Think Tech Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. And welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're a show that focuses on success stories in Hawaii, normally about businesses in Hawaii, but sometimes we get into the companies that support those businesses or the entities that support those businesses, or sometimes the organizations that prepare future business owners or career type people to get ready for the workforce. Now this is going to be one of those days. Now I just want to mention we broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30 from the downtown studios of Think Tech Hawaii in a Pioneer Plaza. And so the group that we have today came all the way over from the Everside at Campbell High School, Long Trek, and they were here and they took the time out to come down and talk to us. Shane Greenfield has been on the show before, Greenland, I'm sorry, has been on the show before, and he's come back and he's brought two special guests with him this time. So we're going to hear a little bit about the academy that they have out at the Campbell High School, and we're going to hear some maybe testimonials about how well this academy works for two of the senior students out there. Shane, good to have you on the show again. Great to be back. We had such a great response last time when we did it, and by being able to put up our website, we've had businesses actually contact us and getting more involved and the academies are really starting to build. We're organizing a business networking night that we're going to host on March 29th for many of the businesses that really want to give back and give to Campbell as well as find out how they can- Is that going to be at the school? It's going to be at the school. We've got a few business partners that are helping sponsor it. The Better Business Bureau is one of the main leaders in it as well as Central Pacific Bank. Excellent. But it's just been a wealth of people wanting to find out ways of how do we get involved and how can we start bridging the gap between post-secondary DOE as well as the business sectors on being able to create a great product and when we send kids out, they have those skills, habits, and dispositions so that they can find a career. Right. And if somebody wanted to find out more about this business thing that you're talking about, how could they find out more? So again, you can go to Campbellhigh.org. There's a website there, or you can call or email me at the school. But there's, you know, in any various ways, any of the academy principals that are at Campbell, the school principal, our academies director, they can all provide information on what that night will be. And if they would like to come, we would definitely love to have them come out. And what's going to be the format of that evening? What are you going to talk about? So probably the first 20, 25 minutes, we're actually going to have a few clubs and different groups from our campus go through and perform and kind of showcase the hula team, the dance team, the band, our drum line is going to perform. So just kind of a quick little showcase of some of the things we do. And then we're going to kind of break out and have all the academies will be showcasing what their academy consists of, what our goals are, the vision of each of them in trying to work with the post-secondary institutions as well as how we can partner with the business partners to get the many of the 3,200 students that we have out into the real world and get real life knowledge so that they can make real life decisions and get real life careers. And it's those business partners that's really going to be necessary to make all of this come together.  Everybody wants to have a career so that they can make a livable wage, stay and live in Hawaii and enjoy the dream. And it's our job as educators to try and find the best possible ways to put kids in those positions and partner with businesses. And they've been great, you know, and we have a couple of really good business partners that are really stepping up and putting us in touch with other business partners to make this really work. And when everybody comes together, you know, great minds do great things and many people make light works. Magic starts to happen. It does. It really does. We brought two magic people here today that real success stories from what I understand. Can you tell us who your guests are today? So we brought Laila Valdez. She's in our health academy. Her goal is to eventually become the best nurse in Hawaii. All right. We need plenty of those. What do we do? Yes, we do. And we think very highly of Laila and, you know, we're going to put her in touch with Hawaii Pacific Health.  And then the other gentleman I have is Brandon Evans and he's in our agricultural IB business academy and he recently just participated in a scholarship opportunity and was actually the winner in the recipient of a four year college degree at HPU. Wow. Very good. Congratulations to you both. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Laila, why don't we start with you? Can you just explain how you got into the academy and how that has helped you get to where you want to go? Okay. So personally, the academy has started at our school just around this time. So I was already a senior. But just choosing the academy that I wanted to go into was very easy. It's health. I wanted, when I become, get older, I want to become a neonatal nurse practitioner. And I've already known that I wanted to go into the nurse, the health field ever since I was younger. So just the fact that our school had laid out these various academies that are aligned to different jobs in the work field, that was just a great opportunity for us to expand our outlooks on certain things. Because a lot of kids at our school, they don't really have that background knowledge as to what they want to do in life. Because if you ask someone at school, oh, what is your future plans? Most of them are unsure. So having these academies really helps display that and gives a lot of the students an outline as to, okay, maybe I can go through this pathway. Gives them some choices or options that they can explore and see what they might be interested in. Yes, options are really unique options because it just gives us somewhere to start. And in order to actually do something with your life and start something is to at least start somewhere and explore your options, because some people don't stay in just one niche. They go out to other niches. Well, as we were just talking earlier, you never really know where your career path is going to take you. And I've had some pretty interesting twists and turns along the years, and I'm not the only one. I mean, a lot of people start out in one direction, but they end up in another. It's always good to keep your options open. But healthcare kind of runs in the family a little bit, doesn't it? It does. My mom is a nurse. She's an LPN. My two sisters, they are registered nurses. And my other sister, she works as, she does paperwork for a doctor just in all of the branches of medical field. Very good. My dad, he's dental technicians. He makes teeth for the dentist. So it's just, it's in my family background. My grandpa, he was a doctor in the Philippines. So this is a family business then? Yes, it's healthcare. It's in our blood. But I realized that I've always had an interest for it. It wasn't just something that I wanted to do, because it was in my background. It was something that I wanted to explore. And just when I was younger, I knew that I wanted to go into the healthcare, because first of all I love helping people and just immersing myself in trying to find ways to help people feel better and just go on with their lives is just what I want to do. It's great that the world needs people