Clearly, I believe technology has a huge role to play in helping disadvantaged people in all forms. There are several kinds of assistive technologies we can think about. Those helping with sensory skills, you know, how we see.  And then, you know, those with our mental skills and how we interact with people. In each of those areas, I see technology having immense potential and I see in particular of that. You know, we've seen lots of examples in the sensory case. Okay, where if you have, you know, you can't see properly. I just saw some great projects at Carnegie Mellon. You know, on the bread machine and things, how you teach and how you can make progress greatly. You're rather sharing and how can you automatically get sign language for any document to do. So clearly, there are technologies there in the areas of motor skills. Again, tremendous, you know, advances are taking place from prosthetics. You know, that can make people feel essentially natural and how they walk and take actions. You know, long term, you know, things can be connected to your brain and those signals directly. You know, so that people can function more appropriately.  I'm getting older. I always say, oh, I forget, you know, the person's name. And you can imagine there, you know, in all of those situations, you know, whether you're helping people remember things in case of Alzheimer's, you can help people live longer, more productive, healthier lives. Now, what are the challenges, you know, and what needs to get done to get these things out? The first, I think, is about awareness. That there is a lot of technology and capabilities that exist in how we get it out. You know, certainly as Microsoft and as a company, you know, it is high priority for us as our, you know, mainstream products of use worldwide that we make assistive capabilities in that as a foundational part of it. But making the awareness to the people who need it, okay, is fundamental. I think the second aspect is, you know, the investments that the governments themselves make in helping these technologies reach the people who need them. Okay, whether it be in schools and work environments, because unless we do that, the productive capability of these millions or hundreds of millions of people is not getting there. And finally, I think what is critical is about innovation. Okay, there is so much scope for innovation that is still possible on what we can do. You know, the professor who heard that I was talking to at MIT, you know, where he has these prosthetics that will allow people to walk. Very normally, you know, today the price might be $1,000. Tomorrow we can bring down the price to $100. You know, a few years later, you know, with scale, it might be tens of $20. So imagine the number of people that can be impacted.  I think we can bring back, both address new capabilities and bring down the cost so that it can be affordable for each and every person. So those are the three things that come to mind and are very important. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much.


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Hey, in the last show We were talking about refurb iPhones and listener Steve chimed in and he says I thought I would mention Backmarket.com. I've been using them for years and in fact, I just purchased iPhone SE for less than 300 bucks for the sole purpose of streaming music from Apple music to my outdoor Bluetooth speakers by the pool I thought it would be a helpful quick tip. Yeah, that is a quick I'd never heard a back market before John. I guess you said you said somebody mentioned that in our post-show chatter last week Is that right? They mentioned them and they also mentioned believe it or not Walmart Apparently has refurb the the only caution I would offer is that You know keep an eye on return policies and warranty and stuff like that when you buy from Apple You do get a warranty not as I think it typically one year Right with stuff from the refurb store Check these other guys because just because it says refurb. I don't think it's Apple refurb So you may not get all the benefits Great points.  I like it. Yep. Yeah, it's not the same Necessarily is buying. Yeah, just look at their policy. Yeah, I think back market had a pretty good policy as far as you know Returns and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm surprised. I'd never heard of them before. This is new to me I mean, it looks look I get one of my five new things. So it's great, but Yeah, interesting


Welcome. Thanks all for coming. I think this is the most attended AGM that we've had in quite a few years. I'm going to go, there's like, I don't know, 500 people in the room. It's awesome. So, yeah, I mean, what we did this year is we decided to hold it in the middle of the week rather than the end so that people weren't preparing to fly home instead. We'll try and keep this short and sweet since I was guessing a whole heap of you want to go into the PDNS. And I'll let Terry move on with the program. Thank you. Okay, I'm not sure how many of you have had a chance to read the copy of the minutes from the last meeting. I'm presuming some of you will have pre-read it. Next on the agenda is basically to confirm the minutes of the 2010 AGM. I think a show of hands is probably going to work. So the motion that the membership accept the minutes of the 2010 AGM is accurate. A show of hands for yes. All right. A show of hands for no. All right, that looks carried unanimously except for those that abstained. That's right. Yeah, it's more than a quorum, thanks. All right, so the next item is the 2010 office bearers reports. This time I'd like to call on John Felido for the president's report. Thanks. Thank you. So I sent an email to the Linux Auslist earlier today with a very, very, very long president's report. I will go through it very quickly. Jump in with questions. Let's leave questions to the end. So initially I wasn't president. Of course, as most of you will know, James Turnbull was originally elected as president and resigned in May-ish due to finding employment with puppet labs in Portland. So at that stage the council decided to move me into the president's role and then we appointed Josh to treasurer. So actually let me skip back a second. So yeah, it was late in December of 09. I approached James and a couple of others to see if we'd like to run for election to Linux Australia Council. We ran on a platform of all things of transparency, governance, mandate, leadership and advocacy community and trying to be cross-regional. I don't think we've met all of those goals, but we haven't done too bad a job. I think that we've covered a few events and tried to put some policies in place around those sorts of things. But I think there's a lot more that we'd like to achieve in the coming year. The council aimed to meet every fortnight, which we didn't do too badly on. We had 25 telephone conferences, two circular resolutions and we had two face-to-face meetings with the council where we all got all together in Sydney. I think one in May and one in August from memory. So LinuxConf 2011. I think I said a lot about how the council feels at the opening of the conference. The team this year have done an amazing job. It's been great working with the team over the last year. It's been pretty easy to work with. I'd like to thank Josh Hesketh, our treasurer. He was the liaison for the 2011 team and would basically give us most of the reports of the council meetings as to what they were up to. They've done an amazing job in moving the venue at such short notice. I think from being at the conference, you don't really notice that all that upheaval has happened. It just feels like an absolutely normal LCA. There's a foal that will even be making a profit this year, which is pretty amazing considering all the extra expenses. Now, Linux Australia also expanded the conferences that we support this year. We had a couple of requests from a couple of other smaller people that wanted to put conferences on, mainly coming to us for insurance. Due to some insurance stuff that we had later on, we sort of said to them, how about you run this as a Linux Australia conference. It provides you things like insurance and financial support and a lot of other admin tasks that they wouldn't have to deal with. PyCon AU 2010 was run in... Tim, when was PyCon? July. July? Yeah. That was a pretty good sense. I heard a lot of good stuff. There was a lot of good things on the Twitterverse about it. Thanks to Tim and the rest of the team. Neil, Davenport and Richard Jones. They did a pretty amazing job. From the council's point of view, we sort of gave them a bank account and they just ran with it and did an excellent job. They'll be running the conference again in 2011 and they'll be a new team in 2012. They are doing a schedule of running the conference two years in a row and all the teams that take that on will run that two years in a row in the same city just aiming to get some economies of scale. We're trying to do that with all the other conferences as well, where it makes sense. The conference that just ran before LCA was dribbled down under 2011. Pete was the liaison for that, so I'm not sure... Who ran it, Pete? Pete. And that went pretty well. I wasn't there. And from our point of view, I think that went even easier than PyCon. We hardly knew what was happening. Magic just happened. So yeah, thanks very much to them for running that conference. We had a couple of submissions early in the year. We went and did site visits in October and we'll have an announcement on who won the 2012 process at the end of Flinks ConfairU on Friday at the closing. We've kicked off the start of a media subcommittee this year. We're also kicking off a sponsor subcommittee. That was around us trying to... I do stuff in terms of Linux Australia so that we can get some sponsorship work out there and some media work out there, but more importantly for conferences and other subcommittees to pull some of the work back. Currently for most of the conferences that we run, there's a lot of duplication from year to year and not enough knowledge transfer. So we've been doing some work to try and pull a lot of that work back into Linux Australia so that the conference organisers can concentrate on the important stuff about running the conference, which is the venue, the vibe, making sure things run smoothly and not have to worry so much about the more administrative bits. Same sort of thing with the ZooKeeper subcommittee. Now with 2011, this is the fifth conference, I think, that's used ZooKeeper and knowing who's got the bid next year, they're most likely to use ZooKeeper as well, which from previous to 2007, the conference management system changed every one to two years. So I think it's a good investment