Okay, on today's call, we're going to simply run this intro video now we ran one before but we're going to we're going to run another one we're going to run another one and then and then leverage this data as well. We're going to run this video and then we're going to also set up a custom audience around the video. And then when we chat again and in a couple weeks after this after this one takes this course, then we'll take that custom audience and create a look like audience, and then start targeting that audience for leads. Okay, so we're still in the we're still in the awareness phase, which is normally your first to second add where we're now just running it just just for the data. So let's click click on the green one will click create. And then, man, if I could switch my card, I just got a new business credit card. Yeah, for sure. Perfect. So let's get this bad boy out. So now we'll just yeah we'll click the green the green button, and we'll go straight through. And so here these tabs right so the tabs in the background campaigns, ad sets and ads. That's all we're doing is going through the three steps. So this campaign tab is where we choose the objective. So this this first one, the intro is going to be awareness. We're going to get as many people in that local area to see it. And then we'll hit continue. That's it so awareness is is part of step one which is the campaign tab, and then choosing housing. That's step one. So categories hit the dropdown and choose housing. That's it that's step one and then we hit next. So now we're on to the second tab, which is ad set. And here's where we choose the budget, the target, the targeting, and then the placement. So make sure it's always coming from the, from the right business page, which it is and then daily budget.  What did we just run wasn't, I think it was 10 bucks a day. So whatever, whatever your budget is, bro, like monthly, like just divided by two, because it's really all we're going to be doing is running two ads a month. It's 15. Yeah, all right. Yeah. No, we did five bucks last time. I remember I was double with this time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so if possible, like, continue to crush it and close your deals bro and just set aside whether we'll set aside that budget so set aside 300 a month for your 10 bucks. Right. Keep it that simple and from there bro you can really scale up and really, really make a dent in that local area. So we'll go we'll go always next day so it's August we'll go August 26 at at 6am. Are you central or Eastern Eastern, your Eastern okay cool yeah 6am local time. And then and then you'll just push it out 15 days so the end the end date yeah you'll go and date, and then you'll go from the 25th to. What would that be the ninth. Is that the ninth. Yeah, and then and then 6am. And then yeah August August 26. Actually yeah perfect. Okay cool so right there $10 there's the date, and then down here when it comes to the targeting, we want to stick to one location. So, right here United States, you can just X out of the United States or edit, edit United States down a little below, and then just type in type in your, your local area. And you can go off of off of off of just the general city, the name of the city, or you can go, or, or you can go off of an actual address, like, a lot of times it's cool to type in a physical address as well. But just X out yeah hit the exit to the right of the United States just exit out and then just type in type in the new one. What's that address to my office right here. Yeah dude if you could just freaking crush it 15 miles around that address. That'd be that'd be pretty pretty pretty major. You're always with the drop down to so as you type it in always look for the drop down. Yeah, when you're yeah when you're going for address it's not place what you're really shooting for is is is address. So always look for address to the right. Whatever we're putting in here right so what what do we do here so far we put in the budget. We put in the calendar also but but really the targeting the budget and the targeting. Give that give that a little detailed description at the top so if you score the very very top. Just just new awareness ad set yep delete that and rename it. $10 a day. Yeah we just and just a brief description so more when we're on the dashboard we can just view it and know exactly what that is. So $10 a day location. Yep, put it put the actual street name or whatever it was. And then and then you're good. Perfect. Perfect. So now we'll scroll down and that's that's it that's all we need there and so that's our stopping ground bro from this point on Morris Road that's the only targeting we're going to need to put in. I want to just dominate that 15 mile radius. So now scroll down we can't change age cannot change gender. Nor do we need to and then we don't need any. We could we could narrow it in and puts put detailed targeting put some keywords but but we don't even when you're targeting a small area 15 miles. You don't want to you don't want to you don't want to narrow it in any further. Like we've already narrowed in enough right we're only targeting 15 miles so it's like. So so when you like if you go up a little bit, the detail targeting where people put in Zillow right here the detail targeting put people will put in realtor.com people will type in FHA. Lending like they'll type in all these different keywords but but when you're targeting local you're just you're just you're just narrowing the audience so so small where you're not giving Facebook enough enough enough room to find that audience because it's just too too narrow of a targeting. Putting putting in keywords is good when you're targeting nationwide when you're targeting nationwide then you can focus in on on detail targeting keywords. But in your case you probably yeah we won't do any keywords so so placements this is where we're going to actually. Now the brand awareness one this one will leave it will leave it at that advantage plus placement as we go into admin at number two which will will call the next ad at number two. That's when we're now going for hardcore lead we're now targeting the seller or we're now targeting the buyer we're now offering a buyer guide or seller guide that's the next ad which will kind of preppy for that one. But that's when we'll go in and hit manual placement and only target the newsfeed when it comes to actual clicks go to my web page download my free seller guide or click go to my page you know the details on this listing. That's when we're going for lead and that's manual placement, but but we'll get there when we get there for now just advantage. So, so we'll scroll down and what we want to change here real quick is is click on. I think it's the bottom one optimist yeah show more options click on that one. And then the frequency cap edit this one we want three so the one change that to three. Yeah we want as much awareness as possible. Three impressions every seven days so so that gives people the ability to see that add up to three times in a seven day period, which is which is good. We're building the brand awareness. Right so three is good and hit next. So that's step two man that's it the targeting the budget the calendar. The frequency cap that's only for awareness on this one type of objective ad, and then we kind of the third step and that's it so here will simply just make sure the Facebook page is matching the Instagram account is matching. And then, and then and then the create ads so the ad setup will hit that drop down create ad and go to existing post use existing post. And then what you can do is you can also and then select post the select post button and then just find find that post. What you want to do is you can. You can always link it to your website if you wanted to which which it could be, I mean it's good just to just to put something there, like the call to action button so you'll scroll down and you'll see, you'll see the, where is it where is that scroll down a little bit. The, the yeah you have a send message so the call to action you have send message which is fine send message is good for this brand awareness. It clicks to a website right now. Anyways, so we're good there. So we'll scroll down, and then we don't need any we don't really need any of the tracking. And we're not even looking for people to send a message anyways because it's not a send message ad. So we're just putting it there just just to just to fill the space. And then scroll down the tracking. So let's go down to tracking. Yeah, we don't need we don't need website events we don't need any that click publish and we're good. So that's your three, that's your three steps setup of an ad bro. And now as we go to the next ad and we start going for leads. It's the same thing. All we're doing is putting now a link for people