And can you believe it? We are already in the middle of summer. Welcome, welcome, welcome everyone to the June edition of JSA's Fast Forward, where we bring you the biggest headlines from our past month. From JSA's own industry resource, telecom news now, TNN, our blog. I'm Jamie Scott of Kataya, CEO and founder of JSA. And I'm Dean Perine, Executive Vice President at JSA. And thanks for joining us as we broadcast live online via LinkedIn and YouTube through our very own JSA TV newsroom. We love that you check that out every week. And we're going to continue to provide the best content we possibly can for you, which brings me, Jay, before we get into this, you're back. It's kind of day one after the fourth. You still have all your fingers, correct? Yes, yes. Last count, all 10. And you were just cute for the July because it was Ava's first, like, fireworks display. She just, like, sat back. She was awake, you know, to see her first round of fireworks and her face. I love it. You just can't beat it. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's awesome. My kids, I remember when they were about her age, the first explosion, they were like, let's go inside. Yeah. So they were really not about it so much. But we're going to be bringing you an explosive lineup of tech telecom. See what we did there? Tech telecom and data center news with a sprinkle of fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July all week long. So let's go ahead and ignite this new segment first with our first headline in the past month. Jay, take it away. Sounds exciting, Dean. OK, picking it off. Light Path is setting off their own fireworks by announcing the launch of Cloud Connect for AWS. It's like fireworks for the cloud. I would imagine. But most cloud engineers probably don't like to refer to it as that. But for the sake of the 4th of July, we should do that. And speaking of connectivity, DF&I is lighting up data center alley by bringing Data Bank, another close front of ours, on that to enhance connectivity. And they are turning up the heat. Yeah, DF&I and Data Bank, good combination of high quality folks there. All right, Dino, get ready for some explosive tech news because we're introducing KULRAN. Cool ran. I'm not sure. It is a game-changing precision liquid-cooled service solution from Icyotope, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Intel. Big names there. Hotter than a 4th of July firework display. Boom. I could just see it going off in the air right now. That's a tech revolution in the making, Jay. So now let's celebrate another partnership lighting up the tech world. X-Tel has inked a deal with major wireless carrier to deliver 5G services. So get ready to experience digital firework show with lightning fast speeds. X-Tel style. X-Tel style, that's right. And while we're talking about fireworks, let's give a big shout out to wireless infrastructure providers, strategic venue partners, SVP, who, oh yeah, winning more favor with Wall Street, their success skyrocketing. Outstanding. This is this theme. I just love it. So anyway, so now let's explore the sparks generated by bandwidth IG's dark fiber network. They're bringing connectivity to the EdgeCorp. They're bringing connectivity to EdgeCorp digital infrastructure. Let me try this again, Jayme. They're bringing connectivity to EdgeCorp digital infrastructure's Silicon Valley campus, lighting up the tech scene like a fireworks display. Well done. Well done. Thank you. You say it again, Sammy, today. My lips are exploding over here is what's happening. And by the way, we're getting some great little posts live here and we enjoy you guys for tuning in. Thanks so much. Big shout out there. And go ahead and add more comments as we try to get through this script. So moving forward and we're going to shift our focus now, guys, to West Africa, really incredible region to follow these days. Powerhouse data centers, blending a helping hand in the region's digital transformation. They are igniting tech opportunities like fireworks in the night sky. And the fireworks continue with Airtel Business, who has been selected as the cloud and CDN partner for India's Daikasha EdTech platform. That's D-I-K-S-H-A EdTech platform. It's an explosive combination of technology and education. And speaking explosive combinations, Vertec and AT&T, I think you've heard of them, AT&T Cybersecurity Division making a winning team for the modern enterprise. They're like fireworks and sparklers protecting businesses from cyber threats. If only it were that easy. Wouldn't that be great? And you're just like, uh-oh, I sent an attack. Everyone, let's light off explosives. Exactly. Well, I think that would be a lot of explosives, so probably not a good idea. Probably not a good idea. How about a sparkler? A sparkler and some of those little puppet things you throw on the ground. Anyway, let's celebrate that partnership between LightEdge and Avant, who are driving digital transformation to underserved markets. A theme that is kind of near and dear to my heart, getting the kind of transformative infrastructure into those underserved markets. They are lighting up new paths like colorful fireworks streaking across the sky. So congratulations to LightEdge and Avant. Oh, great, great companies there as well. All right, let's talk new hires, guys. Net number appointed Tina Donaldson as their new VP of strategy. I love that title. Tina, welcome to the team. You're joining us just in time for the fireworks. Boom. And in Volta, I have a star-strangled addition to their team as well. Please welcome Michael Jofi. I think I've got that right. J-O-F-F-E as their vice president of Channel. Michael, we hope that your career with in Volta sparkles like the 4th of July. And you know what? That's a great trend, too. A lot of channel action these days that we're seeing both from telecom operators as well, data center folks. So interesting, interesting, a note too. All right, so let's keep the celebration going team with industry leader, Karen Stein, who joins T5 data centers as their new general counsel. Karen, we're sure your expertise will light up the legal department. Dazzling. Yeah, dazzling. We like that. I can see it in the sky now. Now it's time to honor some additional award winners. Software Solutions Guru's 10X people have been selected as a Colorado Companies to Watch winner. So congratulations to the 10X people. They are shining bright in the night sky. And awesome, awesome people. Again, another incredible organization led by stellar, stellar people. Love it. And oh, hey, we can't forget Talking Awards, our own JSA family. Yay, honored with the prestigious 2023 Bulldog PR Award for Best Industry Focused Agency. Yay, team. Our work is on fire, fire work, fire. Definitely making an impact, yes. You know what I love so much about the Bulldog Award, Jay? And every time we win this, I think it is kind of like they're just like, let's see what kind of animal would Jamie Scattle-Cataya have been, say, like 12, 15 years ago? And it is kind of a Bulldog.  And by God, that's exactly what we're doing. So congratulations to JSA. Yeah, family is amazing. And what I love about that one, too, is it's not just best agency of telecom and data center network infrastructure space. It's overall all the agencies across America. We are the best industry focused agency. So that is quite the feather in our cap. So congrats, congrats family again. Congrats to us, yeah. And Envolta continues to light up the tech world with their achievements as well. Let's not forget about Envolta. They've ranked on channel, here we go again with the channel, Jay. They have ranked on Channel Future's global 2023 MSP 501 list for the third time. Congratulations to our friends over and in Envolta. They are killing it, killing it, especially with the channel. All right, we also cannot ignore the star power of Vern's Global Finland's Kim Ginellias. Ginellias, there we are. I love him, Kim, congratulations. You made it to Capacity's Power 100 list. You are shining bright in this tech industry of ours. So congratulations to Capacity Power 100 list, by the way, is awesome. I read it from 100 to 1 every year. And they do a great job of rounding out who's really making the headlines. And Kim with Vern Global, right up there, absolutely. Yep, yep. There's a reason why we call it thought leadership, right? And they're doing a great job over there. So let's take a moment to appreciate some educational resources. Some friends of ours at K&N Engineering are detailing the cost benefits of switching from disposable single-use air filters to washable, reusable filters in a recent release that you can go and check out. They actually give you the list of some of those benefits. And you can check it out at jsa.net. But again, what I love so much about this, Jay, is that every time you wash and reuse one of these air filters in your data center, you are taking an air filter out of the landfill. And it's a really, really good thing. That's well said, well said. Yeah, I love those guys. And oh, we should also talk DC Bytes, guys. DC Bytes has a market spotlight that is illuminating new opportunities in Africa. They're sparking innovation and igniting the flames of progress. Yeah, excellent. DC Bytes, congrats there. You can tune into China Telecom America as they explore the future of telecom and data centers in a post-pandemic world as a special guest on the Data Movers podcast. Jamie, you love that. Don't you? The Data Movers podcast. It's an intellectual fireworks display you don't want to miss. So meta of you, intellectual. I love it, I love it. And guys, lastly, we want to talk Xenlayer and Intel. They are together discussing why edge computing matters. Watch their interview to witness Sparks fly as they illuminate the future of technology. And with that, we conclude our explosive tech news segment filled with fireworks of innovation and excitement. And we still have all of our fingers. Congratulations. We made it through. Guys, we hope you really had a wonderful, fantastic Fourth of July celebration this week. Or I know our friends up north have been celebrating Canada Day.  So congratulations. I'll hug your family closer. And stay tuned next month while we deliver the top headlines in digital infrastructure news and announcements. And as always, happy networking, y'all. See you. Bye.