that we've made there and having the hack fest every year and getting those improvements into ZooKeeper. And hopefully some of the other conferences will start taking that up. It's a fully open source project up on Launchpad and we've had a little bit of interest from some other conferences there as well. The Linux Australia membership survey. That was James Turnbull's baby and he kicked that off before he left. We've not done a good job of following through on that. Why finally got all the stats together for that done last week and I'll be putting it up either tonight or tomorrow. We're basically putting up the raw stats, the whole of the CSV files and hoping that community will take that away and do some analysis. It's very raw data, just percentages for the answers to each questions plus anonymized comments. If you look at the data and you want something more specific, like, you know, what percentage of people that are Linux also use Red Hat or something like that, then if we don't think it's a major privacy issue, we can run some manual queries and get that data to you. Linux did fill in the survey three times. It's quite impressive. That was the membership survey. We also did some work with the Australian Treasury Department this year. They launched a project called Standard Business Reporting, the SBR, which is a way for businesses to interact with government in an electronic basis, for example, filing your BAS, filing an employment declaration. Part of that project is also, I think, called Auskey, which is what businesses now use to authenticate with the ATO to file their BAS. There was a bit of press earlier on in the year how there wasn't any Linux or open source support. We did some work with them. I actually flew down to Canberra to do some testing for the Auskey stuff. That got released early November, so we've now got Auskey support for Linux. I've seen some other people get it working on other distros pretty easily. I'm working with them on getting a C version of the SBR API. It probably won't be open sourced initially, but we're working towards that process. I mentioned earlier that we did some conferences. We're also supporting some other conferences later on in the year. We've got WordCamp 2011 in about five or six weeks that we're supporting. We now run four conferences, Linux.com for you, WordCamp, PyQuin.au and Drip or Down Under. As we make sense, we'll probably do some others as we go forward. A lot of work was done in terms of banking, financials and insurance at the start of the year. We moved to an online accounting system, 0.com, which Josh will talk a little bit about later. That's massively streamlined how we do all the financial stuff and has made a lot of that process a lot easier. We also did a lot of cleanup on the bank accounts. Working with Westpac has been interesting, as Terry no doubt knows from having to do it in past years. We think we know who all the signatories are on the account and have convinced the bank that those are the only signatories and that people like Pierre can't walk into the bank and take all the money out. We thought that too. Yes. We've also simplified the process in which we can give people access to the bank account. In terms of running the conferences and some of the subcommittees, it's now really easy for us to set up a new community account which doesn't cost us anything and say to the conference organisers, here's your bank account, here's your login to zero, do all the financials, do all your expense claims and then finish off the conference and it's much easier for us to do reporting. I did a lot of work on insurance at the start of the year. We found that we had a couple of gaps in what we were insured for. We've now got volunteers insurance, so all the volunteers at conferences and various events that we run are insured because of the distinction between volunteers and employees and we don't have any employees. So that was fairly important. We've got the standard business insurance, PLMPI, as well as some association insurance which protects the council members in case someone decides to sue us for some crazy reason. We looked at invent insurance and in hindsight, it may have been a wise decision to take event insurance, so we'll be looking at that a little bit more closely in the next couple of weeks. General admin stuff, I'll skip. We closed down the storage set in Tasmania and did some stuff with it, left over Schwag for Software Freedom Day. We've done a lot of policy work. We haven't released much of it yet. Most of it's still in a draft stage. We've been working on stuff like an expenses policy, diversity policy, harassment policy along with some thanks to Valorora helped out with that. We've also put some documentation in place around the Linux Conf.AU bid process. The financial accounts, lugs of subcommittees and conferences of subcommittees. We're trying to put some more documentation in place so we've got more knowledge transfer as well as... We're trying to aim to do that with the conferences as well, so we've got more knowledge transfer between Linux Conf.AU events. In very exciting news, we now own Linux.Conf.AU. You probably will have seen there was an AUDA process to decide what to do with the Conf.AU domain. In, I think, December, if November-ish, they came out with a report saying that they only can the domains. We...there was a public consultation form that you could go and fill on the web. We encouraged people to do that. The final report came down saying that they were getting rid of the domain, but they were going to grandfatherlinux.conf.AU to us that we've got a perpetuity. That's still in process. It's not finalised yet, but we definitely should get that. I'd like to definitely thank Steve Walsh for that. He's put in a lot of work over the last couple of years, A, with that process through AUDA and petitioning them to get that stuff done, and B, just going through the pain that it is every year to get that domain organised. Thanks, Steve. Linux User Groups. Linux Australia tries to do what it can to support the user groups. Alex Boxall, I'd like to thank, she was the Lugcoms liaison during the year and attended the Lugcoms monthly meetings to see what the user groups were doing, what they were after, and if we could help them with anything. As part of that, we're now offering some resources to user groups. Lugs that don't have the resources to set up their own infrastructure can come to us and we'll give them a subdomain, a wiki, a website, and a mailing list and DNS or any of the above. We're also doing some policy work around Lugs being able to become subcommittees of Linux Australia. So similar to how the conference is run, it would mean that a Lug exists as part of Linux Australia, which means we can give them insurance and can give them a bank account and do their bays and all that sort of stuff, so that's still in process and we've had a little bit of interest from some of the Lugs in doing that because it saves them some money. The grant scheme. Every year, Linux Australia budgets about $20,000 in terms of grants. I don't think we've ever come anywhere close to reaching that budget. We don't tend to get a lot of grants. This year we gave grants to a store at the Sydney Education Expo, Software Freedom Day in Canberra, Software Freedom Day in Melbourne. The paper by Brendan Scott on... I can't remember, but it's in... Trade Practices Act applying to licensing. Thanks, Michael. And we sponsored the Libra Graphics Meeting in Brussels. Thank you, Donna. We sponsored them, I think, on the basis that they would try and get an Australian out there. And they did get... They flew out Andy? Yeah. Yeah, they flew out Andy for Simmons. So, yeah, if you have any ideas about what we could be doing in terms of the grant scheme or have some ideas for a grants please go onto the website and check out the program and apply because we just don't end up filling the budget every year. And that's part of what the profits that we get from the conferences is supposed to go towards. As I mentioned, we have the Sydney Education Expo, Patrick Elliott-Branden did an excellent job of running that. We had some support there from LPC Australia. They sponsored part of the stand as well as being on the stand with us thanks to Shridha from LPC Australia for that assistance. Software Freedom Day was in September as usual and we had a couple of teams around Australia participating and in particular the Canberra and Melbourne teams received sponsorship. We also gave teams that requested it, which was in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. We gave leftover swag from Tasmania which was a whole heap of tusses and playing cards and stuff to give out on the day. It was costing us more in storage every month than was worth to keep the stuff. In closing, I'd like to thank the other council members. They've done a great job in supporting me throughout the year. They put in a lot of work. It's a lot more work than you expect it to be when you get onto the council but it's fun and it's very satisfying. I'd also like to support the volunteers, especially the volunteers at LCA. They do an amazing job and all the other conferences and the organisers of those conferences who put in a lot of their free time to make those open source conferences work. Lastly, I'd just like to give the LCA team another big round of applause. I think it's been an amazing conference and unbelievable circumstances. I'd now like to call on Joshua Hesketh to present the Treasurer's Report. Thanks, Terry. This is more of a summary than a Treasurer's Report. I'm just going to explain where Linux Chatter is with their finances and what was done in the past year. As John said, I joined the council halfway through officially in June but I was involved a bit before then. By this point, John had already done a lot of transition into new software, as he had mentioned, into Xero, which has been an excellent tool for us to use. It's allowed us to do a lot more as a council because it's taken away a lot of headaches in our operations. As John already touched on, this allowed us to give events and subcommittees access to their finances so they can make payments and do the invoicing and reconciling and everything themselves. So that's less weight on my shoulders, which is always nice. And it also meant that they could get payments as they need them, reimbursements and things like that were really quick. For example, I don't think anyone was ever waiting for more than 48 hours to have a reimbursement, which previously anyone who's volunteered to be involved in Linux Australia or a council will attest to the financial burden sometimes asked by volunteers in terms of reimbursements. So I think that's very important because it means that we can be more active