Hello everyone. Following the German tradition, let's start on punch hole. So, good evening everyone. And my name is Elio and I'm here to actually talk about the whole difficulty things that the whole automotive industry are facing right now to get Linux in there. I'm trying to go a little bit faster in the faster slides because I want to give some space for more questions in the end because I think the last slides will open more questions for them. So, let me present myself. So, my name is Elio Castro. I'm Brazilian but live in Germany almost five years right now. I'm working for BMW Karate. It's one part of the BMW Group. It's not very known to everyone but BMW Group is a huge holding that's mostly know about having a mini and a whole hoist as well together with BMW. And Ulm is in the middle between Munich, our headquarters, and in Turch-les-Heim where the self-driving development center. Ulm is basically the center of the software development where we do integration and basically development and everything. This is the building there and since I was open source developer, I've been a KD developer since ever and then I joined and it's very snowy time for a Brazilian. Arriving in a country is knowing it's a very completely different thing. So, let's talk about the industries. So, every single industry is different. One thing that people really don't realize when talking about Linux and adopting Linux is like we're not talking about and putting Linux inside your computer anymore and just use it. Every single industry has their peculiarity and then it's very detailed things that people need to understand. So, if you're looking around about mobile industry, it's a real embedded system in the past. Adopted Linux through Android really late. I was part of the Nokia Project N9 before the arrival of BMW. So, it's really the legacy UNIX and Linux-based platform oriented. So, as you're looking around, there's a telecon. Telecon is a UNIX legacy application. It comes from a long, long, long time ago. It's completely different about the mobile there. So, it's easily translatable for Linux Word. That's why it's the first industry that adopted massively. Then we have a special dedicated applications, heavily dependencies on safety aspects. It means that we barely see Linux running there. I'll tell you what I'm saying in the next slides there, why? And for example, financial. Financial is FTS applications. Then it's easy translatable to UNIX and Linux there on the time. There's a legacy there. So, it's easy there. But we have automotive. So, assembly lines are UNIX and LTS is like long time service. So, we think that usually cars need to be maintained like 10 years. In the modern world today, 10 years computers is like ages. So, why assembly line is so important? Several models of cars are still building. It was designed before years.  So, it's several tools to actually prepare the cars. They are in a line. You wrote there, pun intended, because it's literally a line. So, it doesn't matter which car you're doing. It's one after another. The assembly line must go until the end there. And something fails in one car. It stops the whole assembly line. It's money there. And then the companies cannot afford to actually use multiple tools. They need to be the same. You have one single tool for each operation there. And you need to follow exactly these strictly rules, usually made at home. And then, unlike the other companies, we cannot simply create a new assembly line for a new model of car. It would be better on time of price. So, in Linux, there are main bumps that we have actually. There was adopted the resulting platform to be used in assembly line without interfering the current process. Current process, I mean the cars that we are buying today and what is already in the assembly line. The moment that you put the new software and start to flush in the new cars, we are dealing with exactly what's happening already. So, we cannot stop the line. It's not a simple thing that if you're not working, you just fix it there. No. And most of the tools are legacy tools. It's coming like several detail formats and other things that come in from ages. So, for the one I explained in later, is that, for example, the interface for BMWs, the same code runs in several ages of cars. This is just applied and used it on several times. So, basically, we need to adopt and still use in there, in the modern environment, without affecting what is there in legacy environment. And the resultant deployment should be transparent. So, when you go on to the factory, the workers on the factory doesn't understand, oh, we are using Linux, we are doing differently. No. It's like, they press exactly the same button, the process needs to be the same. They don't care about it. The resultant in the end is like the car running. That's it. So, BMW already has Linux. If you actually buy a BMW in the last year for the modern ones, Serious, it's coming with a head unit. The head unit is fully Linux. Why is this first one? It's the foundation for the big plan. Why is it so like the first one? Because we have an important factor called, we don't have safety involved inside the head unit. Despite the something that people say, oh, we can hack the cars, plug in something on the head units and connect the car and everything, oh, it's actually not true. Because this is completely the couple of the safety systems of the car. We have specific commands for basically known safety related today there. This will change it in the future because the car will become unique. But in this case, so the head unit was a very good example. You can see here in the pictures, the Mini and the BMW there running there and the development station that we have at our offices there. It's behind the project of the head unit. We did the OS for the scratch. No safety relevant there. It's fully Linux based on Yachto and we get a nod for the Genevieve project. There, this is part of this one there. We use it Yachto for this part. It's fully based. It was completely integrated on Yachto. The UX are completely ported to Linux. So it's exactly the same UX you're using every evolution.  So it's exactly how the generations of the interface for the BMW are developed. It's the continuous integration that I made in-house. It was the first time that we made every single process there. So the software entering the form of source codes and end up in the integration there. It was my first project when they entered in BMW and that's exactly... We did an integration part when the resulting things go directly to the factory there. So what is there actually now? My current job is actually I'm the lead of the OS team there and we are supposed to put Linux entirely on the cars right now. Not anymore the parts on the head unit or details there. Everything that we'll be using in the future will be based on Linux. And it was really hard. This is the four related parts that I want to say them all. First one and the most important one right in the moment, safety. So Linux is not functional safety qualified. So in automotive world, different from the other industries, we have protocols called standards called A0B, A0D. So automotive, software, integration level, that's actually safety levels that actually determine how much you can able to fail or not during several thousand of operations there. It's a little bit lower than actually you have in the airplane and the aerospace industry but still it's very hard. So we are put in some place that we can actually could endanger the environment around. And Linux will not safety qualified yet. It's mostly not technical work. It's actually a lot of specification work. A lot of investigation work. And so this we are having two steps right now. The current project is now in the analysis. For this, exactly, we need to specify very strict things. We need to fix one kernel. We need to fix the compiler. We need to fix the options of the compiler. We need to see how the things are built in every single detail and we go to what is really safe to qualify it or not and we cannot simply change like that in the future for the updates. It's not something, it's a little like an embedded project but a little bit further because it's more you need to be more safe. It's really hard. And BMW joined the Linux foundation that's a project that's called Elisa as founder. We are the one of the first to join this project to make Linux safety qualified in the future. We hope that Linux there will be at some point use it everywhere. And we want to have Linux as the car of everything. So the Elisa project is really one of the main goals in this. The second thing security. Security is something that everyone actually understand in the Linux world. That's no deal. So why are you talking about security? Yes, because we still need to deal with algorithms restrictions. We need to deal with everything that's happening around there. The protocols is more simple protocols that we actually know is not simple protocol or simple MD5 or whatever you use it. It comes from different kind of protocols that you need to be introduced and you need to actually some point to qualify the connection and the communication about this. And that's interdependency with safety aspects. Because we cannot simply say that we are not put in a place to do everything. And you can guarantee that this will be completely safe under the end. So this is the part that you understand security, but in the end we need to deal a lot of things in there. The third part is about compliance. Compliance is the logical thing because it's in general companies that start whooping source without thinking about compliance don't know what happens. So there's a way to solve this. So what happens when you release a product? This is exactly what happens. So we release in the i3 and then some guy look and oh, they are using Linux inside the i3. The head unit is i3. So the guy wrote to the dealer that's not exactly the right way, but he's on the right side. Yes, I want the source code to every single source code there. He's exactly wrote about that because I know that BMW not answer. I know that actually they were not able to do that. He wrote that actually he's echoed a lot of the internet. But he didn't know about this. Oh, we answer that. Basically, he just wrote for the dealer that didn't actually understand that. If you get at the end of the whole process on the screen with all the license that we are mandatory to be and they are in the screens of the car, he says, if you need something for the source code of things, please send to this email. So the guy send the email and say, oh, we're not to answer that. And we answer. And then we send the DVD with full source code of i3. And then we put that online on GitHub and still there today. Did we bother with that? No, we are really happy. And I will tell to you about what we actually do since the start of the project. Every single build, I'm not talking about one time I've got the release and every time every single build that you create an image inside the CI, it comes automatically with set of torbos