I hope to keep this brief, but I want to just give you an update. It's been very exciting. A lot of progress has taken place since we broke ground in June. So we started in June of this summer, and currently we're about 40% complete. The demolition has all been completed. The walls and mechanicals are currently being installed, such as the electrical, heating and ventilating, air conditioning, ductwork, as well as plumbing. And 90% of the windows are installed. The only remaining windows yet are the big arch windows in the common council chambers. And they just want to take their time. So this is what you see up here is the actual original ceiling. Beautiful crown molding, and the skylight is still in place. That was covered up by that dropped false ceiling that was put in place. Oh, I'd say in the late 80s as in energy savings, they couldn't, the actually the existing lights, these lights that are up in this area are still original from when they changed from gas lighting to electrical lighting, back in probably the 30s that was roughly and those fixtures or something else. This is what it's going to look like when we're done. The council will now face the public with the audience being in the chairs out here. Council with the back to the windows monitors behind. And so the room has been basically changed in its orientation. So this is a picture of second floor demolition completely gutted. So it's a post and beam type of construction. So these are the original posts, the flooring system. Everything's been removed. This actually is the old vault door for the safe that was for finance department. This is with it now cleaned up roughly just basically all the debris cleaned out of the way and opened up. After this, we had to pour new floors. The flooring system in city hall is unique. The best way to describe it is if you ever familiar with the game break the ice, don't break the ice.  And it stays in place until you keep knocking them out and also the whole thing crashes. That's basically the flooring system. It's a flat arch and it has interlocking clay tiles that have a key in it. And it laterally presses out keeping that flooring system in place. So it was very critical that when we put the flooring system in that we didn't damage or have too many penetrations through the existing floor for fear of potentially breaking the ice. In other words are having a major portion of the flooring come through. This is second floor probably about though maybe last week. So as you can see the steel stud walls are going in the ductwork above. Here we had to put in a whole new hanger system for the ceiling. Because we couldn't hang through that type of floor system with those blocks. So we had to put in a whole new type of hanger system that we could hang ductwork off of. The sprinkler system that we're adding for fire protection. That all comes off as well as the ceiling and lighting and electrical will be hung off of that as well. Starting next week we're actually going to start drywalling. So this is the exterior of the north facade of the city hall that we call the north where the alley is where the former police garage was. This is some progress photos. Now we've removed that center section of the north wall exposing the stairwell, the main central stair. So right now we have all this false work in here temporary support system holding it in place. So what this area is going to be used for is the addition to the north side where we had the fire escapes that were on the exterior building that were steel and pretty rusted unsafe. We're actually building stair towers for fire escape as well as a new elevator shaft on this side as well as a new atrium and ramps for handicap accessibility. So what is happening here is we have the foundation being poured for the new addition and next now we see the foundation walls being set ready to be poured and now we have the steel starting to be erected and that's on the north addition. And once it's done, this is where it will be closed. This is where the addition is being put in. We're going to have a glass atrium here. This is where there's dual stairwells for fire escape that will be enclosed as well as this is where the elevator will be on the left hand side. The ramps that there's a stairwell that will be parking right in front and the ramp is kind of behind this planter and it will come up and there's one on each side. So you'll be able to wrap from this way as well as from east side and the west side for handicap accessibility on the new addition. So where are we at today? The project as we said, we started about 10.5 with the AV adjustment for the council chambers of 171 being funded through the cable TV and IT budget. So the majority of it is cautious, our general contractor at 8.9, roughly $9 million for the general construction. Tonight we have two documents, EBI is the furnishings and the furniture. Tonight that cost is 437 before you as well as connecting point is all the interior technology, networking and conference ability for teleconferences and broadcasting. MAVO is the abatement that we had. They were a contractor, MAVO did all the asbestos as well as lead abatement in the building. That was 128,000. Continental environmental for their oversight and testing and air monitoring was 22,000. We are currently paying rent for at the county building as we're temporarily located. That's around $52,000. Small thing for Wisconsin media for advertising for bids. Miller engineering to do some structural and some foundation extra work and change orders to date. We've added to the project almost 350,000. So what is that? We had a contingency of roughly 484 for the budget. Right now we are at 71% of the change order contingency being spent. It looks like it's high number and it is, but we're at the stage of construction now. We're all the demo, all of the stuff that should be uncovered has been uncovered and now we're building. So we've set a new, basically a new complete interior that we've built up and now we're starting walls, mechanicals and everything so far is going to plan. The biggest change order was when we took off the roof, it didn't have a concrete top. There was concrete in between the joists, but it didn't have a concrete top like the rest of the floors. So it wasn't structural. They had a false roof above it. So when we got into it, we had to put a whole steel new roof on because we're adding a chiller on top. We're adding some of the mechanical equipment that's going to go on the roof for order to be structurally sound up there to place that equipment. We had to add a lot of structural steel. The other thing was a big change was the roof, as I mentioned, because of the flooring. We had to put in that false work to hang all the mechanicals. So here are some of the floor plans. The basement is going to be reconfigured. The IT department is going to be going in the basement. So as you can see, this is really hard to see because it's small, but all the furniture is designed for the new floor plan. So that's what's before you. So when we move back to City Hall, the furniture is designed and built to fit in the new spaces that are being designed. So the first floor, you come in first floor. We're going to have finance on the right as well as HR in a suite. And then the clerks will be on the left side as a whole suite. We have a nice major, what I would say is going to be the new committee room on the first floor of City Hall. So this is a 20-person table. It will have two TVs in here with cameras and video conferencing for meetings, as well as a speaker system and microphones. So that floor basically will be able to accommodate committee meetings where the public can come in and they can go right in the first floor and it's right easily accessible. They won't have to come up to the third floor necessarily unless it's a large public meeting. Second floor, what we have is we have the attorney's suite on the east end of the building in this area. And this whole area is going to be planning and building inspection. Again, all the furniture is designed to fit in the spaces as well as electrical and data for computer systems and telephone are all integrated in with the furniture. Lastly, third floor, council chambers. Right here, as I mentioned, the council will now face the public. The mayor and administrator suite is on this side. We have a large conference room which will be used for closed sessions. So if there's ever a closed session, the public won't have to leave. The council will actually get up and go into this meeting room to meet privately. As well as a lounge, a break room that City Hall currently never had. So some of the furniture, typical office, open furniture, this is kind of just some of the examples and they should have been in your documents as well for this evening. Open concept, all these pieces of furniture have the sit to stand option. So if you can sit and work and then if you, for ergonomics and for better circulation, you can raise your desk and work at it standing as well. So these are just some of the photos in typical op. And the colors are very neutral, beige, tan, really nice and neutral. This is kind of just an example of the conference room and technology. The table will actually have outlets right in the table built in so when you're there and you bring your laptop, you can power it up as well as connect it directly to the TV without looking for a remote or looking for plugs, it will be all interconnected. I use this example because the City Hall will have a lot of glass partitions, especially in the public areas. So when you come in to City Hall, you'll see glass walls that will be open and inviting and create a presence of more openness and transparency. So this is kind of an example. We have two monitors with a camera up here. Again, there's a tablet on the table with outlets. Again, that's with some of the technology that it will be implemented at City Hall. So we had an allowance within the budget for furnishings and technology of around 980,000 roughly and tonight the total bids between the two is right around 823. So we saved the least on that portion at this point with the budget on the project. So this is third floor. It wasn't today obviously because there's still leaves on the tree, but this is what it looks like now. If you're in the council chambers with your back to the arched windows, this is the view you would see now. It's going to be all glass looking out and this is kind of what the finished product will be. Hold the state, you'll all be getting an invitation for this. We're having a topping ceremony. Topping ceremony is basically placing the last piece of structural steel that is on the addition. So it's kind of a ceremonial stage of the process of the project. So we're going to do this as well as you'll have an opportunity to sign the beam before it gets placed. To have your name is as Olderman on that piece of steel and they'll have a tree on it as well. It's a ceremony. Then what we'll do is we'll have a hard hat tour and give you an opportunity to see the progress actually inside the building. Again, we'll have formal invitations, but I want to at least give you a hold of the date this evening.