as a community in that regard. So another thing to relieve some of the pressure on the council for this year and future years we're hoping is that we have contracted an accountant. And this is partly the reason why I'm not presenting the Charter Support at the moment because the accountants are still going through and fixing up last year's finance. And as you can imagine, it is only one month into the new year so they have no much time to do that. I believe they're working on Monday just past so we're hoping it's not too far away. Additionally, as of I think July, it's now mandatory for us as an association in New South Wales to have an official audit. And accountants means that they can tidy up our accounts and liais and assist with that in addition to filing our BAS statements and taking care of the official documentation that otherwise provides quite a headache for the council. So that explains primarily why we don't have a Treasurer's Report at the moment. What this means is that in the next month or two, hopefully not any longer, we'll present an official report for the Treasurer's position and we will call a special general meeting at some point to approve that and we're hoping that there will only be one item on that agenda. So I'll show now if I may use John's laptop. I'll show now some of the reports that we have from... How's this work? The mouse a little bit. There it is. Can you open job boxes? So what I'll do is I'll show the reports from last year that we have. They are likely to change a little bit, hopefully not too much. As a result of moving into new financial software, it does mean that it's difficult for us to compare amounts or cash flow profit and loss from 2010 to previous years. So the profit and loss becomes more an indication of a balance or cash flow, which you'll see in a minute. Preliminary reports, please. Where did it go? Council. Did it not sink, maybe? Possibly. It will be on my laptop if it's not... Is it not in financials? 2010, there we go. And then preliminary reports. So let's just start with a balance sheet. If you can put that on the table. So here you can see our balance sheet. So this is of December 31st, end of last year. It's basically just a summary of our assets as per bank accounts. Is that readable? Very well. Can we zoom in a little bit? That's a good question. Excellent. So it should give an indication of where we stand financially. So from... I think the bottom line is about 338 once John scrolls down. Because we have a few outstanding liabilities that are being taken care of. This is not a very good figure because in January we've run Drupal Down Under and Linux Conf clearly. Their major expenses have been this month and so that's taken a huge difference in that number. So this number is for last year, but it is quite different already. I believe it would be more around 280. Clearly we're only, you know, 26 days in. We haven't reconciled that amount yet. So that's where we stand in terms of balances. Could we have a look at the cash flow, please? One or two. The first one, that one. So this is a cash flow for all of... Oh, this is just LCA 2011 as opposed to all of Linux Australia. So the beauty of using zero means that we can generate cash flows for our subcommittees. I'm only going to show you LCA and our LA finances today. There's not a lot to look at. You can see that registrations open this September. It's where we start getting cash flow. Actually it must be October where we start getting cash flow for confidence registrations. And leading up to there we've had cash flow for sponsorship. If you look at our expenses, you can see where money is going. Merchant Dyson Swag are big ones, but there's clearly some other really big ones that are missing, such as the venue, which would probably be one of the bigger expenses, and other expenses that will be incurred this month. So again, this summary is a little bit preliminary in that sense. Can we move to the next cash flow, please? Next one? So next cash flow will be a summary of all of Linux Australia's expenses, which is inclusive of LCA. So you can see again where the sales came in in October for LCA. We started having more money, which was nice. But you can also see where PICON's registrations came in. There's an overlapping registrations here for DRIPPER Down Under as well, which also explains some of the extra sponsorship money. Again, they experienced expenses in January, so this is yet to all change. What I'll do is I will show a summary of 2010s accounts that Andrew Ruthven put together for us. Because this is mostly finalised now, however, we only have the report up to July, and Andrew hopes to publish something more final very soon. This just gives you an idea of where money goes. Leave a cross. This just gives you an idea of where money goes in running Linux Australia. And that's gone because of having fun there. Unmaximise it. Okay. There we go. In also 2010, Andrew and his team took the opportunity to reconcile some of the outstanding tax bills that Linux Australia had due to difficulties with managing money in New Zealand. So I think Andrew deserves a lot of thanks for his work he put in there, and we're certainly very thankful for it. So you can read where the money went yourselves. We imagine that the categories that the money's gone into will be similar this year for 2011, so that will give you an idea of where it will be when we publish those reports. You probably won't see a good summary of 2011 until next year though. That's sort of the way it will have to go. The interesting thing is that we've left about $10,000. I'm not sure there's that figure at the moment. That's $10,000 in New Zealand dollars. In New Zealand, in an ANZ account, that Andrew is managing for us, so thanks to him again for that. And that money allows us to reimburse people who are involved in our membership in New Zealand. So when we fly people over for ghosts or zookeeper hackfests, we don't have to worry about dealing with international currencies. It saves us a couple of hundred dollars a year in transfer fees and exchange rate fees and stuff. So that's just another thing that we've set up this year that will hopefully facilitate managing links to Australia easier. Can we have a look at the last document, please? Profit and loss. Okay, so this is a profit and loss, but as I said, because of the new financial software, it doesn't compare it to previous years. However, it does give us an indication of the balances between the different conferences we have ran, which is a little bit interesting. So you can see Drew put down under turned over a profit of $33, which is in December, remember. They've experienced their largest bills this month, and I believe they're probably looking at a profit of $8,000, which for a conference of 160 people that only just started is quite excellent. So we are hoping that this year we can put some of this money back into the Drupal community in that regard. It's the same sense of pike on that figure is quite high. That's just income. If you go down, sorry, the bottom line, Drupal though is still about the same. That's why I was confused, because the expenses have only just come in, but you can see here, a pike on turned a profit of $7,000. So again, that will go into running the next year's Python conference, and so this year's Python conference, and the Python community, we're hoping. And you can also see where we're tracking for LCA, but again, a lot of expenses have come through. I'm not sure what we're expecting in a profit for this year. Given the situation they're in, it's quite difficult to predict. So we can see that Linux Australia has clearly spent a lot more money than they've earned. The only real money that Linux Australia earns is on interest on their accounts, which is fine. We're supported by the conferences. But it gives you an idea of how the conferences support Linux Australia. And I think that's important to note that by coming to these conferences, the community just make Linux Australia who in turn give it back through things like Software Freedom Day and that sort of thing. So I think that's all the reports I have to show for now. These are very preliminary. So I'll have something better in a month or two once we have accountants review everything for us. And we'll have to call an SGM then. So finally, I would just like to thank the treasurers of all the subcommittees who have been involved. Because as I said, giving them access to zero means they can manage a lot of this themselves. So there's a lot less weight in my shoulders. And it means that my role is more making sure they're okay and helping them in that process, which I have been documenting. So I have drafted a subcommittee policy and a financial guide policy that we will be reviewing as a council and amending and hopefully have some good documentation in place. We have a finalised expense policy that's available on the Council Wiki if anyone wants to look into that. And the only other point I'd like to make is that the 2012 team in Perth already... I mean, the 2012 team already have their money in their account. So I think this is the first time that any LCA team has gotten money in the year before the conference. So the year before the current conference, that is. Which I think is great. So thank you. Thanks, guys. The next item on the agenda was the presentation of financials. I think Josh has more than adequately explained why that won't be happening. So that brings us to the next item, which is endorsement of the... Well spotted. All right, yes, let's do that. All right, in that case, I'd like to put the motion that the reports be accepted. Correct. No, the President's was the only one... The President's was the only one presented. So I'd like to put the motion that the President's report be accepted. Show of hands for aye. Show of hands for noes. All right, carried unanimously. Thanks, John. That was a good point. The next item is the endorsement of the committee activities. Now, this is basically a vote of confidence in the activities of the committee and the strategic direction they've set and the activities that they've done in the past. I'd like to put the motion that the membership endorses the action of the 2010 Linux Australia Council. Show of hands for aye. Show of hands for noes. All right, yet again unanimous. Given that the agenda item six is the announcement of the results of the 2011 LA Council election, I'd like to suggest a round of applause for the 2010 Council or for the outgoing 2010 Council. It is hard work. They do it because they know why they do it, but there's no denying the level of effort involved. So it's always good to recognise it. I'd like to call on Stuart Smith as the returning officer to give us the announcement of the results for the 2011 LA Council