like that to help us older guys, you know, staying in shape and stay healthy. Yes. Brandon, now you've got some interesting going, you know, this is a scholarship you just wanted. It sounds very impressive. How did that all work? What we had to do was we had to present a topic or an idea or some kind of product that would help improve Hawaii. So whether that be a program or in my case a product, we had to show how it could help Hawaii and how it would implement that. And they were very diverse. They've fallen to a variety of different fields in liberal arts and sciences, but mine was a science-focused one. I made a device in school actually, you know, one of our classes, which is focused on that. And I made a device that allows fresh and saltwater organisms to live together. And it also improved the organism growth by 30%. And while this device has already been made before, it was $50,500,000 before, which is very expensive. But I had brought it down to a $20 process. And so I presented that and I won. And it's a full tuition at HPU for four years. Very good. Congratulations. And how did the Academy play into all of this? How did you get into the Academy and how did that help you? Well, I was a senior too. So our academies just started really coming into focus when I was a senior. But I joined the Business and Agriculture Academy because I thought, oh, what I want to do, I want to be able to help in the business community, you know, and social entrepreneurship, right, ethical about it. And also, this project I was working on focused a lot with agriculture because it was glaring organisms, so I thought, I'll try that. And one of the classes that's really focused on innovation, I was able to work on it in class. And I had that time to actually develop the product, which I wouldn't have had otherwise. But I did it all in class, well, not all of it in class, it was a lot outside of class too. And I got a lot of help from different areas, just from reading and going out and talking to people and seeing what the real issues were. And did the flexibility of being in the Academy give you the time to be able to do this? Yes. As opposed to maybe more of a traditional type of process? Yes. One of the main things, I do say I had help, right? But a big part of it was that you was up to you. You decide how well your project goes, how well what you're creating goes. And simply, if you want to talk out to people, it is up to you. So you have that time that sucks your time in the day to work on your project, but it's ultimately up to you. So it's highly self-directed and project-based, really. See, that's something that I love hearing people say is that it's up to you.  And you've got to put into it what you want to get out of it. That is true. And it's great to hear that this is being communicated and the message is being received. Shane, I mean, are these typical of your senior students out there? I mean, it sounds like you've got two great people here. They are two great people, and as you listen to them talk, you can hear the passion come out of, you know, that they're going to do something that they love and that they want to go into. I mean, anytime you can find a career that you love what you're doing, it's not work, so that they're going to enjoy what they do. So in trying to structure our academy models, we want everybody to find what their niche in life is and what they love doing so that they do put in the unlimited time and effort to really just be successful because it's what they're passionate about. Instead of just doing homework to do homework, it's doing homework to advance themselves in careers in which they're going to make, you know, their livelihood. So that's the academy model. So in other words, what I'm hearing is that when you've got this passion and this engagement, people are coming to school because they want to be at school and they want to go through this and they want to learn these things rather than being forced into subjects that maybe they're not necessarily all that enthusiastic about. Yes, very true. And these guys, they would come to school regardless. They're just great students. But I think as we continue to build and find the passions and tap into what the kids are interested in, and they can go and make their pathway that's going to replicate what they enjoy, that they're more likely to come to school and study the history of cars instead of the history of the world or the different types of history, although you still have to kind of take in some of that for graduation requirements, of course. But when you're looking at what your livelihood's going to be for the rest of your life, you want to study how those things happen because everything you always want to get better. I mean, how can I get better today than I was yesterday? And how do I keep improving? And how do I keep progressing? Because like with everything, it still comes back down to your core values. What do I believe in? And how successful do I want to be? Because it's only time and energy. And that's the two things that I'm in control of. The amount of much time as I study or the amount of much energy as I put towards something is strictly up to the students. With that, they work hard that there's this greatness that can happen. We're going to have to take a short break. And when we come back, maybe we can talk a little bit more about the academies. And I guess there's several of them out there. And you're each in different academies. So maybe we can talk a little bit more detail about the differences and how that all kind of plays out. But we need to take a one minute break. But this is business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're here today talking about the academies that they got out of Campbell High School. And we've got two students here that have really impressed a lot of people. So we'll be right back in about 60 seconds. Hi, I'm Dave Stevens, the host of Cyber Underground. Every Friday here at 1 PM on thinktechhawaii.com. And then every episode is uploaded to the Cyber Underground, that library of shows that you can see of mine on youtube.com. And I hope you'll join us here every Friday. We have some topical discussions about why security matters and what could scare the absolute bejesus out of you if you just try to watch my show all the way through. Hope to see you next time on Cyber Underground. Stay safe. This guy looks familiar. He calls himself the ultra fan. But that doesn't explain all this. He planned this party, planned the snacks, even planned to coordinate colored shirts. But he didn't plan to have a good time. Now you wouldn't do this in your own house. So don't do it in your team's house. Know your limits and plan ahead so that everyone can have a good time. Welcome back. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're here today talking with Campbell High School. We've got Shane Greenland here, who is one of the principals out of the academy. And he's going to explain a little bit, Shane, about the different. You have different types of academies there, right? Yeah, so we have six different academies. So it starts with our freshman success academy. So all ninth graders are put into houses and put into teams. So that all throughout that ninth grade, they work on basically transition to high school, as well as they start career days. They start their career focus. And then they start really trying to really dive into where they think their career pathway is going to be. So we talk about the other pathways. And then at the end of that ninth grade year, they choose which pathway they want to get into, in which what they think is interesting. So then that leads into the other five pathways are our academies. So we have the Academy of Business, Agricultural Science, and IB. We also have the Public Human Services Academy. We have the Digital Media Academy. We have the STEAM Academy. The STEAMs? STEAMs, Cover Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. Wow. And then we also have the Health Sciences Academy. And Lila is with our Health Sciences Academy. So we're partnering up with some business partners where we're going to actually retrofit one of our classrooms to look like a hospital, to give them the real life learning, give them that environment so that when they come in, we do Dress for Success Workplace Workforce Development on Wednesday. So the Health Academy, they wear their scrubs. Business has the business casual attire. The agriculture kids, they wear what they wear when they work in the garden. Flip flops. I mean, we still make sure we're safe. But we're really just trying to put forth that what is going to be expected when we get into the workplace? We also have our Culinary Academy with our PHS.  