Hi, welcome to my talk on promoting open source methods at a large company I've got some slides, but I'm not going to inflict the corporate template on you We'll post them on the site later, but Go without them. So Here we are at Fostum we're all open source developers We all know about you know all the great benefits of open source. We've got our differences, but really we're all in the same boat You know, we may we may choose a different license or we may choose a different Operating system or perhaps a different editor, but really you know, we're all doing the doing the same things We all know how great open source is so I'm not really here to sell open source to you I'm doing that inside my company and it's a bit of an interesting sell and that's what I'm going to talk about today But you guys I don't need to sell it to you so What I'm what I'm really going to talk about today is our efforts at work to bring our bring modern open source tools and methods Into the software environment at the company And in that context, I'll be talking about our system aero source, which is a repository similar to say source forage and How how we've built that up and a fair bit on the technical side of what we've done there What's worked what hasn't as we've scaled out and then talk about our experiences in terms of adoption what sort of resistance we've run into and What sort of forces have have affected the evolution of our of our system? So first a little background on on the company. I work for I work for the aerospace corporation We run a federally funded research and development center in the US We work in the area of national security space. We work for the Air Force primarily space and missile command As well as the National Reconnaissance Office plus any other civil or civil or commercial organization involved in space We literally work in every area that has anything to do with space systems including things you might not think of such as Communication networks ground systems We have civil engineers because we work on things like launch pads Literally every engineering discipline Plus the things you might think of more commonly such as launch vehicles satellites Sensors on satellites and then post-processing of data from those sensors. So a wide range of things And we have about 2,500 engineers who who work in these areas My my role at the company is in the technical computing services department and we provide Technical computing expertise to all of these engineers so they can get their job done Are we're on the whole these engineers are very experienced in their particular discipline They have on the on average over 20 years of experience in in space systems But they're typically not software engineers and so one of the things we're trying to do is Connect them with open source tools and open source methods and really get them up to speed And and start using modern technology in their software development So as you might as you might guess these these engineers write an awful lot of code we did a survey back in Back before a y2k to try and figure out how much software we had and we determined that we had well over 3,000 packages Either external software or internal software that we were running throughout the company Works out to nearly you know to somewhat more than one parent her employee So an awful lot of software So so these engineers are writing much of this or modifying much of it for their use Some of it is just private use they do it for the right code They run it and then they produce give results to people other stuff is shared for it within the company And then a small amount of it is externally distributed Some of it's purely internal some of its modified code Historically much of this code has been hidden away And this has been a big problem. We've had a fair amount of code that you know is just sitting on people's desktops Waiting for disaster to strike and wipe the machine out In other cases we might be lucky and it might be on a shared volume But often there's no revision control at all Probably don't have to sell too many of you on the benefits of revision control, but it's amazingly difficult sometimes to sell it inside We've had projects where we found where they were working on a collaborative team and You know they were relatively modern They had they were using a Windows file server somewhere and they had a whiteboard where when you wanted to work on a file You wrote the file name on the whiteboard And even then they were one of our more advanced users at the time Even then they had problems with functionality disappearing between revisions because someone would add it They'd build the release and ship it and somebody else would take the code They'd been working on in that same file and just throw the old version of the file back on with their changes and poof there went the feature So one of the things we're trying to fix here is get this code out in the open and to get it into revision control So that they stop losing stuff So that that's sort of one of the many problems we're trying to solve Early on we recognized this problem five or six years ago We saw this and said, you know, we should do something about this at the time we decided to Build a sort of a source forage Lake site Using G forage, which was the last based on the last open source release of the source forage code and You know, we both wanted to try and solve this problem within the company But also selfishly we wanted to have a single server setup So when we had a new project we could quickly, you know, stand up a new new CVS repository and new bug tracker and all that sort of stuff We did get that set up and we attracted a handful of projects, you know a couple users and It sort of worked, but it didn't we really didn't get good traction We did keep it running, but You know, we ended up with the problem that you'll see if you go to source forage pick any ramp pick a random project you know, most of them are dead after all and You'll see the standard ugly default template and that's what we ended up with on our site You know, it's the same the same problem really so it didn't it wasn't a good way for people to find each other's work But it did sort of function The other problem we found is that It was amazingly difficult to perform an upgrade It was typically a two or three day full-time process Which was kind of ridiculous given the thing the system served maybe ten projects Every time a revision came out the whole innards had changed. It was pretty awful. So we sort of let it go It wasn't we had some success, but it didn't really work out In 2006 we looked at the problem and said okay We're pretty sure this was a good idea, but we need to try it, you know, let's let's try again There's better tools available at the time. We were we were really interested in moving to subversion. We also Just hadn't you know looked around and said, you know web apps have gotten a lot better You know what the experience is better the interfaces are better. There's much more integrated stuff Really a lot better. We also Thought you know we should really try and change the culture a bit within the company Try to get things so it's more sharing more open and really Just just try and get get people out there and say okay. Let's let's actually share this code You know we only need probably one piece of C code to read two card element sets for satellite ephemera You know probably one is enough The format after all hasn't changed since it was actually distributed on cards So we're trying decided to try and work on that As a result of that decision we decided that we were going to have an Have a rule that any project that was in there had to be fully open just like it is in say source forage Where everyone everyone within the company could read the code That limited the base our base a bit in that there were a number of projects out there that we knew couldn't use The system because they had NDAs or whatnot were only a restricted set of people could actually use the code But we thought there would be enough stuff out there and we wanted to have have take that strong stand that Only that people would have to be open We called this concept enterprise source We actually don't use the term much at the moment, but the idea was that Basically open source, but within the company so within the company anyone could could get in there So it turned out that there was there was some short funding with it internally to work on a project We got I think three months of funding Under an innovation grant so we could work on this and so we looked around and we ended up selecting a track Is the basis for the revision control system or as the basis for the web interface and subversion as the version control system? What we liked about it is that that it doesn't impose any particular Process on the user. There's a very small amount of workflow. You could add more, but you don't have to And also that it was fully integrated unlike the classic sourceforge model where they took best to breed tools such as a bugzilla And whatnot and sort of mashed them together The nice thing was the tools were all really powerful, but they didn't integrate well So we looked at track and we decided that was we liked the re-integrated model nothing was you know, none of the pieces are As good as the best standalone piece, you know, the wiki is not up to media wiki standards or Twiki standards But and the and the bug tracker is not up to bugzilla standards But the fact that the markup works across them and the interface is all the same was really useful to us So a quick segue before I get more into the implementation details a quick side Overall the whole system is built out of open source software. It's free bsd hosting environment Apache web server We started with mod python as our method of running a track course postgres on the back end and We use the ports collection to create custom meta ports to manage all the software So we bring in track and postgres and all the tools Or all all the various tools we need plus all the plugins All of those are handled through a custom meta port which makes it very easy to replicate the system If we want to stand up a dev server, it's a couple hours work to You know build and install everything and then Shlep a copy of the data over So it's really nice. I highly recommend this approach