So, I've been exploring these maps since my, since my uh, Alexandria video. I'm looking at these and to go focus on the area. I guess not. I guess. I was looking at this cave. This cave in structural width. Thoroughly. This one. This one I specially. It's actually very coincidental. I just clicked on it. I didn't see that name. But, but it's the cave that was mentioned in the film. The Man From Earth. Which I'm captivating. Historically, historical fiction book. Science fiction. It's uh, just a beautiful story. And I've favored movies. Episode. I just recently put out. If you'd like to learn. Essentially it's uh, 6,000 years. Lays Aussie. It's what's instigating me to make me search. Five skeletons of pro magnets. The earliest known examples of our species. Homo sapiens. Lays Aussies. Deitya. These skeletons included a fetus. And the skulls were remarkably modern looking. And a much rounder. Lascaux. Lascaux. It's the setting of a complex of caves. Near the village of Montenegro. 600 parietal wall paintings. Cover the interior walls. And ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals. Discovered by 18 year old Marcel Ravida. Cave walls were covered with depictions of animals. Galleries that suggest continuity, context, or simply represent a cavern. A visitor's condition deteriorated increasingly infested. Only the cave was closed to the public in 1963. 605 of these have been precisely identified out of these images. There are 364 of stags. Also represented are cattle and bison. Seven felons. A bird. A bear. A rhinoceros. And even a human. Even though that was the principal source of food for the artists. This also have been found years ago. We were. Cause that's fascinating. But there's also apparently lots of other places. Videos to boring. Need something. Ignasian. Our Ignasian from 42,000 years ago. Through lower Sultrian levels. Until max 17,000 years ago. With anatomically modern human remains, tools, and artifacts. Satellite views. I guess it's just not. So I don't want to show you guys these pictures, but I want to have a little bit of information. Ideally with it as well. So the site includes human remains, cultural artifacts made during the Upper Paleolithic 47 to 17,000 years ago. In 1958, a small carved female figure. But I guess in really 2,000 years is beginning to be more and more consequential. I guess that's the atheistic designation. The figure represents a comparatively young woman. More slender and grasile than is normally the case. Roughly carved with contours suggesting pregnancy. Movious wrote that despite disharmonic features, the overall proportions pleasing and at first glance symmetrical. Movious continued from a stylistic point. The figure has been rendered in the finest tradition of Upper Paleolithic art represented by the well-known series of carvings and statuettes collectively known as penises. The figure was found following a violent storm making its origin within the shelter. Difficult to know exactly. Let me switch it up. Gansalade, Magdalenean anatomically modern human remains dated to 17,000 years ago. Found in the cave of Reimondon, Gansalade. These photos pop up. Probably won't cause my internet is terrible apps but you'd think there'd be a lot more soul and a lot more sense of wonder and awe about these types of things.   It's like, I feel like there needs to be more to see if this website helps us out. It's just amazing that we're just, just in the last couple thousand years we've emerged, developed, and saved. And technology is kind of the very, very latest invention of the origin in cities and society to exist and sustainably and consistently. Cities, thousands and thousands, sometimes millions, shows the continents, contours of the Europe to horse hunters, Ice Age, the respect to previous cultures, such as the sultry and hunters equipment, Flint spirit tips, production techniques changed throughout 6,000 years of the Magdalene. There were shifts in production. Our peer, Poon's glacial period of the Pleistocene reached its maximum extent some 20,000 years ago. The vast areas of the Earth were covered in a thick layer of sea levels where some think Florida would be about 490s of fresh cold water from the melting icebergs were released quickly, which cooled surface waters and triggered desert, desertification, accentuate that one, very cold. Of course it's on Reddit, awesome. So I guess that is England, but it doesn't really show exactly the, something like this. So, England. This was a very K episode, about 36,000 years ago in one of these caves. It's so amazing that 30,000, 50,000 years ago, just for even 50, say I've actually, let me finish my thought. It was that, regardless of what these more speculations of granted are true or not, I mean he's positing that there were extremely advanced civilizations beyond 12,000 years ago possibly got wiped out. Even if that's true, which that would be, God, that would be a bit wildernessly fascinating if it was. In the sense that we know because of our existence that we as a species, as a human species across the entire world we survived millions of years of evolution. Well, as humans as intelligent monkeys with opposable thumbs who harnessed fire, we've at least been around for, God says something about, must have been to survive the horrifying predators, predator physical abilities the first world brought translating the physical reality that we harnessed to create using quantum and gavel of the solar system the land of our species are just we're burgeoning with possibility if we all just remind ourselves how awesome we were at least we would live in such of people pushing themselves to the absolute limit but here's the kicker, speaking skills, speaking of them so you have to have, you can't have one without the other or else it just becomes a game of dominance like it's been for the last, we'd be so content


In the same reaction, former governor of Emo State, Senator Rochao Rochao has said there is nothing like police brutality in Nigeria. Rochao said what is referred to as police brutality is a situation where youth brutalize each other. He claimed the policeman, accused of brutal actions against the youth, is also a young person and his actions are born out of frustration. Rochao was speaking at the world press conference where he declared his ambition to run for president come 2023. My heart is full of mixed feelings. One side of me is very joyous and the other side my heart bleeds. Twenty years ago, I ran for the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria because of my passion and vision to make great my nation. That I did not succeed. I said these three points and I believe that all of you will agree with me that if I did business of taking who should be your president, that's where I stand at. It is for this reason that I want to inform you that please permit me to be a pilot for the new Nigeria. All I want to appeal to our politicians and those who want competition to please think about the nature of this country. Today you may have heard that people are talking about zoning, rotation. I'm not a candidate of rotation, but I'm a candidate of rotation or zoning. I'm a candidate of justice.


So just I want to say we are all together to get back this place and I want to make a community here a nice community with the nice people with an attrition or with an attrition anymore okay and without the criminal activity no criminal activity to be a nice and secure place here for people like me and people are courageous so we are in this point here because few months ago I said to these people here I said look we must to keep this place clean we must to keep this place without the criminal activity we must to keep this place to keep each other to respect each other but I want to tell you honest something okay these people here they can be criminal they can be drug addict they can be alcoholic they can be anything but they never touch it my stuff never I have no evidence these people they steal if they do into the store or somewhere just for food they do this just to survivor to simple survivor because the city the city is doing nothing to help these people to find out like a house you know what I mean like a affordable house but I want to be clear I want to be clear it's okay I want to be clear this place which I love this is my house the 19 of this month when they will show up here wherever cops bulldogs are everything I will stay here to protect my place but if they ever say the cops say okay so you know you must to leave if you know we are going to enforce you okay I respect the rules I will leave but I will be back here with the legal issue who touch my place I will be here because I know my rights I am a human being like all these people here and we are we not deserve to be in the middle of nowhere just because you decide you decide to give us five days time to live five days they are nothing totally nothing at least they give us opportunity to 30 days they give it to me 45 days and thing like that but my goal is to stay here and to build a nice community if if I can if I can if these people here agree with me with they agree with me and they follow me if you know I say okay so you know you must to go I will live if the cop start to show up again here and to repeat the similar situation the similar trash the similar shit again I will say okay I say honest to people I have no criminal record I have my freedom my full freedom because actually when you get the criminal record you have enough your full freedom you agree with me no way in my countries like that you have enough full freedom as I saw these people here tonight they are going to make a protest they are going to make a protest for me it's a kind with a disagree because we were supposed to meet each other here the 19 in the morning to make a protest here when they will come without violence weapon violence weapon you agree with me and fire screaming yelling I am a gangster totally against that but I want to make it clear something okay I want to make it clear something okay so I want to make it clear if an example they arrest some people or two peoples they they are not supposed to make it something in general you know what I mean to say everybody's criminals okay even me even me if they say that but if they say that to challenge them I show them I have a criminal record I am an ace people I try to do something better for this place I have a determination to start to buy tomorrow morning if they give me a chance I have a determination to start tomorrow morning if they give me a chance no check no money just free because I wish to help people to keep the displays here and to let the people in freedom but always to follow the rules to be respectful with to the law you understand what I mean with to the law everything I am an advocate for this place to stay open however I do believe it needs to be cleaned up a little with the garbage with the drug activity with the stealing I've been the victim of the stealing I have had money most importantly but my home got destroyed I'm stuck in that tiny little tent crawling around on the ground with barely any belongings because my money my items that I came with were stolen and I don't think people should do that and I think there should be a noise curfew whatever that's called I my brain's foggy on that but from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. no noisy motors yet to be quiet turn your lights down just don't be disruptive to people trying to sleep between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. because those are quiet hours that's it quiet hours and I am an advocate for this place to stay open because unfortunately I ended up here because of the housing shortage and I need to be here but I need to be here with better conditions I can't be in that tiny tent crawling out I have broken ribs I have pain in my back that thing's killing me sleeping on the ground it's agony I need a better structure gardening shed with a bed in it a trailer with a bed in it like not having to go to you know plumbing water not having the electricity not having to go outside in the middle of the night because I have to go to the bathroom stuff like that I think that that could improve in that aspect especially with winter coming no one wants to go outside in their winter boots at 12 a.m. just to go to the bathroom to walk through that that coldness and so that could improve for the winter getting people like into better buildings and but right now right now I I I do not agree with that structure I'm staying in now it is too small I'm crawling around the filthy dirty ground it's