Hello everyone and welcome to the 2.30 p.m. session in the content and community track as Reminder to our in-world and web audience you can view the full conference schedule at conference That open simulator org and tweet your questions or comments to at open sim cc with the hashtag OS cc 14 This hour. We are happy to introduce a terrific session called new association for grid owners My name is Maria Koroloff and I'm the editor of hyper good business and also run the hyper Erika site and the hyperport I will be the moderator today First I would like to introduce you to Terry Ford the founder of third rock grid He's also known as in world as butch Arnold Third rock grid is one of the oldest grids running in open sim and is one of the 10 most popular grids as well Terry's the one who originally came up with the idea for an association of open sim grid owners Terry, can you please tell us a little bit of bit about yourself and why you decided to start this association? Sure. Hello everyone. Thanks, man I'm very pleased to be here with all of you today So I look around I see many people here I've already met and talked to over the years and others. I've not yet had the pleasure of me Many of you know me but those of you who don't my name is butch Arnold. I'm the founder of third rock grid. I Live in Ohio, which is in the United States. If you don't know that I Hold a degree in computer programming. I've been a avid 3d world's fan since joining second life back in 2005 and I first became interested in the open sim platform in December 2007 and Shortly thereafter I placed the third rock grid online for the first time in February 2008 And like many of you, I'm very interested in learning all I can about current upcoming open sim developments As well as other similar technologies and this conference seems to be the right place to do it There sure are some exciting projects going on and our beloved open sim platform continues to get better with each passing day It truly seems to be a great time to be involved in 3d platforms. They continue to grow in popularity and function. I Sometimes visit other grids and I talk to the owners and the admins. I See grid owners as partners in a sense As we're all trying to offer users a great experience built on top of the open sim platform Some of them have different views may cater to a different user base, etc We all share in the responsibility to present our users the best that open sim can offer Oftentimes I believe grid owners see each other's as competitors and to some extent I believe this to be true But the virtual world space is a very big place and the potential user base is huge Much larger than any of us has seen thus far as the the number of open sim users and worlds continue to grow. I Believe our responsibilities as grid owners also increases. I believe one of these Responsibilities is to make sure that none of our worlds give open sim a bad name. I Like to submit to you that each instance of open sim should be seen as a link in the chain of virtual worlds And that this chain is only as strong as its weakest link Sharing some of our knowledge back to the community can and will help to strengthen our and our entire community As our platform continues to evolve with new features better stability and more content I think it will become increasingly attractive to new users and the community will continue to grow creating new and unforeseen possibilities for all of us Also, believe there's much room for grid owners to collaborate on events and projects which help to bring our community together An example of this might be the annual Rob stock event that we hold on the third rock grid each April This event was created by Jim St. Clair, which many of you might know is lazuli paraca in our grid The purpose of that event is simply to act as a fundraiser for the doctors without borders charity The events simple we bring entertainers into the grids they play music they sing etc And all the tips they receive during the event get converted to real dollars and then we give it back to the charity For the past few years this become a multiple grid event Spanning third rock red second life and others last year. We were happy that metropolis joined us and Each year the amount of money that we raised continues to be a substantial amount Anyway, the point is is that there's many opportunities for grids to collaborate if provided the means to do it I think that's the important thing to take away from all of it For several years there's been much talk at third rock grid that we as a community Should try to form some sort of grid owners association to provide a means for grid owners to share ideas Knowledge and to provide a forum. We can all interact on a level of friendship instead of always as competitors My visits to the other grids and talks with the owners have solidified the desire of the other grids to have something like this as well Few weeks back. I proposed the idea of a grid owners association of sorts and Maria at hyper grid Decided to write a story about it My original idea was to test the waters to see what kind of interest there might be About forming an organization like this The response was pretty good. We've got 18 grids indicating they were interested in supporting such an organization and Justin from the developers indicated he would he would try to support it as well But interestingly enough though, it seems that the entire community wants to be a part of an organization like this So it seems the original idea somewhat morphed into a more general open sim community organization now Based on the responses Myself Mark Wiseman Maria and Alan Tupper have started putting together the initial startup phase of an organization We are so so far calling this organization open sim united and We've created a website that you can visit and join and that's at open sim united calm And our hopes are that this organization will provide tools to grid owners Open sim developers viewer developers general users and vendors of the open sim community We believe that the community is now large enough that we can successfully run crowdfunding campaigns To help raise money to fix bugs develop new features or extend existing features The idea is that we pick the top things if you will bug fixes features etc That seem to be the most wanted and we start talking to the developers about whether or not they think the project It's a good fit If they determine it's good fit and the project's doable then we'll start collecting pledge promises from the community The pledge amount then would become the bounty if you will placed on this most wanted item Any developer current or future could then submit code for review If it's deemed acceptable then the code to get rolled back into the core code And we've all then benefit from the efforts and we could do this over and over and over again multiple times for any any feature any bug any extension The organization could also provide tools to the community Maybe we could have a central repository for all the content that's been given to the community Maybe we could have a directory of worlds a community Vince calendar the list could go on and on and on really the possibilities are endless Our hopes are though that this organization will be completely open and Transparent it'll be made up of all segments of the community and would remain completely unbiased and run by the community Just to be clear the proposal here is for an organization to be formed by the community for the community It should be one that's never biased towards any individual or group And it should always work for the good of the community as a whole Any projects or work developed by this organization should be considered the property of the community I'll step back now and hand things back over to Maria and we can hear from the others. Thank you all for your time It's great being here Thank you. Thank you Terry for that introduction Next I would like to to introduce you to Alan Tupper another member of the new associations kickoff team Alan is a transmedia content creator Focusing on animation and independent game development He writes about the metaverse from both a developer and and user perspective on the blog meta pundit In his free time Alan is spearheading an effort to explore the potential of cryptocurrencies within the hyper grid Alan how will this association benefit regular users of open sim? Thank you for the question Maria. So We're a pretty passionate community and We're in the software almost every day and we all know we all have our list We all have our list of things. Gee, I really wish we could do X. Gee. I really wish you know this feature was more like that and This isn't something that's limited to just grid owners This isn't just limited to you know content creators This is everyone and everyone has their features and what this Association has the power to do is to bring us all together as a community and say yes That is worth pursuing. Let's get together. Let's chip in Whatever we can chip in and get this thing done We got a lot of Responses was pretty succinct and it was get things done So I think that in a a nutshell is What? We should be aiming for and what what I think it can what it can offer regular users Some users have expressed a few concerns about this organization that This would be a short circuit the normal development process or or you know push open sim maybe in a in a different direction How do you respond to these concerns? I mean, yeah, those those are definitely some common concerns You know, there's you know some concerns that you know, it'll be just sort of a way for You know close grids to essentially strong on the developers and to say hey, you know We have this pet feature and you know kind of do a smash and grab and then go back to their closed grids And leave everyone else kind of in the dark And we won't give everyday community users a voice Our answer to that is Like like Terry was saying earlier We truly believe that everything that the that the association will do and what will produce will be the property of the community and we Really really want to invite the community in to every step along this process Whether that's the initial discussion phase what that we're in right now during the kickoff phase of how this organization should be structured all the way to the the day-to-day Decisions and deliberations on should this be a feature that we pursue or should we You know fund this It's we want to keep this as absolutely open and transparent as possible And we don't want to be shutting people out You this is