if you're if you're building any system like this And I will say you know that if your packaging system makes it hard you really need to fix your packaging system So on to the implementation details So one gotcha with with our selection of track is that track is designed for single projects There's has a very tiny amount of multi-project support and it's it's very fairly weak So we had to do a fair bit of work to get that working in our initial effort We we targeted simplicity of the configuration So we used the fact that both track and subversion have the ability to say in the Apache config Here's a directory. All the subdirectories are either track environments or subversion Repositories respectively. So we used that because it was simple and you know the total config was 20 lines And stuck all the all the track environments in one place all the subversion requirements in a subversion directory And and that was that was very simple The the the overall project internally were just you know, or we go to the aerosource host It just redirects redirects you immediately to the aerosource project because we eat our own dog food here and Aerosource is entirely managed within aerosource The initial implementation worked pretty well, but it did have some issues One of the interesting ones we ran into early on it didn't matter too much because to start out all of our projects Were basically the same but once we started doing custom plug-in development. We discovered that oh Mod with mod Python every instance of track was living in the same Python interpreter So if you loaded a module that hooked something like say the custom email Like like like the the email notification thing so that you could tweak the results Which we did for one project if you did it wrong it changed who you emailed to in every project When if you think about it, there's the additional problem that since any project can upload a plug-in you then have arbitrary code injection Which is not maybe the best thing We we also another issue was that because we were using because of the way we were using subversion we ended up Not supporting Subversion over HTTP for a commit because there was no we would have had to trust each of our users to manually Configure the access controls, and I didn't feel that our users really up to that task We provided subversion over SSH instead which worked quite well, but It was a little too much for some of our windows users and did eventually start to hurt adoption There's also a minor issue that because we had this one directory over here of track bits and this other direct bit of Directory of subversion bits. It was a little tricky to tell how much storage your project was actually using But enough implementation for the moment It was it was it was in fact fun to put all that together get it working, but you know the real proof is In adoption rate I've got the one slide here that is probably worth looking at that. I'm not going to show it The it's a graph of project growth overall So for about the first year and a half of Aerosource we grew pretty consistently about three and a half projects a month And then about a year ago we started to get more pickup Due to a number of internal factors And we're now the last six months. We've actually been growing at an average about ten projects a month So I've been pretty happy about that when I put these slides together We were about 204 projects internally and then I think since then we had a little lull in December as no one was really doing any work or at least not starting big new projects and Now we're up over 210 So and in addition to just the numbers we have had some actual some really nice wins. I think one of our biggest wins was that about after about six months in we got Management pressure started to apply to people and say you guys need to get your code Into the repository and start working in this environment and one of the big ones was a program called the satellite orbital analysis program or soap for a maximum acronym confusion Especially when a couple years ago we started writing web services modules for it The so we got that in that was a big one that's one of our few external software products that we actually give out to places like NASA and Some of the military sites It's a very pretty graphical program for plotting satellites and and whatnot and getting that in we thought was a really big win We've definitely got some holdouts, but that was that was a big one and actually One of the one of the annoying holdouts is a major library that soap uses, but I think we'll get there eventually so We have had some a number of things that have delayed adoption in a number of cases In some cases, we've had a legitimate issue. We've had legitimate needs for a more secure system One where not everyone within the company Can see the code Everyone inside has a clearance, but not every but it's not appropriate in all cases to make the code available So we've had some legitimate issues, but most of our issues have come down to a real lack of a sharing culture And we've really been trying to change that with I think some success In many cases, there's there's an odd perceived need for security people are convinced they need to hide this stuff from their fellow employees Despite the fact that they should be able to generally trust them So that was why that was one of the reasons why early on we said look it's all got to be open We won't provide any alternative if you want to be in here You've got to keep it open because that let gave us a wedge and we said we could say look you want these features We know you want them So you need to really look and see do you actually need to keep this stuff secret and in many cases people didn't But it's hard to get people to convince people that that's really the case We've also had interesting issues of there's a real fear of misuse that if people put their code out that their fellow Engineers will go off and use it in some inappropriate way Sometimes that's legitimate You know Something that's not written for human space flight shouldn't be used for human space flight obviously but for the most part we've been able to convince people that you know You know you really do need you really can trust your employee your your fellow employees to do it, right? But that's that's been an interesting challenge and something we're still working on is that that we really need this more Openness There's also some interesting cases of a misplaced sense of ownership people are like this is my code and You know I'm not gonna let anyone else use it, but in fact You know it's the company's code. It's not your code So it's really it's really interesting to get that sort of thing Trying to encourage people to give credit is a real challenge It's something the open-source community does very well, and we're trying to work on on ways to get people to do That had some some limited success in that area, but it's it's a little tricky The strangest Objection though we've had so far to aerosource was If we put it in there people are gonna see it, and they're gonna like it and then they're gonna write new code We actually had a long argument one day With a group and they were like no it would be horrible people would come and they would write code and and make it better And I will admit we lost that one We were like isn't this a great problem to have you know yeah Yes, you'll have to spend some time doing review But wouldn't it be awesome if you had to hire another person so you could do review of new code but That that one still floors me Fortunately, it's not all gloom and doom We've had internal pressures as well that have really helped us out in terms of getting new projects one big thrust That's helped is a big push over the last decade for continuity of technical operations It's similar to you know continuity of business operations where you know you're set up You have a second SAP instance somewhere so you can print your paychecks if your data center gets flooded or whatnot Continuity of technical operations or Kodo as we typically call it inside is basically the same thing But you know how do we get engineers back up and running for instance? We have we have tasks that are Go no go for Rocket launches we have people analyzing weather data to make sure that the upper atmosphere is is right So it's really important that we be able to if we have say a fire or a flood or an earthquake We are after all based in LA That we be able to get back up and running and with all that hidden code I talked about that's really hard You know if the only copy of some critical code is on some guy's laptop You know even if it's in backups you still have to dig the backups out if we lost the data center You know we'd have to have have to retrieve them from Iron Mountain and then figure out where they were That sort of thing so getting code into a repository and getting it getting it properly handled backed up It's gonna help there So we've been So there has been been a push and an aerosource has been named the Kodo repository for internally developed software And so that that's been been really helpful with really increased the number of projects going in and one of the things We're seeing is that once we get somebody in for that reason they'll see the tools They'll like them. They'll say wow, I don't have to maintain this PASCII server anymore And then they start putting in more projects So every time we win a new group we get one converted a new group that it'll starts to snowball So that's really good So one one thing we did have to do when we became the Kodo repository is We we had to relax our everything has to be open setup because There were in fact projects that are of critical importance that did have NDAs associated with them either because you know they incorporated data from a particular contractor or We're using we're using somewhat sensitive Sensor material or sensor information or whatnot So we did actually create a separate project sort of within aerosource called a randa stands for aerospace restricted in NDA and NDA And the idea is it's just like aerosource except that it's access control Project requests are used the same form you just check a box that says I need this and then because we didn't want people going Oh, I'm going to go get an a randa project because you know I don't want other people