it's not right for my disability and the noise and everything that in the drug activity and people stealing from me is wreaking havoc with my mental health and I'm just asking for a better building or a trailer or something like a gardening shed or just something with a bed in it and and more of the things I need for daily activities comfortably done indoors and I really don't have a problem with this place staying open as long as everybody cleans up their act and you know there isn't so much drug activity and and stealing and and and just just we live as a community and respect each other it's kind of where we all have gathered um started a life um or tried to at least it's uh there's good and bad but we all seem to get along for the most part and make the best of what we have um it's really too bad it's coming to an end or potentially coming to an end honestly this place has been here forever and what I think it's all the news castings that have been on it like since the first time this was in the news we started seeing an increase in cars driving by taking pictures and staring at us and throwing rocks at us and just all kinds of stuff um has happened since it really came to light that this was here to the general public before then there weren't a whole lot of problems I mean I'm sure the bad ones that you know steal stuff had police interactions here but other than that I mean it wasn't really that well known about um and then all the news media or the attention from the news gathered everybody and it's just been downhill from there and I mean they say some guy was showing a gun that's yeah he had a BB gun that looks like an AR-15 but he didn't point it at anyone he didn't he wasn't trying to scare people he it's just it's ridiculous like I was out there for the whole thing and I'll be testifying for him along with all of the other camp parts of the camp that witnessed that um it's uh it's too bad we could definitely do a lot to make it a little more appealing I guess you could say uh or less of an eyesore I battle with that every day trying to keep my area clean and some days you get it some days you don't as far as the criminal part I mean wherever you go there's criminals there's I mean you go to an apartment complex there's going to be criminals there that you know I don't know we're all just humans ideally if if I had it my way um it would be just tell us what we need to do to fit in I guess you I'm sure cleanliness is part of it um how can we make this work it's there was no resolution offered it was just hey you have five days to get out I mean and she stated the mayor had stated that this place has only been here since April this place has been here over a decade I hear of people coming and going from here 10 years 15 years ago granted now it's more populated there's a way it could work and I I definitely agree with a lot of the mayor's points but the way it's being handled isn't isn't fair to us I mean I have I have a lot of stuff I I'm a business owner and I I have a lot of stuff and nowhere to bring it um yeah it's kind of abrupt and I mean on top of that five days two two or three of those days have been complete rain like what what do we do there are the people without a vehicle um how are they supposed to use those days in a way that works for them I mean it's not doesn't seem very fair I mean and granted we don't rent the place but general renters writes you at least get what 30 or 90 days or something notice I mean and I'm not saying that's how it should be because we don't rent here we just kind of stay here but there's got to be some kind of happy medium if we do have to leave that makes it so we're not losing everything so everything we've worked on isn't for nothing I have a camper down here um and that's I've had to rebuild it from the inside while living in it it's still not done and now to have to leave takes my focus away from winterizing it I mean I'm I'm screwed to say the least I don't even have good tires on it that'll hold that'll hold air I mean and it's not a matter of finding the tires because I can get tires it's a matter of the time to put them on when I'm trying to take care of all of this seriously to a lot of people has become a sanctuary more than just a homeless encampment I've never had a city official or anyone from the city other than law enforcement come talk to me and it's always been to ask who did what where is this who stole that it's never been to tell me their their problem with us like I understand yes it's trashed right now it's not everybody though and I I have been persuading people to help clean up it's just with everything going on yeah a lot of people have gotten to a depressed stage because this is this is their home this is their last resort and now the city is taking away their home I can't say that all people here don't have another place to go but I know a good sum of a lot of people here don't there's elderly here who I've watched last year nearly break a hip trying to get up out of her tent because she doesn't have a retirement fund she doesn't have family anymore because so on and so forth and I've seen a lot of good people here get crushed by I don't even know how to say it the slander that we get just for being homeless Sears Lane is willing to cooperate and I've talked to everybody including some who may not agree but to an extent they do they don't want to lose this place they've built lives here they've built again their homes here there people here are willing to cooperate as long as we're able to be heard and understood not a lot of us had a choice to be here recently here there was a drug raid and one person out of that raid was arrested criminal activity I can't speak for everybody because I know there are some here who are completely guilty I'm not going to name names it's not everybody there are people here who are just trying to live everyday lives like the next person Sears Lane will work together I know they will because we've grown to know each other we're each other's neighbors we are right next to each other all up in each other's business all the time no matter what we can hear a whisper 30 feet away sometimes even with the generators again I can't say everybody will cooperate due to their own reason but I know most people here there's only probably two people here that won't cooperate but everybody does want this place to stay because a lot of us really don't have anywhere else to go there's really no reason to slander us there's no reason to put us down we are not pigs we are not all criminals we just unfortunate things happen to us and that happens to everybody some more than others some less than others some react in different ways this is just where we ended up and I'm pretty happy to be here because I had I was never able to really call a place home and this is the first place I've actually wanted to stay and be a part of I moved into Sears Lane Camp six years ago spent most of that year living in the camp I've been involved with the camp ever since since I was on the steering committee of the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance I got very involved and integrated into the homeless services community and since I concluded my term with the alliance I have been interested in and active in defending the rights of people to have a home even when they don't pay rent and when they don't have a mortgage it's pretty plain that there are a lot of personalities and a lot of different ways of being in the world here there's a fair portion of people who are rent protesters so I don't want to pay money to a landlord to let them keep all the money and I'm I'm left broke um there's uh any number of folks here who just want to do their thing uh there are people here who are without any other place to go that they are aware of I mean you gotta you hunt around and you hunt around and you you don't see any place that seems viable and then you end up here I'm not going to say the city had to do this eviction thing to get to where the negotiation could open I don't think that's true but the city still has an opportunity to work with people here to build a community that is safe clean and internally regulated and it just has to decide that it's going to have a homeless camp and that it needs to create a framework for that community to thrive I mean as of up to this point in this moment in time it has acted as it under the terms of its understanding it this is trespassing and there is no way to be legal and that's wrong when when people need a place to live and they find find the unoccupied land and the land belongs to the city in the first place the job of the city the job of any community is to find a way for people to have a place to live and if this is where we find to live then we need to also figure out how to make it work so one of the complaints that the city has of course is that the housing is unsafe personally think that that's more of a rhetorical kind of objection a way of saying oh the housing is so unsafe it's not okay it's illegal well well if that's the problem help people build houses tiny houses um make small structures that can be insulated do it find the you you got all the arpa money right you could do it just do it build build good housing help the people to build the housing the people here who are perfectly capable of building housing yeah yeah just work it out make it happen it's a community and the people here are willing to do the work that's what people want an opportunity to take care of themselves to do the work to build their own home and not pay what money they have so somebody else could put it in their bank account sears lane has existed then probably most of you have been in this town it's been around since before i was born people have been living there this land is for people and the city taking it back abruptly right before winter is inhumane it is an act of violence it is an act of state sanctioned violence against the most member or most vulnerable members of our community and we need to come together and demand its stops it never should have happened and i'm going to try my damnedest to make sure they back out not even give people more time just stop all this fucking nonsense uh yeah so we're gonna have some people speak their minds residents of burlington we got some people from the camp that might want to speak i i can't you know guarantee any of that because they're vulnerable people and they will be targeted by the police for speaking out in their own defense and that's why we have to stand up and fight for people like that's what this shit's about it's coming together and protecting people when the state is trying to literally kill them i'm just here to give a little bit of the like sort of background context of like yeah the background context of like what is actually happening here today and what has happened over the past couple of weeks and why is this so fucked up so let me just get to the right part of my document um okay burlington is evicting our houseless comrades we need your support that's why you're here the city of burlington has given campers at sears lane in the south and five days noticed to leave or face legal consequences this comes directly after the city had put out a request seeking a non-profit to help manage the encampment in a way that would have allowed for some of the structures and people to remain in place instead of following through with that program as imperfect as it was the city conducted a raid on the camp a few days ago now because one person was arrested the entire camp has been threatened with legal action if they don't leave by the 19th at five p.m. we need to show up for our friends join us join the campers join burlington cob watch food not cops all the people who are here listen listen listen it's it's important that we show up for the houses community because on every okay you want the mic what's up what's going on relax can i say can i do my thing can i let keep it at the black person's week okay so um yeah it's just important because the child remember that on every given day we're more closer we're closer to being homeless than we are to being billionaires like let that be known like last summer and a couple of months ago like i was experiencing like houselessness like i was like what the fuck um it could happen to any of us like i'm a 21 year old college student uh and yeah so humble yourself and also come out tomorrow to like you know show up for a show up for your community and be there and i see some city counselors here and i'm glad y'all are here but it's like how can you how can you be a part of