Being the broadcast engineer here, I deal with a lot of our technology making sure everything works every single game and since we're over 80 games deep now That's a lot of work The hardest part of doing instant replay is having to operate on a very quick timeline the two-hour limit on Nannibal creates a environment where we have to always be on our toes and get things out quickly What I do is I take game clips edit them into playlists create rollouts create melts for the beginning And end of the game show instant replays in real-time on Plays that are challenged or plays that are really cool that people want to see again Any video that comes in it'll probably come out through me And I use a lot of the replay and the clips to help marketing outputs as well as BTV Our television station and pretty much just delivering the best video for the fans So last year we were doing our first ever ESPN 2 game with the Savannah bananas So we had brought in a truck because we didn't have the gear to do anything We were talking with some of the trucks engineers and talking about replay systems in our planes for the next year And they brought up simply live our relationship with the bananas started about a year ago I got a call from Griffin and he had heard from a few operators about our system And so we talked and we were able to show them a demo from our studio in Easton You know from then we've just been absolutely blown away at watching them grow We ultimately chose reedle because it fit our price point and had the inputs we needed for what we do and The features were exponentially better than most other companies that we were seeing stuff from The symbol I features that stood out were the ease of use with touch screens and how easy it is to load packages in and play them Out very quickly compared to other systems. This unit allows us to be able to Quickly get through our replays quickly get through fan challenges quickly get through team challenges in a way that Does not interrupt the flow of the broadcast the best feature of the reedle remotion 8 is the ability to Rewind clips and be able to see every single angle that you would need all at the same time is Game-changing and innovative the touch screen feature makes it very easy to Find all of your clips that you would need and arrange them in such a way that it works very well for the actual instant replay portion of using a replay machine the controller is Very easy to use the t-bar I feel like has the best control over speed Compared to other units that I have used and then having the ability to export clips while we're live Has been huge for our social media team and everything they do so they can get the high-res stuff and not be Ripping it off of our YouTube stream where it's lower quality We see something happen. It's like we got to get that out to the fans as soon as possible You know we want to strike while the irons hot like say if they watch the video They're watching the live broadcast they can then see it right after the fact We're not waiting days So get the video out to the fans and they can enjoy it as quickly as possible as we can here The spin bananas our motto is fans first entertain always having the ability to stream to thousands and thousands of fans is very important To our company as our tickets sell out very quickly and we always want to be growing and letting fans enjoy this show as a replay operator the export speed of This unit is much better than other units. I've used in the past We've also grown a relationship with reedle in the comms aspect with how vast our need is for communication between all of our teams So currently we're using 30 belt packs between everybody out of way sites and that's all coming back here to the controller And we're also in her connecting with them and talking to everybody there Yeah, I would recommend the reedle Remotion 8 to pretty much anybody looking for a high-quality Replay system that doesn't break the bank like other companies and allows for the ease of use in multiple inputs unlike other companies as well I would highly recommend Considering reedle's products as well as working with their team as it has been a learning process with this unit They have listened to our concerns. They have helped us and guided us when we needed it Oh being here and seeing this in person is blows me away Knowing that they're able to do the show from here in Savannah no matter where they are in the country I mean everything is run seamlessly and it's been impressive to watch


Outside Africa, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky arrived in Ukraine Saturday for meetings with Prime Minister Georgia Melanie and Pope Francis in his first visit to Italy since Russia's invasion. Zelensky tweeted following his arrival at a military base of Rome's Campano airport where he was met with foreign, by foreign minister Antonio Tajani. Despite a history of one ties with Moscow, NATO and EU members Eadley has sent weapons and money to help Kiev since Russia invaded in February 2020 and backed Western sanctions against Russia. However, the government has never disclosed exactly what it has provided.


news radio seven hundred WLW. So in the midst of I think it's clear there is a revolution of sorts when it comes to technology and the idea of AI whether it's writing stories for magazines and newspapers online to creations of all sorts of things and maybe in many cases the idea that the machines could take us over. Elon Musk and other experts in that field have asked for a pause a delay in any further development of such for like six months or more as they try to figure out I guess what the future may hold and to maybe keep the machines from taking over but something that maybe is a little bit more relatable that maybe is a little bit more of a danger than the the machines taking us out. It is people using this artificial intelligence to create things that they would not have been able to otherwise and then maybe cashing in and who has ownership to this and where the ethics associated with it and a guy who deals with patents and an interesting piece talking about the creation of things with AI is John Rizvies an attorney kind of to give us some time dealing with he's known as a we call yourself there John welcome to 700 WLW with Sterling you are like the patent guy right the patent professor yes the patent professor well let's get some education I think it makes sense we're due for some education in this where is the line and I guess that part of this conversation is there's a woman who put out a book and allowed the art to be created by artificial intelligence and then the question is who owns the art who should get paid and and what what is the allowable use of arts created by the machines right yeah absolutely there might be a little bit of history might help to really understand the context I don't know if you remember a few years ago there's that monkey selfie case that it's known where a photographer had forgotten their cell phone it was picked up by a monkey who took a bunch of selfies that ended up being incredibly valuable went viral and because it was his cell phone that was used he filed for the copyright and the copyright office said that you know based on the word of the law-derived constitutionally an author has to be a human being and the the copyright was denied so that's kind of the the crux of the issue with computer generated art and computer generated content whether it's text or or graphics is how much of the creativity is done by a human being and how much of it is done I wouldn't know I wouldn't even know if I'd call it creativity or how much of the work is done by the computer I say it's not creativity because they're basically crawling the internet and a database of billions of of documents that are already created and that's the base material so there's and the human in this aspect is just putting in a simple query into the program and not doing the actual work now the the proponents who are claiming that there should be copyright protection for this are saying that the computer is no different than a paintbrush would be for a painter it's just a tool and the actual creativity is still with the human being and that you know that I don't know what you think about that but I certainly think there's a difference between a paintbrush a painter using a paintbrush versus the sophistication of some of these AI programs where you simply would put in what you want drawn and while I in two minutes you have the whole art piece done oh absolutely I agree with that I mean there's a difference between you know utilizing that brush and letting your hand do the work rather than it being someone else and you putting your name on it or but if you buy the computer you buy the software and it creates it as an architect and still with using software helping to design my home or my business or my yard and landscaping or is that then the computers and then you have to say well who created the concept in the program that those people are using their talents to create something else with it it is a tool but it gets weird it gets weird because it's a tool way more powerful than anything we've seen I mean there's some people would say well you know what you know photoshop is a program and people use photoshop to create to manipulate images all the time and I think the difference is the creative control you actually have the mouse in your hand your keyboard you're making direct edits your there's a lot more activity you're not simply putting in a query like you know draw me a frog with a horse's head and then two minutes later while I it's there like there's there's a fundamental difference between a tool such as a paintbrush they also use the example of a chisel well that you know it this is way more sophisticated than a chisel whereas every single hit is done but with your hands with a hammer and there's a lot more creativity involved here that you know that that's that's the difference like is this who is the actual