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getting set up here, and I'll go ahead and hit start webinar. Hi everyone, thank you for joining. We will get started in just a couple of minutes. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. We'll get started with the webinar in just a couple of minutes. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for joining. We'll get started in just about one minute. All right, so welcome everyone to this week's Hyperledger in-depth, an hour with Cripsy, best practices and major obstacles for upgrading to Hyperledger Fabric 2.2. My name is Karen Otonin, I'm the director of Ecosystems at Hyperledger, and I'll be facilitating our session today. We have Chris Smith joining us, Mohit Seti and Kartik Nair. But before that, I'll get into a little housekeeping before we get started. As with all sessions and meetings here at Hyperledger, we follow an antitrust policy that you can find on our website and our Wiki page. This is being recorded, so don't worry, it will be available both on our YouTube page, we are currently live on YouTube, and also on the same events page that you registered for the session. Slides will be available on the event page on our website as well where you registered. So don't worry about that, you'll get all the information you need. We like to make these webinars a little bit more interactive than your typical webinar, so we encourage you to ask questions, to get involved, raise your hand early and often. I will be monitoring the chat, the Q&A box, and hand raising, so anytime you want to jump in, please feel free to do so. And our speakers will also be inviting you to speak at certain points as well. So we really want to make this a useful time for you to get what you want to learn out of it and take advantage of the fact that Cripsy is here to share their knowledge and experience with you. So with that, I will stop sharing. Excuse me, stop sharing my screen and hand it over to Chris to get started while I grab some water. Thanks Karen. Can you see my screen? Yep, take it away. All right, welcome everyone. I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to attend our presentation on best practices for upgrading to Hyperledger Fabric version 2.2. My name is Christopher Smith and I am the Vice President of Sales for Cripsy Technologies. Also presenting today are our VP of Technology, Mohit Sethi and our research engineer, Karthik Nair. To start out, I just want to, oops, I should have showed you that there. So these are the wonderful faces. So to start out, I just want to tell you a little bit about Cripsy. We were founded in 2016 and Cripsy Technologies is a team of blockchain professionals with a combined 120 years of experience delivering world-class technology solutions to large enterprises and to aspiring startups. In addition to blockchain services that we offer to manage blockchain infrastructure and provide chain code management, we offer a low-code blockchain as a service solution called CripCore. We are heavily involved with Hyperledger, Hedera Hashgraph and we're also a Microsoft Coast seller. So today's topic, we're going to discuss upgrading to Hyperledger Fabric version 2.2 and we'll share what we believe are the best practices and some of the greatest challenges throughout the process. These recommendations are based on our experience upgrading our systems and upgrading the systems of several of our clients. All right, so the question is, what is the need for all this? So why are we talking about this today? So there have been two major announcements in the last few months. That are relevant to this topic. First, Hyperledger Fabric announced the end of support for version 1.4 as of April, 2021. And then second, Microsoft announced that they were deprecating there as your blockchain services as of September, 2021. So if you want to take advantage of the additional features of Hyperledger 2.2, you'll need to go through the upgrade process. And if you are using ABS, you may need a new technology partner to guide you through the process. So given the maturity curve of blockchain, most of the programs in the past were not in production. So the upgrades were offline and it was not a business critical issue. Now, however, more and more programs are live and the in-place upgrade is becoming more common. So in-place upgrades are relatively complex given the business dependency of multiple parties in the ecosystem. And we are witnessing more enterprises approaching us for help and we have found that each upgrade is a unique proposition unto itself. So in this session, my colleagues will share their real-life upgrade experiences. And we're not going to reference any client names just to respect confidentiality. And I will also tell you about our upgrade ARM template that is available at no cost on the Microsoft Marketplace. It's a great resource for getting started in the process. And of course, if you have any questions about how to use it or if you need extra help, we are available to help. So I'll turn it over to Moet now to discuss the best practices for getting started. You ready, Moet? And you're on mute. Yeah. Thanks, Chris. Am I audible? Yes, I can hear you. Yeah. Thank you, everyone. So as Chris mentioned, so before I get into some of the details and experience which we have gone through at Cripsy handling multiple upgrades, just to touch on like what's currently happening. So there are a lot of projects which are on production on Hyperledge of Fabric. IT and implementation teams are busy with new projects on Fabric, Hyperledge of Fabric. However, a lot of attention and thought process is going on basically on two other challenges as Chris also mentioned, migration from one platform to another as well as upgrading as we all are here to discuss on the upgrades. I'll be discussing more on the primary, on the upgrade part. Now, why it is, why upgrade have become so important in the Hyperledge of Fabric journeys because most of the production projects were on basically Hyperledge of Fabric 1.4 LTS version which was a very long supported and very stable version and it was like widely adopted. Now, when we talk about upgrades in a normal ecosystem it is basically how do we write scripts and how do we do database upgrades, application upgrades. But when it comes to blockchain and specifically Hyperledge of Fabric, there are multiple members and we would have projects might have multiple channels, multiple chain code. So there is a need of an in-place upgrade so that the data and the policies which were provisioned and configured during the 1.4 version still remains intact and for example, in the 2.2 version. So definitely there is a need of an in-place upgrade. So basically I would be sharing the experience which we have gone through and what we should be following and what we should be avoiding. And definitely during the presentation, the webinar we would like to make it more interactive if you have anything, maybe you can send a message for a particular point. So let me start. So the first thing is basically we have to create a plan and create simulated instances. For example, if our application is running on a cluster or in a virtual machine model and if there are let's say three members, three PR organization, one order organization, you should basically be doing the same thing in our test and census and run the upgrades. It would be a big mistake if it basically directly run it on the production systems. Basically I'll cover more on that than the subsequent slides as well. And there is something new which have come up. Not many people would have used it, but specifically if we are into Kubernetes-based deployment, we will be going through something called external chain code. So we should also validate that our internal chain code functionalities are also tested on the external chain code. And once we basically have done the test on various instances by repeating the, let's say, taking the backup of the data, re-creating the instances, we could perform certain, let's say, a better plan. So in what sequence of operation we should be performing the upgrades, shall we upgrade the PR first, shall we upgrade the order first or among a large consortium who should be doing this first. So this practice would basically remove any challenges which we get into the, maybe let's say the UAT systems or the production systems. I'm very satisfied with that. Now I'm there. Okay. Is there any, I heard some noise. Anyway, let's continue. And obviously what are the channel and chain code policies which are, which needs to be tuned in terms of planning the upgrade. So let me go into the next slide. Apologies, I went ahead a lot. It's a little slow. I'll get there eventually. Sure. Good. Yeah, maybe you have to go into frame. There you go. Yeah. Now, when we say testing, creating an instance, it is also equally important that we are testing end-to-end functionality. For example, in your current application, the channel chain for endorsement policy is something. So we should also test whether such endorsement policies are working. For example, we have two out of five. You should also be seeing that different combinations of two are also working in the new upgrades. And specifically, Y2.2 is more important. There could be multiple upgrades. For example, 1.4 to 1.3 to 1.41. Hyperledge Fabric 2.0 brings in the new life cycle. The new life cycle basically is quite different. You need to approve a chain code before it could be committed. Whereas in Hyperledge 1.4, people just need to upgrade the packages, right? And any one of the member would instantiate the chain code or upgrade the chain code and that upgrade would take effect. Whereas once you move to Hyperledge Fabric 2.x, 2.2, each member, the default policy enforces that each member have to approve the chain code and then only it could be committed. This is a significant upgrade in the way chain code management was managed. So it could help people to basically plan that are all of the members, their IT teams, their software, their life cycle flow have adapted basically to this new flow. And if you are upgrading from 1.4 to 2.2, then that would be some channel policies which are also needed to be validated, upgraded. Can we go into the next one? Mohit, we actually got a question from Subhasi Spaniq. He's asking, how do you add an order from a different organization to the application channel and Hyperledge Fabric 2.2? Could you share the steps? How do we order the, how do we add the order? From a different organization to the application channel. And Subhasi, if you'd like to come on off of mute and clarify your question, feel free. Yeah, sure. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So my question primarily is, I wanna know, like how do you add an orderer which does not have the certificates like the crypto material? So let's say I'm having an orderer of a specific organization and I wanna add another orderer from a different organization not having the same crypto material to the application channel and not the system channel in Hyperledge Fabric 2.2. Yeah, that's a good question. However, basically I would like to focus on the upgrade. So I will give you a brief and maybe separately we can have a discussion. So Hyperledge Fabric 2.4, which is expected to come that reduces the dependency of the tie up between the system channel and the application channel which exists today, right? So till Hyperledge Fabric 2.2 it makes a compulsory, basically, first you have to add the order into the system channel, right? Then only you can make it to the application channel. So how do we do that? Maybe I can cover in a separate discussion. Yeah, sure, we can discuss it. But that's a valid point. And that constraint is basically being much easier in the upcoming 2.4 release. Okay, sure. Thank you. What is happening today is even if you design multiple orders for different channels, right? Within the organization, each order would be aware of all the channels which are available across any of the members. But going with this new logic which is supposed to come in 2.4, that privacy would be enhanced, plus it would make order of management much simpler. Sure, thanks for that. Yeah, so we can move into the next one. Karen, was there another question? No, no, just continue, thank you. Yeah, so one more thing important is basically taking the backup and creating the rollback procedures. Now why this is important is, and your existing channel could comprise of multiple members, and different member would be running or managed by different IT teams. They might be running on different platforms. For example, few of the members could be running and let's say the Eclipse provided platform, some could be running on their own. And similarly, Azure, AWS, or there are multiples, right? Due to various ways in which the platforms are basically designed, it's quite possible that in your first case, in your first trial, you are able to upgrade, let's say peers in few of the organizations. But for some reason, some other organization peers, they were not able to upgrade. So it's important to factor that everyone, not only one, let's say if you have five member organization and if you are doing an upgrade, everyone should basically create a plan in case of failure. How do we go back to our previous version? And if we don't do so, we can get into a situation where the network is partially upgraded, partially not. And we might not be able to do any transactions. So this is a very important point. And obviously this planning requires a good synergy between teams who could be spread across different geographies and they might be in different time zones. So this backup and rollback plan is very, very important. So for example, in a simple Docker compose model, you just need to ensure that the volumes, which are basically tied to your, the Docker instances for the peer and the order. So we should basically stop the processes, take their backup and then do the upgrade process. So in case of any issues, then we figure out that, okay, this is not going to work, we have to try it again, but let's bring the network back again. That's how it was. So it would be easy if you can bring back that folder, use that same config file and bring the network back. So this was a simple example. However, if you have a custom deployment model, your own Kubernetes model, where you are having this mounted. So we should be knowing how the data have to be backed up and basically how to use the backup data. Yes, Chris, can we go into the next one? And how do we handle the downtime handling? So it's quite possible that if we are in control of the entire network, for example, if you are the platform operator managing various services for our members, all the instances would be in our control, it would be more fine tuned. However, definitely there would be multiple teams which are managing and based on the size of the data and the number of chain course channel, it would definitely take time. So how does the business take this? Certain applications could be critical that the reports or the chain code queries should be made available to them at any point of time. So do we handle it in such a way that not all the peers, for example, in my organization, I have three peers or less than four peers. So I will have, I'll upgrade the three peers, bring the network, upgrade the network, but one of my peers would still remain in 1.4. It would be able to provide the chain code queries till the basically the network, the new network comes up and then I could route the traffic to the upgraded peers and then take this pair as the only peer which have to be upgraded. So this is how we could handle, let's say, an example of handling the queries in the downtime. But this is also an important aspect that when we are upgrading, we should consider what's the impact of the downtime on the application which relies on the blockchain network. And do we need to provide query or not? Yes, I think we can go into the next one. So I have actually covered it previously. So as I said, a Hyperlegia Fabric Network, let's say five member organizations could be sparing across different geographies, people would be in different time zones. So a coordination and the plan which also included the rollback and sorry, backup and recovery plan. All those should be in place. So you should know how to contact people from different teams and then plan it well. And obviously first we have to do in the test stages, UAT stages before getting into the production. Mohit, we do have a question coming from the audience from Jayakar Johnson. Yes. He's asking, while upgrading, what are the interoperability consistency strategies to be adopted? Interoperability? Interoperability consistency strategy. Am I audible? Yeah. Yes, we can hear you. And Jayakar, if you want to clarify your question, feel free to come off mute. Yeah, please go ahead. That is, we are doing architecture for a entirely different projects for the coronavirus control program. Okay. That is upgradable for the regular real-time healthcare application. So the thing is, here there'll be a lot of interoperability in the blockchain in this project is there. So in that, we plan to use the hyperlogist framework as the base for the total security of this data security. Yes. So what is your recommendation when we upgrade from one version to another version? Any, I think you advise for that the structural designing what has to be... Yes, yes, yes. So we have a similar experience, not exactly critical on the same aspect, but it was critical from the business requirement. The data was huge in one of the projects which we had to upgrade. And for your case, the application is very critical because it needs to continue. Upgrade is required, but still the applications will continue to serve its purpose, especially in this condition, pandemic condition. So in this case, like I will share maybe a bit of our experience. So when we did the test trial, we started with just the concept, means we took the replica of the network. We had just a few transactions and we tested it again and again on the test network, not on the, obviously on the actual network. Then what we did, because the actual data and the project was basically using a lot of something called the private data collection exhaustively and the data was huge. And so one of the point is when we upgrade specifically the peer and hyperlogist fabric from 1.4 to 2.2, there is a command, basically it will upgrade the database, right? It requires the database upgrade also, specifically if they are using couch DBPan. If the data is huge, it takes time. And similarly, what happens is if you have multiple team members for the same cluster and if you are going with the sequence, so we ended up basically creating scripts. So that reduced a lot of manual intervention. Obviously everything cannot be automated, but we basically created scripts to the extent that let's say the peer upgrade process and whatever could have been done, they got executed in a script flow and all the validations were done, whether each and every process have happened and then it went so. I would say that we have to do an automation to the extent possible, reduce the scope of manual errors that could happen, practice it and then execute it on the production. And I think specifically in the case which you are referring, it would also be ideal that we follow a strategy where data is made available during the upgrade process. And I would strongly recommend that the backup is taken and you should consider that there could be problems coming in and we should be able to stay in the current version. And we should not be in a situation that we are not able to run the current version once we start the upgrade and there are problems in the upgrade. So all the risk factors would be identified and the proper steps would be taken and automation should be done to the extent possible. So that would be my recommendation. Is that an app registry that also in a blockchain whether it will be helpful for that? Application registry? Yes, because when we work for interoperability that is the different project developers maybe from the future also they will they can access the blockchain data. That's why I think that the registry, that app registry that also in a blockchain I think it will work out better. Well, I'm not able to follow what is app registry that could be very specific to your application. Thank you, Jayakar. We'll give you their contact information where you can follow up with more questions later on. Thank you. Yeah, definitely we'll be happy to have. Please feel free to continue Mohit with the presentation. Okay. Mohit, are you going to also talk about the common challenges the next section? Yes. We'll just let you roll it right into it. That's what I get to use information. Yeah, so this is one of a very important point. Sometimes as part of a downtime strategy we tend to do multiple things because the IT team and the business team that we are getting into an upgrade so let's do multiple tasks at the same time so that on a single downtime we could complete the pending tasks. One of those could be upgrading. I won't say upgrading the consensus but changing the consensus or migrating the consensus, for example, Kafka to wrap. So definitely we will not recommend that you perform both the tasks together. If the recommended consensus, the default consensus from 2.2 is wrapped it's quite likely that the applications which have been deployed on 1.4 could be running on either Kafka or wrap. So if you are on Kafka, if you want to move it to wrap so let's perform that first or maybe you can plan that later in whichever manner which suits you but let's avoid doing both of them together because this is equally complex in nature so it's best avoided to perform them in a sequence. Yeah, so