to see my code because maybe it's awful or maybe you know or you know Maybe I want my job security or whatnot So because we didn't want people to do that we require that people submit a justification with a traceable security requirement And then it's approved by my boss who reviews reviews all those things Now talk a little bit about the implementation changes we had to make to make this to make a randa work First off we needed to harden the system. So we used the Center for Internet Security benchmarks for both Operating system and for Apache to tighten down the security config We were pretty good already, but you know a few tweaks here and there didn't hurt We also switched to per project WSGI, which is a web server gateway interface Instances so this got us away from the Python instance per project Or a rather a single Python Python instance, so we did have a Python instance per project We also moved to have a group-based access restrictions so that we could have So that these a randa projects could only be accessible by certain groups of people And because we did that and had to do all this splitting out as a side of side benefit We got HTTPS Subversion commits working We've also for the randa projects which to per project virtual hosts for the primary name Not really using that for anything at the moment But the idea is that later on we could move to a model where we had perpetually per project jails or Even or even we could cluster the project so we could have multiple servers and use smaller servers to scale In the process we also consolidated the storage structure so that we had one single point of file system entry for every project and therefore We could more easily manage the security and verify it This implementation has also worked reasonably well But it has some new issues because we now have a Python instance per project Running inside an Apache instance it runs running inside a Apache process The server rapidly ran out of memory. We originally had two gigs of RAM in it. We ran put it up to four, but we're still Get it's still a bit tight Fortunately We've got a new server on order so that will do to fix the problem the brute force way and go from four gigs to 72 That should keep us for a little while We've also as a workaround we set the processes up to die after five minutes So given that most projects aren't being hit all the time that kind of helped keep memory footprint down One problem we've discovered though is that the internal web crawlers for our search engines have the world's worst access pattern for us And that they'll go into each project and read exactly the same sub page all the way across at several per second And so the server on the weekends gets kind of sluggish Fortunately the upgrade I think should fix this One other issue is that the subversion accent what well we went to per process or a per project WSGI instances and in that and for a random projects those have a different user for each project We can't do that with subversion because the subversion Dave module Runs as only can only run as the web server. It'd be nice that could be fixed. We may actually Once we get Kerberos integration into our Into the system. I think we'll switch to Switch back to doing to promoting SSH based Subversion access to address this issue, especially in the more secure projects We also have the problem that again with the subversion module. It leaks memory like crazy Under SSL Can't check out a large project without running out of memory basically have to keep retrying Overall adoption has been not what I would have wished when I put these slides together We only had 10 projects We we'd announced in August and that was in November. So I think we're up to maybe 15 now So we seem to be growing, but it's slower than I'd anticipated We knew there were some pent up demand and I'm a little surprised that we haven't had had more pick up there I suspect in part that the reason we've had this is that the users who have these security requirements tend to be in their isolated little worlds and Maybe just don't haven't really seen the value of the open-source tools yet I Think one other problem maybe that they're also expecting that we're offering them revision control and they're thinking Oh, it's gonna be one of these massive heavyweight systems where you have to fill out six forms in order to make a change and whatnot You know like like you would for flight safety software, but really we're not doing that I think others may just not know we exist so we're we're in the process of an ad campaign for that, but it's a It's it's a haven't quite got the pick up. I would have liked there Talk a little bit about future directions here now. That's that's sort of the current state of affairs. So we're up at bit over 200 projects Not bad about One for every ten engineers. So pretty decent So in process in the at the moment we're working on getting new servers and also moving to a Moving to a system where we'll be using free BSD and aid and ZFS To allow us to replicate projects. We're gonna have a new server on our on the east coast So we'll replicate data regularly to actually provide the kind of backup. We should be in addition to merely being on tape We're also looking at some track enhancements one of the one of the things we found for instance is that Users will get get it get one project. They'll get it going. They'll be happy and then they'll get excited And they'll create four more projects because they have all these different projects They're working on and that's great, and then they say oh, but I wanted to see all my tickets at once And right now there's no mechanism for that So we're working on creating a mechanism to do that Hopefully we'll be able to write something that we can contribute back in a useful way and get back into the community We're also contemplating some ideas of sort of a cloud or clustered approach where each project can live on a different server Looking at that another one will almost certainly be doing is Adding more revision control options I think for many of our users centralized revision control is probably what they can get their heads around at this point But I think we're definitely seeing a lot of advantages to distributed version control So we're gonna probably start bringing that in we've got some sort of unofficial mercurial support at the moment But it gets a little more complicated. We need some new some new track features or some up-and-coming track features To make that really work. We also because of this this need for Koto is where we need to where we need to have a reliable central repository for backup purposes We're gonna have to carefully manage how People use distributed version control so that it doesn't all just end up back on their laptop And that's something I'm really interested to see how how that works out in the route How that how that's working in the open source world and what lessons we can apply in that regard and overall what we're really Continuing to work on is trying to convert more users to this open to the whole open source frame of mind Really get them more into it get them more open get them to share with each other because I think that's really powerful One of the best things about open source and I think if we can make that happen inside that that will really Improve our ability to deliver so in conclusion, I think Aerosource and the the aranda component are introducing people to new tools and methods We're seeing some real we are seeing some real traction there But we've got a ways to go overall. I think it's positive influence I've got a few minutes left. So I'd be happy to take any questions people have and either either now or later and I'd like to Also if people have ideas for how to promote an open source in an environment like mine or want to talk about that Sort of thing. I'd love to do that during the conference You're out. Also. I want to plug Richard's talk. He's coming up next and I've seen seen a version of it before It's great fun Any questions? Hello. Hi. I'm Robert Wiggetman from Euro control here in Brussels. So it's the European equivalent of the FAA let's say Yeah, and there was one remark that you may which surprised me when you said that for the soap the so-called soap project that Management pressure was positive. How why did management suddenly realize that this was a good idea? How did you convince them because this is the for me the clueless management is usually what blocks everything? Um We actually got management the management pressure came from the fact that so they were at At the time I was in the the computers in software division and they were I was in a research arm We were a bunch of you know crazy open source people the other the other guys had been working on this thing for 10 years and They were in fact one of the projects that had a history of feature loss So customer would pay them to add a feature and then it would disappear and things like that and and we were spending A couple of man years every year on this thing. So it's a significant accent So management said look you guys you know, we've got this great open this great aerosource thing You guys should use it and and so that's that's where that's where the manage the positive management pressure came from Is any of your software likely to be of interest for external consumption as well? Is that even a discussion? You might Sorry your software is Isn't it gonna be a value outside your organization? Is that even a discussion you're willing to start? Well, I guess we're trying we're trying as as we develop larger modules that that makes sense I think we're gonna try to push those back Most of the software that's in aerosource Is is stuff that we couldn't ever release our release process is not it's kind of a pain We do a certain amount of open source, but Right now I Think we've got one I think we've got a couple projects within aerosource that are also released as open source for instance We have a an LLVM we Some some people in my old department wrote the sell back end for LLVM and that that lives in aerosource Hello, Daniel Brown. I'm working for a company called markets We we our company's gone through and something similar to yours. We've got a lot of different companies that have sort of Come in and we're we've got a lot of different types of technology. I just wanted to ask you about Adoption you said adoption was something you struggled with a bit. How have you tried to educate people in the Organization about what you're doing So I guess how do we educate people? It's it's kind of I mean a lot of its word of mouth Just you know we get one person hooked and they talk to other people The other the other thing is we have some internal Like tech forums and whatnot where people are supposed to come and talk about new new IT Technology within the company or whatnot and so we're using that we're using those forums to broadcast One of the things we're working on is to develop some curriculum for our internal education program Both to teach the particular tools as well as doing general overviews We need we need to build more of that stuff up or adapt existing stuff For instance, you know, we need a subversion course You know and there's good stuff out there But we need a short to the point version and then maybe advanced for later years, but that sort of thing Okay Thank you very much for coming


