Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new please smash that like button and subscribe if you enjoy the reading. Please keep in mind this is a general love reading and some messages may or may not be for you. This is a channel for Virgos, Virgo's Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus, but all signs are welcome. So do keep that in mind. Also if you would like to become a member of my channel, go ahead and click the join button and you can be here on Sundays to get free readings, personal mini readings from me in when I livestream. And as far as personal, booking personal readings with me, I'm going to be opening some slots up as I do have somebody new who will be taking readings for you guys and he has a lot of availability coming up and I really think you'll like them. Alright you guys. So let's get into your reading for April 2023. What are the messages for Virgo, Sun, Moon, Rising, and Venus for April 2023? One second here. My cards are like hello. Oh beautiful. Okay you're starting with the butterfly and wedding rings Virgo. Relationship is evolving to the next phase. Healing the inner child, growth, a union, wedding, married, soul connection, eternal love, or and an everlasting promise. Okay let's see what else is coming up here. What does Virgo also need to know? Those are very positive messages Virgo so attach yourself to that. Let's see what else. Okay you've got the sword and the rose so there is clarity, truth, revelation, solidarity, force, honor, protection, and power. I love this. I love the way this reading is going. Oh my goodness. This is so awesome. Let me say and the last one. Okay also you have sunglasses, watching, looking, stalking, gaslighting, perception for focusing out. Okay so there's a lot of different things going on here Virgo. I feel like the overall message of all four of these cards is there's definitely somebody who's got their eye on you in April and there is an energy of possibly a revelation somebody might reveal or there's communication with that sword or initiate some type of communication with you and reveal kind of like their truth and the rose representing the heart and love. So I mean Virgo this is nice okay. It just feels like there's an energy of like transition happening here and growth and change that leads to an everlasting love with someone. Okay I mean it's very simple. It's very simple. It feels like a lot of you have made some huge changes in your lives or you are being very progressive with what you're looking for, what you're hoping for, maybe opening yourselves up to create love with someone who fits you. Okay let's see what the romance angels are here. Alright some of you have done the release the X thing. Okay now a couple of messages there. Releasing the X might be invoking all of this for some of you. That is a message or some of you are getting yourselves in that position in April to release someone so that you can open yourself up to find somebody who fits you. Okay or it fits you better. Look you've got wedding. Oh my goodness. Okay Virgo this is definitely on the table for you coming up. There's new beginnings in the spring as usual and there's hope. Okay trust safe to trust in the situation and it's calling for you to have faith Virgo. Okay now if you've let go of someone that you knew in the past was your person or they let go of you or there was a situation where you were both forced to separate. I do feel like this could be invoking change. Okay but I'm not gonna get too much into a past kind of thing. I do feel like it's for some of you that could be the energy and we'll see more as we go forward but overall the message feels like letting go releasing will open you up to having opportunities. It's like a clean slate. Okay let me see what else is going on here for you Virgo. One more card for Virgo. Yeah freeing yourself Virgo. I mean this is just screaming this. It's just screaming it. I mean taking back control of your life. Virgo it's just basically a message of like whether someone from the past is invoking is having feelings because you've you've learned to love yourself or you're respecting yourself that's one thing or it's opening yourself to having new love. I just feel like the overall energy is that if you feel like you've done all that you could do in a past relationship and you know to the point where if you felt like you gave to the best of your ability and you weren't able to see change in the relationship releasing that is probably going to be well definitely not probably definitely be better for you okay because you don't if you feel like you have to kill yourself to have a relationship with someone or for someone to meet you halfway you're that's exactly what's going to happen you're going to hit rock bottom if if you don't decide to walk away from it and just leave it alone take your hands off the wheel I like to use that analogy and yet and let God take over spirit the universe whichever and and work on bettering yourself becoming a better person for yourself not for other people but for yourself if if both people are doing that then it can only be better for a relationship but if you feel like you know it's April done the best that I can do I can't do any more I just need to work on myself and just to make me better that you can't lose in that scenario okay you just can't and I feel like this is a very strong message for you to sit with yourself and be happy with who you are okay so you do have the four of wands here so for some of you yeah there is going to be a reunion for sure with somebody going forward but I feel like for a lot of you this is all about reuniting with yourself as well okay as far as like reuniting with someone it could be an Aries but this is mostly like going back to your roots going back to your family if that's energetically or physically and celebrating or allowing other people who love you to celebrate you that's the most important the important thing you can do for yourself this is the 1111 okay so in some ways I do feel like there is someone here or an opportunity here for you to put roots down somewhere in the future okay let me just see what else is going on here some of you might be attending a wedding in April a baby shower an event of some sort it's a very positive thing definitely Leo energy here I feel like there's there's going to April's will be a time of joy and success okay and I know that sounds very cliche but you know for a lot of us the sun is get it's coming up more daylight is a bit longer and there is the weather is getting warmer and there's joy and there's happiness and for some of you there is a reunion with someone and it's a very positive thing okay it could be letting go of someone can like I said I keep feeling the word today is invoke I feel like you have to respect yourself the sun is all about positive energy towards the self okay it's not just about self-respect but it's also about being happy with who you are you know and loving yourself and and accepting yourself right I feel like there will be for some of you I just have to say hold on a second April 18th I do feel there will be maybe a proposal or some sort doesn't have to be marriage but some type of proposal or some type of getting together around April 18th okay could like I said it could be a reunion for some of you and whether that's a reunion with a lover or family or an event you go to reconnecting with another person and celebrating a relationship or happiness a happy family situation as well there's also somebody could be celebrating news about a baby okay so you've got the two of ones let me see or go I definitely feel like you're going to be making plans going forward for the summer you know the summer period but you're not letting anybody know what you're doing burger you're up to something for sure you're not saying anything okay you're keeping everything hush hush and quiet about your ideas your goals your plans the things that you want your desires what you are seeking some of you are secretly waiting for someone to get their ish together and come correct or come back into your life the the way that you need them to and for you to be the person that they need you to be and that's just you know there's a small percentage of you who might be doing that something to do with April 24th also I'm picking up here I don't know if that's somebody's birthday when I'm calling out these numbers not you obviously if you were born in August or September but somebody you could be connecting with okay there's so much going on there's travel here ergo and I feel also like there's going to be a lot there's good news coming to you let me try to see what good news you're going to be getting good news that somebody could be coming to visit you or you may be getting invited to travel somewhere okay and let me see also April 8th and I think I said that one of Monday's reading last week something came was coming up April 8th okay so you've got the King of Cups here and this is the first court card so King of Cups is generally someone who is mature they are philosophical they are well educated this is someone who is very supportive tolerant oodles of empathy nurturing type of person they have a very healing or they're a healer okay but they're also very calm and patient now King of Cups can represent the water sign cancer scleropiasis they could be that could be their son or anywhere in their chart but they present in that energy okay so there for some of you there may be communication or a connection in April with the King of Cups okay King of Cups who is heartbroken this person is heartbroken over either an argument or some kind of separation sees you as the victor Virgo whoever this person is they see you a little bit on your high horse a little bit kind of like this person sees that you get a lot of attention or that you have some level of recognition and it it breaks their heart I don't know why I don't know who this person is but they they kind of feel like I don't know if maybe you ended something or there's some kind of argument or a break up and this person sees that you're doing well I don't feel like they're not happy for you Virgo but I kind of feel like they do sit with that three of swords though okay they hope you're okay also if you've had some surgery or whether minor or major but there's a loss here and I feel like whoever this person is wants to replenish a loss okay so Virgo I mean you know for some of you this could be somebody new you're connecting with as well that they have had a heartbreak in the past and you connect with them in this person just wants to overcome their heartbreak connect with you when they meet you and I feel like they will and there will be a lot of communication from this person I feel like you meet this person and they do kind of like seem a little like they might tell you there might be some communication that they dated someone and I went really really fast and it wound up not working out and they really loved the person or just really liked them a lot and they were disappointed or over the loss and and I feel like that will be somewhat of a conversation they might have and I see them like kind of saying but I'm back up on the horse I you know I'm I'm still hurting but I'm intent on you know yeah