Not long ago, we had Chef Rock come in and did some judging. So everybody's trying to find their niche in the world and connect with partners on how do we bring real life learning into the classroom so that kids can basically portray or learn all of the soft skills and the habits in which they've been lacking to get jobs. We want to set our kids apart from everybody else. We want Campbell kids to be great. And that just increases the probability that they'll be successful once they get employed somewhere. Yes, sir. That's our goal. We hope so. Well, what we need to do is not only find the business partners to help with that process, but also the employers to hire the people and let them get that experience. Because that's, Lila, in your case, as you move into the health sciences and the nursing field, you've got to find a place that's going to allow you to get some experience. Yes, it did. Yes, and so you're a senior. You entered into the program. How does it work? I mean, do you have specific classes you go to to learn about nursing? Or how is that structured? So it's the first year that the academies have been implemented. And it's since my senior year. And not saying it doesn't exactly apply to me. So there's still many things that are still trying to go into development. But personally, from hearing Mr. Greenland's plans about what he wants to do for the health academy and such, it's great. Because just the fact that he's going to make a whole simulation of the hospital, that really intrigued me. Because I wish I had the opportunity back then to be exposed to the hospital setting. Because it's difficult to find internships or opportunities to actually go into the hospital and have that one-on-one action with actually working in a health field. So just the fact that Mr. Greenland is pooling in all these opportunities for students and having these opportunities at school, like they don't have to go out and search it for themselves, although that's really good. And that's the students' part, since they have initiatives. It's just the idea that our school is promoting. We care that you have that experience. And Mr. Greenland is bringing that in for the students now. So just the generations that are going to come through Campbell High School, they're going to have that development from freshman year to sophomore year, all the way to senior year, to help them explore their options. And that's what I find really great about the academies. And as for me, I'm just glad that at home that my parents taught me to always know what I wanted to do. And I'm so glad that I had my parents raised me well enough to know that. So just knowing that in the school system, we're developing in a way that we're not regressing. We're going forward. We're looking forward to the future of that. And then being coming, yeah. Yeah, it's not status quo in a sense. I mean, you're looking at moving forward and making things better and doing what your parents did, but maybe do a little bit more and better and with more technology and that. And that platform is being provided to you to do that. That's great. Yeah, coming from a small town like a beach, it's weird to know that there's so many opportunities out there. We're so used to being in this provincial town and just living our lives day by day. But the fact that our school is stressing on the idea that there are opportunities out there, we're going to bring them to you. And that's what I appreciate about these academies, because it's giving students that exposure and just making them realize that I have to do something now, I have to start. And if I don't start somewhere, then I won't do anything. And it's good that we're telling prompting students to start somewhere. To take that initiative.  So you're kind of in the same situation as Lila is, but you're in a different academy. And what is that academy all about? So that academy basically focuses around not business and agriculture, right? Those are two very closely related fields. It's talking about how we manage our resources, but also how we make it to an economical fashion. And so that we understand the business of what's going on in our world and the greater understanding. And what I think was really good about these academies is because is that they bring in the entire internships and different programs where you reach outside the classroom, where before you really had to look out, you had to go far to find out. It was a real practical experience. Like I've done internships before with the Pacific America Foundation and with different groups, but I had to find those on my own. You have to go out there and you have to really look. But the good thing about academies is that it brings it a little closer to home. And it allows you to just build that sort of environment where you can start on internships, you can start doing real projects, and you can start doing them very, very early. And it gives you that motivation to do them. Where ordinarily you would have to go find the knot on your own. And it's possible. I mean, I did it and a lot of other students have, but it is limited, right? So you have to be very careful. But it also takes some energy and time to do that, which takes you away from other things. So it's good to have a partner helping you in that process. Definitely. Very good. And so what do you think, when you get done out, I know you've already got your scholarship at HPU. Where do you expect to go with that? Do you have any thoughts on what your major is going to be? I'm thinking of majoring in marine science because the product that I've made so far, it's very focused on aquaculture. And only aquaculture, but agriculture too, because plants, animals, and fish, they all increase by 30%. So that's a big growth and you just add a $20 device. And I want to continue studying that because I see this as a widely applicable product. Once again, it's the business and we can add culture altogether, resources. And also I want to work with biotechnology because that's a rapidly growing field, genetics, working to genetically engineer organisms. You already see there are large corporations already involved in that here on the island. And I think we can take- It can be controversial, so be careful. It can be controversial, yes. But you've got to make sure that you make it something that is beneficial, right? That's also having those ethics and those skills built up those, that idea of a solid understanding and basis. So you're not going on doing reckless things. But that's something I want to pursue because I feel that if we use it properly, ethically right, in the proper fashion, that we can really advance our society. You know, I have, and you can probably correct me because I may be using wrong terminology, but I had heard that hydro agriculture, where you're able to not necessarily- Hydroconics. Not necessarily use the land, but you can actually take and grow