Hi, this is Josepil Parthian. Welcome to another episode here for Let's Talk. We are here at Open Source Summit in Vancouver. And today we have with us once again, Ildiko Vansha, Director of Community at Open Infra Foundation. Indigo, it's great to have you on the show. Thank you for having me. You're here, you know, you're presenting at the Leadership Summit as well. So I would love to know a bit about your presentation and what was the whole theme of your session. The title of the session is What is Open Source Without Collaboration? And the session really is about to kind of give a call to action, how important it is to participate in open source communities and how important it is that open source communities are working with each other as well. We are still seeing a lot of examples of companies consuming open source, but they don't always participate and they don't always give back. So that is one part of what the session is trying to point at. And the other thing is that open source became so popular, it is sort of living its own hype cycle in a way, like people are using open source itself as a term for marketing. And that has an effect on the ecosystem as well. So you see new projects popping up all the time. They sometimes become single vendor projects because sometimes the motivation of putting the code out there is just to make sure that you can truly say that it's open source. But if the motivation is not to build something together with others who are trying to solve the same or a very similar challenge, then at some point the ecosystem will become so fragmented that we will all be blocked by then. I personally have a lot of experience with people telling me that I don't have time because I'm looking at this and this and this and that and that just got introduced and this just happened. And there are a lot of overlaps between those things that they mentioned. So I think that it is important to also do some education around the ideals, the principles of open source and how it's not really all about the code. It is about the collaboration that happens around the code, what is supposed to happen, all that, the communication, the learning that you can get from it. So only consuming the code, you really are missing out on a lot. You folks at Open Infra, you also deal with a lot of vendors. There's a huge community there. Can you talk about some of the initiatives that you have done to educate community members which are like consumers that hey, or you have also created some kind of venues for them so they can get involved. Yes. So what we are doing, there are a lot of layers to it. Like I myself, I'm a community manager for one of our projects. It's called Starling Acts. And part of my job is to both work with the contributors of the existing community, work with the newcomers who are trying to join and participate. They would like to understand the ecosystem, how it works, how they can get involved. And as part of my job at the Foundation, I'm also working with the ecosystem member companies and organizations to make sure that they are able to participate in the project because sometimes it is challenging in terms of I understand what open source is. I'm consuming the project that would be Starling Acts or any other open source project out there. But sometimes we hear that I understand that I should participate and I should get involved. But we have a small team or limited resources. We have customers. We have to make sure that our products and services get built and maintained and we get the customer requests. So we don't have the bandwidth to participate. So actually recently we are kind of looking more into how to address those kind of challenges and how to work closer with companies who are struggling as a form of a partnership, training and partnership so that we can in a more targeted way help them. And the communities are actually doing the same thing on the community sort of layer in terms of creating materials about how to contribute educational materials for organizations. Like the OpenStack community has a contributor guide for companies and organizations. Like what do you need to do to enable your employees to contribute to this project? What kind of tools they will need to use? What are the communication platforms? For instance, the OpenStack community is using IRC as a chat tool. You need to enable the IRC connection in your firewalls because sometimes it is blocked. So pointing out the prerequisites and not just on the tooling side but also on the time commitment side like you need to enable your employees and team members to participate in the community, to work with people who are outside of your organizations but technically also kind of colleagues of your employees and team members. And this is really important to organizations to understand all of the aspects. So both us as a foundation as well as our communities, we're all trying to make sure that we have materials and we also just openly communicate to help educate the ecosystem and anyone who is trying to join and participate. We are doing that a lot. In one month, we'll be back in Vancouver again for the OpenInfo summit. Talk a bit about are there going to be any session or which will be focused more on this topic also to help companies understand about open source and get involved? Yes, so I'm personally really excited about the Open Infrastructure Summit just in itself because our event is structured in a way that is very collaboration focused and it's encouraging collaboration. We have three pillars or three main components to the event. One is the regular conference sessions, presentations, panel discussions, which will involve community related topics as well and how the sausage gets made. And another pillar is called the forum. The forum is a set of interactive sessions which are serving the purpose of creating the feedback loop between users and developers so people can come together at the forum sessions around the particular topic, which is usually around one of the OpenInfo projects or a more community focused topic and really talk about what the struggles are, what the plans are, what the feedback is. For instance, if it's about an open stack project or about Starling X, people come together and say, oh, I'm using the platform and I really like this feature. I'm struggling with this part, something is missing that I need. How can we make sure that it makes its way into the platform? So these are really productive discussions that make sure that those who are developing the software and work on the documentation, they get guidance from the users, people who are actually using those projects on a daily basis. And we will also have a forum session that is more specifically around challenges in the open source ecosystem. I think the title of the session is so you know what open source is or do you. And the session targets to talk about a new initiative or new effort that we are just starting, which is called Community Blueprint. And the idea behind that initiative is to collect stories, experiences that people are having in the open source ecosystem and building on those stories, showing how you can improve kind of independently of which actor you are in the ecosystem, whether you're a contributor, you are a company who are trying to contribute, you're a community member in a leadership position who are trying to help the community, kind of trying to look into what the challenges are in the current open source ecosystem at large and how we can kind of not just educate people but also help them to understand both the challenges as well as how to apply the principles, the processes that they're out there. So it's kind of an educational, the end goal is to have a set of materials and written content but flipping it around a little bit because there are a lot of textbooks out there that say that this is the method. And by the way, there's an example how you might be able to use it. We are flipping this completely around and saying what is your experience? What is your story? What have you struggled with? Did you solve that challenge? Or is it something that is still not solved yet? And we will build the solution and suggestions part on the stories. So kind of making it more of a, I don't know, personalized experience or personal experience? Yeah, it's more about them versus how. And when we look at opening, the whole theme is open source. All the sessions it's all about, you launch a new project and you talk about it. And then after that, when you get out of the stage, people just come and start asking questions. So the whole theme is collaboration there. Now I want to come back to a Starling X project because as before we started interview, you said it's going to be the fifth anniversary. Is that correct? Of course, because just like in end game, the snap took five years away. Similarly, COVID took a lot of time away. So give us a quick intro about the project and then let's talk about in five years when you look back at the project that, hey, this is what we have achieved. The Starling X project itself, it is a fully integrated cloud platform. That is a really powerful tool that you can use to build infrastructure either in a large data center or in the distributed environment. And Starling X integrates well-known open source components like the Linux kernel, OpenStack Kubernetes. So we also call it as an example project to the low key stack, which is Linux OpenStack Kubernetes infrastructure. And what is really cool about this project that is that it gives you a set of standard APIs through those open source components that people already know, they are using it very actively. And it takes them to the next level because Starling X, the community, they are also working on adding components to the open source projects that they are integrating. They call that set of components the flock, flock services. And that's where the name comes from. The Starling birds are flying in a mermoration, a flock. And that was the inspiration for the name as a fun. This is what happened five years ago, example. And those flock services provide those automation management type of components like software management, infrastructure management, fault management. So everything that you need to be able to efficiently deploy and operate a large scale infrastructure. And what Starling X also does is both OpenStack and Kubernetes, they were originally designed with one large data center in mind. So when you want to expand beyond the walls of one data center, that's when things become challenging and very complex and hard to manage.  So you can manage a distributed infrastructure centrally. And your sub clouds also have autonomy at the same time. If you have connection loss, not a problem at all because the sub cloud is still able to operate. And this is something that is filling a gap in the open source infrastructure space because there have been a lot of complaints before this project became alive that it's really hard to operate, sometimes hard to operate infrastructure even within the walls of one data center, let alone a massive distributed environment. And Starling X kind of gives you a next generation of infrastructure in a way where you're using components that are already available, keep being developed and providing new features and also allows you to take them outside of the data center and just really take them anywhere where you need it. And at the same time, if you have a really small footprint at a sub cloud site, Starling X can manage that as well. If you have the right hardware configuration, it can run on one single CPU core. And now give us an update in these five years and of course adoption of the use cases already there on the site, but I would love to hear five years, the milestones and adoption. So another fun thing to mention is Starling X was announced five years ago here in Vancouver, where we are having this interview today. I was here. And you were here. And it just came together in the universe like that, that we will have our own summit here in a month. And we get to talk about what happened since we were here. Some of us were here five years ago and there are new people who are just learning about the project. So how was the community's journey where they are now and where they are going? So one of the big changes since the inception of the project was fully containerizing the infrastructure. So the project, the platform is deploying infrastructure services in containers, which gives you a lot of flexibility and an easier way to manage the infrastructure services. And they also have been working a lot on the distributed cloud architecture to again making sure that you can take your infrastructure outside of the walls of one data center. The community gained new users. For instance, the platform is really popular in 5G and OpenRAN deployments, T systems, Verizon, Vodafone, KDDI, and there are more examples of large telecom operators who are utilizing the platform for their 5G and OpenRAN rollouts and really using it as a core component to their backbone infrastructure. And that is really exciting to see. The project is, for instance, providing support for things like precision time protocol because time synchronization is really important for 5G. But at the same time, it is also something that is crucial for real-time systems and mission critical systems like industrial automation, for instance, or automotive, which are also use cases for the Starling X project. So it is not specialized for telecom. The project actually shows how applicable the strict, some of the strict telecom requirements are outside of that industry segment and how applicable they are elsewhere also. So it is really cool to see how the project kind of connects the industry segments together at the same time. I think, well, thank you so much for sitting with me and, of course, talk about the event, your presence here and it is a lot of love to see you again soon. Thank you. Thank you.