getting back up on the horse and being you know like to overcome some kind of problem here so let me take a look a little bit more at I see what your advice is here Virgo actually I want to see what your advice is okay oh so King Cups and the Queen of Cups beautiful I mean that's a match there and you know if you're showing up like that your advice though is basically get connected with how you really feel about love about you know about your emotions whether it's for someone in particular or just who you are okay this is your advice here I feel like you've had a lid on your emotions for a while and I see you kind of like taking a look at that cup and seeing how you know you got to take that lid off and open up I feel like your advice here is to stop looking at the fact that you're closed off but take that lid off and release all of your feelings and your emotions and whether you do that through writing or if you do that through drawing or any kind of outlet whatever it is because I feel like Virgo you keep your emotions bottled up I'm not sure maybe you don't trust or maybe you don't think your feelings are valid you know feelings aren't facts but they are valid you have to acknowledge your emotions because they you're built with them so I feel like your advice going forward in April is to really take a look at how you feel and but while you're doing that don't get too deep into that because you might miss the opportunity coming to you here okay Virgo maybe you're a bit extreme you know there are some who are just all up in their feels all the time and they are lacking a little bit of self-control or self-discipline when it comes to their emotions and then there are some Virgos who are so keep such a tight lid on their feelings that all they want to do is focus on work and nothing else they don't want to share their emotions I feel like the message here is find that sweet spot Virgo where you can feel your feelings but not let them rule you because your feelings change every day or every minute of the day they can you feel one way then you feel another and anything can trigger your emotions and the goal here is to just recognize how you feel and say hello to your feelings whether you're happy or you're sad and but don't let them rule you okay don't don't let your emotions because then you're kind of like a candle in the wind you know you'd be all over the place it's kind of like keep it real right emotions can cloud our judgment often that's why they say love is blind and it doesn't make it a bad thing it's just that being blind when love comes in common sense walks out and Virgo it's a good thing to feel love and to to express love and things like that and vice versa I just feel like the message here is find that sweet spot between recognizing how you feel and then saying nice thank you for visiting happiness sadness sorrow what joy thank you for visiting today nice to see you acknowledge them and didn't say up you know I've got I gotta finish what I'm doing here though I'm not gonna let my sorrows keep me down or drag me down into a negative place and cause me to shut down and I'm not gonna allow my joy to cloud my judgment if I'm driving down the car driving down the road and there's a huge pothole in the road I want to make sure that I'm staying sane that I you know what I mean joy is almost like an opioid at times and it can it can be cloudy it can make things cloudy where you kind of are up on cloud nine is how I feel so yeah that the real message here Virgo is feel your feelings okay but also acknowledge the reality of your feelings or the reality of the facts around you okay because I know some of you might absolutely love tigers in the wild and love love love them but that doesn't mean that it might it doesn't mean it's a good idea to just go out and get yourself a tiger and walk it down the street unless you're a tiger trainer do you know what I mean like keep it real with some things going on in your life here in April okay Virgo so yeah you you definitely have love offer coming in that can turn into you know an everlasting union and make sure that this is what you want what's coming in make sure that it's going to start you guys off on a new journey where you both are free and innocent and able to enjoy the time together with each other okay this is Aquarius energy here also Virgo Taurus and Capricorn is on the table ask yourself do you want to have this new beginning with someone okay because I do feel like the opportunity is gonna come definitely and there will be some clarity and some truth and some revelation I see what other message there is here for you Virgo yeah look my goodness yeah there's definitely a new love start happening here Virgo I just feel like for you you know it's I feel like it's going to definitely make you happy and you'll just want to like dance on your tippy toes and go take this journey and just free yourself and abandon yourself to this but I really don't I feel like a true Virgo will abandon themselves only when they feel it's safe to trust and the message there was it's safe for you to trust in this situation okay so that's the only time I can view a Virgo ever opening themselves up fully and throwing their cares to the wind with someone is if they feel like they could trust fall with them and that person's gonna catch them otherwise Virgo is just not that person they are not built that way and no matter how hard Virgo tries to not be that way they're too grounded to just be up in the sky with bubbles and unicorns Virgos enjoy that from time to time but Virgo and like Taurus and like Capricorn it's just how you're built now if you're heavy earth element in your in your birth chart that's definitely for sure okay there's kind of a spectrum so if you are say heavy and fire in your birth chart the fire element you might be a bit more passionate and fiery you know and so it changes a little but as far as like if you are just a true Virgo Virgos gonna be like you know what if I feel like I am safe and I feel like I can trust you fully and you know of course I know that nobody's perfect but if I feel like the integrity of the relationship is strong and it's good then I will abandon myself to you absolutely if I feel like there won't be any lies and I'm not talking about you know did you steal a cookie from the cookie jar no I'm talking about like severe lies betrayals theft things like that you know all those horrible devil type of energies once once Virgo feels safe Virgos like a completely different person then the real person comes out deep inside but Virgo has to know and and you guys I'd be I'd be hard-pressed to see anybody in the chat disagreeing with me with that you know it has nothing to do with Virgo trauma or trust issues or anything it's just how they are okay so mastery you learn the spiritual lesson here Virgo so you guys have been doing some serious spiritual work even looking back on past stuff looking at yourself some of you have taken a look at the twin flame relationship and are coming to terms with was it a karmic twin flame twin flame was it a karmic twin flame or was it a true twin flame okay it says it is so twin flames never forget each other they do return to one another but sometimes there is a separation period where they have to pull apart but they never really detach fully they just there's lessons twin flame relationships are loaded with lessons and growth and they can be hum humbling very humbling you you learn how to love in a twin flame relationship you really do and or at least love yourself okay so right now you have weight the timing is not quite right and this is your message here to just be patient Virgo you know Virgo is generally the most one of the most patient signs of the zodiac they're pretty calm and Virgos are generally very logical they can reason things out they don't they aren't usually irrational or overly emotional or the people look to Virgos especially in times of stress and can always rely on Virgos because Virgo always knows what to do right away and if you find yourself in a situation where you're like no that's not me in the situation at all then that's something that you have to look at okay the first order of business right now Virgo for you is to calm yourself down soothe yourself relax understand think positively that everything is going to work out for your best good for your highest best always and I feel like right now is not the time or it's not your time right now as as you're listening to this right now it's it's not time for you to do anything it's time for you to just wait and just kind of let the chips fall where they may right because there's some stuff I feel like is up in the air for you there's still more lesson there's still more information that has to come to you and some of you might already be feeling like okay I always like to say when in doubt do nothing when in doubt do nothing don't make decisions that you're not sure about because you may regret them later let me see what the hidden somebody has a message for you here and let's see what they want to say to you I replay our count our I replay our conversations over and over okay so somebody that you've had conversations with voice to voice or I don't know somehow somebody pushes a play button and listens or they just rethink them over maybe analyzing something that was said it could be you could be another person wow somebody wishes they could take back their words okay yeah there's definitely something going on here where I feel like someone wishes that they didn't say a particular thing or certain things to another person and they keep replaying it over and over in their mind it's almost like there's a shame to it I feel like somebody is kind of kicking themselves right now for the things that they said or the way they addressed something through conversation or words I feel like that person needs to forgive themselves and realize that they are not perfect but you know whether that is you or another person somebody stuck on something here all right so why this person couldn't somebody couldn't let another person get close to them there might have been a dismissive kind of energy um for example someone might have asked another person do you love me and that other person might have responded with um I don't know I can't answer this right now I'm busy that right there okay like it's like okay what do I have to take a number and get in line for that simple it's a yes or no I mean I feel like somebody regrets pushing someone else away or being dismissive in some way or not taking something seriously you know and um I was just thinking I don't know they just gave me um they just they just flashed me a book title cover called Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus I don't know why that just popped in my I've never read that book I should couldn't hurt right um but yeah they're just showing me maybe somebody's reading that at this time okay interesting okay I wish I could share my good news with you all right somebody wants to share something positive with you I wonder what that might be should we ask see if we can find out what good news somebody wants to share oh oh there's the answer there's someone here starting to understand their connection either with another person or