supposed to be a community organization Some of the things that you're talking about are gonna cost money Can you talk a little bit about your fundraising plans? Absolutely, so yeah, we have two main Methods that we're considering for fundraising and we're considering a combination of both First and foremost we are considering for raising money for projects doing it in a crowdfunding method Platforms like Kickstarter Indiegogo and even patreon have shown that it's More than feasible to when you have a concrete project a group of people who are passionate about seeing that project through It is more than possible to have a group of people come together and Raise funds for that now that works great for individual projects for projects where Or not not even projects, but for the day-to-day operations of the organization We are considering the possibility of introducing a paid membership model and now that Will not really provide any We aren't considering it offering too much in the way of special access we again We're very early in this discussion and we want community input on that but The idea is that that that the funds from a paid membership would go to run the day-to-day Costs of the organization whether that's you know having some people working part-time or even full-time if this gets Large enough to actually do the administrative work And to keep the lights running as it were Um Finally, I'd like to introduce Mark Wiseman who is also helping this organization get off the ground Mark is the CEO of digital worlds group which provides services for private and commercial grids He has a strong passion for 3d historical recreations and for using open simulator for niche applications like real estate previews and Language and subject specific grids He currently lives and works in the Netherlands And he offers online marketing consulting services to companies aiming to incorporate the 3d web into existing and new marketing channels Mark, could you tell us about some of the practical realities of getting an organization like this off the ground? Hi, Maria. Thank you. Yes Well the way we get an organization like this off the ground in our community, which is open source based and Wants to be open and transparent in its nature It's to set up the organization together with the entire community and The way we do this is we define a kickoff team Which is this four people here because in the audience is Nick Swart and educated from the Netherlands who has also joined the team and We have a number of a number of other people who have Pledge their support as we go forward during this phase And where you want to be at the end of this phase is to have a non-profit organization most probably Which has gone Through the motions of together with the community defining. So what are our finding founding principles? Next step what what is it we want as a community on large? so as well for the software development as For the community ends of it and Alan has been Guiding do the questionnaire online. I think we had 46 48 responses Alan I think 42 right now, but I think it's growing and it's think it's still open. So we're we're still taking input Right. We're taking input on that until the end of November at least And what we're seeing in that already is that there are demands from the community for different types of activities which a non-profit organization could do one of these activities is the crowd crowdfunding But we won't know that yet until we've done our inventory which we'll do with the entire community I'll have to look at my slide for a moment So what once once the community has come back and said right we like these activity plans Please go and sort them out. We're going to have to figure out the legal aspects of this organization Get it properly registered I think the next step after that is and we've looked at Apache how Apache does this and Mozilla does this and other open source organizations They tend to have a board which is elected by the community which consists of A number of people who are strong on the field and have have a long-standing experience They're a non-executive and they appoints a management team for a period of a year And that management team is the team which goes back to the founding principles and the activity plans Which have been decided on and actually act executes them at that point this kickoff phase obviously ends and it becomes an operational organization And in that what one of the things that could be doing so when I say activity plans very often so far we've spoken about the Crowdfunding end of things So here's a small example of how that how that plan would work and it would be a separate If you want department within the organization, which runs this activity and it goes through month or three monthly cycles Could be six months in which you go to the community Infantry all the requests which are out there and what that will tell you is What are the demands in the market for? The end users what is it the end users want which items have the highest market value when you add them to the products So you do that for a couple of weeks And you end up with this top ten list of things which end users once we take that to the core developers to the additional developers and really we take it to any developer who Could develop for open sim and we say all right come up with the folks from design for this Come up with your price for it. And then if these plans check out and this is why we need some developers To be in this management team really You take it to the crowdfunding stage and we're talking about items, which could cost 200 bucks that the $200 to fix or up to two thousand The community that has asked for these items is now in the position to actually crowdfund these items You get your crowdfunding in the organization takes care of the financials of it The developer goes or the development team goes and develops their Proposal delivers it to the repository and rinse and repeat So that that's in a nutshell the way you get from your kickoff phase all the way to operational And then how you could consistently repeat repeat these activity plans So you you're gonna need some support from the core open some developers for this so far What's been the feedback that you've heard I'm gonna hand that one off to Terry because Terry's been in contact with the developers so far Hi, yeah, thanks Mark. Basically, we've we've received not much response from the developers Justin has been the only one to Any up for any information and he simply indicated that he would try his best to support our efforts but as everyone knows his his Schedule is rather busy at times and therefore his participation might be limited. So so we're open to any of the developers that might want to Get in touch with us or become a part of this because we know moving forward. They're going to be a big big Part of this without them really it's going to be really tough for us to to do anything and move forward So again, like I said not much interest yet But we welcome anybody that might want to step up to the plate and and help us out in that area Okay, and this might be a little repetitive, but I've seen it asked quite a few times Can anyone join this organization or is it just for the big grid owners? Ah Well, here's a philosophical question. What is a grid owner? We tend to think of the grid owners as the people who commercially run the top 20 30 grids out there But an educator who runs a grid on their own Network in a school is is a grid owner essentially So it becomes very hard to make a distinction between grid owners and grid owners. So anyone out there using the platform is Should be a member of this organization because you need your Your end users to give you the input what what is requested from market? And they all they need these specialized fields where people are grid owners. So in education Sorry business applications education Language learning is an interesting one there. So You need to get all these all these inputs. So everybody is a member. It's not just commercial grid owners and what about grids that are running on different versions of open sim or that have their own Own technology that they're using I can take that one. Yeah So in the survey we have definitely seen some interest for that I think we still need to reach out to the platforms To to find out if they're truly interested personally, I would love to see it But I think we should still see I think we lost you there for a second. Okay. I'm sorry But it sounded like your answer was yes Yes, I Just came from moderating a panel on content protection and open sim. So this is actually top of my mind Um, will this organization do anything to help protect or help improve the state of content protection in open sim? Well, the real answer to that question is does the community want that because if you go through your cycles And you keep asking your community. What do you want and this floats to the top then? Then that is the thing you want to work on what I would imagine is Content protection is not just about the technology why it's protecting the content but also about how do you handle people who? kind of break your laws and Do the thieving as a fourth? So within the organization you could have an activity a group which focuses on on these particular issues But it stands to the it stands to the community whether or not they want that activity inside the organization Which is what you discover during your kickoff phase One of the problems I think that some of the grids have is that they're competing Amongst each other for a small number of users. Well, this organization do Be doing any big joint efforts to promote open sim beyond this existing user base to the more general public I think so. Yes, I think that that's going to be It's something that the community has definitely shown interest in and I think it's something that we should definitely push forward on that being said, I believe that a great way to do that is to Really support some strong technological developments to make the platform intrinsically exciting and Intrinsically capable of spreading itself.  