I'm Roberto Figueroa and I'm glad to share what I know about the use of ICTs in the classroom as an open and distance e-learning practitioner. Of course, not everything that I will share will be appropriate to your context. That is why it is important for you to still evaluate each tool depending on its usefulness in your respective classrooms. So, shall we begin? Before enumerating the tools that you can use for teaching, it is essential to establish the importance or necessity of ICTs in teaching. As a decision maker, the value of using ICTs in the classroom can be influenced by myths that we hear and read about ICTs, such as, it will eventually replace us teachers, or it is a distraction as a whole rather than productive. It can also be influenced by the pressures that our supervisors put on us because it is the in-thing in education nowadays. Please make sure that before we even start using them, these myths and pressures were already dealt with in our minds so that we can really start using them effectively. Here are some things that could help you. We know that currently we are experiencing globalization of economies and of information. We also know that technological innovations are rapidly increasing. We are also now living in a knowledge-based society and economy. With this, there is an escalating demand for education around the world. How do we adapt? How do we cope? We know that ICTs can help us do this. Through proper use of various ICTs, we can achieve effective learning for all, any time and anywhere. So, now let's look at the tools that we have used in the past. Commonly referred to as non-digital or traditional tools, these technologies are now slowly fading from educational institutions. However, some of them may still be considered useful. Typewriters and mimeographs used to be popular among those who distribute printed materials and exams to students. Educational television shows and channels are still very useful to this day. Educational radio programs can still be used by teachers as long as class and broadcast schedules are synchronized. Internet programs can be replayed in the classroom through VHS, Betamax and tape recorders. We used to produce a lot of transparent slides for overhead projectors. I know that there are still some institutions using this. This list is not exhaustive, but this gives you a gist of what educators heavily used before the internet and digital devices became popular. The term modern can be relative and quickly changes with time, but for now, the following can be still safely considered as modern ICT equipment. I categorize them into three. The personal access or client ICT equipment are usually used by learners and teachers to access information personally or in small groups. These devices usually act as clients, which receive information from the servers that I will be discussing later. The popular clients are the personal computer, laptops, tablet computers, phablets, or phone tablets, smartphones, and sound players for audio lectures and audiobooks. If information is to be projected and shown to a large group, then the popular devices that could be used are the LED projectors, smart or interactive boards, smart TVs, and wireless projecting devices like Chromecast. Finally, storage of information that is accessed by clients for personal use or classroom access can be stored and distributed in different ways through different server strategies. It can be served locally through the client device, which could be the personal computer, laptop, or smartphone, if the application or data is small enough. The school or classroom can have its own server, whose information can be accessed through wired or wireless connections. Or it could be accessed conveniently via the Internet using cloud computing technologies. These include, but are not limited to, web hosts, paper use servers, dedicated servers, and virtual private servers. Now, let's go to ICT software. In UPOU, we use several technologies for open and distance e-learning. These technologies can also be used for blended strategies and face-to-face communication depending on the infrastructure of the school and the training that the teachers have received regarding these software. We have the learning management system. We also have virtual asynchronous technologies, virtual asynchronous technologies, and productivity and production tools for both teachers and learners. Let me now share some communication tools that I have used in the past. This picture on the left was a picture of myself with two students that I have just met face-to-face for the first time during their graduation ceremony. Instead of being awkward, we easily warmed up to each other and talked as if we were old friends. Why? It's because we have already been communicating for several years using ICTs. Here are some of the tools that we have used. The first is the online forum. A forum is a tool that allows for structured and threaded discussions. Teachers or students can post a note that represents a topic for academic discussion. Q&A can also be facilitated through this tool. Workshops are scheduled discussions that can allow students to review and rate the work of their classmates. The good thing about this is that teachers can also assess how students learn from the lectures by looking at how they evaluated their peers' works. Of course, their assessment can also be evaluated by the teacher. This can also serve as a benchmarking tool for students. Let's now move out of the learning management system and look at social media. Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter are also used as social media tools for education. But Facebook is one of the tools that we have really looked at in the past. We have observed that Facebook is very usable and had high engagement from participants. However, it also suffers from noise as well as accessibility issues. As you can see, Facebook is blocked by the Great Wall of China. Of course, there could be workarounds, but this will not be convenient for students. There is also a lot of noise in Facebook. Future notes and academic discussions that are posted on Facebook groups could be overpowered by personal chats and memes from other learners or from friends of the learners. These are a few of the things that a teacher should take note of before using Facebook for blended learning. We have tried a social learning platform called Academics as an alternative. It was developed by a US-based startup and can be accessed via this link, www.academics.org. It's a good thing that it is now accessible from China. A good feature of Academics is a virtual interactive board. This can be used for conducting interactive lectures without having to meet students in a single physical location. However, the biggest challenge in using this tool is its buggy interface. There are features that are not yet really working, while some could not work as they were intended. Therefore, it received a very low usability score from our students. However, the developers have hopefully addressed these concerns from two years ago. I have not personally tried using again and just looked for alternatives. So here they are. Fortunately, someone created Piazza. Piazza is primarily a Q&A platform that could be useful as an alternative to forums. The good thing about Piazza is that it is also mobile friendly. It has its own app and it is responsive. It enables teachers to be able to respond to students' queries quickly by providing a dashboard that displays unanswered questions and urgent concerns. However, it has a slightly steep learning curve for teachers and this was addressed by tutorial videos that were developed by its developers. I encourage you to give Piazza a try as it also promised to be free for life or at least as long as it is existing. For most synchronous online lectures and presentations, we can use Google Hangouts on Air. It is a free service provided by Google which allows a student or teacher to present lectures or reports online synchronously. It currently supports nine participants, but this can be extended to an unlimited number of viewers via its web streaming counterpart in YouTube. As shown here, the presenter screen containing PowerPoint presentations or other multimedia visual aids can be shared while the presenter is speaking. Google Hangouts on Air was found to be easy to use, though it required some studying from the organizer or presenter at first. Another good thing about it is that the presentations are recorded and stored on the presenter's YouTube channel. This means that it can be reused as a pre-recorded online lecture. For those who are interested in using it, Google has provided a video tutorial on how to use Google Hangouts on Air. Those were the synchronous and asynchronous technologies that we can use for teaching and learning. Now, let's talk about learning management systems. These are platforms that serve as the virtual classroom in eLearning. However, they can also serve as supplementary tools for teachers in the physical classrooms or in blended learning strategies. A learning management system or LMS allows teachers to upload digital materials like lecture notes, course guides, lecture videos, podcasts, and so on. And make them available for students online. The LMS also allows teachers to conduct online interactive activities like forums, chat sessions, and workshops, as well as assess how students participated in these activities. Online essays, exams, and automated quizzes can also be implemented within the LMS. There are many learning management systems available for download or could be accessed via the cloud. UPOU uses Moodle, which is a free, open-source learning management system. The good thing about this learning management system is that it has a large community of practice and that many educators have had experience in using it. All of the features that I have mentioned earlier can be found in Moodle, but might be missing in its competitors. Here is an example of a course site in my portal, UPOU's Moodle instance for its regular courses. As you can see, learning activities can be organized per week or per topic. Images, videos, and even sound files can be embedded to embellish weekly or topical posts by teachers. The massive open online courses of UPOU were also implemented using Moodle. However, before jumping into Moodle or any LMS, it will be important to deal with the following issues. Implementers should choose the right server and the right infrastructure for serving their learning management system. They should also consider