with themselves oh Virgo but somebody can't share it they can't share with another person that they get it now and why why can they not share that with another person what's keeping a person from sharing their good news with someone else all right we're gonna try this again what's keeping someone from sharing their good news with Virgo wow two of Pentacles reversed they're struggling and they feel overwhelmed why Pentacles oh look at all this pentacle energy they don't know how you'll take it all right that's one message they don't know how you'll take why would that be bad though that's good news they have good news no there's blocking there's blocking do you have this person blocked where they can't reach you maybe that's why the sunglasses is here because there's some stalking or somebody's trying to find you good news that they get it now um the good news is that they're they're no longer um well they they recognize that they had an inability to commit they overwhelmed them they were very focused on their work um and it looks like they're they're recognizing that now they're seeing um you know back to that whole thing um I can't tell you if I like I don't want to talk about love I'm busy I'm working I've got this going on and they get it that that was a wrong thing but it looks like they can't tell you um they wish they could if the opportunity came or if you have this person if you've pushed them away you know um I know some of you have someone pushed them away because no matter what they say you don't trust them you don't believe them that you think it could be a lie um or that they just might be saying this to um try to reconnect with you you know um there's a trust issue if there's a trust issue that's something you need to work on with yourself or go you need to work on that within as well um but apart from all of that this person feels like um there's they'll be pushed back or that you've pushed them away or you've pushed back on them okay this is turning into you know yeah you do have a new opportunity for love but I don't I can't you know is it a new beginning yeah it's there and the aces are always potentials they're never they're never um uh guarantees they're always potentials but um this person knows that you have pushed them away because you're going through a grieving process or you are um sad or you are healing or you feel uncertain about things I feel like they might be trying to give you some space as well but they really do want to tell you how they feel or tell you that they've learned some stuff here about you know themselves which okay that's fine um so that's that tarot part of the story let's see what other messages there are here for you Virgo um listen I'm not telling you to open up the door to I don't know your situation I don't know how you feel I don't know if you were dealing with someone that was like just to the point where it was so bad it had to end and you're not going back if that's the case do you Virgo you do what you have to do I I don't want to the only advice I have to give to you right now is to look inward at how you feel about things and to get clarity within self to find your truth within yourself um to focus on you you can't go wrong with that right um I would never tell you to go back or return to someone that um it was just that when you left you you felt like a worse person than when you were with them because they did not have a good impact on you um because of whatever was going on with them that person needs to deal with their own stuff okay um but I will tell you that um and I wouldn't I would never tell you not to go back to them either I think it's up to you here and it starts with you about how you feel I feel like you've stifled your emotions and your feelings long enough and I feel like it's time to start opening up if you keep that stifled your emotions and your feelings or inability to express or communicate because someone dismissed you in the past if you now if you keep stifling and they're gone then they're still essentially there you have to undo everything that you allowed another person to do that they that may have done to you and now you have to open yourself up again um if you don't you're gonna evaporate that's like a cancer to the soul so find an outlet for expression okay that's the first start here you've got spying online right as soon as I I just saw that so yeah you do have somebody here who's watching you they're keeping an eye on you I don't feel like it's I don't feel like it's bad it's just that this person is not let go okay wow you've got peace I haven't seen this card in a while the influence of balance and harmony are over you right now Virgo leave things be and allow spirit to work in your life all good things are happening behind the scenes trust that God is working in your life even when you feel discouraged be patient and trust his timing okay that's all you need to do Virgo like I said when in doubt do nothing there's nothing else for you to do here but seek peace seek peace within yourself seek peace within your heart create peace every day in your in your life in some form or another um and let things evolve the way they're they're meant to but you know try to open yourself up and that doesn't mean to meet another person and just automatically open yourself up I know that's difficult just without any heartbreaks for you Virgo um take your time with things okay and um I'm hearing never let anybody tell you how you should be know who you are Virgo and be who you are okay who you are underneath at all oh they just gave me that song who was that Gwen this Gwen Stefani underneath at all I love that song so um let me see what other message there is here for you okay positive vibes very good test of faith and boundaries showing up here for you Virgo for sure um oh this is a strong message Virgo positive vibes um seek to I don't feel like it's healthy to live only in positive vibes 24-7 um because I feel like we have to have the positive and negative that's the yin yang you can't really appreciate the positive unless you have some negative right but strive for positivity always okay but don't beat yourself up if you're not feeling positive about things excuse me it's okay to have your down days it's okay to cry it's okay to feel like oh I just feel yucky today I don't want to face the world that's okay that means you need to do some self-care okay and that means you need to take some time for yourself right just love yourself love your life the energies are strong and powerful okay and I feel like right now your your faith is being tested as well as your boundaries okay so that's a real strong message there for you as well all right let me take a look at the Chinese signs and we'll see you and another person um if it resonates it resonates if it doesn't it's fine anybody want to show up here all right you're the tiger isn't that crazy I was just talking about a tiger was I not I was right some of you're gonna go and get that tiger but you're the tiger I'm gonna be out there with a big old tiger leash walk it around stay away from me stay away from me don't come near me okay year of the ox year of the monkey all right we're just gonna pull it year of the rabbit that's the year we are in right now it's a year of peace year of the rat and the monkey again year of the pig year of the snake and year of the dog okay very beautiful all right Virgo um let's give him some names and or random messages here for you whoa I have a latch okay somebody's born September 9th or September 8th okay they just gave me the name Mimi or Maureen Mimi or Maureen okay and I'm hearing Asia on name or could be a country and for those of you who have had excessive amounts of rain I feel like April 10th which is right in the middle of April I mean I don't know where wherever you are in the world go outside on April 10th because it's going to be an absolutely beautiful day where you are like the rain's gonna stop I just heard that okay like make plans but keep an eye on the weather forecast please well it's raining and House of Virgo said it wasn't gonna rain but I'm going outside anyway because I can make the sun come out it's not for all of you okay all right we have the initial s first or last name some of these names starts with an s ends with an s like or starts their last name with an s and also the letter v so I just heard Sheila and Sean okay I heard Siobhan as well and Vasquez I guess that's the last name Vasquez and I can't say it I guess it's um it's a Russian or a Russian or it's uh it starts it's VOL is what I'm hearing VOL okay our VLO sorry my bad I can't pronounce it um okay picnic by the river how interesting a picnic by the river are looking out at the river um someone goes or is or will be or just was looking out at a river messages something to do with the river okay okay so many drives an 18 wheeler I just heard and oh RPGs what the heck are RPGs I don't know I just heard RPG and somebody creates music like um soul r&b rap somewhere along the lines of that and um okay so they're okay they're giving me um an emerald or like a green gem or an emerald of some sort it might be like um like a heart green heart or an emerald or some sort and um um all right so uh April 7th is a significant day um hold on a minute and I know like some of you are celebrating Easter so Easter weekend the 7th through the 9th and I'll be doing your weekend reading soon for that but um Easter weekend I don't know maybe somebody's like hiding Easter eggs for children or decorating or painting Easter eggs or doing some type of Eastery kind of thing yeah I'm just I'm feeling like a strong it's a strong Easter egg vibe it's not so much Easter but a strong Easter egg vibe okay and also um somebody has a connection with a Libra as well as a Gemini and of course Gemini is always in the readings but as you guys can see as of late it's been um the water sign the king cups when I first started my readings here on my channel the emperor was here all the time it was crazy I don't know if you guys have been here that long but if you remember if you have the emperor was always showing up in the readings it was crazy um and then we went through a period of Gemini all the time now we've got the king of cups okay um so that would be significant for someone for sure and I'm also picking up someone likes to wear turquoise whether that's jewelry or clothing um or just likes the color or there's painting a room a light bluish turquoise or just there's an attraction to turquoise okay could be very um if you live out in the southwest there's there's something to do with or someone lives in the southwest there's something to do with turquoise okay so let's you guys get into the dice to see what birth dates and other numbers are going to show up and then I'll do your charms and then we'll be done all right so you have Leo again Sagittarius Gemini of course and Capricorn um so all right so what I'm gonna just do is I'm gonna call out birth dates first so we're looking at September 3rd 7th 8th 5th September 6th the 9th the 10th and the 12th okay that's September um if that's your birthday put it in the um the chat there okay Sagittarius Pisces twice and Virgo showing up here all right so as far I'm not seeing any august birth dates so maybe