All right, I want to move on to the second blog post. I'm just scanning the chat for, you know, the usual, you're unbashing over Trump. All right, it's pretty funny. The second blog post that Armin Hoffman put up, I thought was really good, was, this is the title. This is the title. Why hard work is so important and still underrated? And the post is really to combat a trend that seems to be out there among people, among in Twitter, self-help, manuals, all kinds of stuff, that you can have your cake and eat it. You can achieve greatness in everything that you do. Don't work too hard. There's an important balance to be found in life. And Armin is very clear. If you want to be good at something, now, if you want to be great at something, anything you want to be great at, you're going to have to work really, really, really hard. Lots of hours, not just hours, thoughtful hours. More than that. If you want to be great at something, you have to obsess about it. You have to be obsessed by that thing. To be one of the best in the world at anything, at something, you have to work hard. So if you aspire to greatness in whatever you do, and I wouldn't say best in the world, because that's too comparing to other people. If you want to be the best that you can be at something, then you have to work hard at it. You have to obsess about it. You cannot be great at something, Armin writes, and I agree with him. Unless you're obsessed with it. He says, you need to be thinking about it all the time. And that obsession may consume you, and it might not be healthy for you. But that's the difference between being great and just being good. And I think he's absolutely right. If you want to change the world, you're not going to do it working 40 hour weeks. And by the way, he talks about the fact that nobody actually works 40 hour weeks. 40 hour a week is very rare. Think about how many hours you actually work. You're actually productive.  He says very few people, and I agree. Very few people who work 40 hours actually get 40 hours work done. To get 40 hours work done, you often have to work 60 hours, 80 hours. Either a few incredibly productive, focused, energetic people who can get 40 hours work done in 40 hours. But that's a minority. Most of us have to take a lot longer to get that work done. So if you want to be great at something, if you want to be really good, if you want to make a lot of money, not every field allows you to make a lot of money, but if you want to make a lot of money and you are in the right field, you better work hard. And 40 hours is not going to cut it. Take an example. And this is what's amazing to me, because there is this trend against hard work, against focus, against obsession, against really, really, really focusing on career. And yet we all understand that athletes have to do it. That athletes have to work unbelievably hard to just play one game. That it's constant. That it's in season and off season. They work when they're not playing the game. They're thinking about what to eat, how many hours to sleep, what they can and cannot do. Constantly, all integrated about one purpose, playing the game, being the best that they can be. Think about that, they rehab themselves when they get injured, how much effort they put into that. I mean, there's the 10,000 hour rule. I don't know if it's a true rule or not, but there's the 10,000 hour rule that was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that to get great at anything, you have to do it. To master anything, you have to do it. 10,000 hours of practice. But I suspect many of these do much more than 10,000 hours, and it's not just a dumb 10,000 hours. It's a real 10,000 hours. Now this context is a good opportunity to mention the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant this last week. Now I am a Celtics fan. So I despise the Lakers. But Kobe was an amazing player, one of the great players of all time. But Kobe did not become an amazing player accidentally. Luck, yes, he had some physical talents, physical skills, physical athletic build. But Kobe worked it, and worked it, and worked it. I mentioned Neil Purt when he passed away, give me a break, the chat again, always goes crazy, no matter what I'm talking about. So Kobe, I mean, all of these players, they practiced unbelievable, unbelievably. I mean, there's a story that Armin Hoffman cites in this blog post, says Kobe Bryant was training with the American Olympic basketball team in 2012. I mean, this is Olympic basketball, nobody really cares. But Kobe did, because he wanted to be great, wanted always to be great. A trainer met Bryant in Las Vegas and offered to help him whenever he needed it. Bryant ended up calling this trainer at 4 a.m. in the morning to do a conditioning stint. After the workout, the trainer went back to bed to get some sleep before an 11 a.m. scrimmage with the full team. When the trainer returned to the court, he asked Bryant how long he had worked out for. Bryant told him he hadn't left the facility. He had wanted to hit 800 shots and had just finished. Bryant had shown up seven hours early for scrimmage game. That's how you become great. You want to be great at what you do? Then that's what you have to do. So work hard, focus, choose your values. Talked about this in the past. Choose your values, create a hierarchy, decide which is the best, because one of the other points that Arlen makes is you can't be great at everything. You can't be great at everything. So pick a few things you want to be great at. Pick a few areas you really care about. Pick the things that are most valuable to you and be great at that. You have to choose. You have to create hierarchies. People talk about sacrifice, sacrifice something for others. No, you have to create hierarchies and figure out what's more important to you and what's less important to you. I've still got these things on. In whatever you do, if you look at it in every field, great scientists, great musicians, great athletes, great business leaders, every single one of them worked unbelievably hard at what they did. If you're gonna be great, get a work. Get a work.  It means figure out the best way to work. Figure out the smartest way to work. If you're a basketball player, figure out the best way to condition yourself. Figure out how many shots you have to make in order to get better at shooting. Figure out what you need to do to make your work as effective as possible to make you great. And you have to give up stuff to do that.    You cannot be great at everything. You have to prioritize. You have to prioritize.  Sacrifice not in the sense of moral sacrifice but in the sense of giving up something for something else. You don't need to sacrifice to achieve success. It's all BS. You have to work unbelievably hard. You can't have everything. You have to give up some things, sleep in many cases. And you have to figure out what's most important to you and go out and do it. And don't pretend. Don't lie to yourself. Or you can do it all, because you can't. So figure out what you want to do.  You determine.  This is a saying that he quotes, which is pretty good. You can have anything you want but not everything you want, which I think reflects that. I think reflects that. All right. He says that in the end of the day, there are only three ways of getting, of being great at something, three ways, three ways. Lucky, you have to be extraordinary lucky. And include extraordinary lucky. And I think that's really, really, really rare. Being born with extraordinary gift that no one else has, again, that's lucky and that's really, really, really, really, really rare. Or working insane hours. Now, again, working insane hours in the right way. But working insane hours. So if you want to live a great life, you got to find the thing you want to be great at. And focus on that. Strive for that. Create an explicit, higher care values and go for it. One of the things I like about Arne Halfman is, I don't know, my guess is he's been inspired by Inran, but I don't know it. But he, this is like his closing, one of the, almost his closing paragraph in this podcast, in this blog. He says, we enjoy all the pleasures of modern day life because someone worked hard to create them. If only people understood that. If only people recognized it. Dreamers who put their dreams into action have given us medical breakthroughs, space exploration, and the rule of law. So even in politics. Hard work is a prerequisite for changing the world. There's no substitute for it. And despite what some may say, it's still underrated. If you work hard with the right people on the right product, you can change your life and the lives of millions of others. Now that's, that's inspiring. So again, I recommend Arne Halfman, A-U-R-E-N, Halfman H-O-F-F-M-A-N's blog called Summation.net. He has some really interesting stuff. Again, if you're interested in Silicon Valley, if you're an entrepreneur, if you're interested in technology, he's one of the most important thinkers out there on issues around entrepreneurship and technology. Using the super chat, and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity, go to uranbrookshow.com slash support or go to subscribestar.com, uranbrookshow and make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this going. I'm not sure when the next...


