means lion. He only means lion in Spanish. But her name was actually Ariela, which is lion in Hebrew. Okay, this is a really interesting movie, a movie you can learn from, a movie you can you can think of as an expression of Romeo and Juliet. And George and I both impressed with this movie. So George, I'm giving you five minutes because I know what happens to discuss how the track of this movie, what's the environment and what happens? Well, the movie opens with this young woman who's getting married, ritual cleansing herself. It's known as a mikvah in the Jewish culture, right?  Who's sort of blondish and they show her. And then there's this woman's marriage, and you know, they go through the marriage ceremony of the friend. And then they show Ariela, who is a mural artist. She goes into these other neighborhoods, not the neighborhood she grew up in. And she paints these murals, you know, on the walls, right? And this young man comes up and starts talking to her and they start the conversation up the two of them. And I think you've got you've got to back up a little bit and say all of this happens in Mexico City. Yes, yes, you have to mention that it's really important. I was going to get into that later. But yeah, it happens in Mexico City. And the whole basis is that Ariela is from a Jewish family that originally was from Syria. There's a whole Syrian Jewish mizahi group. George, it's really important to tell people where this takes place. Mexico City, you haven't mentioned that. And we really need to know that because this is all sort of geographic. Okay. Yes, this is in Mexico City. It's the Ariela's family is originally from Syria. They're Syrian Jews, mizahi Jews, right? And they're part of a little enclave of Jewish community in Mexico City. And she is dealing with her mizahi Mexican Jewish family. And so. So the storyline, I think I mentioned that she she was painting a mural on a wall in the in not her neighborhood, but in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. And in a different in a bohemian art to art neighborhood. And this young Mexican guy comes up and starts talking to her about her painting, right? Because he's from a very artistic family, his family all into the arts into theater into art and whatever. So they start up a conversation and he sort of pursues her. I guess he's smitten by her. And little by little, they start a relationship, right? And the relationship gets stronger and stronger. And if they fall in love, and they have sex, you know, they, they, you know, do the do the thing, right? And as it progresses, she meets his family and she gets to know his father, who's a literary critic and he does plays and stuff like that. And and and but she never introduces him to her family because in the interim, her mother, who's a real good shouldn't use the Jewish term. But she gets she finds out, right? That something's going on. The mother really knows something's going on. And she starts prying her daughter. And her daughter, pretty much eventually, when the mother is crying, rakes down that she's in love with this guy Ivan. And and the mother says, Oh, thank God, his name is Zeus. So so but then the mother and her father, who's they're not their parents are no longer together. And that's all the family and friends try to make sure that they convince Ariela to break up with this guy and to start dating some Jewish guys in that community, right? And I want to go to the point about the family. Yeah, we get a snapshot of the family where they all come together on Sabbath evening. Exactly. And they make the prayers in a splendid house and a beautiful house. Yes. And the Ariela's grandmother likewise lives in a splendid house. These people are wealthy. And so you have to sort of take a track on who these people. Well, in the 50s, they came from Syria. They stuck together as a family. They had, they didn't have a farthing, not a peso when they came. And they got into some kind of retail business and they they stayed together is the point. They intermarried, you know, Jewish people, they stayed together. And they were they were fruitful. And they they were thriving through the period from the 50s to, you know, till now, essentially. And so you begin to wonder how do they do that? They came from Syria, which is an odd place really, to Mexico, which is another an odd place to to wind up in. And they got rich. And then you have this is really part of the story. You have a divorce. She was with her mother, but she saw her father. And it was like a friendly divorce. And I believe this is part of it. I think what the what the filmmaker is saying is that this family stuck together, even though there was a divorce, the the culture, you know, the ethic of this family was so strong that the divorce did not separate them, that the the family was still together following, you know, the culture following the mikveh you spoke of, inter inter relating with a number of other Jewish families, making money having Shabbos dinner. And all all of this despite the divorce, they were tight. And the multi generations of the family were tight. And the siblings were tight. So whatever had happened to them, before this, the time of this movie, did not get in the way of how close that family was. And furthermore, they were in Mexico, where there were not a lot of Jews around, where everybody around was Catholic or Christian. And so this made them all the tighter. There were no options outside those social options. Outside the family, they had been together doing that thing together for what, 50, 50 years. And so you have to you have to see the family in that context. He was the daughter of the family. They had expectations of her. And now she was going to have to break with them. This was it would have been tragic in New York or LA. But it was much more tragic in Mexico City. For all of those familial reasons that I just identified. And she was an only child too. She was the only child of the mother and the father, which probably made this even more emphasized in the parents that she was the only child. So okay, it's tragic. It's a tragic story. It is Romeo and Juliet. Although I didn't get any emotional reaction in my own self. With their romance. It was a little sketchy. This is a movie that won a wars for being understated. It was an understated romance.  It wasn't. It was it was subtle. She was subtle. Ivan was subtle. The relationship with his family was subtle. He got an apartment. Remember that part? He got an apartment. He wanted her to spend time with him in the apartment. He was he was ready to marry her. Yes, but she was resistant because as you say, her mother spotted her interest in another man and she wanted to know everything. And when she found out that the other man was Mexican and not Jewish, he went nuts. And then and then they began the juggernaut. I mean, that was very interesting how they all came together all within the Jewish community. And they brought all these weapons down on her. And the question was whether she was going to tell them all to get stuck and go off with Ivan, or whether she was going to succumb to all the pressures. So let's look at the pressures. What kind of pressure you alluded to some of the pressures, but I think it's important to see what kind of things they did to this poor girl who was 25 years old, who was an idealist painted walls, you know, for free for free just to help people she painted walls. She was an artist. She was not all that pretty. A little plain pretty is what she was. And you know, you so you relate to her, but you don't get all that excited about her, you get excited about her situation and the tragedy of the situation. And now she's so vulnerable. He's been raised in the face. Okay, and they bring the juggernaut down on her. And it's almost a Zola-esque. So here's a human experiment. Now let's bring the juggernaut into the room. What happens? So she's a free spirit. Areola, you know, and then it's not only her father and her mother, but a lot of her friends trying to matchmaker matchmaker up with some Jewish guys, right? And then and then they get this, as you said, this professional guy who whose whole career is to get to make sure Jews don't marry out of their faith, right? And then they get the rabbi to talk to her. And then her grandmother who she is close with talks to her and talks about years of culture and, you know, 15 years they've been, you know, a lot of this is a persecutum. When you have the learning from the learning of persecution, the way Jews have been persecuted for centuries, you sort of become like a circle the wagons kind of mentality. No, there's a reason in the culture, you know, you, if you want to preserve the culture, you have to stay together, you have to marry in the faith. And it's been hammered in for thousands of years. So if you want to leave the faith, we disown you. We put all this pressure on you. We never talked to you. We say the prayer for the dead for you. Exactly. So, you know, tremendous pressure. And the result is that most people, most kids come to the pressure. Now that is, you had some stats on this, I think are very interesting. In the US, we, we that is the kids are somewhat emancipated. And we can tell our parents, look, sorry, but no, no dice. I'm not playing that game. I'm, I'm often doing whatever I want and don't get my way. Even there there's not, not everybody, some of them do succumb in Mexico City. And that's why I, I stress Mexico City, it's different. There's no way you can run to Exactly. See, the thing is, like, our neighbors across the street, when I was growing up, there's only two houses, us and the neighbor across the street, the oldest daughter married a Jewish guy, the second child, you know, the proverbial, she married this Irish guy, not non Jewish. And then the third one married a Jewish guy. So, and I'm sure that they were conservative. So there was a lot of pressure on those girls that, you know, and then the oldest one married a guy, an attorney, but with the same last name as us, which is really, I thought was uncanny of all the Jewish guys that she should have married someone with the same last name as the, as the non Jewish. There are 1000 stories. I mean, it starts with Shakespeare. But what was interesting about this movie, and I'm talking subjectively here, is that although you knew at the outset, what the result was going to be, because the structure around her was so strong and determined and baked in, you knew that she would never be able to prevail against them. She wasn't that strong. The problem. Okay.  What is she going to do? What is this poor girl going to do? Is she gonna you're going to find the strength or not? Is she going to be able to bond up to his family? His his family going to tolerate her family. So, you know, it's more than the stories that you and I had when we were kids. It's more than, you know, what we've seen in other art, you know, Broadway movies for our whole lives, George, we've seen this play out from Shakespeare on forward with the Capulets and the Monty Goose and the parents didn't like each other. What happens now? And so you, you wind up getting in this poor, she's somewhat shy, right? Very introspective, quiet, thoughtful girl, then 25 or so, being faced with this horrible dilemma. You know, do I have to listen to all the people putting pressure on me? Or can I go with my heart?  