author and is it a human because if not then a machine cannot own rights to a copyright John risby by the way is the patent professor talking about the issues of artificial intelligence creating art or things stuff and who owns the right to what that creation is generally speaking with sterling on a Wednesday night 700 wlw so as we look at this what is the say for instance I buy a 3d printer and you know they're building houses with 3d printers they're doing a lot of things with 3d printers and you can get programs that would then help design things and so forth and there are elements that you may pick and choose from one place or another to go with it I guess it gets deep as far as who has ownership if you I mean who owns the technology that is the artificial intelligence and is then that who is chasing money or a copyright for say like the story about the girl who put the story out there and it created like the artwork to go along with it that sort of was the crux of this initial conversation yeah so she's kind of testing that the limits of you know in the the original application was granted for a copyright and then the copyright office did a 180 they changed course and said well wait a minute there's no there's no human authorship here and therefore there's there's no copyrights because in that case there literally was you know almost no control creative control on her part of the output so now what she's doing is is going through and now it's going to be this is really what's going to test is how much is enough there's a new program called stable diffusion where you scan in your own drawings so the initial drawings are extremely rough hand drawings that you scan in and then you do put some queries some terms in and it manipulates your original hand drawings and this is really going to tell kind of if that's enough because now there is that element of creative control where you have a lot more input at the beginning it's still an incredibly powerful tool so it's nowhere nowhere close to you know like a paint brush or a chisel but it's still still a lot more creativity than simply putting in the terms and asking you to draw like going back to my example of a frog with a horse's head right in this case with a stable diffusion you could do a rough sketch with you know it could look like a kindergartner's crayon drawing of a frog with a horse's head scan it into this program and then use a text query to explain what you're trying to draw the artificial intelligence would look at your hand drawn sketch look at the query and based on those would create a final drawing and the hope is that this would then be enough creative control on the part of a human to to provide authorship for the creator and therefore copyrights will apply man I can see all kinds of ways this could be argued and manipulated John Rizvi is a patent professor talking about well who can own art created by or anything created by artificial intelligence was sterling on the big one so say for instance and what's the classic story like the guy who came up with like carbon paper or whatever it was or even post-it notes I think that they they come up with it they may have gotten a small bonus it was a part of their job for a company that they worked for then the company owns what they created and then for whatever period of time has ownership of that correct that that's correct if you're uh and a lot of that depends on the employment agreement but most employment agreements do include a clause that any intellectual property you you produce during the course of your employment belongs to the employer and as far as say for instance like right now if you're looking to write something you can go into like the open chat AI or whatever and give them ideas come up with questions come up with the writing I mean at this point I have friends who are educators and they have to basically check their students work to see if it's been heisted from someplace now they have software to search for something that could have been stolen elsewhere not just reworded works and thoughts to something that they're regurgitating I mean there are so many levels of layers to this it gets very complicated I mean it's it's really hard to fathom this Christina Kastanova who is the graphic novelist behind this in the zarea of the dawn which is in the midst of this conversation about the art and the words so she owns the words to what she wrote in those stories but the creative portion in the art which was artificially created then is that open source now like open licensing for like art or photos that's on the internet that people use and if you're not careful if you post it on social media or otherwise someone can come at you I mean that that's an area where you know somebody like you looks to get some billable hours right yeah well and and oh my god there's there's there's just so much uh so many different angles to this one is whether the uh Christina for example whether she can get a copyright protection herself but another completely different issue is uh all of the there's a lot of lawsuits because all of that existing material that exists that's being uh you know utilized to create this that's that's uh there's a class action claiming infringement that there's there's there's gotta be uh compensation for the original artist because the computer doesn't have its own creativity it's simply compiling from existing material that's out there one big distinction in in Casanova's case is that the the copyright office when they denied the copyright one big factor was that the software program was called mid journey it does not allow any editing after the computer spits back uh you know the the image so there's no human interaction at all uh that that's a potential weakness um in the copyright offices uh stance deny denying copyrights for uh AI generated material because uh you know clearly these companies are learning from this case they're following it and their the later programs allow for editing after the computer generates the you know the content so for chat gpt for example uh if you get if you if you put in terms that say give me a 150 word essay about photo synthesis and how it works it's going to generate content it's going to give that to you uh one way to to become the author is you take that raw material and reword it yeah reword it yeah and and it doesn't take a lot before you've edited it and now you've got the human control and you now you can follow for a copyright so that that was one of the big drawbacks in mid journey which prevented uh you know the copyright office from finding any authorship is that there's no editing permitted after the final product this is all crazy talk you know i mean but to a certain extent it it seems so out there but it is so now at this point and law is behind technology and science it has always been that way but it seems like it's really behind in some ways i gotta ask because i mean i know you put out books like escaping the gray thinking grow risk for investors you got the patent professor dot com you were one of the original sharks as i understand under the shark tank uh i mean you been around you know issues of patenting and so forth we have problems enforcing that with China nation states other than that let alone courts and other countries we have agreements with where they don't follow along with our trade trademarks and copyrights and infringed upon those not even for knockoff goods just for other things in their markets as well that i mean just with russia recently with all the stuff that went down you know with ukraine as far as mcdonalds and so on selling more or less the same product but yanking the golden arches off and a lot of weird stuff like that this is the same type of concept it's just a machine creating all of it right it it is it's um and it just brings you know it's it's funny that the uh to go back to the original constitutional basis for intellectual property for protecting the rights of authors and and it's going back you know what did the founders envisioned by authors uh they clearly did not envision an author to be a computer uh you're right they didn't and as a monkey selfie case kind of shows us that they didn't envision an author to be a monkey either an author is a human being and there has to be creative control exerted by by a human in creating content uh the question just becomes one of degrees like when at which point does the tool become so incredibly powerful that it is doing a lot of the creative work that otherwise the human would be like this is like you know some of these these new ai-based programs are like like photoshop on steroids because your your the human element is input is is minor and most of the work most of the uh creative control is in the part of the machine now there's that loophole that i mentioned is if these uh if this ai uh software allows for the human after the content is fully created to go back and make edits now you're talk now now you're now it's a the copyright office is in a tough position like who's to determine that the editing is not enough creative control well yeah but i mean look i can pay an editor to help me fix a paper i've written i'm still going to turn the paper and the the person who edited just get a couple bucks right so what's the difference if it's technology doing the editing and me doing the creation that it's being edited right right well the big difference would be now if you edit it yourself you own the copyright to it and and now they can't use the they can't reject it based on uh they're not being enough creative control by human being because if the programs allow the human to step in once it's done uh and make changes you know then then they can still get the copyright and we all know it's a lot easier as you know like the it's always easier being a critic uh than it is to create the original work so to come back after the computer's done it and go back and make some minor inconsequential changes uh that's easy and and if that's what all it takes to entitle someone to a copyright then that's a really low bar for them to meet in order to get entitled to protection yeah i mean at this point i mean there's so much work that in the creative realm that is somewhat derivative anyway it gets deep and people fight those issues for service mark copyright trademarking et cetera too which obviously you know a lot about the patent professor dot com the web page john risby thank you for making time i don't know if i'm in a better place of figuring out what's my work and what somebody else is but it gets deep and would be interesting to see how it plays out right now before the machines take over and we all have a lot of free time on our hands exactly take care of yourself appreciate your time hope to have you back again soon the patent professor dot com john risby was sterling on the big one