the number of users that will interact in the learning management system. This will give rise to the issue of scalability. Technical support is also important when implementing a learning management system. Before launching it, a team of experts should be ready to answer questions and resolve issues raised by prospective users of this system. Finally, it is also important that the learning management system is something that can be easily used by the users. Bad user interface is one popular reason why learning platforms are considered unusable. There are alternative learning management systems that are available for free. iTunes provide free access to its LMS via iTunes University. Each course is limited to 50 participants and can only be accessed via iPhone or iPads. A trial account can be used to create a free online course via Canvas. However, the complete features of this LMS can be utilized by an institution once it has acquired the proper license. Other tools like Desire to Learn and Blackboard can be explored by schools and teachers, but they will incur significant expenses because these tools are not free. Of course, you can also try using Google Classrooms or other free learning management systems, but it's very important to investigate what you can do with it and what challenges you might encounter. There are also supporting tools that can be used for group projects and for showcasing the learning outcomes achieved by students. A good free project management software is Basecamp. It's good for problem-based learning, a synchronous communication, among members of the group, and document collaboration. One just has to write to Basecamp and explain why the educator needs an account. For showcasing student-created products, a good portfolio system that can be integrated with Moodle is Mahara. It is good for production courses and for portfolio-based programs. Lastly, options for productivity tools that teachers and learners can use are becoming more abundant with the advancement of technology. Some of the popular production tools that we have used are Google products such as apps, drive, and hangouts. Screen casting tools include screen flow and screen recorder. Animation tools like Pautunes are also becoming popular. Finally, you can also try new presentation tools like the one I'm using now, Pretzi. The web is abundant with more tools. The important thing here is for you to know how they can be effectively used in the classroom to make your sessions more enjoyable and interactive. Thanks for listening. Cheers.


What's going on with Dallas, man? Big X the plug, is he? Big X the plug, still scalin'? If these dollars they shinin', careful, John, it ain't never been what you ought to find. If Big X the plug better, is he bigger than OT? I'm Mexican OT.  I think, I believe, I mean, I don't know what's wrong, bro. They together, they on the same level. But they boy D, baby.  FN bullets on... Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah, we gon' talk... Well, you know, I gotta bring this up, man. T.I., you know, they had alligator seen on your show. Yeah, man.  Lost it, we got lost it. T.I. and his wife got lost it.  Put the big toe in a booty or something. How many of this stuff can you believe nowadays?  I don't know, bro. I don't know. Yo, you mean tell me. Yo, you use your toe out of everything. Yeah, yeah. This happened back in O5, bro. This is a Vietnam vet. This woman is a Vietnam vet. It happened back in O5. So, why she didn't confound charges 18 years ago? That's what I'm sayin'. Same. She was in a ditty situation.  Aaron, I've got a video out here. I'm blabbering why he really just... So, y'all mean to tell me... He come in in the back. Come on. I was gon' do that. So, y'all mean to tell me that somebody can come press charges on me, somebody in 2005. You were riding around on hair irons and you...  Yeah, yeah. You was doing a lot of stuff back then and you are known person. Hey, principal, she got a picture with you. You got a lot of... And they can prove it. They was with you in your presence. Oh, they knew it in a minute. Oh, yeah, they got you. To the principal with you back then. Got on a photo, right? Yeah.  He's coming back. I got a lot of pictures with Britney Simone. I'mma say she right me. Damn. Allegedly, honestly. Allegedly. Let me ask you this, man. What do you think about the Dallas scene when it comes to the music, going back to the music a little bit? Like, you're one of them key elements for Dallas, man. People are waiting to see what you do.  You know how I feel about it. I'm waiting on what you do in Nick. So, is Bumper Johnson Nick's... Who Nick's, bro? Uh-huh. What you mean? Uh-huh. Nah, man.  I'mma say this, man. It was a Christmas Eve night, man. I was sitting there, you know what I'm saying? You want me to say Bumper Johnson? Nah, man. Nah, I took the radio on. Bumper Johnson, yeah. I took the radio. Bumper Johnson was on the radio. Shit. I was sitting there, you know. Jamie Bumper Johnson. Nah, I ain't even doing this thing. Bro, I fuckin' Bumper Johnson. So, what's going on with Dallas, man? Big X the plug, you see? Big X the plug. See, I'm scalin'. If these diamonds, they shine. Careful, John. It ain't never been too hard to find. All this ice got me changin' my climb. It's Big X the plug battle. Is he bigger than OT? A Mexican OT? Yeah. Uh-huh. Pee. I think I believe, I mean, I don't know what's wrong, bro. That Spanish crowd, you know what I mean? I see that. I see Mexico City, California. Got an old crowd with Big X and the same thing. Big X do the same thing. They together. They at the same level. But they boy D, baby. D, baby. Hold up. D, baby is like a MOT3. Yeah. D, baby don't be seen that much. He charged 50,000. A show. They charged 20, 15, 20. He had 50,000. He not touching. Because he's not wearing his prints. He's not, he's not wearing his stuff out. Yeah. He got new artist too, I see. And, uh, once you own, you don't have to keep on.  So, you know, uh, uh, D baby, how he do it is, I talked to one of these people that was around him today in this camp. He said D baby thing about taking off from shows for a year. Really? Yeah. He only, he only doing a rollin' lap. They make them more popular. They make them more popular. They make them more popular.  Kind of like NBA Young Boy. Because they ain't seen them. That's the problem. Yeah. They say Young Boy wasn't doing shows for you. He don't do show. Yeah. D baby with the King of Texas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because the other guy is being seen too much right now. What you, what you think is going to happen if BG pop out down there? Bro, we don't see nothing.  What you think is going to happen? What you think is going to happen? What you think is going to happen? What you think is going to happen? What you think is going to happen? At that side by side with what y'all think is going to happen? What you mean? If he pop out, like niggas ain't going to recognize BG out here. Man, okay. Stop playing, man. No, I'm not saying that. No, I'm saying that.  We don't want to talk about no damn BG. We don't want to talk about Young Boy and all the young niggas. You ain't older rappers, bro. No, no, no, no, no. He don't like young niggas. I was right. I was right. The niggas act like you don't even care about him. What's your heart beat for him? He get money. He get money out of them young niggas. Yeah. You don't want to get in the mouth of the old niggas. He show way of thinking though. Bro, you got to help me. The old niggas. Is there any money in the old niggas? Could you go link up with the key kids? They're slimped up. Put the two of them together. What about the chief key? Yeah, what can you do with the old niggas, right? What about the chief key? It's not a bag. You make them all jeez. Chief key. Done. All right. Man, they're going to brand new singles, man. Sexy red.  I mean, which one is it? Man, come on, man. Come on, Ray. Chief key. Chief key is on a brand new sexy red remix.  It ain't this one. Come on. Look, y'all can't play chief key. Yo. Come on, man. Nah, nah, nah. He's older now. But that's the niggas that put the cash on it. Who had a big career? Chief key or dirt? Chief key. Hell no. Now look, now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Now look. Well, it's a lot of dirty when it's just people with Dห Ng D by the small Dɪr. But ain't nobody know beat olun. You heard that. You know D hg d width. But you knew it. Where it right you lose it. But it was the whole real serious. Real den Nation. But the question who had a big career. Durk. Dirk for y'all. No, don't switch up now niggas. But you have my big chief key. It's up, dude! It's right up. It's real with him! It really walked down that street. Those kids, they ain't gonna let it go.  He been going viral as hell. They gonna know it bro. No, they gon' be like, they gon' be like, that's BG. but left, left, left, left for next two times walk down that street. For crying, crying, crying, crying, cry, crying, crying, crying, crying, crying, crying, crying, by nigga 1090, 1090 Jake. So you remember 1090 Jake to put him on the shit? But that, you know what I mean? That's what they watching these days, bro. They watching the blog with the pie. Yeah, that's what they watch. So they ain't gonna know no song about BG, that's cool. They gonna see him on the 1090 Jake, but that's the nigga with 1090 Jake was talking about. Y'all go after that BG back here, bro. You been hard on BG and BG, he been going, man. You gotta give him a pass. He needs about two hits like this. I'm gonna say this though, for I seen what they said about BG, they say BG was a rat. I seen the story, fam. I don't, I didn't see none. It was a crab dummy who took a case, you know what I mean? So he ain't a rat. I don't, from what I seen, I went through, I went through the transcripts out there. Shit, I know how we do it. We don't break the new. We just break it down, nigga. I didn't see that, fam. I thought, here we go. I thought in a street world, I don't know nothing about the street. You go ahead now. Yeah, go ahead.    I ain't, I never knew that person by anything. I thought street, but if a nigga kill your mama. You don't take a thing. Yeah, yeah.   No, you can actually not, you can actually not a T.I., you can actually not a lot of niggas do that. But I'm saying, I thought. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a bunch of niggas.   So basically, like I was telling, swag, the streets and rap and hip hop don't matter no more. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we going to.