And you know, you get to, you get to be with her. You get to be in her head. And that's what makes this art special. This movie goes beyond, you know, anything I've seen on this, on this very common, right, this common scenario, this common literary thread. We were really living in her head. The whole movie, where is she going to go now? And can she, can she find the strength?  She goes into neighborhoods that are not particularly safe. Yeah, she she's not well dressed. She's not doing anything fancy. She's just an ordinary, ordinary person, but she comes from the Jewish family and she's dating a Mexican guy who is a good guy. And his family is, is to be admired. So I, I don't know why, but I seriously related to her. And you know, in the problem that she had, and the variation on the ordinary theme, is she going to break away or not? And at the end of the day, it actually, I said before that you knew going in what would happen at the end. But I don't know why I say this. You didn't know exactly how it would happen at the end. You didn't know what the pressures would be, and how she would actually react to those pressures, and how he would react to those pressures. Can you talk about what happened to him? Because he saw that she she couldn't introduce him to her family. It was impossible. And so she kept on putting him off about that. And ultimately, he realized that it was not going to happen. So what did he do? Well, he left and found some Mexican woman to get engaged to. And then he she she contacts him on a cell phone. And he invites her to a party for his brother or his cousin, who was getting engaged. And at the party, he tells Ariela that he's also engaged to this Mexican, other Mexican woman. And I think that was pretty devastating to her because she still loves this guy, right? And he loved her. And they were they still loved each other. And yet they moved on because he saw that it was impossible that she just couldn't get to the point where she would, you know, introduce him to her family. She wasn't strong enough. And I think the director Isaac, Isaac Chouin, he really handled this beautifully. I mean, the whole storyline, the way he did this, showed he really understood this whole scenario. And it was very, very well done. So at the end, where are we getting now? Let's let's let's hold that for a minute. The end is very powerful. The scene where she meets Ivan's fiance. She's very Mexican. Very pretty. She's way prettier than Ariela is. So you have to think, well, what, you know, Ariela has talents and skills and a poetry about her, that the Mexican girl does not have, but the Mexican girl is very pretty. And Ivan's going to do that. And it's it's the end for Ariela. She has to and you know, you think you would see some heavy acting at that scene. But no, it's very subtle.   There were a lot of close ups in this movie. You got to watch her react. But the reaction was not all that, you know, was not overacting at all. It was underacting. And you had to figure it out. I like movies that are like that. You had to figure out what she was thinking. And what the other people were thinking. You got to kind of the script, but you didn't get the emotive power. You had to you had a look for that. And you a lot of close ups, which I like. And that means they were good actors. And there was a good director there. But let me let me ask you about the final scene, because the final scene, when she finally, you know, realizes that there's no future in this, that she has lost her lover. She has lost the thing that the one thing that made that made a difference for her in her young life. So what happens? Well, she had already cut her hair for some reason. And she goes home. And she fills the bathtub with water. And she takes all her clothes off, she's naked, and she gets into the bathtub, right? And then she goes under the water. I still don't understand that last scene completely. It sort of leaves me questioning, because she stays under the water for a long period of time. You know, it's not just a quick get into the water, like it would be in a micro writer. She stays under the finally, I guess she comes up for air, you know, after a long period of time. And that's how the movie ends. So you don't know, at the end, was she thinking of ending her life? Or was she thinking of cleansing herself in this bathtub?  So that sort of question, it leaves you hanging and I think a lot of some of the reviews I read said, they also felt that this was sort of left you hanging, it leaves you hanging. Let's let's look at the options. And take a minute to do that. Sure. One, of course, is you really are inevitably led to the possibility that she's committing suicide. Exactly. She's under the water for a long time. I'm not sure that you can do that very easily. You can't commit suicide in a bathtub. It's hard to do that all by yourself. And after a while, you realize that she's not expelling air. She's sort of holding her breath. So it's not really suicide. But you you're led to think it might be. The second, as you mentioned, it's like the mic fat, she is cleansing herself and maybe rededicating herself to the Jewish culture. She's saying, I'm making my own mic fat. I am I'm I'm cleansing myself from the trouble I had. I am now going to be a nice Jewish daughter, and follow the rules.  That's that's a possibility. Another possibility. I'm not throwing these things at you. See if you agree with any of them. No, the possibility is, I'm really ticked off about this. I am I am not going to buy into what they're selling me anymore. I am this is the demarcation in my life. I lost the one I loved. And they're never going to set me up with another geeky guy again. I will refuse that. And I will find, you know, I will find a future in my life that suits me. And I am, you know, doubling down on that. That's why I'm, I'm taking this bath. By the way, the camera is above her. It's it's not a shot from the side. That is above her. And you know, you're stunned with the camera angle. She's quite naked. You've never seen her quite naked before. I mean, right down to the pubic. And she she looks better than you thought actually. And, you know, part of it, I think is she's she's found herself, right?  I have I have determined something I have determined that I am stronger than they thought. And they're never going to do that. Never going to do this to me again. In my next chapter, I'm going to do it my way. That's another possibility. What do you think? Number three. And you know why? Because she was painting a mural. And she signed it. Leona, which is in Spanish. That's her name, Ariela, the equivalent in Spanish. So that what she's saying is pretty much is that I'm issuing my Jewish family, right? And I am now becoming Leona. I'm separate. I'm my own person. So that I think your scenario number three, because of the way she signed that mural, you know, that that's my take on this. And matter of fact, I find I found her sort of attractive. I didn't find that his Mexican fiance is attractive as her.  This was a this was an excellent, excellent, the way this whole thing was handled. And you the subtle, the subtlety you saying she never really expresses herself outwardly. It's she's holding a lot of this in. And even when the grandmother's talking to her when the rabbi is talking to her, when the professional guy who makes sure that Jewish children, young people marry Jews, she never she doesn't she does no expression on her face. Yeah, and she doesn't argue. She doesn't. She's quiet. She's reserved. She listens to them very dutifully.  Exactly. She never says you're all wrong. And I'm, you know, what you said is wrong. And this is wrong. And that's wrong. No, no. Just listen, which is so interesting, because that's what would happen. Yes, she is torn. She's you can tell she's torn. She's she was very close to her mother before this thing. And you can see in the early parts of the show, they show how close she was with her mother, right? And, and this sort of created a separation with her mother, a rift. So she's torn, you know, it's, you know, even, even number three, the thing about I'm going to do it my way now. There's, there's tragedy in that. You know, this was first love. This was Romeo and Juliet. It's not all that obvious. But after a while, you put the pieces together and you realize that's what it was, for both of them. And so now that's been just, just destroyed. And whatever chapter follows for her, it's missing him. She'll never have what she had before. She she she'll try to fill the void. And she never will. But she's determined to move on anyway. But she, we don't know where what chapter two is, you know, we don't, we can only imagine anything could happen. He could not marry this one other woman.  Why did they have to find nerdy? But it has to be a sequel, George. We need a sequel to find out what she did. Yeah, you don't know where she's going to go. You don't know where this is why did they just like that other movie with the guy that he became from the Bowery boys, and then he became famous. He became a government official.  Remember, what was that? Remember that movie? Yeah, once upon a time in America. So they leave you hanging, right? And in this thing.  Whenever people change their name, that gets really pretty profound. And this was pretty, pretty profound. So so we have to see what to see. As you said, what's the sequel? Where do we go? Where does she go? Where does this story finally end? You know, because if she breaks down, and introduces him to her family, that relationship could get back together. Because that was the crux of the problem is that he insulted that she wasn't introducing. And they weren't going to tolerate it, though, not not one of them is going to tolerate it. They were going to disown her or something. You know, but you know, take it one step further, we don't have that much time left. But one step further, isn't this kind of chapter to chapter thing, where you finally decide that you are in charge in our analysis here today? Isn't that really everybody? You know, leave it to bevert does not really exist. That there is always a stress point with your parents. They tell you what to do. And at one point or another, you say, Well, thank you, but I'm on my way. And isn't that part of this movie? So true. I mean, my parents meddled in every aspect of my life.  