So over the weekend politicians in both parties released statements in response to Hamas's attack on Israel And in my opinion almost all of them missed the mark with a few exceptions And we're gonna talk about that because I think that what US politicians say is important given how much influence America has in that region But having said that though I do want to first look at the events that unfolded on Saturday And as common dreams reports Hamas launched a surprise operation on an Unprecedented scale against Israel early Saturday by land air and sea Hamas's military chief Mohammed Dief said the operation was codenamed al-Aqsa flood The day marks a tremendous strategic failure and defeat for Israel even as it bombs Gaza in retaliation The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza says the death toll of the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza has risen to 198 with 710 injured and Israel's channel 12 reports that the Israeli death toll has risen to at least 40 and more than 740 people have been injured now keep in mind that all these numbers are subject to change And it's very difficult to track these kinds of things as it happens But just know that there is a lot of people who are suffering right now, and it's a very uncomfortable Nozgating thought but that is the reality So we're not gonna focus too much on specific numbers, but the situation is very very sad Now even though this all may feel sudden to international observers Tensions have been escalating all year in the lead-up to this outbreak of violence as the Washington Post explains as of September 19th Before Saturday's outbreak of violence 227 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli troops or settlers this year according to UN figures with most of those deaths 189 occurring in the West Bank at least 29 Israelis mostly in the West Bank were also killed this year as of the end of August according to the same UN database now to zoom out even a bit further the violence from this year Also has not occurred in a vacuum and that context is absolutely crucial now as this graphic demonstrates Palestine has been quickly disappearing with more land being illegally annexed and occupied by Israel's far-right government every single year in fact Amnesty International declared this a system of apartheid and For very good reason every single year more and more Palestinians are forcibly evicted from their homes and displaced They're segregated and they have no civil rights no civil liberties and in Gaza The situation is even worse as common dreams explains Israel has been imposing a land air and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip for nearly two Decades impoverishing much of the crowded enclaves population and denying million sufficient access to clean water and other Necessities children who make up roughly half of Gaza's population have been disproportionately affected So we're talking about a very young population in a densely populated area that is now being bombed again and already before This current outbreak of violence people in Gaza had no economic prospects unemployment was above 40% They're effectively living in the world's largest open-air prison where no one can leave or enter without Israel's permission And this was already humanitarian disaster, but that problem is going to be exacerbated because of this current wave of bombing I mean more than half of Gazan's already needed aid 3% didn't have access to potable water and Now that's gonna get worse But if you are a Gazan Resisting this blockade was literally is literally a matter of life and death But the problem is that there's just no good options for Resisting because when they resist using violence obviously Israel responds predictably with even more violence But when they resist peacefully and they protest They're still brutalized in fact You can't even peacefully resist here in the United States because the boycott divestment sanctions movement is banned in dozens of US States so we're not even allowed to advocate for peaceful resistance here in many states So we're in this horrible situation and it looks like there's no end There's a power imbalance here and only one side can choose to end apartheid choose to end all the suffering And that is Israel and as long as Israel chooses to maintain this brutal system of oppression and subjugation and apartheid Peace is never gonna be possible. And this is what politicians Have to acknowledge you can't just look at what happened in a vacuum You have to zoom out and look at the entire set of circumstances here and understand that this sort of violence is inevitable And as this graphic demonstrates violence has been common in the region for decades But one side always suffers disproportionately and that is because they lack power They lack resources whereas the other side has all the power all the resources not to mention International support and that's why we always see the same result now having said that does this justify Hamas's slaughter of innocent Israelis absolutely not targeting civilians is a war crime. It's never okay It's bad regardless of who does it and I hope that people condemn the slaughter of innocent civilians because that is not okay And it's really important to remember as we see these news stories here That we shouldn't conflate the actions of Hamas with the actions of all Palestinians and in the same breath We shouldn't conflate the actions of the far right Israeli government with the actions of Israel citizens And I say this because my country the United States has done horrible things It is a colonizer country. We invaded Iraq when I was just a young man couldn't vote yet And I think probably many if not most Americans supported that but I didn't But we were lied to there was a lot of propaganda So I think that even though in a democratic situation you can elect your government You still in the end don't have total control of what your government does and in the same way That I wouldn't want to be blamed for the actions of my government for the atrocities of my government Even if I am indirectly responsible because my tax dollars funded I wouldn't want people to view Palestinians as responsible for the actions of Hamas in the same way I wouldn't want people to view Israelis responsible for the actions of their government when it comes to war We've got to remember that people are people and human life is precious and that's one thing that I want people to understand Now I've seen people compare this to 9-11 and say that this is Israel's 9-11 But if they think that that is indeed the case Then there's a lesson that they should learn because on 9-11 3,000 Americans tragically died but over a million people in the Middle East that had nothing to do with that perished in response and With the way that things are going it seems like Israel is gearing up for a similar response Which is horrifying in fact the defense minister of Israel Yov Galin said the following And mine and deli So they're cutting off electricity food water and gas to people he deems as animals Now ask yourself this question. Do you think that he's referring exclusively to Hamas here?  The situation is untenable I mean imagine if a government that you couldn't vote for Controlled your access to food water power and you weren't allowed to leave ever unless you got their permission you couldn't view your family or Imagine if you were evicted from the home that your family lived in for generations at gunpoint You had no choice, but you had to leave and you were displaced I mean this situation is obviously going to foster resentment. You would be very mad. You would want to retaliate so this situation Creates an environment where attentions are always going to be hot Because when you are putting people in this predicament They're going to want to resist and the reason why a fascist like Benjamin Netanyahu keeps getting elected is because he's promising To keep Israeli safe But he's been lying to them and year after year that lie becomes more apparent because so long as the system of apartheid exists Violence like this is going to continue to occur and innocent Palestinians as well as innocent Israelis are going to continue to suffer and lose Their lives and again life is precious every single person deserves to live a life with dignity and peace But that is not possible so long as this current system is in place, right? It's only possible if Israel ends its illegal occupation of Palestine and People get real about actual solutions a two-state solution is dead Nobody wants to admit that I mean how are you going to do a two-state solution when Palestine has essentially been erased The only feasible solution at this point seems to be a one-state solution with equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis But Israel is able to perpetuate this system of apartheid and segregation because countries like the United States colonizers ourselves they allow it to continue right and So long as we allow it to continue it will continue because there's no reason for Israel to stop doing what they're doing, right? So this is why I do want to take some time to