All right. Well, welcome everyone to this month's open education conference community call. As always, we are very excited and honored to host these community calls. I, along with me, Miller Lee, I don't know if you want to say a few things, say hi to everyone. We are members of the conference's steering committee and we will be co-facilitating this month's discussion on the conference theme, reimagining open education, which many of you might have already heard about it through some form of communication. And again, we're really excited to kind of delve into the topic this theme. The steering committee in particular is very interested in hearing your feedback about this as well as other related topics. And speaking of the steering committee, I just wanted to go ahead and show everyone all of the members of the open education conference steering committee. I also want to take the time to acknowledge the planning teams and volunteers involved in this process. All of those groups and people have been working so hard behind the scenes on this event with so much of this rich feedback that you all have given us in the past from previous community calls and will hopefully continue to give us. We're really, really grateful for this. Also, if you are on social media, please follow us on a variety of different social media accounts. If you're on Twitter, search for the handle hey open ed, H-E-Y-O-P-E-N-E-D. Same handle on Facebook and Instagram. And if you're into the hashtags, go ahead and put that hashtag on your tweet, the conference hashtag, which is hashtag open ed 20. So let's go ahead and take a look at what we have planned for you on this call. So first up on the agenda, excuse me, we have some housekeeping things to take care of, specifically some updates about the conference. And then we're going to get everyone set up into Mentimeter. And for those who haven't been able to attend some of our previous open ed conference community calls, Mentimeter is the platform, the primary platform that we use to collect data and real time feedback from you all about the topic that we'll be discussing on the community call. So we'll get everyone set up there. And then we're going to delve into the topic, the theme, conference theme, reimagining open education. From there, Lee is going to give you some instructions in terms of breakout groups. So we'll discuss that in a little more detail. And then after we discuss our conference theme in smaller groups, we will then report back as a larger group about what we discussed in those small groups. All right, so first let's go ahead and get set up in Mentimeter. I do recommend that you use a separate browser from the current device or browser that you're using to join this call. So if you're currently, for example, on your laptop, you might want to use your phone to get set up on Mentimeter. And there's a couple of ways that you can do that. So probably the easiest way to do that is either just to type in menti.com into your browser, and then type in the code that's on the screen, which is 5429749. I see that Lee here actually submitted a direct link to the Mentimeter slides that we're using for this call. And so you can just, you know, click on that link and then just submit that code again. And that's 5429749. Or if you're really high tech, you can take a picture of the QR code on the screen and the browser, the link should automatically populate on your browser. So I'm going to give people a few seconds just to get situated in Mentimeter. And if you do have any questions or if you're having some troubles getting set up, please go ahead and direct those questions in the chat. All right. So I think we are all set up in Mentimeter. Let's go ahead and take care of some really easy questions. So the first question is, where are you joining from for this call? You can put your state name, province or country name or all of the above if you want to, right? We have Canada, Montreal, Michigan, Pensacola, Florida. I like that. I want to be in Florida right now. Connecticut, Secret Bunker. I like that too. Virginia. Awesome. Arkansas. Yay, Arkansas. Okay. Looks like we have a pretty, at least U.S. representative representation here, but loved to see more international. I think we can move on to the next question. So I don't know about you all, but the past couple of weeks for me have been extremely stressful. I know I'm wearing it very well, but I wish I could take a vacation right now in the traditional sense. Unfortunately, we cannot. But if you could, what is your dream vacation right now at this very moment? Go ahead and submit your responses in Mentimeter. Mountains, ooh, yes. I have a lot of folks for the mountains. Nature, we have a couple of people for in-person conference. That's, you know, that's okay. Tropical. A lot of people voting for the mountains. I would definitely agree with that. And we have a few for a staycation too. Aw, family. I like that. Space, yes. That should have been an option, Rebel. I, you know, yes, I vote for space too. I agree, Jeff. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much for your responses. I think at this point we're going to go ahead and, yeah, a COVID free planet. Absolutely. We're going to go ahead and get into some updates about the planning process with the conference, and I'll go ahead and pass it over to Daniel. Excellent. Thanks so much, Jasmine. Well, it's great to be with you all again. So hopefully you have all subscribed and seen the emails coming out. So if you have, you know that the conference is November 9th through 13th. So it's going to be a five-day virtual conference. I think this is an incredibly exciting opportunity to welcome many new participants that probably couldn't join us when we were in person in the past. Another big update here is that we have, after talking with the community, after receiving all of the feedback, we have set a standard registration rate. So for this year, it is going to be 75 U.S. dollars. And we made this decision after listening to the community and understanding that affordability is incredibly important to our community here. We will be ensuring that there are discounted rates available and that there's a scholarship process for those who may see that cost as a barrier to their participation. But we really wanted to make sure that we were balancing not only affordability, but also sustainability. So hopefully you see that, that we are listening, and we hope that that $75 rate is amenable to all of y'all. And if it is a barrier, as we said, there are going to be discounted rates and scholarships available as well. So registration will open in early September, and there will be more details on how to get the discounts or how to get a qualify for a scholarship coming out very, very soon. And I'm excited to see you all in November. So let me hand it over to Nicole to talk a little bit more about the call for proposals. Yeah, so I just especially want to give a shout out to the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion team, the volunteers who put a lot of thought into how to set up an equitable process for the registration rate and make sure that we're thinking about the sustainability of the conference for those who have access to funding while also making sure that funding isn't a barrier to participation. So lots more to come on that soon and just want to echo what Daniel said about the feedback we've received from the community has been extraordinarily helpful in making some very difficult decisions in terms of balancing priorities and thinking about the future of a conference in the process. So thanks to all of you who've taken the time to come to these meetings every month and continue to do that. So as many of you probably know, the call for proposals is out and I'm actually going to turn it over to fellow steering committee member Emily Reagan to talk a little bit more about that. Emily? Hi all. Well we are very happy to have gotten the call for proposals out and we've distributed it in many places and we hope you continue to help us spread the word. We're really excited to get as many applications for this conference as possible. There's synchronous and asynchronous session types, everything from 10-minute lightning talks to some longer workshop type slots. So there's something for every presenter. We have selected eight topics ranging from introduction to open ed to some more timely topics and so I think there's a place for every open ed topic to find a home and you have the addition to propose alternatives if our eight topic areas don't capture your open education related topic. So please do share our call for proposals widely. We're really excited to get a large mix of very different and diverse proposals for the conference and the chat has our link to the call for proposals. So we do have a Mentimeter question related to the CFP. Do you personally plan to submit a proposal for our conference? And noting that the deadline for the CFP is September 1st. Oh fantastic. We have a whole bunch of people planning to submit on this call. I'm super excited to see this. And you know we have a significant cohort who aren't planning to submit too. They seem to be gaining and fantastic. We already have two people on this call who have submitted. Great. So it's ended up looking a little more close to 50-50 for those of you planning to submit and not planning to submit and we welcome you all at the conference and we really welcome those of you who are submitting to get those submissions in by September 1st. So next question you can enter your feedback. Type it into Mentimeter. What is that feedback that you have for us around the CFP? We know everything wasn't perfect this year. No one foresaw COVID-19 when we started this process and we knew building from a lot of community input would be a little slower and we're building this up from scratch. So we recognize that the timeline is not optimal. I'm a faculty member and I just started the semester so I realize this is a crazy time of year. But recognizing everything, what feedback do you have for us which will inform our process for future years? Yeah, a bit of a quick turnaround. Yeah, too quick turnaround time. Reposting is very important and then some positive feedback. Thanks. Everything has been clear and transparent. Someone is new to OpenEd and has no idea what to expect. Someone reports that went smoothly for them and someone, this is the first I've seen of the call for proposals. So we apologize that you haven't seen it in the places that we've sent it out and we're glad we're getting the word out now and this is really a team effort to spread the word. It is a busy time of year to prepare a proposal. Some people need permission to submit and not sure if they can get that in time. Some appreciation. Yeah, okay. So many people commenting on the short time to submit and I do not disagree with you. This is a tight turnaround. More time helps coordinate collaborative presentations but some understanding as to why our timeline was short this year. I'm glad that some people are optimistic and positive that they can make it work and I think that's a good attitude for all of us. Like we're going to make this work. Yeah and Emily if I may just add one thing. The call for proposal form is intentionally short. Abstracts are a maximum of 250 characters or around 300 words. So really we didn't, we considered the short time turnaround when constructing the form. So it's not quite as much work maybe that it may seem but certainly here, certainly here. Yes and someone pointed out you can save so you can prepare part of your proposal and save and then come back to it you know another day. There's also a nice tool in Google Docs which has all of the questions that you will have to fill out. So if you would like to prepare things in Google Docs ahead of time and then get all that uploading done at one time that's another possibility. And we just posted some tips and resources including that document yesterday. I'm putting the link in the chat. I see a question. I wonder what was trying to be the equivalent for poster sessions and certainly the 10-minute lightning talks which are asynchronous are I think an important avenue for people to come share out in a way that might be similar to a poster presentation. Yeah August is a nightmare. I really do hear that. Yeah and especially this August of all August right because we have such a different teaching environment you know online or are we online or are we not online depending on the institution we're at. This is a particularly tough August. Oh and then showcase gallery as well. Nicole would you like to speak to the showcase gallery? Yes that's multi-format asynchronous content so you can create a poster. That's one of the options for that but really any format type be creative. And then I hear that in the chat here. March felt like it was five years long and August has felt like it's only been a week. Like I have had the same experience of time. Yes and other people have felt that too. And then a question URL for Google templates. I'm sure we can get that in the chat here over the next few minutes. Yeah fantastic thank you. Well good thank you all for your input. All right so let's go ahead and get into today's main topic which of course is the conference theme reimagining open education. So so when the steering committee finally decided on what the theme would be for the conference which again was really really heavily influenced by previous community calls. I was very pleased to hear that this is what we landed on. And I was also pleased to hear at least within you know my specific network that the response was pretty positive. The steering committee agreed that this is a pretty solid theme for a conference because it's it's so timely and honestly it really is a call to action to address so many of our most pressing issues in education that you know simply cannot wait. It's about holding ourselves accountable to be malleable and to truly serve the communities that we claim to serve and embody a community-driven approach one that addresses social justice structural inequities inclusion and so much more rather than taking more of a savior approach. And open education more specifically has been presented as a solution to some educational problems like accessibility and and textbook costs and you know we've accomplished a great deal in that area but I'm wondering you know now more than ever is the time for for critical reflection and coming up with tangible actions that we can do to actively engage in our educational ecosystems. And so again this means addressing inequities that we see amplified at such a jarring level because of COVID-19 because of structural racism and and since education as a whole is is in a way being forced to redefine its purpose because of these external situations I think this is a really interesting opportunity for open education to reposition and to try to answer some really tough questions and problems. But you know we're not only looking you know outward or externally we have to look inward as well more specifically at the conference experience. Some of us on this call hopefully this is going to be your first open ed I really hope I do see many of you there in November and for some of us we have attended several open ed conferences and we've listened to the community's feedback about moving away from presenting this conference as the premier conference to share ideas about open education where you know you kind of see the same faces and voices being elevated. And what we found through listening is that people want this conference to be an event where we can truly learn and get our hands dirty if you will and apply this to their respective situations. And so our hope is that reimagining the conference experience can point more directly to learning and how we can successfully achieve certain learning outcomes for attendees. So with that and this whole introduction of the conference theme in mind let's actually jump back to Mentimeter and answer a few questions related to this topic. So the first question reads what learning outcomes do you hope to get out of the open education conference this year? And Leah I'm actually going to call on you to further contextualize this just to clarify the question a bit for our audience. Sure so in terms of the proposal process this is going to focus on you know what are some of the learning outcomes that are going to be presented within the what you're proposing that's going to be some of the focus. So in terms of just to make sure everybody's on the same page of what we're asking for as a learning outcome it's looking at it's a statement that's going to describe the essential aspects of what learners can actually take away from what it is that you're going to be presenting. So it's not just necessarily just a shareable or something that you're wanting to highlight what you've done. There's actually some actual points that they're going to be able to take away and then maybe either apply or increase their knowledge in some way shape or form. So that's what we're kind of looking for in terms of of the open outcomes or the learning outcomes. All right so we have some responses here in Mentimeter so I'm reading someone said new OER projects happening. I always like to hear about what people are working on and how that's applicable to my local context. Networking of course. Ways to increase open pedagogy I'm assuming in the program. Assessing the impact of OER. Understanding best practices and working towards open education for the first time. I really like that. I feel like there needs to be some type of like crash course into open education and building the infrastructure to make sure that it's sustainable. I really like that. How to ensure that the OERs I want to use are high quality and written with a standard in mind. Excellent. Planning inclusion into OER practices. I have talked about this a great deal whether that's a grant program or some other program to help support open education efforts. How do we build inclusion or with inclusion in mind. I'm really glad someone said that. International collaborations at promoting or at promoting equity. Yes. Love that. And more voices from the Global South. Decolonizing the curriculum. Yeah. Sustainability. Good. Students. The reason why I'm in my job. My students. The role of students in open ed absolutely and we really hope to have several student voices at the conference this year. Excellent. All right. I think we are ready to move on to our next question. Thank you so much for those responses. So the next question reads what do you think the long term goals of the open education conference should be. So just really take a few seconds to think about this before you respond. Long term goals of the conference. And this can include a post conference experience as well. All right. So we're getting a few responses. I'm seeing a lot of community. The word community being put here in Mentimeter. That's excellent. I like resilient communities. I really like that language. Getting a striving, sustaining, inclusive OER community all over the universe. Not just the world, the universe. Yes. Establishing an open forum for sharing. Absolutely. Mentors. I think we discussed this a little bit in our last community call. Again, that kind of goes back to my joke but not so much of a joke about a crash course into OER and really having those initial touch points with people who are new to this community. Mentors, yes. Mentorship community, policy language help, guidelines, diversity, yes. Show the textbook publishers that we are in this for the long game and we are going to keep developing open learning solutions. Oh, they know. I'm sure they're well aware. But yes, still keeping that on their radar. I agree. To ensure the integrity of open source materials, yes. A sustainable annual gathering. And again, I'm seeing some of the same themes about welcoming new people, having our infrastructure. It just went away but basically making sure that to thinking more intentionally about how do we welcome new people or new voices into this community. Going away from that rock star community or rock star critique that we've been hearing a lot from the community. Excellent. This is great feedback everyone. Thank you so much. Now I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to Lee who's going to give us further instructions about the next part of our call. Awesome. Thank you. I'm going to make one comment. It's coming up right now. Strong ties for FOS just to make sure everybody's aware what that is if you don't know. It's free and open source software. So that's what that acronym means to put everybody on the same page. So we're going to jump to looking at breakout rooms and this is our question. I'm actually going to submit that question in chat so that everybody has it when we do go out to breakout rooms. We're going to break out for 10 minutes so that we make sure we have time to come back and be able to discuss everything that we want to look at. Within that when you do get into your breakout room, please designate right off the bat a speaker so that you can have somebody highlight two points of what you guys wanted to talk about for this question. Even though that mentee meeting will be running, we will have that option. So even if your idea is not one of the highlighted ones from your group, please put all of those ideas included in the highlighted ones in mentee meters so we can document all of that information. So we'll go ahead and go to just a few of the ground rules if you will. So the first one here, if you tend to speak up a lot, make space for others. So it's one of those things where sometimes we'll just start talking just to clarify our own idea for ourselves.  So feel free to pause, clarify what you want to say, and then by all means speak up and put your two cents in on the conversation. The second one, listen actively. So with this one, silence is okay to try to put your ideas together and then comment back. And that kind of leads into the next one of take time, repeat back and clarify language. And again, we kind of provide two different options. So the goal is to make an effort towards understanding and we can do that by either asking questions or we can do that by repeating back what we heard to clarify what they were saying. And then last but not least, help others make them look brilliant. If you like what somebody else is saying, support their thoughts and ideas and provide that community feeling of support and trust and all those type of things, collaboration. And it's also going to empower others who may not necessarily be usually the speaker and empower them to feel like they can speak up more. So those are just some of the highlights. As we do go into breakout rooms, and Nicole's going to break us out here in just a minute, we will have a one minute notice when it gets close to that 10 minute mark. So note that and whenever that happens, please make sure that you just wrap up whatever thoughts that you have. And if you have time, highlight which two that you want the speaker to note for your group specifically. And then we'll come back to the group. We'll have Mentimeter running so that everybody can kind of highlight their thoughts while they're fresh in their minds. And then we'll go ahead and kind of go around to the breakout rooms and get those highlighted and start our discussion from there. Okay. So I'll turn it over to Nicole to go ahead and break us out. All right, this has been shifting in exact science. So apologies if you end up somewhere you did not expect to be. We're going to be in groups of around five or six. And when I click break out, you're going to head into your rooms and we will, there will be a steering committee member, a member of the conference team in that room to convene the conversation and move us forward from there. All right, I'm going to open them up right now. All right, we're going to wait maybe just a few more seconds for people to trickle back in. But in the meantime, you can go ahead and submit your response to this question. What does reimagining open education mean to you? Glad to see we're already getting some responses. Absolutely. Oh, and I like it. I get to type. I don't have to talk. Okay, so we're getting people filtered back in. Student success. Oh, hey, Jasmine. We, I'm not sure we talked about this, but we should do a group photo. I would love that. Let's do that when everybody comes back, since people probably may need to drop off the call. Everybody has to go like put their arms up. We'll let you direct that. Yeah, we should just give people a chance to turn off their camera if they want to. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Decision making, those voices are reliable, reliable perspectives, gatekeepers, financial barriers. Yeah. One person put, I'm new here. I'm still at reimagining education. Absolutely. And that, and that is fine. Because again, open education doesn't just exist in its own little silo or vacuum, you know? The nice thing is, is this, I mean, it lifts any ceiling that we could imagine. I mean, it takes that top off. So we can. Absolutely. Everyone should be back. If you're 12, PK through 12, not just higher education. I spend a lot of conversations. Feel free, if you're just returning to the main room, feel free to go ahead and start putting your ideas in. We're going to just take just a few minutes and let people start putting those in Mentimeter. And then we'll start going around and seeing what some of the highlights were for the groups. So Stephen has, okay, Nicole already answered the question. Remove barriers and boundaries of standard practice. How do we make keep education inclusive and equitable? I like to keep parts. And that's, I think, a reflection with all the sustainability aspects. It's not just a financial sustainability. It's a cultural and cultural progress. Absolutely. Absolutely. So we'll take one more minute. Still let people put comments in. Even while we're talking and doing highlights around people, please feel free to keep putting stuff in Mentimeter. We'd like to document all of your ideas. And if you're not putting your highlights in, please put your highlights in as well. They don't still have to be verbally indicated here too. We'll just wait till the, I have almost 1249, we'll wait till 1250, and then we'll start going around groups. There's one that popped up here. I'll let it come back up. There's two themes indicated. Students getting more involved and engaged, both at the classroom level with annotation, engagement in the text, and as student leaders, either on campus or in community, including being strong vocal advocates for OER to faculty, and pride, et cetera. Under the broad umbrella of innovation, all about the innovation, reimagine how faculty, students, libraries work together, create more awareness, customize and localize open education, changing institutional colonial and commercial interests with openness. Okay. So group summary. Thank you. All right. I know we only have about 10 more minutes to go. So, and I see here Emily said could group four go early because people have meetings at the top of the next hour. So if the speaker from group four would like to go, give us a brief recap. I'm so sorry. Go ahead. Hi, my name is Rachel Lee. I'm actually a recent graduate from the University of New Hampshire, and I'm relatively new to the OER space. I've been working with a company called EcoText, and our mission is to create opportunity for affordability. So our two main takeaways from our small conversation there was two. One for the conference in November, possibly creating some sort of like reflection room for people who are new to the space, as well as for people who have had some years in this space. So for someone like me, I would really just love to listen and hear about past experiences. So we know what has been done good and, you know, what are things that we can improve on. And our second point was that for reimagining open education, we weren't necessarily saying, we weren't sure if reimagining was the right word because there has been so much good done, and we need to continue any empowering each other in this space, but we also need to recognize and critique, you know, and make improvements within this space as well. So that's a brief overview of what Group 4 talked about. Wonderful. Thank you. So we're going to go ahead and jump back up to the top and just start from one. So Daniel and Haley, that was your group. Who's your speaker for Group 1? In our group, the speaker was me, so I would just briefly mention the keywords that, you know, like from our discussion, and those were affordability, diversity, accessibility, and customizing localizing open education. So these were the keywords and we discussed around these points. So we mentioned, you know, like the discussion was that we are stuck more in the affordability part of it, and we are thinking of open education more from the financial part, although we can think about all the different factors that we can think or re-imagine open education from. So this was the point that we discussed. And the second point was that making space for open education before 2022, putting a timeline to it, so we can know that when can open education become a norm. So that was the main point that we discussed. And yeah, so these are the main points that we discussed. Wonderful. Thank you, Daniel. All right. I'm glad we're getting all this feedback. Thank you so much. So we're going to go to the second group, which is Winnie's group, who is the speaker for Group 2. If not, Winnie, do you want to give us your run into? Oh, great. Thank you. I'm at a community college and have worked on different OER projects for adult ed, but we have two themes in all our contributions. The first was getting students more involved and engaged, both at the kind of classroom level with annotation engagement in the text, making it more culturally reflective, but also as students being the leaders, either on campus, like being the advocate for OER, faculty administration and pushing change that way, and in the community as well. And then our second theme was kind of a broad, like the credibility and rethinking what truly open education is. Like as things are online, people are, we need credibility for where's the book, where's the classroom, are we really learning. And I think we can have more widely open, Ryan brought up imagining the benefits, more than cost, but more like getting people, even getting things like the George Floyd and racially motivated incidents, is getting the community more involved in real open learnings and being mindful about how our data is used. That's a really great point, Susan. I think for so long, we've been so comfortable, like literally, like the classroom has contained this information both physically and just in so many other sense. And so now that we're in remote learning or open it or not open education online education, whatever you want to call it, because I know those are two different things, it's kind of forced education as a whole to think more about open practices, whether they they want to or not. So that's a really good point. Wonderful. Thank you for that.  So we're going to jump to group 10. Regina, you want to have your group present? Yeah. So most of what is already here in Mentimeter, we've talked so I'm not going to repeat it. K to 12 partnership is really important discussion in our group. But there's one that I'd like to highlight. One of our members said, I hope we can reimagine some new models for not for collaborative knowledge creation beyond what is being done right now, certainly, you know, beyond the publisher model. So how do we ensure that there's more collaboration not just across the same institution, but, you know, inter institution across many roles. And even internationally, that one is not really happening right now, especially for materials that are meant to replace the traditional course learning materials. So I hope we can do that. Thank you, Regina. And we are starting to get so I understand if people have to drop off we're going to jump to to group five, the presenter has to jump off for for Amy's group. So Judy, do you want to Yeah, sure. So we talked about the necessity of changing the paradigm from OER is a niche effort to openness as the dominant paradigm. And that would include not only instruction but research and scholarship so that we understand that openness is the way that we communicate in the future. And then as part of that is the importance of advocacy, like how like how to make this happen is reaching beyond the close community, as we've been talking a lot today, to include a much broader range of people. And then also the importance of embedding or integrating OER in the shift to online. So making it understood that it is both essential and beneficial to have open resources as others have brought up part of the new form of online teaching. So that's that's the the overview. That was an awesome overview. Thank you. Thank you. Especially open as the the the default and not this, you know, added unit, if you will, or niche unit. So thank you so much for that, Chief. I'll just know. Thank you, Judy. I'm just going to note Ethan put group eight's comments in the chat just in reference of time. So I'm going to jump to and so if you can just like make it like, you know, four or five, six words in terms of grouping a couple of ideas together. So we can be respectful of time. We're going to go back up to Moe for group three. You know who your speaker was for group three. That was Moe's group. Yes, I'm sorry. We chose a speaker, right? If you want to go ahead and come in Moe, this is this is Sherry Edwards. I'm in Moe's group and I was in the speaker. I'm sorry. I had trouble getting to the mic. We talked about various things that have already been mentioned about one of the themes or the theme of ours was on an international scope. We talked about contributing to a global knowledge bank, which you know, it's something that does characterize that we are, but reimagining that part of it. And then also we talked about how, you know, we already have where we are in our group, which a few of us are from Florida. We have at our respective institutions a lot of international faculty and students. And so we're building on the idea that we need to make sure their voices are heard. And that's reimagining like where you are from where you are. I think reimagining can be a little bit weighty and kind of make you feel obligated to, you know, have to handle the whole thing. But, you know, leading from where you are is an important point, I think. And so I think it falls under what someone earlier just said about local customization. You know, I think that's a humble reimagining that can be done. Absolutely. That's great. Awesome. Wonderful. Thank you. And we've got three more. So I understand if people need to drop off as we are at time, but I do want to recognize that we have it.  Hi, Stephen Bell here for group six. Everybody in our group contributed some great ideas. We looked at it as a broad umbrella under the idea of innovation as reimagining how do we take new and different approaches to creating awareness about OER in our institutions and beyond.  Bringing new people into the community and expanding the base of advocates and leaders. I pointed out library and information science students where very little is being shared in the curriculum about open education movement. As others have said, rethinking the roles of our faculty and our students and how do we bring them into the fold in new ways that we haven't before. And we've heard this before trying to reimagine how we get beyond OER as being about economics and affordability and being about much more than that and getting that message out there. And reimagining the research in the open education movement so that we get beyond the more common efficacy studies and start looking at broader impacts of openness in higher education and beyond. That was excellent, Stephen. Thank you. You're awesome. Thanks everyone in group six for great ideas. All right, so we've got two more. Jasmine's group, group seven. Yeah, I think Brian had their recap there really quickly. I feel like we pretty much touched on it though from other groups, but yeah, Brian. Yeah, so we talked a lot about sort of expanding who's involved in both the conference and open education broadly speaking. So bringing in more global perspectives, bringing in more participants into the creation of open educational resources and the perspectives and voices that are represented and thinking about who has given authority in the materials that are being created. And also sort of on the other end of that, trying to remove barriers, so whether that's gatekeepers or financial barriers or barriers to who is represented, that sort of thing. Wonderful. Thank you, Brian. And last but not least, Akshia's group, group nine. Yep, I had that. We talked about a lot about the what we need for an open for an online conference support for chat and tech at OER20 was good. Chats are just as important as presentations. We talked about the virtues of prerecorded or not, depending on how you want to re interact with the group that you're not going to get face to face. Getting rid of jargon, do students not get as involved in OER because they have a lack of clarity on how they're involved in the process. So I'm thinking a lot of like the student perks. And do we really have a definition of open education that we're reimagining? Are we using the five Rs?  I think was Jeff's point. Okay, awesome. Thank you, Justin. And so I think we've gone to all groups. Any last thoughts that I did not hit on or get to anybody? Okay, so in just respect, I appreciate everybody staying. I realize everybody's kind of dropped off. I'm going to turn it back over to Jasmine to wrap this up. All right, I am not going to hold you all for too much more longer because we are at five minutes past. So thank you everyone for attending this month's community call. This feedback was amazing. And as always, we are going to talk about this and see how we can incorporate it into the conference experience and beyond. Please join us for our next community call next month, which is September 18th. Mark that in your calendars at the same time. And of course, do not forget to submit your proposal, which is the deadline is September 1. Thank you all so, so much and have a great rest of your day. Take care. Thanks, everybody.


And we're live on the Cody askings YouTube channel boom you've ever been live on the channel never been live on the channel whatsoever, but welcome everybody. This is an interview that I think has Been in the making for a while I've never got to personally interview Cody on live. I've never got to ask him the questions Do you guys probably want to know about? And like what like the elephant in the room? What is all this money freaking dude? What do you got this stuff hanging out in it? Put it in the bank So go buy some real estate. We're coming to you. We're gonna get down to the nitty gritty of Cody askings And we're gonna go ahead and get started You ready? I'm ready, bro. You ready? You guys ready for this? Okay? Come on now. Okay? You've been with me two years Two years hang on. This is your interview. I'm not I'll just about took over okay by that That's like what I do okay you're in charge go for it and he's our COO by the way for those that don't know that for 8% CA He's with us two years does an unbelievable job And he's gonna in he's been with I've been wanting to interview me for a while because he's been here He's seen some behind the scenes. He knows a lot Too much man everything dude. He knows everything. That's a problem. Okay. What do you got? I? Think one of the biggest questions that I had that I think everybody would enjoy knowing is Why do you do what you do? And when I say that I mean Why do you spend so much of your time? Why do you give so much to these people you have no idea who they are and why do you give so much of your personal income in? Order to help these people in order to help these insurance agents and they don't even know why what you mean by asking that question But but yes, what we've early on we lost tons of money, you know on purpose too Yeah, you don't really want to but dude you got to get attention help people and deep down the reason I'm doing this right and we may mess around have fun, you know, but deep down they know I'm here. We're here to help them We do a lot of what we do Simply because when I was 20 I was doing very well I made a hundred seventeen thousand thirty sixty one dollars and thirteen cents, right? That's why this is here in my first eight months I had a manager call me and he said hey will you come there's two agents they're in northern Missouri They're four hours away from you. They don't know you They're they've heard of you because you're crushing it But they're struggling and they don't know what to do like they're struggling to make sales and make money and they need your help Will you come up here and help them for a day? I'm like, well, I mean I'll door knock with them, you know That's all I was I did a ton of door knocking and and we did and I drove up door knocked we made I Think five cells in the day and I left all the business with them five apps I didn't sign them. I left all the apps the commissions everything with them we were high-five and we're having a ton of fun and I was driving back home and I was in tears thinking about How much fun I had that day I made me no money actually cost me money cost me gas money Probably cost me a couple hundred bucks and in time when I'm when you're making in the time. I was probably making Let's just call it four grand a week. I don't know at that time That means that that day cost me 800 bucks Plus an additional $200 in gas that the day cost me a grand But I did it because and I was I was I was in tears think about the whole situation because it was I knew I Had found what I wanted to do the rest of my life Like I'm driving back thinking man if I ever get an opportunity to go out and help an agent like that again I'm doing it because I felt felt better about them making money than when I made money Because me going out and making insurance sales at that point felt very easy to me Most people think it's like the hardest thing in the world, but I was a natural it was flowing out of me It was a blast. It was so easy, but I enjoyed helping others make money and make sales way more than I enjoyed myself So fast forward a decade later We're doing this and showing off some money and stuff and messing around You know the people that know me deep down know that I'm not you know an arrogant jerk They know that I am showing this to them because they can if I can have this they can too and so that's why We do what we do put up a video five years ago not knowing where it would lead And look where it's blossom to now The point is you got to figure out what you want to do for the rest of your life You know, I think you started to figure out what you want to do for us to your life, too It's pretty freaking cool What a and when we and when we talk about guys that Cody and Lauren spend so much money to give back to give you guys The help that you need, you know, I'm the boring one in the company. I'm the one that's always saying no We're not doing this. No, we're not spending this But of course Cody's like well, yes, we are and you go and sit in the corner and just deal with it So that's cool man That that's awesome And I think a lot of people need to understand why you do it and kind of the backstory of yeah Hey, you have put a lot of your own personal time your own personal money into it. Yeah, and that's that's super important No, just for the record. This is all going right back in the bank. I'm hoping I can you know Yes, it is I'm gonna go buy some real estate with her something I hope you know, like I'm not just Or we'll throw it at the conference and we'll drop all of this from from from this from the ceiling at 8% Maybe that's what we should do and he's like no, we should not do that Both let's go below in comments should we do that should I take all this and just drop it into your lap at the conference? Okay, like because and you guys are watching this. You're like, I don't even know what that is We threw a percent nation. We had Justin for set in key Johnson. We had some surprise speakers and we actually dropped tens of thousands of dollars From the ceiling some people picked up more cash than they paid for their ticket She's freaking awesome That's what it's all about it is my next question is Was there a moment Within the last ten years that you knew You made it that you knew you hit the definition of being successful Well, I always told myself you need to be a millionaire before you're successful. That's just what people think right?  You're successful There's there's more to life than money though, too But for me my goal was to be like this my goal is to make a hundred grand my first year I want to be a millionaire before I was 30 I'm 30 We've got you know, we'll do 10 million bucks this year from all the companies We've got a hundred staff between my dad's company and our companies and and land and ice company and the two buildings and all that The moment I don't know the thing is the thing is I don't know that I feel like Deep down I almost still feel like I'm not successful yet I think that's what like drives me and is so insane that people the people maybe you maybe if you're like person your personalities like me you can comprehend that but I Still feel very unsuccessful because the people I'm following and I'm hanging out with it I'm watching our freaking light years ahead of me, you know, like I'm talking to my wife all the time like man Well, I want to get on I want to I gotta get on Bert's level. I gotta get on Cardone's level I want to be Brian Tracy, you know, and and you think about that kind of stuff You know, I'm pushing so hard because I want to look back in a few decades from now And I want when people think of the word insurance sells Maybe a one-point real estate money, whatever success I want them to think of us and what we're doing and everything we got going on and we got an amazing team That's helping us along that journey. I personally don't feel like I'm actually successful yet That's the funny part of it because when I go home I'm like crap. I still still can't buy a plane. That's a problem now technically We could get a down payment on an okay plane with what we got right here Could right we could we could so That's a good point because I feel like when you ask an insurance agent or anybody. Hey, what do you want to make this year? They just say I want to make six figures I'll make a hundred thousand dollars more more than I made last year. Exactly a freaking answer that when you made a hundred and seventeen thousand dollars What was your next step? What was that feeling for you when you looked at, you know, your tax form and like wow I did it.  I Started thinking if I can do 100 because you don't think guys I'm 20. I'm in college to play basketball the hundred K seemed I mean When I'm being paid like six fifty an hour to work at a grocery store To then go earn a hundred thousand dollars just a few years later It did not seem possible Okay, like if I didn't have people around me that believed me more than I believed myself out. I never got there and so My next step was okay How do I if I can get to a hundred I can get to two if I can get to two I can get to three I can get to three and get to four I get to five and I can get to a million bucks a year, you know And now I'm like if I can get to one Hundred and then I can get to a million which we've done I can get to ten million right which we're doing Then I can get to a hundred million and then if I'm like dude I'm starting to actually operate and think man if I can get to a hundred million I'm watching billions right now on Amazon Prime so freaking good by the way. I love that kind of stuff man. I love it and I'm like How do I become Bobby Axelrod? How do I earn a billion dollars now? I'm I don't know like, you know again. I'm early in the shows I don't know if he breaks the law or what I've no freaking clue all I know is I'm always gonna do with an ethical reason You know that my the team knows that my parents would freaking disown me Okay, because I want to help people the right way, but for me it was like it's always what's next It's always like how do we level up? I've been thinking about lately. How do we get 8% to? couple thousand to 10,000 like if we had to just go rent an arena for 10,000 people today for 2022 what steps would we take to pull off getting 10,000 there?  We'd have to go flip and ham But could we pull it off like that's the kind of stuff that I lay at night and think about With with regards to that mindset. Let's let's kind of focus. Let's kind of go in that direction really fast Do you feel like you could go into any industry anything and be successful?  And guess what I could do I could build a 10 million dollar brand a 50 million dollar brand across the country Handling flipping termites. I just could Because of the amount of confidence I have myself and believe for myself and you guys are hearing this a lot like it comes Back to your personal confidence and belief that you can do it But part of me We're gonna do some stuff in the real estate game at some point here before long. Why? Because I just want to you know like insurance Everybody doesn't know it's an insurance yet And we're gonna make sure that that's still the mission we'll still get there We want to help every church in the world But I get bored very easy Hence we're just hanging out 117 grand just for the fun of it for the day Okay But I ban do you like you guys should be sitting here You should be sitting there like you should be hanging out with us and and and I hope that one day You watching right now are holding this in your hand Looking at this sitting there interviewing me just like Andy is today. That's what I really hope So why do people fail? Why do most people fail? Why do people not get over that hump? Why do they give up? What's the biggest reason why they fail? mindset That they there's doubt I'm telling you where there's doubt There will be failure Okay, I still have a personal doubt every now and then but then I check myself and remind myself dude You can do anything you were unstoppable like I'm beating my chest literally in the shower saying you I never get tired.  You're unstoppable. I never get tired. I never quit I never get tired. I never quit I never get tired.  I was Scared to death. It was the biggest thing we had ever done And we hadn't done it yet and there were people saying well, what if it doesn't happen? Do I get my money back like they're even putting doubt in my mind and I might do it I didn't stop hanging out with these people that are putting down my mind and and for myself. I've never seen You scared. Yeah, I won't ever say it. Yeah, I won't ever say it there's things that I Still have doubt about and that we all have in internal demons and battles and stuff that we got to deal with A lot of you don't think that you deserve a hundred grand a year Everyone deserves a hundred thousand dollars a year. I hope we get so successful every single person on our team earns a hundred grand a year one day I do I Love that and the more successful we we are the more we try to share it with the rest of the team, you know Because I know that It's not about you it's not about me it's about You doing something special to to propel your own universe and to help a lot of other people along the way. That's what it's about Okay If you were still selling insurance Okay, what would you have made in 2020? Oh? Like personally or a company Like if I want to just freaking turn on a recruiting faucet and have a call center and sell everything else Let's go. Let's go company because you would put someone in place to build a team for you for you So yeah, and I've been sold in like three four five three four years Probably 12 million bucks Okay, and the thing is I could turn it on right now and build a company That's that's like an IMO recruiting people and all this other stuff and helping agents and stuff and do 12 million Bucks probably within 36 months That's not the target for me. That's not the goal now if I had to go personally sell insurance on my own I could go out now with what I know and make a million dollars in one year 10 times this in One year selling on my own personally no question about it by the way I've got the skill. I got the money to invest and make sure everyone knows who I am I could put a couple people around me and teams in place to help to help prop me up so that all I'm doing is closing Like there's no question about it. I could actually probably get to where I'm doing 100 grand a week Personally producing I believe it a lot different mindset than a lot of people had in 2020. Yeah, everything that happened Oh, this is what's funny is you asked that question. I Didn't think of COVID till you just said it The whole time answering the question and never entered my mind Because to me It doesn't exist and you say well, that's not fair. Well, it's it's it. I'm kind of trying to control my own world And I'm trying to be positive and I'm not trying to worry about what everything else is going on in the world I'm trying to worry about these Few feet around me these six feet one inches, you know 176 pounds, maybe I don't know I'm trying to control me and everything around me instead of worry about about what everybody else Is doing and thinking and so for me My brain went positive when you said 2020 It didn't even go neck. It was a great year for us. Oh my gosh our best years And it probably could have been better. It could have been way better dude. It was it was ridiculous Yeah, because you you started two years ago. I think April 2019 19 and it's two years almost two years later and What we did in 2019 compared to we did in 2020 is freaking ridiculous We're gonna do a 2021 compared to 2020 ridiculous We're gonna do a 2031 compared to 2021 flipping insane But you got to be that's like that goes back to the question Do you have some really good questions by the way the question you asked earlier about? When did you realize you're successful?  You know the moment I start acting like that and thinking like that everybody just needs to walk out and leave because because I'm I say it all the time never I haven't arrived and hope I never do because we've got something special Like we are gonna be known by everyone in the industry dude. We may but we may be known by every salesperson on planet earth one day That's the freaking trajectory. We're on as long as we don't screw it up Which means we're accepting responsibility. It's meant to be it's up to me okay This year 2021 so far. I feel like a lot of things have come In a complete circle. Yeah, you got to interview Brian Tracy Okay, listen to him when you were on the road with the cassette tape. Look at the goose bumps The 117 k sitting right beside us Yeah, what's missing? What is missing in kodi's life right now that I need these things.  Like that's where this thing is headed. How cool would that be man? Yeah, yeah, the whole thing is glass. I mean it's like Also, you know several hundred staff 10 000 at a conference The thing a thousand a thousand of units of real estate thousand Apartments like there's a lot of stuff that I deep down want that I'm they Or that I'm we're going to get in the future that I'm not even writing down today It's hard to fathom It's maybe hard for you guys to fathom like listening to some of the stuff I'm saying but I'm telling you We never think big enough In our own we're in our own little bubble We're surrounded by our family and our friends and negative Nancy's on facebook and everything else and we have a tendency To to limit the way we think Because of the way we were raised people in our life people around us what we've accomplished previously We'll say well, I just I made you know Ten thousand dollars last year. So I'm going to make at least I can just get to 20 000 this year, right? Whatever We don't know what we don't know and we don't know where we can go because we've got this governor Like they have on cars that we got this own governor on our own our own mind And we don't know where this whole thing can take us And and that's why most people just think too small and that's the reason We I feel like me and you go back and forth every day at night time After we leave the office of yeah, we could have done this or we're not thinking big enough Or you came up with an idea and we really got to discuss it and dissected of hey Can we make this work? I actually came up with a way for me to buy a plane sooner last night It would have just bought a few other people Some investors and that kind of thing, but I haven't told anybody yet. Okay, you're you're about to go somewhere, but I had to throw that in No, you're good. Um Where are we going to be in 10 years? Everything that we're doing everything that we're building everything that you're creating. Where is it going to be in 10 years? It will probably have transcended insurance, which I've never said on video before I'm starting to think bigger than ever lately I'm traveling around the world I'm speaking in dubai Whatever, right? Um, which I mean that sounds stupid, but we just spoke to 4 000 ages in the philippines and they wanted us to go there Pretty freaking cool. Um We are how good are these questions by the way? He's asked some really good questions Okay, I don't know how long he's been preparing for this, but it's showing today Um, and also what other questions would you guys want to to hear in the future future interviews post that for a part two If you're a part two post that in comments, okay? Um, it's it's uh, we will look back What I can confidently say is we will look back and we will now recognize this place I told landon when we first partnered I said dude, we will we will look back In a year and we won't recognize this place And every year we don't recognize this place That's the point like that's what you guys want to do in your life. You want to get to where? Dude, you don't recognize your life every 12 months Well in 2020, you know looking back Where we're at right now Everything's changed Team has changed Growth has been just Crazy and honestly, I'll use the word unstoppable like nothing has stopped us. No one has stopped us We've just continued to grow and continue to push the needle for all things in the industry. That's right. So that's right Um, we need to stop anytime soon. No, we're not. No, we're not ideal life You know you talk about it a lot with me and lauren Yeah, hey, this is my ideal life. This is what I want. Let let's kind of Let them know what cody's ideal life looks like. Um I try I only travel and speak um People pay 50 grand to hang out with us for a day Um, I have a we have a private island somewhere that we do retreats at um and This whole thing does a hundred million dollars plus a year whether I show up or not now I'm going to just keep showing up because that's just the way the way I think and I'm not going to stop Um, and we've got tons of team members around us That are that are winning like when someone goes and buys a vehicle and shows it off like nick did recently and Derek did Previously and rodney and all those other people. Um It's really cool. You know, it's really really you You did that like it's just really cool to see that kind of stuff. That's what that's what really feeds lauren Is when when our cells when our staff is winning just in general our entire staff And that's a good point because When I do interviews and when I interview people and they come into this place for the first time Whether it's that building over there in this building, you know, one of the Best things that I get to explain to people is our culture And you know, we're so big on culture, but really what makes our culture tick is the ownership When the ownership wants every team member to win when the ownership genuinely has every team member's back That's the place you want to be and that's why we've been able to grow So quickly but also focusing on only bringing on the people that we want that's very selective Super selective. We had a guy start over on the marketing building today He has a chance of being a killer But he walked up and shook my hand and said Thank you for the opportunity You you I love the the the culture.  I'm just doing all this on my own That's not as fun, man. That's not as fun. Um, it's not cool to be Alone and doing it on your own. It's also selfish. Like if you guys want to do something huge Massive big you want to translate the industry you want to help a ton of people For you to only want to do it alone and stay small Is selfish because there's other people that want to take the right with you And that you can also Help a lot of other people along the way What uh What gives you goosebumps?  What is that one thing? um Walking off stage From an event I spoke to a team of health insurance agents in phoenix a couple weeks ago And I walked it was like 60 70 people whatever I got them so jacked up They were screaming and yelling the company was going nuts Everybody was putting targets in their phone on what they're going to accomplish next 30 days And I'm just screaming yelling at top of my lungs.  I and we got some I need when you get some video from that guy By the way, and I I'm literally walking off Good man. I don't think there's anything I enjoy doing more than what I just did And I'm getting goosebumps walking back to the green room to get my backpack to go shake some hands take some pictures whatever um We'll have a book Soon, which will be cool And I'm walking off that thinking When did all of this become A reality for me because five years ago that seemed like it was 20 years away Because you wanted to be a public speaker. Yes Yes, I watched my grandfather pastor for 40 50. Well, he did it for 40 years. I'm 30 So I didn't watch him for 40 50 years and I used to think to myself I want to get up and speak to people like he does I'd watch Brian Tracy and Zig Ziggler and all these other people would be like man And Jim Rowan and Tony Robbins, you know, and I would like man. I want to uh I decided I want to be a public speaker when I was 10 20 years ago. I made a decision. I will be a public speaker one day You guys are make you got to make decisions ahead of time when you think about something and the life you want You got to tell yourself dude, this is going to happen man This is going to happen because I'm telling you it can and it will Let's uh, let's finish this out. Okay What is your biggest goal? Okay, and When people maybe miss the mark of achieving their goals, what should they do next? Should they aim higher? Should they throw the goal away? Where are you at with that? um Our goal is to have a thousand and eight percent this year to fill the statler to overfill the statler So that we can finally leave. Okay. They only have 988 chairs. We'll find room for 12 more. Trust me Okay, I want a thousand there because I want to leave thinking dude. We conquered this facility 2019 we did not conquer it 2020 we had to go small But we still didn't event only want to do it persist and show up or not, right? But 2021 I want to Conquer the facility so that we leave. I don't look back and say well, you could have done more You could have done better because that's that's just not fun to do And then and then people your goals should be so big that you don't always hit them by the way That's the problem people. They said like realistic goals. It's like dude I want to set goals so big that is even if I like don't make it Which I never think I'm not going to by the way. There's a secret there, but at some point I'm going to look back and say well I did better because I put the target higher That's what people need to do boom boom There it is guys Thanks, bro. The real interview with kody askins We hope it helped. We hope you've learned some things that you didn't know about kody before If you have other questions drop them in the comments below, please and then hopefully we'll see you for part two soon Hey, if you enjoyed this I got another one. You're gonna love it's right there. 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Hello, good afternoon and good morning from Canada. I am Freedom Kai Phillips a PhD candidate at the the University of Cambridge here and operations director for the Center for International Sustainable Development Law. What we'll be talking about here is some some outcomes from research that we've conducted over a collection of years in capacity development work with colleagues in the DRC. So what I'll be taking a look at just high level is kind of an introduction to some of this with some definitions and some background, a survey of what the relevant international and domestic instruments are and interfaces, look at some complementarity in terms of other related instruments from finance and compliance and then discuss some synergies and lessons learned. So it starts here with facilitating sustainable development. So what is sustainable development generally, right? It's development which does not compromise the needs of future generations to satisfy satisfy the desires and needs of our present generation, right? And for our jurisdiction and and our discussions here, what we're talking about is the sustainable development goals. This is 17 goals 169 targets that covered the breadth and depth of international sustainable development priorities. In terms of sustainable landscape management, this is an ecosystem based approach which allows for the leveraging of synergies between science-based decision-making and traditional knowledge to advance the types of programs and policies that are used to offset biodiversity loss or to foster conservation and sustainable use. And there's a couple of examples that we'll work through here. But I made reference to an element there, which is traditional knowledge, which raises the question of what is that? Now there's one main internationally accepted definition. It's found in article 8j of the Convention on Biological Diversity and it really can be summed up as knowledge, innovation and practices of Indigenous people and local communities. Now there are international negotiations which are ongoing in other spaces where they are trying to develop more precise definitions, such as the one provided below taken from the WIPO draft articles on traditional knowledge, which draws reference to particular sectors and applications. Now sustainable development and the recognition of traditional knowledge in many ways have had a synergistic evolution. It started with kind of a recognition of protection of unwritten works and then the articulation of sustainable development as a development priority internationally, and then recognition of folklore and then actually introduction of sustainable development as an aspect of the nomenclature of international development of discourse, right? So the Brunlin report really transformed and opened up the avenue for this type of conversation. And then you started to see the actualization of this and the set of principles in international instruments, be that from the Rio treaties, be it recognition and modalities established under the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources, be it vesting of rights from UNDRIP, or be it application of traditional knowledge, access, and beneficiary mechanisms under the Nagoya protocol. You've started to see different, unique, almost sui-generous approaches to try to address traditional knowledge and what they're actually doing are trying to advance modalities with rights, recognitions and pathways for access, which is equitable. So in terms of the DR Congo, we actually observed a collection of instruments that all worked in synergy to foster sustainable development outcomes. The sustainable development priorities were first established in refinement to their constitution, so it was established as a core priority for the country. And then over time, over about 10 years, 12 years, they implemented a range of different legal reforms. They refined their investment code. They established institutions to facilitate investment. They established their forest code that refined land tenure aspects. They had modalities for forest concessions. They had environmental protection aspects, agriculture, red plus, and nature conservation. But one that I want to dive into really briefly is this modalities for forest concessions, which gave an opportunity for local communities to define the boundary delineations of their traditional authority and their traditional territories in relation to others. It then empowered them in a decentralized governance manner to take the type of traditional knowledge and engagement with the land that they have lived traditionally and start to operationalize that under solid framework of governance. Now, why is this actually important? The point of these international instruments is to establish these norms and principles. But if we don't have pathways for congruence of practice, particularly in countries which are resource constrained or have a lot of other developmental dynamics going on, it will not happen. So in particular in Africa, what you're seeing is around a 76 percent of the income being drawn from informal sectors. So if you develop a legal framework, you need to be able to have that legal framework actually incentivize the type of conservation practices that you're talking about, which would then be juxtaposed by the informal sector, the harvesting of wood and timber to take to local market to be able to buy food for your family. So you need to be able to replace that income. And this is why creating these channels for congruence of practice are so important at the local level. Another aspect is having sufficient compliance. And two of the different frameworks that we saw, which were interesting, were of course the flight program, which allows for voluntary certification of forest timber products, and then the relationship to access and benefit sharing, the access of genetic resources and particular traditional knowledge used in either medicinal or bio-based type applications. Another aspect, which was incredible, was the role of these global landscape funds. And there'll be a couple of that I'll dive into really briefly. That'll be the Congo Basin Forest Fund and the Livelyhood Fund. These are private created instruments that allow for the investment into type of development projects to advance developmental goals and to fill gaps. Three of them were multi-million dollar, multi-year programs that helped to foster agroforestry. So this is a balancing of forest products and agricultural products that allow for a synergistic relationship in the actual agricultural process. These were really, really impactful. And this shows the type of synergies that you're aiming to create by seeing funds flow from the priorities at the international level to the types of projects that are being operationalized at the local level. The one that I always like drawing attention to is the Oceanum Project in Senegal. While it's not in DRC, it's quite exemplary because it took a localized approach, engaging over 350 communities, roughly 100,000 people, to reforest a mangrove roughly the size of Paris. And it's been invested in for over 20 years and they get guaranteed gold standard certified carbon credits out of it. So it creates a cyclical income for the community. The point of this is that operationalization of the sustainable development goals cannot be seen just in a silo, seen as a single aspect of a target within a larger framework. It needs to be seen in synergy. It benefits from horizontal and vertical integration in international and domestic law. And this integrated approach creates an enabling environment for trade and investment in biodiversity and biocultural practices and incentivizes the type of conservation and sustainable use which underpin the SDGs.


There are a couple of new technologies you're going to see a lot of in this course. Those technologies are the Fetch API and Promises. Promises make asynchronous programming much easier. The Fetch API is a replacement for XML HTTP request built on Promises. In this example, we're getting a JSON file, parsing it, and capturing any exceptions that occur. This is much simpler than writing a collection of event handlers and simplifies code reuse. The key here is the then function. It takes a function reference and waits for the previous operation to complete before calling the function. If any errors occur, it transfers execution to the catch at the end. We're going to use a lot of anonymous functions in this course. You can use the same function declarations you've always used, or use the new ES2015 fat arrow syntax to declare a function. The new syntax takes a list of parameters on the left, the equals greater than arrow, and a code body on the right. Take a moment to look at this shorthand as we will be using it frequently. Using fat arrow functions lets us rewrite the first example more concisely. We call Fetch, pass the result to a function, and we catch any exceptions with a second function. That probably went by quickly, so take a moment to try these in your browser's console. They work in most modern browsers, but check your favorite source for fetch and promises support. Open the browser's console and type in this quick fetch sample. It gets index.html in the local directory and shows the result. Try it with and without an index.html file. You can find this sample in the Core Technologies Lab folder under fetch.txt. Let's try this sample that retrieves a JSON file. Just change the file name to animals.json and the response decoder from text to JSON all lowercase. This time, it fetches animals.json, which is in the Core Technologies folder, and decodes the JSON. And that's it. Don't worry if that went by quickly. We'll take a deeper dive into fetch and promises in a bit. Please take a few minutes and experiment with these examples before moving on to the service worker. So, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


It's fair to say that most women hate being mansplained to, right? Yes. But you guys, there is this convention that might be taking this to a whole another level. It's a convention in Orlando, Florida, which is a seminar. I know, well, it's run by all men. Which promises to quote make women great again. Wow, wow. And according to the New York Post, wait for it, wait for it.  And get this, you guys, the cost of the seminar is $2,000. Stop. Yes. Well, it says the world's ultimate event for women. No, but it also says, with a trademark, make women great again. Full women, always great. Women great again, full women, always great.


What is a parody? Well, a good definition is that a parody is a creative work that is created in order to imitate, comment on, critique, and or mock its subject. It's usually, but not always, meant to be funny, at least a little bit. And the subject of a parody is often another work of art, a book, a writing style, or a real-life person. According to Aristotle, in his Poetics, chapter 2, Hegemon of Thessos was the inventor of parodies. Though little of this playwright's works have survived until today, Aristotle claims he changed the wording in well-known poems in order to create a humorous effect, thereby turning the sublime into the ridiculous. The word parody itself comes from the Greek paroidia, which means a burlesque song or poem, para of course meaning beside, and oid meaning song or ode, which are elaborate poems that the Greeks wanted us to... Oh, sorry there. For a second, I think I slipped into a parody of an English professor. Parody itself may be found in most any act of art or culture, including literature, music, video games, movies, theater, and more. Think of Weird Al. Most of his songs are parodies of something or someone in particular. Sometimes he makes fun of an artist, and sometimes he makes fun of a song. One thing to note is that parody is distinct from both pastiche and satire. A pastiche is a work of art, and again it can be a form of literature, theater, film, etc. But what makes pastiche different is that authors of pastiche attempt to imitate the style or character of other artists, sometimes not successfully. Creators of pastiche try to pay homage to an original work and can reproduce features of that art in a way that signals to their audience that they are trying to imitate, so not directly copy that earlier work. In architecture, the word neo is often used to suggest that a particular style is done in homage, so neo-classical architecture is often a pastiche of Greek and Roman buildings and styles. Pastiche comes from the Latin pasticum, which means composed of paste, and is related to pate and pasta, among other words. Whoops, slipped back again into that English professor. Where was I? Oh yeah, I was just about to mention the difference between parody and satire. The difference is that satire, while also supposed to be funny, often has a larger purpose. Both parody and satire will frequently make fun of something, but satire doesn't target a specific author or work. Satires will usually make fun of a genre, a cultural belief, or a social movement, and in doing so, hope to critique society more generally. For example, the Daily Show uses loads of satire in its stories, and most often critiques cultural issues more generally. And there are lots more examples, some of which engage both parody and satire at once. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is a satire of middle-class appreciation of gothic novels, and a critique of male-dominated politics and masculine standards of literary taste, but also a parody of Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolfo. Ben H. Winter's Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, on the other hand, is a parody of sense and sensibility. Often parody is a good defense against copyright infringement. At least in the US, because while parodies can copy some of the idea of an original work of art, they also crucially comment upon that same work, thus transforming it and making something new. Parodies can also be tools that marginalized or oppressed groups can use to selectively appropriate or imitate aspects of other cultures. A great example of these elements is Alice Randall's novel The Wind Done Gone, which is a parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, but told from the perspective of an enslaved person named Sonara, who has been recently freed, instead of Scarlett O'Hara, the Southern White Woman, and part of the slave-owning family in the novel. The estate of Margaret Mitchell sued Alice Randall and her publishing company for copyright violation. The case was settled, but The Wind Done Gone is clearly a clever parody of Gone with the Wind, and not one that pleases too many fans of the original. I should note, though, that in some countries parodies are not protected by law, and authors can face fines or imprisonment for creating them. In general, though, parodies are clever ways to imitate, make fun of, and comment upon earlier works. What kind of parodies can you think of? What specific thing do they make fun of? And perhaps most importantly, how are they using that original material to comment upon it?


Dutch collectors of volunteer, helpful hackers, and we aim to make the digital world safer by reporting vulnerabilities we find in digital systems to people who fix them, who can fix them. We have a global reach, but we do it Dutch style, open, honest, and collaborative. And that sometimes makes people unhappy. So I'm a bit stressed out because this just happened. This is a statement from the vendor saying that that account that's named super admin is in fact not a real system administrator and is not subject to our testing group. With sort of abilities to carry out function tests, we are just informed once in early July and then took the actions immediately. They asked and then they asked us not to give this talk. So this can either be short or not. Open honest, collaborative, we're not going to propose this disclosure. We've given the vendor till 20 minutes ago to come up with a reaction. I've not yet received such reaction. I will check my phone at the end of the talk. So my name is Frank Bredijk. I'm case handler for DIVD case 2020-0009. I'm a crisis manager at the DEAVD and my day job is the CISO at Schubert Phyllis. This is how you reach me. And it all started with an honest tweet from Celestine, one of our DIVD researchers who noticed that her parents had solar panels that had omnic converters in them. And omnic went bankrupt and now the inverter is sending its data to SolarMan in China. Funny ha ha in a kind of GDPR way. This talk, although it is an issue that data of European citizens just gets sent off to China, this talk is not about GDPR. I was expecting a sigh of relief. But the tweet was followed up by a tweet from Yeller, smart, showing how he logged into SolarMan with the Superman user, super admin user. So who's Yeller? Yeller is him. He's not here. He's taking a vacation, well-deserved vacation, but he's the main researcher on this. And some people may know him as Schizoducky. Some people know him a little bit more than others. What does Yeller do? Well, he's a programmer architect, does DevOps, is good at finding passwords in things like public GitHub repositories. He's done hundreds of responsible disclosures in the last three years. If he knocks on your door, he's in trouble because he didn't have to knock. He could have just walked in. He had the key. And he's too surprised about all the brands he's been able to get into so far. And he needs to add one. So this happened in February. And yeah, now what? And back in February, sorry, back in April 2021, DIVD wasn't what it was now. We were still developing what we did, what kind of cases we took. And did this not qualify as a DIVD case then? It does now, by the way. So we reported it to SolarMan. We did help Yeller reach them. And although we never got a reply back, the password was changed a few days later. Case closed. Life goes on. And we fast forward to February this year and Yeller reads the blog post by Jan van Kampen. I don't know if you're here, Jan, but if you are a good post, about problems with connected inverters. And that made us wonder, or it made Yeller wonder, is SolarMan still okay? Not really. He could log into the super admin account again. So what have we got? What did we find in the GitHub repository? Yeah, that's SolarMan, but not this one. So SolarMan claims by themselves that they are professional remote monitoring and management is my addition, solution for devices. As from SolarMan, Solis, Omnic, and Ginglong. Mostly inverters, loggers, and batteries. And yes, these were the super admin credentials for the monitoring platform. So what could we do apparently with this account? Let's read the data of all the users. And we've confirmed that. We could see names. We could see addresses. We could see email addresses. We should see current and historical generation. We could create and delete users. Change configurations, calibration offsets. Read and clear errors in the converters. Download firmware versions. Upload new firmware. We have an upload screen. Yeah, basically this is the list of build your own inverter botnet. We haven't tested this because of ethics and our code of conduct.  Also it has to be subsidiary. That means if you can use the smallest, a small hammer and a big hammer, you should use the smallest hammer possible. This would have been too big a hammer at the wrong time. But we did confirm the data in there. We did confirm that the GUI showed us these possibilities. So what numbers are we talking about? These are the numbers from February. Remember it's winter in February. Globally there were close to a million plants, locations with solar panels, of which 42,000 in Netherlands, 7,000 in Germany, 7,000 in Belgium and about 13,000 in the UK. That are producing in February 10.03 gigawatts. That's serious numbers. So what's the impact for the Netherlands? Well, if you take 40,000 plants with an average of between 4 and 10 kilowatt peak per plant, you add some bigger plants like the ones we've listed here. You combine, come up with a combined power of 400 megawatts. That's a little bit bigger as this thing here. And that's the VELSEN-25 electricity plant on the Hogehove, Rijn in VELSEN. Yeah, so what could you do if you had admin? Install custom firmware, create a botnet, use lateral movement. So move from the converter further down into the network. Physically damage or overload the converter. That could lead to breaking it or overloading the device. We could lock the vendor out. Use their password, see what would do that. Could you hurt the grid? I don't know. I'm not a grid expert. I know some people who know something or know people who know something. One plant shouldn't be a problem. And it's not a novel idea to hurt the grid. This was sent around during the farmer protests earlier this month, on the 4th of July, to all farmers and owners of panels and windmills. Let's all turn off our solar inverters on the 4th of July. Wind power, too. We want to make a statement that 20% of all green power comes from farms. If we do it all at the same time, we can cause outages. Turn off at 4th of July, mid of day, bam. This is a forward message to forward.  And taking panels offline is one thing. But what if we go and use it to do aerobics exercise? Take it up and down and up and down. That would cause a serious problem on our grid. Or take all the panels in the north of the Netherlands offline, and then once powers ramped up there, turn them back on and turn all the power in the south of the Netherlands. That would be fun. So getting this fixed was a long and windy road. This credential was actually committed to GitHub on the 5th of August, 2019. We discovered them in April of 2021. It was changed. In February, we noticed it was working again. And we opened the case. By the way, we welcomed Jelle as a researcher in our midst in the I.V.D. We contacted the Dutch National Cyber Security Center. We notified the vendors on the 9th of February. We worked with the NCSC on the 20th of February. They worked together. They contacted NCCNL and ChinaCert. We mailed ChinaCert. We got a little help from the Dutch Embassy. We visited the Chinese Embassy ourselves. Finally, there was contact with ChinaCert. And then things went really quickly. ChinaCert really did their job. It's like 17th. We contacted them. Fender changed the password. Github repository was deleted. But this thing was exposed for 777 days, at least, because we don't know when it was turned back. What happened in between? I don't know. So it's fixed. Github repository gone. Password changed. Well, yes, we resolved a situation where everybody could potentially mess with these devices. But there has to be a super admin password somewhere. A part he has to control this. Is that a desired situation? Well, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate has blocked the Chinese company from bidding on the construction of what they call the stop contact of say, a wall socket at sea. And they did this because they think having a Chinese company controlling this much power on the grid is a security risk. So what about those solar panels? You may wonder, why doesn't anybody do something about this? Well, grid operators and energy companies have no authority over what happens behind the smart meter.  Problem solved. They can't put any regulation or any enforcement in place. Building codes are about electrical safety. And we have an authority for IoT and IoT devices. But yeah, they can only interfere when devices are insecure. There's new regulation on the way that requires registering and certifying devices if you want to sell them to consumers, which you probably can circumvent by going to AliExpress directly, but different matter. But even if these devices themselves ever become 100% secure, you still have a foreign party that controls a major amount of power in the grid. So that brought me back to the opening talk that Miko Hippen and gave, where he said, we're doing security. We're no longer securing computers. We are securing society. So statement from the vendor. Let me check. I have a statement. Dear Frank, this is Wei and I'm responsible for marketing department. Thanks for your reply. And thanks for any way for Dutch ethical hacker finding an issue for us. At present, we're absolutely off the court with the upcoming disclosure and communication time left us is extremely limited. It's an opinion. For now, I can only say, firstly, the account is subject to testing group and not a super admin account. Which later we can provide proof in details. Secondly, uploading firmware via the account is fine, but no actual control function is workable as real operation needs a verification and subject to authorization from inverter manufacturers. Thirdly, the account is not related to any account of other customers and won't affect their PV plans. And last, the account is now in safe condition. I hope that means they implemented two factor authentication. Therefore, we believe that there's no effect to TV plant operation in the system. In case you want to go public with the case, please do keep above facts in your statement as we've done. And we expect not to mention the product name in disclosure too late and won't expect any exaggeration before clarification. I hope I didn't. Personally, I think we can create long term cooperation with your organization to offer services to our customer in much more secure way. I hope so too. So we're really grateful that they are reaching out, that we are in contact now. We want to thank the China cert for help brokering this contact because obviously good with everything coming from China. That's really important that we have good international cooperation on this. And with that, any questions? Thank you, Frank. We have about 10 minutes for Q&A. So you don't have to walk all the way to the tent of the IFD, which is over here. So if you have any questions beyond this talk, you can always find these guys over here. They have lots and lots and lots of war stories going on. So half of them are not disclosable at all, so it's a bit of a shame. Any questions? Nobody? Well, we have one question. Have you looked at the hardware architecture of the inverter and do you think it would be possible for the output AC voltage to shift the phase alignment relative to the grid? So according to the statement of the vendor, the firmware somehow can't magically control this. Have we taken... People kind of get pissed if you take their inverters because they have them for a reason. Anybody who has a solar man inverter, well, they changed the account, so we don't have the control now. So no, we didn't. This wasn't the hardware investigation for us. This was just a software investigation and a SaaS platform where we found the password from. So we haven't. We're really curious, though. So if somebody is willing to sacrifice their solar man controller, and I guess the likelihood just increased a little bit, please come by the village. Thank you very much.  Okay. Thank you very much. Please give Frank a big applause and thank you for your...


Eric, long tough game today against Gunai Mamadzada. Looked like you were winning, what happened? Yeah, it was a crazy, crazy game. I played a new idea in the London opening. Got a really nice position, she fought back, but then she got really low on time, and then I thought I was very close to winning, but then I blundered, and I thought I was losing, but then she blundered, and then it was close to equal, but then we got to the endgame, and then I was better, and then I was completely winning, and then I blundered, and then it was a draw. That's a lot of chapters to this particular book. Pretty sure we could write a whole book on this game. Yeah, okay. And at the end it was that rook and pawn ending. You just missed that one move when you played F5. Yep, yeah. It's painful, but also instructive, and it goes to show kind of what I need to work on to get to next level. Going back to the beginning of the game, of course it was a London system you played here. Back in the day that was regarded as a super solid system, but a lot of grandmasters are playing it these days, aren't they? Yeah, London, it has a reputation of being very simple and solid. Also it has a reputation of being a beginner's opening, where it's very easy to learn, you just kind of memorize a setup and you play it, but at a high level it's very venomous, and there's still kind of new ideas being found, especially with the engines. I got to play one of these ideas in the game, pushing my h-pawn as early as move seven to get a pretty substantial attack. Okay, let's look at the game. Okay. Okay Eric, we're looking at the final stages of your game with Gunai Mamadzada today. Tell us what happened next. Yeah, it's going to be a little bit painful for me to relive this moment, because I fought for over four hours to get to this position, which should be a completely winning endgame for White. This is very typical when you have two connected passers against one passer. As long as you don't blunder anything, it's winning. Unfortunately in this position I play the move, which just gives away my whole advantage. So before we show it, pause the video. If you're watching on YouTube in the future, White to move and don't blunder and find a way to win. I think anything really I can play here, just any king move, rook b8, but the move I played was pawn to f5. And this is one thing I shouldn't do is have my pawn separated, especially when Black can exploit me and after she played rook to b4, I had that sinking feeling in my stomach. So I realized, oh no, the king is getting to e5. And Lawrence Tran told me after the game that this is already a draw. So I tried to fight, but yeah, what to do. See a couple of moves just to see. Yep, so the point is the king gets to e5. And yeah, when I play e4, the rook can't take on e4 because rook e7 check, but the problem is rook b3, and Black is winning the e4 pawn.  I think she saves it by one tempo because even though my pawn is further past after rook to b1, her rook kind of comes from behind and starts giving checks.  So what happened again, king g5, king d4 is a really nice move. And she can essentially just save the pawn with the king and then eventually sack the rook for the f-pawn. And yeah, this is a draw. Four hours down the drain. Yeah, I mean, it was a really interesting flight. We just looked at the very end, but the opening, the middle game was really exciting. So it's going to be a fun game to analyze. But I think now it's time for me to rest and try and regroup for tomorrow. Okay, thanks very much. Thank you.


A deconvolution algorithm is proposed to improve the range resolution and lower side-lobe in side-scan sonar imaging, resulting in a 32% increase in SNR and 12.5% increase in contrast ratio in simulation and actual underwater data, with improved target segmentation accuracy. This article was authored by Jia Liu, Yan Peng, Ling Ling Yan, and others.