election. And having written the election software, I assert it is free from bugs. There's one in the ECQ right now. Of course there is. Okay, this is a couple, but it works. So it seems to all gone smoothly again. Anyone who can actually design websites is welcome to make it pretty. I intentionally sock at it. So we have election results here. There are 73 members who voted in the election, which is on par for what it usually is. So it's a fairly decent turnout. If the case people don't know, voting is preferential. People can be elected to one position. And not more than one. People can stand from multiple positions and there is a position in the ordering committee members, which more than one person can be elected to. Therefore the code to computer is fun. Yeah, 50 bucks per person who can construct a single SQL query to compute that. Seriously. Cool. So president, surprisingly enough, the one person standing for president was elected, which was John. I assumed everyone had voted in the election. An overwhelming majority. These will all be visible on the website later. So, yeah, we have no idea what the organization would do if that was the other way around. So there's some great, let's hope that never happens in the whole algorithms. Yeah, Patch is welcome. Vice president, we had again, surprisingly the one person who stood for the position was elected. Congratulations, Alex. I'm not sure if that's an appropriate request. Funnily enough, the one person standing for secretary so a glutton for punishment usually. As I referred to it back in the day, Peter, congratulations. Another glutton for punishment. Massacism, as I referred to the position. Today, Treasurer, Josh, congratulations or commiserations, depending which way you want to put it. And we have the interesting position, which there was actually some competition around. So I won't ask for drum roll. You had that at the speakers, didn't you? Pardon? Who was standing? We had left here at the start, Mary, Michael, Kelly, Elspeth and James Assefi. And at the end, drum roll. Come on. I'm just going to let you do that until your hands hurt. Congratulations, Mary Gardner, Michael Carden and Kelly Yeo. So yes, congratulations all or commiserations as you'll find out it's a whole bunch of work. So I asked that everyone else who did not stand or did not elected do the brilliant thing of to help out where possible. You do not have to be elected to a position to do stuff for the organization. In fact, not being elected is an excellent way to actually be able to do things. So it's interesting the way it goes around of all the formal things to the organization. So that's my strong encouragement as a past president as well. So thank you and good luck with the coming year. New council. Okay, now we're up to general business. I guess to kick off, are there any questions? Does anybody have any questions they'd like to put to council? And the only thing I wanted to thank Elspeth who's an outgoing member of the council for her work throughout the year was much appreciated. Thank you. And I'll raise one quick bit of business which is the LCA 2013 bid process. We now have two competing teams putting in bids. We have the Canberra team who we've seen blogging and making it very obvious that they're putting in a bid. And earlier this evening this afternoon I saw a bid on Twitter from the Antarctic team. Does Pia know about that bid? No. It's just me and Poe. So I highly encourage... Is anyone thinking of putting in a bid apart from those locations? Yes, Sydney? Newcastle. Newcastle, okay, potential Newcastle bid. So if anyone's thinking of in Newcastle... Have a chat. Anyone else? Who have which? Okay, Antarctic is waiting until 2014. They were intimidated by the Canberra bid? Right, okay. And I have heard rumours of... I have heard rumours of a Sydney bid, but... I don't want to say they're in the head of a penguin. Okay, I'll be a runner. Does this mic work? Okay, running. Any questions? Mr. Steele has a question. Two questions. As a member of the mirror subcommittee... Yes. Has any consideration been given to these other events that we sponsor encouraging them if they have video to provide it to the mirror? No, but that's an excellent idea. Can you please do that? Yes. I'd be cool with it being a condition of funding or something. No, I think that's a great idea. I think... So one of the things that's happening at the moment is I think most of our subcommittees are sort of working in isolation and we don't have any... I mean, we've never sent us a report. We've got no reporting or anything like that. That's because we don't do anything, but it's okay. Yeah, exactly. That's my second question. Now, the hardware is aging. Is there any plan to do a hardware refresh of the various L.A. services? There is. Can you send through a list of what you would require? Because we're actually looking at the hardware sponsorship at the moment. Cool. Yeah, not a problem. Yeah, the subcommittees do a report every year. I'm going to... Yeah, no, we haven't. Yeah, we do have... There was another mic floating around somewhere. I have a 10-second one. Give me a second. More following and communication with the teams. One thing that came up post-OSDC last year and I'm trying to follow up with both OSD and Linux Strayer and I kind of got distracted by doing LCA 2009 video in 2011 is having somewhat more... for network specifically, actually having infrastructure that we can just roll up to the conference as plug-in to uplink and have a conference network that doesn't require Steve, James, myself, any other dozen people who've probably done it to not sleep for three straight days. Yeah, yeah, no, I totally agree. So one of the things that we're doing... I almost said the name of the people that won the bid. One of the things we're doing with the next bid team is encouraging them to use a Linux Australia wiki and a Linux Australia server and a Linux Australia zookeeper instance so that... We've had a problem where for the last... Since I've been involved in 2007, while there's always a really good intention to pass on knowledge and wikis from team to team to team, by the time the teams finish the conference they just don't have the energy and the wikis just never get passed on. So we're going to try and fix that by moving...  So yeah, any work you're interested in doing on that as I said earlier, talk to Steve. As I recover from the conference and actually get to build a prototype I will be grabbing James and Steve Welsh and other people as we happen to be in similar cities and actually trying to nut this out in a way that hopefully... I'm actually not planning something that will work as such for LCA but for all the other conferences and it might help LCA. So we have been shipping APs around to Dribble Down Under and OSTC and other places and it seems to have worked okay but more documentation the better. Before James, Josh you had a response to something? Yeah, it's a bit of a response to both of those things. In terms of admin team and that sort of thing is that the subcommittee policy that I've written there's actually... I've written two policies it covers subcommittees and teams which would include admin team and I'd like to encourage Julian and Co to form a networking team under this policy that I've written. That would be cool. And things such as network upgrades, so new networking equipment and server upgrades and things like that. There are ways in this policy to deal with expenses like that and liaising towards the council. And the other thing that I think Pia mentioned or somebody on reporting is that part of the new policies that I've written will require these teams to report on a regular basis, whether it be fortnightly for LinuxConf or once a year for the mirror team or that sort of thing. James? Sort of following on from that LCA has a bunch of equipment that has been bought for this year to deal with certain things like AV and other bits and pieces like that that we fully intend and will ensure is passed on to the next year and is used. I mean that equipment's actually been well apart from where is the ship that has the Wellington equipment right now pass on of equipment from year to year's been fairly good. So do we know where that is yet? It's in Sydney still on a ship. Run faster Pia. In light of the new auditing obligations. Yes. Has any consideration been given to moving the financial year so that this port could be submitted at the AGM? Yes. We have thought about that. I think we're in a bit of a mess and this year in terms of it being the first year that we've used zero. I think in future years and if reconciliation is done in December I think there's probably enough time to do an audit before the AGM but yeah I'm going to I think I'll sit down with Josh and we'll think about that because it is tight. I mean you know the financial year ends in December I mean like the third or fourth week of February sorry of January and the other thing with it having it on that sort of ratio it means that at the AGM we want to report on LCA like you know this year we want to report on LCA 2011 but you can't because it's like halfway through whereas if it was a month or two later most of the expenses get tidied up and you can give an accurate report so yeah I think we might have a think of it and potentially vote on it at the SGM where we provide the documentation. If I remember correctly from reading through the new association's legislation a couple of weeks ago there's actually a requirement that the audited report be presented at the AGM obviously couldn't do it this year because the new legislation's only just come in and we haven't had time to adjust but I think we need to make sure that does happen as a legislative requirement in future. Yes, absolutely and Josh gave the Fair Trading Association a couple of calls we might give them another call and say do we need to rename this to an SGM and call the other one an AGM or do they care or not care and yeah we'll sort that out. Anyone else? Any other questions? In the middle? I'm Al Oster, I'm on a committee of a Logue and I'm just wondering Lokes can sometimes run themselves, own infrastructure, sometimes they can't that's been addressed but the question I have is things that aren't necessarily just a Logue activity, like maybe Software Freedom Day, is there any proposals for that to be partially coordinated by the council on a national basis? Are you volunteering to do that? No, but I think... So as with most things, that's a great idea but it comes down to someone having the time to do the coordination and sit down. I mean, Pia did a great job with that when she was president of Linux in...what was...what were you president? Software Freedom International but it's a time thing. I mean, one of the interesting