my dear friends I hope they are doing well and welcome back to Plants and Lucia. My name is Lucia and today we talk about burn lights and vermiculite. What they are and what we use them for. Okay coming up. This is your first match for being with me and watching this video. I am a plant beginner so this channel is to share with you what I learned. So if you want to learn how to take care of your houseplants, how to display them or even how to connect with them, make sure to subscribe so we can see each other every week and talk about plants. But now let's get to the video. So when we talk about burn light and vermiculite the biggest misconception is that you can interchange them. Yes they are both expandable organic rocks but they have many differences. One is very porous, the other one is not. One absorbs water, the other one doesn't. One aerates the soil, the other one does not. So what I thought is that maybe you can look at each one of them, what they are and really what we use them for. So let's start with burn light. That is the most commonly used expandable organic rock in gardening. It is very loose and light, aerates the soil so the roots can actually go easily through it and provides a lot of drainage. So let's talk about two very good ways that you can use burn light with your plants. Number one prevents caking. So caking is something that happens with our potting mix as it dries out and it gets wet and it dries out and it gets wet and again and again. So as our potting mix continues to dry out and get wet it starts to compress and compact and this is not good because then when we water our plants the water tends to go around the soil like this and then along the edges of the pot. So it doesn't get to the roots. So with burn light we prevent the soil from caking and allows a more fluffy structure. That way the roots can actually move through the soil and the water actually can go through the soil and get to the roots. The second use for burn light is that it provides great drainage. You can use burn light in many sizes so you have extra fine, fine, medium, coarse and extra coarse. So for example you can add medium burn light to your potting mix to add drainage in the soil. You can also use an extra coarse burn light to put at the bottom of the pot and this also helps with drainage. This can be used instead of rocks and it's great because it provides drainage at the bottom of the pot and it is way lighter than rocks. So yes I personally use burn light in my potting mix to add drainage. My recipe includes two parts of medium-sized burn light, two parts of warm castings and seven parts of coconut coir. I love using burn light because I know that I'm providing drainage to my plants in the potting mix. Of course you can also use pommes instead of burn light. Okay on to vermiculite. Vermiculite which is right here is actually a lesser known expanded volcanic rock but it's also very useful. It absorbs moisture very well. That's a very big difference between vermiculite and burn light. Burn light does not absorb moisture but vermiculite is very absorbent and it is super light you guys. So let's see what are some very good uses for vermiculite. Vermiculite is very useful when starting seeds. This is because of two reasons. First as I said vermiculite is very absorbent and as you may know seeds love moisture. So if you add vermiculite to your seed starter mix this is going to be great for your seeds as they will have the water that they need. The second reason is that vermiculite is very light. So this is perfect when germinating seeds. Because it is so light the seed will be able to push through the vermiculite when you put it on the top. So vermiculite will protect your seeds, prevent caking in a seed starter mix, provide the moisture that your seeds need and will be very light so the germinating seeds can actually push through. So there you have it. These are some of the main differences between burn light and vermiculite. Do you have any other questions about this too? Do you have other uses for them? Please make sure to comment below so we can all learn together. Of course if you would like to be part of this community you're always welcome. So make sure to subscribe so we can see each other every week and talk about plants. And as always I will see you in the next video. Okay?


Welcome to KubeCon Cloud Native Con, Europe 2022, happening in Valencia, España. Yeah, what a beautiful city. We are in Orange Town. How is the journey for you all coming over here? Yeah? Awesome. Very nice. For many folks, it's our first international trip since the pandemic started. I think maybe some of us might be a little rusty with IRL engagement. So I would recommend let's all go out of our way to be kind, respectful and professional with another this week, of course, beyond. Now, many of you, it's your first time joining in the community. In fact, let's do a gut check. How many of you are attending a KubeCon Cloud Native Con for the first time? Oh my gosh, shout me. Keep your hands up and say me. I didn't. I'm sorry. I couldn't hear it. How many of you are attending a KubeCon Cloud Native Con for the first time? Awesome. Wow. Look at that. Just as you saw right now, you're not alone. In fact, 65% of our attendees this week are first-time attenders. You know, this ecosystem, it's large. It's getting mature. And at the same time, we're still moving at the speed of light. It can be overwhelming. I have a lot of empathy for you because I, too, was once just starting out, and things were just whizzing past me. And so I figured with so many fresh faces in the audience with all these changes going on, especially, by the way, last KubeCon Cloud Native Con in LA, we were at 114 projects. And now we're at 128 in just six months. So things can go very quickly. And so I figured maybe it might be helpful if I shared some of my learnings from my journey through Cloud Native with you. So CNCF was formed in 2015 with the donation of Kubernetes by Google to the Linux Foundation. I joined the ecosystem in 2016. This is a photo from that time. Oh, those were the days. So I got involved because I met Ben Siegelman, who had built observability systems at scale at Google back in a time when there were not so many, if any, parallels out there. While I had experience in open source, systems were new for me. But I was immediately taken by the complexity and beauty of Ben's worlds. In order to learn from him, I decided to join his company LightStep. And over time, I gained enough knowledge to be able to have in the field experiences with end users. To this day, my work in observability stands me in good stead in my efforts in Cloud Native. And that's why it is my humble advice to you that there is no substitute for immersing yourself in the technology. There are many opportunities for learning and development today to do just that. And we at LF produce trainings and certifications, as do other folks. There's lots of options out there. In fact, do you know that year over year, the number of people taking our certification exams is growing by 216%. Over 1,000 people take a certification test every week. I'm going to share some info about exciting news on the certification front later in the announcement section of my keynote. So hang tight. Now, going back, open tracing was the project that I used to work on. And it was the third one to join CNCF in 2016. And that very year in November, I attended my first KubeCon, Cloud NativeCon. And I got to tell you, I experienced the pervasive kindness in this community for the first time when I was there. By the way, back then, we were so impressed. We were 700 people. That was six years ago. By the way, how many people do you think are here today? Anyone want to take a guess at how many attendees at KubeCon, Cloud NativeCon this week? Just yell out a number. 3,000, 5,000, you're getting there? Boom, that's right. Over 7,000 folks are attending the event with over 10,000 attending virtually. We are officially sold out. Good job, folks. Yeah, this is all of us. So going back to the story I was telling you, so back then in the KubeCon, Cloud NativeCon at 2016, this group of 700 folks was primarily made up of the world's few experts, people who had been working on complex software systems for years, decades even. I felt very out of place. I remember vividly walking into a Kubernetes meetup on the eve of the event, imposter syndrome, or reality, perhaps, just attacking me. I was no expert. I was just a fan of the complex, beautiful systems that these people knew how to manage and wrangle. What was I even doing here? My knees shook and anxiety wrecked my mind and body. I looked around and I saw a group of four people who were clearly at ease, who definitely belonged. As I looked at them, I felt yearning. I wanted to be like them. And I was so shocked because before I knew it, those very people, that group, they beckoned over to me, asked me to join them, and pulled me into a conversation. They made me feel wanted. Asked about my aspirations, and made it very clear that being a learner was something to be proud of. It was a very special feeling. I belonged. As someone who was a friendless dork through all of high school and most of college, this really meant a lot to me. And I carry their kindness in my heart to this day. So that's my second piece of advice to you. If your knees are shaking, if you feel out of place, afraid to join in because of your own concerns about your knowledge level, just hang in there. Stay here and let yourself get comfortable. There are over 156,000 code contributors in Cloud Native. By the way, up from 137,000 just six months ago at the previous Cloud Native con. But all that is to say, there's lots like you. People will pull you in, and you will join their ranks. In the grand history of open