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10 Signs An Extravert Likes You Since you guys enjoyed our video titled 10 signs an introvert likes you We thought we would make another video discussing the other side of the spectrum. Hope you enjoy Extroverts can be some of the funnest people to hang out with they can also make the best romantic partners But as many people in the past have found out it's actually pretty hard to figure out if an extrovert likes you This is because their friendliness and warmth can often be misinterpreted as flirting when really they act that way to everyone Other times it can be easier to tell as they'll pretty much just walk right up to you and tell you how they feel Extroverts are an interesting bunch and these tips are sure to help you in figuring out whether that special extrovert has a crush on you One they reach out to you Extroverts are all about not being afraid to reach out That could mean that they are walking down the street and suddenly spark up a conversation with someone This means it's hard to tell whether an extrovert is reaching out to you because they like you or whether they're just really wanting to talk to someone There's no real way to tell but extroverts who like you will definitely try to reach out to you in some way shape or form a Lot of people will tell you that you just know when extroverts are interested in being more than just friends They may be a little flirty when they spark up a conversation with you Or heavily allude to their interest in you Two they invite you to join their circle of friends For extroverts their circle of friends is everything to them So being invited to join his or her circle might just be a sign that they really like you Let's put it this way if they're constantly surrounded by their friends The only real way they're going to get to know you is if they bring you in They may want to get to know you better but prefer to spend time in large groups of people As all extroverts do So the initial form of interest will come in a highly social setting where the focus is on the group not between you and them But be aware of subtle cues like them watching you carefully even if you're hanging out with a large group of people Three they'll open up to you about things that bother them Extroverts really have no problem opening up to people So again, it's hard to know whether the extrovert in question is opening up to you because they like you Or just because you're the only person within arms reach who will listen and again You're going to have to use your instincts to tell you whether they really want to tell you or they just want to tell someone This is something that makes it very hard to tell if an extrovert likes you in virtually all situations It's one of the reasons extroverted people are so often mistaken for flirting when in fact They're just being their normal friendly and outgoing selves in this situation Look for clues that what they're opening up to you about is actually quite personal and Seems like something normal people extroverted or not wouldn't tell random people who just so happened to be passing by Four they make plans with you Extroverted people love making plans and if those plans include you then they might just like you Take note if they seem to be reaching out specifically to you and only you For example an extrovert might be constantly making plans to go and do things with their group of friends But when they want to make plans with you and you alone, you know that they are trying to bring you closer into their life So they can get to know you better This is a classic sign of an extrovert. They want to take charge and take the initiative They want to be the ones that take the first step into one-on-one friendship and maybe even more down the road Five they will tell you how they feel The best thing about extroverts is that they usually are very open about how they feel So figuring out if an extrovert likes you or not may be as simple as standing there and listening to them tell you that they have Feelings for you. It's that simple Chances are that if an extrovert has strong feelings They won't keep it bottled up and will most likely march right up to you and lay it all out on the table This is one of the greatest things about dating an extrovert They won't make it hard for you to figure out how they're feeling. They wear their hearts on their sleeves, so to speak Six they will reveal their personality to you While extroverts can be quite open about their feelings Sometimes they still hide certain parts of themselves that they don't want anyone to know about Even extroverts get self-conscious In fact, they are sometimes some of the most self-conscious people on earth Considering how important their social lives are to them So a great way to tell if an extrovert likes you is if they begin to reveal facets of their personality to you that you had no idea existed If you get the feeling that you're seeing a part of this person that no one has ever seen before Chances are that they really like you and are beginning to trust you enough to show you their true selves Seven they want to call you and text you constantly Extroverts love calling people up and texting them The rise of the smartphone era has helped extroverts perhaps more than introverts Because they don't ever have to truly feel alone And this is one of the biggest fears of extroverted people They're basically only able to relax around other people But just because an extroverted person calls you regularly that doesn't mean that they necessarily like you It could just be that you're the only one who picked up the phone and they've tried seven different people before you It can be a sign of attraction.  This means they're actually planning ahead to speak to you specifically The exact same logic applies to texting Eight just ask them A great way to find out whether an extrovert likes you or not is to just muster up the courage and ask them about their feelings Since they're extroverted the situation isn't likely to get awkward as they usually have strong social skills As previously mentioned extroverts are very likely to be open about their emotions Meaning that they'll probably give you an honest answer when confronted This might be a little daunting, especially if you're an introvert But it's basically assured that the person is going to respect you more for coming out and laying your emotions on the table The thing extroverts dislike the most is people who try to hide everything and drop hints instead of just coming out and admitting their feelings Nine they go outside their comfort zone for you This is a huge sign that an extrovert likes you and it quickly becomes obvious if you're an introvert The things extroverts hate the most is sitting in silence or being in a small group of people Or doing something relaxing that doesn't involve bouncing off the walls and yelling at the top of their lungs So when they actually go outside of their comfort zone for someone It's a sign that they really like them An example would be an introvert who likes nothing more than quietly reading at home If an extrovert really likes that person they'll come over and quietly read with that person Even though in their mind they want nothing more than to be loud and obnoxious The willingness to make sacrifices for someone else is a clear sign of attraction no matter what personality 10 they don't want you to leave Another sign that an extrovert likes you is that they really don't want you to leave As previously mentioned an extrovert's worst nightmare is being alone for long periods of time So this is where you have to be careful Do they not want you to leave them alone because they like you? Or because they want literally anyone to keep them company This is a question you have to ask yourself very seriously And like many other items on this list You really have to use your instincts to find the answer But one clear sign that they're definitely attracted to you is if they don't want you to leave Even when they're already surrounded by people This means without you they feel alone because you're the only one that makes them feel truly happy Have you ever liked an extrovert that showed signs like those mentioned in this video? Are you yourself an extrovert and if so can you relate to these traits? Let us know in the comments below If you like this video be sure to check out our other social media for more content and don't forget to subscribe Thanks for watching


I think most of the jury members have spoken and most of the people here are wanting to see who's getting the next award rather than listening to Rajnaik. But it was an excellent system that was created. What I liked was it was for me also it was first time judging on digital where we were put into grooms, you know compartmentalized, there were different people and yet we could talk to each other and it was nice and we had our own lunch break as well in between so it was fun and like I think one of your jury members I can't remember the name now just mentioned yeah there were good entries and there were a little to be desired entries but that's that's a reality of life but great great effort and congratulations to all the winners and I must say big congratulations to all of those who had the courage and conviction to participate you know in today's DNA for people to take it lightly but to say that no this is something this is something that we have to support this is something that will it's an abnormal situation and the organizers have gone ahead and decided to continue with the awards like somebody again mentioned you could have delayed it but you decided to go ahead with the awards and for first of all a big big big clap to all those people who participated I think without participation it means nothing as a part of the esteemed jury and congratulations to all the winners and those of you haven't won always remember it's taking that first step you've taken that first step your your time will come thank you so much