and everything compliance. So we don't need to bother to discover this since the beginning we started to make this and this actually paid off. He apologized and actually made the blog and it was there and he even finds some security flaws inside the code, which was perfect because this is exactly what we expect there. So then we could be able to solve it, we fix it, there we go. And this is one thing that is very important, compliance for open source compliance. It's okay, but we need to go farther. So we are part of a group of open source compliance with this tools is one example that we can really use it. It's really available, full open source group is a huge projects there. We can have a full two chain of open source compliance for all this open source software there. And we can do it this way. We can use the piece of the lawyers at some point at least and release the first time. Which is really hard to do it. And of course the ecosystem. This is actually a very curious thing. Automotive industry never used Linux and not open source as like effective there. They are actually using internally to development but not to produce there. So most of the people there are specific safety qualified operational systems. It's completely fair. It does not exist at that time. And software industry for automotive has a huge amount of companies around it. It's not one, two, three, it's several ones. Meaning that these people are working with legacy systems. And the people working inside the company are working with legacy systems. They never touch before. And we are jumping completely in Linux. So they understand about the past. But the new one they don't have time to understand. We face some large problems that people are still developing software like the old one. And you need to actually teach them. But this has happened during the process there. So it's really complex there. In the end that we even cannot bear doing this again. So what we should do, like it's a recommendation that for people that we are doing and jumping on Linux for some reason, for other environments, please give time to training these people and to understand everything there. Because they are afraid to do it exactly. They have things that are very critical and safety critical in their job. And they know about one way and they are not trusting in doing it. Sometimes they hurt the process so we need to teach people about that. This is the really difficult thing. We are not simply cannot hire another amount of developers. Even if you can afford in terms of money you know that's impossible today to find developers. Everyone is hiring. And the second thing is that we cannot simply change in a team or simply asking them. And that's the human factor that actually we have to do with new things and to do it in a different way. It needs to be understood. This is not simple thing that we actually expect. You know about C or C++ so you understand everything to do C, C++ is not the same. Really. And you need to be clear about that. The ecosystem around you will change and you need to teach the ecosystem how it will change. The future. The other view is the future projects. For this current project I think a lot of questions come from this one but we have multiple architectures running in parallel inside the car. This is for the future cars. We have strictly separation is meaning in the development way we need to make it an easy way to separate how the operational system, how the SDK and how the applications are developed because otherwise if you try to integrate everything together the speed will go down and it will be very difficult and force people to work on more things that should do actually. We have everything fully integrated on OSCI and no binary blobs at all. In the beginning of the project we really ask that binary blobs does not come in anything it doesn't matter where it comes as a matter which is. It's based on latest Linux LTS right now we are using 4.19 why? Because at the time that we decided to fix the project the new LTS will not be available if the new LTS will be available in time we demand that actually safe to go to the project we will go for that but we expect that this will be 4.19 and it will be basic for the dynamic driving it means that the car for self-driving in the future and BMWs will have full Linux that's exactly what is back then there I think that's for this I got a little bit faster then thanks I want to open for the questions that because then I can explain better some details so why we decided to go Linux? We made the first head unit and the results were really appreciated and we really sorry? No, it's a basically the reason is exactly that so the first project was started first in the open source and the car IT is working open source then we decided to go to head unit and the head unit was the project was really successful so the next one say can we actually go full Linux and the high management decided yes that's it it's a big bold yes we are using a real-time patch yes you are using the official real-time patch so no secret that there's this comment and we are even talking with the Linux foundation we are part of the project for RTL and the Linux foundation so it's not secret about that okay let's go first there then we need to have support for 10 years everything it need to be safety qualified it need to be on the road at the point that to be safe is that it's not different for any other operational system we just don't have the papers that say safety qualified but at the point it need to be supported it's no question about that minimum 10 years expected for more and there it's a very hard question I simply cannot answer with that and I can say the main question right now I say no we not expect that we support it and fix it as long as it stays there but I will be lying that at some point some things can happen that you needed to do that but right now official answer coming at least from our side we know we are staying there and maintaining this one as long as possible that's why actually we are taking measures to participate to exactly the foundations that we can guarantee that this happens in the future so the head unit in the past yes, graphics it has binary blobs future not anymore we are putting in the specific requirements so we are going after that there's no question asked there yeah I know that's difficult principally because the graphics my background comes from graphics as well understand about the whole algorithms and video playback there but we expect no binary blobs there's actually no reason to have binary blobs as long that we have contracts on the points this so we are going after that sometimes it cannot cannot happens because it's basically contractualism but our end goal is that today it's only head unit and this project means everything how far down is like everything yes yeah here and then go down and in this case there's no way to solve it but we are not using any video at the moment so if in the future we need to use any video yes there's something that we cannot solve it by ourselves it's true but in general this is I understand the question because they come from this background and open source long time in Linux distributions there and the reality and we are talking about we need to separate if you're thinking about feelings itself yes we are thinking about that but as a company if the proper business decision is done there's something that we cannot simplify yes we love that go to follow the ideology on this one but I don't think that's the not reality this is okay internally we actually do that so it needs to be evaluated we have the whole process so it's not simply blindly accepted we are explaining about the situation and then is it accepted or not that's the point but this is not something that we go blindly we cannot do that well this is explaining the whole process and it's everyone who knows about adaptive autosar itself it's basically an operating system that was made in for that and then we decided that autosar itself depends on some operating system in the case is most common is Aurex and the Aurex it's already there it's basically the start car and the start up and then we need the ECU need to have some software autosar itself is not the base of the ECU we need something more powerful soft driving in other things so we have the choices of operational system we have some trials of other operational systems in the end Linux and we already have the basic expertise because the head unit so there we go into Linux the CI is already we have the full expertise we have an internal CI entirely made it for the head unit so we created the new CI completely from the ground and to get this right in the process we code software we send the CI the CI build the CI it goes to the test ECU units and provide the full software ready to actually simply flash so we got one point to the other point no human intervention okay so let's put it in this way the base system is still the base system it's Linux there we have a goal for using a separated protected containers for parts of there and then we need to be exactly separated what is running or not and how it communicates it's very controlled yes we are going in this way it's still ongoing development because our target is future it's not exactly for the generation that you buy in now but yes we are looking for this part we already have a setup for this when possible yes because most of the time we are still users of the open source we are not exactly modifying the software with the for example the software that we already modified in the upstream and parts is DLT the logging daemon that actually opensource from Genevieve so in the in the stage of the project our head unit actually several softwares had some upstream code coming and Iokto has part we are able to actually do Iokto compile two or three kernels at the same time on the same build what people say that's when it's possible we did it there because we needed to generate be able to the resulting software generated be running on the emulator directly instead of going to ECU and we also needed to have build in two times to reduce the time of completion so this is the other thing that we can say today based on the previous experience the current project the same software that we are generating on the build for the car can be running on the emulator at same time so we have the real experience directly and it makes the life of the developer easier just so it's the project that comes in this way the whole car assembly design is made by the matrix in Munich that's the sign we are directly part of the project of self-driving and we are doing the base system but we are connected to the self-driving team so it is in the end we are doing the self-driving project completely that's exactly where we connect so everything there it's already building on top of what we are doing during this process at this moment no one we are not going to our providers and we actually it's depending of the course and how it actually the question is related to him one thing is about separations of virtualization so you can actually separate what is running there not to hypervisor it's started during runtime so you can actually can control what is in one part and another one we don't need to have another device monitors of course but not in hypervisor in the sense this is yes we evaluated some hypervisors and there's no need to use the advisors at this moment we don't actually have the need for that this is so many layers on the top there as already and the hypervisor will be just complicated things and not actually have a unit really usability in the future because next project coming so there we go okay so basically still have five minutes if you don't have any more questions I'll be around here so please ask thanks for your presence here and my email is there feel free to email me and go again we're going full Linux we're not joking about that it's official if you're looking on the press so you're not only us the software project we have a cooperation with Mercedes that we are working the same project as well so it goes big it's just take time and the whole safety and everything you see that will take some time okay thank you everyone