So I think yes, we can we can help with that I had something something to that as well. I think that It would also be a good thing or a potential Reward that the grids could all join in to maybe an advertising co-op of sorts It's just an idea and we could then develop on maybe some of the pricier places to advertise and Share that more like maybe we could do a Series of banners that might be third rock grid for one. Maybe it's a metropolis grid for another maybe it's heavy worlds for another etc, but basically let everybody chip in a banner and maybe Somehow come up with a way to give the each banner owner and equally share the advertising on a platform That may be too pricey for an individual grid to advertise on their own That's just one of the ideas that we could do as well One of the things that I hear From my readers is that it's hard to learn how to get started to run a grid Will your organization? Help people get started provide mentoring or other support or would you rather not have the competition? No, I think absolutely we should do what we can to improve the new user experience and If that boils down to helping other groups get started, you know heading in the same direction I think the more the merrier Personally I Agree with that. I think for the to go forwards. We want more and more adoption of open sim And will the organization organization help people get started with new grids? Well, I think what we should be doing is Making the start of experience easier And not per se help out people by hand, but where are tools where are Simple wikis which explain it where our technological tools which make it simple to set us up within three clicks I Think this organization should be focusing on that because I think it should also be focusing on the market placement of the platform as a whole and Adoptability of it is key there and finally before we Before we start going through the audience questions I'd like to know if the three of you can talk to us about What are your most wanted features for open sim development that you're hoping to see accomplished through the through this organization Well, I'm I'm with 99% of the population which is I want a web viewer, please That's that's my main thing I As a grid owner would second that that opinion but also border crossings would be a second or possibly even the primary concern for myself As someone who has not really been really affiliated with anyone grid and who is really excited by the hyper grid I would love to see more development on that. I would love to see more documentation on both the protocols and Working on really making the hyper grid not only just the technical aspects But also the social and economic aspects really solid so this can be the only the foundation of where we can grow to Alright, so we have a question from the audience Your organization plans is considering having a paid membership model Does that mean that you will be creating an official nonprofit or organization to manage that? Yes, it does indeed. We will have to this this organization has to be incredibly transparent on what it does and Why would you want to pay membership model? Well, first off, you want to have an officially registered Organization which takes cash to actually do that So there's there's going to be costs with running the organization that sort of depends on how heavy you make what the organization has to do And then there's the cost within these individual activities which show up So so yes, it will be an official organization What country will you be based in? That's a good question. There's a good question Oh We're talking about that. We're talking about that. Sorry to pop that on you It's a good one. It's a good one And what you'll see is if you while we're in the kick kickoff phase on the slide I actually we are here is we're actually before we've actually done anything So it's country will based in The first thing the kickoff team will do is Create a process plan for going through the kickoff phase and in that these questions will have to be answered But um, no, I and I don't know I'm not quite sure if I have a particular preference either It's global. I myself don't have a particular preference it and really I guess we should explore The advantages and disadvantages that each country Would would offer the the organization And go from there The good thing is this has been done before by By other software groups So there are models out there we can look out There already is a non-profit organization for open sim the overt foundation Why not just use their infrastructure? That's that's a good question from my understanding of the overt foundation it Primarily exists to be a a holder of the the IP of Open sim to keep that as as a legal vehicle to make sure that all those contributions stay Stay open source and perpetuity Trying to kind of latch on to them and try to expand them Maybe too much to ask of them and I I think at least on from my perspective starting up Open sim United and then if it turns out down the line that you know, we want to merge with overt then So be it but I think right now we shouldn't try to bog down overt with our with our idea this bold experiment of trying to create a community driven organization One of the members of the audience suggests that that being inside the European Union could provide a lot of European funding which also reminded me that there is funding on the table for Possibly for the possibility of a web viewer through the real extent project, right? Is that something you guys would consider? Yes, most definitely I already work in the E I work in the EU and we have cross-country initiatives The central EU is quite happy to hand out money for that So yes, if you have the organization set up in Europe There is a bigger chance of getting hold of that but though there are there are funds around the planet which are worth looking into Another audience member was just that the viewer development panel and one of the things they mentioned was the need for standards a sort of W3C for open sim grids this particular organization you guys sound like an ideal place to create that would you agree and Also, I would strongly suggest inviting the viewer makers to join your organization Yeah Go ahead. No, it's gonna say yes. They're all welcome. Come to the website and register Yeah, we absolutely we absolutely want viewer developers. I think Have just just the example of of Diva and the onlook viewer That's an example of what can be accomplished with When you have a full knowledge of what's going on on the simulator side and the viewer side So the more that we can get there to be Subsynchronicity between the viewer developers and the simulator developers get them on the same page with standards and by having them in Involved in the same conversations together so we can work together to solve these problems the better so absolutely they're invited The previous question by the way was from Raymond Raymond Ben The next question is from Douglas Maxwell of the Moses grid, which is the military grid and he says I have offered funding to the Overt Foundation for Fixing bugs and so on and was turned down Would you guys have a problem with accepting money from the US military? I would say definitely not but just be aware that the organization We're wanting to make sure that any projects that we work on that that code gets Contributed back into the core of open sim so as long as they're okay with it being Open-sourced and available to the rest of the community. Most definitely As we said earlier any anyone who uses open sim is a user and is therefore welcome to contributing which way they do Fantastic that sounds really really optimistic so If anybody has any follow-up questions, this is your chance to ask them Meanwhile, um, do do the three of you have any closing remarks? Yes, well, I go ahead Alan. No My only closure Marcus Please come and register on the website and be part of this process Because without the community out there this doesn't fly That's pretty much what I was going to say and this is something that we're trying to form for the community by the community and We absolutely want your your input. We want your participation. We want your ideas and You know, you are the future of open sim. So we want you to be a part of this organization Well, thank you Terry Alan and mark for terrific presentation This concludes the first day of the second annual open simulated community conference 2014 Though the conference programming has ended for the day Littlefield grid is hosting a special event this evening at 8 p.m. Pacific at the Speak Easy Dance Club and We encourage our attendees in world and on the web to visit Littlefield for fun and post conference discussions You can hyper grid teleport to the event with your conference avatar or for more information See the conference program at conference dot open simulator dot org We'd like to thank our audience in world and on the web and our speakers staff and volunteers for a terrific first day of the conference We will begin tomorrow at 7 a.m. Pacific Standard Time in the keynote regions with an exciting keynote address from Steve Laval from Oculus Rift who will talk about the race to bring virtual reality to a mainstream audience We hope to see you there


Welcome back to another episode of the nonprofit show. We are thrilled you're here. I'm thrilled you're here because today I have one of our favorite, favorite guests, Jack Nacho, Elado. Let's fire up this show today. Let's do it. All right, all of it. Jack Ignacio, I like Nacho. Nacho's the best. Elado, you know, Jack is, I'm gonna brag on you a lot of it. Jack is a CFRE, but more importantly than that, he's one of the masterminds in this nation who's formulated some amazing training. And before we end today, I'd love to kind of talk about that because the CFRE nation is such a challenge and it's such a pinnacle for so many people in their career.  Okay, I don't think I've ever told you that, but I do know of your legacy in this space. And so I think it's a really cool thing that we get you on to talking about this. But enough about you. Yes, enough about me. I'm blushing, you can't see it, I'm blushing. Well, let's get on and let's see what we've got cooking today with our questions because you know, we always have interesting questions that come in and those questions really come from across the country and they're supported by our presenting sponsors and they include Blumerang, American Nonprofit Academy, Nonprofit Thought Leader, Staffing Boutique, Your Part-Time Controller, 180 Management Group, Fundraising Academy at National University where Jack hails from, JMT Consulting, Nonprofit Nerd and Nonprofit Tech Talk.  Last Tuesday we hit our 1,000th show, which blows my mind. 1,000 of anything is a lot. I'm just gonna say it. But you can catch up with us on our app and streaming broadcasts, podcasts. We will meet you where you are when you have an issue or you need some thought leadership. So definitely check us out. Okay, Jack, you know, name withheld. Super important.  