focus on what US politicians are saying because I think that their takes are important Here what they say matters it reverberates around the world now many politicians Condemned Hamas's attack and rightfully expressed sadness for the lives lost in Israel Yet they failed to mention the humanitarian disaster taking place in Gaza That created these conditions and they kind of like talk about this without giving you the full context others namely Republicans like Nikki Haley use this attack by Hamas to effectively justify genocide against Palestinians with rhetoric that is overtly fascistic So needless to say I was very disappointed by what a lot of lawmakers said There are a lot of them that frame this as Unprovoked an unprovoked attack when that's obviously not true But there were a couple of exceptions a couple of lawmakers who said something that stood out Because they gave people the full context, but of course they were attacked for it But before we get to that let's look at what they said first and foremost is Congresswoman Cori Bush who released the following statement on Twitter Quote I am heartbroken by the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel I mourn the over 250 Israeli and 230 Palestinian lives that have been lost today and the thousands injured Following attacks by Hamas militants on Israeli border towns and Israeli military bombardment of Gaza I strongly condemn the targeting of civilians and I urge an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation to prevent further loss of life Our immediate focus must be saving lives But our ultimate focus must be on a just and lasting peace that ensures safety for everyone in the region Violations of human rights do not justify more violations of human rights and a military response will only exacerbate the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis alike as part of achieving a just and lasting peace We must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending US government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid Now on Instagram the only Palestinian American member of Congress Rashida Tlaib also released the statement that was similar saying I Grieved the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday today and every day I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace without fear and with true freedom equal rights And human dignity the path to that future must include lifting the blockade ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system That creates the suffocating dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance the failure to recognize the violent reality of living under siege Occupation and apartheid makes no one safer no person no child anywhere should have to suffer or live in fear of violence We cannot ignore the humanity in each other as long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid Government this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue now. I think that these were really good statements, right? They condemn the violence. They're not saying yes, what Hamas did that is legitimate resistance. They're just saying the context matters here The situation has led to this point and violence will continue if nothing changes But the reason why these statements were so controversial is because they're calling for the United States to end aid to Israel While others are saying we should actually increase aid to Israel now after we see the responses to that you'll understand why they think this is So controversial and spoiler alert Their interpretation of these statements are incredibly disingenuous and bad-faith, but nonetheless the Hill reports quote USA to Israel is and should be unconditional and never more so than in this moment of critical need Democrat Rishi Torres said in a statement to Jewish insider quote shame on anyone who glorifies as resistance the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust it is Perhensible and repulsive furthermore quote to my colleagues called for America to end resistance to Israel Despite the countless images of Israeli children women men and elderly including Americans murdered by radical Iranian-backed Hamas Terrorists Democrat Josh Govheimer said in a statement obtained by the Hill It sickets me that while Israelis clean the blood of their family members shot in their homes They believe Congress should strip us funding to our Democratic ally and allow innocent civilians to suffer now The U.S. Ambassador to Israel also chimed in on Twitter saying how much more blood needs to be spilled for you to overcome your Prejudice and unequivocally condemn Hamas a u.s. Designated terror organization Hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians massacred in cold blood on a holy day Babies kidnapped from their mother's arms and taken to Gaza an 85-year-old woman in a wheelchair and a holocaust survivor Taken hostage is that not enough for Shida to leave now what these disingenuous bad-faith liars won't tell you is that both Tlaib and Bush are not calling for an end to aid to Israel to punish them for being attacked They're not celebrating the violence here. They condemned it as you saw But what they are calling for is an end to aid specifically to pressure Israel to end the occupation on apartheid So long-lasting peace can be secured our aid to the Israeli government is enabling a fascist regime That is literally facilitating a system of apartheid But suppose a left-wing politicians in America those were Democrats by the way They're siding with the approach taken by the far right in Israel not the left wing in the United States But can you guess who agrees more with Tlaib? The left in Israel because of recassif a member of the Knesset's leftist hadash coalition Echoed the same points made by Tlaib saying we condemn and oppose any assault on innocent civilians But in contrast to the Israeli government that means we oppose any assault on Palestinian civilians as well We must analyze those terrible incidents the attacks in the right context We have been warning time and time again Everything is going to erupt and everybody is going to pay a price mainly innocent civilians on both sides and Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. He said he continues the Israeli government is a fascist government Supports encourages and leads programs against the Palestinians. There is an ethnic cleansing going on It was obvious the writing was on the wall written in the blood of Palestinians and unfortunately now Israelis as well He added so I think it's really poetic to see a Jewish Israeli politician echo What a Palestinian American politician is saying both of them are interested in long-term peace and stability But they acknowledge that you can't make that a reality So long as the current situation continues and we all know that the occupation will continue in perpetuity So long as America allows Israel to do this But we're using our permanent seat at the UN Security Council to veto any and all resolutions That would reign in Israel make them stop violating international law and since we're not gonna stop They're not gonna stop and as a result a lot of innocent people on both sides are gonna continue to suffer something that the left in Israel and the United States Acknowledge, but what Democrats like Richie Torres and Josh Gottheimer don't realize now is that they are on the wrong side of history and They're gonna realize that at some point I think right they're gonna look as foolish as the people who defended apartheid in South Africa Might take some time, but that's where this is going because I think more and more people are realizing that the current situation is Completely unsustainable. You can't have one country control Another country like this or control a group of people like this where they can't leave Their access to food and drinking water is controlled and now being withdrawn. It just it's not sustainable, right? So if you want peace the situation has to end Change needs to happen now before we wrap up I do want to look at a CNN interview by Dr. Mustafa Bargati, which was actually really really good So he represents the Palestinian national initiative. He is not affiliated with Hamas or the PLO But what he says is the same thing as just a couple of US lawmakers who got it, right? And his words are crucial here because this is somebody whose experience is living Under apartheid living under the system of oppression in the West Bank So what he says here the context that he gives us is crucial. I represent a democratic Palestinian movement called Palestinian National Initiative, which is non fatah and non Hamas and We're we're of course, I am not affiliated with Hamas But I think this situation that has evolved is a direct result of the continuation of the longest occupation in modern history Israeli occupation of Palestinian land since 1967 this is 56 years of occupation That has transformed into a system of apartheid a much worse apartheid than what prevailed in South Africa Yes, maybe Hamas did not recognize Israel, but the PLO did and the Palestinian Authority did what did they get? nothing since 2014 the Israeli governments would not even meet with Palestinians and What you see today is a reaction to several things first of all settlers terrorist attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank That has effected already 20 communities in an act of ethnic cleansing 248 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank including 40 children attacks on the holy sites the Muslim and Christian holy sites by Israeli extremists as Well as declaration of Netanyahu that he will liquidate the Palestinian rights and the Palestinian cause by normalization with Arab countries and He dared even to go to the United Nations and carried in the United Nations A map of Israel which included the whole of the West Bank all of Gaza All of Jerusalem as well as the Golan Heights He declared the annexation of the occupied territories. So of course Palestinians turn to