Hey Bears, I'm Juliet Buff of CalTV Entertainment and tonight we're at the premiere of Metamorphosis presented by Bear Stage at the Coral rehearsal hall. So join me and let's check it out. Monica Wright and she was one of the fabulous producers for this show. Monica, what are some things that we can look forward to tonight that may be Bear Stage hasn't done before? So this show incorporates like a lot of interesting elements of theater that you'd see in other shows but that like come all together in this we have like live music and kind of fun interpretive dance and We're using multiple elements in this show So I'm just gonna throw that out there let you guys kind of like get surprised when you come here But yeah, see some water on stage, which is gonna be really fun. Yeah. Wow. That is Really interesting and could you tell us a little bit about what the play is about? Sure. Yeah So the play is an adaptation by Mary Zimmerman and it's of Ovid's myths So the show is really ten Small vignettes all different stories like really famous Greek stories that people will come and see and recognize and really enjoy But like it's a new modern spin on them Could you tell us a little bit what it was like playing multiple characters in one show? Yes It was it was definitely interesting to play a multifaceted type deal because You know from from scene to scene you have to transform yourself and really embrace Both physically and emotionally these different characters and we went through and we did some good physical work in order to establish How you move is each character for example right before the show I'm a big fan of just just quieting myself and not really actually Focusing on the characters themselves But focusing more on the the actor side of it because it's really it's a dualistic type thing There's the actor and then there's the character And I feel like by just centering myself meditating a little bit It allows me to be open to each of these different characters I couldn't help but notice the immense amount of water used in the show. That is very interesting What was it like working with that? I could imagine totally different. Yeah. Well, it is We got wet That's that's for sure It but to be honest it actually really brought the play together We introduced it about a week and a half or two weeks ago And it really began to bring out the the the true nature of this play because like for example in one scene I'm splashing myself like crazy And it I didn't even realize how intense the scene was until the water was brought into it for such a different and unique show What made you want to choose this one? So I love Mary Zimmerman's work. She does a lot of adaptations. I love mythology I love folklore She did a production of Arabian Nights and our she'd Argonautica that I saw at Berkeley rep And I just loved and I was really interested in doing a piece of hers that I hadn't seen because I've never seen metamorphosis and like I just The first time I read the play I was I was in the library on campuses in the music library And I just started crying. I just was crying and like I'm not I'm not a balling kind of person But like that it's just such it's such a moving play But it's so funny and I think it catches you in the funny and then all of a sudden it's like oh my god I'm out. That's so moving. So I just love it buy your tickets online find us on Facebook Come see it because you can testify.  There was crying laughter and a few surprises. Please check out metamorphosis


Today we start with a series of webinars called Reflections on MEC. We are going to describe what MEC is. It's the Moodle Educator Certificate. But most importantly, we are inviting people who went through this certification process. And we are wondering, can a certificate change someone's life? We have Tis with us. Tis Kikladi is a learning consultant from Catalyst, and she's going to share her experience with MEC. And I am Anna Krasay, Educator, Advisor and MEC Coordinator here at Moodle HQ. So before letting Tis speak about her experience, let me give you a quick introduction about what is the Moodle Educator Certificate. The MEC is an international certificate for teaching with Moodle. And it is exclusively offered by Moodle certified service providers. Be careful. The MEC is not a basic Moodle training. No. It's not even an advanced Moodle training. The point is that MEC is not a training at all. It is a certification process focused on meeting learners' needs with Moodle. And it requires that candidates have a real-life experience in teaching with Moodle for at least a year. So the MEC Educator Certification consists of six courses, not training courses, certification courses, that lead to six badges. And once someone has all these six badges, gets the MEC, this one certificate. Now, we have six courses and six badges because the MEC is based on the European framework for the digital competence of educators. Perhaps you know it as Digi-combe-du. And this framework has organized educators' professional competencies and pedagogy competencies as well as learning competencies in six areas. The professional engagement, teaching and learning, digital resources, the assessment, the empowering learners, and the facilitating learners' digital competence. And overall, this framework just contains 22 competencies organized in these six areas. And if we take a closer look, we can see, for example, that in the teaching and learning area, we talk about teaching and guidance and self-regulated learning and collaborative learning, all this stuff. So the question is, how can we do all this inside Moodle? When you will join or if you think to join a partner and take the MEC, you're going to see a page like this one with the MEC program and all the courses listed here. You can see we have the courses and we are going to see one of the courses, the teaching and learning course, specifically inside to see how it looks. All the MEC courses have the same structure. So we begin with a welcome section where we have the announcements form and a book, how this course works with details about how the course is organized, the time needed and stuff like that. The second section contains, what do you already know? It contains a self-assessment check-in quiz. This is a test based on the Selfie for Teachers, a very well-known tool, especially in the European area. It's a self-assessment quiz where everybody can evaluate where he stands on specific competencies. And the third section is the teaching and learning overview. Actually, it's the overview section. Here we have mainly books and quizzes. The books basically explain the competence and contextualize the competence within Moodle. It's not about how Moodle works and how to set up Moodle activities or resources. It's just explaining which tools can be used to achieve and demonstrate this competence. And there is always a self-evaluated quiz, accompanying the book so people can take it and confirm their understanding. The number of books and the relevant quizzes depends on the number of the competencies existing in its area. So in some courses we have three, in some courses we have four, like here, and in some courses, in one course actually we have five. The next section is called Your Assessed Task and is the place where the actual assessment is happening. Here we have two assignments and the candidates need to write these two assignments. It's 500 to 800 words for each assignment. They need to answer specific questions, real life problems, including their own experiences. Candidates can include screenshots of a course they have created or a demo course, but most usually from a real course that they have offered. And they can include a link to a course as well, giving the facilitators permissions so they can actually view the course. They have the right to resubmit twice after the first grading and they require a minimum B2 as a pass score. Now, what is a B2? You can see here we have candidates rubric. It's the rubric that we use to assess those two assignments. Well, we have vertically listed the four competencies and horizontally you can see the levels that vary from A to B1, B2, C1, C2. Now, if you are familiar with the Common European Framework of Reference for Language, you will recognize this scale of A, B, C levels. These are the levels that are used and are suggested from the Digital Competence Framework of Educators from the Digital Medu. And we have adopted and used it here in the MEC.  You still need some experience. You may need training. And again, if you are at level A2, again, you need more experience and more training. If you are at level B1, then perhaps you are a good candidate to start MEC. And at B2, we have the pass score for the MEC. It is for independent users, for experts, model experts, teacher experts. And if you are at level C, then you are already a leader or a top trainer. MEC is already offered in seven different languages. It is fully translated in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic. And there are more languages, more translations to come eventually. But at the moment, you can take them in these languages. And how this works, it's very, very easy. If you just log in into the MEC site, you can simply change the system role, the system language. And that will also change the language, not just of the system, but also the content. So it's super easy. And we are now passing over to Tiz to hear her reflections on MEC and see how MEC helped her change her life. I'm going to mute myself, so I'm leaving the floor to Tiz. Thank you. Thank you all. There are two different languages. My, my, my, you. There is Kaifara-Fara, Te Awa, and Mahia. My, Mahara-Hara. Thank you to the members of Te Whanganui, Tara, and Honeo. Kao Kirkland, Toa Kao Whanao, Kao Tish, Toa Kao Inua. Can you go to the next slide, please? So that's a greeting in the, in Te Reo, which is the Indigenous language of the Maori people of New Zealand. And we commonly or often start a, meeting or a talk with that particular kind of greeting. So I'll translate for you. So I said to greetings and I'm letting you know a little bit about me and who I am and where I stand in the world so that we can make some connections together maybe. So I said to you that the Tararua hills have my heart. Those are the hills that are close to where I grew up. The Kaifara-Fara stream eases my worries. So that's a stream, a river, a piece of water that I feel close to. And then I said that I recognize the ancestral and spiritual landmarks of where I live which is Te Whanganui or Wellington in New Zealand. Then I told you my surname Kirkland, my first name Tish, and then I want to say Noreira, Tena Koutou, Tena Koutou, Tena Koutou Katoa which is greetings and blessings to you all. So my name is Tish Kirkland. I'm located in New Zealand. I work, I'm an e-learning consultant at the Moodle Partner Catalyst IT and I've been working here since 2019. If you go to the next slide you can see where New Zealand is located on this map if you haven't worked that out already. So I'm proud to work for Catalyst IT, a premium certified Moodle provider and the largest New Zealand owned company specializing in free and open source technologies and services. As of 2016 Catalyst is the fourth biggest contributor to the Moodle project and the largest in Australasia behind Moodle HQ. In 2019 we were globally recognized for our major contributions to Moodle and in 2021, 2021 we were awarded the Moodle Global Certified Service Provider of the Year. So I'm very proud to be working for Catalyst IT. Next slide please. So I know this webinar is called Reflections on MEC but for me MEC is more than that. It's a part of a wider reflection and consolidation and a lot of Moodle experience and other prior learning. So I'm going to tell you a story today about how I arrived at the MEC and where it has taken me since. I graduated from Victoria University in with and Wellington College of Education with a BA in Education and a postgraduate diploma of teaching. And then I went on to work as a training manager for the BodyShop New Zealand where I experienced what it was like to work for an organization that had values, put principles on a par with profit, using their position to facilitate change to have a wider impact. And through my work and connections at the BodyShop I