he's been arrested under a provision of the criminal code threats. And what sort of length does he face? What's the maximum charge under him? The maximum penalty is five years. First to clarify what was the 12 month jail term for a fray and? In New South Wales yes. Just a fray? Yes I believe so. Do you know if that was in relation to me high-profile incidents down there? Sorry what was that? Do you know what um that was? Was it an airport one or was it something else? No I don't. And what's the Victorian charges are they a fray as well? I understand it relates to a fray type activity I don't know the exact wording of the charge. Do you know what day he left jail in New South Wales? The second of January. With those rooms that were I think they've been published actually in Victorian papers about the Victorian bikies that came here to break some sort of peace deal between was it the Comancheiros and Hell's Angels? I don't believe they came up here to break a deal I think a deal with being broken in the past between those two clubs. Is there any link between those Victorians and the president of the Comancheiros? Only that there are three of the persons arrested on Sunday are Comancheiros so they're in the same club gang. It's bizarre to have four of them here within a couple of days of each other. It's certainly an unusual coincidence if it is a coincidence. Is there any intelligence saying that we're planning on meeting here or anything like that or are we trying to test the laws? There's intelligence to suggest that they've been in contact with other members of the gang. The reason for their travel is unclear we're looking into that. The bikies whole life has been we're just here on holidays. Is there a history of them holidaying on the Gold Coast or is this an unusual event? Everybody holidays on the Gold Coast. That's like it's my point you know they say they're here for holidays on the Gold Coast and is that unusual for them to be holidaying on the Gold Coast? I think it's unusual for them in the current climate like they're quite aware of the changes in legislation here in Queensland and if they're willing to come up here and commit offences so there they'll be they'll be action will be taken. Do you know how many children he was traveling in? One I believe. Any idea what age? Roughly. Young was in the arms of the mother so. His wife could have trouble under those associations laws for being with him or there have to be another associate there have to be three women. I think it's important that people understand that just associating is an offence you've got to be a participant of the criminal organisation. That's why legitimate road users and motorcycle users have nothing to fear from this legislation. You've got to be a participant of a criminal gang. It's not just associating with three more people. Do you know if that child could wear a dress? No I don't. Just on a related matter that's the allegation the yandina people and the pizza deliverer was that he was an associate of people who were in a prescribed organisation? Is that it? Is that basically the allegation? They're a declared criminal. A declared organisation. But the pizza deliverer up at yandina he was an associate of them is that that's what he's been charged with? They've been charged as being participants of a criminal organisation gang three or more in a public place. Yeah I understand that I'm talking specifically about the guy who's delivering the pizza to who's not a member of the gang. He's a participant otherwise he wouldn't have been charged. So he's a participant? He's a participant through his associates and affairs with the club not it's got nothing to do with pizza delivery. Sorry? It's got nothing to do with pizza delivery? No. He's a participant of the rebels criminal motorcycle gang. That's why he was arrested that's why he was charged. So he's actually a member of the rebels? He's a participant that's what this the definition under the act is there's a definition for participant. Sorry is he a member of the rebels? He's not a patch member I don't believe. I'd have to clarify that but he's definitely a participant. Does this relate to anything beside delivering the pizza? Yes it does. What's that? I couldn't tell you off the top of my head.