it's common that when we have basically set up the IT systems for example in a dockerized environment we could have scheduled backups of the virtual machines or the docker data or in Kubernetes, managed Kubernetes services we could have used certain tools basically to take the backup of all the containers. However, before going for an upgrade it's very important that don't rely that we have the backups already taken as a good starting point it's always good to either use this backup to create your test system where you want to first validate the upgrade process or basically validate them that the network is coming up and all your application functionality is working with the existing network which is basically created by restoring the spectrum How do we handle that if they don't interfere with the live system it's another challenge but it's important that we validate this data by restoring them and also performing certain transactions on it so we are very sure that the backups are going to work in case of any failures in our upgrade process and this is a very mixed issue I would say because it is not related to just an upgrade failure but this happens when part of your network for example out of six members four of the members have successfully upgraded whereas two of them have got certain issues and the policies for your channel and the chain code were such that four members could basically endorse a transaction or the endorsement policy allowed them now in such case what could happen is you would have gone ahead with your blockchain new blocks have got added and two of the members have basically not upgraded now we have no choice right we have to just figure out how to upgrade the two organizations which fail to upgrade we will not be able to basically roll back this for because you would have done some real logical transactions and it would not be possible to in general we cannot delete it we should not be deleting any blocks because they are live transactions it would be connected with your life systems so once the upgrade have happened ideally we should be validating transactions from all the members that all of the members are able to perform transactions so best way is to basically ensure that all of them approve a new chain code so you will know that the life cycle the new life cycle is basically working and each member have got adapted to the new life cycle flow and after that we could perform transactions perform some transactions in such a way that all the party performs certain transactions so then you would be very sure that yes all the members have got upgraded and then we could continue to perform newer transactions yeah so this is this issue is very specific to deployments which are executed on managed Kubernetes service for non-managed Kubernetes service as well so from if I remember from 1.20 Kubernetes is basically not going to support the Docker and Docker support where Docker is able to create new Docker images and this have a PRR executing chain code by themselves they are when we deploy a chain code PRR is able to create a new Docker image and start the it's not going to once we move to this Kubernetes version so the only way is basically create external chain code support and we need to test them as well and once we get into acting I'm Rohit we're having a little bit of issues with your audio we're going to create six external chain code containers or we are going to share them and how do we perform mutual TLS security or shall we use chain code as a service those things will come but initially the recommendation would be basically to have at least one or two chain code services and ensure they are only getting executed by the member organization not by the other member organization and test it thoroughly because once we upgrade let's say a Kubernetes cluster it would be very tough because you will have different challenges shall we work on the Kubernetes side to downgrade or we work on hyperledger brawl back to the old version so that would add up to the complication so it's very important if your deployment is on Kubernetes and your plans are basically to upgrade Kubernetes to the latest version so sooner or later it's going to happen so it's better that the architecture and the testing is properly done on the external chain code side of it yes hey Mohit why don't you go off video because your audio is cracking up on just a little bit okay okay is it better now? yeah thank you yeah and the other thing is once the network is upgraded it would be good if for the first few days we observe it in terms of the logs are there any inconsistencies are the logs piling up so that would be good to do and I think after a week or so it's fine then I think we are good to go and we have successfully upgraded the network and maybe one more point I would like to highlight here the upgrade of Hyperledger Fabric 2.2 is not just on the the binaries we also have needs to upgrade the channel so there is something called the channel capability which needs to be upgraded from 1.4 to 2.2 and the important thing to consider is if we have multiple channels this have to be done multiple times so if we have let's say four channels this upgrade of the channel capability have to be done four times if we have let's say N number of chain codes N number of channels then the life cycle of each chain code have to be planned all of them have to be deployed and confirmed using the new life cycle that's also an important so it might be relevant for projects which have a lot of chain codes let of channel and it would be good if we basically define a strategy certain automation so that those things are minimized yes Thanks Mohit so where we go here okay so next up I'm going to have Karthik talk about the the ARM template that's available on Microsoft Marketplace this is a free resource that you can download and look at obviously if you have any questions implementing you can call us so Karthik Hi guys, am I audible? Yes, yes you are Okay do you want my video on or should I continue without the video? It's okay if you don't have a video Okay fine now okay then I'll just stop so the the main reason behind this webinar is to explain how the upgradation process is consequential to our existing setup so what we have identified is there is an inflection point at this point in time I mean the on one side the orchestration technology and the containerization technology is improving rapidly you're having co-binators evolution happening and you're getting new new releases coming in with extra powerful features similarly you're getting hyper ledger features which are getting improved divided so for us developers who started working on hyper ledger either 0.4, 0.6 or maybe 1.4 we have seen a lot of features and we have worked with them but at this point in time what has happened when it switched off to 2.0 and then 2.2, 2.4 is that the lifecycle of the entire process has been improved it has been democratized further so anytime you make a change to something everybody who's participating in the network should come into consensus the policy which is getting enforced in the network is reliant on all the participants so that is the situation that has come up happened in 2.0 and the releases which came after that similar to that the cobinators evolution has reached version 23 and they have announced that there is no support for internal talk around time for any cobinators version that's going to be coming out further so we decided to select this topic for the seminar after we figured that Microsoft AKS which was providing versions from 1.15 to 1.18 was moving on from 1.18 and it was going towards 1.19, 1.20, 1.2, 1.8 AC plus among these releases there was a huge fault where the talk around time was not being made available any longer so the existing production systems which were relying on the talk around time and the production systems which were running on 1.4 faced a mammoth task of upgrading the cluster infrastructure as well as the Hyperledger fabric protocol due to their closing dates so since the new release dates are being announced for newer versions we had to find a way where we can accomplish both the tasks so that was the whole agenda behind the presentation so we identified few problems, we identified the consequences we have just given you few steps to think, to remember that you should be addressing these for example, the 5 things to remember when you are trying to upgrade Microsoft explained all the 5 points very clearly to you the main thing is the data backup most of the time you take the data backup but you really now focus on the channel capabilities or any other artifact related information so you need to be very careful when you are doing each and every step in the strategy which you are going to create before you try something new it's always good to have a test drive so that was the whole idea behind creating an ARM template on Azure so we decided there are many people who would like to play around with Hyperledger 2.2 before they move on to 2.2 because there are consequential changes with the lifecycle maybe with the consensus mechanism maybe with the private data collection with many things to have a test drive be created infrastructure as code offering on Azure marketplace with the name Cripsy ARM template for Azure or deployer of Hyperledger Fabric version 2.2 and above so you can try this out anytime you can go on to Azure you can try the template it's free you can have the template installed in your tenant ID in your client and then you can have a test drive of Hyperledger if the application is succeeding all the parameters which you have identified for the application then go ahead please upgrade your application so the process of upgradation is very well documented by Hyperledger foundation and you can take a few advices which you might have learned today now what is there in the template so I'll explain what you get from the template so the concept or the design behind the template is to create two separate clusters an order organization and the peer organization so the template by default it comes with a peer cluster of two peers and an order organization of I think three orders or five it depends on the raft the formula which you are adopting so how do you use the template that's the next question you move on to Azure marketplace you select the template you click on try it now then you have to feed in some information you feed in information regarding your Fabric CA or the admin name the admin password you feed in information regarding the cluster the type of clusters which are allowed or this type of VMs which are allowed to constitute your cluster is already given in a drop-down you can easily select it you can provide the cluster information you can provide the CI information you can provide the organization information so in this part you have to select if you want to create a peer or an order organization