had the opportunity to volunteer in developing countries and help people in need have a better living situation. And these included Samoa and Timor-Leste. These experiences for me reinforced my passion for supporting human rights in particular the rights of the child. And especially when one is in a position of privilege, something that I later clicked with when I heard about the Moodle philosophy and practice of open source. The concept of helping others led me to a 17 year career English language teaching where my objective was to teach others a skill that I had been born into so that they could achieve their own personal and professional goals to live in an English speaking country or to do business with English speaking clients. I had the opportunity to live and work in several countries and visit many more which was an amazing experience. Over this whole time I had been interested in computers, technology and learning and some of this was before the internet was widely available. And this was something I utilized later when I realized I could use a Moodle site to curate and create content for my students. So I first heard about Moodle from a friend in 2008, not long after we'd moved to Australia and decided to have a go with it. It was hard. Initially I used a site hosted by my friend who had introduced me to Moodle to curate online content and later to host my own courses in content. And this became my newly developed small business which was to teach and facilitate courses for the writing component of a particular English language test. And I hope none of you have PTSD from looking at the name of that test. I read documentation, asked questions and sometimes I found though it was so developer focused that as a front end person, a site administrator, a teacher and content creator, I really felt out of my depth. Plus it was like a new language to me. So many words I hadn't used before and certainly not necessarily in that context. However I persevered and it led me to meeting others who employed me to do Moodle things, mainly along the lines of instructional design and course creation. In 2012 I attended my first Moodle moot which in retrospect had a huge impact on me. I learned how people were using Moodle to give back to the wider community and I learned what open source was. I was hooked. I did everything I could get my hands on. Moodle courses and certifications, a MOOC, I set myself up a Moodle cloud site and I joined the Moodle users association. I loved the interaction and collaboration that the community brought and as a sole trader working from home I really thrived on this. I attended Moots when I could, presented at Moots and met many inspiring people, some of whom have become mentors and lifelong friends. As a result of all this I got my online business up and running properly and in addition to online tuition it was used at a local English language school in Brisbane as part of their language program. So with all this in mind I had been looking for something to formalize my experience with Moodle, something industry recognized and something that could open doors. While all this Moodling had been going on I still had my day job as an English language teacher and tried to use Moodle as much as possible both in the classroom and out of the classroom. However I knew I wanted more Moodle in my life. When I heard about the MEC at a Moodle Moot I was very excited. This certification seemed to fit exactly into my experience of Moodle and my love of education. I wanted to do more Moodle things and this seemed like the perfect opportunity which it was and it led me to great things. I undertook this certification as soon as I could and I found it to be very enjoyable and rewarding experience and it consolidated a lot of what I had already done. On that note I highly recommend getting as much possible as much experience as possible with Moodle before undertaking the certification. There were aspects I struggled with. I had to resubmit assignments. I found that my lack of experience with a range of Moodle sites and different clients and their needs having only administered my own site and own clients was something that I struggled with. But I enjoyed the scenarios and imagining the solutions to complete the assessments and although it's not essential I found that using my Moodle Cloud site to help test ideas and to showcase them was really helpful. For me my favorite aspects of the course were receiving constructive feedback, sharing ideas and getting creative. I liked having the descriptive rubric with criteria to aim for and having been an examiner in the past I was familiar with the rubrics and the CFR levels but A1 to C2 levels. During the MEC had real life applications for me and I was able to later repurpose some of my assessments in what happened next. So it turns out that for me the MEC was what I had been providing to my students in terms of English language teaching and IELTS preparation. MEC was for me what I had been providing to them. So while I was in Australia I saw a job advertised with Catalyst IT, a Moodle partner in Aotearoa New Zealand, my home country and having the MEC gave me the confidence to apply and I used some of my MEC assignments as part of a portfolio that I created for my job application and I used Moodle Cloud to showcase these and I'm happy to report that I was successful in my job application and we moved back to New Zealand after nearly 20 years away and I am so happy to be close to family and be raising at home raising our daughter and in a job that I love. While working at Catalyst I've since used other MEC assignments as a base for speaking at conferences such as the New Zealand Moodle Moot, the Irish and UK Moodle Moot and a national conference for English language teachers here in New Zealand and I've built on some of my assignments to add content to MoodleNet and to contribute to a T-Soul language association newsletter and online e-learning world articles and at Catalyst I've had the opportunity to work with some on some really exciting projects such as working with a developing country who is using Moodle for their national primary and secondary education during the pandemic working with charity organizations in particular those who provide community education about the environment and mental health and working with organizations that promote women's health and health and well-being for Māori and Pacifica communities in New Zealand and because I work for a Moodle partner I was trained to become an MEC facilitator and Catalyst offers the MEC through several of our offices worldwide. So sharing and giving back is important to me and it ties in with the Moodle philosophy of open-source collaboration and learning together and if it weren't for open-source free courses collaboration and the friendliness and encouragement of the Moodle community and just plain having a go I would not be where I am today. My involvement in and with the Moodle community now how no matter how small it may seem gave me the skills and ability to work and therefore save money to pay for the MEC and in my opinion and my experience the investment was well worth it. Your journey can take any form and there are many varied paths Moodle and the MEC opened doors for me and I believe it can open doors for you too. Before you take the MEC I would say get involved read the documentation about Moodle get a Moodle cloud site attend moots get badges get as much experience beforehand as possible take as many courses as you can through the Moodle Academy and through certified partners and I would say go for it. Kia ora. Thank you thank you so much Thies what a journey I would say you're a real proof that a certification can actually change someone's life if you want to if you are interested in Moodle yep I would say go for it let me check the chat if we have any comments any questions if anyone wants to jump in Kelly was impressed with the greeting yeah nobody had idea about it Roxana says thank you for showing such a rich experience Alex thanks also very inspiring Lauren says and yeah well my question to to all of you what do you think are you ready for the MEC if you want to know the answer it's very very very easy to take a little test the selfie for for educators you can find it in the same course where you found the link where we are now and you can take and you can see if you are ready to take the MEC right now or if you need to come back at the later stage where you have gained more experience or get some training from the academy or from certified service providers so before we close this session I would like to let you know a little bit about how you can get involved here in the Moodle academy and help us grow and by contributing to its development being in the academy you can be an active member you can suggest topic ideas what would you like to to see us covering in the future you can join the get involved course and make your own suggestions ask the subject if you are interested in vote for subjects that have been already suggested tell us what do you want to hear from us you can also contribute the webinars if you have a particular skill if you are an expert in some area you have something interesting to say yes please let us know presenters webinar presenters will gain a badge present a present this badge from the academy and you can also contribute to courses you can share your expertise you can share we can contribute on the development of courses and gain a course builder badge and of course please help spread the word about emcee tell your friends and go like about Moodle academy and emcee I would say and consider to join the academy the courses of the academy and gain badges tell others about the Moodle academy and yes do take the are you ready for the emcee quiz and if you're ready our partners are ready to welcome you and they will support you through the certification process thank you very much for being here today I'm going to make a last check in the chat we have a couple questions okay wow we have several messages Lauren asked the selfie training is the selfie test you mean it's inside the emcee quiz called the are you ready for emcee quiz Alex says I'm not quite sure if I'm prepared well enough for the emcee so some partners can take can give may offer the one of the six modules but I would say the most safe option is to take the quiz and contact certified service provider take an interview with them talk with them at explain them what are your doubts and where you don't feel very confident that they might offer you a training a dedicated training on the specific area and they can prepare you in order to go through the certification process we have a question from John I noticed that Dana stressed that emcee is not a training can you say some more about the difference between training and certification yes of course well training is meant to to teach you you have unlimited attempts you are there to learn you can repeat things until you get the mastery of a specific skill but here is a certification process so things are strict you cannot have unlimited attempts in the assignments for example you don't have unlimited time to complete emcee whenever you want partners set usually specific time frames for completing the emcee and you can come back if something urgent happens but you cannot take the process for more than longer than two years certification means that things are strict and it's not just the partners who review the assignments partners do the first assessment and then Moodle HQ education team confirms and verifies the assessments and confirms that you are ready for certification she says that yeah she took her it took her about eight weeks to complete the emcee yes and yeah sometimes may take longer indeed thank you Roxana Kelly happy to have you here yes as she says the certification process requires some quality time I would say dedicate a lot of time and a lot of thinking time and writing because you have to actually reflect on your experience on your yeah on your teaching experience with Moodle and suggest ideas suggest the best options to do things in the scenarios we have okay does the emcee could be started at any time or any or in particular addition state well it depends the the part the Moodle partner that you will contact with we usually suggest to search for people for Moodle partners near you so you can have any is in the time zone and this will they will tell you when the next session starts some of them offer them on specific dates some others have it open all year every day so you have to talk to them directly you can contact these for example in catalyst you can contact Kelly at Moodle yes depends where you are if you go to the Moodle.com slash partners we can find the list of the certified service providers and filter the results from based on the emcee in your area I think we haven't left anything open any any questions open in the in the chat and yes emcee has a price but the price of the emcee depends heavily it's defined by the Moodle partners so we cannot tell you the the price of the emcee you have to contact them directly how does the process work after emcee completion is there an interview after the tasks are completed Aurelia asked this and Aurelia no the the interview actually comes before partners walk you through the emcee before they allow you to take the emcee because if if you are new to Moodle or you are a new teacher there's no point to to try to for the emcee it's for experienced users for experienced educators so the interview comes first so they can confirm that you have the necessary level of experience and then you're just then rolling to the courses and you complete the courses and at the end the facilitators alert the education team in Moodle headquarters to review and confirm verify your work candidates work so thank you very much all of you for being here early in morning or late at night it was really nice to have you and it was really nice to start the year with such inspiring presentation story I would say from this thank you so much has been a pleasure