Yeah, I'm going to talk about OpenStack-centered integration with the CloudBite storage. So quick overview on CloudBite storage. So we deliver fundamental building block, which is QoS-enabled storage for the public and private cloud, which is hosting enterprise class applications. And this supports both SAN and NAS interface for the applications and REST APIs towards Cloud Platform. So this is software-only delivery model where this runs on any commodity hardware. We support all the standard storage features. We also support four-note high availability that really exponentially increases the availability of the storage in the cloud environment. So this is a key differentiator. So when you say storage in CloudBite, it will be always capacity along with other performance parameters like IOPS, latency, and throughput. So it's comparing to other legacy solutions. It is just capacity. Let me quickly move on to the demo. So this is the demo setup. So we have one OpenStack controller here. And we have the OpenStack compute environment, which is running KVM. And the storage is being provided by CloudBite Elasti Store. So OpenStack is having a concept called demo. I mean the project. So we have a similar concept in our CloudBite Elasti Store called account. So we will be able to map the OpenStack project with a CloudBite account. So whenever the project is getting created in the OpenStack, you'll have an account is getting created in the CloudBite Elasti Store. With that, let me quickly move on to the demo part and see how we can create a volume, manage the volume, sitting on the OpenStack Horizon dashboard. So this is the OpenStack Horizon dashboard. So right now it's having two Ubuntu instance running. And we have two volumes being provisioned. So one volume is attached with one other Ubuntu node and another volume is attached with another Ubuntu node. Let me quickly show the corresponding UI from the CloudBite Elasti Store. So here you have the account. So out of five accounts, the demo is the account being attached with the OpenStack project called demo. So I just go inside that. Here it's going to show how much is the storage being provisioned for this particular demo account. And it's going to show how much IABS is being provisioned for this particular demo account.  So basically the demo account is having two storage volumes provisioned for it. And each of these volumes are configured with 500 IABS. So I'm going to show how you are going to provision additional volumes from the OpenStack dashboard. Just go here and create a volume. And for a 40 gig size, I'm going to specify the IABS limit of 700 gig. I'm going to attach this volume to one of the Ubuntu instance. I'm attaching to the Ubuntu Instant 2 slash DAW. So now I am going back. So this is newly created volume being attached to Ubuntu instance with 700 IABS per second. So I am going into the Ubuntu instance. I'm going to run some IO tool to see whether it's going to stick to the predefined IO limits, VDC. So I'm just formatting the newly attached volume with the EXE2 file format. So I am mounting. I have mounted newly created volume on the path CB wall 4. I'm going to run an IO tool to show that it's going to stay with the predefined IO parameters. So this is a column which is saying number of IABS, which is being configured as 700. So now I am going to change it in the OpenStack dashboard. So it's going to change dynamically on the Ubuntu mounted volume. So I'm going to say 900. So it's done. So it has just moved from 700 to 900 range on the fly. OK, so that completes the demo. That's it. Thank you.


Thank you so much, Ray. I'm delighted to be with you for more than one reason. And you are well informed about the very secret meetings within the Commission. And that blood is at the walls and will stay there. We are going on. So having said that and talking about my past, while you are indeed correctly mentioning that not everyone appreciates my decisions at that time, I always say after a while they will accept and not only accept but also appreciate. But, and then I'm coming to this portfolio. I'm delighted to be asked for this portfolio. A complete surprise but that's not interesting for you for I was not of the right political color. By the way, after last night I will get every job that I want but I want to stay. I want to stay here for this is the best you can imagine. And that is really something and you are already mentioning it when we had the cup of coffee grain that this is the instrument in just explaining but not only explaining but implementing what Europe can do to come closer to the driver's seat again. For we were in the driver's seat and we should be closer and if we are just explaining to the outside world, to our citizens that economy has to be recovered, that our jobs have to grow and that our level playing field has to be fair but also fair to the outside world. Having said that, I think that there is an excellent opportunity in just doing it together and that is for me clear cut, clear like crystal so to say. I need you, I need you and I would propose and I sincerely hope that you are in for that so I need a type of budget for it, it's not only you of course not but this portfolio and this issue, it is all about doing it together and are we willing, well we from our side to commission, we are willing and therefore I'm accepting a lot of invitations and a lot of cups of coffee so to say to get your salt, to get the food for salt in our implementation of this digital agenda.  When I took over we were aware that we had to deliver the digital agenda and we had to do it in time and for me in time was just after a couple of months and that was the risk, completely aware of, if you didn't take that decision at that time that it should be quite early in our mandate that we were losing time, time is not on our side and in the meantime chances would be lost and rightly mentioned by you exactly two years ago I spoke about interoperability and I spoke about the standpoint here in Brussels and I'm absolutely sure that some of you were present at that time anyhow you were that way or at least read my remarks and for the others just a very brief review. Interoperability boosts competition and we need more of competition so we need more interoperability. Number two, for devices or applications to be interoperable just to say it in normal language to work together all concerned parties must agree to a common way of doing things and if you are explaining that I can even do it in supermarket when people are asking me what's your new portfolio all about it is doing it in a way that it is together, work together and foremost standards and that is the search point are one way to get that and ladies and gentlemen for more transparency and people sometimes are asking me more transparency is that the way in my opinion in formal standards setting more transparency and public and private procures of technology should be smart and build their systems as much as possible on standards that everybody can use and implement without constraints otherwise it doesn't make sense. That is good for the bottom line because it promotes competition between the suppliers and prevents vendor lock-in and to put it another way as I said at the end of my speech on that occasion choosing open standards is a fairly smart business decision and that speech at that time brought a general perspective to my work on competition policy I'm Dutch and that means in most cases straightforward and sometimes not very diplomatic but you get what you see and what you have so today I must apply that syncing in a more direct way as the person who has proposed the digital agenda for Europe and of course the whole commission is responsible for the digital agenda and again that was a tough fight so to say for this is a horizontal portfolio and it's linked with all the other sectors and portfolios of my colleagues and we love each other to a certain point so to say and so it should be but any implementation and in giving the policy in that field we need to work together and we need the rules of the game so to say so in the implementation I expect interesting parties to mostly turn to me and to demand progress and rightly so so you know me and my people and normally spoken there is coffee therefore let me explain what I have in mind when it comes to the topics of interoperability and standards it is by the way not my intention to raise eyebrows today but I do not apologize if that is the reaction for also body language can be quite clear and can give signal to me and raising eyebrows at my age one doesn't hold back I will start with confession and I'm still a big fan of open standards I have a lot of bad habits but one is in my opinion not that bad and that is I'm consistent and I believe in openness and I believe in practicing what one preaches and that is my line in life how can you expect that people are following you or are backing you or are believing you when you are not doing what you are some observers think open standards is the taint that should not be used in the absence of a generally recognized as if policy document that does not mention open standards would automatically lack merit and I again pragmatic that my position is in between I don't believe that listing or keywords can substitute for policy what ever the labels what matters is the substance and don't buy when someone is trying to get you in that battle of just fighting on words and I would urge all the stakeholders to focus on the content of the package rather than the wrapping and while I'm absolutely certain that this audience is of that type in developing the substantive policy for European standard setting it is important to start with basic questions what is standard? what does a standard look like? and almost always the standard will be embodied in a specification a document that describes and defines the characteristics a device or process or object must have to be an implementation