things about our community is the people like myself and the rest of the people on the committee that stand up and say we're going to do this are usually the busiest people in our community so anyone that's prepared to say hey I think that's a great idea step up and we're going to do it and go for it and we'll fully support that in terms of funding and whatever's required. In the absence of someone putting themselves forward for that would you be able to poll the membership of Linux Australia and ask them is Software Freedom Day important enough that you would want to see Linux Australia funds going towards coordinating that? Yes, that's possibly an option. Thanks. Any other questions? Donna? Michael? Sorry to be a serial offender. Yes. So it seems like LA has a lot of physical assets now. We've got container ships floating around with stuff. How much money are we talking about? Is it time to start talking about asset tracking or is that just like too only retentive? In terms of what I know roughly exists in terms of what's on a ship somewhere in the Tasman or if that's right it's like five or six tubs worth of stuff. There's some semi-expensive things we've been given like sponsorship, like there's an A1 printer and some other things. It probably would be good to have a list of assets and I think we can we do that in zero? I think there's an asset to a degree. Yeah, yeah. So a lot of stuff we're leasing and yes, you're right and we probably should do that but it's like it's a small enough list of things to fit on a wiki page. As someone who's inventoryed pretty much the complete XLCA assets at least probably three times in and around LCA08 it is wiki page material having the list in one place or at least a place for location because some of that information is incredibly pain in the ass to deal with it sometimes and knowing certainly the ability for someone to know I've got five streams but it turns out that if we want to do video like 2008 did we've only got four sets of gear that still works that sort of thing or we need to go and buy something so that wiki page should be enough and should cover most things and is probably needed. There's also a couple of oddball cases like I have in my house the what remains of the entire video assets of LCA 2008 and 2009 which will eventually make it back to the LA storage with the same fact that was sitting in Steve Walsh's house for a year and while it's true the LA committee almost certainly know where it is and know where we live it's somewhat sub-ideal. From an LCA point of view just helped to organize one it's very important to know what the hell we have and it's been hard to get that information when we needed it so we were trying to work out exactly what was where in terms of networking equipment, printers, APs whatever and just getting that sort of stuff has been harder than we would have liked is that we will see what we can do seems to be hearing volunteers yes so as I heard someone say earlier in the conference well volunteered James Paul yes following on from this morning's keynote talk I note having just tried it that linux.org.au doesn't have an IP version 6 name what's the state of the linux.org are you IP version 6 readiness hang on there's Mike due to a configuration error at the hosting facility we did in fact have IPv6 connectivity about a month or two ago for the period of about a week so being worked on I think is the answer to that I will hassle the admin team about IPv6 any other James I was wanting to ask going on from your question earlier about infrastructure and so forth is it worthwhile linux Australia moving away from physical infrastructure where it is saying and instead using things like not cloud computing virtual machines and so forth where we don't have to deal with the hardware as much that has been raised and the admin team to discuss that I don't know what the outcome was the point came up concerning things like the LCAVM dying in rather horrid ways that were very suboptimal things like that I would prefer if it was someone's problem other than linux Australia any other questions no one well what I'd love to encourage if people can think about the sorts of things and I think we've got a little bit of feedback from this out of the survey which hopefully we'll have out by the end of the week but if people can start thinking about we've got a pretty good turnout here so hopefully there's people here that care about what linux Australia is and does if you can think about what you want linux Australia to do it feels a little bit like we're starting to concentrate on running open source conferences I think I'd like to see us doing more than that if you have ideas of what a great idea for something that we could do that we shouldn't be doing more than happy to support and put funding behind that ignoring this year LCAVM usually makes a pretty good profit and we can put that money towards supporting the community that's sort of the whole point I'll hand back over to Terry to close the AGM thanks I declare the linux Australia 2011 AGM closed thank you everybody


Okay, now we test the example with the one interrupt and now we can test the hands-on with the multiple interrupts. But we have only one button, then don't worry, I will show you how it will override these settings and we use the more buttons, the more inputs. Then I will start the new project and our goal will be here to use the two inputs with the interrupts. One input we turn, for example the button will turn the LED on and the second button will turn the LED off. And here I select again the F4, the line F401. The package will be LQFP64 and I have the 512kb device, it's the SteamCity to F401 RET. This one, click on OK. Now, like in the previous case, I will mark the LED, which is the PA5, as you know. I will set it as an output. Then I will use the PC13 again as an input with the interrupt, which will be here, the XTS13. And then I select the additional input. In my case, I don't have any other buttons. Then I will do the trick, I will select one Unconnect pin. For example here I will use the PA0. In your case you can use, for example, the different pin, if you want. But I will use the PA0 because I know that this pin is unconnected. You can also use the wire, which can be connected to the 5V or 3.3V or 0V. But I will use this pin, I will set it also as an XT. Then I have two XT pins and one LED. One pin will turn the LED on, second pin will turn the LED off. This is OK. Now I will go to the clock configuration, it's not necessary to change anything. And I will here go to the configuration, I look into the details. I look on the PA0, it will be on the rising catch, because I don't have any pull up or pull down and I don't want to use even the cable, for example, which will connect the pin with the 3.0 or ground. I don't care about rising or falling catch. This I will explain you a little bit later. But the PC13, I need again to change to the extra interrupt mode with falling catch. PA5, it's OK. Now again I need to check the XT. Today I will not use the delay, then I can left here the pension parity is on 0. But here I need to enable the XT0 and XT1. Please don't forget to enable the interrupts in the NVIC, otherwise the interrupt will not work. Never. OK. I can save my project, I will name it XT2. And today now I will use the IR, for example, it's the IDE. Now I can look into my main.c. You can see initialization is still the same, HL init, system.config in the GPO init. We can find all our pins and also all our two interrupt vectors. And also I can find here, here for be not only XT 10 to 15, but also XT XT to 0. Both handled with the HL EERQ handler. And for bow, I need now create my callback, like before, I will use the drivers, I will use the GPO and I will simply search for the underscore, underscore week, I will copy this complication function without week, of course, and I put it here into above my main, in my case. And now I have only one callback, but I have multiple interrupts. Then how to discover which interrupts trigger this callback, then for this I have here one input parameter, which is the pin, which triggers this interrupt. And I here put here the if, and I here put the check. If this pin was pin underscore 0, if this pin was 0, then for HL GPO underscore right pin, IOA, I have the lat, GPIO underscore pin underscore 5, and the state is GPIO pin underscore set to switch the pin off, and I detect the edge on the pin 0, and if this GPIO pin is equal to GPIO pin underscore 13, then HL underscore GPIO underscore right pin, GPIO to turn the pin on. Okay, I can try to compile my code. What this will do, when I have the callback from the interrupt on the pin 0, I switch the lat off, when I detect that this source of this callback is pin 13, I switch this pin on. Okay, maybe you are asking what, why if this pin, which triggers this callback is on the front port, on the XT periphery, you can have only the sources for the interrupts for pin 0 to pin 13, but you need to select which part will be the source. You cannot have the PA0 and PB0, but you can have the PA0 and PB1. This is allowed, but you cannot have two pin 0s on the different part as the source of the external interrupt. And don't be careful on this. Okay, I have everything, I can run my debug, okay, I can run the code here with this button or F5. I can press the button and let this blink. Now how to turn off the lat. I can slide over the pins on the, on the, on my nuclear, on the left side, and because this pin is floating, we talk about it, that is very dangerous to let the pin floating. Then if I slide over all these pins on the left header, I will charge the pin or discharge the pin, the pin how, how charged I am, and I will create the nurse on the pin and I change the state of the pin and I create the, the rising or the falling gauge. This is a reason why you need always to set this unconnected pin as the, as the analog, or connect these pins to the ground or VDD, because all the pins which are left unconnected can detect the change of this, of these pins, in my case that I slide over these pins. In the low power application, this way, this will rapidly increase the consumption of complete application. In case that you target the micro arms, this, the floating pin, which is left, left unconnected will be a huge emote of the current, because the internal structure of the pin is still working and everything is detected, even the noise. And be careful on this, please do not try this on the, on the, on the carpet, which charge you with, with very, very high, high, very high charge. Okay, then this is the, how to handle two pin interrupts. In case that you want to use the three, you only here put the more, more ifs and you handle the additional pin. This is everything from this part.