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We have lots to talk about today, so let's get right to it. We're at a tipping point in this pandemic. Not only is the second wave underway, yesterday we hit the highest daily recorded cases, well above what we saw this spring. I know this is discouraging, especially going into Thanksgiving weekend. But remember this, when things were at their bleakest during the first wave, Canadians pulled together and flattened the curve. Every time you wear a mask, every time you stay home when going out is unnecessary. Every time you help a friend download the COVID Alert app, you are part of the solution. We flattened the curve before, we can do it again. And now, we have even more tools to help us. On Tuesday, Minister Anand and Minister Haidu announced that the government has signed an agreement with Abbott Rapid Diagnostics for up to 20.5 million rapid tests. The COVID Alert app is up and running in 8 out of 10 provinces, now including PEI, and has been downloaded more than 4 million times. The more people use the app, the more powerful this tool will become. It's another way for each of us to do our part to protect our loved ones, our neighbors, and our fellow Canadians. The new cases are increasing, and there is a huge pressure on hospitals and health workers who are more and more exhausted. Together, we have managed to flatten the curve in the spring, and we are able to do it again. And now, we have even more tools to help us. On Tuesday, Minister Anand and Minister Haidu announced a hearing that will allow us to get up to 20.5 million rapid tests. In addition, 8 out of 10 provinces, including Quebec and the island of Prince Edward, are now using the free COVID Alert app, which has been downloaded more than 4 million times in the country. Plus, there are people who use it, plus the tool will be effective. It's a way for all of us to protect our loved ones, our neighbors, and our frontline workers. So I invite you to download the app right now. Our top priority is keeping Canadians safe as we support people through this storm. This morning, we received the news that 378,000 jobs were added to the economy in September as the unemployment rate continues to go down. This is good news for a lot of people, but we also know that there's still lots more work to be done. Earlier this week, Canadians could begin accessing the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit and the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit for people who are not covered at work if they get COVID-19 or if a family member gets sick. Next week, applications will also open for the Canada Recovery Benefit, which is replacing SERB for those who can't access EI. At the same time, we're also looking at how else we can support businesses as we outlined in the Throne Speech. Today we are announcing new support for Canadian businesses so that they can keep workers on the job and get through the coming months. Deputy Prime Minister Freeland will provide more details, but here's the bottom line. Even if many businesses have now reopened, most are not back to full capacity while many others are facing the uncertainty of a second wave. Our goal is to support Canadian employers and help businesses bridge to better times. That's why we are updating support for commercial rent and mortgage payments with the new Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy. This will provide support to businesses directly, not through landlords. For businesses who've seen a revenue drop, the new rent subsidy can support up to 65% of eligible expenses and up to 90% for businesses temporarily shut down by a mandatory second wave public health order. At the same time, we are extending the wage subsidy at a rate of up to 65% of eligible wages to December and expanding the Canada Emergency Business Account for those small businesses that need it, including with an additional $10,000 forgivable loan. We'll also work to target financial support directly to businesses that have temporarily shut down as a result of local public health directions.  That's why our response needs to be targeted and effective. Small and large businesses create jobs, drive our economy, and make our communities stronger. Our government will continue to do whatever it takes to support them. As we mentioned during the Trump speech, our government will continue to support businesses that are experiencing difficulties during this crisis. This morning, we learned that 378,000 employees were added to the economy in September and that the unemployment rate is still low. That's good news, but there's still a lot of work to be done. Even if many businesses are open again, most of them don't work in full-time and others are worried about the uncertainty generated by the second wave. That's why we are adjusting the help of the commercial lawyer by creating the new Canada Emergency Subvention for the lawyer. This support will go directly to businesses that have lost money because of the crisis. Subvention will reach up to 65% of eligible expenses and 90% for businesses that have to be temporarily shut down as a result of local public health directions. We will also continue to do so by adding up to 65% of eligible salaries to December and the emergency account for Canadian businesses, among other things, by adding $10,000 of conditional remittances for small businesses that need it. We are warning of targeted financial support to help businesses that have to close their doors temporarily to combat explosions. We know that the second wave will be even more difficult for those who will be affected. Our response must be targeted and effective. For many, the action of grace is a time to share a good meal between family and friends. Even if this tradition has been broken this year, we must not forget that there are also Canadians who live in a serious food insecurity situation. This sad reality has been accentuated by the pandemic. In April, we announced an investment of $100 million in order to improve food access for Canadians in the most remote parts of the United States. Today, I announce that we will add $100 million more to national, regional and local organizations that are coming to help those who are not eating at their meals. This good time will be spent by the Intermediary Fund for Food Security of the Government of Canada, and the Minister will be able to provide more detail in a few moments. This morning, I went to the grocery store to buy food for the remittances at a food bank. We remembered a few tips for those who want to make donations, and I know that you are many to think about others this weekend of the action of grace. Priorize non-pairing food like canned food. Food prepared in the microwave oven is easier to access for those who don't have a oven and don't forget to make healthy choices. Our government will continue to support Canadians during this crisis, especially the most vulnerable who are the hardest to touch, but I encourage everyone to do their part. In April, we invested $100 million in emergency funding to help food banks and community organizations with their vital work. Today, I can announce that we're putting another $100 million towards supporting food banks, local food security organizations, indigenous groups serving vulnerable people in communities, and partners for Northern communities. Last night, I had a video call with Food Banks Canada and got to hear from incredible volunteers and staff from right across the country. They do remarkable work supporting vulnerable Canadians every day, and that includes this Thanksgiving weekend. No one should be left behind regardless of where they live. In July, when we finalized the Safe Restart Agreement, the federal government and the First Ministers recognized that smaller jurisdictions face distinct challenges and circumstances. Today, I can announce that additional top-up funds of over $37 million will be included in the first payments to the territories under this agreement. A supplemental $41.4 million will also go towards air carriers to ensure essential air services to remote communities in the north. Minister Leblanc will have more details in a few minutes, but I want to especially thank MPs Larry Bagnell and Michael McLeod and our Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal for their leadership and their important work on supporting our Northern communities. I know that the long weekend is coming, and that several are disappointed not to be able to get together. The Grace Act, as we know it, may be different, but we are committed together to make all the efforts possible to stop the spread of the virus during the next few weeks so that we may be able to take Christmas in person with those we love. Every time you wear a mask, that you stay at home when it is not necessary to go out, that you tell a friend to download the alert COVID application, you are part of the solution. Our Thanksgiving traditions may be temporarily changed by this pandemic, but our resilience and our determination remain strong. What we do now will shape the numbers we see in two weeks and set us, hopefully, on the right track for family gatherings at Christmas. So let's work together and let's flatten the curve.