administration that literally is classic classes ableist like all these isms continuously like he is a perpetual fucker and i'm over it like he should have been voted out i'm sorry i'm so sorry like we're gonna go there we're gonna go there max tracy i'm so sorry the ugly bitch like that i'm so sorry but anyway um yeah like come out show up for your community because we all we got we are all we got we are each other's business that's all i gotta say thank you i'm steven marshal and i've been part of the series lane camp for about six years i first moved in there uh during about of homelessness um at the invitation of some of the residents there we were camping in the woods and the parking lot was empty and it was a beautiful beautiful place and i really i really have just can't tell you how emotional i get when i think about living there we had a campfire and we had a good time um we had our conflicts and issues too don't get me wrong but anyway so uh i've been an advocate for the uh homeless community in burlington and for the series lane camp for these six years when um at one point we had an eviction the camp was closed there were somebody in the camp who was dealing drugs and uh there were a few incidences with guns and the truth is that the people in the camp wanted it closed because they felt so unsafe with the people who were there so it was all cool the those folks uh ended up in a hotel or uh the folks who were causing the trouble and everybody else got into shelters the people who got into who were causing the trouble ended up in a hotel or an apartment or something and it all worked out the following year i i brought people back you know the neighborhood thought hey it's closed now great well it wasn't closed it was an it was an open space it was available for homeless folks and we were going to use it so thank you yes uh it's really important to me that series lane camp remains available for homeless people to occupy when they need to let me put it to you this way i'm going to jump way ahead in my in the arc of my story just to say this if this camp closes it will not be you we will not be able to use it again and for within memory you know projecting into the future how do you know people will have to have forgotten about this episode before the camp can be occupied again so what is that 10 20 30 40 50 years who knows probably they will develop it before it gets used again and it will be closed as a place for homeless people it is imperative that we keep this camp open so that people can live there thank you Stephen um you've always helped me since i moved in there me and my girlfriend moved in here a couple years ago we didn't have nowhere to go i lived in a tent with her um there was only two people on the property some several people moved across the fence and um you know they did their life we did ours we mine our business they minded ours i came home one day everything that owned was burned and destroyed because we wanted to mine our own business and i recuperated i got a job i bought a pop-up trailer more people moved in across the street that still currently live there they stole my pop-up trailer cut it through the fence and it's still there on that property um i have been wronged by several people there that still currently live there but i can't say names i would never um but my story is very prevalent down there and i still live right across the road now to protect the two businesses across the road um and there is a lot of good people in that camp and i've always been through there every day since that place started since i've been around i now harbour no ill will towards the people that did what they did i've recuperated i've really caught my losses i bought a new trailer you know i went to peach rv i keep investing keep investing and it's not nothing towards anybody i like my lifestyle like that too um it just because i have a bigger rv doesn't mean nothing um i still live off the grid um everything i had destroyed and and i watched all the criminal element all night long i never thought for a million years million years that i would end up there um i was stalked i have extenuating circumstances i've been trying to get on my feet for four years um i have a license in clinical social work and massage therapy and i was essentially chased out of my own home and i don't want to talk too much about that because what i'm more interested in is sort of what other people have experienced and i've done some interviewing um and talked to some folks and believe it or not a lot of the folks that are homeless these days don't even understand what happened um everyone's got their own story about how things went down and um people would be surprised you know there's a lot of judgment that that takes place and people are uninformed they don't realize that people who are homeless do have extenuating circumstances that need to be addressed and a lot of it involves things like mental illness which uh there seems to be a a bit of shame around and um things that need to be dispelled and people need to be advocated for appropriately um so i just want to say yeah and we don't know where we're going to be laying our head in a few days here and we really appreciate all your support and hopefully you will never have to have this experience that's my blessing for you my name is chrysanthemum i am a trans femme and uvm community activist and i think that this clearing of the camp follows in the history of a lot of uvm and burlington's history of settler violence and colonialism um because we are sitting here today on stolen avanaki land and even more broadly i think that us here as uvm students and i see a lot of uvm students here today uh we have a particular responsibility in this community to stand up for the people who are more vulnerable because not only is uvm a predominantly white and rich institution but the impact that it's having on the housing crisis in this city is insane you look at the condors and apartments on for rent on campus at the redstone apartments they are averaging around one thousand one hundred to one thousand and two hundred dollars a month for a single bedroom and rent how are people supposed to afford that and what impact is that having on our community as a whole and so do uvm students i just want to say that we have a responsibility to step up in the next couple of days i expect each and every one of you to go into your classes into your dorms into your group chats into your floor chats and tell everybody about what's going on and tell everybody about how they can participate in the solution because students in this city we heard all of the power to alter change we are the economic base of this city a uvm is the largest economic institution in this region and we just need to step up we really do we really need to step up big time and so i hope that i see all of you guys there at city council tomorrow evening i hope that all of you are reaching out to your friends about coming out on tuesday and we just have to be prepared to stand up for the vulnerable people in our community


Okay, thank you everyone. I hope you enjoyed that presentation. It's great to have all of you here asking questions and thank you to everyone who's already submitted your questions. I'll be doing my best to go through the most sort of upvoted inquiries from all of you here in the community. As I said earlier, if you have trouble using the online service, we do also have mics available as well, so go up and stand at the mic and when I catch your attention, I'll have you ask your questions. But let's jump right in. The top voted questionaries is how have the last two years changed your thinking about our continued reliance on in-person events for both building the project and funding the Drupal Association? I mean, I think in-person events have always been critical to Drupal success. So I wouldn't want to get rid of them in any way or shape, you know? I think it's hard sometimes to work together without never having met each other in-person. I think, I mean, it's entirely doable, of course, and we're the proof of that. But what I've noticed in the last 21 years is that relationships can really change once you've met somebody in-person.  And so I think that's probably too strong of a statement, but like making these connections and building relationships is critical to how we interact. And I think it's also what gives meaning. You know, I talked a little bit on stage about how my person, a purpose, has changed over the years, and it's, today, it's a combination of meaningful work as well as the meaningful relationships that I've built over the many years in the Drupal project. And I really do believe that they've become meaningful relationships because we've met in-person. It doesn't mean you couldn't have a meaningful relationship with somebody just without meeting in-person, but I do think it helps a lot. It helps a lot to hang out together, get to know each other more on a personal level than just talking about maybe code or the kind of stuff. So I'm kind of long winded here, but I think it's critical, you know? I would never want to see events go away. I think that's fair, and I think speaking from the Drupal Association's perspective, events have always been a big part of who we are. As Dries mentioned in one of the earlier sessions this week, the Drupal Association was founded out of the kind of surprise that DrupalCon events, volunteer-driven, were getting bigger and bigger and bigger and creating this community of people and a source of funding that could be used to do a greater good, to amplify the Drupal project further. And since then, obviously, we've become, you know, aware of the risks that come along with that, having a major funding source be these in-person events, right? We had to weather that storm over the course of the last two years, and we did it very well, thanks to some really good planning at the board and leadership level of the association and the support of the community, which was critical. But I know that's a conversation that we talk about a lot and that the board talks about a lot is just that diversification of the base of the Drupal Association support so that we can adapt to these changing situations. I'd also add on a personal level that one of the more delightful outcomes of going virtual over the last two years is we had so many people present at our virtual DrupalCon events who could never have made the trip before, never afforded the travel, all those sorts of things. And that's something we've also talked about how to capitalize on that again in future and make that possible. And one of the things we've realized, and I don't know how many hybrid events any of you may have attended before, like the idea of doing the simultaneous in-person and virtual, is those can be very tricky. Like I myself found myself feeling a little bit left out of I think it was the All Things Open Conference, which I attended as one of the virtual speakers, and I saw so many of my friends from this community and other communities who were attending the in-person component and like didn't quite work. So we're trying to figure out the right model for enabling those interactions, but also being fully present when we are here together in person and can take most advantage of that. So I hope that begins to answer the question and I'm sure we can go through it more. Also related to sort of the new environment of the last couple of years, the question is how is the health of our contributor pipeline? Has the pandemic helped or hindered our efforts to grow the community? It's a good question. I think I would give it a mixed scorecard in a way. I think the commercial ecosystem is doing well and they're hiring people. So that's a very positive sort of result and I see it at AQUI and my own company as well. The negative is actually that a lot of these people have been so busy dealing with client work that they haven't had the chance to contribute as much and also maybe had some fatigue because they're always on their computers. So what we've seen is that Drupal is kind of accelerating the businesses in the Drupal ecosystem are accelerating, but we did see a small drop in total amount of contribution. Now, the other thing that I should add because I did all these analysis on it because I look at contribution annually, which I've come to realize might not be the right way to do it because there is a cycle. There is a time element to contribution. So what we see is that just before a major release of Drupal, there's this huge spike of contribution because all of the contributors are trying to