vertically and that there's enough vertical opportunity using this technology to feed the world several times over. Yes. You know, so the potential for that is just really unlimited. Yes, and one of the great things about this device that I made is that you can put, because it's all in the water, you can use it in that hydroponics. You can use it with your aquaculture. For example, right now I'm designing an aquaponic system where you're able to grow saltwater fish, right? Like say, like say, a lemur or something like that, or a largely tuna, for example. Although I'm going a little smaller, with seaweed and with lettuce, all using the same water because it's all pumped in with these little bubbles. Seafood salad all at one time. Yes. Very convenient. And it puts it all on a single system and it's making it hyper efficient because ordinarily, a lot of saltwater organisms, you can't mix them in with their freshwater and there's a lot more involved in raising them and you can't bring them to the home. But with this device, you can start doing that and it's very cheap. Patented. Oh yes, it's being, it's patent and pending is going right now. That's something else good. This academy showed us how the whole, we had a whole presentation about patents.  Because if you don't cover yourself, because that's another thing, right? You can know all these science, all these great skills, but if you cannot apply them and you cannot think of the possible consequences of what you have to watch out for, then you lose out on things. People take your ideas or you might just never be able to actually put it into functionality because you just didn't know something and you get yourself in trouble, which happens way too often. It does, you know, and there's a lot of people that have a lot of brilliant ideas that never got to benefit from it because they just didn't protect that intellectual knowledge. Yes. You know, and they got attorneys that specialize in that. Yes, they do. So it's very important. You know, we're gonna be wrapping up here, Shane. Any final words?  We're always looking for business partners. You know, like we said last time and even now, one of the most important things, I think, is just networking. Getting people to know people that can help people and help schools. You know, we really want to bridge the gap between businesses post-secondary and high schools. We want to do what's best for kids. You know, we do have hydroponics at our school. Everything is just always evolving. We have a great team at school. You know, it's just not, you know, myself, we have a principal that's really leading the push for academies. You know, Mr. John Henry Lee, our CAS, Heidi Armstrong, is really a huge push for academies in making things happen. You know, it's just all of our academy principals, you know, all the administrators within our school, that they really want kids to be successful on their terms. Success is up to them. It is, and that's probably a good way to close that it's all up to them, up to you. You know, to make it all work. So congratulations to you both. It seems like you're going to have some really outstanding careers ahead of you. So very good. And thank you for being here again today and driving all the way out here from Middle Beach. Thank you very much for having us. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30. I will see you next week at that time. Until then, aloha.


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OK, next up, Molly de Blanc. Hi. Can you all hear me OK? Kind of, maybe? I'll move this up. My name is Molly de Blanc, and I wrote this talk because I thought it was funny, and then it became much less funny. So I'm sorry if you don't laugh enough. OK, if you become uncomfortable, leave the room. That's the first thing you should do. Then you can talk to the organizers. There are some wonderful people. Richard Fontana is here, Karen Sandler, Tom Marble, Bradley. Bradley? Oh, someone. I don't know. I forget. And you can talk to me later, but let's not do that right now. I'd really prefer if you don't tweet angry awful things at me because I talk about that. But if you feel really inclined, just hashtag it free software because not enough people do that. Cool. Here are some things about me. I'm not an academic. I have no training in statistics, demography, anthropology, or sociology, so I don't actually know what I'm talking about. But let's just run with it. I took some literature classes in college. That helps, right? I'm really interested in free software. I love free software. It's one of my favorite things in the world. I think copy left is great. I think sharing is great. I think being able to play with the stuff that you have is great. But I think we can do better. I think as a community, we're good, but we could do better. And sometimes we succeed at this, and sometimes we fail. I'll probably be offensive to someone in this room. And eventually, at some point, we'll talk about policies. And I swear my presence is at least arguably relevant. So hopefully we'll laugh. Sometimes we'll be upset or angry. I will swear, at least. I don't know if you want to, but you're welcome to. And I'm going to say some awful things that may be triggering. I'm not speaking on behalf of FOSDEM or really the people organizing this room. And I really hope I don't offend you too much. So we're going to talk a little bit about some background stuff. Standards. We create community standards as tools to help us understand what we're doing. Standards include things by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. These are formal practices that help us define what things are or what things aren't. In these particular cases, these two groups talk about what is free software and what counts as open source through formal definitions they've created. We also have best practices. Best practices can be formal or less formal. They're things everyone understands while they're not required, they're good to have. And then we have social contracts. Debian and Gentoo both have social contracts, at least on their websites. These are kind of in between the two. People agree to them. People sign them. People formally ascribe to the ideals of a community. And that's another thing. So some of these things are prescriptive and some of them are descriptive. When something is prescriptive, it means we're saying you should do this, and this is the ideal. And when something is descriptive, instead we're describing what's actually happening and trying to create things from that. So one really great norm is us saying awful things. This was one of my favorite things I've seen on Twitter ever because, fuck, free software. I'm going to read all these in case anyone here is blind. There was a name here. I changed it.  Fake operator is free software that we will fix at our own pace.  And actually, this is my favorite tweet of all time. Just says it all.  