so you can start with creating a peer organization then you complete the cluster creation follow through the process once the cluster is available with peer running in it you can come back to the same offer again and then create another where an order organization will be created with the number of orders which are specified and the order organization details which are fed into the user interface so at this point of time you are left with two clusters which are together constitute your original Hyperlegion network so you have the peer you have the order then how do you use it so we have a GitHub profile we have given step-by-step guidance on how to use the template how to use the clusters, how to interact with them how to create a channel, how to join a channel so this many operations can be done by following the instructions which we have provided on the GitHub page plus there are two major things which are coming in this ARM template which we have provided first thing is the peer image the peer image is coming customized to support the external chain code feature so in general if you are using Hyperlegion original 2.2 images you are downloading and then you are running it in a docker container or maybe you are getting some other way you are getting it by a hem charts you are installing it in your cluster however it is it's coming in factory made as in it doesn't support external chain code as it is the peer binary has to be rebuilt the peer binary has to be reinstalled the peer binary has to be fed into a network again so this process we have taken care of for you you can just try out the external chain code feature only if you details need to change you just have to mention the connection profile the metadata profile inside try in your chain code and then you can test your external chain code out in the network so the second feature I wanted to refer to is the fabric go-client image so in general you use peer commands to execute and then test out your network that's how Hyperlegion Fabric admin really operates we have created a custom version of Fabric go-client which is again provided by the Hyperlegion Foundation thanks to you guys so we have used the Fabric go-client we built an image we have kept it in an open repository so you can use the Fabric go-client to interact with your cluster and channel it will give you a much more easier way to interact with the channel or the organization or anything you are creating so this is what we have in stock in the ARM template so anybody can try it out if you have an Azure account of course so these step-by-step guidance like I have explained it's available in the GitHub profile if you guys want we will share the link here in the chat window or can somebody get them the GitHub link so that's all I got to say in this it deploys Fabric 2.2 and we will be maintaining the same offer we will increase or improve it anytime a new offer is coming in so this will be your starting point where you can try out 2.2 try your application in this see if it is working see if you are finding some struggle understand where all the changes have to be made in your application in order to support 2.2 version then you start planning your movement from 1.4 to 2.2 so just consider it as a step-by-step upgradation plan so you can formalize your strategy around this you can try this out and I think the references are here for the things which I was making discussion on so you can find render support for Fabulage of Fabric is available here the template link is available here and then yeah so that's where you can find the template and I think we will give you the top page link too because it will help you further your understanding of Fabulage of Fabric so yeah that's where you can start you have any queries any problems you can reach out to us we are always there I think Chris can take over now thank you Karthik and thanks again Mohit I know it's really late for you guys so I appreciate you guys taking the time to jump on the call so we have about 10 minutes left if there's any questions in the chat let me see here I don't see anything Karen do you want to open it up for questions or yeah if anybody wants to use this time with Cripsy to ask any questions before we wrap up just feel free to raise your hand or type it in the Q&A box or the chat I will also check the YouTube live page so anyone if you're on YouTube right now watching live you can post in that chat box there as well I should also point out when it says need help you can contact me I will not be providing any of said help I will have to get you in touch with the people that can answer the questions so I got the critical link with me I'll just drop it in the panel I guess the chat yeah that would be great if you could put that in the chat and I will share it with everybody here thank you Vincent is asking a question what challenges have you encountered interfacing with government defense government or defense customers to find use cases sort of a more general question is that something that Chris you could take I think Mohit can answer do you work with government in public sector so yeah we have done few projects in public sector so we can only relate to the ones which we have done here so it may not be uniform across the globe so first thing is the timing of course so it takes a very long time for the project to pick off even though it's not relevant to the technology itself that's one big challenge which we have to go through all the time second thing it's all about data localization rules which are coming in so anytime you have to address something like this you need to go through a plethora of security concerns and then the data localization rules which are government or which country you are addressing to we had I mean we did manage to do this I mean thanks to the cloud ecosystem which is like working around the clock to make sure that you have regions available wherever you can so that has helped us a lot and there is this intrinsic feel of blockchain maybe providing a problem towards the privacy of data that's coming in so we had to like talk people into understanding how the enterprise and the permission ledgers work so that was another problem which we addressed so these are just very basic things and if Mohit can add something else I think that will be it other than that majorly we face these questions other than that I don't see anything else yes so just to add to Karthik's thing what Karthik said the few other challenges could be specifically related to security how is the data secured and how are basically the keys right when we do a transaction there are private keys and certificates where they are stored how they are secured how do we maintain so one of the very important aspect of the hyperlogy fabric ecosystem is for example the fabric where you are able to manage the life cycle of identities in general I have seen that not most people are talking about posting certificate revocation list to the channels so what happens if an identity is revoked so how do we ensure that you are not able to perform the transactions so those things have to be well documented well articulated well explained because it's not just the transactions because generally sectors which are not from the above to the queries would be more related to what is the scalability what is the performance here also those things are valid but security is equally important not just the data localization which Karthik mentioned that is obviously an important factor but how the transactions are secured how do we ensure that somebody else is not able to do the transaction on my behalf or if a person leaves a company is not able to perform the transaction can we integrate with let's say identity provider and use a proxy ID to perform all the transactions in certain blockchain applications you will have multiple IDs who are performing the transactions whereas if you had a privacy control you would basically have just one identity from an MSP and the actual identities would be coming at your upper layer and you need to maintain a log of all the details basically which person from your let's say identity provider active direct etc who have done the transaction how it relates to the actual identity on the blockchain there will be a lot of firewalls DMZ all those things have to be considered it's hyper ledger fabric ecosystem is definitely the most important part of the deployment but how all the systems integrate with the blockchain network becomes much more important in this scenario and there could be times like are we using an algorithm what is the algorithm and what are the options we have such are the challenges specifically when it is related to defense as well Thank you so much Mohit I will just take the screen now just to wrap it up thank you so much Chris, Kartik and Mohit for a really informative session they said they are available for any other questions that you have for them you will find the slides on the page for this event we do this twice a month our member webinars coming up we have Previci talking about verifiable credentials and Oracle on August 18th and Oracle talking about tokenization hyper ledger fabric on September 8th so please be sure to sign up for those we also have so much more content if you are looking to learn more about use cases or dive into more technical sessions we have a webinar page on our website and also we had our global forum in June and you can find all the sessions from the global forum on our YouTube page as well there is a playlist there that you can browse so I encourage you to go there and I encourage you to get involved we have a number of channels at hyper ledger we have a number of working groups special interest groups if you are looking to ask questions when you are struggling with implementation I invite you to go to the chat.hyperledger.org where you can jump right into the open source community of each of our technologies and help with getting some of your questions answered and we look forward to seeing you here with us next time thank you so much for joining us have a great day thank you everybody


This paper proposes a novel approach to detecting botnet attacks in IoT networks by combining three algorithms, exponential weighted moving average, EWMA, k-nearest neighbors, KNN, and cumulative sum algorithm, QZM. This combination of algorithms provides a more accurate detection of botnet attacks than existing approaches, resulting in a higher detection rate and lower false positive rates, FPRs. Additionally, the proposed approach utilizes fog computing to create an effective framework for implementing an anomaly mitigation strategy. The proposed module was tested on the bot IoT dataset and achieved a high accuracy, 99%, with a low FPR, 0.002%. This indicates that the proposed approach can be used to accurately identify botnet attacks in IoT networks. This article was authored by Rami J. Alzharani and Ahmed Alzharani.