So guys I am back with another Diablo 4 video and today guys I bring with you the most broken XP farm Legendary loot farm gold farm you name it guys This is the most broken thing in this game. You don't want to miss this How's it going people? My name is DPJ and if you do enjoy the video living a life cool It helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe Okay, so what you're witnessing here is an infinite enemy spawn these enemies will constantly spawn in Forever they will not stop until I quit out my game or exit this area for about I think it's three minutes. I Could just sit here all day farm XP level up Absolute no problem whatsoever. So what you're witnessing here is a bug Now I'm not going to tell you guys to get on your game and start doing this is a bug It's an exploit you're taking advantage of something that shouldn't happen in the game So use it at your own risk That's I'm that's what I'm saying use it at your own risk. Okay, so to achieve this guys You're looking for a certain event now this event can appear in the open world It can appear in a dungeon even a nightmare dungeon where XP games are higher and it can also appear in Certain sellers I right here. I'm in the cannibals football seller within the dry steps and you'll see this location on screen now This is where you probably want to come through to try out strict get it to work get used to it If you want to do this it's up to you So what you do guys is you're looking for the event where you need to rescue those three hostages That is the one event you need now It may work with other events where they have that cat down timer and you have to clear that waves I do not know all I know is it works with that hostage event. So what you need to do guys is basically Start the event take part in the event And what you want to do is you want to group up all the enemies the enemies will obviously try and slay the hostages That's fair enough. It don't matter about that Let them do that if they want to but then you want to group up all the ads and you want to kill all the ads When that time it gets to zero now you have to time this perfectly now It ain't the easiest thing in the world to achieve But it isn't too hard if your build can do decent area of effect damage If that's the case, it should be quite easy for you to do the only problem is it's fine the event in us In a seller or a dungeon or whatever you want to do this Once you get it down guys like I said once you find this event All you need to do is slay all the enemies that are alive Within that event at that current moment you need to slay them when that timer hits that zero if this happens The chest will respawn while the chest will spawn but the enemies will start to respawn then guys You've got the bug you've got the glitch you've got the exploit you can sit here for as long as you want Earning that XP now. This is actually something I saw reported quite about a week ago now I saw a video on this bug. I've also I searched up about it I saw someone on the forums under Diablo forums Reporting this saying it is a known issue It's been known for about a week now and they haven't done anything about it yet Now it's getting bigger and bigger by the day people are starting to take advantage of it. So Blizzard will no doubt Nerf this out of the game now.  I don't think they will But I cannot say for certain that they will not so again, I do not recommend I'm not telling you to do this, but you can do this if you want. It's up to you again This will work in nightmare dungeons. You just need to find the event. This will work in a normal dungeon You just need to find the event what I wouldn't suggest you doing is Using the Reset farm, you know where you could just leave the dungeon and re-enter the dungeon or leave the cellar re-enter the cellar to Reset the actual cellar and reset the instance. I wouldn't do that with this because This here this farm these enemies that are indefinitely spawning here will continue to spawn for at least a note I think it may be three minutes before it resets. This means guys my full inventory which I have now I Could go to the local town at the cell orders and come back and these enemies will respawn now This was told to me by my pal. I'm gonna try this out So let's do that.  Okay, so let's just do this So it's just Crockham. Oh no, that was a fail. Let's just let's just teleport try and teleport out of there Let's try and teleport out of there. There we go. Okay, so we're going to our local town I ain't bothered if it resets. It's not something I'm gonna take advantage of evil way. I just want to try it out Okay, so now we're just gonna Who can we sell to you here? Don't think we can sell to this No, we're kind of not but don't really matter either way. We're just still I'm not gonna waste time Let's just go back and see if it's still working Now if yeah, there we go. It's still here and this is the thing If you used to do the nightmare sigil a thing where you to reset normal dungeons where you activate a nightmare sigil go inside of that Nightmare dungeon and then kill an enemy or do the first objective Then go to any other dungeon on the map or even a cellar on the map Yes, you can reset the cellar by exiting and re-entering it and yes that would work for this But again, if you wanted to travel to town to sell your loot to make gold Uh materials, you wouldn't be able to do that because as soon as you exit and come back This will have reset and wiped So yeah, it's absolutely crazy guys. It really is and again This is a bug. It's a known bug. It's an exploit. We're taking advantage of something that should not be in this game It shouldn't be in the game, but it is now what I will say it is as well. You can do this in a party You can do this in a team. You can do this co-op that you don't matter I couldn't even write my part of this now and he can take advantage of this as well We can earn more exp. I could pop a potion here Get even more exp I can die Respawn It doesn't matter. This bug is quick.  Okay coming in Come on. Hurry up Hurry up So yeah, I'm just gonna respawn Yeah, this is in definite people. This will not stop This will not stop. I think three minutes Is the maximum time you have to get back here. It could be shorter. I'm not sure about that I can't confirm that. I wouldn't leave it longer than a minute though if I were you so if you need to go Do some else. I don't know calling a friend Get them to do it while you're just sitting there afk And I mean to be honest wipe this could be done afk as well. If you set up a form build Uh get life on kill you could stand here literally All day you could literally stand here. That's madness. I didn't even think of that. I might try that out Create a form build life on kill And let's get tons and tons of xp now in regards to xp gains from this It's obviously dependent on your build the better your build the quicker you can kill enemies Why I have saw one video where guide tested it. He said he was getting upwards of 20 million per hour I could not confirm that What I would say is my xp bar is definitely going up faster than what I would do in a Nightmare dungeon that's three levels above me. There's no two which way is about that Now if you used to get this to pop if you used to get this to work in a nightmare dungeon Where does enemies at least three levels above you xp gains have got to be there? 30 40 million maybe even more per hour If you consider cannot a lot of people know where their bills can get up to 15 20 million In a dungeon, this is indefinite guys. You don't even have to move again. You can do this afk This is crazy. Yes This exploit will be taken out of the game I'm I just know for an absolute fact Bungie Bungie please don't already know about this So yes, if you want to use this use it while you can again, I do not recommend you doing it though Because I do not know how blizzard are going to Uh, well react what they're gonna do. Well, hey there. We have the guys guys If you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps add to your like what you see and want to see more Be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you at that next one


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Alrighty let's start here. There is no sound. Okay, cool. There are a couple things. So I would look at like I like the inclusion of the the mask for sure and he's being careful while he lifts it but I would pay attention to it. This feels very even in timing how this goes up the window there. It doesn't quite feel like you know it's never quite that smooth and just for contrast of timing I would have a bit of a move and then you can stop a bit and then you can look around and then you continue to go back up with maybe that last head turn there and then watch out. That's a bit fast. I'll be careful. This feels very aka your wrist is totally broken here. I'm not sure how you would move your wrists around. I mean at that point I get it.  