One of the things I learned in looking at Twitter is that people are really mean. Sometimes they're mean on the internet. Why are people mean? That's a Taylor Swift quote. If we got any Taylor Swift fans in the house, anyone? OK, just me. That's fine. Sometimes people are mean because they think or know they're right, and they don't understand why other people don't also think or know they're right. Sometimes people are mean because they feel like they're anonymous. They can get lost in a crowd. And because they can't necessarily be identified as an individual, there's less at stake socially and professionally. Here are some other reasons. There can be lack of repercussions. If there's no reason why being mean has a negative effect, why would you not do it if you want to? Groupthink creates contexts in which it's OK to kind of all ascribe to the same idea, even if you don't necessarily believe it when you first show up. Some examples of this in online communities are people who are male rights advocates or activists, people who are in the red pill community on Reddit. So people who kind of all start talking about awful things together and get into it. And that kind of flows into cultural norms. Cultural norms can also be institutional at much broader levels. Mental health and lacking sense of self. When people feel bad about themselves, they're much more inclined to try to make other people feel bad. And some people are actually just mean. Simon Rego, who's a psychologist and a director of several psychological education programs, reminded us that when you're stripped of nonverbal cues, the patterns of speech, the rate, tone, and context, you are left with is a lot of guesswork. He said this when talking about how people talk online and how people interpret what other people say online. So this is a lot of text. I'm really sorry. I'm not going to say it all. Maybe you can read it on the slides later. A woman named Lindy West had her father die. And then somebody who didn't like something she was saying created a fake Twitter account and a fake email account and began sending her really awful things from her father. She wrote an article on Jezebel about this experience and then the person apologized. It turns out that not only do you feel powerful when you feel anonymous, you also feel like people aren't people when they don't have faces or they don't have real names or they're just really far away from you and you never get to see each other. When you talk to someone who's a troll and can somehow personalize your experience, frequently they apologize. This person said, I'm sorry, multiple times in this email. And at some point, which I deleted, he says he feels bad about himself as a person in general and lashed out. I promised you some swearing and laughing and this isn't funny. So we're getting there soon, I swear. Codes of conduct, community guidelines and other creative names. People come up with lots of names to describe codes of conduct. Frequently these are in mailing lists or communities on forms or at events. And some of them I think are kind of silly names. I think Code of Ethics is kind of a silly name because you're not actually really talking about how people are behaving or how people should behave. There's a lot of really great stuff out there about writing codes of conduct. The most important thing that they do is they create a language around what behavior is bad and what behaviors aren't allowed. Ideally, they also talk about repercussions. So how do we talk in public? This is the Twitter part.  I gathered a few thousand tweets, worked through them to get relevance.  I don't know if you've ever searched Twitter, but if you put little frowny faces in your search terms, it comes up with everything that lists as negative sentiment. And Twitter has amazing sentiment analysis, actually. So these are the end results I had, much less than several thousand. Some specific data looking at free software and fuck. Most of them are actually relevant. So people who think to use the term free software have useful things to say, useful. Things that weren't relevant were mostly focused on the cost of software.  It's great, and it respects your freedoms. This is an example of something that was completely irrelevant.  We got sentiment for when things were relevant, when people said yes.  There's some good things about it and some bad things about it. Most of them unsurprisingly were negative. This is a breakdown of specific topics. Community-based ones are about communities and how people interact in them.  Positive stuff was frequently about community or about free software in general. There are a few random things. This is more stuff. This was using hashtags, so things in hashtags while there were fewer results, there was a much greater sense of relevance overall. And these were more positive.  Oh, and they also talk about NVIDIA. It turns out, it's its own category. Looking at free and open source software, you're also getting larger amounts of relevance and you're getting people thinking more about what the kinds of things that they're saying. These things are more angry. I looked up floss at one point with a hashtag and I decided it was useless because it was all about dentistry. So one of the things about floss is people really don't like proprietary software, it turns out. That makes me happy. So we're not always nice. Here are some specific examples of ways we're not always nice. Dear Free Software Foundation, thanks.  If you're trying to learn Emacs before midnight, you're probably doing it wrong in some way. And as someone who follows the FSF's Twitter, I would request or suggest that you tweet at them in the future, whoever this is. I'm sorry if you said any of these things, I'm sure you're great actually. I think that midnight's on the end of the world clock. Oh, that makes sense. I love this one.   Do you guys kind of know the history of open sourcing code in the first place? No? Okay. So this is really funny because I'm pretty sure it was Netscape that was like the first major project to say, here's our code, have fun. So that makes me giggle every time.  What's actually kind of nice about this is they're being critical of something that we sort of need to be critical of.  I'm not really sure how to take that one. I think it's kind of funny though.  I swear it's not too weird. Ubuntu is my name. I couldn't write this word. We don't say it in America. I don't know what people do here.  I think they were meant to be positive. I labeled it as jerks to be safe. There's a lot of nuance. I tried to actually find things out about these people to see if it was, at least in the US, socially acceptable for them to use this language, but I couldn't see anonymity. We also care about licenses. We like to talk about licenses.  Why is Android going so close? It being false is what made me love it. Bloody Google. See, they tweeted at Google. It's useful. They didn't get a response, but they tried. These sort of things also kind of make me happy in a way. I am not sure they're the classiest things people could say, but they're definitely expressing some dedication to the idea and an investment in free software itself.  Android changed their SDK and someone was mad about it as well.    I'm sorry for providing my Twitter commentary right now, but I have lots of thoughts on how you should tweet. In case you're wondering, the best weapon we have for free software compliance is Debian.  There's like a lot of Debian love on Twitter actually. A lot of positive things people say about Debian. Sometimes they talk about how hard it is to install. This was kind of a collection of things what I sort of liked about this particular section. There are generally about Mozilla and Firefox.  Is that it highlights that people don't actually know what is open source and what is free software, not just from a definitional standpoint, but from what are we classifying in these ways?  Urban terror HD won't be open source anymore. They're upset. You messed up decisions. Show a little concern for open source Twitter API. Let's shut down the account API.  Tentatively recommend reading the, I think it's like the first or second chapter of free software, free society, because it talks about this actually, like the relationship between profits and decision making. You can also read it online somewhere. It's free in different ways. There were, again, eight tweets on NVIDIA. That was pretty good. We also care about contribution apparently. I don't know if we care about it from the best perspectives, but we do care about it.  In a way, this is a call to action, but it's free software.  These two contrast each other because this one about submitting your bug is actually talking about like an easy way to make commentary and to participate. This one's like much more complex.  