get their modules ready. And so when I looked at the data, last time I looked at the data was like six months ago, we saw a short drop, a small drop in contribution, but we were also not measuring like this peak of the cycle. You know what I mean? So I fully expect that contribution will go up this year because of the Drupal 10 release cycle and the timing elements of that. So anyway, I think overall the community estate pretty healthy despite everything. I think that's my perception as well. I'd love to actually ask you to, I mean, speaking of contribution, at the end of your presentation, you gave kind of a vision of more organizational contribution. And maybe you could just expand a little bit on what you're seeing as the right first step for an organization who's interested in doing that to take to begin this process. I mean, I think there's many different ways to get involved, but it always helps, I think, if you start with something that you are actually passionate about or that you have a need for yourself or that you see one of your customers has a need for. I mean, I think it's a natural place to get started with those things. And that could be anything from making our documentation better to fixing a bug that you've run into to taking on something that you really need yourself. If you look at the history of some of the bigger innovations, a lot of the workflow tools that we added to Drupal 9 were actually funded by Pfizer. They said, we need these improvements and we're gonna contribute them to Drupal Core because they also recognize that they could build them really quick for themselves or even put them in contrib, but they've made a long-term strategic bet on Drupal. They wanna keep using Drupal for the next 10, 20 years. And so, if you think long-term, it actually makes a lot of sense to try and get these things into core so that the community as a whole kind of keeps innovating and improving on those core capabilities, right? So, sometimes it's driven from a need like that, like it's something that's missing in Drupal. So, yeah. Okay, awesome. So the next question here has to do with the extension of Drupal 7 End of Life, which is something we've mentioned across a couple other presentations. And the question asks, how can we best confront the reality that Drupal 7's remarkably durability represents a branch or even a fork of Drupal in a way with its longevity and one that might need maintenance, perhaps in perpetuity? How do you think about it? Yeah, well, I was the person that helped push for the extension and as you know, it was a topic of debate, right? Not everybody liked the fact that we extended Drupal 7, but at the end of the day, when we looked at the data, 60% of all the Drupal sites were still using Drupal 7 and it just didn't feel right to not support those people. And actually have a funny story that's related to that. So, my dad is a medical doctor. He doesn't really know much about the web or Drupal, but one of his patients has a Drupal site. She runs a small non-profit and they use Drupal 7 and they've been integrated with CBCRM and it's a non-profit that helps, I think it helps women with cancer. And she has a very small budget and she went to visit my dad, you know. And she starts complaining to my dad that she has to upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9. And of course my dad is like, oh, here's my son's phone number. You should give him a call. And she did and we had a great conversation and she was saying like, you know, my budget is $10,000 a year. You know, we spent all of it building our websites five years ago or six, I forgot what she said, but maybe 10 years ago. And we really don't have the money. We do not have the money to upgrade. We can't do it, you know. And I think there's a lot of people in that situation that literally can do it. So sometimes I hear people say, well, you know, we should stop support. People just have to upgrade. But the reality is a lot of organizations just can't afford to upgrade. And that's why I felt it was the responsible thing to do to extend the life of Drupal 7. And we're doing it sort of minimally, you know. We're not committing to fixing bugs. We actually reduced the scope of it too. We said we're only gonna focus on sort of important or critical security updates. You know, like Acre even committed to helping doing most of the work, frankly. And so I think it's good, you know. It's good for our end users. And that's what, I mean, I feel strongly that it's the right thing to do. I also understand it is a burden on some people. I also understand that it may have cost some pipeline to dry up for some of the Drupal shops because all of a sudden we gave some relief and all of these things. But the reality is these organizations, they do have to upgrade. And it's not just because of Drupal but a lot of these sites are built on, I forgot what it was, which version of PHP. But that version of PHP is actually end of life in November of this year. So even though we will provide support for Drupal 7, their underlying platform PHP and even my sequel probably are end of life, you know. So there is other problems and other drivers that hopefully will encourage organizations to upgrade, so. Awesome, thank you. I think the next question here relates a little bit to our conversation about the future of the web on Monday and emerging technologies, which is the question is how can Drupal best take advantage of the boom in web three technologies and what do we risk if we don't quickly adopt them? And maybe first I should ask, what's your understanding of what web three technologies are, what that could mean? Yeah, yeah, I think it means, so first of all, I'm very concerned about the impact on climate and on the environment. And so I think we have to tread very carefully. And I think we have to find the right balance. I think we have to be curious about them and monitor what's going on. I don't believe we need to rush to any of these things. I believe that either they'll die these ideas or they'll become better, right? And I think a lot of technology in the world goes through this long optimization cycle. A lot of things that are invented are actually bad at first for the environment and then over time, people work out all of the problems. And I think we can be patient, like keep an eye on these things, but be patient. So I wanted to start with that because I'm, I don't wanna necessarily advocate that we jump through these technologies and I haven't. I haven't spent my own time, my own resources into them, but I have tested a lot of the technologies kind of at night and on the weekends. So I feel like I have a reasonable handle on what they are. There's probably a lot to talk about there, but in a way, I think about them as a set of services that we may or may not wanna use in our projects. Like let me give an example of that. I mean, you have some core technologies like ENS, which is an alternative to DNS and these kinds of things. You have the interplanetary file system, which is actually not blockchain based, but it's a new file system technology that's more decentralized. They have a blockchain layer to it, which is called Filecoin and some alternatives that provide incentive models using the blockchain to incentivize organizations to replicate data, which is interesting, but I do believe there's gonna be new technologies in the future, like one example. There's a lot of innovation sort of in financial services right now, and so let's say you have an e-commerce website. One of the hot trends in the last few years is like this and you probably all have seen it where you can buy something and when you pay for it, you're actually signing up for a loan and you can pay it in 12 months, you know? Have you seen those things? I feel like it came out of nowhere, but so there's third party companies that provide these kind of loans for e-commerce purchases and like a component like this, I could see a blockchain based alternative where you don't have to rely on a central company like a bank or a financial institution to provide these loans. I could see that being a completely automated service with a smart contract that just brokers between different parties and I can see that being interesting because I can see that being at lower interest rates than banks and that is interesting because if I can offer that kind of pay-over-time service at a lower interest rate, the product will cost me less as an end user and so now I can see organizations adopting that because either they have to pay less to these financial institutions or they can make the product available at a more attractive price. So I think at some point we'll see services like that and I think of them as a web service that you may wanna use in your e-commerce, website implementations, but at the end of the day, we'll be building websites in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and we'll be integrating with some of these, potentially it'd be integrating with some of these components. That's how I think about it, I don't know, maybe I'm oversimplifying it, Tim, but and then I also do think there might be some interesting outcomes, not for how we build websites, but how we run an open source project, like there's a lot of experimentation with governance models and how do you make sort of decentralized decisions, funding models I think is interesting? I mean, I don't like NFTs at all but there are some interesting ideas which is basically how do we make sure that value artists create things, developers are kind of artists, they create things, how can we make value go back to the artists? How can we, when somebody maintains and builds something, how can we actually reward them? Financially, is there models for sustaining open source? It's early, early days I think, but you can see some experiments which I think is interesting, but again, to me to be very clear, it's only interesting if we can do it in a responsible way and who knows what will happen. So I would encourage people to pay attention, doesn't mean you have to, you can pay attention without having to make huge investments in it or even any investment in it, so. Very cool. All right, so our next question here relates to the new vision for the ambitious site builders, the new mission for the ambitious site builders and it's kind of a clarification, do you think that this concept is in conflict with a move towards headless or decoupled experiences or custom JS front ends? I don't think so really, they might feel like that to people at first, but then you look at something like Next.js for Drupal, it's basically a decoupled UI which allows you to build forms with it and drag and drop things, so I think they go hand in hand. I mean I think we have no choice but to invest in headless because we need to publish content to multiple channels, we need to embrace those JavaScript frameworks, but we can make it so, we can do these things in a way that is interesting to ambitious site builders, so I don't, I can see why people might think that it is in conflict, but I personally don't think it is. And I think I can give another example. I've seen an implementation, I think it was with Penn State News where they have a Gatsby front end and there's a sort of a prototype of doing a full site preview directly in the Drupal editorial experience, so retaining Drupal's editorial experience and control for the site builders with that fully decoupled front end layer, so these kinds of things are possible and still being built in an area of innovation. And honestly, I think these frameworks are probably gonna end up focusing on site builders too, I think it might be a natural, I mean, I think a lot of these technologies, headless, decoupled, I do think they're all coming together. Like the headless and decoupled vendors adding more capabilities for marketers. Traditional CMSs, if you will, like Drupal, we've added the headless capability, so I think in the end we'll be more alike than different. I think that's the long-term steady state. Okay, our next question relates to the governance of the Drupal project. And Drupal was often spoken about along with many other open source projects as a BDFL project, a project with a benevolent dictator for life, and I've noticed that you've moved your language to project lead, and I think that's been a deliberate choice, but the question is, does the project have a succession plan for you? Yeah, it's a good question. And first of all, I agree with that language not being, actually, I don't recall using it ever myself, it's what other people have called me. But yeah, I do think a lot about succession planning and over the many years I feel like I've put a lot of things in place, people may not think about it that way, but like even the Drupal association is kind of part of a succession plan because I ended up, in the early days, I administered to Drupal.org. That was what I did, you know, and obviously that's been taken over by the Drupal association. You know, on the core committer side, we have a great team of core committers. You know, we add people, we have provisional committers, so like we're thinking about succession planning for each of the roles on the committer team. You know, is there more I can do? Probably, but I do think that I could go away for six months or a year and everything would keep running. I feel like I understand some people are concerned still and that they like to see more and I'm very open to put more things in place to be quite honest, but I do think about it, I feel like I try to put things in place, I understand there's still some things that I do uniquely, like maybe going up on stage here and talking about a vision and a strategy, so maybe that part we need to think a little bit more about.  