Also it's very straight path wise that means it's an IK arm so you have to kind of still look at what would an FK arm do and look at the the arcs in there but you could do this let go. I like that it kind of looks up there a little bit to check but then you can have a bit of a drop and then an arc down like this potentially again this feels a bit broken. How far that elbow is in like this and then again we got a crazy wrist rotation here that makes no sense into that. Let me act this out. If I'm like this and my left thumb is like that can't see me though and now I am I can't that seems maybe it's me but this seems totally wrong. Also watch out for silhouette. I don't know if there's enough room but maybe you can get him a bit more over there with something like this so you can still stay like this so we have a bit of a view of that arm so it's not just kind of this coming out here. Worst case you can always have that arm outside the window. It's just holding on to something outside. We don't know quite yet what it is and then you can bring it in. There are different ways to do that and I think you could have that arm maybe you know maybe comes from the outside and holds up here just for some asymmetry. This feels a bit too twins at that point. Like the general note is always watch out for straight pass with an icky arm. You got that wrist that pops over one frame there and then it feels like you're already easing in everywhere the root is easing in the foot easing in down while foot is off arm is off there's nothing holding him in in place here so he would technically float down here and then have that compression there so watch out that from a mechanics point of view you can't have him float in the air and then ease in that makes it just a bit too magical and then again spacing watch out you got your arm that kind of your wrist that pops in then the arm pops to the right and then pops to the left the silhouette it's kind of wonky we don't understand the structure there of that arm so you would have it either elbow out or elbow in to show that same thing here I'll probably keep this out arm like this it's because we don't want too much of an overlap there you have so much negative space here you can play with that a bit more same thing with just these kind of poses and then watch out when you have something where the whole body moves together you got arms body head all moving over versus you know what if he's careful and you maybe move the head first and then the rest of the body goes with it also careful when you turn around like this this looks a bit far out in terms of how far that that knee is I'll probably bring it in a bit more now when the window goes down that's okay to react like this I mean you can totally have a reaction where it's more like oh like a quick thing hold and then turn but that's totally fine to do that just watch out for your silhouette again that that arm is not kind of lost we just have a wrist towards us and then you get a little tangent there as you rest that arm there again it feels a bit almost a bit default like what would be your stressed out pose because now he is shocked nervous surprised whatever it is and you show that with your pose so the hands are gonna go arms up with this like that is he all nervous is he putting on his head is he putting it out is he just kind of slumped like really is he just kind of annoyed at it like this is your moment to show any type of character traits and personality there then this gets a bit wonky you turn around somewhat slowly again we're very default here and mirrored and then it's kind of the look and then over now you might argue okay as in order to going something must be happening because he's looking at the door now he's leaving and now we're seeing this it's fine i'm just not sure if that's pushing the the drama the tension or anything as far as possible and i don't know if you want to move that first maybe this goes down slowly and that makes him get out of there i do like how he gets out but i will give this a couple more frames if you watch him he goes e and out and cut it out so before we cut out so quickly i will give this a couple more frames but again here i do like that lean into that turn but once we hear if you kind of feel it's a bit twin then defaulty you could have something where maybe one leg is up or it's a bit more sideways or you can get a bit of a different pull in terms of the line of action it's a bit more contrast again you're doing kind of the same and ends up being very mirrored there so like something a bit more original maybe again personality traits like is he how freaked out is easy now clumsy you know like this is again the moment where you can do something a bit a bit stronger at that point and the thing with her is kind of like why like what kind of opening is this she seems what either in a dress or a nightgown is she sleepy you know is it something where you can just show maybe the door is opening even more and she's just really sleepy maybe she still has like her night mask on or something like this feels a bit i would say random and it's good that we're having something now here and it adds to the tension with this but i think this is ripe for more potential comedy or drama or tension or something where i feel like we can push this a bit more now of course this is always subjective but um that's what you signed up for i'll give you my subjective opinions plus some mechanics notes so even back when he jumps here on a jump you want a full extension on the legs and right now we're bending it already gets off the ground it's more like he's rolling off this i mean you might argue okay he's just putting the weight over the arms and the arms are used to push him forward it just feels a bit like it feels more like someone's pulling him almost watch out you got overextended i kid legs there and then it gets spacing wise you go from here to here to here and it's only down versus continuing that arc so watch out spacing watch out asymmetry so there's a bunch of stuff you still need to tweak in there all right thanks all right there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome all right thank you


Okay, Christine, you have the floor? Well, thank you very much and good afternoon. I'm Christine Paddock and I direct C4's research on forests and livelihoods. And I together with you heard six really exciting presentations from each of our six panelists. I do need to say that John Holdren needed to leave us because of urgent business, I assume, more urgent than sitting on our panel. But we have heard, I think, all six of these talks, I think you all found very informative, very exciting, each from a different viewpoint, each based on distinct experiences, using different tools, different approaches. And I think that that would be enough. I think that was very enriching to all of us. And if we were to end there, it would be enough for all of us. But as many of our speakers have actually pointed out, we can't afford in trying to really affect policy on something as complex, as sustainable development, as improving livelihoods, as contributing to the health of landscapes that include forests. We can't afford to be just a single voice. We can't afford to use one viewpoint. We can't afford to base our work on just one set of experiences. And actually many of our speakers here are those who have already done that, who have learned to integrate many experiences, have learned to integrate many people in their science and in the policy-relevant science that they do and in the recommendations that they can make. So let's just continue this a little bit now and join in a conversation and not only a conversation between among our panelists, but also a conversation with you. So I expect that pretty soon we'll get the questions that we're going to pose to our panel and that we're going to discuss among ourselves as a panel. But first, I'd like to give each one of our panelists a very short time, maybe two to three minutes to give us a little bit of their reflections on what their other and what their colleagues have said and what has actually come out from the integration of the various things that we heard. So I guess maybe beginning with Carlos, since you've been sitting here and hearing most of them for the longest, please, we would appreciate. But very brief, two to three minutes because we are running a bit over time. Yes, thanks a lot. Yes, it was illuminating to hear different perspectives. Let me just say I've known some of the people here then and Eduardo for many decades actually to tell the truth. And it's interesting because I guess if I put together their two talks, it shows really the dilemmas that we are facing in Brazil. On one hand, yes, innovation is central. In fact, the ministry work in 2011 put the eye, it's now Minister of Science, Technology, innovation is recognized to be a very important element of this development strategy. And I could not disagree with one thing that Dan mentioned about ways of constructing a sustainable future for the Amazon. Yes, those good success stories can be translated to other tropical countries. Intestification, yes, Cheryl, this is the way to go about tropical agriculture. On the other hand, if you listen to Eduardo, then you saw that there are a lot of mismatches. This only innovation driven development and intensification, agricultural productivity, more profits to farmers does not lead automatically to reducing poverty and inequality. And this is a major challenge for developing countries. It's a major challenge for Brazil. Inequality was being reduced slowly, but too slow. So the equation is not the simple one. And I guess Eduardo very well put that question that even the well-known success story of the acai palm fruit, which is bringing two, three billion dollars into the Amazon economy, not necessarily is causing a tremendous change in equality and the income. And that has all to do with human capital. And that's why I said in my third point, it's the education revolution. If we fail tropical countries, and even within tropical countries, poorer regions of tropical countries, if we fail in the education revolution, I'm pretty sure we are not going to reach development in the Amazon under tropical countries. So though I will stop my comments saying, I really liked all those elements, but putting them together, we need to reduce inequality and poverty. And this is perhaps much more difficult than we might anticipate. Thank you very much. Perhaps another comment from our next panelist. Again, very brief. Sorry, such an enforcer. I also enjoyed the talks a lot. And I must say I was encouraged by the amount of discussion around agriculture and not from such a negative perspective. So we are moving forward. I think this discussion would have been very different 10 years ago. So there is progress and we need to bring more and more people into these discussions. And I think it does have to be not so much at the global level, although we need to recognize that. But it's really these local regional conversations and policies and governance issues that I think will really move us forward in the right direction. Thank you. Pushpal? Any reflections? Three things, basically. I mean, I liked all the presentation that was very rich. One thing which clearly emerges and that also gives me a strength to see that we really need integration of conservation, whether it is change in the forest stock or biomass or emission of the greenhouse gases. We need to bring them, these biogeophysical changes into our social and economic planet. So that is one. So integration is needed. Secondly, from my own presentation, what I said I wanted to reiterate that there are some estimates and economic values but there has been serious effort in last 20 years or so, starting from, you know, Eastern report or the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. But economic estimate must be socially credible. If they are not socially credible, they become another video games and nobody is going to pay attention to. Third, we talked about changing the basic compass of the progress, that is the GDP or national income. It is not going to happen in one day because it is nicely institutionalized and the first step should be that we have to improve them. But in the long run, we have to think about a really better indicator which has a strong scientific basis. At the same time, they are easy and easy to comprehend by the policymakers. So I will stop here and I will wait for some more questions before I go into further discussion. Thank you. Thank you. There are many entry points here that I would like to talk about. We will pick on Dan's push for what we call a polycentric approach. I mean, several initiatives that in themselves would sort of help to emerge larger solutions. There are limits to that too and I think that is the balance that we need to look for. What are the structural and large scale adjustments that need to facilitate the integration of these local scale solutions? I will use my example of the poverty of municipalities as one example where important structural adjustments done at the national level could go a long way. So there are no incentives nowadays for the transformation of resources at the local level in which the fiscal and the taxing results of that would revert into urban infrastructure. And I'll bring with that the piece that I see indirectly or directly was discussed here which is employment.  