But it was from top down, very, very overbearing, you know, and my brother's second child, he that's always the case in immigrant families, and minority families, I think always, but a lot of the time. And the question is whether my my hypothesis here works for everybody, including, you know, leave it to beaver families who, you know, have what appears from the outside to be a very, you know, lovely familial relationship. I think there's always tension. It's the way the human family works. There's always the weaning. It's the weaning. And that's what we saw in the bathtub. Okay, let's rate it. What do you think? I really like this movie. Let's put it that way. I liked what Isaac Charem did. I mean, the subtlety, as you were saying, I'm going to give it a 10, not a 10 plus, but a 10. I felt that it was very well directed. Everything, as you said, subtle, the points that were being made that the emphasis on her senses, her feelings and stuff, which will, as you said, very subtle. I like this movie. I'll give it a 10. Well, what do you think? I hadn't heard a thing about the 10 plus yet. This was a first that you mentioned. I didn't know that was on our scale, George. Okay. But since you mentioned it, I'm going to give it a 10 plus. Okay, I want to do you and better. Because what I liked was, there was a certain amateur quality about the movie. There's a certain amateur quality about her. She never was fancy. She was never exuberant. She was sometimes, but mostly she was just an ordinary girl trying to get through it in an environment which didn't make it easy. And I really enjoyed the characters. I think I know those people. I mean, unbelievably, so do I. I'm very So they were they rang true. Everybody in the movie rang true. Nobody did. I'm very critical. I watched these movies at home. And it all rang true. And it got me close to them. I felt close to all of them, including the family that was leaning on her. And so I give it a 10 plus. Beautiful. Thank you, George. We have so we have miles to go. And all these great movies that are coming out. And they're not just all of vengeance and violence. They're movies you can learn from George. Thank God. Yeah, I'm sick of all the violence in the world and in movies. Let's get to things that we can learn from not and not how to shoot somebody or not. True. Thank you, George. I always look forward to our conversation. See you next time. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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today is the day is the day of submitting my portfolio here it is so I have it here it is finalised it's done I've checked it checked it and triple million billion squillion checked it and that last minute I had to reprint my assignment this morning because one of my references was a bit off so yeah had to redo that but yes it's finally done this is it before I submit here we go there is labels upon labels almost signing sheets my index is at the front I've recreated my new index sheet this is awkward trying to do this for the camera sorry guys and then all my competencies but that guys is it it's done ready to submit today so as some of you know I haven't been very well I still feel rough as anything luckily I've plastered my face with makeup to make me look more alive today but inside I'm dying a little bit but I'm not being sick anymore so there's you don't know I was rough on Sunday night Monday morning I was almost projectile vomiting it was really nasty I didn't make it to the toilet in time it was wasn't pleasant it wasn't very nice I'd call in sick on Monday because I physically couldn't stop being sick it was horrendous but I'm feeling much better than I did then and I'm not being sick anymore so I'm good to go guys I'm fine but I do still feel rough I feel dehydrated and I need to drink a lot more fluids today to catch up but I'm on my way to Bournemouth to hand in my portfolio and I'm taking you all with me this is the end of my general practice student nurse journey if you want to say that so after I've handed this in as long as I pass that'll be me a fully qualified general practice nurse ready to go so yeah a little bit scary but it's gonna be another milestone just ticked off my list and let's see what I do next good boy you smile you smile I've arrived here we go submitting assignment I've arrived on time 30 minutes early before submission let's do this


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBase.com. 2020 through tribute, pick your team number seven, R&B just sold out. So this round of number block sells out pick your team number seven and includes 14 teams, guys, almost half the league. Now again, you get a piece of the Dodgers, Mariners, Astros, Phillies, Reds, Marlins, Pirates, Reds, or Pirates, Padres, Rays, Giants, Gardens, Rockies, Royals, and Nationals, and again, if we do hit anything for any of these teams, they'll be distributed via a number, a serial number break, which is a random number block. Everybody gets a random number from zero to nine. We go by the first number on the left side of the serial number dash. Now again, guys, there is gonna be some non-numbered base cards, stuff like that. We're gonna put that all in one lot and we'll randomize it between the 10 customers. And yeah, we'll do that, guys. So here we go, guys. Here's the dice roll, five out of one, six times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Six times, five, one, six, six. Mark, down in a coal, five, one, six, six, one, two, three, four, five, six. Six times, five, one, six, six, seven, down to one. All right, now let's make this a little bit bigger so you guys can see. And again, it was six, six, six. So Mark, you have spot seven, Chris with three, James with four, Chris with nine, Brian with two, Nathan with eight and zero. So any no redemptions, if there is any, we'll go to yours for these teams. Ryan with five, Greg with six, and then Nicole, spot one, so any one of ones would be yours. So let me just delete that. And again, that list right there of teams is just for the sorting team, so they know which four team teams are part of this R&B. And other than that, I think we're ready to roll, guys. Sweet, so thank you guys in a separate video, we'll be doing the break and good luck.


Alright everybody, what is going on welcome back to another video today's video. We're sitting in Bali as you can see I'm in my bed I've got a broken computer. We've connected to the TV through the HDMI cable I'm about to watch the highlights of the all blacks first Japan I hope you guys enjoy this game was played probably two or three days ago the all blacks mate You guys grew up with football.  Anyways mark Alice. I think he still holds the record for the most tries in one game for the all blacks Which is six? since then There haven't been too many like high point like thrillers like that. Although this game was was up there It was a hundred points in total and in fact japan Scored their highest ever score against the all blacks in history They scored 31 points and there was a hundred total the score was 69 to 31 There's gonna be plenty of tries plenty of running rugby. The highlights are only five minutes long. Let's get into it Japan winning that's great I don't know who that half-back is What a pass dang Coles he's got pace this guy and he's number two You guys know the scrum with the forwards. He's right in the middle of that yet. He's just as fast as most backs great play Dummies steps off the right and he's through There we go no hello someone's gonna get it.  Watches that But you did well with that one the all blacks first up your place. That's why I don't know Here we go Doesn't need to goes himself The referee plays it but it's a little sketch step Should not have scored that Before he could ground it. Oh, no, we had three players trying to push them back The boss glance the line.  I want a great boost to Japan really Dummy gives it on the inside George Bridges his first touches an all-black he scores a try Oh the hands stand up on my next I know how awesome that would feel Amazing Oh Beautiful Japan look at that sportsmanship, bro. He just scored and he helped the other guy up That's what rugby is all about Love seeing that And he's in I want to see that guy in full flight that naholo Here we go go son Got the pace and the bounce passes it in the inside go son Counterattack, that's what that is The defense isn't set properly you can do anything. Oh my god. They play like they're playing sevens Now sevens is a condensed form of this game. This has got 15 players on each side Sevens is the same game same field same ball just seven players on each side Bridges again Justin Tanaka 31 69 a hundred points Love it Well done Japan that's all I got to say anyways guys I'm gonna go and get another drink I've never actually drunk on camera before but you know what? We're in Bali. I'm on holiday and that's my first of the day So what can you do? It's it's about two o'clock in the afternoon I'm going to look up the other matchups in college football from this weekend that were big And we're gonna watch the highlights of those so stay tuned if you have liked this video Please press like if you want to subscribe please do I'll see you in the next one


Bemidji State University celebrated the 80th anniversary of its choral music program during a homecoming week with a memorable reunion concert. For this week's in focus, Haiti Clotter shows us how, after 80 years, the BSU choral music program can still carry it to them. The sweet sounds of angelic voices echo inside the walls of Bemidji's evangelical covenant church. I think if you find the beauty in the music, you find the beauty in the people making the music and listening to the music and that knows no age. The special reunion concert marks Bemidji State University's 80th anniversary of its choral music program. The show brought out BSU's top notch choir performers and the community. I think it's been a pleasure to see that still now how the community opens its arms very wide for us as a university and then as an ensemble. The director of the Bemidji alumni choir, Mark Carlson says many people have jobs during the day but still made time to practice to be a part of the occasion. Carlson says the show represents the power of music. The music is what feeds our soul and what this 80th reunion means is to see this legacy building and continuing that gave people like older people like me such pleasure in life throughout all of life. Claire Bayer is a 1973 BSU graduate and remembers the fun she had as a member of the choir. Practice I think was at noon every day of the week. I remember practice rooms. She says having so many people come for the show says a lot about BSU. I think it says about the program that it is vital. It is alive and well and ongoing. The performance also bridges a generation gap between former BSU choir alumni and the current members. A total of 130 alumni and current college students participated. I've been meeting some of the alumni members and it's just amazing to see that no matter what age you are that music is the same and what it does for people. The highlight of the show was when Dr. Paul Brandovic took the stage to conduct a piece during the concert. You can call him a legend because he spent 31 years as BSU's choir director. See these singers who are really the last of the true believers. They really believe in what they're doing and what the texts say. They're moved by the words and the messages of the music and what just great. The BSU choir will now move audiences on an international level. They will tour the Baltic states in the spring for this week's in focus in Bemidji, Haiti Clotter Lakeland News. All right another great story from our Haiti Clotter. You've seen many of them. Unfortunately that will be her last story for us. Haiti is moving on to a job in Duluth. We wish her the best. We are certainly, I know I can speak for all of us going to miss her stories, miss having her around the newsroom. It's a real class act and a great person to have around the office and we're certainly going to miss her but we're glad to see her getting a chance to move up a little bit in a bigger market and a different job. So we'll wish her the best. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenty here from late and sports guards and I'm ripping 22 23 panini prison Premier League soccer Breakway five box break number seven random teams Again, here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at late and sports guards dot com Um at any time links also right in chat for you All righty. Here we go best of luck it looks like So the next revolution is sold out and we've got one to go on number 20 And that's going to be just the nets at 29 bucks. Awesome. Thank you all so much for getting everything sold out so far today Always always appreciate y'all Here we go. See I have not ripped any of these yet. So looking forward to seeing uh The design on these breakaway boxes let's see Hey, nice hauling here silver uh sancho Soccer club soccer we have a disco of edderson for man city and matty cash pink disco Kaleidoscope of hugo loris Tottenham and we have pink is going to be an atom A lalana that one is 83 of 99 for bright Spence rookie paris Do you want to do all this clothes? That's uh, uh, we'll do number discos. Yeah We have red is going to be a wilfred zaha Zaha the 49 crystal palace nice color match there Okay walking We have to ten for chelsea gold disco auto of claude macky ellie That's sick. The gold discos are so nice Four out of ten on that we've got purple ryan Assessing them to 25 tottenham. Oh, the purple Christian said Yeah, we can silver emergent botham silver nick pope Fractal of den docner. 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So only basketball we've got left for today is going to be prism basketball That's a 12 box full case break with three spots to go Oh, was it? I believe so, yeah There is the link Sorry, yeah just the nets in number 20. There is that for you. They are on sale for 29 bucks So nets and then three to go in the full case prism basketball is tiered random. Uh, we've got, uh my my tita my tita Disco of kufa for west ham. I'll pull you an alores rookie base See a me colanco Colitis go pink is going to be antony for man u 55 of 99 I'm trying my best scooter Trying my best some of these names though, man So we have red of ryan frasier that is 2049 for new castle Gordon dire Diaz We have for arsenal on the flashback auto pole murson Flashback auto disco.  We're very nice looking. There you go arsenal That's on that one Then we have a blue of uh, anderson 65 75 crystal palace The menace Emergence, we have silver a sacca for arsenal Roka and kelly rashford fractal disco Thomas for uh, blister Silver adam armstrong Pink, uh, daniel james. That one is 56 and 99 full hand fireworks relish. We've got disco of johnny from overham Tina Last pack here Insta impact. It's only march blue is Uh, danie ward goalkeeper for uh, lights. There's 37 is 75 patrols in this See another gold disco auto or how about black?  We've got pink daniel james 61 to 99 full hand Travers working Saka with row All right, uh, georgino. That one is 13 of 49 for chelsea will be so By purple is going to be a vitally gent genel That is five 25 for brentford. Let's go number purple there That is Another flashback auto of alan shearer Shearer that is for new castle So two flashback autos nice williams disco christianson rookie Then scores club um skamaka silver rookie of fabio carvalho anthony a's kaleidoscope filth photo Pink daniel james again. You're 60 of 99 for full hand Silver isek got disco rookie of nathan tatterson for everton known as cool chop blue uh goalkeeper here, uh, danie ward for lester 37 of 75 greenwood last pack box concept fractal Got disco of erin cresswell for west hand come in mara. All right last box Silver anthony robinson scores club vardy. We've got um pink of trevor chalava 18 of 99 for chelsea Ederson on the kaleidoscope Red disco is a matias jensen 37 of 49 bretford phone match there on the red stripe jersey Let's see a number of colin here Have a ben white for arsenal 21 to 25 disco of harvey elliott parcel Adams Holder emergent a for mino silver everton police qtp flank fractal pink daniel james 64 99 for him Romero john got another gold here. We'll save that for last bailey coden Lot of mara made a little bit Rico louis ricky works today. We've got disco of uh bubacar kamara Loris it's impact barard blue anthony for man u19 of 75 Armstrong for rent a goalkeeper here Gonna be a alfonsey uh ariola I explain there for west ham that is five out of ten on the gold disco So two golds out of uh one box or sorry, uh two golds out of five boxes there very nice Give me one second and we will do All right, our reds are out of 49. We had matthias jensen tortino ryan frazier ryan frazier a willford zaha Uh purples out of 25 ben whites, uh by tally, uh janelle ryan Sessing them a gold alfonsey ariola that is five out of ten a flashback auto of alan um charer A paul murson flashback autograph mohammed salissu for everton and then a gold claude um macaele Birch shall see only gold four of ten All righty, that will do it for safia. We've got basketball coming right up. Thanks so much


Thanks everybody. I'm surprised as many people showed up. Thanks. That's really awesome I forget I be talking to myself and maybe Claudine and send doodles here. So thank you for coming. That's great So about me, I'm not gonna get into a lot about me because this presentation is gonna kind of be about my journey through the Drupal community So you're gonna kind of get to know way more than you probably wanted to know about me But it should be kind of fun. We'll talk about some great moments in Drupal history and some stuff like that But for those who don't know who I am I'm I'm pretty much Drupal obsessed would be the a way to put it So, you know, I'm a core committer for the Drupal project. I'm one of like seven people who can make changes to Drupal core I wrote a book. I wrote a second edition. I'm not writing a third edition So if anybody would like to take using Drupal for Drupal 8 let me know I work at Acquia for the office of the CTO and Dries by Tart the project lead is my boss, which is pretty awesome And I'm a board member for the Drupal Association. I'm a cat herder I was on a magazine once blah blah blah and I don't do all this just to like, you know Pump myself up and make me look good because really what I'm trying to communicate here is like I am someone who dedicates my life to Drupal and I love it and I love every second of it And I think I'm the kind of person not me personally But you know, we want to cultivate more people like that in our community more people who You know look at Drupal and they say man This is what I want to do and this is really what gives me jazzed up in the morning and that kind of thing So I'm going to kind of talk about how that happened with me and hope that we can kind of extrapolate from there Some general lessons that can be applied to many different communities not just open-source communities. So So this is me in about 1983 it's my dad playing guitar. That was the last time I ever wore a dress by the way Yeah, so around this age, maybe it was really early. I was reading when I was like one It was kind of crazy But anyway, we got a Vic 20. Anybody remember this thing? Yes. Awesome. Yeah It's like this huge friggin keyboard you plug into the TV and then you know like so they had all these little cartridges You could plug in to the sides like, you know Jupiter lander and there was a mouse maze game thing but one of them was basic and so I Would read in the back of three to one contact magazines and they'd have these like 30,000 lines of code you type them in and then you could like make a recipe for chicken soup or something and I don't know So I'd like type these things in and then I would like change them and see what that did and sort of like Modifying and stuff and it was you know, that's kind of how I got into technology and learn how to code That's also how I became completely obsessed with video games And that's a skill that has served me well to this very day But that really did nurture an interest in technology for me like lifelong I like wanted to know how do you do video games and it turns out it's a lot of math So I kind of didn't do it, but you know the point is It really kept me interested in healthy, you know the addiction to video games kind of got me into Technology kept me into it into my adult years So, you know one of the lessons learned here is you need to get people while they're young You know it nurture kids interest in technology early and especially girls. Okay, a lot of people like oh Why would you say especially girls whatever? We're all equal open source hippie. Yeah. It's like no The problem is The problem is that society doesn't treat women the same so from early age, you know a girl's role models are pretty much like Disney princesses, do you know what a Disney princess is like big? You know talent is Sees to be like falling asleep and getting kissed. That's pretty much the only thing they're bringing to the table there So this is who you're you're kind of looking up to and then your whole life You're kind of told that your role in you know in the universe is to be a caregiver a nurturer a homemaker You know push towards feminine jobs nursing this kind of thing And there's nothing wrong with that per se But it becomes a problem when that's sort of the mold that you're sort of pushed into and if you don't conform to that mold Then you're sort of seen as an outcast type of thing and then it's interesting because whenever you see a woman next to a computer She's normally doing this, you know, it's like oh god. It's so complicated Why couldn't a man come and explain this confounded thing to me, you know She's never you know, unless she's Angelina Jolien hackers for example You know typically not really on the computer doing awesome things mostly being frustrated by it You know banging her face pulling her hair this kind of thing and then on the rare opportunity that you know Women and technology do mix they typically look like this So it's sort of like from very early age There's just sort of this, you know Message from all around you