resistance Because they see that this is the only way for them to get their rights The question here is not about dehumanizing Palestinians as is happening and calling them terrorists It's about asking the question why the United States supports Ukraine in fighting what they call occupation While here they are supporting the occupier who continues to occupy us And that right there is a damn good question It's easy for Americans to see why resistance to Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine is both just and necessary in fact Americans literally support violent resistance against Russia which is why we're sending them tanks and weapons However, when it comes to Israel and Palestine Resistance in all forms by Palestinians is deemed unacceptable like put aside Hamas's attack Dr. Bargati is not affiliated with Hamas. He doesn't represent Hamas, but he is a Palestinian in the West Bank He's talking about even peaceful forms of resistance being met with condemnation If you're a Palestinian and you protest peacefully you are Brutalized you see violence But even if you're in the United States peaceful support for BDS a peaceful movement is met with censorship Which is a violation of the First Amendment Americans need to think deeply about why this discrepancy exists, right? What is it? Is it a Racial component? Why is this double standard here? Is it just US geopolitical interests? Examine why that's happening and if you hold this bias why you have this bias But I do want to get back to that interview and hear some more from dr. Bargati Because he's gonna point out this double standard even when it comes to civilian casualties now to be clear All of the casualties are bad And I feel like it's pretty easy for people to condemn it all because none of the suffering is good It's it's horrible, right? But he points out that there's never the same concern for civilian casualties on the Palestinian side People only see the harm done to Israelis, which is bad But they never see what's happening simultaneously to Palestinians. It's just completely tuned out. I do not accept attacking any civilian I do not accept that Israelis attack our civilians But look at what Israeli planes are doing now in Gaza. They are bombarding houses They're bringing down to earth and you've so you've shown that on your on your screen Whole apartments whole buildings high-rise buildings are brought down to the ground and we already are reporting receiving reports about families who are killed Nine people in one family ten people in another family including children I do not want any civilian to be hurt neither by Palestinians or by Israelis But the question is how to end that Will it end by attacking? Gaza Strip another time Israel has already conducted five wars on Gaza One of them lasted 51 days. They destroyed everything. This did not stop Hamas did not stop resistance there is one way to stop any violence and that is to end the Israeli occupation and That is for the United States to be fair They cannot say that Israel has the right to defend itself But we the Palestinians don't have the right to defend ourselves Let me remind you with the case of Shirin Abu-Aqli who was not only Palestinian, but also an American a very peaceful Journalist she was shot to death by an Israeli sniper. Was anybody indicted? Was anybody taken to court? No 52 other journalists were also killed our first aid providers are shot at our doctors are shot at This should stop and the only way to stop it is to tell Israel you have to respect international law You have to end this illegal occupation and accept Palestinians as equal human beings Bingo, I don't think there's anything I can add to that what he said there was really important Now one last clip that I want to leave you with is this video that I play whenever Israel Palestine dominates the news cycle It's a clip of the late great Michael Brooks who explains that his Jewish values teach him to oppose apartheid And on top of that he explains that the situation isn't actually that complicated even though Mainstream media might present it as complicated in actuality It's pretty simple and I'm gonna leave you with his words of wisdom. So it's not a complex issue. That's the big thing It's super simple. There's one group that has enormous power. It's the most powerful country in the Middle East It's backed by the United States. It acts on another population of people with total impunity and is never held accountable for anything So there's no symmetry in the relationship period and just as like a thought experiment IDW people If we know that if somehow a population of Jewish refugees ended up in West Bank in Gaza and an Arabic government in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv had an open-air prison in what you know Jewish Gaza Which they bombed the white phosphorus they killed civilians indiscriminately and they had no provisions for medicine They had an embargo that blocked food that the electricity wasn't running that there was an over 48 percent Unemployment rate life expectancy and malnutrition statistics were horrifying the one of the major Policy makers in this hypothetical Arabic Palestinian state said we need to put those Jews on a diet in the West Bank There was another Jewish area where there was a little bit more autonomy But there was regular Arabic settlements where they pulled up the Jewish farmers foods They terrorized them with rocks the security forces broke children's bones and they couldn't drive on their own roads We'd all have no problem understanding what that was. So there's nothing complex about The second part of your question. It's a pure asymmetry relationship and the question is rights or not So that's it. It's not complicated the second part of your question at this point There's always been there's always going to be crackpots who are anti-Semitic who condemn Israel That's not what drives the movement. It's particularly in the United States We work around most people who are concerned with this issue. It's actually populated with a lot of Jewish people The real question we have to ask is why is it that APAC is hosting a Information minister for Slobodan Milosevic Why is it that there's relationships between the Israeli government and far-right parties in Europe? Why is it that Benjamin Netanyahu's son is posting borderline alt-right memes? Why is it that Israel is an alt-right state? Even though it is from the descendants of the victims of one of the greatest crimes in history That's a serious question and that's inseparable from the racism of the project Which goes back to the first part that we have to solve But thank you Shalom


On the Vtilburg University we received a core strategic consultancy and normally you just get a grade, but this time you got an extension to that grade called an ADU badge, which is an online certificate to show for your capabilities. With an ADU badge you can show exactly what kind of knowledge and skills you have acquired as a learner and subsequently you can share that, for example with potential employers but also with other universities. When you graduate from university of course you get a diploma, but for potential employers, partners or investors a diploma provides only limited information about your knowledge and skills. An ADU badge goes beyond that. ADU badges are digital certificates that prove you've acquired specific knowledge or mastered certain skills. ADU badges are connected to a unique digital idea of a student that lasts a lifetime. That way they can always be verified for authenticity. With ADU we love, Tilburg University has participated in this project in collaboration with SURF. SURF is developing an infrastructure whereby Dutch education institutions can issue ADU badges. Worldwide, the Netherlands is one of the front runners with this national approach. So I think that ADU badges do something that goes above and beyond what normal diplomas or certifications do. They very intuitively capture not what you know, but what you can do. And I think that for employers in the strategic consultancy business, that's going to be very valuable. An ADU badge provides a more in-depth view of what you've learned as a student and what you're capable of whereas a diploma just shows that you've passed the courses, but not specifically which course and which capabilities you've gained. With our strategy consulting course we participated in a pilot that was initiated by SURF. We want to learn from this pilot because we are convinced that ADU badges are not just a fad, but they're there to stay. And that's because they reflect important underlying trends such as lifelong learning, flexible learning paths and learning from a variety of suppliers instead of just one school or university. For me personally I think that ADU badges are somewhat of the future of certification in the sense that if the strength continues and students accumulate more and more of these ADU badges that demonstrate what they're capable of doing, then that to an employer, for instance in the strategic consultancy business that communicates something very valuable, namely that these people know what they're doing and that the university says we fully believe in these people that they're capable of this particular skill set. And I think that for any career that's going to be very valuable. Great extension to our regular grades. It provides an interesting future of it to be posted on social media. So for me it's especially on LinkedIn where future employers can see the capabilities you've developed during your courses and it's kind of like working on your resume while you're sailing in college. The pilot has gone very well. We have been able to award ADU badges to no fewer than 75 students which is the vast majority of students in our course. Next step for Tilburg University would be to make a decision on how to best make use of ADU badges. All in all I believe that ADU badges are an important development that should be embraced by Tilburg University.