And the way they use engages with agriculture and engages with economic activities. And the lack of opportunities, the lack of creative industries that offer a perspective to the use, to stay in rural areas, to engage with production systems and not live for cities. It's one of the key problems that we have to deal with. And that has a lot to do with, I think, with reforms that are needs to promote value aggregation in forest areas around the world where employment and other things would come forward and will offer different perspectives to the use population that now sees very little future into that. Yeah, I love the Acai story. If you fly into Belling, the islands around Belling are all forested and they've been managed for Acai for decades. And I've always wondered, how could Brazil have been jumped out in front of Acai, done the marketing, done the entrepreneurial agents so more of that value could have come to Brazilian companies and Brazilian producers. I think there's really fantastic examples of policies that are getting it wrong today that could be easily changed. And since so many of us are talking about Brazil, I'll just cite a few examples. For example, there's a ceiling on the price of gasoline in Brazil that has basically knocked the wind out of the sugarcane ethanol business. And so it's a retracting industry that should be expanding ethanol production. It's one of the most efficient types of biofuel. Yes, I said the controversial word biofuel. It's one of the most efficient ways to get fuel off the land. And Brazil's fleet is almost all flex fuel or moving toward in that direction. But this policy for containing inflation basically has gutted that industry. Another is, and this gets to your point on poor counties. Most counties, their budgets come from an allocation of the ICMS tax. And that tax is there on circulating merchandise and it has killed the soy crushing industry in Brazil. So that has migrated to Argentina. So raw beans go from Brazil to China. The downside of that is that Brazil has not vertically integrated to do more poultry and pork. And so it's sort of these missed opportunities, huge missed opportunities that with a little bit of policy tweaking we could fix. And Carlos, I share your dream of really exploiting commercially and sustainably the biodiversity. And Pushmom, I think the challenge with GDP is enormous. I still don't know the answer, but it seems like it needs to be sort of a Manhattan, maybe the wrong example to use here. But a massive influx of incentives and ingenuity and entrepreneurship. But we've been talking about it for decades and it hasn't happened. That's great. Thank you very, very much. Actually quite a number of our questions that we got were related to these ideas of how to increase the value, the value aggregation in these areas. And I think that perhaps we've already dealt with these since we need to deal with all the questions quite quickly. One specific addition to that might be to talk about actually local rights and indigenous rights in the context of value aggregation and international trade. I don't know, perhaps Eduardo would like to speak a little more about that briefly again. Well I would start to highlight the diversity of indigenous situations that you find throughout the world and how that relationship needs to be attention to the context. And to that I would say that there is not a single solution to that because the relationship between local communities and these communities and different kinds of markets is very context specific. So it would be a mistake I think to think about magical bullets that cut across that. So that's the first thing. The other thing is that there has been too little attention I think to investments and intensification of local production systems and to limit the bottlenecks in which those production system works. And a lot of the problems in economic return that local communities have have to do with very basic infrastructure in which the cost of transportation and other things eat the labor of the sweat of their laborers. So I mean the two points is the context is specific nature of that. The other one is that a lot of the issues have to do with space infrastructure needs that allow them to reap the benefits at different scales. And the question goes on to ask and how does that actually, how does that affect the idea that has been quite powerful of local people or indigenous people being stewards of the forest if what we're promoting is more communication, more international trade. And would anyone care to comment on that? I don't think it's not, it's compatible. I mean I don't think why we should not think of, as those indigenous populations which wish to join in. Because some populations they prefer to be isolated and we should respect of course that. But most, at least in Brazil and Amazonia they want to join in. And I don't see any barrier for them to be integrated through information highways through trade into producing goods that they feel opportunities to produce. They will be their goods, their services, not necessarily different than what they've been doing. But with value added, at least in my context, I'm not an anthropologist. I don't deal directly in my work with indigenous population. But in my context I see tremendous willingness for them to join in this new world but keeping their culture. They are very strong in keeping their culture. And a very important element and all of us know of their culture is the forest. So I think you can put those two things together. I don't see they are not, they are compatible. They are not, it's a myth to think they are incompatible in my opinion. Thank you. We also have a number of questions that address the green economy and also what kind of research may be needed in order to inform this process of moving towards the green economy and what actually might motivate, might move governments to move in that direction. It's, I think largely a question for you, Pushpa. Yeah, I mean we have been able to identify the research gaps and needs in order to use the tools and approaches of the green economy. But as a researcher myself, I would like to highlight two, three major research gaps. When we talk about valuation, economic valuations or accounting, valuations are used for various purposes. One is a typical cost benefit. Sometimes people use it to design a payment between the beneficiary and the providers, what is known as the payment for ecosystem services. And many of the red plus schemes are based on the spirit and the theory of PES. Or there are many other tools like biodiversity offset or wetland banking, you need valuations. So they come from microeconomic theory. While the question at the national or global level are purely macroeconomic in nature. Like, and as one can see, those of you who are from economic science that valuations done on an experimental plot or site specific values is probably no good for the macro questions, which is for example, national income accounting or asset pricing in the economy or aggregation of natural capital with the mainstream accounts, existing accounts at the national or the regional level. So valuation in macro setting is probably the first research agenda wants to think of. Somehow we have done a lot, we in the sense not only the UNEP, but all UN agencies and the research institutions on valuation in microeconomic setting. But the macroeconomic setting, even in the university research departments, the research is very, very basic. And that is, there are few good macroeconomists, but they know macro variable, they know macro, they don't know natural capital well. And there are some good ecologists, they know ecosystem or nature, but their understanding of macroeconomics, a structural model is probably very, very basic. So that is one area. Second is something which, how to make the valuation a social process. And whenever we talk about economic value, it looks like you use market-based or constructed market-based or those kind of methods. But sometimes it has been found that they become a statistical jugglery and to go to the policymakers, politicians, the prime ministers, the ministers with those numbers who know public pulse probably better than anybody else, they find it reluctant to accept them. The reason is not that the valuation is wrong, but we lack confidence, we lack clarity. I'm talking about the economists. How to make our valuation clear and how we should be confident where you have a 10-minute time with the president. And if you say that, oh, this happened, then that happened, then this happens, there are interlinked, there are social, you know, this system, that system, they are very good discourse, do it in the classroom. But to make it, to take it to the policymakers who have the discretion and clout to influence the public at large, you have to be very clear. And there are not many good valuation experts who are clear in their message. A lot of research has to go into that. There are many more, but I will stop here. Thank you very much. I think Dan wanted to add something to that. I think it's such a fascinating question and I think we have to be extremely pragmatic to make these transitions towards green. And I think that we need to take it down to the ground. I agree with you that there's a huge issue with how you measure ecosystem services and the valuation piece. But there are some things that everyone can agree on and quite quickly. And as you said, socialize it and we need to grab those opportunities. I think forest is particularly amenable to that sort of convergence and consensus and let's just figure that out for forest. We can measure it. And if we can measure it in a way that it's going to reduce risk for investment, maybe that's as good as we can do right now to really take ecosystem services to scale. Edward, are you? We just want to make up, I'm not an economist so I use the voice of a friend of many of ours here, Shikito Costa. So the missing link is the mass of economics. There has very little value in the academics sets between the micro and the massive but that's where the regional economic has to play a role and has to be value, I think to understand the interconnections between this global chains and local process. Maybe one more thing, just a quick point. One thing, upscaling the values from the micro to the macro.  How to make those caveats and assumptions plausible and practical. Again, I repeat, in upscaling the values from the local to the regional or the national scale, what are the assumptions and how to make those assumptions more practical and defensible. That is another research thing which we should be thinking of. Actually, Dan, there's another question that's sort of along those lines but does talk about your reference to commodification of tropical landscapes as a vehicle for poverty alleviation and ask the question whether this really is desirable but also whether this is actually conducive to increased food production. And I would like to add a little bit to that a bit based on what Lou said as his last comment. Referring to the real enthusiasm that people had, especially hearing yesterday that so many companies had pledged, as you said, to take deforestation out of their value chains. But several months ago, I believe it was the vice that the assistant director for sustainability of Unilever said that they indeed, they're one of the early pledgers and a real pioneer. But said that in order to do that and in order to guarantee traceability of that value chain and to the guarantee that there was no deforestation, they would actually have to sort of slough off 80% of their smallholder producers because it's just too difficult, just impossible to do. So again, would you care to comment and I can see that more than one person wants to comment on that. And exactly what is the future for smallholders under this new regime of no deforestation Yeah, that's a great question. I think smallholders are the vulnerable element of society as you know, first of all, I think it's inevitable. I think the expansion of commodities into the tropics, it's gonna happen and we have to deal with that. It's not every country, it doesn't dominate most tropical landscapes. Most tropical landscapes have a much greater diversity, other types of crops. But I think we're seeing a lot of movement on this because this is where you get the leverage when a few big companies can influence supply chains on palm, on soy, on beef. That's where you get action and that's been where a lot of the focus has been. With smallholders, I think they run the risk because it's so expensive to do farm-by-farm auditing to see if they're deforestation in that. The direct farmers of Kalimantan would love to have a patch of palm but they do not wanna abandon their