user data for testing out scripts and doing tutorials and populating databases for testing purposes and I've done that by taking real voter registration and shuffling up the names and Addresses and whatnot, but there's a lot of projects out there, but I came across this one the other day I really like it. It's called the web website is random user dot me and it's a free and open-source API for generating random user data And I came across this because I was looking for user images, but it gives you a lot more than that So you can see here here's a website and shows a some user information here I can see all this girl's information again It's not real if I refresh the page it should give me somebody else with other fake information And you can see if we go to photos here, you know, just Randomly I don't say generated images, but it randomly selected from their list of images Some images to display and if I refresh the page it's going to give me different images and I can do that and It's super simple. So how does it work? Let's go up to their documentation and just click on How to use and right here it just it shows you some JavaScript here for doing doing a Ajax request in the background, but all I really need is this URL right here, which is Random user dot me for it slash API if I put that in my browser right here. I hit enter It's going to give me a random user's worth of information Web browser doesn't format very well right here But if we look here, this is an example of what we'd get and each time I call that URL it will give me Different information, but it will tell you For results the agenda it will give you a title a first and last name it will generate a address for you with a city in a state and a postal code and Latitude and longitude time zones it will generate a fake email address Obviously, it's not a real email address that you can use this is all for again when you're testing software You need to see what it's like using real user data, but you don't necessarily have the user data You can generate fake user data like this You know it give you a user name will generate a password that person with a salt and a hash and you know a date of birth So you don't have to you can generate all this stuff yourself with a script But it's super simple this way and you get those images which are real images that people have submitted so again Super simple to just get one user bit of information here, but if we read down a little bit further You can see you can also request a certain number of results right here. They're listing 5000 Let's just do 50. So again, it's just random user dot me API Question mark and then you give it results and the number of results you want I can do five I can do 50 I could do 500 and not only is it giving me again that user information But it's also giving me a link to an image a large image, which still isn't a very high resolution You know, it's just basically for applications a medium and a thumbnail, which is even smaller And you can link to those directly as well There's other things you can do, you know other than results you can also say gender you want a Male image if you want a password you can tell it for password I want upper and lower case 1 to 16 Characters so a lot of stuff you can do but what's great about this is again It's you're just doing an API call So you can do it through JavaScript like this or any language that you can do an HTTP request So how we would do this in the shell? Well, let's go to the shell and again the URL is just Random user dot ME API so I can use W get or curl if you prefer curl And I'm just gonna say quiet and dump the output to the shell here and there we go I got random user data and of course I can if you have jq installed if not It's in your repositories very useful help you format and search through JSON output I can do pipe it into jq dot and It will format it for me. So that's the same information just Formatted a little bit nicer so we can read it I can scroll back here You can see what it's generated for me and I can do the same thing and again I can change this and I can say question mark results Equal 10 and I will get 10 different random users generated and of course I can Look at this image here that it got so that's the user image generated there again They seem to have a folder for women and men and there's kind of numbers You can almost just not even use the whole API if there's a picture you want to use regularly you just you know type in that number and That's person 20 if I'm in the women's directory So yeah super simple generate stuff I have some notes on this up on pay spin Which I will link to in the description of the video and of course You can simply do something like this and then I could grep for large and probably get the large image there And then I can cut based on The quotation marks probably for I think there we go now. I got a bunch of Large again, they're not very high resolution, but I got user images So I just do that there of course if you're more familiar with things using jq more efficiently might be to use jq So I could do something like this. I'll just copy it from my notes again This will be in the link in the description But I'm gonna say give me two results put it in jq I'm gonna say okay from those results from the array find a name. I want the first and The large picture so I do that It gave me a first name and a large picture, which is not an English name. Let's see. There we go. So Jersey and rowy. I don't know if that's how you say that So Yeah, so you can use grep if you want jq is a useful tool once you learn how to use it I have many examples on the a pay spin link in the notes in the description of the video How to search for different things using jq in this API, but I hope that you found this useful I certainly will use this in the future even if it's just for thumbnails, you know and again once you you get one of these URLs you can just use something like image magic so To display it or whatever, you know Whatever image viewer as long as it does URLs or you can just download it and open it so now I'm rambling a little bit I thank you for watching. I hope you do find this useful and I hope that you have a great day


My name is Jen Karman. I am the supervisor of the Early Education Center here at Stalo Nation. I've been an employee here for almost eight years now and I've seen a lot of changes within the center and I'm really excited to be speaking to those programs today. The center is called Alamathow Early Education Center and that means in our language that means caring for children as our own. Wow. So what are the age groups of the students or the participants in your program? So our facility has programs for children zero to six years old and we also have one program that can incorporate expectant parents as well. So an expectant mother can come to the program and participate. So we have daycare programs for children zero to five. We have preschool classes for three year olds and four year olds and we have a family program which incorporates an outreach component as well. So that is the parent participation program and it's an education based program for our families. Very nice. Wonderful. Wow. So in terms of these programs, what is your aim? So is it a healing journey? Is it to pass on land based skills? Is there more than one goal or objective for these programs? The aim of our program is early learning, prevention for some of our clients and that education based education based programs as well. So what happens in your programs? In our daycare it is child care. So we're providing child care for these children Monday to Friday. The parents are typically working or in school. Some of the parents are accessing our skill based program here at Stala Nation. So we can accommodate that and a lot of our children are children who are in care with either MCFD, the ministry or the Aboriginal ministry here at Stala Nation. And what particular kinds of activities do you do in your programs? We are outside quite a bit. We spend a lot of our day outside exploring Stala Nation. We are very lucky to be, you wouldn't know you were in the middle of town some days, but there's cedar trees and there's you know some wildlife and there's trails and tracks for the children to spend time on. And we do early education based activities. We are an emergent curriculum program. So we are learning from the children. They are telling us what they want to learn about and what they're interested in. And so most recently there was a group of young children that found a huge rock full of ladybugs and they spent weeks, weeks at this rock exploring the life cycle of ladybugs and what happens to the ladybugs and all these things. So they were really interested in these little ladybugs. So they went there every day to check on them. They would count them. They would look at their differences and that spilled over into our classroom. So then they started doing art related to you know red and black art work started coming out and they would reenact what they were seeing. So it is a lot of what the children are interested in. We're moving very far away from us saying, oh it's September, we're going to learn about apples. We're not doing that anymore. So it really is what the children need and what they're seeking. Do you offer cultural building, skill building, knowledge building activities as well? Yes, so that what I was just speaking to was more of the day care, the child care and things like that. Within our other programs, within our preschool program we have an elder that spends a lot of the time with the preschool children speaking some Helcamellum language with them and spending time with just spending time with them. In our family program, because it's a parent participant, there is the education component to it. So we have the ability to bring in people to build up their knowledge on things bigger than us. So most recently we had somebody come in to talk about traditional medicines. The families learned how to make stinging nettle tea and things like that. So wow, that's really cool. Awesome. So how do you measure the success of your program? For instance, how do you know that the program is successful? How do you know it is meeting its objectives and having an impact? Do you see a difference in your students' participants at the end of the program? Can you describe how they are different? So we measure our success of our families and children very simply. We want to ensure that they're settled and they're secure within the programs that they attend. We look for their confidence building that they can participate in their daily lives to do what they need to do to build friendships, to make connections with their teachers, that they have empathy towards one another and that they're just free to be who they need to be. A lot of the children and a lot of the families that come here, there's a lot of chaos going on around them. So we make sure that this is a safe place for them, that they can just be who they need to be and that they're secure in what they're doing every day. If you have some form of evaluation for the program, what feedback do you receive? We have a needs assessment form for our family program participants. So we put that out quarterly to our families and ask them, you know, what are we lacking? What are we missing? What interests you or what do you need help with? This is also a form that we give to the families when they first come to us. So we can get a better idea of where they're coming from and what they may need. And do you revisit that later as well, that form that they filled out to see? Yeah, we do try to, you know, hit all the check marks. So are they interested in nutrition? Are they interested in parenting workshops? Are they lacking basic household management skills? Can we assist them in any way that way? So if one measure of success is enrollment, is enrollment increasing? In other words, is the demand for the program high? The demand for our programs is quite high. The family program, there is a specific criteria to enter that program. Your children have to be of age. The children and families need to be of Aboriginal descent or an expected mother. So those are the criteria to enter that program. So that and once you're enrolled, you can attend as many times as you wish or as little as you wish until your children age out of that program. The preschool participants, again, because it is a funded program, there are requirements that the children have to meet. They have to be from this territory, from the Stullo territory to enter the program, and or Métis, self-identified, or just of Aboriginal descent. The preschool program isn't open to anyone that wants to attend. Our daycare, and that program is full, and it does have a small wait list right now if children move or no longer attend our program. Our daycare program, however, it is open to the public. We have a very large wait list for children under the age of two. Currently, our wait list sits at about 45 people who are requiring infant and toddler care. We have, our center has moved away from infant and toddler care because the burnout rate for our staff and the requirements needed to care for these young children is different from just early childhood education. There's a bit more schooling and things like that. So we made a change a few years back to really focus on ourselves as educators to make sure we're doing the best that we can do every single day. So we move to multi-age programming, which is zero to five in one classroom. It's a group of eight, and we're able to accommodate our families a bit better. So typically we have sibling groups that come in or cousin groups that come in or children in the childcare system that need to be together. So the multi-age daycare works very well because we can accommodate cousins that may be a different age but are used to being together. So it's more of a family feel when you walk in.  