We also have a lot of opinions about ourselves. Am I talking too fast, by the way? Okay, great. Is Android really free software? More commentary on how we're fitting together.    So cute. Slash dot, slash dot says a lot of things about free software and open source that like get really upset. What's great about this contextually is it's actually about slash dot doing site redesign, but they decided it was particularly relevant to the open source community. Wait, so why do I love free software again? Because people say really nice things too, right?  Because love is stronger than hate and I love my free software friends. Adult male hackers are elevated to 10-year-old girls when someone breaks out the free software computer stickers.  I was one once. Hey guys, feel like playing Solitaire?  It's a free version, it's really cool. I didn't try it.   I think like this is an idea that drives open source a lot in general, which is like we can take care of things. Holy fuck, they just made Swift open source, Apple. People highlighting people who are excited when things like align with these things. I fixed it.   I've been back. I've been to the darkest depths of hell and now I am back. Thank you. We now block all IP addresses that are located in Cuba. I ran North Korea, Sudan and Syria. It's a thing Docker decided to start doing. I believe it was in compliance with a number of US embargo standards and there's something actually like particularly inspiring about people being upset by these decisions.   And then there's some, I don't really know what to say about them.  Nor this, I met a developer, I asked him what he does and he said that he does open source.  Frick a noob, that person is a noob.  I'm making an illegal copy over the internet of whatever we need. Well what now, what can Twitter do? It turns out that Twitter is really bad at enforcing their policies and in fact, Twitter has policies and Twitter has had policies since before each of those tweets existed. Now, here are some specific things they talk about. You can check out their more in depth commentary on what they do see. I'm talking about policies now. They have content boundaries, abusive behavior and spam. I don't know if you're really on Twitter but I get lots of spam followers and spam messages all the time. I think that if you look more in depth into things people have said, both in broader context when we wanna talk about things like Gamergate or not just trolling but threats of physical violence, these things persist both in terms of their existing and in terms of people not getting rid of this archeological, technical, awful stuff. So a good question actually is who should police our community? Nose game, not it. Last person, the best I could do. Who if anyone should police our community, right? So is it our job to be talking to people about these things? Should we expect Twitter to make these decisions on our behalf about what is or isn't okay? I don't have an answer to this. I think you should all think about it. So how do we talk in our own spaces? After I spent an amount of time looking at how we're talking publicly, I was interested in how we talk to ourselves and about ourselves.   Fag is the bad word there. They did not mean like cigarettes. Free software Faggot is apparently what the FFF stands for.  And I'll explain why all of these fit together soon.  I kind of like this one actually. The power of language extends beyond the intentions, extends beyond the intentions behind words to the historical and linguistic meaning of the words themselves. What does this mean?  And more specifically, the word Faggot has become entirely meaningless and is frequently just used as a generic insult.  There are people there who are upset, who feel unwelcome and who feel unable to participate because this is language people are using. Cursing can be fun. So I'm not saying we shouldn't do it at all. But, and some of these things don't have to be bad words, but cocksucker is a bad word. I really like cocksucker as an example when talking like meta linguistically or about meta conversations about linguistics because it's a really vile, visceral way to call someone gay as an insult. And actually if you think about it for like a little bit, what you realize is that they're actually insulting everyone who is sexually attracted to men. Turning that into like a really bad thing, debasing people who are doing that. So I wanted to look at something else now and I found the Linux kernel mailing list because it seemed like a good idea at the time. The Linux kernel mailing list is known for being awful which is why I thought it was a good idea. So I created a list of words that are damaging in the same way cocksucker and Faggot are and I compared them to use of pre and post code of conduct on the Linux kernel mailing list. Oh yeah, does it, yeah, I'm so used to code of conduct. They call it a code of conflict actually and we're gonna talk about that in a little bit. Here are some words for sexuality. The, this is on the later side, the Linux kernel mailing list over its lifespan since 1996 has over two million messages. So from that, these numbers are actually kind of insignificant.   Fag is really commonly used. Sometimes this is like just linguistic tendencies or slang within a community. Faggot, no one calls each other dykes and like they're generally pretty okay leaving lesbians like leaving lesbians specifically alone unless they're talking more about people who are lesbians or a handful of messages where it occurs a number of times. Homo is all irrelevant because they were all talking about like human like evolutionary development. I'm going to be using the, wait, P.S. I'm going to be using the code for my purpose. So, oh right, that was, so that was one thing somebody said.  This is a lot, the, there was this like long, there are these really long posts specifically about system D. So I maintain at this point that system D is a dirty word. Thank you. And there's like even more than that.  I don't know why. I'm like the fact that he had to then express publicly or felt the need to about his sexuality like makes a comment about how people are thinking about homosexuality and about gayness within free software and technology in general. But it's also like this idea that he has to defend himself personally, defend in finger quotes, himself personally in this like public context. This is more of that. Social justice warrior is also a bad term. These are really long posts. So I'm just kind of bolded things. If you want to read these in depth later, I can send you the slides. This is more of that. People wrote these long emails.  