source, the Cloud Native ecosystem is unique in how fast it brought together industry heavyweights to collaborate. My experience is that in order to be long-term successful here, there is a need to bring professionalism and collaboration that is perhaps unprecedented. I learned this most clearly when I was elected to the CNCF governing board. Surrounded by some of the biggest investors in Cloud Native with the likes of Google, SAP, Alibaba, Amazon, so many others, I'm at leaders essential to creating this industry collaboration that we call the Kubernetes ecosystem. In this environment, I found my opinions and my employer's aspirations were important, but they had to make sense in the context of other folks in the room. I encourage you to bring that same awareness to your interactions in Cloud Native. But it's not that easy. I mean, when we met last November, or was it October? I don't remember anymore. It was, we had actually 728 members, and just in the last six months, we are over 800 companies with that many folks, and then there's hundreds of projects. So disagreements are bound to pop up. The collaboration is critical, but why is it so hard? Well, in order to collaborate successfully, we need to bring kindness, respect, and internalize that we're all in it together. But it can be challenging with so many different perspectives. You know, I'd like to demonstrate that to you with something that my mentor, Jim Zemlin, shared once, and it really stuck with me. Let's look at this glass of water. I'm holding it, and I look through it, and I see all of you through the glass. Look at a different angle. I see you look different to me. And I'm sure when you look through this, you don't see what I'm seeing. You see me, and you see the stage. Same glass of water, different perspectives. Have a sip now. Since I took this role as executive director, I have witnessed all kinds of interactions in the community, coming from very passionate and different perspectives. Passion drives us, and it's good. Interestingly, it brings a particular challenge to us in the staff, because we're tasked with finding the best outcome for the largest number of people, and we need to hear from everybody. Well, that makes sense, but everybody, by the way, means 7.1 million developers at this point. We're larger than the country of Denmark as a community. So given that, how do we navigate this big, messy, unique, diverse ecosystem towards the North Star of making cloud-native ubiquitous? Well, I figured we could all use a little bit of guidance and help. So I phoned a friend. Friends and colleagues, please welcome a dear friend of the Linux Foundation, renowned CNN host and expert on finding uncommon ground, Van Jones. Thank you very much. Thank you. Can you hear me okay? Yes, we can. It worked. Thank goodness. Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much for joining us, Van. I would love it if you'd please tell our global audience a little bit about yourself. Well, I'm somebody who has tried to build bridges in a country that, as you know, the United States is the most diverse, one of the most diverse countries in the history of the world. I have tried to build bridges and I have learned that the payoff is extraordinary. For instance, I've been able to work with three Democratic administrations and two Republican administrations over the course of the past 25 years and not agreeing on everything, but we were able to get 10,000 green jobs, clean energy jobs to low income folks. We were able to get 20,000 people who were in federal prison home safely. We were able to get coal miners, their health benefits and pensions back or fights of people that were completely impossible, especially given the political divisions, but we were able to find a way to get it done. And I've learned that I've never seen a bird fly with only a left wing. I've never seen a bird fly with only a right wing. We need each other. The difference is actually give us the ability to get things done when we can get past the 99 things we don't agree on, find the one thing we do and get something done about that one thing. And so I'm a bridge builder and I'm just so happy to be a part of this conversation. Awesome. Thank you for joining us, man. And based on what your experience is, I'd love to ask you a question. As our community grows larger, we're united in our mission to build technology a certain way, but beyond that, pretty diverse bunch. How can we effectively collaborate when there are lots of different views and ideas? Well, first of all, I think the importance of what you're doing has to be kept first and foremost. This is probably the most important community in the tech space. You're carrying a mission forward that's bigger than anybody's ego or anybody's position. And frankly, the future of what humanity can do together through technology is really in your hands. And so I think that there's a certain reverence for who and what you've created that has to always be there at number one. Number two, you have to ask yourself the question, yeah, people gotta fight, people gotta disagree. Disagreement's not a bad thing. It's disrespect that's a bad thing. Disagreement is good, but disrespect is destructive. So the question is, when a disagreement comes up, how do you act? Here's the guideline for us. If everyone in this situation did exactly what I'm doing, exactly the way I'm doing it, will we have a community? Could we actually stay together? So I'm mad, somebody said something I didn't like.  We're gonna probably not. So thinking to myself, so what I'm doing basically can create a, I guess in your world, can create a positive or a negative virus, if you guys don't want technology talking about it, but what kind of virus are you creating? What kind of virus are you spreading? That is, I think, a key question, but the principle is, no matter what happens, I have to conduct myself in a way that if everybody else followed my example, we would still have a community and we could still get things done. Makes sense. That is super helpful. I'm gonna ask one more thing and this draws into your research a little bit. In a community of our size, tribalism is bound to grow. It just happens. Can you tell us a little bit about this phenomenon and why it might impact collaboration and productivity? Well, you know, you told that beautiful story about yourself coming into a big space and feeling lonely, feeling isolated, feeling like maybe you didn't belong and then you happened to find a group that you were able to connect with. Well, luckily that group had values of inclusion and kindness and warmth and so you got infected with that and then you spread that around. We sometimes fall in with groups that are coming from a place of more of lack, of hurt, of suspicion and you begin to form around the wound or the sense of exclusion and then what you wanna do is you start to attack others. That's called bad tribalism. I think the opportunity that we have is to make sure that the groups that we're a part of and of course you're gonna form affinity groups, people who see things the same way or from the same country or have something else in common, that's perfectly fine. But the question is in a conflict, the two things you wanna make sure are always present are space and grace. And you think about it yourself. If you do something that gives someone offense and we've all done it and you feel terrible, what's the one thing you want is just grace. You just want that person to assume the best about you and give you the opportunity to learn or sometimes when you feel that you've been offended and you want to communicate that, what's the one thing you want? You just want the space to be able to share it and to feel heard. That grace and space, developing no matter what tribe you're in, subgroup you're in, affinity group you're in, making sure that you're valuing, giving people grace when they make a mistake and asking for space when you want to communicate. Then the tribes actually wind up being links in a chain. It actually becomes a source of strength because you can reach out to this group and that group and the other group and people are able to cooperate. I can't tell you how destructive though it can be to be on the receiving end of someone else's lack of grace. When you make a mistake or maybe it's not a mistake, you did something, you gave offense and then that person comes at you and we've all been through this with so much force and so much anger and so much hostility and you're left there. Maybe for them it was just like quick, couple of their thumbs just moved around a little bit but you're left with that pain.  