I have started my timer. Hello everyone, hello friends, colleagues, lend me your ears. So thanks for coming to, at the end of the day, what is a very vague, nebulous, and experimental talk? Almost not sure what I wanna say, honestly. It's my first in-person talk in quite some time. So this whole having interactivity with an audience is new or renewed. So before we get started, you can access the slides directly at this bit.ly link. It's bit.ly slash social dash model dash O-S-S-U-M-M-I-T. Those are case-sensitive, bit.ly links are case-sensitive. So all of that is lower case, and this means that all of the images that you'll see in this presentation have alt text that if you want to see the, or want to hear the image descriptions. A social model of open source, what is that? I don't know. But I have some thoughts, and that's kind of where we're gonna go today. So this is me, I'm Julia. I am your friendly open source human. I am a multi-tool in a good sense of the word, I guess. So I code, I write policy, I do what needs to be done in open source, and that's pretty much it. I pride myself on not having deleted all of the GitHub orgs that I have access to, and I know that my manager, Stephen, is very thankful for that as well, because I'm new to Cisco in their open source programs office. And I am the co-founder of Open Source Stories, which is a narrative gathering project to raise the visibility of typically uncredited and unrecognized contributions to open source backed up by StoryCorps. And yeah, I will stop my identity crisis. We're gonna do some basic stuff right now. This is the complete history of open source part one. And by that, I mean, it's a very incomplete history that is cherry-picked. But when open source first started in ethos, not in definition, was the domain of researchers, it was the domain of universities and trading code just happened, right? It was code was treated like public domain, but in 1974, what happened? Anybody know? Software becomes copyrightable. You can read the court case. It is scintillating. And everything kind of changed then. We started having more conversations about what open source meant, like how could we regain this sort of freedom that we had before that point? Lots of stuff happened. And in 1998, if we jump forward many years, we saw the founding of the OSI and the creation of the open source definition. Pivotal points in open source history. We'll come back to this. So what is open source? We're gonna do this rapid fire because there's a lot of material. So technically, most of us have seen the open source definition. You need to make it open and sourcy. You need to be able to redistribute it, modify it, and it has to be technology neutral. Protect people's integrity. Distribute the license. Don't do these things. Don't discriminate. Don't restrict software. So technically, this is what you gotta do to be considered open source. And I'm coming at this from both the perspective of somebody who has had to manage open source software at various companies and make sure that we're being good stewards of the open source community and also from somebody who has been invested in the open source community since, well, I don't think I've been this tall for quite some time, but when I had fewer gray hair, so this is what I mean when I talk about the technical model of open source. This open source definition, like what are the criteria that you must satisfy in order to technically be called open source? In all likelihood, when you think about open source, you mean you're not talking necessarily about the license. The license is important, right? Not gonna deny that. The definition is important. Not going to deny that. But when you think about open source, what's a word that comes into your mind? Innovation. Community. Anyone else? Collaboration. Sharing. Sharing is caring. Ecosystem, activism, philosophy, education. There are so many words that can pop into people's minds as part of this wonderful candy bowl that we're in in open source. There is no, I have no candy actually, I'm sorry. Should've brought M&Ms. So whatever motivated you to join the ecosystem, and in my case, it was research. I was doing machine learning research and that was my first introduction to being able to modify code and create new algorithms based on the knowledge of people who came before me. That was magical. Our different motivations are what make open source this multifaceted and dynamic place that we like to spend our time in. So when I think about open source, this is what pops into my head. This is a graph. It's got nodes, it's got collections of nodes. It's got arrows going in between the nodes. Sometimes they're connected in directional ways, in bi-directional ways, self-referential ways. And if we think of each of those circles inside the larger blob as a project with different components, we can kind of get a sense of, okay, well, how did the different projects interact with each other? Are they based on an open source language? Are they contributing back? Are they taking one as a dependency of the other? Are there similar collaborators on different projects? But this is actually way too simplistic. I'm sorry to say. The connections aren't necessarily the same. Sometimes it's about a learning relationship. Sometimes it's a collaboration relationship. There are so many ways that we interact with each other within open source. And the relationships between the projects and the parties in them aren't always uniform and they're not always static. They change over time. This is actually not right either because it's more complicated because they're humans in the mix. People are an integral part of the open source ecosystem. Without people, open source doesn't exist. And I don't know about you, but after years and years of therapy, I have realized I'm a very complex person. So I come with my own baggage and I come with my own modes of interaction as well. And humans make things complicated. But we're also what make this ecosystem tick. But our system got more complex and we're not done because it's not just humans. It's not just software. It's also companies, nonprofits, universities, governments, foundations, utilities. All of these entities have a place in the open source ecosystem. It makes everything so complex, but it makes it really, really fascinating. So open sources, it's complicated. I was looking for a picture that, and I believe my search string was Knitter's Worst Nightmare. To illustrate this, and I couldn't find one licensed the way that I needed, but open source is a complex system. And one of the things that if you talk to me long enough, you'll hear me say is that it's a socio-technical system. And we often focus on the technical to the detriment of the socio side of things. And I'm thankful for this opportunity to talk to all of you about the socio, the social side of open source. How can we do the relationships, all of the different relationships that open source has to deal with is the wrong phrase, but handle, how can we do them justice? How can we make sure that we are bringing the best of ourselves to this incredibly complex system? And that's kind of why I started maybe like a year or two ago really thinking about what would a social model of open source look like? How do we capture the information that everyone needs in order to participate in the open source ecosystem the way that they want to and the way that empowers them? How do we increase the transparency? How do we bring the openness that we bring to our code to the rest of how open source functions? So there are two words that I will probably use more than I should. And that's empowerment and transparency. And that's because that's the motivation behind all of this. So some things to note, this is nascent. It is very naive. It is very, very much not finished. And I do not have time in the amount of time I have allotted to me to cover all the different aspects because we have a complex system that is growing ever more complex while we're in this talk. So what are our goals? Not for this talk, just for the model, for a model. Well, it's understanding. We all come at open source with a different concept of what it is. Who here has seen some sort of interaction where someone's talking about an open source project and someone else says, that's not really open source. And they'll justify why they don't think it's open source. And that's because we have a different understanding of what those words mean, what that term means. So can we arrive at a shared understanding? Can we figure out how to formalize it? And can we help the people that want to engage in a project do so in a way that simplifies things for them, that gives them the context and understanding that they need in order to have fun. You can't quantify fun, but you can try, I guess. And we do have this problem in open source right now about sustainability, maintainer burnout, supply chain security, it all connects. And right now we're seeing a lot of interesting approaches that are coming at it from the technical angle, but we also need to come at it from the social side of things because people are a critical part of the system. So what don't we want to do? I don't want to tell you what to do, except for this slide. I'll tell you what to do here. I'm not gonna tell you that I have all of the answers because I don't, and that's kind of a weird place to becoming to give a talk is usually I talk about stuff I know, not what I don't. So I'm not gonna tell you that there's a wrong or a right way to do open source. I'm not here to pass judgment on you, and I'm not here to relitigate what is or isn't open source. So we can take that one off the table. So going back to the, oh, that's not open source. I hear that a lot, especially with, I worked in developer relations for a time and developer relations releases a lot of open source code, but you hear that's not really open source. They're not growing an ecosystem around it. It's not, they're not looking to actually accept contributions, they're just looking to bring people in and use APIs. I'm like, actually no, it is open source. It's actually right in line with the open source ethos. So when we talk about, okay, what is or isn't open source? Well, maybe we actually need to be having more nuanced conversation about what kind of open source are we talking about? What's the type? Which leads us to why is something open source? Like the first one, I wanna work with other people. That's like kind of, I don't wanna say universal, but that's a common thread. The second one we're seeing more and more, I want to do something that's gonna land me a job because recruiters have found GitHub.  