I do that a lot when I think, I mean, St. Louis is a big city, but still I don't want to get anyone in trouble. Oh, gosh. Yeah. So the question is this. I'm trying to get my non-profit to invest in branded branding note cards, specifically A2, which are a standard thank you note card size. Yeah, it's like this size, right? It's the perfect size.  And as someone in development, I believe this is an essential tool. How do I convince him to do this? Yeah, I love the idea of a branded postcard. I think let's talk brands for a minute, Julia. Even more than a branded postcard, you know what I love for a non-profit? A brand. I love for non-profits to have a brand. A brand is what distinguishes you from other non-profits in your community, especially those non-profits who are working in the same space. The brand is your personality. It's your unique style. It's the thing that makes you unique. It is what is most recognizable about your organization. It's your particular attributes, the way you do business. If I told you, Julia, that in the community, there was a family displaced by fire and they had no shelter, the brand that comes to mind is the American Red Cross. Yes, yes. If we talked about cancer, the brand that comes to mind is the American Cancer Society. And when I think of prevention of drunk driving, I think of mothers against drunk driving. All of these brands come to the top of my mind whenever I think of the uniqueness that they bring to the work that they do. And the most important thing at the end of this question is really what's important to me. How do I convince them? He or she thinks that it will support their fundraising efforts. You want to remain at the top of your donor's mind. And that's what brands do. They put you at the top of the mind of the donor and the prospect. When a donor is thinking about making a gift, we talk about this in cost selling all the time, you want to be at the top of their mind. And brands help you do that. So Jack, I know you have an illustrious career as a successful fundraiser and of course, a thought leader and an educator, but when you were in the trenches raising money, did you, Jack Nacho Alotto, write handwritten notes? Did you use that in your school? Absolutely. I used note cards with our brand on the front, the name of the organization or logo or something that was very distinguishable. And I always wrote handwritten notes. And I know when I talked to my niece and nephew, Julia, they said, cursive, we don't know how to read cursive. They have to get their parents to translate it. So even if you print, it's so personal. And think about the double whammy you give to your donors and your prospect. There's your brand on the front, they open it up, they see your brand, and then they see this beautiful, print it or cursive handwritten note. What better way to bring a donor close into your organization, to build and strengthen a relationship with a donor than by doing a handwritten note. Right. Well, name with help from St. Louis. You should be in the range of 50 cents a note card. And this is fully branded with a branded envelope, maybe as high as $2.50. You know, I think that we do not ask enough. I mean, in the nonprofit sector, we're always asking our donors and our partners, but I don't think there's any problem going to a local printer and saying, hey, I need this, can you get me a discount?  How can you get me, you know, to have this? Because this is a critical, I mean, to me, Jack, if you look at what the tools are, this is in the toolbox.  This is like one of those things. So I think you've got to do it. And I appreciate doing like note cards. That's great. But I think you need to do branded note cards. I don't think it's enough just to go out and get hallmarked. Right, absolutely, absolutely. Your brand is you. It's your uniqueness. And so use it everywhere you can. Yeah, well, sorry to get all up in your business name with help. Come on. Nacho, Nacho and Julia are very, very... That's right. Fired up about this, so. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, okay, let's go to Janelle and Omaha, Nebraska. Jack, this question came in and I wanted to save it for you because I was really looking forward to what your comment was. And Janelle writes in, how do you feel about asking for money over a meal in a public place? I'm debating about changing my strategy when it comes to making an ask. Thanks for your help. Yeah, so here is, it doesn't matter how I feel about it. It matters how the prospect and the donor feel about it. So if your prospects preferred place of meeting is in a restaurant or in a coffee shop or wherever, it's really important to be donor-centric. You wanna meet where they wanna meet. And one of the things you could ask them early on in your building a relationship with them is where would you like us to meet to talk about what we're gonna do? But I wanna add a caveat to that. So I'm putting together with Angela Barnes a presentation for AFP icon. And one of the things that I've noticed in my research is that you don't wanna meet in like a donor's home unless you have another fundraiser with you. So there are some places where I would recommend you not meet it unless you really know the person really well. Because we're seeing that there are, there is some sexual harassment out there in private places. So I would like to keep it in a public place. You know, Jack, that I know that's something we're gonna bring you on with Angela and we're gonna have an episode just about the research that you've done. But I really appreciate your starting point. Ask the donor, the prospect. That's like duh. And you could say no to some places, you know?  You could say, you know, maybe a more appropriate place is my office in an unprofit organization. But I would stop feeling that. Where do you like to talk with me? And definitely bring them to visit your organization. You know, Jack, it's so funny. I was thinking about this and I hadn't thought about this for years. And one of the first boards I served, I was asked to accompany the CEO to make an ask. And it was a sizable donor and they had been a donor for a long time and we were moving into a capital campaign, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so the, I said, well, what's the amount gonna be? And the CEO said, well, it's gonna be a million dollars.  And she's like, well, he totally has it. And he, you know, it's just more of a formality. And he likes to go to super salad. And it was like, it was a chain, like salad buffet. And I was like, oh no, we're gonna, I will take him to X, Y, Z, like la-di-da. And she's like, no, Julia. He likes the idea of our stewardship and he had a horrible, a horrible childhood and was always hungry. And so for him, when he sees this like buffet of nutritious food, this really strikes a chord with him. And so exactly what you just said, I had never really thought of it, is where does that donor fit? Where did they want to fit? It's really smart. And, you know, I've been invited to, to lunch by the donor and it was so loud. So there are some things that we want to make sure we consider. I, you know, I'm annoyed in a small place with a lot where I'm yelling at somebody. So you pick your place, but definitely consult with a donor where they would like to meet you. Well, and you know, Jack, the other thing too that I always am concerned about is privacy and like that, that whole thing of like, you know, especially if you're in a small community. I mean, I live in the fifth largest city in America, but in so many ways we're a small community. And you just don't go out to lunch where you're walking through the door and you don't see people and you're, hey, hot, you know, and all this. And so then it's kind of a weird thing, I think, when you're, you know, you're gonna be soliciting somebody. Absolutely. Anyway, okay, well, that was fascinating. Let's go on to Janet from Port St. Lucie, Florida. Janet writes, we are working up a new sponsorship donor and our team is split on this. Do we, oh, this is so interesting. Do we use more data points or emotions in our pitch deck? Big new discussion. Yeah, I love the question. And so, you know, I look at it from two perspectives. The first is from individuals when you could get sponsorships from individuals, you should be asking individuals for sponsorships or from corporate or business sponsorship. Here's the thing about both of those entities. As you build a relationship, and you know, cause selling is a relationship building model of fundraising. As you're building those relationships with either individuals or corporations or businesses, you will come to understand whether it's numbers, data, how many people did you serve last year? Or whether it's an emotional thing, maybe a storyteller, a story about a beneficiary or a client which will elicit an emotional response. So here's your job as Janet, your job as a fundraiser is to find out what motivates your donor. Are they motivated by rational things like data points and numbers? Or are they motivated by emotions? Or most likely by both. Now, with a corporation or a business, they might be more motivated by data points. For example, many of their employees may use your services if you're an animal shelter. Maybe they come and adopt cats, cats, and dogs from your animal shelter or a hospital. Maybe they use the emergency room or positions there or whatever it is. Or maybe they volunteer for your organization. They may ask you numbers like how many of our employees are volunteers or how many of our employees are donors to your organization or whatever it is. Or maybe they're just motivated by social responsibility towards the community. And here's another thing which I've looked at in trying to answer this question. Some corporations and businesses, they wanna co-brand with you. Yeah. They want politicians to see that they are supporters of community organizations. So if finding out these things is a complicated thing, it's not that complicated.  