Makes it hard for you to show up. Makes it hard if you make your contribution and so sometimes we knock each other out and we're knocking out genius. We're knocking out perspective. We're knocking out maybe the answer to a question that could really change the world because we are treating each other with grace and giving each other space and that's what you have to fight for in a big community like yours. That makes a lot of sense. So when this is, I've learned so much. Any final words of wisdom for all of us? You know, you matter. You individually matter. It's so easy to feel like, I'm just me and who cares and the world's so tough and whatever. Please don't believe that. If you have the ability to master technology, to code. You know, it used to be that the future was written in law. It was written by lawyers like myself in parliaments and in courts, in legislatures, in executive branches. The future used to be written in law. Now the future is written in code. It's written in computer code. You are designing, you are creating the infrastructure for a new human civilization that is being born right now where everybody gets to contribute. Everybody gets to be a part of it because of what you're doing. That is tremendous power. And as Father Man's uncle Ben told him, with great power comes great responsibility. You have tremendous power. You may have been a geek or whatever you're saying and left out and mistreated and laughed at and all sorts of stuff. All these different things, we all have those things. But that's not who you are now. You are in possession of magical powers that can change the world. And you're in a community that's designed to do that. That is an unbelievable gift and a source of real power. And I just ask you to use that power with kindness, use it with grace, use it with space. Please understand that if you're feeling upset, somebody else is feeling upset as well. But you have the power to create the grace and the space for that other person to learn with you, to grow with you. Being able to partner across lines of difference is the superpower of the new century. And if you guys don't learn how to partner together and you can put that into everything that you're doing, you'll accelerate the transition to a world where only a small number of people dominate everything, to where everybody gets to play, everybody gets to participate, everybody gets to build like you do. I just wish you the very, very best in your journey going forward to build a community that will let the rest of us have a good community in this new century. Thank you so much, Van. Van Jones, everybody. That was inspirational. But the reason I thought it would be helpful for us to hear from someone like Van, because as he said, we matter, we have power, and we can do so much for this world. Speaking of, how many of you here know Ihor Doretsky? Yes, team Ihor. Normally, as you know, Ihor is a developer advocate at CNCF. Equally passionate about CI builds and art, he's a wonderful human being.  You see, Ihor is Ukrainian, and it makes me so proud to tell you, in the current world he lives in, our community has stepped up to support him in ways big and strong. Let's hear from him directly. Hello, Kip Kon. Hello, everyone from Ukraine. Sadly, I can be with you all in person, and this is actually the first time in six years that I am not at Kip Kon, whether impersonal or virtually. 84 days ago, my home was invaded, and now I'm throwing in the armed forces of Ukraine, defending my country, my family, my friends, and our right to live in peace. Our lives are changed for Iran, and it puts everything that has happened in my life up until this point in the perspective. And you know, community has never been so important. From my community here in my home, my family, friends, my squad, to the global community rolling around us. We're standing together against Russia, United in our beloved Ukraine, and the modern liberal country with a work so hard to build, despite years of halo. Actually, while I'm recording this message, the air raid sirens can be heard in many cities of Ukraine right now. However, I want to share why I'm going to support from you. The team cloud native is so much important. You might feel like there is nothing you can do to help, but one thing that you can really can't underestimate is that you are given as hope. I'm incredibly grateful for the support that you, the cloud native community have shown us. When I joined the armored forces, I tweeted that we needed help with supplies and within minutes, hundreds of messages of support and offers of help are there. In fact, oppression variants can amazing project set up by the team cloud native came about just because of one tweet. The organized supplier runs for us, and that's because he saw one little tweet for assistance. The outpouring of generosity humbles me, and I would particularly like to thank Chris Landricher, Richard Hartman, Chris Kuhl, Daniel Holba, Zygmunt Kronitski, Sasha Rosenbaum, Erica Brescia and Jonah Bacon, Katrina Vashenko, Chris Lydon Stolp, and my fellow CNCF and the left team, including Chris Anishik, Amy Skoda Perrin, Priyanka Sharma, Flav Yashonka, Tim Cerowitz, and so many others who have stepped up beyond belief to help us out. And today we'll also hear from the Rasmussen for Ukraine who are doing incredible since the help Ukraine. Please keep us in your thoughts and please keep on being kind to each other. Like I said, the past 84 days have put everything in my life up until now into perspective. You never know what other people are going through or have gone through. So while you are in Valencia, take time to stop and chat, meet your friends and greet the old ones, and keep the open mind to all the possibilities and experiences that await you over the next few days. I hope to see you all again soon. Slava Krain. Thank you, Ihor. I'm so, so proud to know you. Slava Ukraini, my friend. We heard... All right, let's do it. We heard from Ihor about Operation Dvoretsky and also the Rizom charity and the great work that they have done. I would like to invite Olena Nizhnekevich from Rizom to come and share their efforts in Ukraine. There you go. Good morning, everyone. Thank you to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and especially to Ihor for inviting us to be here today. My name is Olena Nizhnekevich from Rizom for Ukraine and I work with major and transformational donors. I'm here to invite you to help Ukraine win this war and return to peace, creativity, to travel, to fun. Ukraine and the Ukrainian Armed Forces need many things to win. If there's one thing that you'd like to contribute to, I invite you to support Ihor's Battalion or the organization, Dazim for Ukraine. I forgot to click. Dazim, which means together in Ukrainian, believes in the enormous potential of dedicated volunteers around the world united by a single goal, to unlock the potential of Ukraine and to bring a prosperous and successful Ukraine. We work towards that mission by creating spaces where people meet, partner, and act, much like we're talking about here today. Dazim for Ukraine was established in 2014 as a result of the Revolution of Dignity. Very soon after Maidan, Russia annexed Crimea and started an invasion into Donbass. The origin of our organization is in those days. We launched an emergency response project in 2014, and then we reopened it for COVID response in 2020. The emergency response is never what we want to do. We love doing projects in culture, education, building civic engagement. Unfortunately, time and time again, we have to go back to the emergency response. In February, we anticipated the need for the medical supplies should the full-scale invasion begin. We started procuring tactical medical supplies a week prior to February 24th, the beginning of the war. Takmed, a term that we use colloquially at Dazim, now means everything to stop the bleeding and save lives. It includes tourniquets, blood-stopping guases, individual first aid kits. Dazim has provided more than 200 tons of Takmed and hospital supplies and medications and communications devices that get delivered by our volunteers and partners throughout Ukraine to the regions that need it most, such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sume, Donetsk, Mikolayev, Odessa, Dnipropetrov, and Zaporizhia. We didn't anticipate the amount of resources we'd need to procure these supplies. I mean, like everyone, we were hoping this war would end quickly, but we're seeing that we definitely need more help. Our intention was initially to just train 100 medics within the civilian territorial defense forces, provide them with special backpacks full of supplies. But to date, we've procured over $17 million worth of Takmed and medical supplies. We send an average of more than 50 pallets of aid to Ukraine each week. In the first month of the war, we shipped over 218 tons of supplies. Of that, we've purchased more than 120,000 tourniquets. Let me break this down for you. So one tourniquet costs, because we get a bulk price for it, about $20. So we've spent over $2.5 million on tourniquets alone. And as you may have heard, there's a supply chain issue. And at times there aren't enough tourniquets for many of the people that are trying to buy them. Verazem procures the supplies that we're sending ourselves in the U.S. and Europe. We pack the supplies in a warehouse in New Jersey. We ship it to Ukraine, where we have a large team that then delivers it to the individual units on the ground. We also do some non-medical equipment, such as walkie-talkies and drones, as permitted by U.S. law to help guide our delivery vehicles safely. We work through partner organizations on the ground to organize evacuations of children with special medical needs, some of which are on ventilators. We don't have them pictured here because it's dangerous to share their images. We provide medicine and food to internally displaced people like this lady here and people that have stayed in besieged cities who need medication and food. We continue to advocate in the U.S. both through public protests and through our D.C.