People take criticism of their code very personally. Oh, I have more in cocksucker. It's a great word. So this is more of that. This is describing things from a performance angle. So they're making technical commentary about using gayness as an insult for technical performance. So there's also this category of people who decide to add these keywords at the bottom of their posts. And it includes things. Oh yeah, that was the one use of homo. Includes both terms that might trigger the NSA. Somebody wrote another post explaining why they did this. But it also uses things like pedophile, lesbian to call those out. And this generally doesn't free welcoming behavior because you're using more words in either ways that are insulting or ways that are meaningless. And you're really taking down somebody's self-identity as a lesbian by saying, I'm using this as a trigger to get people to be mad at me. There's misogyny. This is me, twice. It's not quite aware if you're in the back of the room and you can't see this. When most people try to describe me, one of the terms they frequently use as a woman is a woman. So misogyny is near and dear to my heart. Kant is one of the words whore, trans. So out of that we were pulling like transsexual, transgender, transwoman, transman. And then feminist and feminism. They talk about feminists and feminism a lot on the Lenox kernel mailing list but it is also a dirty word. Porn span is a problem as well. So a number of these things turn up like in span messages from porn and they still exist in the archives. I would make the argument that people who are archiving emails while there is value to having extensive archives, you should still like actually get rid of this stuff because when you're searching through and obviously if I'm looking for the word cocksucker and like an archive, I know I'm gonna find things I don't like but seeing specifically these porn span males with these in-depth descriptions is actually not what I'm looking for. So I just found it annoying. One of the things here is they define social justice warriors. There's this recurring theme where people describe male feminists in this way as though they are weak and that that's a bad thing. They also call women spinsters which isn't a term you hear a lot anymore. So this one particular person who wrote this really in-depth thing like mostly about System D and Leonard who's apparently a social justice warrior and male feminist, I don't know Leonard so I don't really know this.  Generally when people talk about identification of women in terms of their genitalia, it's turning the value of a person into a sexual object. And then these feminists, they hid everything. I was really like, I just appreciated it. They also talk about worthless women and thinking that women don't contribute to communities or that their contributions aren't valuable. If you think back earlier to Twitter when someone is talking about how if the only people who want a code of conduct aren't people who contribute code, then you shouldn't have this. It's actually not valuable and important because those people aren't important and valuable contributors. Here even more feminist horrors, there are whatever. And Nancy's as another insult for men, like really good use of language. I find politically correct stuff, this is someone else, so tasteless that I'd rather shake hands with a whore with AIDS. Yes, that was meant to be politically incorrect than one of the Bible thumpers. With this, somebody made a decision that in spite of conversations going on about how there's a need for policy because this was after Sarah Sharp said that, like, the Linux kernel mailing list needs a code of conduct. People went out of their way to really try to trigger what was going on not just in terms of their use of words but by making it clear they were intentionally using those words.  Yeah. And this is another really long one, also criticizing by someone else, criticizing the role of women in Debian and kind of the slant the Debian community has taken to try to make it more inclusive in a number of ways. It goes on to talk about this. There is insults about transgender person with a strong implication that that is one of the problems with them and problems with the people they live with who also identify as trans and intersex. They make fun of the outreach program. They also talk about system D more because everyone hates system D. And then they like later on pull out feminist again as an insult. This time in reference to women rather than men feminist is a dirty word within the Linux kernel community or at least was for a long time. And I would make the argument that in the greater open source and free software community it is still frequently treated as a dirty word. More mail space base. Again, feminism, but do you hate feminism? Oh, but hating, if you write free software release free media of every type and in quantity, but hate feminism you're a plague on the open source community. This is an ongoing conversation that people should have when they're actually discussing whether or not you're trying to create a product as quickly as possible regardless of its functionality the cleanest of its code or the like the overall usability of it or you want to kind of construct this space of contributors in this space of people and what that requires is creating spaces where people are welcome. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. Feminists need to be thrown out of kernel development like how they threw anti-feminist men out of Debian and other Linux distro development. The Feminist Software Foundation that was also meant to be a bad thing but I would be super into the Feminist Software Foundation. Falsified operational in terms of like coding creating a form of the Linux journal and replacing it with documentation with like some feminists trying to be feminist sounding bingo Yeah. That was the name of the account Feminist Software Foundation. Yeah. Is that related? I don't remember. I remember I have like I have that in my I have that actual thing in my file of like data somewhere and later on I can dig it up and check. I don't remember.  This made me sad when I read it it was written by somebody who I think I believe self identifies as a feminist somebody who has done a lot of work to create inclusive and diverse communities and they said this about themselves so they were distancing themselves from the concept of feminism within the Linux kernel community and they made it clear that like it was very apologetic in its nature of calling someone out on their behavior. Now here's some stuff on racism because we're also racist. I don't know how to write this slide either. There are there's a variable that I searched for and I got some results and some highlights are no one was born to act and behave like a nodding dot dot dot in front of you if you don't want to take it like that well you're strictly obsolete man it disgusts me to no end that the bleeding of scary scary sheep is so prominent in America the new wave of patriotism like the hand of your master and praise him for beating someone other than you the house mentality alive and well now in every race and creed. I also looked up these two people they're both white and talking especially in a community that is so white and has such problems with racial diversity like using that language not just as commentary and not just as an insult but by contextualizing it in like awful institutional discrimination is like it pains me but no one said anything about Jews so does this actually matter right as of last night there were 2,641,204 messages in the Linux kernel archives which lasts from 1996 to 2017 there's also a post from 1910 I was very impressed with them to contextualize a little bit about what how big that number is is it's almost as big as the city of Rome it's bigger than Paris and it's more than twice the size of the entire population of Brussels so because when I was looking at this I pulled my most recent data from November of 2016 and I had 115 messages total at the time there were 2,577,702 messages on the mailing list when I tried to make a chart of like how small 115 is compared to 2.5, 2.6 million it was unreadable and how tiny 1.1,115 is so this is really the minority of things people are saying but there's some of the biggest things and there's some of the things that get pressed and these are the ways that we are like presenting ourselves as like to the rest of the world so now we're gonna talk about codes of conduct for a little bit it's pronounced COC not TOC just to clear up confusion the Link's Journal mailing list merged a code of conduct in early March of 2015 there are code of conflict, sorry this was very divisive and contentious ultimately Linus merged it himself which was considered a triumph by a number of people in the community did this, here's some things from the code of conflict itself your code