that technologies for boys and it's not really something you should be getting into And then if you do manage to get through all of that and still become interested in technology, then you have this So every time that you go to an event or you go to a meet-up or something There's some people that are so confounded that there's a female person in the room who actually like Cares about computers and they think you're some kind of weird multi-headed unicorn or something And then you also have this problem Which is you know a survey was sent out is called the floss pulse survey and it's actually a really fascinating survey It's a few years ago, so this may not be accurate anymore But they asked the question have you ever observed discriminatory behavior against women in open source and all the men and the women? Answers are completely inverse in other words men and women are experiencing or observing the same Behaviors and the same actions and the same words things being thing and interpreting results completely differently I have a pretty good example of this when I was at the floss pole or sorry Flourish conf in Chicago in 2007 or something It's a Linux conference. So there was a bunch of open source people there And I was speaking about women in open source ironically And there was a girl there who's like just hardcore like I don't know ran her own Servers and all the kinds of stuff she knows like I don't really know much about Linux other than the basics because I run a server I'm dream host so I know how to LS and CD and I know vi and some other things But it's not like I'm like, you know setting up my own DNS servers and stuff like this But anyway, she was that kind of person We were just chit-chatting and this guy came over because he was using I don't know I think he's using windows to like idiots. No He came over because he was having problem with his Wi-Fi connection So he comes to me because he knew I was on the speaker list so figured I would know something about it, you know And I was like, oh, let me look at this, you know, and he turns to her and he goes, oh, we're talking about computers here Right so to him that was fine because it's safe for him to make an assumption that if a girl's here She must obviously be somebody's boyfriend or you know, like maybe she's the help who's running around and you know putting out coffee for people But she found that like super offensive because here he's talking to kind of the Linux dummy Honestly about this kind of problem that he was having in here is this super technical person happy wearing lipstick and suddenly that just invalidated Everything that she had so it happens a lot So do try especially if I have a daughter I'm gonna have a daughter soon and I plan to get her involved in technology. Yay She'll probably be a cheerleader. Oh, I might need help with makeup and stuff. Yes In what show choir don't even know what that is singing and dancing We did that once Yeah, okay sparkles. Oh god. Anyway, it's a whole nother world. Yeah, I was gonna ask you if Yeah, I was gonna say these are the things that I know about what what are other ones mine Okay, okay, so wait for the recording this gentleman in the back Lee He was saying Minecraft is actually a really good option for introducing kids to programming. By the way, this is Jess Because I don't know something about resources to build logs or I don't know what you said But you know, but it's sort of like teaches kids the logic They need in order to sort of that builds them into programming because your problem solving and trying to get different Supplies to build different things and you were gonna add whoops Okay, so I wrote that down any other resources people are aware of because you know Scratch okay, I'm gonna come to my next presentation with half finished lives and everyone can just give me the answers in the room That's great. Okay, so there you go But great thing to go find kids that are kind of interested in technology You know, if you're here, you're probably at least somewhat technical because god How could you stand Drupal if you weren't? Go find some kids and show them how to do awesome things with Drupal. So I did a spoiler there, but yeah, this is me in 1995 You said I used to be a total metalhead Listen to like so I would go to concerts like Metallica and Megadeth and Pantera with my mom And my mom would like stay out in the in the lobby doing crossword puzzles And I would like go to the show and the mosh pit and stuff and then come back anyway We had a lot of fun So around this time is when I got my first computer and it was a penny like my real computer because the big 20s I'm really so as a Packard Bell pinium 133 with a 14.4 K modem. Yes And suddenly I discovered the internet and that was completely amazing It totally blew my mind So like I was kind of in this small town in Minnesota. I didn't really know anyone. I was pretty sure it was gay It was like a whole thing The internet allowed me to meet people who weren't in a small closed-minded little white bread town and actually expand my horizons And so I proceeded then to learn everything there was to know about how the internet worked because I was just fascinated by it So, you know, I taught myself how to build computers how to build networks You know, I taught myself programming and web development and blah blah blah security Everything there was to know because I was just fascinated by this topic And so naturally very shortly after I started getting involved in all this I learned about Linux I first installed Linux in 1995 or six I can't remember but anyway the the first version of Linux I successfully installed was Debian rex Which fit on seven floppy disks. I don't think Debian fits on seven like Not even DVDs like seven terabytes worth of if I don't know like yeah, it's it's huge So yeah, so I mean this is I was in bug and so, you know, I got into Linux And I thought that was really cool this whole open-source thing and how it's you know, like wow, you know You these smart people all work on this technology They give it away for free to other people to learn from it and expand it So naturally I started looking up to some of these guys So like Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman Eric S. Raymond Kevin Mitnick, you know these these guys are all like really big thought leaders in the open-source community at the time and You know all kinds of stuff about freedom and giving things away So of course having role models like this the first thing that I thought I knew about open-source was this Right that the only people who contributed to open-source were like super genius people and I was just like a mere cheerleader at the side Sort of like cheering them on and that would be my only role in open source So that's what I thought in 1995 How many people here by the way still believe this right now? Yeah, right it's easy to get that way right you see Dree standing up there with his very intimidating spiky hair and you know Or me with my intimidating Shirt yes It's gray. Oh You know and and so oh Morton you missed the best picture man. Hold on. I have to go back and show this because All right, this was me All right, we're done with that now Back in the day So yeah, so I thought this for a long time So I totally don't fault anyone who thinks this but you know So I thought that this is what happened You know you had Gina the genius out there somewhere right and she's a genius So her head is like the size of a friggin metamelon right and all she does all day is like sit there and ponder stuff You know I have this brilliant idea, you know for this new feature for this piece of software So I'm gonna whip out my text editor Hey, there we go Which is probably emacs anyway And then I'm going to type up type of this thing and then everyone around me is gonna go wow That's amazing and that is your best work yet How many people think that that is how contribution in open source happens? Yes, okay good because that's not at all what happens. Okay. Here is what actually happens So you have Edwina the end user. Oh, no, did you seriously? Okay? I'll go fast All right, and she's really Peaved because she just hit a bug right so she goes to the issue queue and she files a bug report that explains her problem That might be the last thing that she ever does for the Drupal community But if she submitted a bug report that made sense to someone else that is a huge contribution to open source She is just done because you know how many bug reports you get that it's like it's broke or you suck Yes, exactly So a bug report that makes sense That's a very valuable open source contribution then follow the programmer wanders around and she hit the same bug She searches the issue queue and she goes oh look it's a bug report and I can fix that So let me try so she posts what's called the patch and marks it needs review and Then Tatiana the tester comes along and she's a tester and she has big coke bottle glasses because she just looks at bugs all day And she looks at her code and she says what is going on there? You know because it's not real great like there's problems with it So she says okay Let me post some feedback so she might say stuff like you know your coding standards are a bit off Don't forget test coverage and you know There's a better way to do this algorithm that you did here try it this way instead And so she'll post feedback and mark it needs work Paula says great. Let me do that. Thanks take two by the way a lot of people are scared to do this part They don't want to put other people down Like they don't want to you know, it's like well, you know Paula probably worked really hard on that patch Why would I kind of criticize her work right? The problem is if Paula posts this thing and and nobody responds That's way worse It's way worse to like put something out there and feel like nobody cares Then it is to put something out there and get constructive feedback on how to make yourself better So always think of it as your role is to help that person get better make their code better Make the product better all that kind of stuff. Anyway, then you have Wendy the poor soul stuck on Windows XP And do you know what she says? You know what she says she says it breaks an IE six and Also mine your spelling because the only reason that she's using XP is because it runs that one version of word that she needs Because she's a book author and so you know whatever So she marks it need work So Paula says all right one more time needs review Tatiana comes back and she looks at she's wow much better Not only did you incorporate my feedback, but your spelling is all cleaned up That's wonderful And so she marks it reviewed and tested and then it will go to someone like myself or Dries or whoever the project maintainer is And then they'll do one final check over and then it gets in usually So that's how to and the thing to keep take away from this is no one person did this themselves Everybody in this scenario contributed something whether it was a