Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. We know that a couple days ago there was a shooting that took place at the Greenwood Park Mall near Indianapolis, Indiana. There was a deranged psychopath 20 year old punk who went into the restroom, stayed there for a while, came out with an AR-15 near the food court and just started shooting it into some people. Immediately, a 22 year old man named Elijah Dickon, his name has been released, it's out there, responded with a firearm of his own. And as soon as that psychopath saw that a second gun arrived, he started running away back toward the restroom, going to safety.  That's what they do, they're cowards, they run away. And that's exactly what he did. And then he was eventually killed. Dickon took care of business and he did a great job and a lot of people were calling him a hero. Law enforcement called him a hero, the mayor called him a hero, many news outlets are calling him a good Samaritan. They're saying he saved countless lives and so many others who could have been injured for life thanks to Dickon ending the threat. And that's exactly what the left hates. They cannot stand that. It goes against their talking points. Their narrative is no guns, but yet when an armed citizen ends the threat, then they have to find a way to spin it to make it seem as if it wasn't a success. You should not be celebrating this because that mall had a no guns policy. Who's actually the criminal here? They always go off to Twitter and get their tweets out there so that everybody can see and share them and change the narrative. The fact is Dickon did a great job. Mom's demand action, Shannon Watts, the founder, she went on there and said this is not a good implementation of the Second Amendment. He shouldn't have had a gun to begin with. What's the difference? That tweet was deleted, by the way. You know, if she's so proud of it, keep it up there. Hey, you deal with some of the other comments that come in. They call him a good Samaritan. A lot of tweets were out there, other people saying, you know, a good Samaritan actually means this. If you've ever read the Bible, you would know that. Now all of a sudden the left are Bible scholars because they're changing the narrative to a good guy with a gun ended the threat to, you know, they're both, in their eyes, they're both criminals. They both entered with firearms and shouldn't have done that. You know, this is dangerous all around. We want less guns, not more. They say, well, if guns were outlawed to begin with, then this psychopath wouldn't have done, you know what, don't even go there with me. You people are so naive. You've never had a serious threat where you could have been seriously injured or even killed. You live plush lives. You never have to worry about money. You're not in an environment where the ordinary, normal people live in their lives, attend.  That's where it ends. And it's actually kind of funny, but it's maddening it the same way. Now, I had a guy comment on the video I made yesterday. He said his wife was escorted out of that mall on three separate occasions because her gun was printing and somebody turned her into mall security. Okay. It wasn't open carry, but mall security said, man, if that's a firearm, you need to, you need to leave. Worse security. We have this now. I have been to the mall on occasion.  I can't stand the mall. I don't like being around all these people and everything, but every time I've seen mall security, they were unarmed. Perhaps they were deep carrying, but I seriously doubt it. They may do a good job when it comes to somebody sticking something in their pocket and walking out the store, but when it comes to somebody who was willing to kill mass amounts of people, where were they? If they're experts on security, where was the mall cop? They were nowhere to be found. And so as they're escorting people out and they're claiming they have the authority, they don't have authority. If somebody comes in with a firearm and uses it illegally and you don't have a firearm, you have no authority. None. You know who had the authority? Dickon did because he ended the threat and he took care of business and saved lives more than any mall cop could have handled. And the left hates it. And I love it. And once again, it proves that the armed citizen in this country saves lives, prevents crimes, prevents deaths every day in this country.  And it was proven. It got national attention. Finally, a mass shooter was killed by an armed citizen. And I shouldn't say finally, it's happened before, but this one finally got the attention that it deserves. And they're calling Dickon a hero. They're calling him a good Samaritan. They're saying a bunch of praises about him. And I think that's good. And the deranged killer, you know why he did what he did? Because he got an eviction notice. He got an eviction notice. He didn't pay his rent. 20 years old.   So here we have the left crying saying it actually wasn't a good implementation of the Second Amendment. He actually broke the law too. Perhaps he should get charged. And we have our side celebrating. I call it a victory. And the left, they're actually experts on nothing. Well, perhaps they are an expert on one thing. Twitter. And if that's all you got, good luck to you. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2017, presented by AWS, Intel, and our ecosystem of partners. Welcome back to AWS re-invent 2017. I'm Lisa Martin with theCUBE, our day two of continuing coverage of this event that has attracted 44,000 people. Keith Townsend is my co-host, and we're very excited to welcome to theCUBE family Simon West, the CMO of Sixterra. Welcome, Simon. Thank you, great to be here. So Sixterra, six-month-old company. Tell us about it. What do you guys do? Sure, so as you said, we're just six months old. It feels a little longer than that now, born at the intersection of five simultaneous acquisitions. So one part of that was the acquisition of 57 data centers and a global co-location business that was formerly owned and operated by CenturyLink. Into that, we've added the security and analytics capabilities of four kind of modern startup software companies. And the vision is to provide a secure infrastructure solution, both within our data centers. But interestingly, even though I've got 57 data centers around the world, I want to be location agnostic. We recognize that today's enterprises are running multi-clouds, running hybrid environments. So we extend our security solutions on-prem and into public clouds, which is why we're here at AWS re-invent. Fantastic. One of the big challenges at the hybrid IT is that the controls that exist at AWS, how do you guys help even that out? Well, so you're exactly right. Well, we would go so far as just gently suggest that the core method by which we protect access to infrastructure and applications, which is still predicated on a physical perimeter, is just fundamentally flawed in a 2017 world where your applications are everywhere, your users are everywhere, connecting on myriad devices. You can't build a wall around that which doesn't exist. You've also, obviously, as you say, you've got that problem of heterogeneous platforms, each with their own method of control. So our flagship product in that area is a product called AppGate, SDP. SDP stands for Software-Defined Perimeter, which is an emerging specification born out of the US government's DISA. And now a number of companies offering software-defined perimeter solutions. The basic premise that we hold is that security should be user-centric rather than IP-centric, right? A firewall is still predicated on grounding access from one IP block to another IP block. VPN may capture who's coming in, but once you're in, we give you basically unfettered access to flat corporate internal networks, and we track you as an IP address rather than as a user. So we think it should get more user-centric. The user should be at the center of our policy. We think it should be more like cloud in the way we run security. So rather than these hardware-based static central choke points, we think security should be real-time, it should be adaptive and intelligent, and it should be as agile as the cloud. You build cloud applications that are capable of spawning multiple copies of themselves, auto-scaling up and down, moving from availability zone to availability zone, yet our typical network security posture is still highly static. And when you have some of the high-profile attacks that we've seen over the last few months, our ability to change policy, immediately we recognize a problem. Particular operating system absent a particular service pack is incredibly out of set with how agile the rest of our IT is. So more like cloud in terms of the way it operates. And finally, we think, and so does the software-defined perimeter spec, we think that access needs to be thought of as conditional rather than just a X, Y, yes or no. Jim has access to sensitive financial systems, should be dependent on what operating system Jim's using, whether Jim's on a coffee shop Wi-Fi network or on a trusted corporate network, the time of day, the day of week, our overall security posture. So the way AppGate works is when a user tries to access a system, the policy can ingest any one of these different conditional items. It can interrogate the device the user is using for the right software revisions. It can look at environmental variables. It can even look at internal business systems and check anything it can get to via an API. And only if those conditions are met will it provide access to a specific system. And then it can monitor that in real time. So if your context changes, you move from trusted network to an untrusted network, we can alter access, we can prompt for a one-time multi-factor re-authentication or take any other step the user wants. We offer that in cloud, on-premise, integrated into our data centers to provide one central policy mechanism no matter what platform you're running on. And in the case of AWS, we integrate with features like security groups, like AMI machine tagging, so you can build policy natively out of those Amazon features as well. So talk about that transition to this user-based