Does the DA keep a secret vault? So yeah, I don't know who asked the question and if it satisfies, the answer satisfies you, but I do feel like, you know, there's not many big, not many decisions that I'm actually involved in or that need to be involved in. I might be, I don't know if people realize that, but a lot of things are at a place they've kind of run themselves and sometimes I'm an escalation point or sometimes I contribute to do the decision, but it doesn't mean I have to be involved in a decision. All right, so our next question is about the great module migration that you've just proposed. A goal being to reduce the size of core or more specifically kind of the maintenance burden of core really. On the inverse, are there any essential contributed modules that might be brought into core and there's a related question here as you mentioned like web form, for example, as a top 10 module, was that the sort of thing that fits in the content model bucket and therefore under the rubric maybe should be in core? Yeah, no, I think it's a great idea and we actually talked a little bit about it, like we can use that exact same algorithm to have modules move the other way, right? Instead of moving them out of core, we could move them into core. We haven't explored that, but it could be potentially interesting to do that. So I don't know at the top of my head if web forms would classify, but most likely it could classify. And let's say it does, it doesn't mean we have to either. It's being maintained well and this is where the starter templates and project browser comes in because we can actually make it really easy for people to discover it and install it, you know? And so that relieves the need to be in core. Like we add things to core because we feel like everybody should know about this module and a lot of people will install it. So it removes friction. We remove friction by adding things to core, but if we can remove that friction in another way through project browser, for example, and we also add things to core because it removes friction from the maintenance and ongoing updates, right? Like you update core as a whole. We test every core module with every other core module, for example, so we know that these modules will work together and that they're upgradable. But I think we can get to some of the same ideas through project browser, starter kits, automatic updates, all of these things and that would be pretty compelling to me. And I would add to that, if we successfully reduce the friction of using modules, non-core components in people's Drupal sites, I think that would also relieve an underlying anxiety that to call back to our earlier conversation, some individuals or organizations have about the idea of putting forward some new innovation when they don't feel like they know how. Like core seems like the essential gate to bringing these big ideas, but there's so much room for innovation in the contrib space that can achieve the same scale. Like again, we're using webform as the example, but like that's used a lot more than forum module on most sites, right? It's not in core. So I think we can enable that more and hopefully enable folks out here who are trying to figure out how can I be part of the next big feature of Drupal to do so without necessarily having to have this conversation about, well, does it belong in core? Let's take a question from the microphone. I saw the microphones here, so I thought I'd just jump up since I put a question in that's basically piggybacks off of this. And that is, is there any interest in maybe splitting core from a model repo that has all of the sort of core modules in it to having and not just a core and contrib, but having like a core supported tier of modules as well so that you can really sort of build this out and bring modules in and out of that core supported tier more easily? Yeah, I mean, I think it's an interesting idea. Not sure if we've recently discussed that idea to be honest, but the way I would look at it is through the end of the end user. Like we can do these things and if the help is innovate, great. But like how do you make sure it's really good experience, right? For the end user, whether it's installation, upgrade or maintenance experience. If we can guarantee, like I would say, first we need to guarantee the best possible user experience. And then the second thing is like, how do we, what's the organizational structure for how we built these modules? So I think if we can guarantee a great user experience and do this because maybe it helps us go faster then we should strongly consider it. You know, and that's why I'm excited about this composable core strategy because it allows us to take steps in that direction. You know, and we're gonna remove some modules. We're starting with 20% of the modules and these are the least used modules or the least strategic or important modules. And we're gonna see how this works. You know, we're gonna take a first step and then if that goes well, I think to me that feels like maybe like a second step, right, like we can learn from the experiences and as the software project browser which we haven't built yet, matures as we know that automatic updates work which is a really complex thing to do because we don't wanna break people's sights, obviously. If we know that project browser works and starter templates and we've built this robust, reliable, automatic update system, then I think that opens a lot of doors for ideas like the one that you just, you know, suggested. So I think it's a good idea. I just wanna go be careful that we don't impact sort of the end user experience. Right. You know, so. Thank you. I'm really excited about the ambitious site builders plan. I think it's great. One thing that I've noticed amongst site builders that are less technical and are not writing custom code is that they tend to be a bit scared of configuration management and that they're not actually using that on their projects. Like at the higher ed summit yesterday, I think I heard about frameworks where there's, or platforms where there's 400 websites and nobody's using configuration management for anything. So I'm wondering if putting some, something like automatic updates but for configuration management to be more UI based into Drupal would be something to consider. Yeah, could you repeat the last sentence? I'm not sure I got the last sentence, sorry. If putting something more visual so you could have a UI for configuration management, that was easy to use. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, I think it's a great idea. I think you're right. Like there's kind of different levels, right? Like there's using the UI where you can drag and drop or configure things. There's still some configuration only in, configuration files that's maybe hard to manage and then there's actually a writing code and I do think a lot of ambitious site builders, they may not have a, they're not professional developers per se and I know a lot of people got into Drupal because they started using the UI and then they hit like some sort of limitation and then they had to learn some PHP and that was like often their first experience writing code. So if we can push that out as much as possible, the better it would be I think. So if we can build more UIs while providing a lot of flexibility and power, I think that should be our preferred path. So I would be curious what we can do around configuration management specifically to make that easier for site builders. So. Awesome. Okay, back from our set of online questions. Our next question is what's your continuing vision for decoupled experiences with Drupal or headless experiences with Drupal? Yeah, no, it's a great question. I mean, first of all, I think, I think what we have right now is very good. I can tell you from what I see at Acquia, it's one point of view, but we don't lose deals against the contentfuls of the world for capabilities. When we lose a deal, it's only because they have a SaaS solution and it's kind of easier to install and they don't have to do updates. But it's never because of the headless capabilities. In fact, we often win because we have better authoring, we have better multilingual. There's a lot of things better in Drupal. So just wanted to start with sort of the competitive viewpoints. But sometimes I feel like people don't realize how strong Drupal is in this space. At the same time, I think there's a lot of things we can do. We can add more REST APIs to more parts of Drupal and that's why we have the decoupled menu initiative because whenever somebody builds a JavaScript front-end, very often they hard-code the menu, right? And they do that with Contentful and others too, by the way. And so that was silly. I think that is silly. And so that's where the decoupled menu initiative comes in because we want people to be able to administer, create, administer menus in Drupal. We want to empower, let's say marketers or content creators to do that and then magically their decoupled application is updated. And that's not something that competitors do. We have a quote that works. We're trying to get it into core. That's just one example. But there's other examples like that. Pieces that we can take where we can say, we can go from like, why are people hand-coding this too? How can we make this sort of like, you know, deeply integrated with the CMS? So I think there's a list of opportunities like that. And personally, and I alluded to this, I think it would be great if we could actually rewrite the Drupal admin UI using a JavaScript solution at some point as well. The challenge is not, the challenge is like, it's just a lot of work and who's gonna do it. But that would be healthy too for Drupal because it would really, obviously, we would be eating our own dog food, as we say, or drinking our own champagne, I feel like that better. You know? Absolutely. I think there's lots of folks out there who've been working on decoupled projects and have those projects who are well positioned to understand this problem space, to come in and take their recent client work in this area and turn it into contributions. And in case some folks don't know, for more than a year now, you have been able to publish components on Drupal.org, Drupal components other than just modules and themes. You can publish JavaScript components. You can configure pipelines through new GitLab integration for publishing to NPM. All these sorts of things are possible now. So it should hopefully open up the capabilities for people who are working more in the JavaScript world to bring that back into our Drupal ecosystem. Yeah, one of the things I would love to see, and maybe somebody feels compelled to work on it, is a headless install profile in core. So right now when you install Drupal, you can select between, I think, standards, forgot what it's called actually, an umami, let's say, as another install profile. But imagine there's another option that's like the headless install profile, which would pre-configure Drupal for headless things. So it would basically disable things that you don't typically need in a pure headless configuration because I think that would actually be good marketing too, in a way. Like when you install Drupal, you can actually see, like, look, it has this other way of being configured. And then it also kind of removes some friction out of the configuration process because that's an advantage that some of these other