typo fix or whether it was the initial bug report whatever it was and Every single change in Drupal from like a new database abstraction layer to like rewording of the documentation somewhere goes through this process and it's every single person contributing a little bit of information that they know So the lesson to take away from here is we must destroy Einstein Okay, because the problem with the Einstein complex is that it affects people who are already Really excited about what you're doing right like I love Linux I was a the biggest Linux fan ever and I like talked about Linux to all my friends and family and stuff But like I didn't think I could contribute to it because that was not my role, right? But here I was this really excited person and worked out okay because I don't want to gotten on Linux and not Drupal And I like what I'm doing now, but you know what I mean It's it's like there's people that you have to convince to contribute to you Then there's people out there that want to contribute to you, but don't feel like they're good enough We need to stop that and get those people powered up and ready to go So one way that we've tried to address this in Drupal community is through novice issues So we take issues that we basically have the sort of this rule That's like if that's gonna take you five minutes or less to fix don't fix it Instead file it as a novice issue to tag it with novice And then what'll happen is somebody else can go along and that thing that was gonna take you five minutes to fix That might take them a week to fix But the important thing is they learn a lot through that process to learn what it is They know how to set up a development environment. They learn about the coding standards that kind of thing And this is actually worked pretty well. I think You know what we definitely like my experience has been as soon as I file a novice task within two days It's taken care of so there's there's people out there hovering waiting for stuff to work on So if you find yourself in the position where you're doing a code on it You notice some stupid thing that's like, oh, it's not even worth filing an issue about please file an issue Because somebody will do it and they'll have a really fun time a bit So in 2005 I was sporting the tank girl bangs. Oh, yeah And You wouldn't recognize me back in 2005 back in 2005 was extremely extremely shy and awkward and weird I'm still weird, but I'm a little less shy More awkward though. But anyway, um, but the point is like I you know The thought of getting up in front of a room like this would make me like physically sick like I couldn't do anything like this Back then So it's interesting because the role that Drupal has played in transforming. It's not even transforming me as a person It's more like allowing me to be the person I always was but giving a safe place for that I'm gonna be grateful to Drupal forever. So how that started was there's a program called Google Summer of Code back in 2005 And this was the only thing that broke down the Einstein complex for me because it said oh, you're a student So you want to contribute it open source. I was like, oh, okay So if they know we're students, they know we don't know everything yet So maybe I could do that and somehow at the like the 11th hour somehow I got chosen I was just about to get dropped off the list, but he flipped it at the last second. So thanks Robert Douglas But anyway, um, I was about to not get chosen I did get selected and then you know, I was like holy crap So I chose Drupal as my project for Google Summer of Code Because I had seen it on the spread Firefox project and I'm one of those people that just goes around and clicks view source on every page I just want to see what's going on in there Yeah, so I got accepted and that that worked out pretty well So lesson I took away from this is is mentoring plus plus if you have like a well lit entrance for people to come into your project That's that's really really good thing to have. How many people here have as much money as Google? Right, okay, so so we don't have as much money as Google either But here's are some ways that we have tackled mentoring in the in the Drupal community So one is is what's called Drupal office hours org and Jess sort of spearheaded this program now Zen doodles works on it And there's a bunch of like sort of a cluster people working on this And what it is is they sort of pre-select Kind of low-hanging fruit issues maybe not novice level of triviality But pretty decent ones and they sort of get input from I'm very nervous with you in the room I'm gonna say something wrong, but anyway, and then you come into IRC one of two time slots a week We do one in the morning and one in the evening so that somewhere around the world You always have a time slot that works for you And they're right up there the times and then you know someone will hand you a task to work on they'll help you So they answer questions.  You can't ask during this time. This is the time to ask I don't know what get is can you help me up? They'll help you with resources, you know with all kinds of stuff like that And these are real core developers who are heavenly this, you know, it's it's really it's a unique thing I have not seen in any other project. So that's pretty awesome Crowdsourcing is another way we do mentoring. So this is the Drupal ladder and there's a presentation on this tomorrow morning I think by Addie So definitely check it out So how this works is it's sort of a go at your own pace self curriculum thing where they've bundled up all of the ways to do different things like test the patch write a patch and it sort of goes from easiest to hardest and Then each one of these is a self-contained little unit of information You can take this to your Drupal user group meetings or whatever you want to do and sort of you know Hold little contribution sprints all over the world So they have a really great goal by Portland to do Do you know Jess? Is it like 20 different cities or something like that? Yeah, so there it's like 20 or 24 Yeah, so they have a set like they have different goals set up for different periods of time to try and like spread the Word about this program is really really awesome And then we also have a peer tutoring program called the Drupal dojo and I don't know if this has been as active recently But the premise of it is amazing It's basically like you get up and you get on some kind of a screen sharing program You share whatever bit of Drupal information you know So maybe you're a Drupal initiative owner talking about that or you're someone who just finally figured out how to make a blog And Drupal and you talk about that or whatever it is, but people helping each other to learn Drupal That was a really successful program So my first five minutes in the Drupal IRC channel went a little like this So I came in and I'm all like sunshine and rainbows. I'm like hi everybody My name is Angie and I'm so excited because I'm a Google summer code student. I can't wait to work with you Shut up You know it's like this is a channel for serious developers only go away and then I spent the next day hiding under a blanket This was really painful, you know because I was so excited to finally cross that threshold as an open source contributor It was extremely vulnerable because I had this Einstein complex You know so the full lesson learned here is full frontal nicety because honestly if I hadn't been contractually Obligated to work with Drupal at that point. I probably would have split, you know, that's not cool You don't talk to people like that.  That was not cool Then they get the impression that that is actually condoned behavior and this is not a friendly community and I'm out of here So it's really important that you not only don't be a jerk to people But if you see other people doing a jerk called them out on it One of the best things we did and this was most actually that led this thing is it was totally rip off the Ubuntu code of conduct Because it's a great code of conduct it basically establishes the ground rules for what we expect people to work like Work like in the community and this is really important because if someone's being a jerk you can say You know I someone was a jerk to me and we can say oh that's not actually cool This is how we're supposed to behave and that was out of line with our community And it gives them a way to be reassured that that was kind of a one-off you're always gonna get those people that are sort of in a Cranky mood But it's important that they are able to contextualize that and say that was a one-off versus that's a systemic way that this community behaves And one thing I especially like About the Ubuntu code of conduct is it's phrased positively so in other words It's like let's itemize the things that we want to see we want people to be considerate We want them to be respectful because if you start going the other way and saying like we don't want you to be insulting We don't want you to think then somebody is inevitably gonna say well you didn't say we couldn't kickbox the newbies So I don't know what you're so mad about so yeah, try and do an inclusive positively worded code of conduct So I finally recovered from my initial trauma in IRC and I decided to sort of poke my head out and start contributing a little bit And so instantly I thought well, you know Obviously for some reason they think I'm smart because they accepted me in a summer of code and like it's open source So everyone's gonna see what I'm gonna do and that's going to be terrifying So I better sit here and like really work on it really hard and refactor it 500 times before I share it with anyone Because I wouldn't want to embarrass myself in front of other people. Okay, does that ring true for anybody in this room? Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of nodding right because that's very logical, right?  