of a given standard and in the case of a formal standard specification is drawn up by standard setting organization pursuant to a well defined process for example the process should be open and transparent and allow for participation why should you do it another way? and participation if of all interested stakeholders and not the least to ensure buy-in and market acceptance for the resulting standards but a standard will be of only limited use for interoperability until many vendors use it as a building block for their product not to mention ladies and gentlemen two competing standards that are both technically excellent excellent for a certain task but differ in the level of constraints for implementing which of those two standards do you think will seem more implementation and use including for unforeseen purposes? the one that you can download from a website and that you can implement without restrictions or the other one which you have to buy which is restricted to certain fields of use and which requires royalty payments for embodied IPRs and the answer is obvious and that is why everybody who cares about interoperability should care about the financial conditions for the use of standards as well as the indirect constraints imposed on certain and on certain parties the fewer constraints the better and in reality there are different degrees of openness between the two extremes that I have sketched out and likewise there is diversity of technical specifications related to interoperability and that range from those embodying formal standards through the free public specifications and up to the priority information to cover all those aspects I have proposed five key actions in the digital agenda for Europe number one have more and better standards recognised and created in Europe number two to make better use of those standards and start to improve interoperability in the absence of standards how to recognise and create more better standards in Europe first we badly need to reform how ICT standards are dealt with in Europe I have advised both internal commission reflection and a wide public consultation have shown that European standardisation framework is out of thing with fast-moving technology markets and in that context I am cooperating with my colleague Vice President Tanjani very closely and by the end of the year the commission will make the necessary proposals for the reform of the European standardisation system and in particular some key reforms will be of special relevance to the ICT sector so wait and see we are aware that you are in a hurry we are in a hurry we are aware that we have to act and we have to deliver the standards that power the digital world are made by the economic actors and in Europe only Etsy allows those actors to directly participate in the making of standards one negative result is that the standard underpinning the emerging universal communication platform the internet and the worldwide web including standards for content formats are made elsewhere and that puts those standards many of which are truly open that's to say they do not come with any constraints for implementers at a disadvantage vis-à-vis European standards when in legislation or public procurement just an example but that's quite dear for you I think we would have been spared some unnecessary fights over the use of document file formats by public bodies in the last few years if there had been a European document format standard already available clear legislation framework is a simple way to bring relevant standards from non-traditional standard setting organizations to an equal footing with European standards when it comes to achieving interoperability and I'm thinking here of bodies like the rules by web consortium Oasis or similar fora and consortium this could be done via a fast track and a fast track approval of their standards through a process hosted by a traditional European standards body and that could be Etsy or through the assessment of those bodies compliant with certain criteria regarding not only openness consensus balance and transparency and second we must use all the opportunities to promote appropriate rules for example disclosure of essential IPR and licensing conditions in standard setting context and believe me I have nothing against IP being brought to the standard setting table but it must be disclosed any economist will tell you that you can only make a directional decision between different options if you can compare and if you can compare the benefits and costs so to say and let's face it a statishing friend the fair, the reasonable and the non-discriminatory prices is a horror task over which reasonable people often disagree and I can assure you we have big discussions on that issue in my last term in office and transparency is there for in everyone's interest and the alternatives are not so why risk the litigation why set the standard in ignorance of the cost for implementation in some cases the joys of the technology and the standard might be obvious in absence of technical alternatives cost and licensing conditions are less relevant in such cases but in most cases let's be honest there are competing options and it makes clear sense to also consider that information the commission has already taken an important step by drafting new guidelines on the application of the treaties and the trust rules to horizontal agreements and you remember that to promote an efficient and competitive standard setting process that is protected against misuse and the draft which is currently available for public comment relies on the well established concepts of non-discrimination transparency and availability and specifies minimum requirements that is standard setting from start so to say but I want to do more some standard setting bodies already have exalted disclosure rules so why give me arguments why not all of them and that is a matter of efficiency in my opinion and surely as a matter of effectiveness when the commission mandates standard bodies to draw up a standard it should have the right to be more demanding on the standardization process to ensure that standards are less demanding when it comes to their adoption that sounds logical, doesn't it? We could also think about enticing other standards body to adopt such rules for example by giving their output preferential treatment when approving them as European standards and finally why not tie the public financing of standards bodies to the existence of good exempted rules let me wrap up this point anyhow by making one thing absolutely clear we want to make standard setting more efficient and not more burdensome take that line home we don't want uniform rules everywhere we want smart rules that are adapted to their respective fields and standard setting for software interoperability is not the same as setting a new standard for say digital television we should have the right rules in the right context and the standardization reform I discussed earlier and the ongoing consultation on the draft guidelines for the horizontal cooperation will initiate a further discussion on exempted disclosure in standard setting organizations and I am absolutely convinced that a more visible role for forehand and for a consortium standardization in Europe will already lead to many improvements here ok, now we have taken care of standards and they should be available but what can we do to ensure they are used in a smart way we want to help ICT procurers to avoid missing opportunities and together with my colleague Nye and with Antonio D'Angi we will draw up detailed guidance on how to analyze the technology prior requirements in order to make the best use of ICT standards in standard specifications by the way that is quite a complex exercise and not only because three of us are involved so three services are involved but it is also current requirements and future developments have to be weighed carefully and I am sure many of you could testify from your own experience that the skills in public authorities very greatly when it comes to the aspect of procurement and many authorities have found themselves unintentionally locked into a preparatory technology for decades and after a certain point that original choice becomes so ingrained of alternatives risk being systematically ignored no matter what the potential benefits could be by the way that is a waste of public money that most public bodies can no longer afford they shouldn't afford at all but nowadays they can't longer afford and it is even worse when decisions result in a waste of private money and that happens where the public authorities decisions force citizens to buy specific products rather than any product compliant with an applicable standard in order to make use of a public service come on, that could be your kids school it is close to all of us insisting on the use of a specific word processor it could be your tax departments online forms requiring a specific word processor and if you have other examples concrete, please, you can share it don't hesitate to send them and that I can use as an argument as you can imagine I want to make sure that guidance will be as practical as possible my other colleague and here I'm showing that it is really making a lot of collegial effort Vice President Zhevkovich and I myself we want to put in place a new European interoperability framework as clear as that and to be sure the existing version of the European interoperability framework is not bad it even sets out a list of characteristics of open standards of cross-border e-government services however our work with member states through the ISA program and its predecessors has made clear that there is an opportunity to further enhance interoperability between public administrations and that second version of the EIF is foreseen to be adopted at the level of the College of Commissioners and will therefore rightly be perceived as a higher status and importance than the EIF version 1 both the framework and an intro what will that new EIF say you will ask while the drafting process has not been easy but that was not what we were looking for easy jobs but I'm convinced that its content provides a pragmatic and an operational set of principles that will help us all to move ahead and for me it is fundamental to have that public administrations spending taxpayers money should opt for the least constraining solution that meets the requirements for a given need as simple as that and such a rule as the default should public authorities from the dangers of long term lock in and it would also ensure ladies and gentlemen competition between suppliers for follow up contracts and services and opting for close solutions would be possible but on the basis of a clear justification rather than because it was the easy option or whatever other reason several member states have comparable policies in place and some of which have actually been inspired by the old EIF for example the comply or explain policy and in my view the commission has a unique opportunity with the adoption of version 2 to reform its lead in this