approach. I would imagine that a user could migrate their legacy systems into one of your 56, 57 data centers. And then as they start to expand out to the cloud, they have to change their operating model from, they may migrate their traditional big firewall into your data center. What does that migration process look like? Is that a application by application spec, network by network? How do I transition? You know, it really varies. It feels a lot like, I'm an old cloud guy, so it feels a lot like cloud did in the late North since 2008, 2009. We think the software defined perimeter is going to have that big an impact, a cloud-like impact on network and application security, but the way in which organizations will choose to implement it is going to vary, right? One of the things we did very early, almost to integrate AppGate as a service into the data centers, if you think about co-location environments, when you bring new gear into a data center, you rack it and stack it, the very first thing you do after that is drag a VPN back to the corporate office so you can access it remotely, which we would respectfully suggest is not necessarily the best way to do it in 2017 out of the chute. So we've integrated AppGate, so organizations can just avail themselves of that as a service and instantly have a kind of easy on-ramp. One of the big areas we see and we've seen with customers here at ReInvent is customers who are moving workloads to cloud and want to make sure that they can have that same sense of fine-grained access control common to those on-prem and off-prem environments, whether that's an app migration or whether it's just an extension of an app into cloud environments. So it's kind of all over the place. Sorry, Simon. What differentiates SixTera's approach to the software-defined perimeter from your competitors? A couple of things. It's extremely robust in terms of being at one, being able to run on multiple environments. So a native AWS version, versions that run natively in other public cloud environments, obviously we think the ability to offer it deeply integrated into the data centers is important. It's also capable of granting access to more than just web applications. You've got some solutions out there that are really web proxies and that are built for SaaS apps and born on the cloud apps. This is more of a fundamental network platform by which you can get access to any system or application you choose. And finally, we've introduced the concept of what we call scriptable entitlements, which is the ability to interrogate third-party systems via API and bring back those results as part of building policy. An example there is we've got service provider customers who are running large multi-tenant environments. You then have a technical support organization who needs to support a huge multi-thousands of servers environment with multiple customers running in multiple VLANs. And typically the way you have to do that is a jump box in the middle and then giving these technical support folks access to that entire backend management network, which is a security risk. With AppGate, you can actually integrate into a ticketing system. And when John in support asks for access to a customer database server, at runtime we can find out whether there's a trouble ticket open on that box assigned to that rep, and only then will we grant access. And we don't grant network level access, we grant access to that specific application. We call it a segment of one, securing cryptic connection between the user's device and the application or the applications they have access to, but to nothing else. Everything else on the network is literally dark. It can't be port scanned, it doesn't show up at all. So it's a much narrower sense of control, much narrower sense of access. And again, it's dynamic. If that trouble ticket gets shut off, the access goes away automatically. So we think the integration into business systems is a critical piece of the puzzle and an area where I think we've innovated with AppGate. So let's talk about security in depth. Obviously you guys are putting the software security program around the data center, what we would classify as the data center, which is kind of disappearing in a sense. And the edge, you talked about end user protection, end user, where do you guys pick up and drop off when it comes to MDM, mobile device management, and which is much more important now with mobile, and then laptops, desktops, et cetera, and you mentioned third parties, pieces of data center equipment that's not in your data center, like a wind farm. Sure, so you're right. We're absolutely moving to the edge. I think we continue to think the data center will be as important as it ever was. The more cloud we have, the more data centers it needs to run in, the more public cloud we have, the more people want to move some of their machines that might have historically run on-prem to cloud data centers with low latency, direct connect to public cloud environments. If you look at our data center footprint with regard to the edge, we're not just in the major markets, although in major