I don't want to be embarrassed. These people are like really smart They're gonna look down on me all this kind of thing So I would do really smart things like bash my head into a table for three days instead of asking a question I could do this on 30 seconds because I didn't want to look stupid Anyway, so I knocked that off pretty quick Because here's here's the reality of how things go in the open source world All right, so we have two profiles here this you didn't have in your slides because I just made this up on the plane So We have perfectionist pat on the left and we have sloppy Sam on the right So the way perfectionist pat goes about his Drupal contributions is he gets an idea for patch He's like okay Well, let me start with you know tests of course because I do test-driven development because I'm a perfectionist, right? Then I'm gonna code. I'm gonna test and refactor do all that kind of stuff I'm gonna write all my documentation and those are gonna conform 200% to the documentation standards I am also going to run coder and make sure my module conforms to coding standards I might go back through this loop a few different times and then I'm going to go to the issue queue when it's perfect Okay, so right that's one way to get it done right and there are people out there who have that workflow and it works well for them Now let's examine what sloppy Sam does sloppy Sam says I found a bug Let me check in IRC first and see if anybody You know has any idea about that and she gets a response says oh, yeah I actually had that bug at a client site last week and I didn't really finish this off But here's a half working patch for you and she goes great Let me take that and you know clean it up a little bit and post it to the issue queue So goes into the issue queue and it might go in the issue queue and a needs work state sort of acknowledging I haven't done all the other stuff that you need me to do yet But there it is and we can look at it and talk about it It might get marked back to you know needs work because it doesn't have tests So then she might add tests and some docs Post it back to the issue queue then somebody comes back and says ah your coding standards are messed up blah blah blah this kind of thing And so at you know looking at that that looks like a complete mess, right? Like why would you run your life like that? That's just silly here's here's the thing though assuming that sloppy Sam is not being like lazy Because you don't want to do that you want to be like I have a problem right my code for me, right? But as long as she's like I'm trying to solve this and I'm just having a little bit of trouble with this or that thing Here's what happened perfectionist Pete all right and issue Q again perfectionist Pete got plus one karma He interacted with the community once and it was a great interaction, but it was a one-time thing But sloppy Sam, you know she first talked to my RC then there was some issue queue chatter Then there was more issue kitchen and saying she's got a plus four thing because she's now been in the community She's provided transparency around she's working on she's friendly and she's you know Obviously keen and kind of go get her the community is gonna get to know who sloppy Sam is way before they know Who perfectionist Pat is? The other danger with this flow is that she could be doing all of this Well, you're still writing code and if you're out of the loop on what's happening there You're gonna have a really frustrating situation when you get to here and you find out somebody's already written your patch Except they got reviewed by the documentation maintainer and the coding standards maintainer thus It's way more perfect than your perfectionist thing So don't do this if you can help it Resit, you know the the main lesson you have to learn is you need to fail early fail often and fail in public Because that really ironically is a way to jupe a success All right, so I'm okay with failing.  All right. Let's go You know so I started working on my module and then I worked on core That was my first core patch. That was pretty much the best day of my life. That was pretty cool By the way, it was number 65 So back then that was what was the long issue nowadays. It's like 400 comments, but anyway And then I started documenting things I didn't understand at all And I didn't always get that right the first time like I just try my best and then you know kind of show it to people And they're like, oh, that's pretty good But you miss this this and this because people will help you with that kind of stuff What they can't do is sit there and write this whole thing But once it's written they're very happy to tweak it and make it right And I can't tell you how much you learn a topic by sitting down and doing this You know so the next time you find yourself like I'm trying to figure some stupid panels problem out for a client And there's no docs. Oh Earl Miles. Why do you do this to me? It's like write the doc, okay, and then show it to Earl and ask him if it's right or not and yeah Um, I was also doing dorky things like this. This is a very terrifying thing back in the day that I was like the second best designer in the truthful community at that time Terrible terrible terrible. I'm so glad that's not the case now But the lesson we learn here is you need to encourage diversity in your contributions, right? Because it ain't just about the code you have no idea how someone's gonna come into your community They might come in through code like I came in through code and then I got into these other things But some people come in through documentation. Some people come in through event management. You literally have no idea And to drive this point home when we ask what's a contributor, you know A lot of people think that means a hairy sweaty developer like me like chugging Golan, you know, but no it's like someone who has three attributes They see something and they say that is dumb They also say I want to see it fixed that's important because I see lots of things that are dumb, but I don't care enough about them to fix And then they say I can do something about it Those are the people that power open source and a lot of people think I can do something about it means You know coding but that's not what it means at all because these are just a sampling of different ways that you can actually help Move those things forward So if you're really mad because Drupal doesn't have such and such a feature hold a sprint about it in your offices You know or donate to somebody who's looking for funding to fund that feature or you know Once it's getting developed usability test if you have access to people who are not Drupal experts A lot of us don't a lot of us our closest companions are our cats So, you know we would love to have some if you have internet explorer That is an incompletely valuable contribution that you can do it all of those things and then coding too at the tail end Okay, so don't get caught up if you're not if you don't feel like you're a strong developer There's still plenty for you to do So then we get to 2006 and this was the open source CMS conference So this is the first Drupal con in North America and not coincidentally I live in Vancouver now for a good reason But anyway, my mind just was blown coming to this conference because I just I sat there and I met all these people that I only knew from online And found out that in real life, they're super awesome Like they're down-to-earth friendly funny people and I believe even what are we seven years after that? I believe that that still holds true today like I feel like we have a pretty great community still You know goes up to drinks together They get together in code and all that kind of stuff and speaking of that So this is the code sprint again led by most this was back when we were working really hard to try to get Drupal 4.7 out Is that ring a bell? So we're gonna be doing these a lot in the next couple months with Drupal 8 and stuff like that But you know most just was like, you know, we have to get the release out Here's a list of the issues we got a fix and he'd be like you you take this one You do think that it was great because I like actually got chosen to work on something and you know What's that I? Don't think I'm not I didn't think there was a moment at that. You kind of is not smiling. I'm pretty sure Yeah, I know it was great. You know, I was like all this stuff anyway So provide opportunities to meet and meet space because it's so valuable You know the amount of work that we get done in like three days at a Drupal con is just the astronomical when compared to The thing and that's how you meet like the real people behind the screen names because a lot of times in in the issue queues It's very business oriented. It's like, you know fix that fix this fix this and then you talk to this person in real life And it turns out they have a Transformers collection and whatever, you know, like that kind of stuff In Drupal we have local user groups So I know there's one group for Australia. Is there more than that though? There's subgroups because I said that's a very big region Australia Yeah, so chances are there's a there's a local user group in your region no matter where it is and if there's not What's that? It's it's it's an old it's an old graphic Okay, that was lame, I'm sorry Worst talk ever I know Anyway, so if there's not a local user group because the pin got left off the map say look there first But if there is a one go to an internet cafe and advertise to people that you're gonna be there and see who shows up You know because you never know there could be Drupal people hiding out in your hometown We also do regional camps and cons obviously because you're at one But these are cool because they get a more diverse Population then you know a local meetup a lot of times people miss them But usually they show up to these and then sprints sprints are amazing It's the opportunity to sort of like go and you know rub elbows with the people who actually make Drupal happen and become one of those People and you know like they've gotten bigger or smaller. We do focus sprints We do group sprints all this kind of stuff and speaking of sprints There is a sprint on Friday And so there's two parts to this one here if you're new to Drupal development You don't really know a lot about contributing and stuff like that Addie in the back there is teaching that class and it covers get development environments patches and issue queues Did I leave anything out? IRC Okay, so those things And so if you need a refresher on that kind of stuff go to that and that's a nicely structured course and all this kind of stuff otherwise the regular code sprint is nine to five thirty and Yeah, so the community tools workshop be in this room the codes friend will be in Centennial, which is that way I understand Yes Shoot no, I didn't you guys are completely insane. I definitely didn't do that. I Don't know what you're talking about that clearly says Saturday. Okay, okay moving on So a few months later Drupal 4.7 was released. Yay Okay, we're all happy about that and then the next day trees posted this Which was a post asking for personal battle plans for the next Drupal version And so this was pretty cool because it wasn't feature requests, right? And it wasn't for like wish list. I wish Drupal 5 came out with this But instead it was like what are you gonna work on you know, which was really empowering And so some people said, you know Adrienne said I'm gonna work on dependencies or install profiles. We can do distributions Handelar said I'm interested in anyone who wants to like make a new theme that doesn't look revolting All right, and I'm a total underachiever so this was mine Yeah, I think I didn't do half of the things on that list and I ended up helping with other people's stuff No Sadly, I did not fix signature. I almost fixed signatures in Drupal 6 But they still don't show up on the node in a forum. I know it's it's one of my great life regrets I kind of am scared to fix that though because I feel like if I fix that then my mission for