I wanna get early feedback, right? This is something that's really hard for me. So this talk is really hard for me. And of course, putting the corporate hat on, I want to use this as part of my business strategy. Or I wanna win a bet. I have actually seen that. And if you haven't, I'm pretty sure you're lying. So examining why something is open source can help determine how can we classify? How can we categorize the types of open source? What function does it serve? And these are some initial ones that I've kind of seen happen over and over again. And I'm not going to go into every one of them. But there are a couple up here, the validation and demonstration categories that you'll note are called out as being static often. They don't change. And let's go into the validation category. So is anyone here from academia? We've got three and a half, yeah. So if you're writing a paper, whether it's in computer science, bioinformatics, anything that uses a software, we know that reproducibility is a conversation that's happening more and more and more, right? We've seen a lot of papers in the past whose results have been called into question because they are not able to be reproduced. So a lot of publications, academic publications are asking for the code used. How are you gonna publish that code? How are you gonna publish it in a way that other people can use it and reproduce your results? Is this what's typically thought of as open source? Probably not. It's probably not what you have in your head. But it is a great use of the technical model of open source. But we need to set the expectation amongst contributors, amongst users that actually note this thing, this project that I've released needs to remain static and that is to keep the integrity of the publication. No, I'm not gonna fix issues. If there's a bug, it's gotta stay there because you need to be able to reproduce my bug. So by figuring out the general shape of your open source project and putting a name to it, being very explicit, you can help set the expectations. Oh, well, this was a research project that accompanied a publication. So you know what, maybe that's not something I take a dependency on because they're not gonna fix anything. Or this is an experiment. This is the, I want to win my bet. Okay, that's probably not gonna be ready for production anytime soon. It's fun, but the outlining the general shape of things can help us arrive at a good understanding of what to expect out of your open source project. So let's talk about people. I'm gonna put you on the spot because I can't because I'm in person and I can see all of you. It's great. How long, if I gave you an arbitrary open source project, would it take you to find the complete list of maintainers of that project? Is that five minutes, five hours, or five days? Five minutes, okay? Anyone else? Seconds. Was that for any project? I thought that was going for any project. For an arbitrary project, it depends. How about the complete core team, active core team? What about the security contact or the community stewards? This is not straightforward. It's not straightforward. And I've tried to do this for some arbitrary projects. And I've found myself in loops. I've found myself in the mess of get archeology, because I do that a lot. And so when you're a person coming into a project and you want to figure out, hey, is this something I want to take a dependency on? Is this actively developed? Is there more than one maintainer? If this maintainer wins the lottery, is this project going to be abandoned? It can add up. And those minutes, seconds, days, I've heard even months can slow you down when you are trying to fix a security concern, raise a concern, security issue. So being transparent about who is on these teams, who is responsible or empowered to make decisions and take actions for the project can really help both the people coming in as contributors, the people using it, and the people making evaluations about the project. And it can also help identify when a particular project needs help. When are they at risk of burnout? Maintainer burnout is a big thing. So if you've got a highly critical project that has one maintainer, how do you know that? And how do you find that out and monitor it? Operations, I don't like talking about operations, but I have to. So governance model is something we talk about a lot. These are various governance models. The BDFL is your, it is a governance model. That's all I will say. Is it run by a single company? Is it run by a foundation? And understanding the governance model and documenting it somewhere explicitly, easy to find, is really important. So people know how to engage with the project. If this looks too small to read, it's meant to be. So who runs the project? There are many folks, especially in actually in corporate space and individual space, there's a healthy amount of skepticism for good reasons on various sides to want to stay away or gravitate towards community run projects or corporate run projects and transparency about who backs the project. It's not just the governance model, but who is actually the creator, who holds the original authority, original influence, is important and can factor into your own personal evaluation framework. So running a project is expensive. Did you know that? Like it adds up, I'm feeling that right now. And we've got more ways than ever before to accept money into projects. We've got open collective, we've got GitHub sponsors, we've got Patreon, we've got all these different ways of accepting money for projects, but aggregated. It's hard to tell when a project is overfunded or underfunded. One of the responsible things to do in open source when we're talking about allocating funding is to make sure people have what they need. And if we're transparent about how much we need and how much we're getting and what our runway is, then we can actually do better at preventing financial crises in open source than if we wait to react. Can we predict? Can we prevent? I'll quickly go through resources. And I took my inspiration for this section from the chicken talk, which if you haven't seen the chicken talk, I will tweet it out later. You need docs, but you need different types of docs. Docs, docs, docs, chicken, chicken, chicken. There are different audiences for different types of documentation, but it's not always clear how to find them or where to go. So do the docs, all the docs. But also, not everybody uses GitHub or GitLab as an issue tracker. Who uses something else as an issue tracker? What do you use? Red Mine, Todo's? Yeah, Jira, yeah, we've got a bunch of different types. It's not always the place you expect and it's not always specified. Do you file bugs on the website, the same place you file bugs on the project for the website? Do you file accessibility bugs the same place that you file security bugs? Where do you file the bugs? Bugs, bugs, bugs, bunny. No, I don't know why I said that. So, and then also how do people progress through the project? Like how do you retain people? And the CNCF actually has a contributor ladder that I think does a great job at establishing a framework. Can someone gain trust and responsibility in your project? Where do they go to find that? So why care? This is stuff you know, right? Like why do you care about any of this? So we wanna bring the open source ethos beyond the code, beyond the license, but also who remembers this? Who remembers this? Heartbleed and shell shock. Heartbleed is my canonical go-to when I talk about being able to identify who is responsible for a project. Cause it actually took a while to realize how prepared OpenSSL was. And that is not to pick on OpenSSL at all. Major respect. But they were under maintained. And it took a while to realize that the person, person, primarily person, maybe a couple of persons responsible didn't have time. They couldn't quit their job or take an extended leave of absence to go fix OpenSSL. Can we prevent that from happening? Can we arrive there sooner? So if we go back to the history of open source, there are a lot of inflection points. The specific ones aren't terribly important, but