systems have. Like they're just the experience, again, the experience is optimized for that kind of use case, and we haven't done that. So often people have to enable JSON API module because it's not enabled by default, I think, or they have to disable, I don't know, some stuff because it's not relevant for a headless application. And that might be a reasonably doable contribution. That might be doable, I don't know how long it would take, but maybe a couple of weeks of work or something. Get over to that contribution room and we'll get it done. All right, let's take a question from the mic. It seems like one of the bigger challenges with upgrading from D7 to D9 is the lack of, you know, where did this hook function go? How do I replace it? Is there any plans to add something like that to the documentation? Because currently it's like, you can look through the comments and hopefully there's like a link to the D8 version in which you'll find one to the D9 version. Or is there anything on the horizon for that? Or is that been discussed? I'm not sure I know the answer to that. It's a good question. The current documentation, right, as you know on Drupal.org, you kind of get separated by major versions. You have kind of the self-contained Drupal 7 and then the Drupal 9. I'm not aware that there is a like machine, parsable mapping between what were the deprecated functions or the changes in functions from 7 to 9. So I don't think that is currently an active plan. I think probably this is an area, there's another question here as well about, you know, considering that Drupal 7's life has been extended and we have, you know, 55%, 60% of sites there. Are there more efforts planned to make this upgrade path easier? People continue to work on the upgrade path. Like, you know, there is a migrate modules in core and every week there is improvements being made to these modules. So we're finding bugs or additions that we add to it all the time. Even though it's been out for a long time, it keeps on getting better. And I think there's really something interesting about your question because it reminds me of what's being done today for the like 8, 9, 10 cycle where we're using Drupal Rector and PHP stand to have automatic kind of deprecation patches and things like that. And there wasn't really an equivalent kind of bridge between 7 and 9 and maybe there's still room for people to try and work on one. Thank you very much. Thank you for this suggestion though. Yeah. Good morning, this is Jason. It's a privilege to be here and I have attended a few Dries notes before. In a previous talk, you just, I think you presented a video that walked through the different steps that it takes to get Drupal set up. And so I was wondering, I know that was a pain point, you know, in terms of like that steep learning curve to get like new people into the platform. Can you describe like how you feel about where Drupal stands now and making that objective or if there's more room for improvement? Yeah, no, I think we made a lot of progress but there's more room for improvement. That's again at the headline.  And now you can actually install Drupal with a one line command line commands. Is that right? But a command line, that's like one sentence. All right, so that's a great thing. We also see things like DDEV and Lando that make the installation a lot easier. So I think there's a lot of great steps taken towards making that simpler.  So that was an initiative that we completed to make that experience better. And in many ways the project browser and the starter templates that I just talked about are kind of next steps in that kind of mission to really improve, you know, the onboarding journey as well as the installation experience of Drupal. And honestly, I don't think we'll ever be done. We'll have to continue to work on this. And funny enough, I don't know if you were in the, was it the Monday keynote panel? We had Adam, was it Adam? From WordPress in the audience? I'm not sure if you are here, but he actually is a WordPress core committer. So deep into WordPress. And he was actually saying like, wow, I installed Drupal and I was amazed how easy it is to install compared to WordPress. I mean, I don't think I would ever expect to hear these words in my lifetime, you know? Let alone from a WordPress core committer, right? So what that means is we're making some good improvements. But I'm not, you know, I'm well aware that we have many more improvements to make. So. Thank you, Jason. Yeah, thank you. All right, let's take the next question. This may be our last one or maybe we'll have time for one more, let's see. Good, I got in line. So, yeah, Todd Smith, Digital World Biology. One question is the future of PHP. So, one of the challenges I see is getting students interested in it. It just, you know, I hear from faculty and stuff, no one wants to learn PHP. And yet, when I look at the internet, it kind of runs a lot of things. And from my perspective, it seems like there's a lot of job opportunities. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's a great question. Thank you. I have a two-sided answer, I guess. You know, one, I see like the amount of innovation PHP is receiving is at the highest levels that I've seen in the last 20 years. You know, like some of the advancements in PHP 8, they're pretty exciting and impressive. Impressive, very. Like, PHP is closing a lot of gaps relative to other technologies very quickly. So, there's almost like this Renaissance, PHP Renaissance, which I think is very good for Drupal. And we're taking advantage of these new improvements in Drupal. It's one of the reasons why we wanted to go to 8.1 even, because there's like cool innovations that would make Drupal easier and better and faster. So, that's great. And then, the factual reality is, PHP is still, I think, the number one used language on the web today. It may not have the most buzz today, but it's, you know, it's used a lot by a lot of sites. I think WordPress is now 80 or 75% of all of the websites in the world.  Like, the massive install base combined with the innovation, I think makes it a great technology to focus on. If you look at Symphony, for example, I mean, Symphony is exploding.  And so, you know, Drupal is built, obviously, on Symphony. You can think of Drupal as a Symphony application. So, that's been a great choice that we've made, you know, and we're kind of taking advantage of that in a way. So, I think we're good. You know, I'm not worried about it. At the same time, I'm not blind to the fact that JavaScript is growing very, very fast, that they may not be teaching PHP in schools, but they're more likely to teach JavaScript in schools that people that come out of college, they want to use JavaScript because it has a lot of, you know, buzz and momentum. It feels like a great career choice to become a JavaScript developer. You know, that is also true, right? I think both of these things are true, and I think they can be true at the same time, which is another reason why it's great that we're investing in headless and decoupled. People are using Drupal in combination with these JavaScript technologies because you still need a content store, you know? You still need to manage content, and Drupal is one of the best solutions for managing content, but it's also why I would love to see more investment in headless and could be really smart for Drupal's longevity to rewrite our admin UI in JavaScript, right? Like, we can evolve to be a mix of PHP and JavaScript or, you know, shift the mix, I guess, the distribution of how much PHP versus JavaScript we have. So we're kind of working on that steadily, but slowly. That's how I think about it. So we're in good shape with PHP. We can work with all of the JavaScript-based solutions out there, but we should consider adding more JavaScript to core. Could be nice to align ourselves with trends because I don't think the JavaScript movement is gonna go away, you know?  I think that's all the time we have for today, so thank you again, everyone, for joining us and the wonderful questions, we really appreciate it, and please enjoy the rest of Drupal.


Alrighty guys, I have a really packed construction update for you. Okay, I have 2023, the current year. I have the two rides I'm going to update you on. I have 2025 slash 2027 that we're going to talk about. Okay, this massive plot of land that keeps growing. It is so large, this surveyed plot of land. I don't even know where to begin. Like I am so confused. This is definitely a multi year project that's about to begin, but the size of this coaster. Okay, there is obvious markings for a coaster and the size of it is massive. The infrastructure prep work that they're doing in the area, insanely massive. I don't even know where to begin. It's it's crazy. So let's begin with Kingswood. Kingswood has survey markings in it behind it beside it around it. It's completely being surveyed and it is starting to show some electrical flags and a few stakes already. If you start seeing stakes, that's when you got to start questioning some things. Some electrical infrastructure work has started to take place behind chicken shack. They've installed this temporary diesel generator. I don't know if this is the one that powers the ice rink. So please take this with a grain of salt. But if that diesel generator is there, it could be to power the main park line. Now I do have a feeling that is the ice rinks power generator. So if anyone knows that and could comment down below, I'm going to leave that as that's the current option.  So we'll just keep that in the playing cards, but they have started using this sensitive drill. I forget what it's called. I'll just call it that. It basically use water to drill into the earth so they don't cut any power lines and all that. So here the you see they're about to put this little like dig cutout thing in the ground and they're going to dig it out. There's been surveying work through Kingswood beside Behemoth in action zone and now they've been heading on over to the flight deck area and time warp area. This is a very large pot of land. The really confusing part is if it's going to be for 2025 or 2027. I don't think Frontier Canada is done. So I've been saying that this is going to be for 2027 as they usually survey about three to four years ahead of time. However, they could be surveying if it's a large expansion. So for example, they start renovating action zone before they add the coaster and they need that measurement now. So this could make sense. Snoopy's Racing Railway is quickly wrapping up. They're doing a lot of the final touches now. A lot of it has to do with landscaping installation and stuff like that. So definitely wrapping up the final details. Hopefully this ride will be open May 19th as well. They have been running cycles. So don't worry. The ride is still getting ready. They're not that far behind from opening day. I think a lot of us had been really hard on Wonderland, but it's still in pretty good timing considering the weather they had the last three weeks and any of the construction supplies delays that they would have had as well. I know that was one of the things that affected Tundra Twister. I speculate that one of the parts was delayed in shipping. Now, Tundra Twister, it is quickly wrapping up. Okay. You should see test cycles tomorrow. Okay. Hopefully tomorrow. I know they're about to lay down some concrete. So that might delay the test cycles a little bit, but I'm speculating that this ride will be starting to do some actual full testing either Thursday or Friday. So stay tuned for that. They are literally almost done. The brickwork is done and now they're putting up the fence. The elevator is going in on the exit side of the platform and they laid down the little stones that they laid down before pouring some concrete. So they are literally almost done. Tundra Twister is literally, why am I saying literally so much? Oh my God. Why am I saying literally like that as well? Ew. Oh man. I'm going to hate myself when I listen back to this. A lot is going on. So Timberlough Falls is wrapping up and putting back together the lift hill. It has two new chains installed and some brand new wood that will go on it as well. So Timberlough Falls received a lot of love over this offseason. But yeah, thank you so much for watching today's construction update. Hopefully you enjoyed it. There are going to be daily or two to three construction updates a week moving forward. This is a very large project and expansion that Canada's Wonderland is under. Thanks for watching guys. See you at the park. Bye.