to click on so the send message button would be a learn more button and it'd be tied to an actual link. It'd be tied to a landing page. Not your website it'd be tied to some type of landing page that's when we'll have to look into some type of software for landing pages. When when we come to the third and final step this happens often where you click the green publish button, and then it gets stuck like that that happens that happens often I see that a lot publishing one of three and it's just it's just stuck. When that happens just open up another tab. Go back to your bookmarks go back to ads manager, and then just push it through not from here not from here open up another another tab. And then just, and then yeah go to your bookmarks go to go to the ads manager, and then we'll just push it through from over there. So you'll see, you'll see the three steps that we just went through. You'll see it in the top right hand corner so you'll see a blue button here in the top right. That's the three, that's the three steps campaigns assets and ads that's what stuck so go to click on that, and then just push it through here. So you'll, you'll see the green button and just publish it from here. And then you'll see the bottom blue bottom right, you'll see that turn to green. And that's when it fully publishes. So we're good there so now we can close out the other tab the other ads manager tab close out that one know we'll work on this one we'll work on this one but close out that other one. Yeah, perfect. Close out that one just leave yeah you can click on leave. Okay so that that's really step two so step one is posting it on the business page first. I wanted to live there forever I wanted to be public there forever I want people to see thousands of views on that video forever. That's one way people do it one, one way people run, run an ads they'll post it on the business page first that's how I do it that's how that's what I teach that's how I've been taught posted there first. Some people simply run that video in the background, and, and that's it and then when the ads off it's often it's nowhere to be seen. Right and that's what we did before I think I think we ran the first one like that. Yeah, where there was nothing on the page but from this point on, you want it on the page you want it to be visible and public forever, especially because we're going to get so much social proof on it we're going to have thousands of views on it so we want that to be to be shown forever. So step one is posting on the business page first step two is coming over here and setting up the actual ad getting it processed and getting it published, and ready to go out for tomorrow. And then the third and final step is to always create your custom audience, especially if it's a video which you're going to be doing video so always always third step. Come over here once you do this step to then we go and create the custom audience. So that's, again it's a bookmark, or you can just click the three lines to the left and go to audiences. And how do you have any specific time frame as to how long you want it on the page, like the business page. Before we start on that. Oh, good question. No, bro, you could put it you could have put it there freaking two minutes ago and we run it right now. Okay. Yeah, yeah, you, you could have, but I know. Yeah, your message. I think like a week ago is you wanted to put it out there first which is cool, totally cool. So yeah, you could totally there's no time frame on that at all you could you could have did it the last second, or you could have did it a week ago. And then and then so so any of these videos that you have up there a month ago, we can easily come over here and running out on those two. I wouldn't recommend it because there's not real any call action on those ones other than maybe call you or whatever but but now as we go into and even with this one, even if you may have put a call to action call me or message me or whatever. That's some type of call to action but our next video and on the call to action is to click the link to go and get your details or to click the link and go and download my seller guide, right or buyer guide whatever when whichever one you're choosing. That's, that's a real call to action is to click the link and to and to get and to get someone to go somewhere else and fill out and fill out the form right enter your information. That would either be on a listing that'd be on an open house or that'd be on a buyer guide or a seller guide where I'm now getting them to click there was a call to action in that video to get them to click. Right so none of those other ones I think I don't I'm just assuming that none of the other videos were like that are have that type of call action so I wouldn't run and add on any of those, but from this point on. Yeah man it could you could you could do there's no time frame. So, so here now let's just create that audience so so click the blue one, create audience, and then we're going to come down to custom audience. And then we're going to go video. So right here video, and then next, and then over here we're going to engagement we're going to choose. Yeah, choose. So here's here's the different timestamps. Okay so ideally ideally you want to you want to start shooting for videos at least a minute at least a minute long. So then you can come in here and create an audience around those who watched at least 25% of it. Right and that'd be a good audience to really to really turn around and give to Facebook and say hey Facebook here's thousands of people who watched 25% of this video. I'm going to turn it into a lookalike audience. So you can go find me a few hundred thousand more that look just like these people who watched it for at least 25% you know so. So in this case 44 seconds, half of that, half of that is 22 seconds.  So I want to track those who watched at least half of it, right at least half of it. Those are people that are going to see me again. Choose videos, the blue in the right top right, and then just find that video. Perfect. And then confirm. Okay cool. And then the retention, you want to bring that way way down. What we'll do here is we'll, I mean 30 days is good you can go you can go 45 days if you want but but typically like you want it to be you want to be 30 days 30 days because you want everyone to be in this audience 30 days is already a long time like if I saw your video one time 27 days ago. And now you're showing me another ad because I fit 30 day criteria. What are the odds of me really remembering you. Right, you know so so if everyone's a little me personally I'm good with faces like if I see a face freaking a year ago I'd remember them, but not everyone's like that. You know I mean like I'm not the best with remembering names, but but I'm good with faces. Right so everyone's a little different. So I think 30 days is kind of the max I mean a lot of times I'll see stuff yesterday and I don't even remember it you know I mean so. So 30 days is kind of the max that you'll want to start building around every every custom audience on a video. And then the audience name audience name going just give it a name intro video to whatever you want to call it. Because you have that other intro video so maybe this could be intro video to and then in parentheses 50%. So I always want to put the timestamp that actually put in so 50% and then create audience. And so we'll get we'll get definitely a few thousand people to see this one and then click done. And then all we do is we'll take that audience and piggyback off of it and create the look like audience. And then that's when we just put it on steroids and let Facebook do their thing to go find me a ton of people who resemble them. And that's when I start going for leads. Gotcha. So this look like the US one delete that one because that's actually it's it's not it's not that it's not going to be that look like and it's actually going to delete that one. When we go and create it hit the blue button to the left. It's actually the third one down so it's not. And I think I might have did that I think I might have had you do look like but it's actually it's actually Yeah you should have seen you should have seen a different audience down there. Actually we'll check the box check check the check check the box of any of these to the right, and then click on the click on those three dots to the right normally you would see you would see special ad category. I wonder why you don't see special ad category. It should have been should have been special ad category because you're in housing. But we'll let that build up first we'll let it build up the intro video to and then we'll we'll click the blue button again. Let it build up. Yeah let it run for two weeks and then we'll chat what chat then. Yeah so any any questions on that. No. Awesome bro.


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Which is the review section that we're going to be doing going to different collectives and getting like. Not necessarily old school strains, but strains predating the cookies era. And seeing if modern day collectives have what they claim to have in flower. Because a lot of people that have that are tuning in even are new to growing, never experienced a lot of these clones and are relying on their data and their input. To be from these places where they get their, where they get their opinions to base their judgments on these strains, right? This is where they maybe go get their clones. If it's a, you know, a clone nursery flower place, you know, those places, I think still exist, right? So I thought it would be kind of interesting to do this. You know, I've also been doing reviews on stuff that is modern because I've stayed away from it for so long.  You know, but yeah, I guess there comes a point of where like I need to know because now I've isolated myself from that part of the community for so long that really I just don't know anymore. Like past gelato, I just been like, I don't care. But I need to care because I can't give valid input or anything on it other than it has cookies in it. Maybe it sucks, you know, and that's not always going to be the case. And as I'm learning through these reviews, so without further ado, one of the first things I wanted to check when I went to any collective was OG Kush. I wanted to see, first, I get a lot of messages from people that are newer growers and they ask like, what's the best OG Kush seed line? I've never tried a pure OG Kush and I want to experience it. I want to have, you know, a good data point for it. And, you know, for me, OG Kush has been around so long that it's almost like a second nature thing to know what OG Kush is. And I tend to explain stuff, oh, it's kind of OG Kushy, you know, like assuming everybody knows what that is. When it comes to OG Kush, of course, there are a lot of old clones. So Louis OG is one of the old classic ones coming out of LA, probably an OG Kush bag. As fast as best anyone can tell, it doesn't seem to be, if it's a hybrid, it's so OG Kush dominant that you don't see any, at least I don't see any of the other parents traits if it's a hybrid, you know. To me, it's just a classic, classic version of an LA OG Kush. Our buddy Bitter still holds the cut. Bitter hasn't long held the cut for a long time, past it to me, past it to Bitter, so it's still in our group. And it's something that, you know, we can smoke flour of from the original cut still. So it's also a good reason I wanted to choose Louis OG. It's something that we still have access to the flour, something I'm very familiar with, very familiar with. And with this, it's kind of giving people some wiggle room too. Like this is a review of FTO, which is Free Trade Organics, just one of the many companies that sells locally here. I think they're from LA, but they probably drive it up to Bakersfield or whatever. It says small batch exotics. So that's how you know it's dank. It says exotic. That's a joke. That's sarcasm for all of you. Yeah, it gives a little wiggle room because OG Kush is OG Kush. As long as it's a really good OG, it can look like a good faithful representation of what Louis can express. So it can almost fly out of the radar even if it's not exactly it. It can hit close enough to where it's splitting hairs. That's what's beautiful about OG Kush, right? So I want to see essentially if they have a really decent old school OG Kush. So whether this is truly Louis or not, I could really care less. I want to see if they're offering a decent representation of old OG Kush. And yeah, on their label, they actually list it as, I don't know if it's to King Louis OG and Indica. So you know. And there's the code. You could probably scan it from this if you want to. I don't know if that helps them in any way, but hopefully it does. So first off, I'll talk about the flower. Yeah, I'll show some pictures here, probably going to make it get like pushed into mature audiences, which whatever. I was not necessarily impressed with the look of the flower. The texture felt or the look of it, I should say the look of it looked like it had been handled a lot, if that makes sense.  Like I can tell what that looks like. It almost makes the bud look more oily because the the residents being kind of been handled. Right. And that's how it looks. And you can see from the pictures that I'm posting. I don't know where it's going to insert it probably somewhere. But yeah, it wasn't impressive looking. So when I opened this up, I was like, man, man. Okay, well, I'm probably going to be, you know, I figured it was just going to be as expected for a dispensary experience like just low end grow mid-Z OG. But I will say, I will say. I was pleasantly surprised. Looks can be deceiving. Definitely looks can be deceiving. And obviously they were the bottoms of the bottoms of the bags. Not much love give it to me. They were manhandled, but it did. It did have some good qualities. And I'm going to, I've already smoked it. Done all that, but I'm going to try to see if I can bring up anything else right now while I have it here. And since I'm going to be doing these reviews and it's the first video, I'll talk about what I'm using to do the review since this is important too. I have my C2 that beautiful breeder syndicate edition C2 custom creations pipe. And then I have, of course, my ash catcher, my lovely ash catcher should have cleaned the bowl, but it was pretty fresh. And my ash catcher from C2. I love this thing. The easiest ash catcher I've ever cleaned.  They can flavor or whatnot. And then I have for the second way, because that was, of course, combustion method, because you're only going to get so many flavors that way. Frankly, the high is less complex than using what I call the, or not what I call what is called the VripTec ripmaster. It is a vaporizing wand that there's a hole in the bottom here. And there's a rubber gasket that seals to the bowl. And then there's holes on each side in each direction that make this, the air kind of spin up through something like that. The heat goes through it, it works. And honestly, I, you know, I've owned volcanoes, like really nice volcanoes. And I've given them all away after getting this because I really think this is the most perfect smoking device for me, for me, in my opinion, for me to evaluate high and flavor. Nothing's more accurate for me. It doesn't just go popcorn, you know, you get full ranges of experience. If you've never smoked blueberry through one of these things, I highly recommend it. When I say blueberry, I mean real blueberry, you know, blueberry tastes like blueberries, which is, I guess, rare, unless you're having fun at stuff, of course. Anyway, I also wanted to give like a less, less experienced smokers take. So I'm having Bryn kind of my lady chime in on some of this.  And once we met like she never paid attention to any care for strains or, you know, of course, most people don't, most people don't.  And slowly I've been trying to get her, you know, to try these different things or remember what's what, what she likes, what helps with what. And I got some of her input on the smell, taste, high as well. And I found it kind of interesting because usually we experience things so different. Like I smell blueberry and she'll say, ooh, peppery, you know, or that's bright, sharp. Like different words that I like don't work for me when I describe smells. She's an artist. So she, she has a whole different way of thinking. And she thinks in terms of like color, texture, it's very unique. When it came to the Louie, this was her input. The smell she said it smelled like someone with bad breasts, wished lemon floor cleaner, which I mean that's fairly accurate. Like I get lemon floor cleaner too. So, yeah, the bread thing I would associate more GMO, but like whenever she smells GMO, she just goes, you know, like, like she wants nothing to do with that. So this one she does, this is she actually really, really likes this case coated my tongue like the syrupy stickiness of lemon heads, which I thought was awesome and hella descriptive. And the high calms me down enough to focus but doesn't put me to sleep with no anxiety. Or doesn't put me to sleep and it has no anxiety enough that I was able to sit down and read 12 chapters which her sitting for longer than five minutes is an insane idea. And it's getting her to the point where she can sit and focus and read, which is great for her. So yeah, I don't know. Like, hopefully maybe some of you guys out there, your ladies may take some input from that if they're not like as super into this and as dorky as we are about it. Like maybe that might resonate with them some more. I'm not sure but I wanted to bring that in because I thought it was really interesting how much it aligned with mine. So I'm a sparkable. And I'll tell you what I would I taste through combustion method. So, like I said, looks can be deceiving. This has exceptional old traditional mouth coding, OG Kush flavor. It's exactly like I would have wanted. I've gotten other OGs from collectives, even the same, same place I ordered from which was called highway 99 collected in Biggersfield. They were offering a Mars OG and it was going to be the first review.  And it just got kicked to the side. Like it was that bad. I was super unimpressed with it. This while it's obviously not the best grow of it. I shouldn't say that it's not the best handling of it. It might have been an amazing grow. I think it was probably a really good grow because the flavors there. I think it's probably not the best manhandling of it. But the flavors there, the highs there, it's got a nice relaxing anxiety free OG Kush high because OG Kush tends to be anti anxiety for me. It's not always for everyone. But it is for me. But the most important thing is that floor cleaner mouth coding. Lemon floor cleaner, I guess is the best way to put it pledge some people go pledge some people go like soapy. Like floor cleaner to me is soapy. So I often use soapy to describe it, but floor cleaners for furniture polish is more accurate, maybe. If it doesn't have that to me, it's really hard for me to call it a good OG Kush, because that's what I want out of it. That's how I feel. OG Kush expresses best.  When I, when I get OG, I want furniture polish like this. I want it. I want it mouth coding. It needs to be completely unique. You need to know that's OG Kush. There's plenty of things that aren't OG Kush that are earthy kind of cushy, you know, but that don't have the furniture polish aspects to it. Anyway, so that's that's it for the flavor portion of the combustion overall. It tastes like OG Kush should when it's combusted. But there is a whole nother level you can take something. When you use vaporization techniques, especially vapor wands, heat wands. You know, I'm not sponsored by these guys at all, you know, like everything's been bought and paid for from them. This was actually a gift from my buddy IRI eyes. Back in the day, he was the first person to turn me on to this. And I made fun of him. I thought it was his, you know, torture device. I still think it is. You know, we all use it for that at times, but it works great for for this too. It also doubles and we're great for this. But I do think that the design could be improved on a bit. And it's really hard to get a hold of now, these things, which is a shame. So hopefully, and I know some people are working on some new wands, because these these things are that good. So we'll see what comes in the future. But for now, we are using the grip tech and I highly, highly recommend any one devices if you want to experience flavor and the high complexity of any strain. So I'm going to give this a go with the old Louie. And with these, you want to let it kind of heat up for a second and then you draw in really slow. Like it's like it's your dad. And there's a world of flavor and oji kush that unless you vaporize it, you won't experience. There's like candy. There's like a lemon heads candy in there. It's super sweet, citrus, almost an orange. The complexity is so far away from the harsh tones of gassy fuel and what we expect from that. It's just a world apart. And yeah, this is definitely whatever cut they have is an old oji kush cut, whatever it is. And I dig it. And I'm glad that at least some people, you know, if they got lucky enough to buy bud from this cut, they got to experience oji kush here locally recently. There's something indescribable about the flavors you can get out of vaping. There's something that runs through all of them that I think is probably just the flavor of cannabis in general, but it's super pleasant. And I never experienced this with a volcano. I never experienced this with any of those devices. My friend Warren brought a Storrs Bickel, like portable thing, but he had this device attachment on top of it. It looked almost like a Puffco or a Karta type top. It's more like a Karta type top. And it was bigger. And with that, you are able to get some pretty good flavors that were similar to what I saw with the RipTec. Like it's the closest I've seen, closest, but it still had some of the Puffco stuff. But it was close. It was close. But this is a next level. And for the piece we are using for the RipTec is another C2. And this one's a double ratchet. They actually talk about this in the C2 episode that we did recently, season nine episode one. It got stuck into the mature section, you know, for the adults. So go check that out. What else do I got to get in here? Go check out our Discord Patreon. I'm going to try to do more of these. But yeah, if you have access to FTOs, King Louis, like I said, this specific batch looked like someone maybe hands these it up a little bit too much. But it's not bad. It's not bad. I don't regret it. I regret the Mars OG. I regret that. I fully regret that. I don't regret this. So shout out to them. They did a great job with the growing of it. Really good job with the flavor. High is great. And overall it was a pretty good value too. I mean, I think they're charging 35 and eighth, which is probably standard for nowadays. I don't know what people charge for weed now, but it wasn't. I'm not mad at it. You know what I mean? Like I was mad when I looked at it, but I wasn't mad after and that's what counts. So anyway, that will be it for this edition.  It's just me rambling stone. So maybe maybe it'll be the last one. I don't know.  Check you later. Want to sit at the table with the syndicate? Check out our Patreon and our link tree or description below. Our merch site is officially live. We have all sorts of shirts, hoodies and goodies to sort you out and shipping is super fast. And most importantly, the quality is top notch. I've been saving old designs for years for this purpose. So please check it out syndicategear.com. We also have an underground syndicate discord where we get together and solve old strain history together daily. It's an amazing community of learning away from IG and it's an amazing resource for old catalogs and knowledge. We hope you join our union of breeders and growers. Come check it out.


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Hello everyone, I am Anikit Pathan and today we will be talking about Neuro Fedora. So, talking about Neuro Fedora, it's a special interest group in Fedora that we have been working on. So, before we talk about Neuro Fedora, so let's just talk about some other things that we have in our slide deck over here that is basically starting with, we are starting, we are going to start off with open science. So, basically like what open science is and so open science, it's very similar to what open source is, open software that is like open, basically that science should be transparent and knowledge should be accessible and shared. And it should be developed through collaborative networks and everything so everyone should have the freedom to study, modify and share the scientific material. So, basically it applies to all the scientists, academics, students, researchers, and basically like almost everyone that have access to the scientific information. So, irrespective of the social status, age, location, so that's what we call opens, that's what we refer to what open science is. So, and that's so we know what open science is now but like what is neuroscience, what is Neuro Fedora based on so neuroscience as you have guessed probably it's the study of the brain. So, we study different aspects about it that is like basically how the brain functions, how it is structured it's the anatomy of the brain and everything right. So, the chemicals inside the brain, there are a lot of chemicals that falls on their domains of oncology and biochemistry and how it processes information so that goes to the computational neuroscience bit over there. So, about the behaviors and cognition that is the behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. And that's it. So, this is what neuroscience is we study all these different aspects about the brain. So, basically now let's just talk about how we actually do that so so to do that we have a lot of tools and there's a whole pipeline and workflow. So we all start with like data analysis then we go to theory then modeling then experimental So, it's actually a very simplified diagram but it's very complex because you probably just go from data analysis to modeling directly and skip the theory been between so. I did not obviously skip that 30 but like with the with the availability of tools and softwares you can actually just go to modeling part. So it's basically a general workflow for almost like all resource based work. So, yeah, so that's it. So, what are what are the tools of the trade or in neuroscience so it's basically like we have experimental experimental softwares that we include like and I come or image viewers we have some FSL tools. We have the softwares to drive the big machines like heavy machines that do the computational work. Other than that we have some data analysis softwares as well that is that just ranges from like simple from like very simple to very complex libraries like from lumpy sci-fi and cycle cancer flow and that's like one of the basics like we talked about the neural networks but there are a lot of data analysis libraries as well. We have simulators we have simulators to model how our brain is going to work. So for that we have Neon or and these were one of the biggest the biggest computational neuroscience simulators that we have, but there are a lot more as I said. And so and for theory and now for theory and modeling, rather than that we have lots of hardware and softwares obviously required. So let's just like summarize what we I have talked about right now so we have free and open science that everyone should have the freedom to study share and modify the scientific material. Similarly, we have force that's free and open source software that is everyone should have the freedom to share study and modify software. That's it. So free and open neuroscience free and open science includes and relies heavily upon free and open software because open source software basically because if you don't have the tools and how are we going to like how are you going to share a scientific material right so that's why the force is really necessary for free and open science. So with the help of your federal year basically just want to consolidate the two moments that is a force free and open science that we have. So, regarding that we have a very, very interesting paper that we have it's a fun paper to be upon that's basically based upon like open science and open software. It discusses various aspects of why open software is required and why opens open science is also required. Basically discusses about reproducibility crisis where people are unable to reproduce the data or results. Also, it also benefits also also has like contains like why we need, why, what does what are the benefits of open code like it helps the community and people can reuse your stuff and they can build upon and improve. So your publication becomes an ad word for the code. So, yeah, if you have any questions. Okay, so I can see a few questions. So can we work on a cloud image of the spin. Oh, yes, David, you can actually so that bit is going to come in the slides in a few minutes. So, yep, I would definitely not on the cloud you can work it on work. You can for now like use it as a container. So, I will just tell you on how you can do on what ways you can use the neuro Fedora spin. Yeah. So, so then your science community is multidisciplinary. There are people from all the all like various fields like. And so, basically we are discussing why we need, why, why do we need a federal so basically only a small proportion of them are trained software developers and not all of them have the required experience to use or just create a software right. So, this is a basic flow chart on how software is distributed in general, basically we have the developers and which provide the code to the end users and the end users they use it and they provide the feedback to the developers. Right. So, this is not always true because there's some issues with the flow chart if you can see. So we are assuming that the dev the developer we are assuming that the developer knows that the end users are knowledgeable. So, we are just assuming that the end users are knowledgeable and they know how to use the tool. They know how to build it they know how to test it and how to install it. But we are also assuming that then users would be providing regular feedback to developers over here. Right. So, based upon like anecdotal evidence over here we have like software using research is not generally the best quality. Right. So, it may or may not meet the development standards that we have the code may not have an instruction set on how to install the software. The users may also suffer from dissolving dependencies and to install the software so that's a lot of things that that's a lot of issues over here like how can general how can a general audience use the highly sophisticated software that the developers are creating. Right. So, for that we, as Neuro Fedora are going to come in between, we are going to liaison between the developers and the end users over here. We will take the code from the developers just package it in a binary and then provide it to the end user directly so then they can install the tool with just one click. Right. So, on other, on the other hand, like, if the end users are providing us feedback that's great, but we will provide our feedback and give that to the upstream developers so that they can follow the best practices that they have they can test their codes. They can resolve the bugs that if we find any. So, basically what we're doing is we're basically simplifying the installation and the usage of the tools for the end users and providing a regular feedback system for the developers over here as well. Right. So, distributions like Fedora over here we are actually in a unique position because we have the infrastructure over here. We have high end servers we have multiple mirrors across the globe. We have a phone packaging guideline we go through a heavy duty review process and we test the software before packaging it for the users. So that's a good thing that that we are testing the softwares and many contributors we are from in Neuro Fedora they hear from different backgrounds and they have a lot to learn as well. So that's a good thing and for the movie also providing help to the users if they are facing any difficulty installing or using the software we are there to help them. Why, because a lot of us from the neuroscience community and they have they have the experience on how to use the tools and everything so if there's anything then obviously we can help. So, about you know Fedora so what's our primary goal it's basically to provide ready to use integrated force platform for neuroscientists. That's, yeah, that's pretty much a primary goal over here. And our secondary goal is like basically like helping improve the standards of, like, of the tools that is there, like so we are improving the standards on how to maintain them how you test them how you use them. We also help users develop their software development skills, and we are basically making neuroscience accessible to everyone like not just a specialist but not specialists over here as well. Right. So Neuro Fedora what are we offering so let's just talk about that David, I think I will be answering your question and right now right so what we as a cigar offering to the community. Right, so the company or lab that we have it's a spin of the Fedora OS that helps us enable neuroscience. Right, it has all the near tools being installed and so it's just easy to use you just have to install and start using the tools and we just like ready to play right. So it's public analysis and general productivity tools that are using computational neuroscience. The few examples of them would be the nest or the neuron simulator that we have it also has Brian so Brian is another similar that we have. It's heavily using computational neuroscience so we have all the big softwares over here, not all the big I mean like we are still in the process but yeah. It's integrated with no. So no man is like known for like the, it's very simple to use desktop environment and it's intuitive and it's simple so that's why we are integrating it with no and so that like everyone could use it. And the lab that we are offering we are also offering a computer container so for people who are using containerize environments. They can just download or pull the container from the Docker hub and just start their development on it they can deploy clusters on containers or maybe clusters and they can deploy images and clusters so that they could just launch a sort of hub for the for the people for the people who will be accessing it so for example like I work in a lab I could just like get I could just pull the container over here I could just deploy it and I could use Jupiter lab or I could provide a Jupiter lab entry point for all the people inside the lab so they can they can use nest that's the simulator, they can just access this without any difficulty like so you can also use it at podman and Docker and that's great. So I see another question that is your plan on making the image available on other registries like quay or gx here. That I'm not sure I mean like it is as I tested it is available on the Docker hub with the Fedora repository with the Fedora images, we will have to check if it is available on quay or gx here right so wait for a few minutes if anyone has any questions. Wait, so, right, so I guess I should move on. So, neuro Fedora so how can you help so I'm assuming like all of the most of the audience most of the people in the audience from technical backgrounds and they could help us with our little group that we have. So, they could help us with packaging and maintenance right so since our main work is revolves around like maintaining and maintaining packages and creating packages, creating software packages for people. Then, yeah, I mean, definitely if there are people out there that can help us with that, we would obviously be very glad to help. And other than that we have the QA test that is the testing bit that we do. Right, so packages that we provide must like they go through a very heavy duty Fedora QA process right so you are supposed to pass a review and then they have to have automated tests that we have. So, either you can help us with the reviews or you could just simply enable the updates testing repository and just test the tools and like as the updates and if you see anything that is worthy of reporting then you could report it to bugzilla and that brings us to the third point that is basically you can file bugs, right you can file bugs you can report issues that you are facing with the packages right so bugs can be reported on to the bugzilla that we have that is basically the bugzilla is basically an issue tracker that we have for Fedora packages. So, any packages that related to any issues related to the packages can be reported just add over there. Furthermore, any bugs related to the packages the users can directly go upstream and help them out so that's one of the big plus that we are working on. So, other than that you can also help us improve the user documentation so it's an important resource and you could just like help us by you can help us like by contributing or improving our documentation because there might be some human over there and it's not always perfect so yeah. And that you can help other users that we have in our communication channels so we could basically help them troubleshoot issues and if they're asking for help then you can obviously help them out. So, there are a lot there are communication channels like on the on IRC there's a lot on telegram and matrix. So, I will get on to that bit in the future slides. And the last thing that you could help us by help us by is by spreading the word because right about you can write about your federal you can share your opinions about your federal on social media. You could refer us to your friends or colleagues who are working in the neuroscience domain so that would help us help people to know that there's there's this thing known as your federal and they can actually get involved with it as well. Right. So, about you know fedora so it with our current metrics as basic are basically like as follows we will be three years old in September 2021 that's like next month. We have around 30 voluntary contributors right now. And that is a good thing. And most of them are not but we would like to definitely like to get that number up. We have to move we would love to have more contributors with us. And for software we have 190 tools packaged, and they're ready to install. And so the recent ones that we have packaged a new normal like the pioneer and all these tools are like heavily known in the neuroscience community, and a lot of people use them as well. So, it's a, it's a good thing that we are actually having a lot of people that are using them so we can get like reports and everything as well. So, other than that we have over 200 softwares in the queue already. Right. So, we have tools like even the pie, the neuro minora, the fly brain lab, the gen tools. Right. So, these are all again the heavily known softwares and would love to have help from a volunteers on this right. So, how can you reach reach out to us and we have basically a mailing list that is neurosecatalyst.fedoraproject.org. We have an IRC channel on liberal chat that's Fedora Neuro. We have a telegram channel as well. And that's the link over here t.me slash neuro Fedora. So currently the IRC and the telegram channel bot is not working the link about that. So, we usually hang on around the bot as a channel so we would be able to help you on either one of them. Our documentation is available at neuro.fedoraproject.org. Please do visit that there are lots of users over there you would love to go through what all softwares we have offer and how you can contribute. We have a blog over here neuroblog.fedoraproject.org and the published regular updates about our project like what we are doing and what is the current state of the whole SIG so it's all over there as well. And our pager IO that is the first getforge that we have it's over there neuro SIG slash neuro Fedora right so that's a small group neuro SIG so you can just search it over there. And that is the end of slides if we have any more questions any comments or anything we we would definitely love to have them over here. If there's something I could clarify upon. I'd like to just say thank you for attending the session it was amazing. Thanks a lot for all the people who attended the session. It was really great having you all. And if there's any question that we can answer. Please do let us know. Thank you. Thank you David. Thank you Shane for attending. If you have any questions regarding neuro Fedora if you want to ask anything literally anything if what are what are our plans for future. How are we going about with the containers and with anything literally please feel free to ask. You will be taking the containers as well. You want deep learning as well. Don't be all. That would be amazing like having a deep learning image as well. I am pretty sure the science team the science or the robotics know there was some Sega forward the name show definitely David I would love to talk to you as well regarding this. Yes the machine learning sick my bad yes the machine learning Sega is actually working upon something like they were trying to packet some open source tools that are used in for GPU computing and everything. If I remember correctly there were some tools known as hip and everything basically for AMD graphics and everything so that would be cool to work upon as well. Yes, exactly. Yes, there's a machine learning Sega as well David that you can probably look up. It's similar to what we are doing over here. They're also trying to import all the tools are not packaged for Linux and for Fedora basically for Fedora they're trying to create a they're trying to package everything as well. So I guess that's the end of the session. If anyone has any questions or anything. Please. Obviously I mean. No worries like us. We would wish we would have done the same if I had known this that we could. Oh wait I skip on to the chat plan so they're so talking about deep learning is they can be issues with CUDA packages right so any heads up on how and if okay so basically our cars deep so we don't we don't necessarily use packages that use we don't actually use neuroscience we don't specifically use packages or to software to do that. We don't have any tools that rely on the GPU right so we don't have a hard dependency upon the CUDA libraries as well right and as uncle said it's a no go because the drivers are not open source right so that's another issue that we have. On the other hand, as I said, about the machine learning so they were they were trying on packaging the hip libraries that could work with the AMD graphics card series that they have but then again it's not optimized as the Nvidia one size so. Again, it's a big issue that we have. But we could probably clear the code poll on like what desktop environment do you use because I was talking about normally over here but I don't specifically use normal I use I use the plasma desktop so we could probably have a neuro Fedora. A spin off neuro Fedora with the plasma desktop so that makes things more amazing. What do you guys feel about it, please, if you have any comments on please do leave them at the chat. See, yeah, I can't agree is that could be fun. I'm talking about the plasma desktop, even then, even a desktop with I three, that would be amazing. So that's worth looking into as well. So I guess that's the time. It's my 25 minutes are done. So if you guys have any other sessions to go do. As I caused the recommended the session that I'm the WME session. I don't know what that is. I'll jump into it as well. So please do it and it. All right, so I'll leave the room. Thank you all for attending and it's the websites and applications we would love to attend it. Thanks a lot everyone for attending and that is time so I'll have to close the room as well. See you. Bye bye.