metropolitan markets, I've got half a dozen data centers all linked together, but I'm also in markets dotted across the country. So I've got half a dozen in New York, New Jersey, half a dozen in DC, half a dozen in the Bay Area, but I'm in Tampa, I'm in Columbus, Ohio, I'm in Dallas, I'm in Denver, and so that distribution becomes particularly important as more customers move data to the edge. From a security perspective, again, we think of that data center as the nexus of enterprise at IT and the cloud. The data center is where our conversation about security in terms of access control starts. It is a physical security message of biometrics and ID checks and so forth, but there we think there's a missing piece of the puzzle. The principle point of ingress and egress into a data center today is not the front door, the back door of the loading dock, it's the massively clustered multi-carrier network core. So if you're not providing some level of access control in and out of the network, I'd offer you're not providing a truly secure infrastructure solution. So we start there, we're focused mainly at this point with AppGate on controlling the conversation between the user device and the system applications themselves. One of our other acquisitions, a company called Catbird, has done some innovative work in terms of east-west segmentation in virtual environments, which is notoriously difficult otherwise to see, to stop the spread of how machines can talk to each other in large, virtualized farms as well. And so it's the infrastructure where we principally focus. Where are we, or maybe where are you guys in this revolution of information security? Are we at the forefront of massive change? What is 6Tera's view on that? I think we're at the beginnings of a revolution that's about 20 years late. So if you can kind of carbon date year zero of modern IT at around 1996, which is the advent of the internet as a commercial and consumer force, that was the revolution for enterprise IT. That was the moment that we had to move IT outside the four walls of the machine room on the corporate campus. Prior to that, the applications all ran on big beige boxes in one room. The users were largely tethered to them by smaller beige boxes in other rooms, and the notion of perimeter security worked. It was a valid construct. As soon as enterprises had to start thinking about an increasingly global user base, as soon as users started to connect from all over the place, the concept of this perimeter goes away. Over the last 20 years, you've seen revolution after revolution in the way in which we design, provision, deploy, manage, and operate our business applications, our development frameworks, and our infrastructure. We've revolutionized for availability, revolutionized agility. We've turned IT into a real-time API-driven motion, and we've revolutionized for scalability with platforms like AWS just industrializing this real-time IT on a global scale. And if you took a systems administrator from 96 and you showed him IT today, I think you'd have some explaining to do. If you took a security administrator from 1996 and showed him 2017, I think the construct would be familiar. We're still hardware-driven in a software-defined world. We are still assuming that access is static, that it's never changing, that it's predicated on the users being someplace, the applications being another. And again, in a world of real-time IT, a world in which our underlying application footprint changes without any human intervention whatsoever. And I think you see with WannaCry, with NotPet, with all of these attacks, the commonalities that they have in terms of the reason they were so devastating is one, they take advantage of lateral spread. They take advantage of riding unauthorized access into a corporate network where port scans show up 10,000 of ports where you can rattle the handles, break the locks and spread like wildfire. And two, in the case of something like WannaCry, days after we realized what the problem was, we were unable to simply alter as an institution, as an industry, or as an enterprise, access policy at the press of a button until we could get things patched. We had to sit and wait and watch the fires continue to burn. So it's a question of security being insufficiently agile, insufficiently automated and adaptive and insufficiently software-driven. We think that's just starting. I think on the SDP side, we've noticed in the last six months the conversation changing. We've noticed customers who now have SDP mandates internally who are seriously starting to evaluate these technologies. Wow, it sounds like Sixterra is at the beginning of being potentially a great leader in this security revolution. We wish you, Simon, and the entire company the best of luck. We thank you so much for joining us on theCUBE. And I look forward to hearing great things from you guys down the road. Much appreciated, thank you both. Absolutely. For my co-host, Keith Townsend, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's continuous coverage of AWS re-invent 2017. Stick around, guys. We'll be right back.