next time we have the numbers 307 1231 and 8510 okay let me see oh I just saw august 23rd right there okay three augusts oh hello okay yeah there we go 23rd again august 26th 28th august 29th and august 31st all right so um so here's somewhere numbers 1171 these could be phone numbers I don't know what's going on here um 20396208 we got double Aries here showing up out of nowhere like that and Scorpio and Pisces again and um 9839 so if those are like the some numbers in your phone number um these are strong messages for you especially um I'm picking up the age 37 31 39 um 26 38 and I'm also getting um um okay so these are I guess these are um these are roads 203 117 or 11 okay that's interesting and um someone's born in 1971 1976 um 1979 1983 1989 and 1967 I'm also picking up 61 63 and 66 everybody give a shout out to Steve O for putting the numbers in the chat because I know it's got to be so frustrated to keep up with it but he does such an excellent job yay for Steve awesome all right let me see what your charms are and if any of that resonated please do post it in the chat your birth dates phone number well not don't post your whole phone number but uh your however it resonates and everything else that goes along with that okay some charms for you and then we're going to get going and again you guys personal reading go over to my website I believe tomorrow you'll be able to book with Casey um and he will be able to answer uh do readings for you guys um so please please please trust me I would not put someone to come work with me unless I knew that they were capable and you will absolutely love to talk to him I'm telling you because I absolutely love to talk to him okay so all right Virgo so we're starting off with um looks like a guitar of some sort I will show you this hold on a second so there's a musician here somewhere or someone who does something with stringed instruments oh you don't want to focus oh that's all right okay so like a guitar um or some type of maybe a bass I see it's got like it looks like it has four strings so someone plays a bass or any kind of um stringed instrument very significant so somebody could play it or just be fiddling with it it could be a fiddle or um is maybe going to see a concert or a show or enjoying some music okay oh wow amazing now you have an angel Virgo okay this looks like a Christmas tree topper to me but um ask your angels for protection I feel like right now if you've done that you are being protected at this time but um I don't know maybe you need to go find like go the Christmas tree shop and see if they have any angels for your tree this year but there's definitely something here about an angel watching over you um or you know this could be a child this could also be um that's a very spiritual message um or you see some flowers that look like angels you might see a flower that looks like an angel or maybe you just recently have uh seen a flower that looks like an angel somebody could be making a song called angel or listening to a song called angel wasn't there a song called angel in mind that's very 80s very 90s um yeah okay one more I just want to get one more okay that's a very odd thing let me show you tremendously odd we have um some kind of a saw for cutting trees or wood I have don't know I've ever used something like that um but yeah there's somebody must use a saw or is using some kind of blade um I hope you're not shaving with this thing man but there's something to do with saw somebody like a craftsman or construction or works in a trade like that where they use saws or um you hear it some sawing or something outside your wherever you are you hear a saw somebody's working with some machinery or tools that's definitely you're reading if you're hearing that um or if you recognize this somebody know might have a saw like this you might not even know anyone with a saw and you might just see that kind of tool somewhere and if you do after you listen to this reading or you may have recently this is a message for you because that's a very odd thing um I don't know if it's an odd thing to have a saw like that but to show up in the spiritual reading um some of you are just you know cutting things off or you are sawing things in half I don't know what you're doing I hope it's not like a horror movie maybe you're watching a horror movie chainsaw kind of something or something all right you guys I'll leave your reading there that was so much fun I hope you enjoy the hour long don't forget if you don't want to do personal readings with me if you can't afford it you can just join my channel become a member it's $9.99 a month divided by 30 days is how much it will cost you to pop in on Sundays ask a question and I will pull a card for you okay um if you don't want to become a member get a personal reading um you can just send a super chat with your question in the super chat in the live stream and I will answer it for you okay any amount it's fine um but I'm probably going to set it to members only because we've been getting some 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When we think about student success, we think about our mission which is to drive a digital inclusive future for all. And to do that, we have to look at the outcomes and student success is the ultimate outcome and if we can help increase those student success whether that be in terms of completing courses, in terms of their whole experience while at the university, the role the digital infrastructure plays now is so intrinsic to their experience. In fact, their physical experience and their digital experience have really come together. Ever since the pandemic, you know, we've experienced this, everybody's experienced it from working from home, from teaching or learning from home or being more mobile and of course using more digital devices and digital applications in the everyday way that we teach and learn. Yes, in-person education is still the number one way to touch all types of learners, but we have this new augmented and digital environment to maximise and to do that we need to have obviously a quality environment whether that be mobile or whether that be the access like wireless. We also get an extremely powerful amount of intelligence from a digital experience, stuff that you wouldn't get from that physicality, you know, giving personal experiences. We can do that now with digital technology and analytics. So correlating that with the student information that we get, looking at things like attendance, quality of the schedule or the building space utilisation or even looking at environmentals, looking at lighting, looking at air quality, these all impact student experience and of course if a student experience is bad then nine times out of ten that's going to create a bad. It's going to mean that they're not going to be successful and of course when they're not successful then retention goes down and that's really, really key as we go forward into the next three to five years for any university. So when we say we want to power a digital inclusive future for all it's very, very intrinsic to student success in the future and it's probably one of the mainstays of Cisco's digital education strategy.


It's the breakfast and plus CV Africa. We take you through the pages of our national dailies Is the carry I took is on standby to join the conversation and make sense of all of the top stories I set up with the leadership newspaper and usually we pay attention to the top stories the banner caption says He swap attacks on the rise governor Zulam cries out He swap attacks on the rise governor Zulam cries out Says to local government still on the terrorist control gunmen kill 18 people in platoon village 8,372 killed 5,018 abducted in 2021 according to a report and Bandit kidnapped more traders in Kaduna President Muhammad Buhari Returates commitment to end banditry There's a rider's underneath the boat caption away from that seven months after federal government leaves banned on Twitter operations quite interesting right there To know boo to know boo and umai Other aspirants played down pressure to declare publicly You also have a ticku Sarki or Coro chart to declare soon It's also now the rider you find and APC convention Muhammad closes ranks with other chairmanship aspirant and mayfully not resigning or contesting for presidency That's according to the CBN 18,000 apply for 10,000 please jobs and Father kills three daughters dump buddies and Frida President Muhammad of Buhari and orders one ex governor Akala does what you find there does the much we can take on the leadership newspaper All right quickly on the punch newspapers terrorist on the rampage in platoon Niger kill 52 Abduct hunters and others Niger terrorists tied victims hands to their backs before shooting them says residents now long demands are rest as invaders gone down 18 in fresh platoon community attack Until now to burn a local government under Bukoram's firm controls Loom tells senators 3,100 and 21 killed in road crashes in six months, and that's from an NBS report I annex 20 million new voter target shaky 2.4 million registered Still on the punch Buhari lives Twitter ban after 222 days suspension Fire me meets to know boo over 2023 presidency a kitty governorship poll Zamfara communities Panic over bandits one week automaton for 35 million Naira levy and Andrians pouring communes on ex or your governor allow Akala We can also find here and I'm the kind of rights begs us to witness anti-terror trial Those are the big ones on the punch newspapers this morning away from the punch Let's check out the nation bandits kill 51 burn houses in attacks on communities Many fiat kidnap and Kaduna a butcher highway defense minister and Zamfara President orders sustained military onslaught According to Luan and Nigerian ones action not excuses federal government leaves Twitter ban with conditions and Matt kills Three kids keep bodies in freezer eco you building construction began before approval Equity gains eight nine hundred and eighty one billionaire in six days, and that's it on the nation newspaper All right, and now to the daily independent 2023 presidency Southwest APC may ostracized ostracize oscimba Joe I have nothing against in a boo. Oh shimba Joe is my choice as a Kino la from a finance minister True or call or Kongu is dead Also at last federal men live suspension on Twitter operations troops lack modern tools to battle Boko Haram and bandits say governors Nigerians are tired of stories of Killings la one laments once again Nigerians tired of stories of killings la one laments 2023 presidency wire fennefere won't support in a boo and others says I or the banjo and And I Think we can just stop here because of time. Let's quickly bring in our guest spot in as the kill. Yeah, I talk Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to you, sir Good morning. Always a pleasure to be with you. Okay. I want to you know I'm not sure if we can rope all the insecurity challenges You know in one discussion The of course said president Ahmad La one is saying Nigerians are tired of crying and and stories And this is in a couple of years after, you know, they've been in national assembly And held that position. There's also, you know, on the punch terrorist on the rampage killing 52 in Plateau state and Niger state abducting hunters and all that and there's something also that I found interesting saying Here that's unfair communities panic after bandits give them a one-week automaton for 35 million era levy So I don't know if we can rope all these into one discussion Sadly, yes, we can and and that's first expression is failure of governance and Misunderstanding or lack of understanding or deliberate Misunderstanding of what governance is all about the essence of governance the things that should be done the imperatives of governance I put all this together because The constitution is very very very clear Chapter two section 14 subsection 2b. I could never quote this enough the security and welfare of The people shall be the primary purpose of government if we live in a country where What we have reported on a daily basis is a number of killings and everything and the Senate president The Senate president is coming to tell us Nigerians are tired of hearing the stories.  