at least for the context of this talk. But we've used a ton of things to work on OpenSource over the years. We've got ARPANET. I traded source code on floppy disks. We've got SourceForge, which was my original introduction to the wonderful world of Weka. I can't believe I pulled that off. Cool. We've emailed patches back and forth. We've discussed things on Usenet. And that is a screenshot of GitHub from 2008 when OpenSource was not their original mission. So the only constant we've got is change. Got to throw a paradox in. So the question becomes, what do we do with any of this? What do we do with any of this information? Well, not telling you that you need another YAML file, but maybe, how do we capture this information in a way that's useful, that we can build tools on top of? How do we make it so that when the next great thing comes along, not gonna say when we move on from GitHub, because of course that will never happen, but how do we make migration easy? How do we make data portability easy? How do we make discovery easy? And OpenSSF Day and emphasized the importance of not burying your security MD file, five pages in on some random place in your docs. How can we make it explicit? How can we point people to where they need to go easily? I don't have all the answers. There are tons of open questions. This is not nearly a complete model. Like there's lots of stuff I didn't talk about. But the biggest open question to me is, how can we make something like this easy and zero effort for maintainers? Because the last thing they need to do is maintain another metadata file, right? How can we make it sufficiently flexible? Does it do what we want? And are there unintended consequences here that need to be fought through? Could you abuse a funding information? Yes, absolutely, yes you could. How could you do it? Lots of different ways. But I do think we could do a lot with this. We could give people the frameworks they need to make the decisions based on the criteria that are important to them. We could empower people through greater transparency. We could give people the resources that they need to be successful. I think something like this may have legs, I don't know, maybe. We keep doing this. We keep growing. This is what we do. We keep experimenting. We have these conversations. So I know like I have absolutely no time for questions, but here are some resources and I would love to chat with anyone three minutes. It should be a red sign, not a green one. But here are some resources that I've found useful, including some of my own. And if you're interested in kind of chatting about this, please, I'm aggressively online. So thank you. Again, these are the slides and here's some of the writing as well. So with that in mind, appreciate your time. And coming on this weird journey with me, so I think we have time for like one question, two questions. Any questions? Or is this way too nebulous to even have questions? I didn't even plant a question with you. What's your question? He's my colleague, by the way. So you had mentioned you wanted to be able to automate this instead of having to have the developers maintain this metadata document. Do you have some ideas how we could potentially do that? Yes, did you want more? As much as you're willing to elaborate on it. Well, I think it's gonna be a bunch of different tools. Because it's not, the way that it exists in my head at this point in time, you shouldn't have to specify everything because there's a lot that's not gonna apply to various different types of projects. So I think it's about creating automatic tooling for updating maintainer lists or developer lists based on who's contributing. I think it's going to be a lot of aggregating different data sources and making it super pluggable so that when the next funding platform comes along, you don't have to do a lot of updates. This is no small task. But coming from a corporate perspective, being able to get these metadata files and evaluate it based on your own framework, gotta do it. I don't know how. We're gonna figure it out. We've got, I think we have time for one more question. On that topic of metadata files that describe the social graph of a project. Two-part question. First is to guess, no, the second one's longer. Did you find some project communities, language groups, et cetera? I'm thinking of, say, stuff on Launchpad or PyPI or older stuff where it was tracked in consistent ways. And if so, because my experience is that it's always inconsistent across those. One group might do it. This way, a different group does it. A different way and other groups don't do it at all. How might we bridge that gap? So yes, and I think to your first question, the one that I found that came closest in my evaluation is actually the Apache Software Foundation. So if you look on the Apache Software Foundation's project list and they do have a schema, but it is inconsistently filled out even across projects within the Apache Foundation, the Software Foundation. So there's most definitely prior art here. And I think the biggest challenge is how do we come together as an ecosystem and agree because I'm pretty sure I don't agree with myself. So getting a consensus is of course going to be a challenge. And we're seeing that echoed in other initiatives as well. And I'm sure as one of the founders, creators of Gitbom, you are grappling with this as well. So I would love to join forces maybe. Thank you. Basically, well be your thoughts and stay tuned, I guess.


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Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another toyhacks.com sponsored review. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now, on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is for Transformers buzz-worthy Bumblebee World's Collide Nemesis Primal. And this decal set includes two decal sheets, one on vinyl and one on foil backing. So now, without further ado, let's take a look at Nemesis Primal both before and after toyhacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In robot mode, straight out of the packaging, Nemesis Prime looks awesome. This figure right here is what I bought that entire buzz-worthy World's Collide set for because I just loved the looks of this guy. Now, taking a closer look at the figure, fantastic paint applications. He's got a silver crest, red eyes, silver face. Right here, lots of details on the chest with the turquoise circle here, turquoise section here. You got the red right there and a purple Predacon logo right there. Lots of turquoise on the shoulders and the wrist-mounted cannons, purple fingers and thumb. More great paint applications down here on the legs with the silver and turquoise. Moving on down to the feet with silver feet and, of course, the purple toes on the back. He also has his red sword there. That just looks awesome. I love this figure. He looks so cool. Lots of great molded details. And I honestly cannot wait to see what toyhacks does for this guy. So there you go. Nemesis Primal in robot mode before and after. And Evil gets an upgrade thanks to toyhacks. Taking a closer look at Nemesis Prime starting with the head sculpt. The first thing you're probably noticing is the new chrome mouthplate. And I love that. That really pops. It catches the light so good. You just can't go wrong with chrome. He also gets new silver accents right there along the top of the helmet. New silver accents there along the sides. And a new decal for the crest. Now you do have a couple of options. I chose the red or you can go with purple here. But I think the red looks a lot better. Plus it goes more with these new red chest decals that I think really make the chest pop. They're kind of a red and black blend that really look awesome. And they also catch the light so good. Also gets a new red decal there in the center. And a new red decal right there for the lower chest. And man, there are decals that go all the way down. So you want to be careful and you want to make sure you have a fine tip set of tweezers. Also here on the back with the shoulder cannons, you get decals right there on either side. I forgot to pop those shoulder cannons out earlier. But that's the only decal you do get for those. Moving on to the arms, you get a new black decal right there. And new turquoise decals right there in those little circles. Moving on to the hand cannons, there's little red decals that go on the barrels. On down to the legs, we get new silver decals right there on the thighs. And on the toes, new silver decals there. Back of the figure, we get decals that kind of give Primal here a jet pack. And inside the shoulders, you see circuitry details there and on either side. On the swords, you get new black stripe decals there on both sides. And you get those for both swords. So there you go guys, Nemesis Primal after. The Toy Hacks decal set for buzzworthy bumblebees, Nemesis Primal, is a great addition to this figure. I already thought he looked great, but these extra added details really make the figure pop. I love the new chest decals and that chrome mouthplate really, really makes this figure stand out on my Nemesis Primal shelf. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. And I also want to give a big shout out to all my current channel members. Thank you so much. It's support like yours that help this channel grow. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah!