Good morning, everyone. This is Claire Massey with Open Sock Foundation. Thank you for joining the webinar. We will be recording this and posting the slides later on the Wiki and possibly on YouTube. So I'll send out links to that later to the marketing mailing list. We have a bunch of slides this morning, so I'll just jump right in. If you have any questions, feel free to unmute yourself and ask or type it into the chat box, or you can save your questions till the end, and we'll go through them. We are going to go through the prospectus today. There is a link to it. So it's a pretty comprehensive document. It's very lengthy, so just kind of describe what all is in the prospectus. We're going to go through format and passes, the sponsorship contracts, summit, venue, sponsorship packages, expo hours, sponsorship add-ons, other summit info and reminders, and then take questions. So there's a lot. So the Paris Summit will be November 3rd through 7th, Monday through Wednesday, is the main conference. That's new this time in the past. The breakout sessions have run for four days. So this time it will just be three days. And then the design summit, the technical working sessions will kick off on Tuesday and run for four days Tuesday through Friday. We'll have two tiers of passes again. The full access pass gets you into everything at the summit and includes lunch and the apparel giveaway. The keynote and expo level pass does not include lunch this time. So that's new, and it does not include the apparel giveaway. We recommend you give the keynote and expo pass to folks that are just kind of manning the sponsorship booths. You can of course give them full access passes if you wish, but you will be given a batch of each level of these passes. So that's probably representing them. So to become a sponsor and there are two contracts to be signed. The first master's permit is available on the site. It's an electronic agreement. So you can go, the link is provided there on the slide, and you can go there and just click through and sign it. If you've sponsored any of these previous summits in Atlanta, Hong Kong, or Portland, then you've already done this step. So that's completed. You just need to know the date when you sign that contract because that'll be asked when you sign the Paris sponsorship contract. So next week on Thursday, July 17th, we will post the Paris contract. It'll go live at 11 a.m. central time. Then we will start receiving the sponsors. So new this year, we are going to support the companies. The companies that have been supporting us, the sponsors and members, we're going to accept their contracts first for the first 24 hours. So you can see who those companies are at openstack.org slash companies. And if you're interested in becoming a corporate sponsor at the foundation, you can go to openstack.org slash join or email me after this and I can put you in touch with the right folks. So those companies, their contracts will be considered first. And then 24 hours later, starting at 11 a.m. on July 18th, all of the other companies that are not corporate sponsors or members of the foundation will start considering those contracts in the order that they were signed. Remember to check your email. This is really important. When you're signing these electronic agreements, you will receive an email from EchoSign and you need to go to your email and click a link in there. And that's what confirms the contract. So if you just sign it and then don't click that link, the staff is not completed. So make sure you do that. And also make sure you do not have any overdue balances with openstack foundation. If you think you may, and you can email billing at openstack.org, or you can email me and I'll look into it for you. But essentially any companies that still have outstanding balances owed to the foundation will not be eligible to sponsor the Paris Summit until you've paid those bills. So let me know if you are curious if you have any outstanding bills. This is specific to headline sponsors. If we have more than four companies interested in becoming headline sponsors that sign the contract within the first hour on July 17th, then we will do a lottery drawing that day to determine the four that will become the headline sponsors. And then the other companies that do not get drawn in the lottery will have the opportunity to re-sign contracts at the premier level. This only applies if we have more than four in the first hour. So if we have four fewer, then those will become the headline sponsors in the order that we receive the contracts. And the deadline to sponsor is September 19th. This is for production deadlines for printing and shipping over the furniture and all of those things. So please sign in the next couple of months before that date. The venue, the summit will be held at the Palais des Congrés. It is located at the Porte-Mailot Petristape online one. Sorry, I don't speak French. Anyway, it is pretty central. It's near the Arc de Triomphe. It's really easy to access anything in downtown Paris from the Metro. So definitely recommend getting some Metro passes for that week. The main conference will be at the Palais and then across the street at the Les Meridian Hotel is where we'll do the design summit sessions. So they'll be separated across the street. But everyone will have lunch together over in the Palais. The Palais is kind of an interesting venue. If you look at this drawing, it shapes like a boat. So we have the summit will take place on level 0, 1 and 2. And just kind of imagine a boat when you're looking at these drawings here. So on level 1, we will have registration right here. And underneath this level is the Metro. And so there's a lot of people coming in to this area. And all of this in yellow is a shopping mall. So it's a very congested area. There's, you know, different retail shops. There's some restaurants. There's a lot happening in there. And then that's the entrance to this grand amphitheater where the general session, the keynotes, will take place. So that's the general session room. It's a very large room. You can imagine the ceiling is really high. So when you go up to the levels 1 and 2 above it, you're kind of walking in a circle around where the amphitheater is located. So going up one level, you see all of this in the peach color. That is the expo hall. So instead of just your traditional giant room for an expo hall, you're kind of walking around in these corridors. They're very large corridors, but they're on the sides. And then it opens up to large spaces on either end. And then right here, we have one breakout session room on this level. And then we're also going to build a theater into the expo hall, like we typically do, and have some sessions in there. And then the demo presentations by sponsors. Then you go up one more level, and this is where all of the breakout rooms will be, and lunch. And then we also have more meeting rooms on this level. So that kind of, those levels right there encompass all of the main conference of the summit. So we have seven levels of sponsorships. Five of them come with a table or booth. And then we added two new levels this year that are kind of table-less, if you will. They're just going to have a monitor and a collateral stand. This is a great option for folks who can't necessarily send enough people to Paris to staff a booth and attend sessions, but you still want to have a presence and support the event. So we recommend that. The headline sponsor, you know, it's the largest booth on the floor. It comes with a keynote presence. New this year instead of an individual keynote for the headline sponsors, each headline sponsor will receive one slot on a panel that will be given during keynotes and one 90-second pre-recorded video that will be played during the keynotes. They'll also receive one 40-minute breakout session and have the opportunity to add on a sponsor breakout track for an additional fee. And then all of the other items on here, typical of what we usually offer. Here is an example of a headline booth from the Atlanta Summit. Any custom counters, additional monitors, custom furniture, all of that cost extra to add in, but that's kind of like the size of the headline booth right there. The premier sponsor, it kind of tears down from here. You get 14 by 10, you get one breakout session, one 60-second pre-recorded video that will be played in the expo hall and this video message wall area. It's also a charging lounge. And then the opportunity to sponsor a breakout track. This level also has the opportunity to add five feet of width to their booth space. So that is an extra fee but you can increase your booth size. Here's an example of a premier booth from the last summit. Spotlight level 10 by 10, 60-second pre-recorded video as well. You can also increase your booth size at this level for an additional fee by five feet of width. This level and the levels below also have the opportunity to add on one 20-minute demo presentation in the expo hall theater and we'll get to a little bit more detail on that later. Here's an example of a spotlight booth. All of these booths are turn-key meaning that we will print the backdrop for you. You send us the artwork and we print them. And then the event and start-up levels, those both receive the same I guess they have the exact same options. So we have a six-foot table for each one, the opportunity to add on a 20-minute demo presentation and then you get five full access passes and two keynote passes. The difference in these two levels is that to qualify for the start-up level, your company needs to be in business for three years or less and have less than $5 million or less in revenue. So if you don't meet that criteria then you fall into the event level. And that is an example of those booths. And then as I mentioned previously we have the new level, the no-table level. This includes a monitor, a stand, and two passes. You can also add on a demo theater presentation with this level. So this is great for folks who can't send a large team of people over to Paris. Yeah, we've basically gotten some feedback from the Hong Kong Summit that it was difficult for some teams to send enough people to be able to staff the booth and attend the sessions they wanted. So that's why we created this option as well. So the hours. On Sunday we really encourage everyone to check in on Sunday and have their booth set up that day too. The Expo Hall will be open for booth staff from approximately two to seven o'clock that day. I guess one to seven o'clock that day. And the reason for that is that on Monday we're going to have kind of a pre-keynote coffee hour in the Expo Hall. So if you don't have your booth set up on Sunday then folks are going to be walking by their booth that's kind of empty and not ready. So we really encourage you to be there on Sunday and get it set up. And then Monday, like I said, we're going to kind of kick off the keynotes a little later than normal, which we've been suggested that we do that by the locals in Paris that a lot of Europeans may be traveling in on Monday morning so we shouldn't start as early as we typically do. So that's why we're going to have the coffee and then we'll kick off the keynotes after that. Approximately 9.30am will conclude around 11 and then the Expo Hall will be open at 11 and then they'll probably fill up at that time during a coffee break before breakout sessions start. So that's kind of the overview there. So if you come in on Monday morning you can kind of staff your booth and then we will bring all the attendees down into that grand amphitheater for the keynotes and the Expo Hall at that time will be closed off to anyone who's not designated booth staff and it'll open up again. The peak hours in the Expo Hall will always be during the coffee breaks and then also during our booth crawl that we're going to host on Monday night. So we hosted a booth crawl for the first time in the Atlanta Summit. This is a picture of it. It was really successful. Lots of attendees enjoyed it. This is a good time for you to kind of go through the venue caterer and include some beverages or food or snacks in your booth and we'll kind of manage that to make sure there's not lots of duplicating the types of beverages and different things like that. But it's a good time to get people in there and socialize and just take advantage of that. That'll be Monday evening. So there's more information about it. Then Tuesday we will start a little later than we did on Monday. We'll go straight into keynotes that morning at 9am and then after keynotes conclude we'll open the Expo Hall at 10.45am and it'll be open throughout the whole day. Same thing on Wednesday. Wednesday we don't have keynotes so it'll open at 9am and go until the afternoon break concludes at 4.30am and then at 4.30 we'll close the Expo Hall area and do teardown. We have several add-ons. I'll kind of run through a few of them at a high level. This is an image of a video while charging station that we had in Atlanta. This is a sponsorship opportunity. It's also where those 60-second and 90-second videos will be played. At all of these comfy seats we have power strips. It's where folks hang out. This area was always packed with people sitting there and just kind of relaxing and charging up and watching the presentations. In addition to the sponsor videos we'll also include some videos from the foundation usually. These will probably be user spotlight videos and some other content that may be played in the keynote sessions. Stuff like that will also be on a loop in this area. This is a picture of the demo theater in Hong Kong. This is a picture of the signage from the one in Atlanta. We build a theater out in the Expo Hall area. It's usually a great place to kind of demo a product or service. We have that 20-minute presentation add-on for the spotlight event and start-up levels. I encourage you to do that. We also may be using the theater for some sessions this time to create a draw for attendees to enter the Expo Hall area during session times. We always have coffee breaks sponsored but this time we're in addition to just the coffee breaks we're adding in Espresso Bar area. That'll be located in the Expo Hall and it'll be open for a duration of the summit. The coffee breaks are only during designated break times but the Espresso Bar is kind of the one place that you can always get coffee no matter what time it is during sessions so it'll probably be a big draw for attendees. This can be sponsored by the day or for the full duration Monday through Wednesday. Other add-ons, we added this time branded food beverage specialty cart. If you're interested in having a smoothie cart or some sort of specialty item that's in addition to your booth in the Expo Hall you can add that on and it gives a cost of the sponsorship you would be responsible for paying for all the food and that you offer to attendees. We're offering the official water sponsorship. This includes signage on all of the water jugs throughout the venue and if you want to produce your own water bottles and bring those in you may do so as well. The branded lunch sponsorship is new so that is, if you noticed I went through the venue maps earlier, the breakout sessions and lunch are on a separate level of the buildings from the Expo Hall. So by branding lunch you get signage in that area and you'll be evenly sponsored with any signage on that floor so it's a good opportunity to get in front of folks and perhaps do a drawing or pass out some information about your sessions and whatnot and you can do that by the day or the week. The travel support program is something that we're offering for the third time in Paris. It's travel grants for key contributors to OpenStack Project that otherwise wouldn't be able to fund their trip to come to the summit. The applications are open right now and we kind of review those as they come in and then we decide that folks get a hotel room or they're plane, flight, or train or both and then they also get a free pass to attend the summit. So it's really great we've had I think over 20 folks in Atlanta were funded through this program and the sponsor is recognized during Keynotes and obviously on signage leading up to the summit and during the summit. The Women of OpenStack event is a good social and networking event that we've hosted the last several summits and it's a great opportunity for the women, there aren't that many women in the OpenStack community. I think we had 7% of the attendees in Atlanta were women so it's kind of great to get everyone together and meet each other and mingle and we might be talking about some new initiatives this time in Paris and perhaps have a session for women in addition to this event. So sponsoring that is great for the community. And then the badge lanyard as we always do, the lanyard branded for all the attendees. And then the developer and user lounge, this is kind of the hub where the developers hang out. It'll be located over at Lay Meridian and we usually give the developers the ATV's kind of better snacks and drinks. They have coffee offered the entire duration. It's just kind of a nice area for them to hang out. So if you wanted to display hardware in there or have a person kind of stationed in there to discuss your products and services, that's what you'd get that opportunity. We also had some, this is a smaller sponsorship add on the what's happening pin boards. We have some pin boards that will locate throughout the Expo Hall area and you can kind of brand those and mention upcoming events, parties happening during the summit, different sessions, things like that. Then we have a full day sponsored breakout track. We only have two of these due to space in Paris. So this is only available to the headline premiere and spotlight levels. And by purchasing this add on, you essentially own a breakout session room for one day during the summit and you can program the content however you wish. If you want to do a training or if you want to just feature different customers or whatever you want to do in that room, you're welcome to do it. We just asked that you also align your schedule to break with our coffee breaks and with lunch. Then private meeting rooms. This is inclusive with the headline level and then an add on option for all other levels. I believe it's $4,500 and it's for Monday through Wednesday and it's a private room that'll hold approximately 10 people and it'll come with power and internet and furniture and all of that. And if you want to add on catering or different items that's extra. We already went over the increased booth size for premiere and spotlight and then official evening events. So we have one party on Monday and two on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So kind of the criteria for this is to have at least 500 people capacity at your party and it has to be open for all attendees to RSVP and will help publicize the party. Leading out to the summit will help publicize it through email blasts during the summit and through push notifications for the mobile app and different things like that. So as you sign the contracts you would need to kind of rank your preferred day and time and then from there based on the order that we received the sponsorship agreements will go back and tell you which day you ended up securing if you do that. Other reminders. These are all available on the summit by the way. The call for speakers is open right now and it closes July 28th. So please encourage your teams to submit talks. It's really important. It's a short window. It's open for one month and this is the avenue to get sessions included into the summit. And then once they close we'll open voting to the larger open-stack community. So folks will vote on sessions and then from there the voting will be open for approximately one week and then we have trap chairs who will go through and ultimately make the decisions of which sessions get included into the summit. And then we will notify all the speakers in late August and then hopefully by the end of that month or early September we will publish the schedule. Hotel room blocks are available right now. We have them at Lay Meridian and Hyatt. The Hyatt is attached to the Palais and the Lay Meridian is across the street. All reservations are final once you make them. So please make sure you're going to attend the summit before you make a hotel room reservation. If you want to book more than nine rooms, I know a lot of you guys have been asking about that because you need to do like a block of 30 or 50 rooms. Please contact Sarah. Her email address is right there Sarah at fintech.com and she can help you secure more than nine rooms per reservation. Also, if you're planning, if you're booking rooms for a lot of people, make sure you put the guest's name on the room in addition to your name and then note that if you're putting them all in one credit card that if the guest does not supply another credit card upon check-in then it'll charge your card for that room. So make sure you communicate with the people if you don't want to pay for that yourself. We've also provided a list of other nearby hotels and amenities in the area. I realized that the Palais and the Hyatt, I mean Slammeridian and the Hyatt may book up. So there are lots of other hotels in the area if you just stay along the metro line you'll be in good shape to zip right in and arrive at the summit each morning. Also for folks that are traveling with families or bringing their spouse or just want to stay longer, the RBO, Airbnb and HomeAway have a lot of options in Paris if you want to kind of have an apartment for the week. And then registration is open right now. All the times on Eventbrite are listed in the Paris time zone. So if you go to Eventbrite the time of the summit might look funny to you because it'll show up in the Paris time zone. The prices are going to continue to increase. We usually do that. We have early bird running right now through the end of August and then it'll increase and then a couple weeks prior to the summit the prices will increase again. So I really encourage you to get folks registered early. All sponsors you'll receive codes once you find the contracts will email you registration codes to distribute to your teams. But please note that you must redeem these codes by October 24th. After that we won't be able to accept them. There's also several other groups of people that receive free and discounted registration codes. So as you're distributing your codes you may want to check and make sure they don't already receive a code for being an active technical contributor, a board member, a confirmed summit speaker. As I said we will make those announcements in late August. A track chair or a recipient of the travel support program. And then I think I went through this earlier. The travel support program it's there for the folks who can't fund their travel, who may work for startups or other reasons. So we definitely encourage people to apply for that. The deadline is August 18th. And visa invitation letters we are happy to write a letter to anyone who needs to be at the summit and needs to secure a visa to get into France. So just help folks to go to our website and they can fill out a form there and we can write an invitation letter for any key contributors. And then just finally to stay in the know we have the marketing mailing list. I'm pretty sure most of you guys are subscribers but if not please subscribe. This is where we send out announcements related to the summit and industry events and other open-sac marketing related activities. And then as always open-sac.org slash summit is where we will continue to post any summit related updates. We also tweet about it and post on LinkedIn and Facebook. And then events at open-sac.org is kind of the main email address that we direct people to send their questions to and from there one of us on the marketing team will respond back. So if anybody have any questions or anything you'd like me to dive into. So one of the questions is about the keynotes and just clarifying that this year. And that is one of the biggest changes that we have made in the sponsorship level. So in the past the four headline sponsors got a 25-minute keynote that they were able to come present their content during the two days that we have. But this year we're actually instead going to be doing a keynote panel which each of the headline sponsors will have a representative on that panel which will be during the keynote time. And then they'll also, the headline sponsors will be able to do like a 90-second video clip that will play during the keynote time. But the hope is to kind of answer Nikki's question as well is to get a lot more user stories and topical content into these keynote sessions and really hopefully pick it up a notch as we kind of mature and grow this conference. So we're really looking forward to that. We've gotten a lot of feedback on it with the last two shows and we're anxious to see how it goes this time. So the other questions were on the sponsor track whether or not the half-day is possible or if it's just full day this time. Yeah, we just have full day this time mainly because just logistics stuff because we're starting a little bit later which means the keynotes end a little bit later which means a half-day only ends up being two sessions for the morning half-day. So technically the way just with the rooms we have limited space and we have more rooms on Monday than we do on Tuesday and Wednesday so to be able to do it we need to do one of those sponsor tracks on Monday and it wouldn't be fair to get someone a half-day because it really wouldn't be a half-day. It would just be a couple sessions. And sorry, other questions. Oh, one question was about payment. So the contracts open on the 17th so people sign contracts on the 17th when it's payment due. Right, so we typically try to generate the invoices within a week of the contract being signed and all of our invoices are due net 30. If you need an exception to make it net 45 or net 60 for your payment we can extend those deadlines. Another question from Gary was about projected attendance. So we had yet 4,500 people in Atlanta. The Paris venue is actually a little bit smaller than the Atlanta Convention Center so we're not expecting to necessarily grow the numbers. It's like going to Hong Kong we're reaching a new audience and expecting more first-time attendees and probably less attendees coming over from North America. So basically we don't know exactly what the number is going to be but the venue is a little bit smaller than Atlanta so I would say just under that. And then two more questions. I think I answered some of the questions in chat just about the process for track shares and for voting. So we've gotten a lot of good feedback on the voting just to kind of get some exposure to the sessions that are being proposed for the summit. And the track shares definitely take the voting into account. The reason why we do kind of the dual system with the voting in the track shares is that we really want to have the track shares have the flexibility to apply their own judgment whether it's seeing that there's two sessions that are very similar and maybe we should turn that into a panel or realizing that maybe all of the sessions are coming from one company and to inject some diversity there but just to be able to make a few judgment calls and not go strictly on voting. Steph, I see that you had asked about the no-boost option. Yes, if you want to stand at the monitor during certain times you can we don't require anyone to staff it. You will be required responsible for printing and shipping in the collateral of a piece of paper that goes into that stand and kind of going by and making sure that that is restocked regularly but if you'd like to stand there you can but it's also not required. And then whatever content slides or video you send us I believe will have you upload it to an FTP or put it on a USB I'm not sure but anyway it'll be presented on a loop. And there's another question about keynote sessions. I think how many keynote sessions? So I don't know exactly the number of speakers that we're going to have or how we'll divide up the time but it'll be about an hour and a half on each morning the first two mornings so you know typically I would say that's like six to eight different speakers we have and then we have just one session out of that where the headline sponsors will be involved on that keynote panel. So the meeting rooms Gary they're located kind of off to the side where the expo hall area is and also the breakout sessions are on both levels but they're in close proximity to everything. So there's kind of a little hallway off to the side that has a lot of smaller rooms and that's where those will be. A server rack I believe so yeah we've had servers in the past that's just sort of a logistics thing. You'll need to work with our production team on shipping it in and having it arrive at the right time and all of that and probably buying more power and networking a direct line if you're wanting to bring in a server. I believe there was a question about the expo hall on the two ends if they're connected and they are you can it's sort of corridors if you imagine just kind of walking around sort of in an oval that'll be the expo hall they're large corridors on either side but it's all connected and sort of the center is unusable space because that general session room the ceiling takes up three floors. The participants there's a question about where the participants will come from. So for the I guess the attendance in Hong Kong we had about 45% of them came from APAC. We are expected to be similar for moving the summit to Paris so we're assuming that approximately 40 to 45% of the attendees will be Europeans. So and then we usually have about another 40% for North America and then it tears down from there. Mocking regulations. Mocking regulations. There is actually a deck area on the first floor outside of the palace. There's a couple different areas but that's what you mean Gary for Mocking regulations. I think we'll bring in I think the universal adapters that's what we had in Hong Kong so our power strips should work for everyone coming from the US. I would for your hotel rooms and like for charging your cell phone in random places for sure bring an adapter but all of our power strips should be universal. It's a great sponsor giveaway if you want to provide adapters that are branded. I should also point out that we're not doing a bag insert this time. We're not planning to so that is new. In the past we've always had a bag insert add on and this time we're not going to do that. So if you're planning to do a giveaway to give out at your booth that's great. Just plan to have it shipped in and distribute at your booth. Yeah and some of these changes that we're making like removing the bag insert or having the no booth option they're based on feedback that we've gotten from the top summit so definitely let us know what you think this time. If it worked, if it didn't work, if you're happy about it we always want to hear afterwards. We've just gotten feedback. I think especially after Atlanta that it felt a little wasteful like we were producing and giving away too much stuff in the bag so we wanted to move be a bit more lean I guess this time. So definitely give us feedback. I think that Nikki brought up the hoodie we were actually considering bringing that back for Paris. I think everyone's getting to the point where they're from Portland or wearing a little bit thin and everyone wants replacements so that's something that we're definitely thinking about. We haven't made a decision but let's see. The price list for hotels we didn't compile that for that list of other nearby hotels but we can go back to that. I'm sure it was with all hotels prices change and if we're not securing the room blocks there then we can't guarantee a specific price but we do have them tiered out by kind of the star level, a 4 star, 3 star, 2 star and whatnot so that should give you some indication of price. Nikki I haven't had any problem using English in Paris for the hotels or for making reservations. Once you are on site the Lae Meridian has a great concierge area and they will make reservations anywhere in the city for you but we haven't had any problems just contacting the registration desk. They pretty much all speak English. Jason you're asking if the presentations are in widescreen. That's a great question for FinTech. I don't think that we finalized the AB specs for the different rooms yet but I know we're going to be using some of the equipment in the Palais and bringing in some of our own. Heather did respond in here and saying that yes it will be widescreen but we'll be including all of the AB specs and the sponsor welcome packages and all of this logistical information will come from Kelly that Nikki is asking if the keynotes will be live streamed. I think we're still discussing it and I think we can do it but it will also be really really early in the morning in the U.S. for folks to watch it so we might just not live stream it and then turn it around and put it on YouTube and on our website within an hour or two after it's presented. We usually plan to do anyway. Yeah we're open to feedback on that. At this point we just focused on trying to get keynotes up on YouTube like Claire was saying really quickly like even within 8 to 10 hours after them so I don't know if there's like a huge value in the live stream at that point but if you guys heard good feedback on it and think it's really valuable then we'd like to hear it. Diana you're asking about the cost of shipping. I'm not sure actually. Epintech will be able to probably provide some estimates based on weight and how quickly, how far in advance you're shipping things out so we can get back with you guys on that. The slides will be I'll provide those in a couple of hours. I'll send it out to the marketing mailing list. We'll also put them on the summit website and on the Wiki so I'll provide a link to that on the summit website. Well thank you all for joining and as I said if you have any additional questions feel free to email me at Claire at openstack.org or the events at openstack.org Oh, a few more coming in. So without table options you have details of branding booth graphics so the without table option isn't necessarily going to include any signage in the area. We may be able to put the logo or like we'll probably put the logo or the name of your company at the top of the monitor and then you'll have signage included on all the banners and the website and everything else but in order to kind of keep it concise and in one spot I don't think we're going to include like quick screens and all of those additional signage pieces that could go into it. Yeah and I think John had asked about the chair. I mean the intention is not to be a staff area. It's supposed to be for folks who want some like branding and visibility on the floor but not necessarily a booth staff so yeah, I doubt we'll have a chair or be encouraging people to. Right. I mean I would say you're welcome to stop by or maybe like kind of put office hours on your collateral and you could come by and like talk with folks but I wouldn't kind of turn it into a booth because the whole purpose is for it to kind of be an unmanned area and then the tables will be manned. That makes sense. Or staffed. Woman. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. Appreciate it.


The Shape of Water is a curious, romantic, and deeply, deeply strange film. It would be difficult for any description to do it justice, but it's essentially a dark science fiction fairy tale about a mute woman who falls in love with an amphibious monster that explores themes of individuality and authoritarianism, all set in 1963 against the backdrop of the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. And right now, it's up for 13 Academy Awards. Its writer and director Guillermo del Toro is one of the most imaginative and talented filmmakers working today. He's directed everything from big action movies like Pacific Rim and Hellboy to powerful Oscar-winning dramas like Pan's Labyrinth, and no matter what, del Toro's unique voice and masterful perspective as a visual artist is always crystal clear. His films are constantly exploring themes of innocence and originality in worlds dominated by crushing, often violent authoritarian rule. Yet they're also magical and surreal, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.  For example, Pan's Labyrinth is set during the Spanish Civil War and tells the story of a young girl, Ophelia, as she tries to escape her life as the stepdaughter of a brutal fascist general in Franco's Spain. Ophelia is surrounded by death and warfare.  But where I think most filmmakers would turn this into a light fantasy, stripping the world of danger and diving headfirst into a bright whimsical setting, Guillermo del Toro adds whimsy without pulling punches. In Pan's Labyrinth, Ophelia's war-torn authoritarian reality is horrifying and dangerous. But even in the fantasy world, the tasks she must complete in order to enter the magical kingdom are terrifying too. There's no path to freedom for Ophelia that doesn't involve risk and require her to overcome genuine fear. This means the storytelling has meaningful stakes. We know what happens if Ophelia doesn't succeed and we believe that it is possible for her to fail. Only her innocence and her desire to escape the evils of her world are enough to compel her to action. Another part of the beauty of Pan's Labyrinth is that it's never clear whether or not she's dreaming or hallucinating or if the fantasy world is actually real. Either way, Ophelia's experiences are heartbreaking and tragic to the very end. And that's what makes it so good. For years, if you'd asked me what my favorite dramatic or foreign film was, I'd tell you Pan's Labyrinth. The shape of water shares many of these same themes. It tells the story of a lonely woman, Eliza, who works at a top secret government facility as a janitor. Eliza is beautiful and sweet, someone who daydreams and dances down the stairs, wishing she could be like Ginger Rogers or Audrey Hepburn, but she can't speak. With the exception of her two friends, Eliza is treated by everyone as somehow incomplete.  Eliza approaches the tank and catches a glimpse of what appears to be a merman, a fish creature with gills and scales, but also hands, legs, and human proportions. Tasked with cleaning this part of the facility, Eliza has access to the room that has become this amphibian man's prison. Like Ophelia, Eliza is brave, innocent, and curious. So in spite of the apparent danger, she approaches the monster in order to find out who and what he is. He turns out to be curious and gentle in response. Over time, Eliza teaches him to communicate through sign language and music, and they develop a bond without ever being able to say a word to each other. But this is all in sharp contrast to the way the government and particularly agent Strickland treats this amphibian man. Ostensibly, the facility is full of scientists and designed for covert military research. The government's interest in this creature is to study him and vivisect him if necessary in order to learn more about how he breathes in and out of water. Strickland uses an electric cattle prod to torture the amphibian man. Meanwhile, the Russian government is attempting to break into the facility and steal or kill the creature, mostly working on the theory that if the Americans have him, then he must be destroyed. The only character that treats the amphibian man as a person is Eliza. Because, of course, she too is used to being treated as less than human by others. When she learns that both the American and Russian governments are going to kill her new friend, she decides to take action. So she risks her own life to free him from his chains and help him escape the grip of his authoritarian captors. In one of the most beautiful moments of the film, Eliza persuades her friend Giles to help her rescue the amphibian man by saying, when he looks at me, the way he looks at me, he doesn't know what I lack or how I am incomplete. He sees me for what I am as I am. He's happy to see me every time, every day. No, I can either save him. It's this kind of beautiful storytelling that grounds Del Toro's work. Yes, this film is about a bizarre magical creature, a merman that may or may not be some kind of South American god. And yes, it's about a mute woman who falls in love with him. It's whimsical and sweet. It's often funny and romantic. But at the same time, it's visceral and terrifying and in some ways, very real. The Russian and US governments are buying for power and control over a sentient life with zero regard for his own autonomy. Their operatives are cruel and sadistic, content to brutalize or murder anyone who stands in their way, including Eliza. I won't give away any more of the film here, but the effortless ability to seamlessly blend a believable dark reality with brilliantly original fantasy is what makes Guillermo Del Toro one of the greatest storytellers in cinema. And in the end, the shape of water gives us a lot to think about. It tells us that love can transcend barriers of language and appearance. It says that creatures that look like monsters can be humane, while humans can be monsters. It reminds us to treat every individual with dignity and respect, regardless of whether or not we perceive them to be different from us or lacking some of the things we take for granted. But I think most of all, the shape of water teaches us that there's a kind of power and magic that comes with freedom. And it will always be out of reach for those who see other people as objects to control, imprison, or destroy. Thanks for watching this episode of Out of Frame. Let me know what you thought about the shape of water. Leave a comment below and let's start a conversation. If you want to see more video essays like this, hit that subscribe button and check us out as at FeeOnline on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. See you next time.


Since 2001, the World Economic Forum's Networked Readiness Index has assessed the ability of countries worldwide to make the best use of information and communication technologies. This assessment is based on the performance in four main areas. The environment component measures the quality of the regulatory and business environment. Readiness measures affordability, the quality of digital infrastructure and a population's preparedness to use technology. Usage measures the levels of technological diffusion among individuals, businesses and the government. And impacts measures information and communication technologies, social and economic impacts. In the 2015 edition, Singapore replaces Finland at the top of the ranking. Not surprisingly, high-income economies continue to dominate, taking the top places, with performance of countries largely mirroring their position on the development ladder. Sub-Saharan Africa still faces serious challenges, with all but one country appearing in the bottom half of the table, the only exception being Mauritius at 45th. The index also highlights a number of success stories in the Gulf region and Central America, and in the Caucasus, Armenia is the country that made the most progress since 2012. The performance of the three Baltic countries is particularly remarkable, with Estonia preceding Belgium and Ireland, amongst others. The impact of information and communication technologies goes far beyond productivity gains. They are catalysts of economic and social transformation. They enhance connectivity, kickstart business, create employment opportunities and change the ways in which people communicate and interact. Yet it is only through widespread usage of information and communication technologies that real change can be made. Information and communication technologies are not as accessible or as fast-spreading as many believe, with some 60% of the global population still not online and some 450 million people out of reach of a mobile network. So, how can we provide universal, affordable and fast access to bridge the digital divide? Policy makers and their partners must adopt a long-term perspective to address these challenges. This requires smart, long-term investments in digital infrastructure and education, as well as sound regulations that encourage competition, innovation and private investment. Information and communication technologies hold the potential to transform our lives. Let's turn this potential into a reality.


Hey everyone, welcome back to this late night edition at Nintendo Prime. We got a bevy of stories to get to. I wanted to make sure I got to these before we entered tomorrow. So yeah, buckle up, sit tight. Reminder, we do have a handful of giveaways going on at the moment. Head down to the pinned comment or to the description. And if you're new to Nintendo Prime, why not hit that subscribe button, drop a like, leave a comment. Let me know what game are you looking forward to most for Nintendo Switch in 2022. All right, let's get into our very first story. And this deals with Majora's Mask. So Nintendo Switch Online Service just had the addition of Banjo-Kazooie added. And you know what? Nintendo decided to let us know what's coming next. In February, we are going to be having Majora's Mask added in. And I find this to obviously be an excellent addition to the Nintendo Switch Online Service. Majora's Mask being one of my favorite Zelda games. I'm a big Zelda fan. I will note though that there seems to be a narrative that Nintendo is maybe figuring out this Nintendo Switch Online Service thing by still giving us one N64 game per month and not letting us know even when it's coming in that month. I still have the same criticisms I've always had for this online service. I'm glad that at least for three straight months now, they've let us know ahead of time that we're getting a game. But we've had this happen before. The NES for X amount of months was getting games. The SNES for X amount of months was getting games. And then they just stopped. So I'm not going to give too much credit for this. But hey, Majora's Mask is what is on Slate next. So if you are a Nintendo Switch Online member in terms of the expansion pass, anyways, you have that to look forward to next month. All right, moving on, a major game that I've been looking forward to ever since I saw it behind the scenes at E3 2019. That's how long ago it depends once we've seen this game. Had a massive, I think it was like a six minute like thing drop today. Announcing that Star Wars, the Skywalker saga, is releasing on all platforms, including Nintendo Switch on April 5th. This is obviously excellent. I think the game looks great. It might be the greatest LEGO game ever made. And beyond that, maybe the best Star Wars game ever game ever made. Like back at E3 2019, when I got to see it behind closed doors, it just looked amazing. And nothing shown today makes it look like the game is any worse. Actually, it just looks better and better. Of course, you know, we can't just have that be it. Because after it was announced, stories broke that this game and the developers behind it actually put the employees through the employees, sorry, several of them, through Extreme Crunch. This is sad to see for a game that's been delayed multiple times, that Crunch was a really big thing. And apparently it was so bad that 40 employees left the company in 2021, which is a lot to leave. That doesn't mean the game is any less excellent for it, but it does make you obviously wonder a little bit, what are the conditions like at the studio behind it? I'm sure the end product is amazing, but was it worth it?  But hey, it's coming April 5th, so I mean, I don't know. You guys make whatever decision you want to make on getting it. It's gonna be pretty hard for me to decide not to get it, since I've been looking forward to it so much, but I don't know, man. I just really want to see this Crunch thing get better across the whole industry. Next up, Nintendo did a really weird thing. So Nintendo of Japan decided, you know what, we want to tweet out, and we want to show people how to remove games from their Nintendo Switch, because, you know, they can't figure that out on their own. Okay, fine, whatever. It's been five years. At this point, I think it's pretty clear how to remove games off your Switch. But the weird thing is, they showed you how to do it by showing you how to remove Mario 35. Now, look, removing Mario 35 isn't like the biggest deal, because it's a game we can't play anymore, but it's also kind of a nice harsh reminder that Nintendo created this really cool Tetris 99-like game for Mario, had it come out for Mario's 35th, and then just for no real logical reason, just nuked it, because the 35th anniversary is over, as if Mario 35 still couldn't exist and be good outside of it. It was also like a free game that was part of Nintendo Switch Online, so you actually hurt the value of Nintendo Switch Online shutting it down. Very strange thing, and obviously with them doing this, it reminds us that, hey, Mario 35 isn't coming back. I hate these temporary games like this. There's not a whole lot of them out there. And yeah, I think it's just, it's bad PR. Like, it's reminding people that you got rid of something that you probably should have never got rid of. It just hurts. It hurts seeing it brought up again, because I really do miss Mario 35. Next up, we have a software sale, and hardware sale update for Japan for last week. These sales go through the 16th, and well, no surprise in the software charts that it's pretty much all Switch titles. And number one, we have Mario Party Superstars, moving 22,108 units. That has now moved 793,683 units. And number two, we have Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, moving 19,129 units. That has moved 2,454,455 units. And number three, we have Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. That has moved 18,505 units. That is now at 4,713,464 total. And number four, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still clocking in there at 17,684. That has now moved 4,373,799 units. And number five, we have the Nintendo Switch version of Minecraft, moving 12,986 units. That has moved 2,475,523 units. And number six, we have Animal Crossing New Horizons, moving 11,948 units. That has now moved 7,149,014 units. And number seven, we have Big Brain Academy Brain versus Brain that moved 10,895 units. It has now moved 223,428 total units. At number eight, we have Ring Fit Adventure still clocking in there at 10,064 units. It has now moved 3,444,438 units. At number nine, Momotaro Dantetsu. We're gonna stop there because I know I can't pronounce this game from Konami for Nintendo Switch, will be 9,864 units. It has now moved 2,570,479 units. At number 10 is Clubhouse Games, 51 worldwide classics. That has moved 6,845 units. It is getting closer and closer to a million at 906,012 units. Hardware-wise, we obviously have some interesting stuff to talk about here. Nintendo moved over 94,000 Nintendo Switches. The number one spot is Nintendo Switch OLED at 48,824 units. It has now moved 993,000 units. So should be over a million abs of this week. The base Switch model moved 29,131 units. At the number two spot. That has now moved 17,867,356 total base model Switches. The Switch lights at number three at 16,568,000. It has now moved 4,497,478 of just that model. PlayStation 5 moved 12,996 units. It has now moved over a million units in Japan. At 1,090,990. Xbox Series S is at 1,848 at number five. Moving 57,446 units in Japan. PlayStation 5, all digital version, has moved 1,457 at number six. That has moved 204,152 units. And new 2DS LL times in at number seven. Followed by the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 4. So that's some really interesting stuff anyways in terms of the sales. Obviously Nintendo is just dominating and continues to own Japan. Congrats for PlayStation 5. Obviously getting over a million, but still, yeah, I don't know. Japan's literally just owned by Nintendo and the numbers, I mean, I'm not even, I'm almost numb to how impressive the numbers are every week because it's just been happening for five years. So good on you, Nintendo. Lastly, I wanted to just, this is less of a story. This is more of a reminding you to smile today. I've had a rough day for various reasons. None of it related to anything online, but I've been noticing when I was going online, looking for stories, a lot of bickering, a lot of fighting, a lot of sadness going out there, whether it's people upset that Pokemon Legends Arceus is fully leaked, whether it's people upset about Microsoft potentially acquiring Activision Blizzard and then some of the controversy around like Phil Spencer's, did he say that Sony's gonna continue to get future Call of Duty games or is he just talking about existing Call of Duty games? He said, I was on a phone call with Sony and it's still not really fully clear and it probably won't be fully clear till after the purchase is finalized and then we see what happens with Call of Duty. Obviously news on the Blizzard that, oh, they're gonna be really active with games but then can we trust them? Because Blizzard has had a history of not doing that. There's just been so much like back and forth bickering. People seem just really upset and sad today. So I wanted to, everyone's reminded, hey, you know what? Put the smile on. The beautiful smell of nature if you get a chance to go out and take some of that in and don't live in a city.  Maybe it's just the people in your life that matter the most. Maybe it's just watching a good show, playing a good game, being physically active, eating, you know, something that tastes good. I don't know. Whatever it is you have to be thankful for and smile about, do it. We all have our rough points in life. And as I said, gosh knows, today has been one of the more difficult days for me in 2022. Let's just say being a parent isn't always what it's cracked up to be. But you know what? I'm trying really hard myself to remind myself that smile and not, you know, circle down that rabbit hole of evil. Oh, evil! All right, folks. So put a smile on and find something to be happy about today. Tonight, tomorrow morning, whenever you're watching. All right, folks. I'm Nathan de Rebel Jants from Nintendo Prime. Thank you so much for tuning in! And I'll catch you in the next video.


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