Is he expecting me to clap for him? Let me tell you the Senate president is the head of the arm of government responsible one For knowing what is the plight of the people which is representation to making the laws Okay, that's clear lawmaking and three Oversighting the executive to ensure that the laws that they have made are carried out time-nursely and effectively The man that should know how I feel make laws to address it and ensure that the Executive implemented that same man is coming to tell me That the people are tired of hearing stories You know, you just did a two-minute clip of the leader of one of the countries giving you reporting two minutes I don't think that she came to talk about. Oh, how she's been overwhelmed. Oh, she's telling what she's done. I Expect that Mr. Senate president will come and say on account of one two three These are the things that the executive must do We have given them the enabling laws to do those things and we are going to make sure that they do them As a matter of fact, I'm expecting him to come and tell us in the year 2021 We will follow this we did this and as a result this has been achieved a Sitting governor is telling you I was trying to understand, you know, how that the Geology of that statement that to local government He's saying has been or he's Oh, I think he's saying that they are currently still under terrorist control. Yeah No, I think he's he's saying that they still are on the control Well, which I think I tried to unless maybe my eyes were still It says until now to burn no local governments on Means that it is no longer Well, it could be it could be understood it could be understood in certain, you know, two different ways It could also be understood that, you know, even till now No, no till now and until now. Well are two different expressions. Anyway, let's not go into those You know, I went to Is that What the point I'm trying to make is that the Senate president is not the right person to come and tell me that I'm tired I am the one to tell him I'm tired and he should have known that by representation that I pay him for He is the one to come and tell me out of your being tired, which I heard you loud and clear I did this on lawmaking and from the lawmaking. We are over citing in the budgetary provision This is what we did and why do we always think that everything comes down to business contracts Bind to cannot yet. I ask a simple question I'm not a security expert, but at least I can think and Common sense tells me that you take the wind off the sail and then you get the ship to stop or You take the oxygen off the flame and the flame comes down What is the wind of terrorism? What is the oxygen of terrorism? How have you extracted them? How another part of your paper says that you know the soldiers the army, which I feel so sorry for This is a modern age. They take What is coming to play? But you see these people don't think that way. They don't think governors. They are on his contract to cannot judge Nobody knows how much the body for nobody knows whether they were deals or not But they just want to keep appropriating money into you know buying hardware software bad way, but how about The target the young people How have you created? The new new direction vision for them to see a future that is bright a future That is better which they must not jeopardize by getting into the network of the terrorists No, but you have weaponized poverty for your own political gains and these people just want to survive It's natural instinct. So I think that the day we sit down Look, this terrorism can be can be wiped out when you have a Government that comes to think in terms of governance and not of politics right now poverty is needed for politics And as a result poverty must be weaponized Right now the people in government are doing more of politics and not of governance As a co-y I took forward the one time because we're you know time is actually not our friend at this point Let's look at the leadership newspaper Seven months after the federal government leaves ban on Twitter and its operation now two points here Some persons are saying that this has really not achieved anything the ban has not achieved anything entirely You just it just feels like someone was unhappy about a particular action And then they decided to say hey, let's exercise our muscle and you know put out the power play out there And that's what happened and another school of thoughts are saying that this is just the you know We're just closer to the 2023 elections and the government has a need to sell themself You know put up the agenda what have you and that's why they have taken off this ban But would like to show your thoughts on the Twitter ban that has been lifted the essence was Not nationalistic The approach was not ingenious Betty There was a good reason to take that action and They are setting outcomes of that action which should be commended for instance Getting Twitter to pay tax to Nigeria. It's good. I like it Number two getting Twitter to establish an office in Nigeria. No matter how you look at it one of two people will be employed It's good. I like it No, but what have these things have these things been done That's what they told us when the conditions for lifting unless they just you know these people man My it we live in a very interesting country. That's what they told us It is that they've come to enter a deal and Jettison what they told us we're gonna know because I've never lifted the ban I'm expecting that they will tell me this is where Twitter offices and of course You know taxes Like like em ghosts, you know, you just see figures You don't know how they come about but if we lived in a more transparent system we will be able to know the Taxes that have accrued to Nigeria from MTN from Twitter from all these other bodies But even if you use the freedom of information bill to want to look for these things the reason is simple when they are Transparent there'll be a lot of questions and we know that our people are more into negotiating for themselves than negotiating for the nation. So bottom line on the whole matter is that You see sometimes you dig a hole without knowing that you need one to fall on it Because now you think that you need them for you to you know, make your point as the As the this thing is coming Elections, but let me tell you that Many of the people that are in power right now are going to be out of power before election time They're gonna defect So if you're not careful the rope that you tied is going to be used it against you And on the other hand if you think that you can say what you want and Twitter will not say anything If a position says anything, you know be able to start pulling the ropes Nigerians are watching. We're not as dumb as you think they are and at the end of the day They will know that they have inadvertently played into the hands of Nigerians thinking they are smart Oh Let's also talk about something else on the daily independent It says here 2023 presidency Southwest the APC may ostracize or shimba Joe Also, I have nothing against in a book which in bad ways my choice is a king lah There's also a fenifera saying or I had the banjo of a fenifera saying that he will not be supporting Well, I'm a tenable so it's a little bit of back-and-forth in controversy with regards these two persons Bear in mind that the vice president has not in any way stated that he will be running for president You see the politics of the Southwest is a very interesting politics It's it's a point. It's just general politics generally only that they are More I think if I do rate Nigeria generally, I'll say the north is number one The Southwest is number two and probably the south is south-south I don't know how we've come into politics because when you look at 2023 presidency while the e-boats Want to have the presidency? Southwest have seized the narrative and all of a sudden we're talking about Tunibu or she bad job Southwest Southwest and I Can't find some East in the mix and that's because these people have an understanding of how politics is played They've considered saying things in the north, but they've come to say look north.  You could not do anything. I am the one that was able to fix you there So be careful. So they've been able to put the fear of God in the north and as a result They don't mind that they had eight years of a president of a central You also had eight years of as president and they had a super job eight years as vice president And that during this current dispensation the South East have not had a president They've not had as a vice president But they are coming back and seizing the narrative because the South East is not able to put themselves together They've not had a president. They know how the vice president. They are agitating. They are unhappy, but nobody's hearing them The reason is simple They are political strategy and maturity leaves much to be desired when it comes to trade give it to them They've got it. But when it comes to bureaucracy and you know, politicking the Southwest seems to be better at the game So for me what is going on as far as I'm concerned is a strategy where the narrative is now focused on the Southwest and that Tinnubu Oshiba just think I wouldn't be surprised if it is just a deliberate staging such that the narrative comes to hours, you know, kind of At the back of my mind coming to a set that oh it might go to the Southwest now the narrative is no longer about the Southeast think about it The narrative is Southwest Tinnubu, Oshiba, Oshiba, Oshiba and Oshiba, Tinnubu, Oshiba, Oshiba and everybody is talking about it Well, the state governor has also stated that he would like to run for president No, he's not stating. Even me I can state now that I'm going to run Tell me the media narrative that is talking about Igbo presidency as being the focus of the narrative. No, it's not that You know talking about it's not there Well, I remember also in the build-up to the 2019 elections One of the promises that were made because I was still in Southeast then and one of the promises that were made by the APC You know campaign as was, you know, that's South issue support present momentary. So that Yeah, that is you know the highest, you know opportunity to have so that you can get 2023 Should that come from you? Should that not have been the subtle input to Nigerians to the end that Nigerians reject APC because they are deceitful. There's a way, you know strategy means that there's a way you can diplomatically turn a kind of thinking Narrative you can spin a narrative, especially if you have the fact on your side That particular thing will show you can blackmail APC as you you've got to come clean and show yourself as a man of integrity That not that that pronouncement should have been all over the media Everywhere to the end that these guys would show themselves as either being Insincere or being people of integrity and if they are insincer with nation will know them for that If there are people of integrity they will say yes, we said yes We stand by our word people stand down. It is Southeast, but the South is not pushing that narrative Instead the Southwest is pushing the narrative of two people and at the end of the day, two of them will enter house and say bros You know, I'm your guy. I'm your boy. Send your boy. I'm your guy stay for me And they'll be a family meeting. They will outside and Nigerians would have, you know, subconsciously accepted that it's going to the Southwest So, you know, in other words, you're saying that, you know, the politics is going on in the South is is not I mean Those who have decided to declare their interests are not united. There's no unity. Is that what you're saying? There's no unity.  Look, one man in his state, Anambra State, is richer than the whole state So it's a matter of coming together and they give him, if Mohalu is giving a certain capacity today Nigerians will take him serious for two reasons. Number one, he's had executive, you know, whatever Experience a little bit, you may say. He's had exposure. He is cerebral He is likeable and all those things. Maybe we can he can he and they can give him that can he capacity It's very easy. Number one. Number two, you bring a man like Peter will be his love by the people I'm telling you this because of what he did in Anambra State and at a time like this that Nigeria is in diamond of a man who sits on the job feels for the country thinks about the money of the people And then he said well and he did it eight years as a governor But these guys would rather tell him you cannot be you cannot be cannot be then they bring Umahi in the mix Umahi is relatively new. He run a small economy and he cannot compare a man that has done eight years in Anambra State And has also run as a vice presidential candidate in terms of you know Political pedigree and everything this man just get one two three people push them out But that's not happening and it should be the case I think I feel if he should come to the south as far as I'm concerned my position is different Nigeria needs a messiah to get us off the woods right now But if you must talk in terms of zoning if you must talk in terms of zoning I tend to think that the South East have a better Steak or claim to that seat. Okay But let's just quickly share your thoughts on this one. It's on the leadership 81,000 apply for 10,000 police jobs What do you think about this? I? Think that we see if the police job Nigerians should be made to understand is a setting social service The policing job is one of the most Sensitive Nationalistic services and not job for boys So when you have people Going for the recruitment. They are not they don't understand what policing is in the real sense They understand policing from oh you stand on the road You make a lot of money and this and that is why we are having what we are having today I expect the federal government to set up a setting profiling template for Employment and recruitment into the police to make the police to be very very professional To make the police to be to be service based People we used to join Boy Scouts in those days because we thought it was good if you look abroad some children said they want to be fireman Because they see as service some young people said we want to be nurses We because they want they have this hard to serve That is where the police force comes in But you have people who are coming with a mentality to make money So they are only to go to the road harass people and everything and that is not policing and Nigerians should know better and leaders should know better They should say no like we're going to walk in in nmpc and oil company It's an effect of the of the unemployment, you know across the country. So everyone is trying to get What do you expect when I do what when you have I mean that's a job vacancy, right? No level of unemployment is going to make you to bring people to become doctors. We're not trained Very true But level of unemployment, so you need to pick out setting part of of of the system And create a myth a system about it for the ultimate good of the state While unemployment you go into all that youth enterprise and all that like in akwaibom I was one of those that was in the forefront of akwaibom youth development bill go on that create a template Where entrepreneurs will be brought from the youth side and you train them you give them job You give them capacity that is a template that is general But you say when it comes to the police, it's got to be this you've got to be a graduate They would have enough you've got to have this pedigree of social service They would have enough because they just want 10,000 the people that meets that criteria you can have over 200,000 of them Absolutely As I told you You know, I think you need the hill on the on the on the head when you spoke about You're not going to just recruit doctors because you know people are looking for jobs same thing with pilots They're certain certain jobs that are very very sensitive You know, it cannot be played with played with but out of time Without discussions this morning. 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It's a good morning. For the fewer people we have, the more interactive we can do it. It's not the worst case for me. I already had just one in the audience, so it was really a nice interactive talk. For the people who know me, you know that I say good morning all the time. For the people who don't know me, I'm Mario from Switzerland. I organize since a bit more than seven years around our meetings that's a meeting in the middle of nowhere in the Swiss Alps. Actually, it's not geographically, it's quite in the middle of Europe and we are close to the Italian border. We are in the French part and we speak German there, but when we have the hacking meetings, we speak English there. So it's quite, not in the middle of nowhere. Let's, if you have read the intro text about this presentation, it's a bit about historical review of what we did in Rwanda for the last seven or eight years and a thing for you to motivate to organize sprints yourself. We had last year a nice discussion around at the Rwanda meetings. We made a short book about how to organize sprints. There's a thing in KDE that in the recent years we had fewer sprints during the years and I think it would be something that would be really nice if we have more sprints in the future. So in general, in the following 25 or 20 minutes, if you have any questions or if you have anything to tell, please do it during the talk and don't wait till the end of the talk. Okay, how it started. Rwanda meetings are quite big so I would propose start small, grow step by step every year a bit more or stay stable, that's quite okay as well. I think personally two people for a weekend working on some KDE or free software stuff are already a sprint. Doesn't need to be just about code, you can write some documentation, you can do some artwork, you can do other stuff. Promo work is important as well, communicational stuff, do it and get some people invited to your place. It's already a sprint. In between my slides with some tips about how to do sprints and what to look for, you will find some pictures of recent Rwanda meetings. I hope I didn't pick too many embarrassing pictures. We see here first version of the Rwanda meetings back then it was, actually it started this way. I used KDE software, free software for quite some time and I wanted to give something back. I studied computer sciences in my minor but I don't think I'm the best developer and don't write the most brilliant code so I searched another way to give something back and I tried it with the desktop I used. So I got in contact with the Plasma people. You see the Plasma founder Aaron Saigo is there and a lot of other people who are, meanwhile some of them might, meanwhile disappeared, some came back. David Edmundson is missing, for example, I think there still. And I got in contact with them and I proposed to them, hey guys, you could come to my place. I have a nice holiday house in the middle of the Swiss Alps and I would cook for you. I would give you some electricity. I tried to find some internet connectivity there and you have some places to sleep.  And after I think half a year or a year, finally the occasion came and we found a date that fitted for everybody and the people arrived in Randall and everything started. You see it's quite small. You don't see our Charlotte as a holiday house there but we had around 20 people in a house that normally you have four to six people there regularly. We had another flat nearby where some of the people slept and we ate together, I cooked for them. Everybody, almost everybody did a bread during this week. If you look close, that's the former Plasma logo there. And you see Aaron working there. That was the living room during the week, mostly crowded, that's that. My job was mostly, as I said, cooking and from time to time I needed to go downstairs and reinsert the fuse. What's quite nice in Randall is, as I said, it's in the middle of nowhere but you can have a lot of relaxing time. You can do some nice hiking. You can do some dam building together in the rivers although I told these guys don't do it there because it's dangerous. And actually, I think five minutes after they came the top of the bed, the water came. So it was lucky that we still have Plasma. That was the first version and we had some visitors there as well. Miriam and Morg from Amorok were back then there and thought it's nice we could do something the next year as well. It worked really well. It was really inspiring and really productive there but when my parents saw their living room they told me, okay, Miriam, once and never again. So we needed to find a bigger house. In general, if you want to do a sprint logical, one of the logical first steps is choose a topic, something that interests you. In free software development, you mostly say search an itch you want to scratch or a project you use very often or a project, of course, doesn't seem, doesn't need to be like for me that you're not yet involved in a project, you can already be involved in a project and then you just search other people who are interested in this topic and you find a place and a time where you meet. So this was too many slides. That was the second version of the Rondam meetings what's the first time in the big house. It's actually the biggest house in town, even bigger than the church which are mostly the biggest buildings in town. It's quite an old building and it's amazing how many people of Europe were already there in their childhood. A lot of classes were there. We could use it. We rented it for a week. We had back then and actually this year it was a good friend of mine who's a professional chef who cooked for us. We've mostly, the area there is famous for their good nice weather and we had time for a barbecue there as well. This mountain some of you might recognize is the Matterhorn. Nobody knows or nobody outside the KDE and free software community knows about Rondards. It has less than 400 people there but there's a very famous tourist city nearby that's Sermot with the Matterhorn. Very touristy means, very expensive as well. So we mostly make a short travel there but I think we can afford it here but we can't really afford to go to Sermot for such meetings. This house is really nice. It has a capacity of up to 100 people which we don't want to reach. We had of around between 40 and 60 people in the last years which is quite nice. We have still space in the house for the case. It's raining where you can go to other rooms where we have the possibility to go a bit away. We have a big room under the roof there where mostly the people are. Back then I don't know if you see it very well that was the internet connection that year. So we tried to find out if DSL is working there and we were ripping off of the cables out of the walls and it worked okay for the week. As I said, we always, if you live for a week under the same roof, eat under the same roof, hack under the same roof, all the time you need some hours to go out and do something else and thus we always have a social event. When we go to Sermot later we went there to watch closely the, or not so closely the motorhorn if the clouds were not there or we offered for the people who wanted it a hike back for like three hours. And people really liked it, I think. In the first year we had multimedia and EDU, educational people there and I think multimedia is somehow a meanwhile part of the infrastructure of the rundown meetings. That's the thing you need as well. I mean, you need a place. It depends on the size you organize. You need some kind of infrastructure, the electricity of course, internet connectivity, food. I mean, most of the sprints are organized the way that people stay. That's the next one, accommodation. At a place, at a hotel or a hostel nearby. There's not everything under one roof. And then you don't really need to care about food or restaurants nearby. If you are in the middle of nowhere you need to have somebody who cooks. And you need to get the people there. But that's mostly not a problem to find somebody interested. There we see the rundown meetings in the year 2011. In the background you see a picture with some drilling machines. That was the year when we decided at the former year I didn't find a picture. We had a lot of cables hanging through the staircase. So not just the internet connection was quite dangerous to walk by. But we wanted to fix this and as we saw that the rundown meetings become, make sense. People like to come there and we probably will continue for some more years. We asked the owners of the house if they'd like to provide us the hardware and we would wire the house for them. That means some months before the rundown meetings what happened, I organized. There's a smaller one, quite big drilling machines with a ruler like this one because the walls, as I said, house is 150 years old. We need to drill quite big holes. It was an experience I'd like to have only one in my life. But that one is now that we have the whole house wired. We have Wi-Fi through the house. We have ethernet connections in the house and I just need to push a button in theory. What can happen in Rondard? There's always the question before the new participants come to Rondard. What's the temperature like? So that's the weather on the 1st of June there, normally summer, but that can happen. So we had really five centimeters of snow for like two hours on this day. Under the roof, we started then as well that if you have, that's a thing of the rundown meetings as well, we have mostly different groups there. Some of them work more in parallel but we tried to use those energies that people tell each other what they are doing. So we always tried to avoid that people go home and realize, hey, this guy would have been there. David Ford could have fixed my buck. Why didn't I ask him? So we have different presentations up in the big room and since something like two or three years ago, we record them as well so that people outside can watch them afterwards as well. And if you're ever nearby this house which won't probably happen until you come to the rundown meetings, you can use the wifi for free. So legal matters, that's the story you wanted me. By the way, there's the president of our association and we or I searched some people who found an association for the rundown meetings simply because I wanted to get some legal responsibilities for my shoulders. That was the time, around this time, I first met my wife, meanwhile we have two kids. So my responsibilities and life changed a bit. That was the year in 2012, I think, when we had at first 20 people from India who wanted to come. So I was used to invite them, write them, people who need a visa invite them so they had a simpler procedure to get their visa and then one day I got a call from the embassy of Mumbai and they called me, hey, what's rundown meetings? What are you doing there? Why do you invite people? Are you aware that you're responsible for every person 30,000 euros if they disappear in Switzerland or Europe? And then I started to count, okay, 600,000. It's not my normal budget. I think a year before, it already started in a more positive way that we got the biggest Swiss telecommunication company, Swisscom, that sponsored us quite an amount of money. All the money went through my personal account, which yeah, I'm mostly a trustworthy person, but I prefer if the amount's raised that somebody takes an eye on it. And so in 2012, we founded the Rondown Meetings Association, which is by the way now a community partner of KDEV. We will announce it soon in the next days. So in general, to go back to the smaller sprints that you will organize, I think mostly it's not a problem legally that you should worry. I mean, you can have people that need a visa but KDEV will help you. They have quite an experience in it. They can write the invitation letters. We have some experience now as well. Simon did it for quite some years and there is help all over the place. And I mean, the great Kenny who does a lot of organizational stuff for KDEV can share his experience as well. That's 2012. The participation rate was more or less stable. I think 2011 was still now the biggest one. There was the platform 11 Sprint, which is now known as KDE Frameworks 5. A lot of it was done in Rondown. What's mostly interesting is to see how the groups work there in Rondown. I mean, different groups have different styles on working. Normally, we as the organizers don't push any directions on this. So we just offer the infrastructure that people can use it and organize themself. But it's interesting to see groups that, in the worst case, and that happens almost never, people are sitting right beside each other and still do IRC, although they are face-to-face there. But mostly you see people really using the infrastructure. So they are discussing using post-dates and doing Kanban style discussions. Then split up in groups, use the rooms that we have there, go outside without the computers, just do a hike, get some inspiration, come back in the evening, probably they do some coding and there's really amazing work going on. I always say people outside that are really finding astonishing how their own motivation and the will to spare their free time. It's amazing how much work gets done. And it's somehow sad to see, somehow satisfying to see that people leave Rondown not relaxed, but they need another week of holidays to get back to a new energy. Here we see, back then, that was the accessibility group. I think this guy was from GNOME. So we tried to bring other projects to Rondown as well. I mean, the problem or not problem from my side is that I have the best connections in KD. I know most people, but I always try to bring other people. I mean, the KD accessibility group had great contact with the GNOME accessibility guys. I think the year before, we had some GNOME guys as well. Videolan with Sean Baptiste-Kempf was there already. And I heard that Adrian is trying to bring some more other projects to Rondown and some more work for us there, which is good. Financial matters. Mostly, you have some costs in some way. I think at the start, if you're not some local people of the same country, you will have costs like bringing people to your country, which is a place as well, where KDEV helps quite a lot and is amazing, at least from my experience. We are always at a good connection with KDEV, KDEV board, to solve these problems and get people to the country. Other stuff can be that you don't want to spend your own food reserves and want some money for the food. And I think that's something that KDEV can help you if you need help, but the further you go with your sprint, the more often you organize it, you will find local supporters. You can tell companies in the local area. You should use local newspaper radio to tell people about what's happening there. Mostly, there are at least a few people who are interested. In Rondown, we tried it with Open Day in the recent years that people could come to our house for a day and take a look over our shoulder and see what we're doing there and why do people from Brazil to Peru and India come for a whole week to Rondown and bring 50 more people to a population of 350. That's 2014. You might see some people you recognize, some other people we had that was the year, I think, with most of the families there. What we, at least I heard from people coming to Rondown, people who finished their studies at universities started to work, they needed to decide between should I go to a KDEV sprint or should I spend the time with my family on summer holidays? And that was something I thought I could solve there somehow because it's a nice place for families there as well. So why don't these people bring their families along with them? And that worked quite well.  