So, Jack, let me ask you my own question on top of Janet's question. And that is, we keep hearing more and more about this next generation of donors that are the millennials to Gen Z. And they are much more attracted to impact into data and the metrics than they are their parents or grandparents on the emotional side. Are you seeing this or do you think that this is a blood theory? Are you? No, I think it's definitely, you mentioned millennials. Millennials wanna be involved as volunteers. I don't think baby boomers are that interested in volunteering. You know, they're older, they're maybe more sedentary, but millennials want to see impact. They wanna see the data points. If you are housing the unhoused, they may ask you how many people did you provide shelter for last month or a year? And they wanna be involved. They wanna be a volunteer in your organization, they wanna, and I love that about millennials and other generations that really want to have an involvement in the organization and it's just so important. It is and I think as we know, I mean, the more you have a relationship on that campus or with that cause or, you know, whatever it is, I think that it's just, it links you to an organization's mission in a way that is just so hard to get any other way.  I mean, you know. When I worked in healthcare, I used to say you can't leave the hospital if you go to a neonatal intensive care unit or, you know, a birthing center. There's little babies in those bassinets. It's such an important thing to do. Yeah, it really is. Well Janet, I hope this helps and I really like Jack's advice on this. I think it's super, super important. Okay, let's go to this is a completely different question. This comes to us from Henry in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And he writes, we used to be super strict and consistent about running campus tours every Saturday. Now with COVID slowing down, we're trying to determine if we should return to this model of fundraising or not. I think of this as, you know, Terry Axelrods, Ben Avon model, you know, get people like to the campus, to the tour, tour in a box. If you didn't have a campus, you know, get that relationship started and then, you know, navigate down the field to it towards an ask. I say absolutely. Oh, you do, okay. I'm seeing firsthand your work and the physical environment in which you do your work is a great cultivation tool for prospective donors at a college campus or high school, whatever this educational.  They talked with students that firsthand, you know, approach was so important. I remember way back when I used to write grants or early in my career, I used to end every grant with an invitation for the program officer to come and visit our physical environment. And I used to say something like this, Julia, this grant proposal and this letter, this cover letter could never portray the intensity of our work. Instead, I would like to invite you to come and see firsthand the important work we do in the community. That simple sentence, and I would give them my phone number, have a contact me.  And it's just such an important way, a cultivation tool and I highly recommend it. You know what, I love that approach, Jack. I think it's genuine. I think the thing too that impresses me about that is that you are kind of saying, I have nothing to hide and maybe this won't work, but something else will or it's like a relationship cultivation as opposed to just that grant transaction. And transparency, you're saying, come and visit us and maybe meet our beneficiaries, maybe meet our clients, pet a dog, scratch a cat, whatever it is. It's such an important way for them to see firsthand and for them to understand what your cause is and what your mission is and see firsthand how you are advancing that mission. I love it. Well, let's go to another question that name withheld and this comes to us from Henderson, Nevada. Our new board chair thinks we should have at least one employee on the board. This would be an actual voting member. I have never heard of this, have you? So I have never heard of an actual voting member as an employee because that line between the board as an independent organizer and a policy-making board and staff as the implementers of the policy that the board enacts, here's the thing, I worked for organizations where the CEO or the executive director was an ex-officio member of the board. They attended the board meetings, they didn't vote, but they were there, they talked about things, they gave reports and things like that. I've attended many board meetings. But here's the thing that I recommend. Every organization does that board needs assessment, what do you need? Here's the thing that I really think is important and I see this trend, people are talking about this. We're gonna talk about it next Thursday. Is putting beneficiaries of the services and the clients on the board and get them on the board, incorporate them into the decision-making process. I worked in organizations that were working in communities of color and there were no people of color on the board. So it's really important for us to be immunity-centered. I agree. My first response is absolutely not because this is a conflict of interest. I mean, a legal COI policy that you are asked to report on to the IRS every year. And it is a conflict of interest. I think ex-officio is a super powerful thing going both ways for the board, for the staff, they should be there. But yeah, no, I can understand where this board chair's coming from. They wanna probably know more about the organization and it's well-intentioned, but this is not the fiduciary nor proper stewardship method. It just isn't. And so, yeah, don't fall into that trap. I agree, I agree. It's just not good. Okay, I'm sorry to like rush you along, but I didn't want to leave this moment together because gosh darn it, it seems like forever since I've been on the show with you, but that can't be.  We're gonna be at AFP in Toronto for people that might wanna meet you. Can you talk about what some of those trainings are looking like coming up? So first off with our mutual friend, Mui Kawaja. He and I, we're gonna do a Muslim study group specifically for Muslims who are involved in fundraising. Already we have 19 people in that group. It's listed at the CFRE.org website. You could join it, I'm excited to do it. It's gonna be in the evenings on Wednesdays. It's gonna be much longer. My traditional study, and that starts April 17th. Okay, next study group that is four Saturdays and I already have 89 people signed up is going to start April 20th. And it goes from 9 a.m. until noon Pacific time. And it goes through, I think May 11th is the fourth Saturday. So definitely anyone, both of these study groups are free. They're free, so avail yourself of it. It's really worth it. And I will be in Toronto with Angela Barnes. We're gonna present a paper on Saturday morning. I'm sorry, Sunday morning at 9 a.m. So if you're there, come and say hello to me. I love to meet previous CFRE study group participants, of which, by the way, Angela Barnes is one. I love it, I love it. Well, it's funny, Jack, again, in the green room chatter we were talking, I knew about you before I ever met you because I have known folks that have taken your trainings and your study groups. And so it was super cool when I got to meet you because I was like, oh my God, he's like super famous because I knew that you were doing it. I'm blushing, I'm blushing again. No, I mean, so I was like, wow, it's super cool. So I think this is a great thing. And again, I love that you're gonna do this with Mookie. We are in Ramadan right now. We had Mookie on for Ask and Answered last week. I saw that, I saw that. Yeah, we spent a little bit of time, me, I'm always pestering him with questions, but bless his heart, he's always so kind and so gentle to him. I love the man, I've known him for almost 10 years. He was in my study group and he of course is a CFRE so he's a great guy, I followed his career. I know he's in Florida now, so I'm gonna miss him. I'm not gonna, he's not gonna be close here in California, but he's a great guy. Yeah, he really is. Well, Jack Alotto, CFRE, you're a great guy and you're also a trainer with Fundraising Academy National University. Check out fundraising-academy.org and you can learn all about the amazing tools. Most of these teaching units are free and so it is remarkable information. I always say, Jack, if I had had this in my life 40 years ago, I would have raised millions more, literal, no joke, millions more in my community because I would have had tools. Yeah, but you know what? What organization wouldn't love you, Julia, on their board? And that's where you made such a contribution to the nonprofit sector and you have my admiration. Well, don't say that because we don't want more calls. Of you trying to join. Yeah. Julia, please join my board. Okay, don't do that, people. Don't do that. I get asked far too many times and I just, yeah, that's not an opportunity right now as we like to say, but an opportunity to meet Jack Alotto, certainly check out the AFP conference coming up in Toronto. Amazing presenting sponsors that are here and they include marching down this field with us. It's amazing. Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, Nonprofit Thought Leader, Staffing Boutique, Your Part-Time Controller, 180 Management Group, Fundraising Academy at National University, where Nacho Jack Alotto meets us from, JMT Consulting, Nonprofit Nerd, and Nonprofit Tech Talk. These are the folks that join us day in and day out. Okay, Jack, you always, you know, you give me hope for our sector. You give me intelligence, inspiration. I think you make, when they always say that hokey thing, put the fun and fundraising, I feel like you're that dude, you know, that you make it fun. And so thank you so much. Thank you. I love talking with you. It's a lot of fun. Hey, every episode of the Nonprofit Show is fun. Sometimes we're more kooky than other times, but our intent is always there and we end every episode with this message and it goes like this, to stay well so you can do well. We'll see you back here next time. Jack, thank you so much, my friend.


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The reason I chose to come to UBM and do music here was because it's a really relaxed environment. I had previously transferred from a conservatory which was really awesome but it was very serious and rigid and I really liked that at the University of Vermont I could come here and take liberal arts classes and kind of get more of a taste of what the University had to offer me. So I was really excited to be able to take all of my distribution requirements, the diversity requirements. I like to take a language which is really great so being able to kind of spread myself in a wider range was something that I was really excited about and a lot of the faculty here are really awesome and very passionate about what they're teaching and incredibly talented so being able to play and sing, perform and learn from them has been a really great experience that I don't think I could have gotten anywhere else.