Drupal would be done And I would have nothing more to live for us. So, you know, I'm just kidding So in your own communities cultivated duocracy because if you empower people who are passionate about your topic to act Without having to ask anybody for permission or that kind of thing and feel ownership over what they're doing They can amaze you with what they can do 2007 I started taking on all of these other roles because I don't know how to say no to anything In 2008 something cool happened. So some friends of mine Basically nominated me for this award that I got at Oskon for best contribute contributor and Then later that year I got named a core committer. So that was a big year for me No pressure But it's important to recognize contributors Because most of us don't really need a pad on the back But it does help, you know, if you're gonna like do a lot of stuff and also if you see someone who's exhibiting leadership qualities You know, give them an opportunity to shine say hey, I like what you're doing there What would you think about you know stepping that up a level and they might go on freak out and leave But they might also step up and surprise you so, you know So we do these things called community spotlights are actually terrible at doing these community spotlights We need to be better at it But the goal is to give a limelight to people who may not be very well recognized yet at the time Not now anymore, but you know But sort of highlight their contributions and also show them that they're real people, you know A lot of people think, you know, you get up on a stage and suddenly you're some kind of you know God or whatever, you know, but it's not that Jess isn't a god, but you know But but yeah, it's just like show them the real place show the journey that they went through and stuff like that We also do some metrics. So we added this really cool We added this cool mentoring field so you can go on your Drupal order profile You can say the people who mentored you and I tried for like a weekend to figure out social graph Programs and it was really hard The point is no, but this is really neat, you know, it's like a really cool metric That's very inclusive and that kind of thing. We also do this metric which I'm less thrilled about This is the metric where we take everybody, you know Contributed to core and then blow up their names according to how much they've contributed Which is cool.  So like some people whose names are huge or doing huge Architectural refactoring these other people are just fixing a lot of typos, you know So it's not perfect So you want to be careful of leaderboard and style things like this because they can create kind of a weird environment Yeah Yeah, that's true. I I try to always credit major reviewers when I commit patches but I don't know if that's true across the board and And you're right and a lot of times people who review the patch which cannot which can often be almost as hard as Or harder. Yeah, then writing the patch the first time Aren't credit in this. So anyway, it's a way to do a metric. It's not necessarily the best way But the point being that people do like to see themselves recognize when they do something good They don't want to see themselves working their ass off and not nobody noticing so kind of back to that whole thing about Yeah, this is based on it's Exactly. Yeah, that's why it's a shitty match that darn toot and crappy metric. Anyway. Yeah, it's not it's not great But yeah, it's it's it's it's one thing that we have to do that It looks really cool.  Yay And just different things like that The big thing that you I took away from this is you need to learn how to scale yourself, you know Because I can't do the things I used to be doing the community anymore I can't mentor people one-on-one a lot of times, you know stuff like that So you really want to help nurture others along your path, you know If you see those really cool people that look like they've got a spark of like ooh, you know You look like you could be awesome at this reach out to them and try and nurture that, you know Because if you're doing your job really well, you'll learn to yourself completely irrelevant And then you can just do what you want to do now I was kidding and don't forget to take time for yourself to I forget to do that all the time But I should probably stop so to recap what we learned You want to corrupt young minds, especially the girls You want to destroy Einstein you want to do mentoring in your communities help new people come in and and be included Full frontal nicety always remember that whenever you interact with anyone you're representing your community whether you're wearing that hat or not You want to fail early often and in public so that you get those touch points with the community. They start to learn who you are You want to encourage diversity both in contributors and in contributions because that's how people see that person that they look up to and they go Oh They're obviously doing okay here Maybe I belong here too or they see some tasks that you know Oh, I could actually work on that because I have a background in that You want to meet and meet space as much as possible? Cultivated do accuracy it sort of spawns this feeling of ownership in your project Recognize your contributors who are doing great stuff and then also work on scaling yourself so that you don't have a bus factor of one questions Think I have 15 minutes maybe Something like that No questions. I answered all your questions. Perfect. You guys were so chatty during the talk Yeah, I can let you go earlier if you want but well, I did bar the doors from the outside No, what are you? I mean we're a small enough group like what have you guys found? What's your business your experience in the Drupal communities similar to that? Like are there other things? Yes What is that? I'm sorry. Oh wave. Okay, me and you are like soul brothers from another mother or something Except I'm not a boy, but anyway. Yes That's cool So that experience I'm repeating for the recording that experience of being really intimidated and seeing people who look technically stronger than you But then that one person who reaches out to him says hey, you can do this too. That's really important and Chicks did that for you took to that for me as well So the question is if you're if you're not very strong technically, but you still want to help In the community and contributing. What are some ways to do that? Is that correct? Um So there's lots of different ways like what what what are your skills? What do you enjoy doing like what's fun for you? Learning okay, so just broad learning anything. Okay. Well, then you can become technical if that's really what you're interested in You know, you could download the Drupal ladder distribution and go through that that's sort of a self-paced thing Maybe team up with a buddy and do that if you don't really have an interest in being technical though There's a lot of different things that you can do for example. There's you know There's a lot of stuff on like particularly project management kind of stuff We suck at really badly So if you happen to have a talent of that or marketing we're also terrible at that We're also a pretty terrible at graphic design unless you're born Like you know We're a lot of these skills that are non-technical or things that we're really weak in and I think it's hard for me to pinpoint specific Instances we're like oh this is something that really needs help because I'm in this technical domain And it's hard for me because mostly how it works in the Drupal community is you just see something That's not being done, and you just jump in and start doing it I mean that's how I wrote the form API reference right because I was like I don't understand Let's do form API at all and neither does anybody else so let me see if I can figure this out You know, but I've never like asked anybody is it okay if I write Documentation of this because nobody would have known how to answer that like uh, yes I don't know you know so I mean what I would ask you know you if you're interested in learning Let's try and narrow that down a little bit like if you're interested in learning on mobile technologies You're interested in learning on you know anything you could try and pick an area of the community like say a Drupal 8 initiative Or a particular module or something like that and and you know former relationship with the people leading up that That's a lot easier to jump into than like this huge issue queue with a bunch of things going on Yeah, and Lee you headed up most of the time right Yeah That's good to find that in yourself and say it's time for me to not be in support No, that's a good point So Morton was saying that um one of the things that helped him learn Drupal really well was going into the support channel and Sort of listening what other people were asking and sort of trying to figure that out I mean, that's how I learned Drupal as well because it was before there were books and stuff It's actually a really great way to learn Drupal and you also help other people in the process On the beach yeah Yeah, so more than was saying that you know one one thing that's unique about the Drupal community as opposed to other open source Communities where he's kind of seen in some communities There's like sort of this jostling for position as far as who's the expert, you know It's like, you know, you're both trying to answer somebody's question But you're trying to one-up them and how you answer it and that kind of thing and that the truth really isn't really like that We more like oh you're excited about this thing too. Well, so am I and here's what I know and what do you know? Oh, you know that I didn't know that that's great And there's like a lot of this kind of thing and that you know That's what kind of causes people to come to events like this So to some extent we're preaching to the choir because you're here obviously but unless you're watching this on video In which case please come to a Drupal con because can I hear it for Drupal con? But yeah, I totally agree. I think that's that's what I think it might be a large part to Dries and the way he You know runs things because I've seen project leads in other open source community And there's very much a trickle-down effect not to use a Reaganism But you know if the project lead thinks that they're hot shit and full of themselves and that kind of thing generally speaking They'll cultivate an environment of people like that because they see themselves in the leader and they say oh this is a place where I can You know be I don't know why people do that I have no idea what the draws Whereas Dries is very humble and he tends to like very much cultivate this environment of knowledge sharing and mentoring and this kind of thing And that also has a similar trickle-down because you see someone You know who has those qualities and it tends to attract people like that too. Okay, cool Thanks everybody for coming. I really appreciate it