I think the AFC South is a bit spicier than we think everybody. The AFC South with 3-in-1 on Sunday, taking care of the AFC West, the one that we call and crown the most exciting divisionally. Colts take care of the Chiefs, Jags over Chargers, Titans with Raiders, and the Texans fall to the Bears. Hey, go Bears, by the way. But I want to give some love to the Jags team to start to show. How about that? Only here. Well, that happened. They sit atop the AFC South. They're 2-in-1. They snapped an 18-game road losing streak, with this 38-to-10 win over the Chargers.  This team scored 38 points yesterday. Trevor Lawrence stringing together for the first time I've ever seen, back-to-back wins. He was looking sharp. He had two good games in a row. The offense is so fun. James Robinson, great. Travis Etienne, he's getting involved. They put him in at Wildcatties out there being quarterback. So, so fun. Keep it up. Zade Jones, Christian Kirk, they were scoring touchdowns. They combined for 157 yards and two touchdowns yesterday. And the defense is good. I see you.


Remember a hallmark card when you'll carry enough to send the very best. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton. Tonight on our hallmark playhouse we present our dramatization of Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, an American classic. Published just over a century ago when its author was only 25 years old, it captured the hearts of the reading public in the days when California was still a province of Mexico and when the few Americans who went there usually chose the long and hazardous journey by sailing ship round Cape Horn. This trip Dana made and the result was his great book. A few years later it became a tremendous success when the gold rush made everyone anxious to find out what sort of a place California really was. To play the part of our hero we are fortunate indeed to have that talented and popular actor, Edmund O'Brien. And now a word about hallmark cards from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of Two Years Before the Mast. When you want to remember your friends there's one way to be sure the card you send receives an extra welcome. Look for that identifying hallmark on the back when you select it. For words to express your feelings and designs to express your good taste that hallmark on the back is your guide. Like the sterling on silver it's a mark of distinction that all quickly recognize and it tells your friends you cared enough to send the very best. And now hallmark playhouse presenting Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast starting Edmund O'Brien. A thin pale young man stands at the library window and blinks his eyes at the sunlight streaming through the glass. He has stood thus often listening to his father debate the capabilities of President Andrew Jackson, the affairs of the city of Boston, and the problems of rearing a son without the aid of a mother. Richard Henry Dana Jr. listens this afternoon and smiles across the room at Sarah, Sarah so young and understanding. Richard the whole project is unbecoming of a Dana. You're a gentleman, the grandson of our First Minister to Russia, the Chief Justice of the Commonwealth. And panelist father, what little we have you need and I can't afford the luxury of a long sea voyage as a paying passenger. Sarah my dear perhaps you can persuade him. Sometimes the advice of a friend is more welcome. Richard do you believe the sea will improve your health? It's my only hope Sarah. My eyes are failing so rapidly I can't read. What good was Harvard to me when I couldn't study. It's clear to the northwest coast of America is a common seaman.  Father if I'm ever to be a lawyer I've got to have the health to practice. To be a good lawyer I've got to know people. Not our Boston gentlemen, not rich boys and sailing in fancy passenger quarters, but real men sailing men. The best and the worst. Sarah what are we going to do with him? Richard I'll miss you. Yet you want me to go don't you? Yes. It's going to be a long time. A year, perhaps a year and a half. You'll write to us? From every port between here and California. I'm going to keep a journal too and I'll let you read it when I get back. That is if you're still interested. I'll be interested Richard. Always. 34 the Briggs Pilgrim Captain Thompson commanding is now at sea. I came aboard dressed in the checked shirt the duck trousers and varnished black hat of the seasoned sailor. But I found it takes more than correct costume to fool a real seaman. Hey Lance look at those softy white hands and the dancing school way. And by the time we had dropped down Boston Bay we were all friends. This evening the crew was called Aft and Captain Thompson surveyed us. Cigar in mouth. We've begun a long version you'll get along with me. If you don't hold together and you'll find me a clever fellow. A foolish rascal. That's all I've got to say. It was clear and moonlit. There was no sound except the creaking of the rigging and the swash of the sea. Above me and extending far out over the gunnels those cloud upon cloud of gleaming white sail towering up until they seemed almost to touch the stars. For the first time I was lonely. I was lonely. Boston harbored my past life and friends. All were flowing away from me like the silent wake of the ship. Shortly before my watch ended the moon went behind the clouds. The wind freshened and long heavy swells began to roll under the boughs. I felt them very definitely in my stomach. Mr. Harbour's eyes! All down and claw up the rails flying gibbon studies. Over here, men! What the orders meant I didn't know but I sprang into the rigging with the others up and up and up. Finally I turned and looked down. The deck was a hundred feet below a tiny thing which one moment swung below me and the next moment there was only black water. I crawled out onto one of the yards where Sam was pulling in sail. Just as I reached him I slipped and plunged head forward. I had me by the collar. What's the matter, mate? Seasick? You'll get over it.  A word of advice, mate. Heaven in your boots. Yes, I understand. But first, crossed the equator in longitude 24 degrees, 24 minutes west. My eyes are much improved and my whole health. All this on a diet of salt beef, hard tack and tea. November 17th, another storm. Awaken from sleep by the cry most dreaded at sea. The boat had searched for an hour but we knew it was hopeless. No talking or smiling in the hopes of tonight. February 14th, 1835. Prolisions had all but given out. The crew was nervous and grumbling. And then this morning we made land. Santa Barbara, California, 150 days out of Boston. We lined the railing and stared at the distant beach and the belfry of the mission of Santa Barbara. Yes, sweet sight, aren't they nice? Yes. I was wondering, you see those men coming down the beach carrying tremendous loads on their heads? That's what we'll be doing, mate. Back in cattle hides on our skulls and loading them into the long boats and rowing out here to the ship. We'll carry them back to Boston. Boston makes them into shoes and we bring them back and sell them to the Mexicans. It's kind of like life, ain't it, mate? Yes. How long do you suppose it will take us to load the hides? A year. A year? Maybe longer. Yeah, home's a long way off for us. Now that I had but work and trying to keep in with the captain then that last will be a plenty. March 11th, after touching at Santa Barbara we sailed north to Monterrey, the headquarters of the Governor General. Here the Mexican customs officers came aboard and inspected the cargo which we had brought to sell and sell we did. Then began our loading of the hides and the trouble with the captain. First he denied us our Sunday day of rest then one wet evening he called the crew on deck to stand about all night in the rain simply to watch it rain as he put it. This morning I was standing by the main hatchway I heard the sound of blows behind me then the captain shouting at Sam Well then, will you ever give me any more of your jaw? I never gave you any sir. You come after with me.  I'm no slave sir. Then I'll make you one. Mr. Amazon! Seize up that man. Make a spread eagle of him. I'll teach you all who is master aboard. Tie his wrists to the rig and get his shirt off. Stimson, don't say it. But we can't let a man be flogged. If we speak up as mutiny, if we stop him it's piracy.  And if we do nothing he's still got us. That's life at sea mate. There's no law but the captain. Mr. Amazon, that rope if you please. Captain, why are you going to flog that man? Who said that? Why sir, you're on the sea. Mr. Amazon, seize him up also. Stimson, these are men not animals. Human beings made in God's own life. Be quiet you fool or you'll be next. There! This is my duty. Have I ever been insolent? No, it's not that I flog you for. I'll tell you what for. Suits me, yes. Something about the sort of thing we saw today. What's to be done? I don't know. If God ever gives me the means I'll do my best to end such tyranny. If you get home. Yes. For the world the Lord has forgotten and the devil wouldn't have. Where 16,000 watery miles from anybody or any law can help us. But we've got to believe Stimson. We've got to keep telling ourselves when we get home. When we get home. I'll get there Stimson. I've got to. The second act of two years before the mast starring Edmund O'Brien. I so often use the phrase hallmark card say what you want to say the way you want to say it. That sometimes I'm afraid you might think words are the only outstanding quality of hallmark cards. Actually when I use that phrase I mean the words plus the manner in which the words are presented. They write design to illustrate those words. The most beautiful colors to bring out the design. The overall feeling whether it's light hearted gaiety or warm hearted affection you want to express when you send a hallmark card. It takes all of these and all put together in the good taste you demand of anything that bears your personal signature to bring you the hallmark card that truly says what you want to say the way you want to say it. Four years hallmark cards have done just that. That's why the hallmark on the back of the card you send means so much.  