area but what do we do when there is no standard that is a question when there simply is a product everybody has to use in one way or another but there is no specification describing the de facto standards if it implements with my colleagues in the college I will seriously explore all options to ensure that significant market players cannot just choose to deny interoperability with that product you no doubt remember that I have some experience with really distant and high tech companies but it was already touch upon I had to fight hard and I had to fight for several years until Microsoft began to license their missing interoperability information now we are there hopefully complex antitrust investigations followed by full proceedings are perhaps not the only way to increase interoperability there are other ways the commission should not need to run an epic antitrust case every time software lacks interoperability come on let's be serious there are all such problems in one go therefore I am looking for a way to ensure companies offer the required information for licensing we are thinking very hard about how that could be achieved any such initiative would probably be limited to certain types of IT products and I would likely involve some form of pricing constraints whereas in exposed investigations we have all sorts of case specific evidence and economic analyzer for which to base our decisions we are forced to look at more general data and arguments when assessing the impact of example legislation and just to be clear ladies and gentlemen while it is still early days it is certainly possible that I will go for a legislative proposal I am not the one who wants to make only regulations but I am not feeling to do it if it is the only way and that could have a profound impact on the concerned industry so it is not a decision taken lightly that for sure but be aware that that for me is also one of the influential basket and many of you work for a company that could be concerned by such a measure so I invite you here we are buddies to let me have your views and to give me certainty that we can tackle it there are five framework measures we are looking at in order to increase the benefits we can react from interoperability of course interoperability and standards are important concepts across almost all parts of the digital agenda for example we want to achieve interoperability for cross-border e-house applications and for smart energy meters and the benefits of those actions will not only be economic they will also fundamentally shape our future quality of life and will you really be able to put all of that you may ask and I wonder how many times but at the end of the day it's a matter of leadership mentioned by Graham we can't change all of this in one year but my term in office is 5 and there will be plenty who try to stop change and I still want that change and I will keep coming back and speaking to you until we achieve it and the most fascinating experience so far in this portfolio is one of the events the Spanish presidency has organized it was in Madrid the Spanish presidency had invited 800 European young researchers and innovators and startups and they were offered hotel accommodation and the 800 said no way we are not taking your offer for hotel accommodation we want tents they were very useful tents they were sleeping there only a couple of hours getting out for days they were staying there gathering in just units so to say one for creative digitization another for building robots there were gurus so to say invited to question and answer and the whole procedure was going on and at a certain moment the guru was standing there reading lips and I was asking my people who is that and he said you are only familiar with Steve Jobs when you were explaining Steve Bollmer but this is your generation so to say and he addressed to his young people and he said look at them they are the past generation that is me it was not the delegation I was with that were my excellent people but he said and if they are not doing their utmost they are the lost generation and then later on I was just discussing with those youngsters by the way the youngest was 14 he had already three inventions he had started two companies and they were discussing with each other with their computers and at a certain moment I said to one come on you are sharing your secret why are you sharing your secret for it is your invention you shouldn't and he started to laugh and he said you are of indeed another generation to put it nicely we are sharing for at the end of the day the two or more of us are getting a better result and that is absolutely but it was a clear message for me in this field it is completely different from what I have as experience that the older generation is teaching the younger generation being an economist by training in this field it is the younger generation that is teaching me so now we are just thinking over and organizing, trying to organize that of very wise professors as advisors and I am still a professor impressed by your knowledge and your wisdom but I need those youngsters on board of advice for doing the job properly and I need you so I sincerely hope that the fellowship will be acceptable for you thank you


Γεια σας και ευχαριστούμε, είναι Vicky εδώ και σήμερα θα σημανήσω 10 καρδιά χρησιμοποιών από την Καρδιά Νοβέμπρου by Simon Says Stamp Αλλά πρώτα, ας δούμε ένα σημαντικό δοκιμό για ό,τι συμβεί. Αυτό είναι ένα παράδειγμα από 6 πατραφλάσεις από Τυμ Holtz. Έχεις also αυτή αυτή η σημαντική σημαντική. Έχεις also these satin sequins, you get two craft envelopes and two tags, an orange envelope and you also get a big stamp set. Now this is called Thanks and Leaves. It's packed with sentiments and a really big collection of leaves. This is a sticker book by Tim Holtz. It has really funny quotes inside, which I think I'm going to keep for my art journals. And finally you get these four colors of cardstock. So first I'm going to show you how I'm going to create two cards using the two tags included in the kit. So I'm starting on this panel that I have cut out from the card craft cardstock that was included in the kit. By the way, with all the cardstock included, I just cut it in 4.25 x 5.5 panels and I work on them as if they are my card base and when they are finished I can easily stick them at the front of a card that I have in my stash. So all I did in this panel was to ink up the edges with Distress Oxid ink and that was vintage photo and I'm going to stamp the leaves. I have a bunch of leaves in the stamp set so I can play around with them. As you can see I'm going to mix colors directly on top of my stamp and for that I'm going to use my finger to blend in the colors. I don't want to contaminate those two inkpads. So I'm touching my stamp on different areas of the inkpads making sure that I don't touch the two colors and then with my finger I can blend them out. Now I'm going to stamp in a different area and I will repeat the same process, stamping even more leaves all around my card. Now I went with three colors for my background which are Spiced Marmalade, Fire Brick and Pilt Paint and of course for the brown I used Vintage Photo. I think that these create a lovely fall combination and by the way I have a baby wipe close by that you can't see on camera right now where I am using to clean my finger after each stamping. And here is my finished background as you can see I didn't fill in the center since I'm planning to cover it up with my tag. So I'm going to chop off the bottom of my tag and I'm going to use that part of the tag to stamp one more leaf. Again I'm using the same technique of mixing different colors and blending them with my finger directly on top of the stamp and then I'm going to use my scissors to cut out this little leaf. Now as I'm cutting it out I will make sure to leave a border and this border is going to be the exact same color as my tag so everything is going to match nicely. I used a little bit of my green cardstock at the bottom of my tag just to extend it even more and to add a touch of green there. I'm also inking up the edges using my blending tool and Distress Oxiding. Again this is Vintage Photo the exact same brown that I used for the background and with that brown I'm also going to stamp my sentiment that says Sending Hugs. I'm going to stick the leaf at the center of the tag by using a foam square at the back and to embellish my tag I'm going to thread some bias binding in cream color and also tie a bow with a thread and at this stage I felt that the green part of the tag was too empty so I decided to stamp the same sentiment with green ink and this is Build Paint it's the same color that I used for the background I used foam square set the back of my tag to stick it on top of my background and now I'm adding some finishing touches with copper nouveau drops Here are some close up photos on the first card for today and I'm going to share now another idea on how you can use a tag on top of a card. Now I will go for a more clean and simple look for this card so I'm stamping the sentiment I used Dark Chocolate Ink by Simon Says Stamp and I'm also stamping a leaf using green leaf Simon Says Stamp ink I used my scissors to cut out this leaf making sure that I left a little border I'm going to add some foam square set the back and stick it on top of my tag to embellish it and just like I did with my first tag I'm using some seam binding and I'm going to tie a little knot all around that using this time a green thread that matches my cardstock Now you can stick this tag directly on top of your panel and I call it done I decided to add something subtle at the background so that it's not super empty and I'm just using a polka dot stamp here and again I used leaf green ink pad for a tone on tone look now I'm going to stick the tag directly on top using foam square set the back and because I am addicted to nouveau drops I just had to add some little dots here and there I used bottle green nouveau drops and it's one of their metallics In the card kit you get six metallic butterflies by team holds and I'm going to create three cards using up all the butterflies just to show you a few ideas on how you can use them so here I'm just arranging them one underneath the other and I'm leaving a little gap in between two of the butterflies so that I can stop there my sentiment I am going to keep this card very clean and simple I stamped the sentiment with black ink and I'm going to stick them down to stick them down I'm using foam squares at the back they do have some curve underneath their wings and those foam squares nest nicely inside they don't add extra bulk on the card and just because you have such a heavy embellishment like a metal butterfly it's always nice to leave those kind of cards quite simple now let's move on to another card using the butterflies I am using a panel of the orange cardstock that's four and a quarter by five and a half and I'm going to stamp the sentiment at the bottom I'm stamping with VersaMarketing I'm going to apply white embossing powder and hit set it and my