and ideas behind it will be carefully reviewed often resulting in critique and criticism know that this happens because everybody involved wants to see the best possible solution the development process has been proven to create some of the most robust operating system kernel ever you go, we do not want to do anything to cause the quality of submission and eventual results to decrease if you're thinking about your project in a long term you're with this really not thinking about it in a long term you're thinking about it in terms of the immediate results of what somebody is submitting and creating in a given moment rather than what your community is doing and can succeed at overtime diversity and inclusivity is invaluable and necessary for communities to be successful because you need a variety of experiences and knowledge in order to create things that are robust and in order to create things that can last for a long time more on the code of conflict personally abused, threatened or otherwise uncomfortable due to the process people are made to feel this way it's not acceptable please contact the Linux Foundation's technical advisory board they will work to resolve the issue something that's yes five minutes oh, five minutes great something that's considered kind of like a bad part of codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies is when people are skipping over these kinds of things like not making it clear how you can like who you can talk to like really depersonalizing who you can talk to and like this entire thing this entire code of conflict to be a little critical of it not that I haven't been critical of it already is that it's focusing on not the individuals but the concept of who they are their value as developers please try to keep things civil and focused on technical issues be excellent to each other did this help? kind of so looking at the post-COC results a number of the words that I searched for originally actually didn't show up again and but they hadn't shown up again for a long time I think lesbian was actually 2014 but the word faggot was last posted in February of 2015 March was at the beginning of March was when the code of conflict was added to like the Linux kernel community and operating procedures feminists last showed up in February of 2015 so apparently the Linux kernel mailing list also thinks feminists is a bad word so people stop saying faggot and feminist do these people matter? yes the total usage of the word fuck before the code of conduct over the course of the Linux kernel mailing list was 893 since March it's gone down significantly someone said COC once in 2015 and there were 79 total occurrences so that's also gone down people said please and thanks less after the code of conflict was instituted one possible theory on this is that the focus of the conversation was much more technical as opposed to like dealing more with community issues before the code of conflict was instituted people went a lot more out of their way to thank each other for contributions and for work do faggots and feminists matter because we insult them? yes so even though it's only a few cases like we still shouldn't be doing this and codes of conflict need to be thought about and behavior needs to be thought about back to behavior I'll try to do this really quick behavioral guidelines are things we have we have codes of conduct at conferences we have anti-harassment policies do they help? nope they help a little bit here are some examples post-events instituting codes of conduct this is only a few of the ones I found Oskan had pervasive sexual attention on a community member KS Communication Congress instituted a gender and neutral bathroom policy to try to make people who didn't identify within a gender binary more uncomfortable nonetheless attendees who did not identify within the gender binary were still harassed in bathrooms context was a science fiction convention that was ineffective in a number of ways after their anti-harassment policies introduced science fiction matters to us because there's a lot of overlap between the two communities at ISC2 a woman was drugged after the code of ethics was instituted in 2015 et cetera, et cetera Geek Feminism has a timeline of total incidents reported at various geek events it increases over time this could be done for many reasons more women are going to events and more people feel more theoretically I believe more people feel more privileged within these communities and as though that behavior is acceptable codes of conduct are becoming more common which actually helps and there are some successes not everything sucks all the time attendees have been removed from events and people have been banned from events for things that they've done in the community even outside of the event itself with this goal and hope of creating safe spaces there are more codes of conduct FOSSTEM and it's wonderful way when it was asked about the lack of code of conduct very quickly created one and this is creating an institutional norm so these codes of conduct are really important because what they're doing is they're letting people know that the community and especially the people organizing something the moderators on a list or form or the people running the conference actually care about them care about creating these spaces where they can be and trying to put effort into doing better here's a call to action these are things that we can do to help each other you should tell your stories and you should tell your event stories this is either if you feel comfortable sharing specific things that happen to you especially men who feel as though negative things have happened to them because obviously women sharing these things is only making so much of a difference so it's time for privileged men to step up and share their experiences as well because then the people doing awful things can like connect with you more we're much more inclined to feel connected and to share ideas and be comfortable around people who look like us tell your event stories so in the same way but I also really want people to share more data about things that happen at their conferences so like share a number of incidents reported don't do this in an anonymized way but having numbers on that would be really useful when we're looking at instituting policies when we're trying to make arguments to people who value statistics and data that they should be doing these things and enforce policies unless you're enforcing a policy nothing it's useless it's not making any difference because there are no negative repercussions so I still love free software in spite of all of this and if anyone has any questions and we have any time that's my cat yeah my cat's name is Bash he's adorable thanks I was wondering if you felt that the adoption of codes of conduct has created an environment where people feel safer reporting them and that could explain the increase in incidents I think so I have thought about that and I think that is partially true I think things like like the Linux kernel mailing list code of conflict and the code of ethics from LILC whatever that was don't do a really good job at talking about who you should talk with at creating like saying to someone you should email someone else is really removing it from the situation and it's good to have the option to email someone but when that's your only like point of recourse like that's not the best thing to do Sarah Sharp now does event and community incident training and response and in it there's a lot of stuff about like clearly identifying people making sure that your list of people to talk with is very diverse so that somebody can hopefully find someone who looks like them or who they'll be comfortable around and creating these spaces to talk anything else okay awesome thanks Molly