swiddens. So when a big company like a Willmar announces a zero deforestation that it's not far enough into the future to allow the systems to adjust or something less than perfect but probably very good, which is a reduced deforestation target and not to take anything away from Willmar's very sort of courageous announcement. But there is the risk that there's gonna be increased poverty and exclusion of communities through this sort of initiative. And I think we come back to, you have to increase the scale. Look at the entire landscape, as Peter was talking about, look at the entire district, the entire province. That's where we should be measuring success and make sure that smallholders are not being excluded. Yeah, I just wanted to also reiterate the issue of smallholder farmers. I think it's similar to the whole issue about indigenous peoples of the Amazon or smallholder farmers. And I refer to Africa where average farm size is less than five hectares. And so it's a very different situation from the Amazon. But it is a similar situation. How do you aggregate those farmers? How do you link them into any market system? And I think that's going to be the key as you see people are still looking at Africa. There have been very few large investments. I think Unilever's been one of the first. But how is that going to happen? Or is there a way to leapfrog? Are there lessons? And I think some of these South-South lessons could be very, very important. How to aggregate. As a smallholder, it's the whole poverty livelihoods at the forest agriculture transition. The topic is very dear to me, I think. In part, that's one of the topics that will get stuck in a polarizing discussion. Very often. Small farmers, they have a double exposure kind of scenario, a double pressure kind of scenario, which is very general. One is internal. The lack of the long lack of infrastructure, service, recognition has created a situation where you have very good expectations among young farmers to continue on that route. And on the other hand, you have openly in Brazil and elsewhere a criminalization of small farmer activities in such as Sweden cultivation and others in ways that are very unfair and very simplistic. So you have the sort of dilemma in which they leave. Now, on the other hand, I think it's very difficult to imagine a future, in a urban future, without a very active small farming economy being localized or not. But if we do not think about the small farming in the context of the employment need and in the context in which you can absorb a enormous amount of contingency that is now moving to the city, it's not a problem that will be solved with in this vacation of other things. I'm afraid that I've been given a symbol that we need to end our discussion. And it's not just because Eduardo is an anthropologist and I'm an anthropologist and I'm giving him the last word, but we're under a considerable amount of pressure. In any case, I'd like to thank every one of you and I'd like to thank all of you who contributed. And I'd also like to apologize to those of you who didn't get your questions in. We have many more questions. I'll be happy to both distribute them to the panelists and also please feel free to grab these panelists as they come off the stage and ask the questions. And there are a number of very, very interesting questions here, so again, thank you very much. Or through email, yes, we'll make. And now I think we can all stay here and we'll have the closing of the,


What's shaking? My name's Cam. Welcome back to another video. I don't have much of a structure for the video today, but as you may have guessed, we're talking about NaNoWriMo. It's just a chill video today. No solid plan. We're just gonna free ball it. That's not right. It's almost that time of year guys. November is approaching, or it will be November when you're watching this actually, but I'm filming this on October 30th. November is approaching, which means that all of the writers on here are equal parts scared and excited, like the feeling of farting in public. NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month is a 30-day period where we all try to get down at least 50,000 words. Now, I have done a math or two in my life, so I crunched the numbers and what you're looking at is roughly 1,600 words a day for 30 days. So I'll give you an example. This is basically what 1,600 words looks like. This is what you're aiming to get down within a month. Depending on how quick of a writer you are, how much spare time you have in your day, how your writing is already going, 1,600 words a day for a whole month is either going to seem completely out of reach, or it's gonna seem easy peasy, Carl Weasley. I'll have the link to my NaNoWriMo profile in the description below if you want to add me on there, but I also want to add really quickly that during November I will also be doing November. I do it every year in memory of my father and basically what that means is that during November I will be growing a glorious hairy female repellent on my lip to raise money for a foundation that helps prevent suicide. I'll also be doing a livestream every single week during November and all of the donations that I get on those livestreams will be going straight to the November foundation. It is truly devastating for me to admit this, but the last couple of years me doing NaNoWriMo hasn't gone so well. They've been complete failures, if I'm being completely honest, which actually is pretty on-brand for me. But you know what? To hell with that, man. Not this year. Not this time, NaNoWriMo, you pastel-colored turd, negative stress. This year I'm going to crush it because this year I have a plan. By the way, if you're not following me on Instagram, you should as well because I'll be doing a lot of NaNoWriMo updates on my story there. As for what I'm planning to write during NaNoWriMo, you might remember a few videos ago, a little while ago I said that now that I've finished my psychological horror novel, I'm working on an anthology of horror short stories. That's what I'll be working on and I do want to show you how the planning of that's going so far. It's really, really difficult to talk about a work in progress without giving too much away, and that's especially true when it comes to anthologies or short stories. I don't want to give anything away, obviously, but I also don't want- I also don't want anyone to nick my ideas. I'll do my best though. I think I can tell you at least a bit about what I have planned and what I've done so far. So originally all of the short stories in the anthology were going to be based off of my own personal phobias. I thought that was like a fun theme. I thought that was a bit of a creative way for me to face my fears. From the safety of a keyboard, of course, and a lot of the stories are still based on my most intimate fears, but a few of them aren't so much anymore, so that theme kind of melted like a sex doll on the beach. There's going to be about 10 short stories in the anthology and all of them are going to be around 5000 words, except for one. There's one particular story that's going to be probably closer to a novella. It's going to be a bit longer, but I'll get to that in a minute. Ultimately the entire anthology I'm expecting at the moment will be around 60,000 to 70,000 words. Assuming I do well with nanorhymo, that means I should be able to either finish the whole darn thing or hopefully come close. When it comes to planning what I usually like doing is I'll use a write mapper. You can find like plenty of them online. I think they're called like mind maps maybe, stuff like that. That's what I basically use. You can find a bunch of free versions. I just think that's the easiest way to keep everything organized and everything within reach. Basically what you're creating is these little solar systems of an outline. Like you can have a circle that will say characters, and when you click on it, it'll bring up more circles that have the name of each character like Harry, Hermione, Ron. Then you'll click on one of the characters. Let's say click on Ron goes into it. It'll have information about Ron like hair color, eye color, that kind of stuff. Or you could have a circle that says like chapters. Click on it. Chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, all in narrowing little circles. Click that. And then you've got an outline for the chapter in that. It's like a solar system. Basically is what I'm saying. And to be clear, this video is not sponsored. So I'm going to tell you about some of the short stories that I have planned for this thing. And you're going to have to forgive me in advance if I'm being a bit cryptic. Like I said, I just, I can't be too specific. So I'm probably going to sound more vague than an entrepreneur telling you what they actually do for work. So one of the short stories I just finished was about a young man who is just bored to absolute death with his monotonous life, his day job, his basically everything about his life just bores him to almost a very painful degree. And one day while he's cruising through his game console for something to do, a game to play, he finds something very, very mysterious. And the more he looks into it, the more interesting things get.  But the question is, is it dangerous? Another one of my short stories I really enjoyed writing was about a very small town in a rural community, and a lot of young people are going missing there. And the story follows a couple of their residents kind of coming face to face with an immediate danger while all of this is happening. And I really can't say anything more about that one. There's another short story that is based entirely off of my very real claustrophobia. I'm very, very claustrophobic. One of my favorite things in the world is going to concerts, but it's also a very uncomfortable experience for me at the same time because the whole time it's hard for me to breathe just because I feel very claustrophobic. But I keep trying to put myself in those situations to, I don't know, get used to it, maybe make it easier. I'm not too sure. Anyway, that's not what the story is about. The story is about two young kids who are playing hide and go seek while their mother is at work. And one of the kids finds themselves in a very interesting and terrifying situation very quickly.  And that is a story about a young man who is making a long road trip to go see his brother and his brother's new baby. And along the way, he breaks down and he runs into some very interesting individuals. He becomes absolutely enamored with these people, in particular a young woman who is part of that group. The more he learns, the more he realizes that things aren't quite as they seem. And yet, he just can't bring himself to walk away. At least not yet. I'm really having a good time writing short stories because the last year and a half to two years I've been working on a full-length novel. And writing short stories is just a very different feeling, not necessarily easier. I want to make that clear. It's just different. I actually did a video not too long ago talking about some of the great things about short stories that people tend to forget. I'll leave a card up there if you want to check that one out. So like I said, by the time you watch this, it's already going to be November. Nanorimo has already started, hopefully I'm doing well. But right now, it's October 30th. It's nearly Halloween, baby! Oh, by the way, look what finally arrived just in time for Halloween. Local haunts. I wrote one of the short stories in this book. How cool is that? So that'll just about do it. Add me on Nanorimo. Donate to Movember if you can. If you have some spare change. All of the links will be below in the description of course. But good luck to you if you're doing Nanorimo as well. Listen, don't take it too seriously. Like don't get too stressed out if you've already got too much going on in your life already. A lot of people can kind of get inside their own heads a bit and really, really get miserable if they don't hit the 50k words mark for the month. And it really just, it doesn't matter that much. It's just for fun, really. As always, thank you so much for watching guys. Especially if you've watched this far on the video. I really appreciate it. Have a good day. Catch ya.