So unfortunately that creates a large weight list for under threes, but we are very highly recommended in the community. Aboriginal families and non-indigenous families want their children here because we are providing very high quality excellent care in our day care. That's wonderful. Wow. So having said that, have you faced any challenges and if so, how have you overcome them to make the program the success that it is? We have faced challenges with staffing. There is a shortage of early childhood educators in BC. There is a shortage of infant and toddler and special needs educators within BC as well. We are, you know, an hour away from Vancouver. So the further you get away from the city, the lower the pay gets unfortunately. We are lucky that we work for an agency where it's a little bit different because we are an Aboriginal based center. Some ECEs think that maybe they can't work here because they may not be Aboriginal or they may not know their culture. So I think that is hesitant for a few people, but at the end of the day we're providing childcare and early learning programs and are, because we are licensed through Fraser Health, we are hiring early childhood educators first. Whether they are Aboriginal or not. We have a wonderful team currently of educators with such passion and it took a long time for us to get here. And one of the challenges that we did face was the infant and toddler care and providing appropriate educators to run those programs because the turnover is so high. The burnout for ECEs I believe right now is five years. So they get into the field and they don't last very long because it's very demanding and it's low pay unfortunately, but our BC government seems to be trying to assist with that. From your perspective, what is Indigenous education? From my perspective I believe that educators need to establish a connection with the children to the land, expanding their learning and appreciation of what is around them. So we're very fortunate that we have wonderful outdoor spaces here and the children really do better when they're outside, when their hands are in the mud, when they're seeing hawks and eagles and owls soaring above their centre and they really do enjoy that. Also us as educators we need to understand where the children and families are coming from. So understanding their home life a little bit more, their cultural activities that they may take part in in the evening hours once they leave the centre. A lot of our families participate in longhouse ceremonies, canoe races and things like that. So you know it may keep them out in the evening. So understanding that when children, some children may come to the centre and they're a little bit more tired than normal. Speaking with the families and understanding that they were at the longhouse last night and they're learning their culture right now. And we also just want to ensure that the children and families have space to develop their gifts and their values and that they can share with us. And the children and families are our teachers. We're learning so much from them all the time. Great philosophy. If not implying that you have to have one but do you have a vision for Indigenous education over the next 10 years or any particular amount of time? I think where my vision is and where my thoughts are going is just ensuring that the children and families have a strong cultural identity and that they can share that here and that we're providing a cultural appropriate approach to early learning. So we're bringing in people who can share their knowledge that can demonstrate different things to us. So recently all of our staff learned how to weave on looms and it was a wonderful day of just spending time together and asking questions and finding people that can share with us because not all cultural activities are talked about. People just assume that you should know. And so I can speak for myself. I am Aboriginal but I didn't grow up in knowing my culture so I'm still learning all the time. So having time to spend with somebody who can share their knowledge and for myself not to be ashamed of things I don't know. So it was lovely to sit and learn how to weave on the looms and so the staff can take that back and do it with the children and some of the children already know so they can teach their friends. Wow that's fabulous. So if I can rephrase that would it be then that your vision is that this would just for all young people that little ones is learning about their culture. Well providing a space to learn providing a space to share that we are just providing a safe space for them. So given that what information materials or resources do you need to achieve that vision aside from funding? I believe that we need access to more elder supports. We're very fortunate that we do have our elder Mona Sapaas part time in our facility. She spends a lot of time just spending time with us and sharing information. We also have our bus driver who you know spends time within our programs as well shares drumming with the children and just spends time but that's within our family program and our preschool we would love to see that throughout the entire center. It is really when hiring staff and sharing that we are hiring the best early childhood educator possible. If they are Aboriginal or they do have an Indigenous background that's always a bonus but that's not necessarily the first thing that we're looking for because we're providing quality childcare and programs first but ensuring that we have a great working relationship with the universities in the area. So we work a lot with Seabird College and have practicum students come here that maybe already working in the field but they're just doing their upgrading to become full ECEs and so having those opportunities to have students come and Aboriginal students come and learn a bit more from us and hopefully we can hire them. Yeah that's awesome and any can you think of anything else materials or that you might need for your program? It's the bodies. Yeah it is the staff it really is the people it really is the qualified people who have a passion for early learning for Indigenous education because there's just not enough of us and a lot of a lot of early childhood educators make their way into the school system to work as education supports and things like that. This is a good call then I think for the need out there for individuals who might want to work with young youth and little ones there is a need out there so I'm really happy that we did this interview today because I think that's it's an important the most important if we're starting with you know our little ones right and and putting the focus on on that for sure.


Hey, hey, hey fam. Welcome back to Conversations with Carrie. I missed you. Me and you must never part. Okay So glad to have you back coming on for a quick word. Yeah, y'all know I keep it short and sweet But I'm excited to talk to you about when you're hearing the word of God over the lies of the enemy Because listen, I want you to know that there's an enemy out there and people often Oftentimes don't want to talk about the enemy. They don't want to talk about Satan. They won't talk about the serpent They won't talk about that at the series. He's alive And unfortunately, he's real, but you know what? We're so equipped to handle him and I'm actually talking about Genesis y'all taking it all the way back.  That's the verse today. And I want to share kind of a story with you Of where this even came from and why the Holy Spirit showed this to me so there was a time I was As y'all know your girl still single as a Pringle But I was going to dinner with some friends and they were two couples that I was going to dinner with and well They invited me to dinner and at first I was a little hesitant I'm gonna keep real. I was a little hesitant because I was just like no I was having my prayer time. I had been reading my word and I was just like Lord I'm so tired of being the fifth wheel. I don't want to be the fifth wheel anymore and you know, I just kept Praying slash complaining because y'all know sometimes instead of like actually praying to Lord We just complained to the Lord. So that's what one of this moment's keeping it all the way real And as I was sitting there and I was just waiting for the Lord to respond because let's not forget that prayer is a Dialogue not a monologue I was giving that from one of the ministers at my church and I have held on to that because often we say everything We need to say then we're like, okay. I'm done praying.  What did you do? Did you hear him like how did you know it was the Lord and I want to say that When you know When you are when you're in your Bible when you're reading it when you're getting good teaching when you're spending time with the Lord you will know his voice and Again, I know you might feel like well, it's not audible. No, but there's it's also a faith walk But there are times Lord says in his word my sheep know my voice of voice of a stranger They will not follow and that's true when you're actually spending time with him and getting to know him on an intimate level This is not steeped in tradition and religion that you might have gotten from your church growing up like I did But no, this is about I want to have relationship with you.  Where did I even get that from because you know my friends that were inviting me out to dinner? They wouldn't have invited me if they were like, oh, let's bring this fifth wheel But also that was me and my insecurities dealing with my issues that wanted to speak up Versus realizing well, what does the word say I am you know the Lord calls me his masterpiece So therefore yeah, they invited a masterpiece out to dinner come on somebody But also when I was like well Lord this came up later But the Lord when I read the scripture it brought back to my mind of when the Lord asked me that because for one When the Lord is asking you a question It's not for his benefit He's asking you because he wants you to think about where's that even come from is that in my word Is that what I've said because if not it's not what I said It's not a promise and you can't stand on it and in this particular scripture I'll read it again in verse 11 chapter 3 Genesis chapter 3 verse 11 And he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat now keep in mind this is right after the serpent had deceived Eve and He fell short because for one You know when the service starts talking to you when that liar that enemy that adversary starts talking to you You can't talk back with him like as if I'm gonna talk with a logical person like you know what yeah You know God didn't say we couldn't what God said we will just die and drop dead You know we'd be emphasizing and embellishing stuff And it's like that that's where you fall short instead of like entertaining the enemy because he's gonna lie He's gonna say You know you're ugly.    These are promises that we can stand on so I want you to do one thing for me as You think about the lies that you know even the little subtle stuff that you know It's kind of fleeting write those down write them down and then I want right across from it I want you to write down a promise of God from this holy word That combats everything that that enemy has been lying to you about when he tells you that you you'll never get married Right down in here. Okay.