Hi, my name is Kush Varshni. I'm a research staff member with IBM Research AI. I'd like to tell you about one of our upcoming papers at NIPS. It deals with recommender systems, and in particular, it takes demand into account in two different ways. The first way is because of the fact that when dealing with product recommendation in contrast to media recommendation, the fact that someone doesn't purchase something doesn't necessarily indicate that they don't like it. So we've taken that into account. But the second way that we take demand into account is via the fact that oftentimes people will purchase large ticket items, such as fridges or televisions, and then get flooded with recommendations for more of the same immediately. But that is a failure of the underlying algorithm because for many item categories known as durable goods, there's actually a long time that people take between purchases within the category. So in our approach, we estimate both the inter-purchase duration for item categories as well as the inherent appeal of a product to a user. And by doing so, we can offer recommendations that are both timely as well as just good in general. And we've tested this on a few data sets from the commerce domain and shown superior performance, both on the form utility, which is the inherent appeal of the product, as well as on the time utility, which is the right timing for making that recommendation. And this has been done in comparison to six state-of-the-art recommender systems. The main technical challenges we've had to overcome deal with the size and dimensionality of the data, which could deal in millions of users and millions of items. We're able to approach those sort of data sizes by relaxing the inherent tensor completion problem into a matrix completion problem and relaxing the original nested hinge loss formulation into a form that we can solve using an alternating minimization that takes the sparsity of the underlying data into account.


Hi, my name is Leon Roe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180 comma welcome to this week supply and demand Forex and gold fundamental and technical Analysis if you're newer warm welcome to you and if you're returning an equally warm welcome to you and please like subscribe and share With your fellow colleagues this video and many of my other videos on my YouTube channel If you find the content that I provide useful every week It doesn't cost you anything to like and it really does help and support the channel and and get this information quality information to traders that really need it and unlike many the majority of other I guess YouTube Analysts we at trading 180 use the fundamental and technical analysis approach not just technical analysis So we use fundamental analysis to really establish value It amazes me how people tend to trade without Understanding a fundamental analysis if you call yourself a forex trader But don't know what the fundamentals and the really the drivers behind price are then you're really just a technical trader That trades forex really and you comply those same Technical strategies to pretty much any market, but you really need to know fundamental analysis on what moves that asset class that you are That you are trading and what gives it its value So then we can establish whether something is an asset class is undervalued a fair value or even expensive and staying out of a of a trade anyways Getting into the week ahead before we get into the fundamentals and technicals and in the week ahead we have We have flash PMI surveys for the US UK Eurozone Japan and Australia And it will give an insight about the state of the global economic recovery While central banks in China, Philippines, Switzerland, which is one that we that we trade the Swiss franc Will be deciding on monetary policy. So Probably not any any surprises there to be fair when it comes to central bank policy when it comes to PMI's I guess it just adds to the the growth Sentiment if there are any PMI surveys that are probably below You know forecast, I don't think it would matter too much unless it's way below forecast But generally, you know, we should see some positivity And positive numbers other important releases to follow include the US final fourth quarter GDP Which although I you know watch and I have a I guess a big I Think GDP is a quite an important thing to watch and one of the main macroeconomic markers that I do watch The final fourth quarter is really already been priced in so You really want to when you're if you're trading GDP news announcements It's really the advanced the first one to come out This is like the last one to come out because there's an advance there's the second estimate and then there's the final and The the fourth quarter final pretty much has been priced in already so unless there is a major surprise, which I highly doubt That won't be really a big news event on market mover So durable goods orders and personal income and outlays UK unemployment. I think that would be Definitely one to watch retail trade and inflation data Inflation data is definitely something is a theme and we'll get into that when we look at some of the currency pairs And Eurozone and South Korea consumer Morales, so let's get into the the fundamentals and the technicals are starting off as we always do on the Dow Sorry, US dollar index. So the DXY and just a measure The DXY is the measure of dollar strength against the basket of currencies like the euro the yen the pound and a few others and What we've