How much he give you? I never got paid. Anything that was news for him exclusively, it was called me first.   I'm not dumb. He's smart. If you could tell the media your side first, it plays better.


For the scholarship, you need to have a very solid academic background. You need to demonstrate that you have been a very good student, but also that you can use your skills in leadership for your community. I think people who are very clear in terms of what they want to do after they get this education, when they go back to their country and apply all this learning, I think they stand out in the application process. I think they are looking for people that can be leaders in other home countries, the people that which work can impact on other people. Not just about you, it's about how can you translate or transport what you learn here into your country. I think I was awarded a scholarship based on the plans that I had and how I felt that the scholarship would impact not only my workplace, but also my country and the community that I live in.


So, I'm going to talk about passing the torch. If you want, I have Twitter. I just signed up for Mastodon today. I have no friends there yet. It could be my first friend on Mastodon, if you want. And I'm on IRC, and I work at the Open Invention Network. I also like cats, so we can get rid of the obliterate cat picture right away. This is Martin. He's a rescue kitty. And I spent a lot of time thinking about movements and communities. I have been a community organizer. I really like legal issues around free software. I like karaoke. I like cooking. I like making events happen. I really appreciate all of the work that goes through an event like this. That's all onto your run, which is awesome. I also want free software to win. So, when I think about communities and I think about how you build movement, I look at it now with an eye of how can we make sure that free software wins, not just for our generation, but for the next generation. And the one after that, if we don't end up in some kind of giant singularity, or maybe especially if we end up in some kind of giant singularity situation, the one after that. So, I think about what is already winning. And I look at some of the institutions that have been around for a really long time, like universities and schools, and especially private schools. They do this great job of passing on traditions like ridiculous logos. They have special songs, maybe some of this sounds familiar. And I think one of the things that's key there is that they have like sort of an intergenerational role model kind of situation. Fraternal organizations, even secret ones that I probably won't even know about, always do a great job of building the next generation. So, they have benchmarks at which you get more access and more responsibility. And it's very systematized. Some things maybe not so great, but they've been around for a really long time. So, keeping a really tight cohesion about what they're passing along to the next generation is really key. And then another group that does this is churches.  They talk more about values than return on investment. And even if people don't come to church anymore, they take that set of values out into the world with them. So, I'm not saying we should take these passes like, you know, uncritically, like perhaps, you know, we won't take the dangerous hazing rituals or the inquisitions. And we don't even have to get up early on Sundays. But we might look at some of the ways that they built these generational inter, you know, communities that last for hundreds of years. So, in thinking about this talk, I started pondering like the torch and what a torch is and why that is such a, like, a potent metaphor. And then a heart that's a stick, right? And sticks are great. Sticks are like our first tools, right? We use them to bump food off trees. We use them to spearfishes, although maybe you need a little... Not everyone is good at spearfishing the first time they try it, I think, so you might need a mentor there. But it's one of our first tools. And then we add fire. And fire is the meaning of technology for us. People are familiar with the Greek myth of Prometheus, right? So, he's this guy, Greek mythology. He brought a fire down from Mount Olympus and gave it to us slowly human beings, right? And, you know, depending on the way you read it, like, there's different versions of the story. And, like, some of them you can read have, like, a very authoritarian, like, pro-Olympian stance and use the word stealing when they talk about what Prometheus did. I would like to think of it more as liberating. Maybe, like, the way that we did with Unix. It decided, like, you know what, that is a human endeavor. That doesn't belong to just one company or one handful of companies. That belongs to the people. So, I'm, you know, pro-Prometheus, I guess. So, power. And power is great. Things that fire provides is the ability to grow larger brains. So you have, like, a kind of a resource allocation situation happening in your body. Whereas, if you have to constantly break down raw foods and, like, grainy stuff and constantly spend a lot of your time getting food, your brain doesn't get so large. Once you can cook food, which makes it more efficient to process for your body or brain stuff bigger. So, we don't only owe, like, fire to the start of technology. It's our ability to even create it. And then, of course, you know, we started building all these steam turbines and things. I'm told this one was probably, like, a novelty. I'm not sure. Like, I'm trying to imagine, like, sort of the first century A.D. house where it was like, ooh, let me show you my Alilo file. Like, this thing, it turns around and it blows steam in your face. It's a fantastic thing. You know, it eventually became, like, more than a novelty. We built all kinds of great stuff with steam turbines and locomotives and boats and things that would take us all over the place.  Be dangerous, right? Anything that's super powerful is, of course, also going to be dangerous. And one of the things we don't really notice anymore is that a lot of our, like, modern systems are arranged around fire safety. So this is a picture of a hydrant in Baltimore. There was a fire there in 1904. And it, like, got way out of control. All of the fire engines from Baltimore showed up and there were still not enough fire engines. So they caught other towns around. Like, can you come help us out? And so all the fire engines from other towns showed up. But it turns out they had an interoperability problem because no one had thought about it before. And so those fire trucks from the other towns weren't able to help because they weren't able to connect to the fire hydrant. You can bet that changed right after that. Now, you know, in general geographical areas, there is a lot of high interoperability between fire trucks and fire hydrants. This is a picture of the Coconut Grove, which is a famous fire in Boston where I live. And, you know, you could look at this two ways. A lot of people died on this fire in 1942. And the reason is that they have this, like, revolving door because they thought it looked cool and they wanted to make sure that people couldn't sneak into the club. But the doors didn't open out, they opened in. And they were locked to the patrons. And so now it's illegal to have only one revolving door as the main entrance and to not have outward opening doors. So we have a situation where tragedy begets change and makes better policy. It's a powerful motivator. But I would love to see us looking more forward when we think about how to make policy, right? So when we build software, I think the key is that safety is part of our job. Like, if we want people to use the software that we build then it has to be safe to use, right? And without trust, we're not going to win. Like, it's also possible that there might be like what we would call a market niche for software that you can trust and a computer platform that's not spying on you, which is a great opportunity for us, right? So I think making sure that when we teach people like, hey, we've got a free operating system, it's super cool. We're making code ourselves. We have this stuff in the repo to let folks know that also part of our job when we do the software is to think about user data and to be realistic about security. And infrastructure is one of those things that it's hard, it's not as, I don't know if folks saw this thing from John Oliver like maybe two or three years ago where he was talking about physical infrastructure and like it's the same problem. Like people were like, oh, fixing bridges isn't as much fun as designing new bridges. But then like bridges fall apart and it's not good. So he was trying to figure out like how do we make infrastructure cool and you have this thing for like infrastructure, the movie. And people were like, I'm hanging out over the bridge. That's a small crack. And so maybe we could get him to make one for software infrastructure. I don't know, it would be like, I'm over here in the best show. I think the buffer's overflowed. Maybe, but he's got to run out of stuff eventually, I guess. So maybe we could lobby him to do this show. So when we think about it, they don't want the paperwork. They don't want any sufficiently advanced technologies indistinguishable from magic. So a TV's sort of like this in an old wooden thing. They took good care of their stuff so they had old stuff for a long time. And with a VHS camera, and we did like, hey, talk into the camera. And they're like, yeah, yeah, okay, we know how this goes. And then he goes and he fusses behind the TV for a couple minutes, and he puts them on the TV and they're like, how did we get on TV? Because for them, this has always been an output, and never an input device. But as soon as it happened, they're really excited. They're like, cool, do it again. And that's the thing. It's very easy to get excited about the technology and then forget the parts where we're like, don't forget to eat or whatever. Or, you know, don't forget to sign your keys so that people aren't packing your mind or something like that. We, you know, what I think is we're basically wizards, right? Everyone agree is what kind of wizard are we going to be? Right? That's great. Have you guys read Sturgat Nona? I don't know how popular this book was. Okay. So it's just Lady for Wizards. And so she decides to get into Sturgat Nona and she gets big Anthony.  