-based advocacy group. And the reason why we've been able to achieve this much is thanks to the generosity of people worldwide. As painful as it has been to witness this horrific war in Ukraine evolve, there have been many bright spots, too. It's been incredible to witness the global response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. We had historically been an all-volunteer organization with about 4,000 donors and $250,000 in annual revenue. Since the war started, our organization has witnessed an enormous growth in donations and receiving more than 50 million in funding since the war began from over 125,000 donors. The average donation is $300. And we've spent 27 million of that already in our response and the need is great. Unfortunately, we see a drop in the donation as the world seems to think that the war has won, but the war is not over. There are many units still not supplied with equipment and while the governments are promising the aid, it's slow getting there. We also see a growing humanitarian need with millions of internally displaced people who have lost their homes and their jobs and we're fundraising to continue this work. We dream of building Ukraine and we'll need as much help as possible to do that in the future. And this is where you can come in. We hope you'll join us. There's more to this slide. So there's actually a really big IT community in Ukraine. So what's different about this war, I think, is that everybody's watching it from their phones. I mean, everyone. Everyone in Ukraine is watching it from their phones. Lots of people here in Europe and the United States is watching it from their phones and so are our kids from home. I mean, they're watching it on TikTok and that's because Ukraine is so tech savvy. So IT is among the top five industries in Ukraine and even now that industry is going really strong. IT professionals are still employed, even if displaced, and they continue to support the economy of Ukraine. And just as in open sources where everyone submits a piece of code all together, they're able to withstand and resist Russia. This is how Ukraine operates. Razum. Together. And so the logos featured here actually represent so many of the overwhelmingly generous companies that have supported our work so far. And that includes many employees, corporate social responsibility programs, founders and CEOs of various companies. And we're so very grateful because, as we said, we're going to all need to work together to rebuild our beautiful homeland. I also realized I forgot to introduce myself, so I guess I'll do that now. Sorry, a little jet lagged. Came all the way from Seattle. My name is Elena Nizhnyakiewicz and I'm Ukrainian-American. First generation, my kids were born in Ukraine. And this is very personal to us. And I think the same is true for everyone at Razum. I mean, we've taken leaves of absence from our jobs. We have just worked seven days a week, many more hours a day than we thought was possible because our loved ones are there and they're fighting for a peaceful, good, free life. And we believe that we deserve it. And we also believe that we will win. Back to the tech guys. So, Ukrainians in tech are so great. They're creative problem solvers. We've had a lot of really innovative founders, including Grammarly and Petcube, who have Ukrainian founders. And we see them as an opportunity to keep building the country. So, in addition to donating to causes, and there are so many great causes that are helping Ukraine, including this conference today. Thank you so much for this. We invite you to consider hiring Ukrainian IT professionals and investing in Ukrainian startups even before the war is over. We invite you to help us rebuild a prosperous Ukraine. Thank you. Thank you, Elena. I took out the awesome style guy. Is that bad? That was wonderful. We want to help. And so, CNCF has put together an LFX donation page. You can go to CNCF.io slash Ukraine. Any funds raised will be split between Razom for Ukraine and Project Dvoretsky for our own e-hoor directly. I really hope you will consider giving if you are able. Again, go to CNCF.io slash Ukraine to make a contribution today. Let's do this team. And for those looking for more options, we created a list here of organizations that seem to be doing amazing work. Please feel free to check them out. Now, with very little time left, I am going to speed through the announcements, pick up the pace real fast. You'll meet a few more interesting people and have some fun. All right, super quickly, KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe is coming back Amsterdam next year, April 17 to 21. Woo, yes. Second, remember I said earlier, I have certification news. It's true, Prometheus Certified Associate is for beginners getting into observability. Prometheus is a major pillar of CloudNativeStacks and we're happy to announce this new certificate. It's modeled after other Kubernetes certs and it'll consist of a multiple choice online exam and it'll help teach the best practices of monitoring CloudNative applications. Beta testing will begin soon and the exam will be generally available this year. Make sure to sign up. For those of you who came on Monday, you heard a little bit about this. I'm very excited to announce the beta version of the new CloudNative Network Function certification program designed to help telecommunication service provider industry in their adoption of CloudNative technologies and best practices. I really wish I had more time to go into it but integrates lots of CNCF projects is based on test suite. I'm gonna keep going now. And you can self-certify, go to cncf.io slash cnf. Speaking of expansion into new verticals, I would like to ask, how many of you came to this conference on a plane? Yep, most of us, right? Well, chances are you were on a Boeing plane. Boeing joins us as a CNCF Platinum member and it is one of the more sophisticated multi-cloud players in the space. Ricardo and Gina, please welcome to the stage. Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you chose to join the foundation. Come on up. There you go. Thank you Priyanka for the wonderful introduction. So, I am really honored to be here and to be able to talk about Boeing's commitment and partnership with the CloudNative Computing Foundation. So 17 years ago, I was the lead SRE in a Google War Room running a bunch of very terrible and extremely long bash one-liners to stand up the world's first production board cluster. We've come a long way since then, like an extremely long way. Today at Boeing, we are dedicated to building ultra-high reliability, high integrity mission-critical software. Excuse me. In particular, we're working to leverage the massive scalability and flexibility of public cloud deployments to build modern aerospace products and to deliver rapid iteration and integration to our customers. One of the things that distinguishes Boeing as a CNCF partner is that we are truly dedicated and we really are committed to the belief that Kubernetes and CloudNative solutions are capable of extremely high reliability. In my Google SRE days, we used to think about five nines as kind of our reliability target or what we describe now as 10 to the minus five. At Boeing, we are certain that we can be using Kubernetes to deliver products and deploy products that can achieve reliability levels 10 to the minus nine. And so we're really honored to be part of this partnership and to really extend Kubernetes and CloudNative solutions well into the future and together change the world in delivering extremely robust software deployments. At this time, I'd like to introduce Ricardo Torres. So he's our chief engineer of open source and CloudNative computing at Boeing. And thank you. Thanks, Jenna. As Jenna shared. As Jenna shared, Boeing is committed to writing high integrity software from seabed to space with a few clouds sprinkled in. Under the Boeing umbrella, we have autonomous seafaring vessels collecting environmental data. We help put rockets into space and soon you'll be able to see Tom Cruise as Maverick fly the Boeing built FAA-18 Super Hornet. While we are working to help take humanity to Mars and beyond, we never lose sight of the work we do here at home. I'm excited to see how we can bring together the worlds of CloudNative and high integrity software to push the boundaries of what's possible. Thank you, Priyanka. Thank you. Yay. Thank you for your vote of confidence Boeing. In addition to Boeing, we have many gold members joining us, Coinbase, Charter Communications, Softstone, and CE Cloud. Many of people joining us today are end users. And so I would like to welcome on stage our latest head of end user ecosystem who is going to give a fantastic talk to you, Taylor Dolezal. Woo-hoo. Howdy, everybody. A merry KeepCon, CloudNativeCon to you all. Hope you're staying hydrated and getting far more steps on your watch than you're used to, usually. I know I am. Despite how sunny it's been here in Valencia, I've noticed that it's quite cloudy in this venue. I'm not sure if that's just me, but, OK, had to get a couple in there. As head of ecosystem at the CNCF, I'm focused on finding ways to enable CloudNative success for companies, individuals, and teams. I've worked with several of you on the Kubernetes project in various capacities, from releases to docs, to assisting with other administration. For those of you whom I have not met yet, I want to kind of tell you my story. To tell you that story, let's hop into a magical keynote time machine for a moment. And I believe if we can keep it at 88 tons an hour, we should be able to pull this off. First stop, our destination, Cleveland, Ohio. The year is 2012. We're at American Greetings, where I help create social frameworks to support our SEO and marketing team. Things are quite content as I'm on the content team. During my year spent here, I'll learn a variety of ways to wish someone a happy birthday, version my API endpoints, and create the organization's first ever meme generator. We have to have our start somewhere, right? Unfortunately, that meme generator is no longer up, but I was able to save a picture on that front. Flash forward to the year 2012 location, the Cleveland Clinic. I first learned about Kubernetes, observed an open heart surgery, and worked with teams to move medical assessments off of pen and paper into containers and clouds. Here, I get to help change patient care for people with neurological issues like Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, and concussions. Through this experience, I will architect infrastructure that provides both doctors and patients insight about their treatments and gives them a feedback