sentiment says thank you is not enough and I actually combine two different sentiments to create my sentiment so here I'm going to stamp the is not enough and here my panel is ready I'm going to add some tape adhesive and I'm going to stick on top a piece of white cardstock that I have that is slightly cut on an angle so now again I'm going to use foam squares at the back of the butterflies and stick them there and if you want you can add a trail if you have such a stamp coming out of your butterflies or you can add little dots of nuvo drops so many different ways to make the butterflies even more I decided to add a different texture on my card and for that I'm going to use orange thread I need to have some notches on each side of this panel so that my thread is going to be nicely tucked on each side and it's not going to move on me so now I can easily wrap it all around a couple of times and then tie a bow and if you are really observant you might notice that I changed the butterflies I just wanted the big one to be at the top now I have only one butterfly left so I'm going to use that as well I have created a little window panel there I'm stamping the sentiment at the bottom that says family is everything again I stamped with VersaMarking I'm going to apply white embossing powder and then heat set everything I used foam squares at the back of this panel and I'm going to stick it on top of a white card base and I'm not going for a shaker card here I just want to have a lovely way to nest my butterfly inside so this is going to be my focal point again foam squares at the back stick it at the center and my card is finished a really quick and easy card and I used up all of the butterflies that I had in the kit now let's move on and create some more cards that are perfect for fall so here I have just stamped the sentiment with VersaMarking and I embossed it with white embossing powder and if you noticed I used my ruler there and a pencil to draw a line so that I know exactly where I am going to stick my banner later on my sentiment banner now this pencil line is not going to be seen by anyone later on since I will make sure that I'm going to cover it up now I'm going to stamp some of the leaves using three different colors of ink the ink that I'm using are by Simon Says Stamp and they are Leaf Green the brown that I'm using is called Dark Chocolate and I'm also using burnt orange now I'm going to switch between all those different leaves that come in the set and I don't do any mixing of colors here like I did for the first card I just go stamping a solid image directly on top of my card base and I absolutely love this color combo for full cards now I'm using a tiny little dot stamp that I had in my stash you can easily find a dot like this from if you chop off the dot at the end of a sentence from a stamp that you probably have I'm going to stamp a little dot here and there to fill in the gaps I'm not using any new inks here I'm just using the ones that I have on my table and I like those dots because not only they fill in the gaps but I also create a lovely whimsical look and you will see me repeat this idea in the next cards as well I used foam tape at the back of my panel to stick it on top and if you notice here I also used very thin strips of brown cardstock for my next card I'm working on the craft cardstock I have cut it out into a smaller panel and I'm stamping my sentiment that says friends are the family you choose again I will use the same color palette as the previous card so for the brown I'm using dark chocolate and now I'm going to belly this panel by using some of the leaves again using leaf green burnt orange and of course dark chocolate and when you stamp with the brown you will find that it's going to cover up completely what's underneath so the colors are not going to blend in and look strange it is going to look as if the brown leaf was on top of the others so no masking needed here and here is again the same idea adding some tiny little dots to fill in the gaps and the dots are coming towards the sentiment I repeated the same process on the opposite corner of my panel to create a little leaf cluster there and now I'm adding some extra dots with whiting this time just to add some highlights here and there now you can stick this panel to the top of a card base and you can call it done I decided to show you one more way to take it a step further and to add a lovely design at the background of your card so here I'm using one of the leaves and my white ink I love this white ink on craft cardstock I'm going all around the border and I don't care about what is going to happen at the center since this is going to be covered with a panel at the end but with these kits I always share a shaker card I can't stay away from them especially when the kit comes with sequence so as you can see I have already prepared my panel I have cut out a window and covered it up at the back with acetate and now I'm going to stamp the sentiment again I'm going with a thank you card I am stamping with VersaMarkink and I'm going to apply anti gold embossing powder this is by Simon's stamp and it is going to give the exact same color as the sequence that are included in the kit and I was so pleased to find that out these are the little joys of card making I guess now the shaker card is finished the basic mechanism but it looks very plain as it is so all I did was to stamp a few of the leaves on top of craft cardstock and cut them out now again I used the exact same palette as I did for the previous card so again dark chocolate, burnt orange and green leaf a bunch of them and I will create a little cluster on one side of my window there and check here how the color of my sentiment matches perfectly the color of my sequence now I'm just tying a bow with some thread I'm going to stick it at the bottom of my flower cluster you can use your white glue your glossy accents to keep it in place I decided to go with glue dots here and my card is finished for the next card for a very clean looking card at the bottom of this panel I'm going to stamp the sentiment with dark chocolate ink by Simon's stamp the sentiment says sending hugs and again I'm going to use the exact same color palette like the rest of the cards I do have these inks on my table so I'm going to use these again and again so again dark chocolate green leaf and burnt orange I am stamping some leaves coming from one side of the panel toward the other side I don't want it to be super busy I just want to have just a few leaves as if the wind is blowing them all the way across the card and again here the same idea with the dots so since these cards match in terms of color and of ideas with the dots and they have so many similarities they can easily be part of a card set so you can put them all together and hand them out as a gift I matted my panel with green cardstock and I'm sticking that on top of my card base by using foam squares at the back to add some dimension and I'm going to finish it off by using some crystal glaze this is a product by Novo but if you have glossy accent you can use that instead I'm just going to add some of that product over the leaves and the dots that I have on my card this is going to turn them shiny they do look milky at the moment but it's going to try completely clear and it's going to give a lovely shine and an extra touch of something on my card and finally for the last card let's do a fun technique the one with the distressed oxide dinks where you smoosh the color on your craft mat and then I apply on top your paper this is actually watercolor paper so that I can apply as much water as I want to I'm going to play around with this background until I'm happy with how it looks but in between the layers I'm going to make sure that I dry them out and I had those two colors on my table from the first card so I thought why not using them again so the two colors that I'm using here are spiced marmalade and fired brick and there is some reason in this madness that you see me doing here I actually want to have the darker area at the center and at the edges I need it to be lighter since I'm planning to stamp at the center my sentiment now I'm going to use this die to cut out a panel out of this background that I created which is slightly smaller than the standard card and now I can stamp my sentiment on top and I'm trying to stamp on watercolor paper with lots of texture here so I need to stamp it a couple of times I white embossed my sentiment and now I'm going to add some stamping around the corners and here I'm using fired brick which is one of the colors that I used for the background but since this is not watered down it is going to look darker than the background and I really love this touch I used foam tape at the back to place this panel on white card base and here are some close up photos of the card where you can see that I also added some nouveau drops here and there and here are all the 10 cards that I created for today using products from the November card kit by Simon Says Tum you will find a full list of all the supplies that I used down below in the description area you can get the kit still since it's not sold out yet but you can also get some of the supplies that you probably liked separately there is also a giveaway running on my blog for a chance to win this card kit so make sure to visit me there and leave me a comment and close up photos on all the 10 cards that I shared today don't forget to leave me a comment down below and let me know which one of those 10 cards was your favorite I'd just like to find out if my favorite was one of yours guys so anyway thank you all so much for visiting I hope you had fun and that you got inspired and I'll see you next time