And he is a huge fan of pasta, right? So she's got this pasta pot and she says magic words over it and pasta happens. You know, you're not to boil water. It's like real great hot, right? It's pretty good. And then big Anthony saw her do this, but he didn't see how she turned it off. She turns it on with another set of words and then three kisses. So she goes away. You can see where the story is going. She goes away and says, whatever you do, don't use the pasta pot while I'm gone. What do you think happens? He uses the pasta pot while she's gone. Of course he does. Of course he does. At first, everyone comes over and then they have two plates. They have three plates. They have four plates. And then the pots don't go away. And he is trying to do the words for the turn off, but he forgot the kisses. And so it keeps going and it like flows out the door of the house and it goes down the hill and it fills up the courtyard of the town. And everyone's like, oh man, you were my favorite person like now because you didn't turn off the pasta pot and now the whole town is filled with noodles. So what does that mean? What are two lessons there? One, you should not show people stuff and then not teach them how to use it, right? So that's for us. And then two, obviously if you're going to show people then the documentation has to be complete. So what I'm saying here is that our magic noodle pot is deviant, right? That is our app.  Maybe a stack overflow in the deviant user forum and linuxquestions.org. You can't just be like, here's a pot. Like fill your town with noodles. So something, when we pass this torch that we're talking about, we want to pass it completely because if we don't pass it completely it's going to be a mess. Maybe a mess with a lot of noodles, right? So we're talking about not torch, like complete documentation, like letting people know like here's where all that legacy infrastructure stuff is. Maybe you will get in there, maybe you won't, but at least you know what it is and where to look. And then the second piece of that is to be transparent about how decision making and power gets used in the project. And this is a big one. It's, even in projects that do a really good job of having like a governmental structure have like kind of a, well, let's go ahead and say it. Secret cabal, separate structure that happens. I think that everyone, somehow everyone showed up and they were going to vote this way in the meeting with projects and to develop software with you and you don't truly share power for them, they're going to leave. People do not stick around for those racks very long even if they're really good noodles. So these people, these apprentices shall we say that are coming into our projects, how are we starting this project of passing the torch up and clean stuff for a long, long time? Eventually they'll automate it and they might do a good job and they might not, but they're going to get bored, right? Always be like an upward cycle towards more exciting stuff, more power, more responsibility. But I do want to say not be what we think it is.  Which is not really the greatest mindset for mentoring. So like we might be thinking about what our funnel is for getting people, you know, maybe this core, this is Dev Concrete here on this side here. And so this is our funnel. So we're thinking about it from this perspective, which is great. We should be thinking about like, how do we bring people across from users, to recommenders, to bug filers, to contributors. And we might even spend some time thinking about like do we have like imaginary boundaries in that funnel process? Like, you know, is it really hard to find the bug tracker or something like that? And those are really great thoughts to have. Those are great things for us to think about in our projects. Coming to potentially, you know, enter this funnel, losing this world with like a ton of funnels all over the place. They could be doing any kind of project at all. And so they might come here and then maybe they go and they volunteer on something else. And that's okay. Like we talked about how like, you know, if you share your values with people, maybe they take them somewhere else in the world. Maybe one of those funnels is a university where they decide like, I am going to have us all run deviant on all the school's machines. I don't, that's all I do. I left, which is fantastic. Or maybe you go somewhere and you're like, tech store just happens to be running a free software for everything. And that was another funnel with cats and puppies in it. And they go take it somewhere else, even if they don't do all the annoying small tasks that we were hoping to delegate to somebody. You know, so we should mentor people even if we think they're not going to stick around is what I'm saying. You're like, maybe I don't have time for that. Right? I can feel it. You're like, that sounds like a lot of work. But I'm going to tell you right now that it's not, it's work we should do. And it's work we should do not only because it's like nice but also because it's good for us. So I had to look for a long time to find this on the internet. So this lady, the showering, this is a fictional representation of shampooing your hair. Okay.  Like maybe in the future we'll coat in the shower. But like, you know, she's trying to like tell something and everyone's like, where is it? These are vitamins. They're enriching her hair. They're making it stronger, softer, and silkier. It can only be a good thing for our projects, right? Part of a stronger, softer, silkier project, don't you? I'm going to file one bug. They help you figure out what's not working. Like, hey, I'm going to find a bug tracker.  So, you know, they help us partner processes. They help us figure out, like, where the holes are in our documentation. Like, oh, I tried to teach and I couldn't find it. Or there was nothing on this year's version, or whatever, the link is broken. So these potential new contributors, or maybe just drive-through contributors, are vitamins. They're good for us. And who knows, maybe they go, like, after they learn how to file bugs here or make a small patch here, maybe they go somewhere else. We could be contributing to a world full of roving gangs of unaffiliated patches. How amazing would that be? I don't want to live in that world, don't you? I'm putting you on the head in the shower. I say these new folks that come to our communities to wash up on our shores, we treat them all like they're ours. Okay? And so, the first bit, probably you don't know about me, is that I had an idea. We had a little book when I was a kid that said I'm special, I've adopted. I actually felt it was so normal that when my sister was born, I asked when someone was going to come and take her away. There's a woman in Maryland who takes newborn babies. Like, so, who takes newborn babies over and over and over again for somewhere between four and 12 weeks, all the time. She never has them for more than three months. You know this about newborns? They're not very gracious guests. They're cute. They're cute. I'll give you that. But they're, you know, poof. And they don't clean up after themselves. But she takes them all in with like a favorite toy and a detailed list of when they like to eat and how they like to be held in all the circuit. And she does this over and over and over again.  And that's a great thing, right? You can consider our mentoring in that spirit. Like, so this brand new person comes to our project, torch, and they might not stay on the Internet. I hear you guys have lots of them. I've seen them like congregate.  They may have learned a programming language that you don't particularly care for first, right? And I think we have to be gracious to them anyway. We have to say, come on in. Maybe you will take this experience back to some other project or some other community or some other field of endeavor. But you'll remember us finally because we taught you that free software is great and that we're friendly and that it's fun to contribute to free software. So, if we are sharing our knowledge and our values and our power, remember we talked about building an intergenerational support network. And we talked about how churches do a great job of sharing their values and sending them out into the world. There are lots of people who consider themselves members of some particular religion even though they don't go to church anymore. And that's free. That's fine. And then, particularly, the power. If we really mean like everyone is welcome and we want everyone to come in and be able to work with us and contribute to free software, then we have to share the power. We have to illuminate those structures so that they're obvious and we know they are all the time. So, I would like to build this world full of unaffiliated, moving bands of patchers. I would like to see Debian and other projects be stronger and softer and silkier and I hope you'll help me because that's what I hope we can accomplish this week. I have a reference. I'm going to take questions because I wanted to talk with you all, too. If you want to read this story about the magic noodles started known by Tommy DiPiola. I mentioned briefly about the being realistic about the security stuff. And Matthew Garrett may talk about this tomorrow, I don't know. But Brett Smith did a recent talk at Leveray Planet where he discussed the your responsibility of saying like, here use this. It might get updated sometime in the next year. He was talking about mobile services in particular, but I think especially when we talk to other organizations that have a mission-based kind of work ignoring what their mission base is and saying you got to use free software. It's like, well, but it doesn't work for our other social justice cause here or our other charitable organizations' goals. And then the mentoring. This is from a bunch of years ago actually I think 2012 but this is more specifically on how the mentoring because you want lackeys or minions or people to pick up your dry cleaning is not going to help us build the exciting free software utopia that I hope will build. And then more specifically we need particulars on how to make a project that is great for drive-through contributors the pellets we talked about then have it your way maximizing drive-through contributions by making research is a great talk to look at. So I have a picture of credits and then I would be happy to take your questions. Thank you. I'll go back to the copy. That's also fine. Or if people have ideas on how to like different specific ideas on how we could do a better job of making our project great for drive-through contributors here specifically. That would be cool. We can go back to having coffee and chatting once ourselves. Thank you so much.