Beethoven 1-3-2 is one of my very favorite pieces in the world. String quartet is special because he was in a really dark place and the piece really shows the difference between the sadness, especially in the third movement and the pure joy of living his life and being rid of sickness and it shows to me the truth of humanity, seeing possibility of death and also the possibility of life. Playing from the Henry score is also helpful to understand his language. I think the way that Henry uses the articulation and really goes inside the score really helps us to get closer to Beethoven and to understand what he really meant.


I'm honored to be speaking to you on this international day of family remittances. Migrant remittances are an essential lifeline for millions of migrant families in low and middle income countries. Last year, migrant workers sent 605 billion back to their families and communities. This year, that figure is expected to grow to 630 billion. Remittances are essential workers that keep economies running, particularly through times of difficulty. Remittance volumes continue to grow through the COVID-19 pandemic and remain the largest international financial flow into most developing countries. Remittances enable migrant families to cover basic needs, reduce their vulnerability and build resilience during crises such as climate change or conflict. The health families pay for food, education, housing and health, thereby improving their human capital. Remittance flows also play a catalyst role in the development of local communities. These matches recognize in the global compact for safe orderly and regular migration and reaffirm by member states in the Progress Declaration from the Recent International Migration Review Forum. Further, while paying for essential items and funding human capital development is arguably the most important function of remittances, studies also show that around 30% or up to 190 billion can be leveraged privately for local investment and development purposes. This requires that migrants and their families are digitally included, have access to tailored financial products and services, and are engaged through appropriate channels and platforms. Yet the cost of remittances remains stubbornly high. In 2021, the average cost for a $200 send was over 6%, twice the Sustainable Development Goals target of 3%. Lowering remittance fees by just 2% points will translate into 12 billion of annual savings for international migrants. Promoting the digital inclusion of migrants and facilitating their access to tailored financial products and services can leverage remittances for productive use, encourage migrant savings and reduce the costs of transferring remittances. On this International Day of Family Remittances, IOM, together with the UN Network on Migration call upon stakeholders, member states and international organizations to create the conditions that will facilitate the faster, cheaper and safer transfer of remittances and to encourage as appropriate opportunities for development-oriented investment by recipients. This in turn will empower migrants to become actors for local development.


Also, the People's Democratic Party governorship candidate in the 2023 General Elections in Avian State, O.K. Iway, has reacted to the verdict of the election petitions at Tribunal Iwenmeyer, now which, in its judgment of Alex Ute, has the duly elected governor of the state in the March 18, 2023 polls. Now, Iway is a message in a message signed by his media advisor, Viktor Umokocha, shortly after the Tribunal's verdict has expressed profound appreciation to his numerous supporters, his legal team, family, friends and associates, for their support. The statement is quoted that Iway has said telling his supporters and the legal team, as well as his family members, that there is no cause for alarm regarding Tribunal verdicts, our truth and justice will ultimately triumph. Now, while expressing unblemished confidence in the judiciary, the PDP candidate in the March 18 election said his legal team will thoroughly examine the judgments of the Tribunal and advise him accordingly on the next line of action.


Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy Alley. This is going to be video number two of a three part series of the 15 rules for negotiations. Check it out. This will make you a master closer. Hey guys, what's up? It's Andy. All right. Let's get right to it. I'm going to give you five things during this video. Remember, this is a three part series. This is part two. So if you're catching this video, go back and find one and see number three that's coming. This is important to you. We're going to run six through 10. Guys, take a pen, take a piece of paper, make sure you're taking notes. It's extremely important. Whatever is written will be retained. All right. Number six through 10. Number six, always stay with the buyer. Guys, listen, in and out, in and out, in and out. That's going to create what? A dead deal. Rule number six. Always stay with the buyer and reduce the number of times that you leave the buyer alone. Look, let me tell you this, right? This is important. Stay there and watch your car deal be in work. Sales person, customer asks a question. Boom. He shoots out of the office, goes to talk to the manager, comes back in. He goes back in. They talk about something. Boom. He's back out. Boom. Back out. All of a sudden, you know, fourth time in, the customer's leaving. They left the customer alone for too long. And I want you to understand this. The reason why you want to reduce the amount of times that you leave the office is every time you leave, what do you think's happening?  I know we came in to pay 400 a month. Man, paying 700 doesn't sound that bad, right? I think we should do it. No! They're not saying that. They're like, look, honey, we talked about paying 400. He's at 700. I mean, look, we weren't really prepared to go that high. I mean, what do you think? I don't know. I don't like it either. I don't like it either. You know what? Wife grabs a purse. Husband says he needs his keys. You come back in. You're like, okay, guys, got great news for you.  We thought about it. Can we get our keys? And you're like, guys, whoa, what's changed? Man, you keep leaving the office. That's what's changed. So rule number six, stop leaving so many times. Stay in there with them. Okay, guys, always maintain a positive attitude slash demeanor, no matter what. It doesn't matter what they say. They could say something that offend you, that upset you, that isn't what you wanted to hear. It doesn't matter. Always maintain positive. Why?  It wants to bite you more. Okay? Never, ever change your state. Never change your demeanor. Never change your attitude. Always keep it in a positive, uplifting state. I assure you, it will carry you very far in a negotiation. Okay, guys, here we go. Rule number eight. This is a good one. A lot of you guys don't do this. I don't know why, but check it out. Always treat the buyer like they can afford anything.    What are you talking about? How can you sit there and say that they can't afford it? They can afford whatever they want. They need to change up their spending here and there, but I assure you they can afford whatever they want. Treat them like a millionaire.  That's what I want you to know. Think about it. If I'm sitting there talking with somebody and I'm like, oh my gosh, listen, guys, you make so much money, you could afford a payment three times bigger than this. It's just the truth. You don't have to, but you could, right? So guys, this payment is really not that high. And by the way, at the end of the day, you could afford more if you wanted, but you don't have to. Guys, let's do business. I'm just going to tell you, treat people like a million bucks will spend all the money. Your customers can afford anything they want. They can. It's just that you're not treating them like they can. Treat them like they can, and they will. Give them the confidence. They need that from you. Okay, guys, here we go. Rule number nine. You guys are going to like this one. All right, so it's going to be always agree with the buyer. Never disagree. Never. You know what that means? Your customer's always right no matter what they say. Hey, I totally understand. I completely agree. There can be a however coming behind it, but always agree with them. You guys want to create friction in your deals? You want to? Disagree with them. I dare you. I hear a lot of salespeople. They know it all. They know it all. So what they want to do is they want their customers to be aware that they know it all. So when a customer says something, well, I don't agree with that. I think this way. They're like, no, that's wrong. No. No, no, no. It may be wrong, but always agree. There's a way to explain that. It's called being a master, communicate. Communicate with them well that there's other ways to look at it. Listen, life is all about perspective. Maybe the way that they see it right now is from that angle. However, in a moment when I explain it properly and communicate well, they'll see it from a different way. So don't tell them why disagree. I see a lot of salespeople do that. Don't ever disagree. Always agree and then be great at overcoming the objection. Okay, guys, here we go. This is going to be number 10 game changer right here. All right. Always smile. Look, write this down. Smile. Always smile no matter what response or objection the customer gives you. I'm going to tell you this, okay? If you're looking to get offended, you'll get offended every day of your life, okay? Great sales pros, never get offended. Rejection doesn't exist. I get rejected all the time. It doesn't bother me. Look, if somebody is rejecting me, it's because I didn't present it very well. They didn't perceive what I wanted them to buy, so they'll give me an objection. It's my fault. Own it. Look, you didn't do a good enough job. You didn't build enough value in it. Whatever happened, guess what? You can fix it. But if you get a negative state, right, and you don't smile, do you think it's going to increase the chances of the deal going down or decrease the chances? It's going to decrease it. So rule number one, guess what? When people are in a good mood, they're in a good state. What will they do? They'll say yes and buy. But when somebody's in a bad state and they get into a bad mood, what will they do? They'll never say yes. It'll always be a no. So I want you to think about it. What are some ways that you can put it in your best odds for someone to say yes? Smile. Hey guys, I totally understand. I completely get where you're coming from. Completely respect that. Yes. I totally get it. However, look, I wanted to show you this. I think you're really going to like this. And I go into it and I'm smiling. I continue through it and I don't have a negative response. Rejection deflates a lot of salespeople. And when rejection deflates the salesperson, what's the first thing to go? The smile. It leaves the customer sees that you got triggered and it ruins the negotiation. So never lose your smile. No matter what response or objection you get, never lose your smile. Now as you're watching this video, you see this nice little closer hat, right? You guys see that? Love America. Love the flag. Love the closer. If you notice in the middle, it's got a lion because we're lions. We love to hunt. The day you stop hunting, you're finished. So we hunt every day of our life. I love the closer hat. It reminds me if I can influence, if I can persuade and if I can close, I can turn a dollar forever in my life and I can always get what I want. Guys, if you want to get a closer hat, you'd like to have one, shoot me a text message<PHONE_NUMBER>. I can send you my link to my website. You can buy one. Boom. Now you got your closer hat. Or number two, reach out to me and I can just send one your way. Have an amazing day. Love you guys. See you in the next video.


Good afternoon, and you know what time that is, it's Hawaii, the state of clean energy time. And I met you and your host, and I'm very pleased to have Cameron Black from the Hawaii State Energy Office as my guest today. Hello Cameron, welcome on board. And Cameron's going to tell us all about the renewable energy projects and the directory that he manages and how it works. And what you can use that for and its value. So welcome aboard Cameron. So first of all, tell us a little bit about the Hawaii State Energy Office. Yeah, we'll do Mitch. Thanks for having me and thanks to everybody who's listening from wherever you are. Real briefly, before I do jump to the energy office, I just wanted to touch on the directory if the slide is up, the main slide. We manage, as Mitch said, the Hawaii Renewable Energy Projects Directory, which showcases all of the existing and proposed renewable energy and innovative projects going on in Hawaii. The directory serves to demonstrate our progress towards our renewable energy and carbon free goals. And it also serves the important function of notifying communities and regulators and other stakeholders of projects that are being proposed in their areas of interest. And it's one of the few interactive online maps of all the renewable energy and energy innovation projects in Hawaii. So we pride ourselves on maintaining this directory and making it available to the public. My last slide before I get into or last point before I get into the energy office is we're in the process now of overhauling our entire website, which is a good segue to the energy office, to make it more user friendly and accessible. And one of the things we're looking at is redeveloping the directory as well. As you can see from this slide, our office was originally established in 1976. And at that time, we were a division of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Some of you out there are familiar with our office and have worked with our office for a long time. We were established by statute last year, Act 122 made the Hawaii State Energy Office an attached agency to D-Bed and it gave us new specific duties. It also created the position of the chief energy officer, which is Scott Glenn right now, our first inaugural chief energy officer. And as you can see, we have the mission that's stated on the slide. We're committed to promoting the energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean transportation and to achieve a resilient, clean energy, decarbonized economy. That kind of says it in a nutshell. We have five areas of focus. Mitch, feel free to jump in here if you have any questions or points you'd like to make. You're doing great so far. They're all circled around collaborating. And they're not broken up right now because they're all related to one another. That's the point with the globe there is that they're all interactive to each other. Starting with efficiency, efficiency first is what we like to say. So we have a staff that's dedicated for energy efficiency from policy to building codes, green businesses, all kinds of stuff. We also have analysis and planning. I do have a question while we're on efficiency. How does Hawaii energy fit into that? Do they come under you or do they come under another agency? How do you coordinate with them because they have money to do actual energy efficiency projects like light bulb changes and refrigerators and things like that. How does that work? How does that fit in? They fit in under the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission. And they're funded as you know and I don't know if all of our viewers know through our monthly energy bills. All of us pay a small charge that goes towards Hawaii energy that allows them, well, it goes towards a public benefits fee, which is administered currently by Hawaii energy under the PST. And they use that money to issue rebates for like you said, energy efficient lighting or if you buy a refrigerator that's energy efficient and you get money back from the state.  So we do work with Hawaii energy quite a bit, but they're administered by the Public Utilities Commission. So what do you say you work with them?  What kind of a program is targeting? Is that what you mean by working with them? Well, I think we cross paths on a lot of things that we do. Our goals are aligned with ours on a lot of things. So whether it's policy, possibly even building codes, energy efficient measures, initiatives. So we talk with them pretty regularly, you know, they're pretty well known in Hawaii. They're not Hawaii State Energy Office. They're not themselves, the government agency. Right. So they're a little bit unique, but they do a lot of things for the state and for all of us. And the beauty of that program is that a lot of people can take advantage of those rebates. Exactly. Yeah, it's a really great program. And they're actually doing a really good job on it. So I need to bring them on my show one week and let them have a chance to tell us all what they actually, what the projects are doing these days. So anyway, go ahead and go around the globe here. All right, keeping the tour going, we've also got energy resiliency and assurance and that's something we talked about before the show, Mitch is one of the really important functions of our office is to serve as the state lead for emergency support functions for the energy and fuel sector, which means when a fuel or energy shortage is imminent or happening, whether it's caused by economics or a hurricane or other natural disasters, our office works closely with all of the private sector, energy and fuel stakeholders and the government agencies, federal, state and county who are involved in disaster relief. And that means we coordinate a lot with the energy and fuel providers checking statuses on fuel and power outages and we serve as somewhat of a liaison between the private sector and the government agencies in charge of the emergency response. Sorry, I cut my mic off because I'm on the flight path, the Marine Corps base, and I have C-17s flying in every now and then. So I have a question about the resilience program. Do you guys do what ifs or a scenario analysis, like I'm looking for the gaps? I'll give you an example, not an energy, but you know, I just read this article about Lanai finally being hit by the COVID virus and they had no plans, no ventilators, no nothing. It's like, hello guys, I mean, we've only been doing this for eight months and how could you not think of a plan B? So is that something that you guys do in the Energy Office? Do you do these kinds of scenario analyses to come up with the plan B or the plan C if we get whacked by a hurricane? I mean, I know it's not just you, you've got civil defense and everything else like that, but is that part of your thought processes and things that you guys do? Oh, definitely. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is the lead state agency, the working closely with the National Guard and the rest of the state agencies that play an important role in the disaster response and every year there's a hurricane exercise course. As an example this year, there was focus on port restoration. What happens if a big storm comes through, the ports are inundated with debris? What are the scenarios and plans and how can we be prepared for that? So that's an example of preparing for scenarios. I think COVID caught a lot of us, you know, without maybe by surprise as far as response or what the impacts to COVID would be. So that's I think a little bit unique. I think infectious diseases have been part of emergency planning for a long time. Of course, these diseases are unique and this is I guess a pandemic. So that's a little different. But most definitely, we do try and plan ahead and a big part of that is identifying the information that will be needed in a response. How do we know what infrastructure is where are our critical assets, who manages them, and then how do we get a hold of those people when we need to? We also have a clean transportation focus as well. So that is something we're looking at, electrification and other technologies hydrogen, for example, that you and I have spoken about. I think is also in the mix of alternative, fossil free. And then last, but not least what I'll talk about my branch is the renewable energy sector, which we do a lot of planning analysis. Well, that's also another area, project support, policy. Next slide, please. So what I'm here to talk about today is the Hawaii renewable energy projects directory. And something that I kind of gleaned over is that our state goals are to become 100% renewable energy powered from the electricity sector and carbon free carbon negative by 2045. So we're not only looking at being 100% powered electricity wise from renewable energy, but we're also looking at eliminating carbon use altogether, which includes transportation, which is a little bit of a harder nut to crap, I would say to become carbon free. So under that office of reaching 100% renewable energy, one of the things that we noticed under a previous administration was how do we track our progress? How do we know what projects are going on that are going to get us to that goal? And how can we showcase to the outside world that Hawaii is a place that is really taking big strides to reach that goal and becoming an innovator and a test bed for some of these technologies? So we devised the Hawaii renewable energy projects directory. And as I stated in the beginning, this project, these directory lists many, but not all of the existing and proposed renewable energy projects in Hawaii. We don't have all the projects in the state of Hawaii listed on this directory. That would be hard. There's a lot of medium size rooftop PV installations that we just don't have the bandwidth or information on to put on this directory. So we've made some decisions on what projects we will list. And right now we have a certain cutoff of about 500 kilowatts for some of these larger PV, unless the project demonstrates itself as some sort of innovative or public use project. For example, PV for a wastewater treatment plan, I think as an example, the wave energy test buoy off Kanoe Bay where you're at is another example where it's not producing a lot of renewable energy, but we still like to showcase that project. So there's a lot of projects in the directory that are like that. The projects are all here based on public information only. So we're regularly mining or becoming aware of these projects through media outlets, government filings, company filings, company notifications. So we're like everybody else in that sense is we don't use inside information to put these projects on here. We want to make this based on public information only. And why is that? What's the thinking behind that? Well, I think one of the big reasons is we don't want to be put in a position of using information that we may have come across as privileged or confidential. That's not our position or our job to be providing that kind of information necessarily. And I think it also shows that if you have the time and energy and it's your job, like it's ours, you can find a lot of information on these projects. Of course not too many people in the state are getting paid to track these projects. But there is a lot of information out there if you know where to look. And what the directory tries to do is identify some of these sources. At least the PUC docket is a good source, for example. I would think that you have to be really careful about insider trading because a lot of the larger projects are done by publicly traded companies. And if you're kind of opening your kimono and talking about their stuff that isn't public, then I can see where that could be a major problem. You know, the state would get hammered for doing so. That's why I got it. Yeah, there's a lot of competition. You have one off-taker for some of these large projects that's either Hawaiian Electric or KIC Unquite. You also have limited space. You also have limited resources as far as the construction equipment or maybe even the workforce or the expertise that you need here. So there is quite a bit of competition amongst the developers. But there's also I think a lot of common goals that they share and commonalities with each other. So it's a good point. So the directory, the previous slide showed the link where you can go to the directory. And at the end of this presentation, it'll show you a link to our home page which you can access the directory at. And like I said in the beginning, part of our goal is to rebuild our website to make it more user-friendly. The directory is one of the things you can find on our homepage pretty easily because it is one of the more regularly visited websites. But once you get there, you can search for projects either by island technology. If there's, you want to look up all the wind farms or all the wind projects in Hawaii or all the solar projects in Hawaii or all the solar projects on Kauai, you can do that. And you can also search by map. So if you saw a project driving over H1, over by Mili-Lani, and you're curious to know more about it, you can look on our map. You can try to find that project. You can click on it and hopefully that will give you information on that project. Or you heard there's a project being built on that piece of land down the road and you want to learn more about it. Hopefully our directory would provide that information. So it's also good for local communities as well. I think we're talking about that before we started the show. So local communities, you know, so it's not a surprise all of a sudden, wow, what's that? Why wasn't I informed? You know? Yeah, that's our intention and that's been an issue is communities are finding out about these projects too late in the game to where they feel they can make an impact to actually change or impact the project. So as soon as we learn about the project or get a public source of information on the project, we try to put it on our directory immediately. And one of the other websites I'll show at the end of this is we've also added an area for the more recent projects about opportunities for public input or to learn more about the project. Because again, we fully appreciate that not everybody knows where our website is. Not everybody knows how to track these projects. Most people don't. Again, I get paid to do this partially. And you know, we have to look for this information ourselves too. So we want to make it as user friendly and accessible as we possibly can. Users can also download and excel of these projects, either the entire list of 115 on there now or by their searchable category. Well, that's another feature.  On the next slide, you can see what happens when you click on one of the project icons. It pulls up the information on that individual project. With the caveat that we only have the information we have, a lot of these projects don't have a PUC docket, or we don't know the tax map key or the parcel where they're located at. Or maybe even in some cases, we don't even know the exact location for possibly some of these smaller solar farms. So that's an area that we'd like to improve upon is gathering the data and making that data available. But we publish all the information that we have. That's public. So if I have a project that I want to have up on the site because I want to, you know, provide some visibility to it. So what's the process? Just contact you and the energy office. And if I meet your criteria, you'll put a very nice article about my hygiene project, for example, on it. We will look at it. We'll look at it for sure. We'll put it, well, right now, Hydrogen, one of the things we'd like to change is that we're set in the technologies. This is an application, the directory, but we're looking to convert it to a different platform where we have the power to add technologies. Hydrogen would be a great one. So yes, the station behind you, for example, is something that we can add in the next iteration. We love the platform that it's at now. It's the application that's really easy to use. However, we don't have full control over the programming aspect. We can't add energy storage, standalone energy storage technologies right now without paying our contractor to do that. So to answer your question, yeah, I think when we make the transition, hopefully, in the next couple of months, that is something that we can do. You can send me information on a project. We'll look at it, make sure it meets the criteria, and then we can put it on there. We've also been contacted by members of the public saying, A, those windmills are not where you said they were. Can you please move them to where they actually are? Or this project is not accurately described. Maybe the developer will say, we appreciate you putting our project on here, but you're not describing it correctly. So we are very open to all corrections. There's a lot of projects on here, and we don't always have all the information on all the project. So a brilliant thought is a lot of these project developers could come on Think Tech Hawaii and be interviewed like you are. And then they get a link to a YouTube article which you guys could put a link inside their project description to get an actual video of the whole thing, correct? Yeah. Well, what we want to do is, at least in that project details page, put a hyperlink to that developer's website or to whatever website you can get more information on that project. If it's a Think Tech interview, that's good, whatever it is. I think that's in the next iteration, an improvement that we would like to do. So that's a great suggestion. And that's also a good segue to the last slide, number six, which is almost our last slide, second to the last or third to the last slide. We do want to make changes to the directory. And like I said, one of those things is moving over to a GIS based platform. And that will enable us to explain it because for the general public, what is GIS? Yeah, I need to explain it in my mind to myself first before I can explain it to everybody else. But it