No work, no earnings, no land, no water, for tribals, but everything for the corporates. India's Environment Ministry has proposed new rules in the Countries' Forest Conservation Act. Many are asking if these new rules are meant for forest conservation or forest corporatization. Several environmental experts and opposition parties have expressed concern about this move. India's BGP ruled central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often been criticized for its covert efforts to hand over the country's resources to its corporate cronies under the guise of ease of doing business. This most recent action is being seen in the same context. This last change that has come about is an extremely serious one and will have a very adverse impact on the people living in tribal areas, living in forest areas and unfortunately the government has gone all ahead to promote the corporatization of forest areas. In fact, handing over the natural resources in forest areas very easily to the corporates. The owners are the tribals, the non-tribal forest dwellers who have been looking after the forests all these years but this act has been made or changed in a manner to facilitate the takeover of the forest land by corporates. The Forest Conservation Act was enacted in 1980 with the stated aim of combating deforestation. However, the new rules allow the central government to clear the forest without consulting its inhabitants which leaves them with no choice but to accept it. So before the Forest Rights Act, the Forest Conservation Act was used against the tribals. Now what the government has done, it has weakened the Forest Conservation Act in a manner whereby whatever minimum laws that are there to protect the tribals also get totally scrapped. For example, the Gram Sabhas are not required to give any consent even if the local people if it's adversely going to affect their lives even then now they are denied the right to be able to oppose. The Pesa is there in place to protect the tribals rights that is also not now applicable means such blatantly the government is handing over the forest. The new guidelines also do away with the old rules that required developers to obtain consent of local authorities and community representatives before acquiring forest land. Under the new rules, the approval can be provided by the central government alone. The rules say nothing about resettling the inhabitants once they are evicted. The central government can now collect payment for compensatory afforestation from private developers before even obtaining the consent of the forest dwellers. There is absolutely no talk of the rights of the people who may be living in that land or around that land. A place may be taken over by the government for afforestation with payment from the agency who has taken over the forest land for whatever purposes it wants. Here also the tribals will get totally displaced and in the lands which may be taken over for afforestation to compensate the loss of forest cover in a forest area which may be taken over by a corporate. The people in both the places in this law, there is no talk, there is no line which talks of safeguarding the rights of the people who will be affected. The new rules also contradict the Forest Rights Act of 2006 which recognized the symbiotic relationship between forest dwelling tribal communities and other traditional forest dwellers to forest resources on which they rely for their livelihood, habitation and other socio-cultural needs. And women especially because women are very dependent on forests and the tribal community per se are dependent on forests. They live with the forest and the forests also live because of tribal people. They protect the forest. Many opposition groups and parties in India have opposed the new rules. The Communist Party of India Marxist has demanded a public consultation with all stakeholders and stated that the views of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs need to be taken into account as well. The reality is that these laws are going to put the tribals and the poor, aid dwellers in forest lands into a much serious and critical situation. So they are very very perturbed, very agitated by this and surely there are meetings and protests going on. The government today has proposed the candidature of a tribal woman for the President of India and that same government on 28th of June has brought about the rules for divesting the tribals of their right to their own land. This is a contradiction in terms and this is what the Modi government has always been famous for. It talks of one thing but actually does something else. It gives a slogan but takes policies exactly the opposite of those slogans.


All right. Thanks for coming. Sorry we got started late. I got distracted by the beautiful baby, who is also now, I believe, an ATC. So welcome. I'm Clint Byron, my work for IBM.  So I'm just going to go really fast and talk about Bonnie CI, which is a CI service offered developers of open source projects so you can develop like OpenStack develops. So what's our inspiration? Well, our team at IBM was deploying OpenStack, and we actually deployed Zool to test it and to do all of our development work. So we had cross-reprogated CI enabled by Zool, which is extremely popular in the OpenStack developers in the house. All right. You love Zool, right? Maybe even don't even know what Zool is. It's the thing that tests all your patches really fast and lands patches really fast. It's amazing. And our developers at IBM recognized that. And we had a lot of people come to us after our project was over and say, well, whatever happened with the project, we loved the CI system. So could we have that going forward? And we said no.  And we need to think about this. And we need to actually test it with more projects because maybe it's just special to IBM. So we decided let's make Bonnie CI and let's expose it just to open source projects on GitHub. So what we're missing with some of the other popular alternatives, right? You have like CircleCI and Travis. You could just run your own Jenkins. You can run your own bamboo. You can run that boat thing, which I always forget the name of. Anybody know? So what's missing is that they don't do a lot of great parallel testing, some of them, Jenkins. But CircleCI and Travis will certainly spin up lots of cloud resources to test your things. They also don't automatically gait their mergers. So you can gait things, and you can write your own bot. You can even gait things with Jenkins.  Almost none of them, maybe none of them, have cross-repo dependencies. So one of the cool things about Zul is you can be landing patch in this repository. And when it breaks, you say, oh, that's broken in that repository. So you can say, I depend on a patch to that one. And then the pipeline will actually wait for that one to land and pre-merge test them together in one test. That's a really cool feature that we love. Another thing is some of these are just not open source. We love open source. A lot of our clients do as well. So we want to make sure that people can deploy their own if they want to. And there are also security concerns. Jenkins. So why would you want some of these features? Well, I just went through most of that. But essentially, gaited merging was the biggest thing is that people always felt that the master branch was working. At least it passed some test. Maybe there's some small degree of differentiation between how you use it and how the master tests run. But having a high degree of confidence in the master branch actually matters. So that combined with high code velocity from that, because it turns out if you start with bad code, you can't finish until someone fixed their bad code, which extends your velocity, makes everybody slow down, and increases people's diversion. Because now it's like, oh, now the tests are broken. I'll go work on a different patch. And a different patch, well, then everything's broken until that's fixed. Versus if you're gaited, it's only broken for the guy who broke it. So what does Bonnie see I do right now? You can manually sign up if you are really, really super crazy brave and you want to try testing your code with our super alpha beta, we're going to call it closed beta, service. It will run checks on your GitHub pull requests. It will run gait tests and merge things into your protected GitHub branches without any interaction from you, which is actually really cool when you start to get really busy. And you have one reviewer who can approve patches and 10 people who can submit them. It's really nice for that one reviewer to go ahead and just go approve, approve, approve, approve, approve, and those things merge sanely, and they all get tested. It can do that for you. And we do have a basic in repo test thing, but we really hate it because we're actually working on something really cool, which is the next version of Zool. So that's part of our roadmap. The roadmap for Bonnie see I is we do want to have an automated signup of some kind so that you don't have to submit a patch to a YAML file to us or talk to us, which is how most people get signed up now. We also want to have more parallelism. Right now we run an untidy little Bluemix private cloud. We'd love to be able to run against different public clouds, different open set clouds. We just don't have the resources. We will have a full in repo job definition language. So you can say run the Python tests, run the PEP 8 tests, run the C module build tests expressed currently fully in your repo because right now you have to express it in one of our repos pointing back to yours, which is not cool. And if you see the two stars, that's because Zool V3 actually adds that as a feature. So we are contributing quite a bit to V3's development. We're hoping it'll be done soon. Across repo testing, we don't actually have that right now, the GitHub driver that we're using, which was submitted by a company called Good Data. Didn't support that, so we don't yet. But we will eventually have that once V3 is done and has GitHub support. And we also want to have true multi-tenancy right now. Everybody's just kind of in one big lump. And so you're going to see that the patch is testing from your competitors. So if you're Coke, you're going to see Pepsi's tests. Yes, I am shooting for the sky, right? So where's that at? Roadmap Blocker, Zool V3. It is a massive effort. It is a huge effort, actually. And it's adding, in addition to the other things that I talked about, it's shrinking the services, making Zool a little more sane to deploy. It's making it more private cloud friendly. There's some problems with Zool that make it hard to deploy when you have a private cloud. That's not, say, reachable from where you run your Zool. As I mentioned, it's doing in repo job definition. And there's some things that have already made drivers easier to write. So I put the red box there, like any upstream project. Timeline's hard to predict. But we feel like June seems likely for sort of pre-release usability. We're not sure, but we're hoping for that. So I think I have maybe 60 seconds for questions. So questions, go. Fast. Yes. These slides are not currently available online, but I am converting them to Reveal.js. And they will be on bonnieci.org in a couple weeks. Got time for one more? All right, thank you so much for listening for my very fast talking. Have a nice day.