Comedian John Stuart has been on a roll lately. He's been owning Republican politicians shining light on issues that have been Propagandized heavily by our mainstream media and on top of that last week. He utterly owned Larry Summers So this has led to one individual making a conclusion about what John Stuart should do specifically where he should take his advocacy next and that is The presidency Howard Stern is saying not only that John Stuart should run for president But that he owes it to the country to do just that as the Hill explains if President Biden chose not to run for re-election Stern said on his eponymous serious XM show then he figured out who should run for president on the Democratic side His name is John Stuart Stern said that guy is so fucking smart and bright and also witty and really measured when he takes on a debate Stern told listeners about the Apple TV plus the problem with John Stuart host He knows how to talk and you know he would work his ass off to be a good president Stern 69 nice said I'm telling you he could also win because people like John Stuart Stern said noting how Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky Was a comedic actor before entering the political world Praising Stuart's advocacy work on Capitol Hill Stern said remember when John went to Congress and lobbied for the 9-11 first responders Watch when he talks to politicians and he confronts them Stern said watch the guy He just makes a lot of good points He owes it to this country Stern said the guy would be terrific and I think he'd do it Stern added So for those of you who are longtime listeners to this show, you know that I have a very strong rule against Celebrities and comedians getting involved in politics. I almost always shoot it down immediately with that being said I Would make an exception for John Stuart. I think that Being an effective politician also requires you to be an effective communicator and John Stuart by far is one of the most Effective communicators in our country. I mean and I say this as somebody who growing up learning about politics I learned about it from John Stuart watching the Daily Show every single night and he continues to impress Now I don't necessarily know that his politics would be as radical as mine if I saw an entire fleshed-out policy platform But having said that though within the confines of our terrible neoliberal system Do I think that he could actually make a difference if he were to be elected president? Yeah, I do I think that he could get a lot of things done having said that though I don't think that any one politician is a panacea. I've kind of moved past this thinking that One politician can and will save us. I think that those days are gone. I think that things are too bad For all of our solutions to be solved with with just one individual real change has to come from the bottom up and not the top Down having said that though. I think that John Stuart if he chose to run could get a lot of good accomplished but The question is would he do it Howard Stern says yes, but John Stuart already answered this question so last year after he basically lobbied Congress by shaming Republicans into supporting health care for veterans Well, there was an op-ed that said he should run for president and he was very clear He took the Twitter to write. Um, no, thank you. So he doesn't want to do it He's already made this clear But if I might add I think that somebody who doesn't want to be president Is really the best person because there's so many people who seek out public office Not necessarily because they have this belief system that they're adhering to or they're doing it for altruistic reasons I think that most politicians and this is a generalization, but I think it's true I think that most politicians run for public office for self-aggrandizement somebody who Doesn't want to be in public office is really the best person because they're not thinking Two to three steps ahead about their own career what they can do when they get out and become a lobbyist for an industry that helped Them get elected and then that they represented in Congress We need someone who doesn't want to be president And that's why I think that there was such a large amount of appeal for someone like Bernie Sanders Even though he's run for president twice and is considering a third run if Biden doesn't run It's clear that Bernie Sanders never wanted to do this back in 2016 actually 2015 before he announced this 2016 run. He was trying to get Elizabeth Warren To take on Hillary Clinton, but she didn't want to do it So he chose to step up and had he had broader political ambitions Don't you think he would have pursued them at an earlier age not when he was in his 70s and you see Not wanting to be in power That made a difference on Bernie Sanders campaign I mean as difficult as it is for him to win in a Democratic primary with all this media propaganda You can tell that he actually cares about the issues that he's talking about and even if I have my disagreements with Bernie Sanders You can't doubt the sincerity of him, right? There's a reason why he is consistently the most popular politician in America And it's because he means what he says and that's evidence, right when he's trying to be a little bit I don't know. I guess coy about his real beliefs. It comes through So there is value in authenticity and that's because we're lacking it in politics and when you see somebody who's actually authentic That does wonders. I mean Trump is not the best example. He lies every two seconds, but there's something authentic about him that isn't Applicable to other Republicans. I mean compare him with Rhonda Santis. Everything that Rhonda Santis says feels rehearsed and phony and contrived But with regard to Donald Trump, even though he's lying He still says things that we know he's really thinking like he says the quiet part loud And that's part of the appeal for the appeal for Republicans So if we had politicians that actually wanted to run for Pure reasons and not selfish reasons I think that the country would be in a better place But having said that though, that doesn't mean that all of our problems would be solved, right? It's not a supply issue. It's it's the institutions The institutions are the problem capitalism is the problem We've commodified every single aspect of American life Including elections. So if you want to get elected, you essentially have to pledge fealty to large multinational corporations otherwise Good luck getting elected because that requires money and trying to raise money using small grassroots donors is very difficult I would know I've brought on probably more than a hundred politicians who've tried doing it and just a couple of them have gotten elected so, you know, we're in a situation where I feel like as As desperation increases as so many crises get worse I'm willing to try different things and if that means running one celebrity one comedian I'm for it if it's John Stuart, but for anyone else I won't make that that exception for them because I think that John Stuart is Unique in the sense that he really does care about these things and he is educated And he is able to speak about these things in a way that makes them easily digestible But any other politician or any other celebrity that wants to become a politician No, I'll write it off almost immediately because I don't want somebody to get involved because they can they have fame and name recognition Therefore they could become a member of Congress or a president I want them to get involved if they actually want to fix the fucking issues that plague the country