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One of the most frustrating things is getting bombarded by cold emails and cold calls, selling me on technology that is just way too complicated and expensive to use. Yet, without technology, we would not be able to survive the new normal through this whole pandemic.  And not only that, how do you market properly using QR codes? Make sure you guys keep watching. Hello friends, my name is Wilson, your friend in helping you build a profitable restaurant. Just want to give a major shout out to these two individuals for their support. And that's the community that I want to be able to nourish and to create. So if you do want to be able to get featured, make sure you go in the comment section below and leave a question behind or simply just show some love. Now without further ado, let's dive right in. So to start off, what is a QR code? QR code stands for quick response code. Now how does it work? You simply get your phone or smart device to take a picture of this barcode and afterwards automatically on your phone, it would generate either a menu, a discount, a PDF, whatever you want to be able to set up on the back end to show your customers. So your customers would be able to just pull that up and see exactly what you want to show them. The first use of this whole QR code is to modernize your menu. Menu is one of the highest touch point in a restaurant environment, oftentimes getting past hundreds of times a day. And that's the reason why you would see this huge trend in changing menu into a digital version through QR codes. So simply put, you would have a QR code that is generated and then you would have it on the table stuck or it would be on the flyer by the window. And then simply people come in, they scan the QR code and then the menu pops up on their phone. Now, the beauty of using this QR code is not only on the hygienic factor, but then also you would allow your customers to see different types of menus at different times of the day. So for example, if you're serving brunch and when they come in and when they scan the QR code, automatically it shows them the brunch menu. Whereas when someone comes in during the happy hour time, you would show them a different menu throughout the same QR code. And the technology allows you to set this up properly. So then that way, all you have to do is to scan and you'd be ready to see multiple different menus. As an operator of the restaurant, it is also a huge benefit for you. Not only does it save you money in printing daily special menus, but then also as you have different specials and as you have different menu items, you can easily go into the back end and simply just update the menu so then that way it reflects properly. It also saves you a ton of money in printing new versions of the menu every single time you make an update. And just when you think that you should wait a little and maybe wait out the whole pandemic, well according to Q restaurant, more than 52% of restaurants in the United States has already transitioned from traditional menus into QR codes to stop the spread of the virus. And just when you think that this video ends right here, you are completely wrong because as Wilson's fashion, we go in depth. How are you going to be able to utilize this whole QR code technology? For one, you can actually get more reviews. According to a study conducted by UC Berkeley, a half star rating, only half star rating on either your Yelp, Google reviews or Facebook reviews would allow you to have more than 30 to 40% uplift in your 7pm bookings. What does that mean? That means thousands of dollars in your pocket per month with only half a star ranking. Now you might be asking, well, how do I utilize QR codes to get more reviews? Well, you can actually put it on a 10 card, for example, at the table of your patrons. And when they're done in their food, you can advise the waitress, waiters to tell them to, hey, Nua, if you enjoy the experience, feel free to leave us a review, scan the QR code. That's one way of using it, maybe leaving it at the cashier up front, allowing them to actually scan the QR code and automatically drive them to the website and the review platform of your choice. And because of this convenience, they're going to be much more likely to leave you a review instead of having them go on the review site and search up your name and then type the review. Automatically, a scan, it goes straight to the review platform. By you reducing the friction, it allows you to have even more reviews.  So when the delivery gets delivered to your customers, they can automatically scan it and leave your review. Another way to utilize QR codes is to drive them to your social media handles, depending on your objective, whether you want people to scan it for a menu or to leave your reviews or to actually follow you on Instagram.  And that's the reason why one of the bars in Vancouver has been able to execute it in great fashion. Basically, what they have done is to have the QR code linked to their Instagram and created a campaign on their Instagram. So it just became such an easy way for people to actually access the restaurant's Instagram account simply by getting up their phone and scanning the code and automatically it drives to their Instagram. So then that way they can easily follow them. A lot of times people do not take action because they're just lazy or it's just just too much friction. They would do it later. How many times have we thought about, oh, I love this account. I love this restaurant. I want to add them on Instagram. I want to see what they do.  And you just simply forget by you having a QR code that leads to your social media, it becomes a seamless transaction. It's just like, take out the phone, scan and automatically drives to your Instagram, Facebook profile or any type of profile.  And that's the reason why having QR codes is so essential for marketing in today's age. Now you might be thinking, well, why would I want people to go on my Instagram? Why are restaurants investing so much money into marketing on Instagram as well? It is because of user generated content. What does that mean? It is when your friends and your family goes to dinner, takes out their phone and showcases the beautiful food and spread amongst them, the environment, the experiences that they have. And then they share on their Instagram, share on their Facebook. And by them doing that, you are much more influenced by these user generated content. And which is the reason why if you're a restaurant owner, being investing in these QR codes and investing in your customers, joining your social media platforms is key in getting you more notice, more touch point. And that essentially is how you build trust for them to come back again and again. As we dive deeper into the rabbit hole of how you can market with QR codes, we have realized that you can actually have coupons, coupons of display when you scan your phone on these QR codes. Now, how does that work? Well, simply put, think about one thing.  How are you going to be able to distribute all these crazy coupons and how are you going to be able to keep track of everything? It is very difficult to do so. But with QR codes, you can definitely do that. According to Q restaurant, what you can do is simply have one QR code and you can set different times to show different coupons. And what that means is, for example, this is a QR code and your customers come during the breakfast time, they scan this QR code, you can actually show them 20% off the pancake. Now you don't need to change this QR code. Lunchtime comes around. Same customers come in, scan the same QR code. What's going to show up on the phone would be a 10% off the pizza. If they come during dinner time, same QR code, same person scans the same QR code, you're going to get 5% off your pasta. And this is something called the dynamic QR code, which you can set different types of offer that pops up at different times. And it is that powerful. What does that do? It allows you to run some creative campaigns at different times and you can actually test out different things without having to print out multiple different offers, without having to be confused about what is happening and what is shown on people's phone. All you have to do is to be able to manage that in the back end. And Q restaurant allows the capability for you to create this type of campaign. And I know you might actually been burnt with running thousands of dollars on radio ads on Facebook ads on all these crazy initiatives, which at the end of the day, you have no way of showing what was your return on investment.  And which is the reason why there is such a powerful tool at a very, very affordable price. I even reached out to them to offer you guys a 30 day risk free, all guaranteed trial for you. And once again, I really, really highly recommend that you guys check them out in the link below. It's completely free for the first month, so then that way you can see whether it is something that is suitable for your needs. I hope you enjoyed this video. QR codes is the future of restaurant industry and in restaurant marketing, whether you go with this or that. It is still super, super important for you guys to check it out. I hope you enjoyed this video. I'll see you guys in the next video.