geographic information systems where the projects, I suppose in a way, are located by location. And when you click on them, you get a lot of information on that individual point or project in this case. So this is an example that's in the slide of a mock-up that we'd like to, that it might, may look like. It's very clean because it's like the first slide had these big blobs on them. And this one has like that nice little discrete dots and their color code. And I think this is a much, this looks like a much cleaner interface to me. Well, I appreciate that. One thing that we do want to make sure it is, is easy to use. We like a grade schooler who's doing a report on energy projects to be able to come to our website and learn about the projects. And sometimes that means they need to have bigger buttons. So, and great, grade schoolers are just as smart as we are these days. So they don't always need bigger buttons. But we want to make it as user-friendly as possible. So in our transition, that's definitely something that we are making a priority to. But the beauty of transitioning to GIS is you can have so many more data fields added. You can identify how much greenhouse gas is being reduced by a project, how many homes are being powered, how much that's moving our renewable energy goals. So there's a lot of advantages to moving to a more database tool system. That's a layer, right? Yeah, there's a lot of layers, as I understand it. Yeah, yeah. And we can add layers to it. And we can make this layer as part of our Hawaii statewide GIS program library, which is a great library of GIS maps, if you haven't already checked it out. Office of Planning does a great job with that. The second to the last slide, I know we're getting towards the end, is some of the other tools that we've put out there. And I'll make this quick. We're good. We have a renewable energy, EnerGIS, which provides information on individual parcels. You can go on there, which is GIS based, like we just talked about. You can go click on a parcel, you can click on your own parcel to tell you a lot of information on that parcel. We've also got a permitting wizard, which helps identify the federal state and county permits that could be required for your project. And finally, we have the Stage 2 Project website, which is new. These Stage 2 projects are the last round of large solar plus storage projects and standalone battery projects being pursued by Hawaiian Electric across Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii Island. And that's the website where we attempt to provide information where the public can provide input or learn more about the projects. Okay. And when do we expect to have this up and running? I mean, website development usually takes a lot of very long time, I found. So when do you think this is going to be ready to go or do you not want to commit yourself? Well, the three websites that we just showed are accessible now as is the directory as is. The next iteration of the directory where optimistic will be up and running in a couple months. But until then, we do have the existing directory that we tried to keep up to date. I was updating it as recently as this week. Again, we welcome any updates or errors, omissions that users notice. The last slide provides my email and cell phone number, as well as the email address to our main office and our homepage at the Hawaii State Energy Office. So this is a great time. If you think the directory needs something, please contact us. Okay. If you need to do something, please let us know and we'll see if we can work it in there. Does it have key map information? I mean, I know you said that the GUI that hooks into the state GIS. I always find it kind of complicated to use that. So yeah, it does have the tax map key information and some of these projects are located on multiple tax map keys or parcels. And what we want to do in the next iteration is to be able to identify all of those parcels. In the current directory, we can only list one or two direct parcels because of the character limitation. But in the next iteration, we'd love to list all the properties where projects located. So what about links to environmental assessments and EIS studies? Because that's also another, I mean, particularly for communities, you know, if I'm, you know, not that familiar with all of this stuff, but all of a sudden I'm concerned about something going in near my home or my property. Are you going to have links to environmental assessments and EIS studies so that it makes it easy for the, you know, for the community to find out what's being done. You don't have to hire a lawyer to do it. You can just figure it out yourself. I like that idea. I think if I'm optimistic, we can put in multiple links. Maybe you can access the PUC docket and the environmental assessment and the company website. I'm going to write that down and look into that. I like your idea of linking into the PUC because for many people, the PUC is like totally a mystery place. You know, I mean, there's certain people that really understand it well and they do a good job on it and using it, exploiting it in a good way. I don't mean exploiting it in a negative way. But yeah, for, I mean, once again, I mean, if you have an informed community, I would think it would make it easier to get some of these larger projects than you mean, you're not trying to hide anything. I mean, I think the big mistake lots of developers make is trying to hide stuff and then eventually it's going to come out and then it's just a big flap and then that delays it and it costs you money, time is money is the deal. Okay, so let's just throw up that final contact slide for Cam. And seeing as how you're working at home, you might want to add your cell phone number. I don't know if you'd like want to do that, but that is my work cell phone there. Okay, good. And I completely agree with your last point too, about early notice is best. Yes, exactly. Saves a lot of. So anyway, talking about early notice, we've actually run through 30 minutes, Cam. So we're good. So I'm going to wind it up now. I just, first of all, like to thank you very much. You're doing a, this is a great service to the community. And so well done to the Hawaii State Energy Office and to yourself. I really like what you're doing and the path forward of how you're moving forward. So thank you so much. And this is Mitch Yuan from Hawaii, the State of Clean Energy, and I'll see you next Wednesday. Aloha.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2016 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box King Ranch is stock number 12474Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fondlack, Wisconsin, and you're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2016 Ford F-250 has the 6.2 liter V8 gas engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside, all the way around, underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood as well in this video. Shadow black over caribou brown is the color scheme. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. 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And the passenger side front fender is in excellent condition as well. Another side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. And as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. Nice factory chrome step bars there. Back rim is in excellent shape, and the back tires are brand new as well. It does have the camper package with the anti-sway bar right there. 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Down the rest of this side of the truck, doors look really good. Does come with the driver's side door code entry. We do have the code for this truck, and if you ever wanted to find out what your code is for your 11 to 16 Super Duty in the upper right-hand part of the screen is a video, I show you how to find your own personal door code on your truck. Heated mirrors, built-in directional signals, they power scope out. Power fold in, and I'll show you those working in just a second. The King Ranch package comes with, this is my favorite leather that the King Ranch package has offered. It's kind of like a chocolate leather. You get the King Ranch emblem embossed into the backrest. No rips or tears on the seats. Both of these seats, I believe, are heated and cooled. Factory King Ranch floor mats in here. Auto headlamps, power pedals, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, four mirrors, memory driver's seat, you get the Sony sound system, and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. And the telescope feature, the ignition has to be on for that to work, so we'll hop inside, check up miles, radio, everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. And then I'll show you those mirrors, 66,774 miles, you get a compass display, all your information is in here as well, gauge detail, trip, fuel economy, apps, all that good stuff. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth, and audio controls on the right. Cruise controls and information center controls on the left. So to those mirrors, a power scope, call it, and in, and once again, both sides. All right, you get the Ford MyTouch radio with the factory navigation system on it. It also has AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities, and then you can do your climate controls here. Notice you get your heated and cooled seats. This is also where your backup camera shows up. You can see that that is working nicely. Stability control, CD player, dual climate controls, more climate controls there. Factory brake controller, you do get a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. Smells really clean inside this truck. The headliner is in nice shape. You get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, map lights and your power sliding rear window button. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. You get those King Ranch emblems embossed into the backrests on the back seats as well. 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