Just as you'll only be as healthy as what you eat in your exercise regimen, your creative output is dependent on the inspiration you take in and how regularly you perspire, just as you perspire during your workout. Since the inspiration is a kid to nutrition in this analogy, your music will be the product of what you listen to the most. If it's what everyone else is listening to, you're more likely to make music that doesn't really strike people as being worthy of taking note of. If you're taking a new inspiration from uncommon places in music, it'll bring on inspired work. In this video, I'm going to talk about how to think about the inspiration you take in as a diet. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, a record producer, mixer, and mastering engineer, and this is Muse Formation. So I know when I talk about an inspiration diet, it can be off-putting since music's supposed to be fun and taking in music you don't love can be inauthentic. You're probably thinking, but what if I only like rock or pop that's on the radio? Well, that may be resonant to you, but to make music that has new heights of resonance, you'll need to dig deeper. To find new ways to express the emotions in you, you need to find new ways to explain how you feel in music. The palette of only understanding what's currently popular won't allow you to discover the most resonant expressions of your emotions. Most musicians who only enjoy what's on the radio are that way because they've yet to do the research to find more tools and inspiration that can be emotionally resonant to them. They're simply not digging deep enough. Instead, they settle on what's the easiest to consume by flicking on their car stereo rather than taking the time to get to know the many other influences their favorite artists have consumed. I mean, really, do you think your favorite artists are listening to the radio and that's it? I'm not saying to make good Afrobeat music, you should be super-facely listening to classical music or EDM on a regular basis. This research doesn't need to be diverse in genres, but if you're going to stick to one or two genres, make sure you know these genres exhaustively. This could take effort for some and isn't always easy. Simply turning to the classics or what's popular won't be enough. You need to search until you find influences that are resonant to you and explore them to become fluent with all the tools that you're disposable to express yourself with. There's a balance to strike between being authentic and doing this superfluously. Forcing repeated listens to Mahavishnu Orchestra to get better musical ideas can be good for some musicians, but forcing that influence into your music when it has no resonance with you will lead you to making an inauthentic drivel. Being weird for weird sake or inspired for inspired sake won't lead to music that anyone wants to hear. We won't love everything we ingest, but we need to continually find what we can take from what we find resonant. It's healthy to try new inspirations in an exploration to find who we are, but forcing yourself to get inspired by music you think will give your music a great depth doesn't make it emotionally resonant and make music that people want to hear. There's a famous saying that gets tossed around saying that you're the product of the five friends you hang out with the most. This also goes for musical influence. What you listen to the most largely shapes the songs you write. With years of music listening, this can be diminished down to what you listen to over the course of your life. But for beginners, this is especially crucial since you don't have years of accumulating influence standards and palette to draw from. Since we know inspiration is research, we need to recognize that you should be conscious of the inspiration you're taking in as if it were a diet. When I'm trying to get inspired for a record, I try to consider my inspiration diet to nurture myself so I'm sufficiently ready to perspire. This is what I consider so I'm on the best possible diet for a project. The greats versus the local trash. For every one of your favorite local groups doing something amazing that the world may never hear, there are 10 other bands in the scene who aren't that special but get listened to far too much by many musicians. I've seen so many musicians get lost and listen to their friends music that's just poorly done versions of great bands. This particular affliction goes especially for bands who only listen to the other bands they tour with. It drives their standards down which makes them think subpar ideas are great, instead of getting used to the high standards they need to achieve what the best musicians have done in the past. Then there's this dichotomy of bells and whistles versus solid songs. At some records an artist can be filled with inspiration for songstruckers and hooks, but lacking in how to do the moody soundscapes they hope to explore. I'll often go on an inspiration diet depending on what a band needs from me. If a band needs help coming up with soundscapes, I may end up listening to Mars Volta Clinic, The Talking Heads in Chrome to get ideas on what they could do. If they need help with song structures, I'll listen to artists with inventive structures. If a band has a mind for the bells and whistles of music, I may try to get into the mind of their favorite songwriters to make sure we stay focused on solid songs so I fill in their blanks. Consider where you feel deficient and consciously take inspiration that will help nurture what you need on each project. Then there's listening to your favorites versus fresh new music. It's easy to get lost in your favorite records since getting to know them is some of the most important listening you can do to figure out what you love about them. Plus, it feels great to listen to them, but you also need to be taking in new records to gain fresh new ideas. Even if these records weren't recorded in recent years, you need to continue to get inspired by listening to new source material. The inverse can be true by focusing on new records versus exploring your favorites to figure out what makes them tick. If I give a concentrated listen to many of my favorite records, even after listening to them for decades, I can still find new details from them to get inspired by. But there's nothing like fresh new ideas to get you inspired from music you've never listened to before. I find the biggest prime musicians have getting inspired is that they aren't challenging themselves to take in new music. The author Ray Bradbury once said, If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, short stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, and music, you'll automatically explode every morning like old faithful. I've never had a dry period in my life because I feed myself well. If you're feeling drastically uninspired, it's time to go down the inspiration family tree of reading interviews with your favorite creators to see what inspired them. Perhaps click on the related artist section of your favorite group Spotify or see who Metacritic says they're similar to. Observe this family tree to see who your favorite acts are influenced by. Check out who they're compared to on review sites or research the acts they wear shirts from. Make a playlist and give each song a few listens to try to find their merits and dig deep and really put in the effort to find new inspiration. Thanks for watching. Am I missing anything? Is there any other way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I want to answer them so leave them in the comments since I answer every comment in every post. I hope you liked this video and if you did please like, subscribe, and get notified. And I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with how to promote your music and how to make songs you're happy with in the future. I have a Facebook group linked below that is only helpful information. No playlist or con artists. Only artists having helpful discussions allowed. If you want to learn more about me, work on a record with me, or check out any of my books, podcasts, or anything else I do, go to jessecanon.com or at jessecanon.com on all the socials. One last thing, there's two playlists here. One is on how to grow your fan base from zero to 10,000 fans and the other is on how you make songs you're more happy with. 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is heavily but at the end of the day one of the best players on the planet so that's all okay let's see what it's gonna be oh my goodness what the crowd is going crazy right now there is frost in top eight for us wow I don't think anybody expected this one it's gonna be frost here for now I want to point out that over the weekend we've already seen every character in Mortal Kombat 11 on stream we only saw frost once now we're seeing her again it's in top eight and this is this is a variation of frost you know the zone is gonna be very strong here shock that we're seeing any of the shields to stop at least a single projectile while he gets his going that's right yeah she put out a shield that has a little bit of durability safe on that but of course you see the other person's turn oh I mean you're holding that that board for your minus average for sure and wow okay I'm still getting over the fact that we're seeing ice machine frost that one flying kick really turned everything around seriously yeah before that it was a lot of control at a speedy okay there you go open a snipe something out I can already tell this is not Ninja his first rodeo against frost you do the noodle inch for just a little bit and get out of that bombs range yes it's a big art trying to jump I think was tweeting and he gets it this time whoa oh put some self in the bath spot now Nijikila has the water rolls on out and not quite there on the punish it was just frames off Nijikila one bar spent delay slightly out of tweeting it's his turn okay see what he does is it back to the zoning this is what we've often seen we do oh one of the better family blows in the game upon us to blow by drag kicking away that many characters cannot there's a back to two very far-reaching myth about a big week he's gonna go forward forward right now wait a minute we need a hit away right now from staying alive amplifies there are not many characters the game far away but there it is that was not a bad round there and he did he immediately rematch back into it yeah I kind of like the idea of this it seems to me to be closer to the style that we saw Tweety you is back in injustice oh big a confirm there she's got some hefty BMBs there's a breakaway about too many wow right back in he's using it as a shimmy and that's an awful slow midcoming afterwards right yeah then you go might be catching on that and you wouldn't be surprised oh staff back in if we start to see some blood wow what a round trees right now by the way in there oh no it's a chance for Nijikila but we still has the corner oh my goodness her story makes it take so long it doesn't she's telling you to chill out man the role trying to chip it out it's not enough safe of course like I said got it very smart stuff and Tweety convincing round with frost never would we have not definitely look better there's a follow spot opportunity on that string right there haven't seen it yet Nijikila trying to threaten that's what we were talking about but as you can see it just gets blown up oh the officer for first yeah here's a punish oh no is she too stubby oh what a pick up off the little bit of chip on this no meter you can hear fatal blow any hiccup from by Nijikila could do it here oh yeah Tweety knows how Nijikila getting the hit is enough just barely but it is lost in the sauce of the forward four mix and you know you're you're looking for the three of it at least just forward four and the forward four again you know it's always a guessing game of when you're trying to press the button Tweety probably just saw it press the button too late Nijikila coming out of his head on these by one does more damage than her one those were actually in her favor which is straight with the low and the double gets the hit but yeah if she can connect with more than one yeah just like that but barely this hit is holy okay that didn't seem like it was on reaction right there for Tweety rather than just throwing it out willy-nilly this time a little bit more control and he's gonna get us why lightly no not quite in fact what