Now back to James Hilton and the second act of two years before the mast starring Edmund O'Brien. California the crew of the Brig Pilgrim toiled to the months to collect a cargo of bullet hides. One year before Richard Dana had shipped as a sickly young Boston gentleman with failing eyesight. Now he labored from dawn till dusk curing hides on the beach carrying them through the surf rowing them to the ship stowing them in the hold and with it all still had the energy to make entries in his journal. July 8th 1835 today another ship came to port and with it mail from Boston. As I devoured the lines written so many months ago by my father and by Sarah I was swept with homesickness and the loathing of the monotony and tyranny of my present life. It was a feeling shared by others and the folks. Make up your minds to this. We leave our bones drying on the beach of this blasted California. No, no he says we ain't got half a cargo hide jet we'll be rotting here for another two or three years with Captain Thompson to ride over. He won't ride over me. I'm being transferred to the ship alert. It came in today's mail we sail up the coast for more cargo than put back here after that Cape Horn and home home while the rest of us go on rotting here and you will figure to be free of the captain. I will be. You know what I heard the captain tell the maid on deck. They've got orders too. Captain Thompson and Mr. Amerside are being transferred to the alert. We coasted north from Santa Barbara in the storm we were blown off course and have now put into the bay of San Francisco. The Mexicans have a garrison here the Presidio and at some distance is the mission Dolores. The one other habitation at San Francisco is a board shampy built by a Yankee trader who deals with the Indians a large number of deer the bay itself is enormous and there is an island of rock near its entrance called Alcatraz April 15th 1836 southward again to San Diego where we dropped anchor alongside the break pilgrim. I met my old friends Sam and John the Swede and Stimson they are as happy to be free of Captain Thompson as I am unhappy to be still with him this evening that gentleman called me aft to his cabin you're still expecting to go home with me on the alert I certainly sir we were both transferred to the ship and you must get someone to stay in your place remember this dinner this is Mexico territory there's no American consul for you to run to no law that pleases me to give you it won't always be so sir Captain if I do not return to Boston aboard the alert the company will know about it and why I'll see to that you think to back me down because you're a gentleman son and not a common hand before the man I am both sir and I mean that both shall be equal before you and the law I'll send him over to the pilgrim in your place that noon all hands came above and stood about waiting for the breeze to rise the captain and the mate station themselves aft and stared to wind it the moment was almost here for which I had waited 16 long months Dana yes you know what we're carrying in that cargo well you helped load it Harry 40,000 hides and 30,000 horns high and besides that well our provisions gold gold seen the bag that us carried into the captain's cabin myself hmm I've heard stories that the Indians and Mexicans were finding gold inland somewhere but I guess it doesn't mean much to us to me it does I'm coming back to California and find me a fortune Mr. Amazon I heard the lookout call from the rigging those of field ice and towering icebergs that dwarf our ship into a child's steady bombardment of hail the hull has run a leak in the folks no dry birds for us and no dry clothing for two weeks past we've tried Cape Horn twice and failed this evening the ship alert comes to her wharf in Boston Harbor so ends this journal and my two years of use of both intend to father I'm going to rewrite the journal get it into book form and let the American people learn of the abuses of their seamen this tyranny of irresponsible captains must say there were proper laws some protection they'll come meanwhile there must be attorneys to fight for them men who aren't afraid to challenge shipmasters and ship owners you Richard yes father my boy seamen have little money to spend on attorneys you have to think of your future and the future of someone else I am my life Dana Junior attorney at law oh I do like it Richard it looks wonderful on the door well I'm afraid it looks more impressive than the office inside come on Dana you remember me sir I just made ports sir the boys told me about your book I want you to be an old friend beyond the sweet ma'am I'm in the book I'm famous now I'm so glad to know you John you've been using me pretty bad I was wondering if you could help me certainly John I'll be glad to discuss your case but if you'll excuse me a moment of course thank you this is your private office yes not much to look at and with my type of clients I'm afraid it smells a bit of the folks they're good men they need you that's what matters Sarah you know I'd hope to make a little money out of my book but you know I can't expect any riches from anything I write Sarah well what I'm trying to say let me say it Richard your prospects are poor your work will be hard and often without pay we'll have to skimp and live in second rate quarters and wish we had more to give our children but we'll be happy dear divinely happy Sarah oh my darling my dearest something of a seaman at heart sailors are shy men they're awkward at saying the important things yet now I can say freely and gladly I love you Sarah I love you as passionately as the seaman loves the sea as surely as the tides upon it and as eternally as the north star above it Sarah I love you we hardly ever get beyond the quickly spammered thank you phrases of gee you're a peach mom or thanks mother that's swell she understands what we mean of course but they're hardly words she'd treasure in her heart and remember through the years would you say that's why on one day of the year we all like to get sentimental and tell mother of the love that is in our hearts and that day is not far off two weeks from Sunday May 13th is Mother's Day so I thought you'd like to be reminded tonight that the new hallmark Mother's Day cards are now at the fine stores that you regularly buy hallmark cards by choosing yours early you'll be extra sure to find the one that says exactly what you want to say the way you want to say it to your mother a hallmark card will add meaning to any gift you're planning to give her because the words so beautifully express your feelings and tell of your love and you know it's your love she wants above everything else here again is James Hilton well you certainly brought adventure into our lives tonight Edmund O'Brien performance an invitation to appear on the hallmark playhouse is always welcome Mr. Hilton like hallmark cards it's a pleasure and a compliment to receive well you know you always have a standing invitation to visit us Eddie who's going to be on the hallmark playhouse with you next week Mr. Hilton we're particularly happy to announce that next week our star is a very charming actress who right this minute is celebrating an opening night on Broadway we take you now backstage to the Morosco theater in New York and this is a very thrilling night for me because less than an hour ago the curtain went up on Gramercy Ghost a new play making its debut tonight we still have a final act to go so my time with you will be brief however I'm particularly happy that a week from tonight will also mark another opening night for me my first appearance on the hallmark playhouse the story is a breath of air I hope very much that you will be listening we're all looking forward to it Sarah a breath of air by that distinguished novelist Ruma Godin whose stories have lately been attracting so much attention on both sides of the Atlantic and now for the makers of hallmark cards and all of a sudden the hallmark playhouse may I wish you great success in your Broadway opening tonight our hallmark playhouse is every Thursday our director producer is Bill Gay our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray and Bernard Herman and our script tonight was adapted by Leonard St. Clair to send the very best Edmund O'Brien may currently be seen co-starring in the Paramount picture Red Head and the Cowboy the role of Sarah Watson tonight was played by Lorraine Tuttle and Ted DeCorsio was Captain Thompson others in our cast were Parley Bear Ted Osburn, Bill Conrad and Peter Leeds this is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when hallmark playhouse returns to present Sarah Churchill in Ruma Godin's A Breath of Air and the week following Gladys Hasty Carols starring Ethel Barrymore and the week after that Carl Van Doren's Benjamin Franklin starring the other great Barrymore Lyamo Kansas City, Missouri celebrating its 30th 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Moving on, students of Kaduna State Polytechnic have decried the poor state of hostile facilities in the institutions. The students said the renovation of the hostel has been left unattended for years, which has forced them into renting accommodation outside the campus. Plus, TV News correspondent Habila Darifar reports that they have been exposed to dangers. For learning to thrive, students need a conducive environment. These hostile blocks at the main campus can accommodate 2,000 to 3,000 students. The renovation work had been abandoned by contractors for years, which has led to students getting accommodations outside campus. The students union government of Kaduna State Polytechnic forwarded their word of the renovation contract and demanded the revocation. Contractor KYC Interproject violated the contract agreement by abandoning the site for more than two years without any meaningful progress on the project, leaving over 2,000 teaming students without bed spaces. Consequently, this had led students without any choice than to seek for accommodation off campus in a much higher rate and also exposing the students to threat of security and theft. The student affairs department of the institution shared the same sentiment stating that the institution is not capable of sheltering the students. At 2020, when the project has been handed over to KYC, one of the contractors that are supposed to renovate the institution, we are very happy because at then, they promised that they are going to renovate with a good standard. They promised that they are going to make our hostel like a five-star hotel within the ambience of six months. In the part of the management, our concern is to see this place being renovated and we put our students back in because of the problem that we are sustaining now. We have a quite number of hostels that we cannot accommodate the students and now we have many students that are looking seeking for such accommodations. Some of them have to go outside to justify the fear of threat, insecurity that they have to because we couldn't accommodate them. The students and authorities have ever appealed to the federal government to ensure the speedy completion of the abandoned hostel project. So you get notified about fresh news updates.