Welcome back to the channel. We're going to pick up from the previous video and see what this Ajax is doing once we trigger it from our food-add.js. When we trigger this post and send in the product ID and the variation and what actually happens when we come to our functions.php when we trigger this function and let's see what actually happens insert right here. If this is something you want to see then let's go into the video. So after doing that we're going to come back to our functions.php and we are going to be able to run the different things that we need to do inside our Ajax. So in order to see that we are getting the right product ID let's come here we're going to use a wp send json function and this function basically sends back a json response to our Ajax call that we are making. So what we're going to do here we're going to say if we want to get our product ID and we're going to say the product ID is actually going to equal to and we're going to use the post and this post is coming from our Ajax inside the type of post and we are passing this product ID and the variation ID to our techy food Ajax add to cut function right here and inside our post we're going to be able to just pick up the product ID because that's what we did the product underscore ID and after doing that we're going to copy this paste it in our wp send json let's see that we're getting this inside this function so i'll come back to our page so let's click on our barbecue pizza here i'll choose the small pepperoni i'll click add to cut you'll see that the form is submitted we also have the number 22 and when we go on a network you'll see that we had a post of 200 to our Ajax which is good and then when we click on the request here you will see that we have a product ID of 22 and we have a variation of 24 that was passed and you can see right here we have an action which is coming from our javascript with the product ID and the variation all going inside Ajax so this shows us what is actually going on we have a proper Ajax loading and inside our code we have everything going on very well and in here instead of just having the product ID i want us to get also the variation we are also going to get a quantity so let's first get the variation i'll say variation underscore ID and then here we shall also get the quantity and we're going to say the quantity for now is just going to equal to one now you realize whatever we're picking from this post should be made into an action number so that we don't have errors so what i'm going to do is i'm going to wrap an abs int on this to say that this needs to be an integer absolutely so i'll copy this right here paste it right here so that we have this working actually very well now if we want to be able to change the quantity instead of it being one here we shall see that in a future video where i'm going to add a little box here to allow us to have different quantities but for now we're going to leave it at one so that we can be able to just get one item and add it into our cut so under here the next thing that we shall do is we're going to have an if condition that will allow us to run our code and the first thing we want to do right here is we want to say so if we come us and we're going to look for the method of cut and on cut we're going to look for add to underscore cut we're going to look for that method and we want to say we want to pass the product ID we want to pass the variation ID so we pass the product ID add a comma get the variation ID as well add it in there and we're also going to get the quantity and this quantity always comes before the variation ID and what we want to do inside here if we have all these items added to cut we should be able to do an action so we're going to do a do action and the do action we want to do is we want to say who come us Ajax added to cut so we'll say who come us Ajax added to cut and that's something we want to do and then after doing that we want to be able to get this product ID so I'll copy this and I'm going to pass this product ID add a semicolon right here and we're going to come down here and say if so we're going to check if yes is equal to we're going to get an option and we're going to check do we have the who come us cut redirect after add we're going to check for this option if it's set in our database and this setting won't be found by going to the dashboard and inside our dashboard we'll go to who come us and we'll go to the settings of who come us and then we'll go to the products area where we can always stick for the cut behavior to be to redirect to the cut page after successful addition so I'll click this to save and that means we shall be able to access that particular setting from our database inside the options and then what we're going to do is we're actually going to come and say we're going to use the who come us add to cut underscore message and inside that we're going to pass an array of information and the array we want to pass in is the product ID and we're going to onto that product ID we're also going to add the quantity so after doing that we need to be able to say this is true we should pass the message and say this is true so right now after doing this we've had our if statement if that is correct else if that doesn't work out then what we are going to do is we're going to pass back some data so we'll say the data is actually going to equal to an array and inside that array we're going to just have an error we're going to say our error is actually true and we just need to wrap this in single cuts because it's going to be part of our data our data array and then we're going to pass in the product URL so we'll say product underscore URL we're going to get the pama link or like the link of that post and inside this we just need to add the product ID so product underscore ID that's what we need to pass we shall then echo RWP send JSON after that error and we're going to say let's echo that so that we can see whatever is going on and we should just be able to get this data right here so I'll pass this data here save this make some cleanups right here and I am going to come and reload my page we'll clear our mini cut let's go to pizza we're going to hit margarita pizza here we'll choose one large paparoni click add to cut that gives us a success if we reload this here we should be able to have our margarita paparoni right here just one of them let's try to do it with barbecue steak pizza let's choose two small extra cheese let's also have the large olives click add to cut we have two successes right there I'll reload this and you're going to see that we have our steak pizza showing the extra cheese we have the paparoni we'll try again margarita pizza let's now go for a small paparoni and olives click add to cut we have one success showing up here we actually have two successes we should be now having a number of items in our mini cut and you see we have the small paparoni and we only have three pieces in our cut so something is broken but we are doing something right so I'll clear this item save this let's look at our network again I'll just go to pizza I'm going to click margarita I'll choose three of the large items click add to cut you'll see we have all our edges actually showing up doing everything right when I reload this page you see we only have two items showing up right here so we need to find out why this is a big problem and we shall be able to do that in the next video if you enjoy this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up don't forget to share it with your friend give it a like and let me know in the comments what you're using these tutorials to actually build something for yourself let me know what that project is and enjoy yourself


T. F. N. N. Headline news update. Everyone, Bowser, Chapman doing the 1 p.m. news cost. I am the host of the Tiger technicians hour 12 to noon every 12 to one o'clock every day. And also the author of the opening call. So let's go the dows down 30 points at 27,000 754. This is gonna be very interesting because you can see in the left side chart, you have a little rectangle out of six sessions the last six sessions. So it depends on today's close.  They look like a plus sign in the middle. It says that unless there's a real something to to jar and spark a new buying frenzy in the Dow. There's a lot of resistance up here into the 27,900 abrading to 28,100 by next week will be really positive. But it looks like it's struggling right now that it must hold 27,500 to 400 support over the next two weeks. So right now, holding quite nicely the S&P, but this particular point didn't have dominated a new all time high yesterday. S&P is kind of struggling. It hasn't done that. Very close to all time highs of 3092. The MACD is turning down but hasn't crossed negative and stochastic is turning down but still strong at 90%. So it's going to be price movement that changes the whole directional area. Unless it closes under 3085, I'd say 3083. In the next couple of days, it's still going to be sideways for a little bit longer. And you've got the QQQ, the NDX100 trading at this particular point down 50 cents at 201.09. A lot's going to be depending on the applied materials, earnings this afternoon and video after the bell, because that'll impact the SMH as a semiconductor index, which in turn will impact the QQQ. So above 202.21 would be very positive. And that's 199.50. So be careful. A little bit of a pullback coming IWM same thing at 158.37 up 22 cents. It's just kind of stuck in a range. But gold had a very good move. What is gold telling us? It's up 9 right now at 1472. If it can trade over 1485 by the end of tomorrow or by Monday, that'll say, hey, gold is back in play. It's back in that range. Remember the rectangle range we were looking at. And in the meantime, it's a little bit weak today. It's down 18 ticks at 98.18. But it's been holding quite well in this particular range. Crude oil is in this right. Crude oil right now is down 12 cents. Stay tuned. You've got Steve Rhodes coming up. You've got Dave White coming up. Then Tom O'Brien. Have a wonderful day. And we'll see you tomorrow.