loop about their wellness. If you thought CICD was crazy, being able to give this to patients, fantastic. Flash forward again to 2016, and a long way from Cleveland where I get to go to Los Angeles. I can say that I miss the snow in the Midwest, but I do miss all of the foods, unfortunately. It's really good pierogies, things like that. Just can't find it in LA. It's a bummer. Disney Studios is where I teach teams to work with cloud-native technologies, reshape the studio's approach to incident management, and lead the SRE team. That team goes on to manage over 450 plus different services. Now, if you think having one service down is a handful, more than that is more of a handful. Disney, as an organization, has mastered the art of how to tell a story, but I'll soon learn that it's the most interesting stories happen around 3 AM on incident calls. It's not a good idea to assume, but in most cases, you can assume it's DNS. In 2020 at HashiCorp, I get to work with teams on infrastructure creation with Terraform, waypoints, and the rest of the HashiCorp suite of tools. I learned that there is more than one way to get things done. Many different ways to see a problem. Working as a developer advocate, I gained an understanding in how to coalesce product engineering and developer experience concerns to create workflows that are awesome and scalable and shareable as well. I've spent time implementing infrastructure at all of these companies, and now, I get to work with all of you in highlighting operational success stories and helping teams quantify best practices for all. Today, on the topic of focus and best practice, later today, we're going to have our first ever CTO summit where we gather knowledgeable end users to discuss the topic of resiliency in multi-cloud. What does that mean? Does that mean that you're using Excel and Google Sheets? Probably not. We'll find out on that front. If you have those deep organization-wide insights and you want to participate in our next one at KubeCon, Cloud NativeCon, NA in Detroit, please keep an eye out as we're going to have a sign-up sheet in a few weeks. I'm filled with enthusiasm and limitless amounts of puns to help guide you on your Cloud Native journey. Orange are glad that we get to work on this together. I know I am. All right, I'm going to peel on out of here, and I'd like to turn things back over to Priyanka. I truly hope that you enjoy the conference. Finding me is at only dole anywhere online if you want to have a chat or find me in the hallway track. I'll be wearing this jacket. It's reversible, though, so if I'm trying to blend in with a crowd, look for the other side. Thank you all so much. Have a good one. All right. Awesome, Taylor. Thank you. All right, folks. Taylor, just like all of you, is an awesome human of Cloud Native. And if you think you have a story or someone you know has a story that's deep and insightful and tells us about our values, I would encourage you to find the Humans of Cloud Native booth in the sponsor showcase area today and actually throughout the day in Pavilion 2 near the CNCF projects. You'll be meeting Charlie there, and she would love to hear about your stories so we can feature them in the future. And with that, that's all I had to say. Thank you for joining us today. And this week, remember what Ihor said and live each day with the ideals of kindness, collaboration, and respect. And now, let's get the show going with a presentation from one of the favorite companies I've seen lately, Mercedes-Benz.


Hey everybody, it's Hari Swaminathan and this is a follow-up video to the video. I made a couple of days ago and this is about mastering the trading style for your particular objectives, filling the gaps and becoming the best you can. I've gotten a ton of responses and many people are still confused as to what exactly this program will provide and so I want to give some clarity to what it is that you're looking at in this particular video and then also a very quick way to assess if this is something that would be there for you that would be good for you. So let's get right to it. So as you know, this is not a one-size-fits-all kind of a program. This thing is very very tailored and individualized and personalized to exactly what your objectives are. So it goes without saying that the kickoff Skype call is key for me to understand exactly where you are and by that I mean I need to understand what are your work schedules? How much can you monitor the market?  What is your risk tolerance? Do you get sleep at night if you see a thousand dollar loss in your account or maybe five thousand dollars? These are all individual personal characteristics and I need to understand exactly where you're coming from and what your situation is and then on the call I'll be asking you a couple of simple questions to know what your areas of strengths and weaknesses are. I just need to know a couple of things and it takes only a two or three questions to to understand exactly where you stand and also then understand your detailed objectives. What are your preferences on trade styles? Perhaps you have the wrong trade style and you might not know it. So all of these things is going to be analyzed on the kickoff call and then based on that I will be suggesting an approach and a roadmap going forward and so this is basically going to be the process and the kickoff call obviously is going to be the key because that's where I really get to know you but I understand that to get into the kickoff call you have to get into the program and so there is a little bit of a catch-22 there if you don't know what you're getting then why would you get into the program? So I'm going to give a simple solution for that at the end of this video We'll come to that kickoff call in just a minute But once you're in the program what we'll do is identify all the gaps and the roadmap to fill them And so there'll be a weekly target for you to cover a lot of the material that will be part of the program We'll start with some simple trades which will Move to advance as we go along through the program Now the most important part is the readiness coaching for what happens during the next seven days before we have the next call and so The preparation that you need for adjustments trade management risk management all that will be properly conveyed and Then on the next call we can then look back and analyze what happened in the previous week Perhaps you did some adjustments perhaps you close the trade because there are profit targets There are and there are adjustment targets for if things are going against you So we'll do a detailed analysis of what you did right what you did wrong What were the missed opportunities and things like that? So these are the kinds of things that will be Analyzed on the next call and then we move to some other trades perhaps a little bit more advanced than the previous week So now we come to the catch-22 situation of the kickoff call because you want to know what you're what you can expect However, you can't know that before you get into the program And so I want to make that a little bit more easier so to know what to expect we can have a kickoff call and You'll pay $200 for that call and this cost will be deducted if you join the program Also in my previous video I think I gave three examples of one month three months and six months now These are not the only timelines. I mean perhaps your need can be done in two months Perhaps it can be done in five months Perhaps it can even be phased into two phases of three plus three So we tackle one part of it first in three months and then the other part of it in the next three months I'm actually working with a student in this particular scenario the only thing I would request is that it be a minimum four week program because That's when I can ensure that you have achieved your objectives So you're going to be spending some money and therefore you want to achieve your objective So a minimum of four weeks would be required, but otherwise it's kind of flexible. We can split things up and all of that So as you can imagine, it's a highly personalized and individualized kind of a program And so I'll be getting to know your particular situation and exactly where you stand your trading styles Your strengths your weaknesses and we'll tackle all of that from that point of view So with that in mind, I obviously cannot take more than five And I believe I have three people signed up already So if you have any questions you want to write back to me and explain your situation info at option tiger.com and if you want to have the kickoff call to understand exactly what you'll receive in your situation Then it'll be $200 and then it'll be deducted from the program if you join if you have any questions Please email me info at option tiger.com the program will start in about two weeks And so I just want to make that clear We want to be ready with that. We can have the kickoff call, but it will start in two weeks. Thank you


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Our crew of ammunition soldiers as well as the fuelers from our platoon are helping in support of Rising Thunder 21 to very quickly fuel and arm the birds. It's really interesting to see the Japanese also working side by side with us. They have their side of the farm. They're always doing classes about fuel and ammunition and arming. It's a team effort thing. It's not just an individual. You really can't do it by yourself. You have to have somebody with you. I actually got to train them on hand and arm signals and that was pretty exciting to see how they interacted with me with it. They were asking questions and I appreciated that. They really opened up my eyes to different things so I thought that was pretty neat. And we were able to trade patches and stuff like that.