a scramble and just like that we got the corner take away the kind of gap right there that pressure is really good out of cross just to stay safe poke punch well save back rushing blow while building another one yeah got him for Nijikila and so Tweety gets the full screen I love the wake up dash right there you're right he definitely seems prepared what a whip punish that's a huge down four to try to get a whip punish on yeah lucky that roll didn't go past right there as well these jump kicks have been working out there they're punishing Nijikila for his reactions wow what a amazing play right there for him and he has not gotten flustered by the fact that he's been kind of kept away playing his projectile game that seemed final so far here it comes what a decision against the projectile that last 20 years on the screen play gonna he's gonna have players take him to the corner no and time off the clock just kind of recess the neutral this is right there by Nijikila he's got pressure now two for two on that next block of the low oh oh oh oh with bummer that that's so he tried that was so close that's frames are barely off that's trigger frost travels like full screen it seems and he can keep this he doesn't need to keep it up break well there's no break away from Nijikila here and very not another round of a three-tweet ties it up fighting here one and one in games and one and one in round the surprise pick of the entire corner absolutely right oh there is for when he needs it the most in the final round what a jump over here ninja killer with momentum what a duck at a ninja killer who is absolutely ready for the high oh and he keeps it up can you believe the kid that was a flawless victory all right for somebody who backstage is telling me he's so nervous he looks pretty good up there on that stage looks at home here doesn't he david he does he's looking to muck into the crowd and everything he's adapting fast game number four oh my goodness your your instinct as a player is to block after blocking a jump in right is mine is that what you're saying i'm saying like that's kind of the standard right mine is yeah you're right i'm not up on this stage these guys have the audacity to make a read to not block at all hold down and get punishes but it's that kind of audacity that you need here in mk 11 you're right make them make the big reads ninja killer is starting to run away with this now the pressure has been good even this i don't know that frost yeah she she can't really play the full screen game right now either just no life to give at all and it's max point for ninja killer so tweedy has run all the way through with this character stuck with her at this moment and you got it like the idea for in terms of her play style does seem to fit with what he wants to do but again he had this right idea and just unfortunately a little off on the time yeah just too many frames in between the normals they're on the back two two four oh my goodness out of there you need to break away look for the max damage in the breakway as well because you are in an armored state so the down to this guy max approach wait a minute he's gonna keep him reached to it nobody's gonna cash out here 300 and then pressure you know he just wasn't expecting to jump it or maybe he was but he thought he was far enough away whoa getting it see if you can make a comeback on this one slightly will he go in window that you have to beat out the fatal blow start up perfectly timed there by tweedy get sir into the corner kill a pressuring here plenty of ball on tweedy side meet him in the sky try to keep it up and that's a punish right there unfortunately for tweedy good roll away i'm not going to go pressure my niggas that's a lot of damage ninja killer approaches here and brisk cross pick looking for the big stuff there at the end with with the back two two one two weird little thing right there look at looking for the crushing blow launcher to try to turn things around there


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Let the speculation begin YouTube team keeping clean You know what initially I have thought that this said Melvin Ingram So I'm like oh man the Ravens moving quick What's the name Dwayne smooth? He just resigned back with the Jacksonville Jaguar So the Ravens moving quick with their backup plan. It was Melvin Ingram. All right, let's roll But then I read re-read it and was like whoa hold up now That ain't say Ingram. So let's read the report from Adam Schefter says a running back deal Veteran free agent Melvin Gordon reached agreement today on a one-year deal worth up to 3.1 million dollars with the Baltimore Ravens per League source now Look, I don't care. I know it says worth up to 3.1 million dollars worth up to but even still Giving a a one-year deal Money to a running back Right now with this market for up to 3.1 million dollars And I know it's gonna be filled with a lot of incentives, but still at this point of the season What's going on Ravens? What's happening? Now I don't want to scare anybody or worry anybody the first thing I thought of though was are they trading JK Dobbins? I know a lot of us don't want to think about that But that's one of the first things that I thought of are they trading JK Dobbins? I hope not anything's possible, but I hope not now a deal like this also means that he's sticking Okay, the Ravens also signed Calvin noise. So they are moving. See this is what I told y'all man We over here talking about a running back in one video and now the Ravens still moving in another video So look at that. They keeping us crazy. I told make sure you subscribe This is what I'll be talking about man. Make sure you subscribe because stuff is getting crazy But anyway back to the running back thing. We'll talk about Kyle later super duper Kyle We'll talk about him in a bit, but anyway for them to be given that much money again I know it's gonna be a lot of incentives.  It's not like it's a veteran minimum It's not like it's all one year deal worth 1.1 million dollars or 1.5 million no deal worth up to 3.1 million dollars So to me it sounds like that deal has a little bit of promise in it a little bit of promise So, I don't know man Again, so this could say a couple of things to me and I'm sorry that my mind is all over the place This has been a very crazy week for me. It's been a lot going on a lot of good stuff But it's been a very crazy weekend Ravens just they love to make stuff crazy But anyway with Melvin Gordon Either to me my opinion could be completely wrong. Hey may end up being completely wrong. We'll see to me It either says I JK Could be out of there or Like somebody brought up to me recently they were like, oh, maybe it means Gus isn't as healthy as they had hoped They had thought because I know but I believe that he was doing work over on the sideline for most of the Off-season when Ravens met together and stuff I believe he was doing a lot of work on the on the sideline He wasn't really participating like that like that. But then at the same time It couldn't be that bad Gus can't be in that bad a shape to where they would give Melvin Gordon Like a one-year deal worth up to three like again. I and I keep repeating this because I have to I Understand that the deal could be loaded with crazy incentives It could be an incentive-based deal So that means most of the deal will come from incentives and again It's worth up to three point one minute, but still like I don't know my friends Do y'all remember last year? Last off-season. What did this off-season was the last off-season now? I don't even remember Man Well, remember whenever it was at the Ravens. They were looking at Melvin Gordon. It was said that they were interested in Melvin Gordon before but obviously nothing ever came to fruition, but Now he's there So this this move it has me it has me lost. I Don't know what this means. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know what I don't know I just I don't know like I don't know Cuz right like think about this think about this another thing because again We still got a way to on a guarantees to come out to really see if he's gonna stick around but think about this Ravens the way that they're offense. See this why I love this I love that we able to do this because why we're talking other thoughts come to our head and we could just express them right there And then y'all can let me know whether you agree disagree or whatever, but Ravens are expected to go to a more past oriented offense So that got alarms going off and whatnot, but Ravens are expected to go to a past or more past oriented office Not strictly past oriented, but y'all get it. They're gonna be passing the ball ball. They already Have JK Dobbins Gus Edwards Justice Hill even Keaton Mitchell who a lot of fans are thinking a he could stick around they already got four running backs They just signed a fifth Now even if you take Keaton Mitchell out, okay, he's a undrafted rookie So chances of him making a squad are tough But so JK Dobbins Gus Edwards Justice Hill who they just resigned to a two-year deal and Melvin Gordon. So four running backs and In an offense that's expected to be passing the ball up Maybe somebody's injured, but I don't know it ain't adding up to me that again, it's just me though It's just me, but that don't add up to me so No, my friends. No, so again, I could end up being completely right. Maybe Ravens was just a maybe We just want another veteran running back. Maybe But no, so I would expect this to get cleared up rather quickly Obviously with training camp coming around a corner for the veterans like literally in a couple days I would expect us to have some answer sooner rather than later. Maybe we find out somebody gets placed on the P the PUP list Maybe we find out somebody that they may have had and in off-season surgery While they've been going before they get back to training camp. Maybe it's something along those lines, but I just I'm just really lost on the whole situation because I just I don't know I don't know and I don't have a clue why So I know Melvin Gordon is known for fumbles. He is known for having fumbleitis So for Ravens, hey, especially John Harbaugh cuz you know like John Harbaugh do not play about them fumbles, man He don't play about them fumbles so it's almost sound like a Almost sound like a desperation move kind of I don't know man, but yeah, I just I really don't know but Everything that I don't know. I'm sure again Ravens will answer that question very very soon I'm sure we'll find out what's going on very very soon. And yeah, that'll be that so team keep it clean Appreciate y'all love y'all if any y'all have like and I know y'all was shared in the comment section Like y'all do if y'all any have any inclination or anything that you're thinking like hmm It could be this well, no, no, it could be that or maybe it's this I know y'all will let all of us know And that's why we love y'all team keep it clean. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you and Like I'm thinking somebody could possibly be whether it's due to trade or if it's due to injury We out