So, we have an expression for the energy levels of a rigid rotor model that's been simplified by the definition of this rotational constant, which is a collection of fundamental constants and properties of the individual molecule that we're talking about. And that has given rise to this energy ladder with its different degenerate levels and different spacing between these energy levels. So, an interesting question is whether these energy levels are large or small compared to kT. So, we would like to know how does delta E between these energy levels compare to kT? And the reason that's interesting is because it tells us whether the energy levels are likely to be populated, whether there's many of the energy levels that are populated or whether only the lowest few of the energy levels are populated. And the reason that's true is because Boltzmann tells us the probability of occupying some state, the quantum number LM state, that's just 1 over a partition function, e to the minus energy of that state over kT. So it's these energies and kT that the ratio between these two that are important. In fact, since we know these states are degenerate, so the formula I've written down here is the probability of occupying a particular state, the LM state, maybe this state where the L equals 2, M equals negative 1 state, or this state that equals 2, M equals positive 1 state, any one of these individual states. More interesting is the probability not of occupying an individual state, but an entire energy level. What's the probability that I'm somewhere on this L equals 2 level without really caring which M quantum number I have, because they all have the same energy as each other, because they're degenerate. And that's going to be the probability of each one of these states is exactly the same. So the probability of the entire energy level is going to be the same as the probability for an individual state multiplied by the degeneracy of that energy level. And that makes sense because we don't usually think about different energies for the LM state. We think about an energy of an entire energy level. All we care about is the value of L, not the value of M, when we're computing these energies. We know what the degeneracy is, that's 2L plus 1. In fact, let me also write the energy, not as E sub L, but as the rotational constant times L times L plus 1, and then I still divide all that by kT. So now we can see that the quantity that tells us whether these energy levels are populated or not is this ratio of the rotational constant relative to kT, because that's what's up here with a small integer multiplying it in the exponent. So if that ratio, rotational constant divided by kT is a large number, then this E to the negative large number is going to be very small, and the energy levels won't be very populated. But if BE over kT is a small number, then E to the negative small number is not that small, and the energy levels might be well populated. So we're particularly interested in this quantity BE over kT. We know what Bayt E is, so the rotational constant is H squared over 8 pi squared mu R squared. If we divide that by kT, that's the ratio that we're interested in. And what we often do, we've already lumped a bunch of these constants and renamed them the rotational constant. We're going to do that yet one more time. What I'm going to do now is now that Boltzmann's constant has entered the chat, we're going to say let's define a whole new constant, and let's say let's let H squared over 8 pi squared mu R squared with the Boltzmann's constant. So I'm going to take all of these constants that I could know ahead of time before knowing what temperature I'm asking a question about, lump all those constants into one, give that thing a new name. We're going to call that capital theta with a sub rotational, and we're going to call that the rotational temperature. We'll see in just a second why that's a reasonable name for that quantity. So notice that most of those constants, H squared over 8 pi squared mu R squared, most of those were already present in the definition of B sub B. I've just divided by an extra k. So if you want, you can think of the rotational temperature as the rotational constant that we've already defined divided by one more factor of k. And once we do that, B E over kT just becomes theta rotational over T, because I've lumped everything in this circle into one constant. I just have theta rotational divided by T. And I can rewrite the probability 1 over q times the degeneracy times E to the minus theta rotational over T times L times L plus 1 that I haven't lumped into the constants. So I've simplified this expression up in the numerator a little further. Now it just looks like theta rotational over T. So to get an understanding of what this rotational temperature means and how it's different than the rotational constant, that is the number that we multiply some integers by to get the levels of these energy levels, let's calculate a value for a rotational temperature. We've already asked a few questions about carbon monoxide. So let's continue with carbon monoxide. If I say carbon monoxide has a rotational constant of what is the value for carbon monoxide? It's 3.82 times 10 to the minus 23 in units of joules. Then what is its rotational constant? That's relatively simple math. The rotational constant from the rotational temperature from the rotational constant I just divide by Boltzmann's constant. So take this quantity in units of joules divided by Boltzmann's constant, which is also about 10 to the minus 23 joules per Kelvin. That ratio, so 3.8 over 1.4, that works out to be a little smaller than 3. Specifically, it works out to be 2.77. And the units, joules will cancel one over one over Kelvin, leads me with units of Kelvin. So now you can see why we call it a rotational temperature, because the units on this quantity work out to be units of temperature. Anytime I divide an energy by Boltzmann's constant, I'm going to get units of temperature. It also illustrates the reason we prefer to talk about the rotational constant many times. I'm sorry, prefer to talk about the rotational temperature many times. When I give you the value of the rotational constant, 3.82 times 10 to the minus 23 joules, other than saying 10 to the minus 23 is a very small number, you don't get much of a sense of the scale of this, whether it's big or small compared to kT, whether it represents a lot of energy or a little bit of energy for something as small as a molecule. But when I tell you 2.77 Kelvin, you immediately have a sense of what that number means. Room temperatures, temperatures that we're used to dealing with are up in the hundreds of Kelvin, 300 Kelvin or so. So 2.77 Kelvin immediately sounds very cold. You have an immediate intuitive understanding that this number is quite cold compared to room temperature. So you know, without thinking about it too hard, that this rotational temperature is quite small compared to temperatures that you're likely to be studying in a chemistry class. So what does that mean if the rotational temperature is very small? That's the same thing as saying the gaps between these energy levels are very small compared to kT. If I just multiply both of these by a k, k times theta is equal to the rotational constant, which is similar to these differences in energies. And if I multiply by k on the right side, I get kT. So anytime the rotational temperature is small compared to room temperature, that means the gaps between these energy levels are equally small, comparably small, compared to the thermal energy that's available at room temperature. What that means is for molecules that are at this temperature and have this much thermal energy, they can access many, many of these energy levels. So that means many of these states are occupied. On the other hand, what if the opposite is true? What if theta rotational isn't much, much smaller than the temperature? Maybe it's bigger than the temperature or in the vicinity of the temperature. That means, likewise, the gaps between these energy levels are gonna be big or comparable to kT. So if kT represents the size of these gaps between the energy levels, then I can't climb many, many of these energy levels higher. Boltzmann tells me that's gonna be progressively less and less likely as I climb the ladder. So that means relatively few states are gonna be occupied. So what it's telling you when we see that the rotational temperature is a cold number, really what that means is room temperature is quite hot compared to the properties of this molecule. And therefore, because room temperature is hot compared to that number, we can access many, many of the states. So quite a few of these states are occupied. The other molecules under other conditions might work out a different way. So now that we've started talking about how many states are occupied, of how many of these states are effectively occupied under a given set of conditions, that's beginning to sound like partition function. Remember one of the meanings of the partition function is telling us how many states are occupied. So we've begun to relate the properties of this rigid rotor molecule to something that sounds close to a partition function. So a natural thing to do next would be to calculate the partition function for the rigid rotor. So that's what we'll do.


Welcome to another Tickle Charter for me country, when we want to revisit the dollar Swiss here on the 4-hour time frame, this nice bullish consolidation pattern, which flags scenario. We tested the equality objective versus this reaction, low reaction, high from 1 to 2, 18. Pretty much to the pit there, at 1,144 and this bullish reversal signal there. So what I'm looking for now is a close room, this descending trend line resistance, so somewhere over this 91-90 area, to set long positions, looking for an extension up to test weeping range resistance at the 93 level. As always Trogos, plan the TROY, TROY the plan that's important for managing risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


Hi, greetings everyone. My name is Philip Shedersky and I'll be presenting my undergraduate honors essay research with you today focused on Social service and health care interventions for the absolute homeless My research question is given the extent of the homelessness crisis our current health care and social service interventions Treating this population effectively and efficiently. So currently there are about 235,000 people homeless in Canada every year and 185,000 of those are considered to be absolute homeless. So living on the street and or in the shelter system This includes entire families, youth, single men, single mothers, the entire gambit of the population They often suffer physical and mental illness rates at much higher percentages than the non homeless population and are accessing the emergency department at hospitals to Gain services for their illnesses, which is extremely expensive and ineffective So I found two systemic influences on the homelessness crisis as we know it They're both around the 1970s and 80s. The first was the deregulation of the federal and National social housing strategy and the second was the de-institutionalization of large mental health facilities for those with severe mental illness So in response to this homelessness crisis There have been many different agencies and programs that have come about but my research focuses on Analyzing housing first and inner city health teams. Housing first is a strategy to housing that focuses on housing people right away With no preconditions and then giving them supportive services afterwards to help maintain their housing and inner city health teams focus on providing Primary health care of the same quality as someone that was non homeless would receive except directly in the shelter system or on the street So my analysis and program evaluation focused on assessing the potential for increased human and social capital for the absolute homeless that used all of the aforementioned services and Did this through two main variables the first is effectiveness which showed improved life outcomes in general Which took priority in my research as it showed the true human and social capital gain possible and an efficiency variable Which assessed the cost saved due to mitigated additional service use by the clients in each respective intervention and The overall results from the research showed that each of these programs Housing first with assertive community treatment or intensive case management and inner city health teams separately show significant potential to improve The human and social capital of the absolute homeless who use these interventions while concurrently saving Canadian taxpayers a lot of money in the process thus it warrants lots of further research into the usefulness of the programming and We should all take it upon ourselves to hopefully fulfill that mandate. So thank you very much everyone