I need to produce some more helpers. And there were quite some people over the recent years who brought their family with them. And as I said, we don't fool, fill the house. During the week, we always have some rooms free. And of course, KDEV doesn't pay their travel or their stay there, but compared to Cermet or other places in Switzerland, we can offer quite cheap accommodation and food there. And I think from the feedback, people liked it. And below you see, I think that was the first year that Bruno Kudwa from Chakampri was there and he did some life testing with my son, who really liked it. For me, and I think in general, if you like to do organizing, it's really fun and joy of organizing because you have to do so many different things. I mean, in Randall, it's actually, I do a hotel for a week. I do everything from taking care of the toilets, see that the chef is doing some food to internet connectivity stuff, see that people arrive, see that people find contact there and see that people find their way back home. So it's really quite diverse what you're doing there. But nonetheless, it's a lot of work and further your event will grow the more work there is. But it's another thing. I think it's very important to keep the fun and joy in organizing this. Take a look at yourself, take care of yourself. Maybe if it's too much or I didn't tell, there was one year in this. The first round of meetings were in 2009. So we had the opportunity, if you count back, to do eight round of meetings in 2013. I personally needed to cancel it because my wife had an accident where she needed quite some rehab during the year. Everything went fine, but I just didn't have time and I didn't want to spend, I couldn't spend time on it. So take a year off and then you will value it even more the next year. But take a look at you, take an eye on yourself and see that you don't burn out but I think there's a general rule in development as well not just in organizing sprints. This was last year, similar group. Konke is still there with the little one as well. There you see a nice picture of the Canadian life people who got contact with, I think, that guy from the visual design group where they do some review of the user interface. On the other side you see some visitors who are playing with Chacompre trying out new stuff and are probably, at least these kids came back almost every year, some new KDE software users who come there. There you see another distraction we offered during the week and today I got a new idea for another more sportive distraction during the year, distraction. That's a puzzle we always have there on a table. That's mostly a puzzle between 1,000 and 1,500 pieces. It's the group picture from the year before so we always try or people can do it between compiling or this kind of stuff to do this puzzle and finish it. And there were years we could finish it and there were years where it didn't work. I didn't do a study about if it correlates with the success of the meeting but people seem to like it and that's a nice picture about different groups that are there who talk with each other, Miriam, Schiel and Olivier from different groups that talk about common problems or common things. So I think in general it's work you do to facilitate work other people can do and motivate them so if you offer them a great environment doesn't need to be the middle of nowhere. People will come if you're welcoming and Katie in general is, in my opinion, very welcoming. People can be very, very productive there and it's still a pleasure to offer the week to different free software hackers and hackers. So that's last year. As I told you we have quite a lot of rooms there so last year people decided to use another big room. Morbile guys are meanwhile, I think that's mostly the occasion where Morbile mentors and Morbile Google Summer of Code students meet each other the first time but Morbile is meanwhile something like infrastructure of the Rondon meetings as well. They are there almost every year. Torsten mostly sometimes it matches by coincidence that the moon face is the right one and he brings his telescope. So you can go outside and enjoy the clear sky which you have on the mountains and see some stars there as well and there you see the people standing politely in a row to get their food which of course people need to get more energy to work again. What we don't see here is, I mean, Switzerland is quite famous for chocolate and we tried, my personal goal is that people leave with at least two kilos more each and for people who were there they know why and we make several chocolate rounds during the day and people should have beneath the beer enough energy to coat like crazy. So thanks for listening. Are there any questions? For the case not I'm still here until tomorrow something after noon. Yeah, that's it for myself. Yes? You have themes, meanings, how do you get themes every year? Yeah, the question is I think the meetings, how do I get to the themes or topics of the meeting? At first it was mostly that I picked the groups that wrote my software. I mean Plasma, I used it. Then other groups learned about the rundown meetings and wanted to join as well. I mean we have this infrastructure ready, it doesn't matter if 10 more people are there or not and in the recent years I or we, people in KDE started to talk with each other what could be a good topic, what are we doing right now? I mean a year or two ago we had been touched to KDE. There was a lot of communication between the different groups and we thought let's make a common theme, that's how we selected the themes. But we're always open as I said to other groups as well, we have the infrastructure there or to other ideas. I always never say no. Yeah, yeah, we had one year the book sprint there where we worked well that the coders and their documentation writers were sitting side by side. Is that it? Yeah. Any other questions? Okay, thank you. This was the last talk in this room as I was informed, so let's clean it up.


All right, let me tell you about window swallowing. If you're still not sold on using DWM, hopefully this will convince you. Here's this annoying thing that happens on Linux, that if, I mean, if you use Linux, you're probably used to it. I mean, it's not just Linux, but either way, window swallowing solves it. DWM solves it. Let me show you the issue.  Here's the stuff in my home directory. Let's say I wanna open up, you know, this video here I have downloaded. Okay, so I'm gonna run MPV and then I'm gonna run it on that video. Okay, so what happens by default is that that window, that, you know, video is gonna pop up so it's in like a separate box. And over here we have this original window that was open and it's just like running nothing. I mean, I guess it has some information about the file but like who cares about that?  So for those of you, right now I'm actually running I3. I installed I3 just so I could show you this deficiency. It's totally deprecated because DWM has a way of dealing with this problem. And actually it's even worse than you think because let's say, oh, I wanna get rid of this terminal window, so I'm gonna X out of it. That of course is gonna X out of the window as well, which is a big pain, okay? Other example, let's say I have a, you know, I have a JPEG file here. So I open it in my image viewer, okay? So here's my JPEG file.  Either way, if I get rid of this window, which has literally nothing in it, it's gonna close out of my graphical window. It's just taking up space. I guess I could send it to another window or something but I mean, the real way you're supposed to do it, the inefficient way that I usually end up doing it if I have to work with I3 is you'll use the Setsid command, okay? So Setsid, give it the F option, then run the command you want, okay? So let's say the video and then it's gonna pop up.  Or you could run the same thing and echo the output to DevNull, right?  I'm telling you how to do this, assuming like maybe you already know about this but it's just something you shouldn't have to deal with. So now let me show you the same problem, problem but with the solution in DWM. Okay, so now I'm back in DWM. Let me show you how my DWM build will take care of the same problem, nice and easy, okay? So again, we have these files. I'm gonna run it exactly the same command, no Setsid F, no piping that or sending the output to DevNull. I'm just gonna run it directly on this video file. What's gonna happen? It's gonna pull up the video file and it's gonna replace that terminal that it's gonna swallow up that terminal that otherwise would be nothing. That's an automatic feature you can build into DWM, again called swallowing. Let me run my image viewer on that image file and you will see that it does the same thing, okay? And when I'm done with these things, let's say I quit out of the video, it actually, my terminal is still there. So if I wanna do something else in there, I can, okay? Same thing with this image file. Once I delete it, my terminal is still there. DWM has this swallowing ability you can work into it where you basically, you know, it sort of, I mean in a way, it's actually very suckless because it gives sort of your terminal the ability to view videos in a way of looking at it, okay? So the patch for it is on the suckless's website. It's called Swallow, as I said before. Swallow, all right. And this is, so far as I know, this is a really, I don't know any other window managers that can do something like this, but this is an example of one of these features that, you know, you might not wanna build into the default build of a window manager, but suckless has this great ability since it's, you know, you're supposed to have your own build of everything, oh, they can just put it up on their website and it's great. So you can get the patch, run it on your build. I'm gonna show you what I have in my build.  So, you know, I'm using st as the terminal and you have to give it this value. And that basically means, you know, things should be swallowed from, like if you run something from this program, it should swallow the program, okay? And additionally, now one exception, you can make exceptions to this as well. So one pretty good exception, like one program that you actually wanna see the output to is Zev. So Zev, if you don't know, it's basically like an event handler. So if you like, you know, type stuff on Zev on the left, which is just a blank white screen, it'll show you what's going on on the right. So it's a way to like test key presses and stuff like that.  So you actually wanna see this output. So in that case, you know, and this is like the only program that I can even think of where you actually don't want it to be swallowed. But basically what you do is this line right here, actually to be clear.  Well, then you just go here and you can put its title as event tester and say, oh, give it the no swallow, A for, or A one for no swallow, okay? So that's how you do it. So this is just a really sweet feature of DWM. And I'm actually, the thing is most of my configs for most of my files, like let's say LF, my file manager, they're calibrated to have to work around the fact that, you know, you're gonna be bringing up, let's say, okay, here's an example. Let's say I go to, you know, this file, this image file or something like that and open it up. Now I have it, so it automatically just covers up LF. You know, I just have LF created. Now if you were doing this on i3 or another window manager, you would either have to put in setsid and then, you know, an and at the end so it doesn't, so you can basically keep working on your terminal. You have to put all that junk in. But in this case, you can, again, it basically turns your terminal. It gives you your terminal in practice the ability to watch movies or look at images and stuff like that without having to think about it.  Okay, so that's about it. That's just the minor, this is just the minor thing I wanted to do a video on because it's a pretty cool feature. You should know about it. All right, so that's it. See you guys next time.