seen last week really is Last week or two is really for the dollar price kind of move, you know a bit sideways But I anticipate prices to go, you know higher in the in the short term for for for these reasons and if we look at The financial times taper tantrum and inflation replace COVID as top investor worry So fund managers have grown increasingly worried a sharp rise in rates could knock markets And I've been really, you know saying this for for a while now, you know, my my bias was Long dollar and we'll just have a quick read of some of these paragraphs a corona virus has been overtaken for the first time since the early days of the pandemic more than a year ago as the top risk That keeps investors up at night according to a new poll of fund managers So money managers pulled by Bank of America now see inflation as an unruly rise in borrowing costs like that scene during the 2013 taper tantrum as the key tail risk that could unsettle global markets So served the survey investors with 597 billion in assets and the management highlights the investors concerns That the economic recovery from COVID backed by unprecedented similars may unleash a surge of price growth That could be difficult to tame. So we've ordered that Inflation really has come into the the the limelight It was all about the economic recovery and GDP and it still is about the economic recovery But now with all the stimulus and the unprecedented stimulus that's been Going on over the past year or two actually a bit longer than that But there's definitely been a lot of unprecedented similar since the COVID Hit us last year March February March Inflation, you know is is is a is a definite concern and just quickly So rising inflation expectation and bets that central banks particularly the US Federal Reserve May have to tighten policies sooner then have Then planned have triggered a widespread set off in government bond markets, which investors worry could get worse There's two things going on here. So a rise a tightening policy Which is basically a hike in interest rates and that is generally positive as long as you have GDP alongside You know the the the the rate hike and also as well the Fed won't Hike rates unless they get an average inflation of Above 2% so they don't want to hike too soon because that could choke off the the economy So this is still data dependent We still have to wait for the data to come out the data has to support the narrative if the data doesn't support the narrative then basically It's just this this just trade idea as far as buying the dollar Well, we'll kind of fizzle out, but You know investors are looking at potentially within the next I think two years a rate hike and also It's been triggered by a set off in government bonds, which is basically yields of rising as bond prices as they work inversely bond prices work inversely to bond yields and Yields have been going up on like the 10 year and 30 year etc So we no longer have an inverted yield curve in the for bonds but With that being said that really is the the the focus so with the dollar for me as long as Dollar data still comes out. So inflation interest rates or I say interest rates But inflation and GDP come out as positive Then my bias is to the long side and what I'm looking for on a dollar index is just Really some confluence. So if you see prices go to the downside a little bit, but let me get a nice some confluence of buying then we go over to the Dollar crosses and look for buying of the dollar on that currency pair And if you do want to be a seller right into you know Some news because again, none of us know whether the news is going to come out positive or negative If it comes out negative then it could be a really nice Area to short if prices do come up to this supply zone from back in November 2020 But the path of least resistance at the moment is to the upside. You also want to watch bond yields as they as they keep going higher And that would also support Dollar buyers and I've really been a buyer of the dollar from back in January matter of fact been looking to buy the dollar and I Advised the guys in my discord room that we should be buying the dollar from January I think 27th 28th And you can see pretty much what's been happening. Anyways So those were really the two areas at the moment nothing in between prices really kind of going sideways Looking at the dollar yen dollar yen. Look at this just making higher highs. So we've actually made technically a new high right here and So that's a little bit of a demand zone there. So if price does come down Into that zone there will be a buying opportunity now That is that the best buying opportunity considering that we've had, you know some demand here and maybe some demand here for me I think this is a bit too hard really want over a deeper pullback to come down into this 106 106 76 area or I want prices to really kind of prove that there's demand here Then a pullback into that 108 48 level before looking at getting long If risk off does come into the market because the Japanese yen is a safe haven asset And if risk off does come in for example, there could be fears about again, you know Coronavirus a new strain etc Or even some basically some some bad US dollar news then this could be actually a really decent sell to the downside So let's see what happens there a decent area We're actually quite a nice supply zone from a technical analysis perspective But you have to understand that it's the fundamentals and value, right that drive prices Just because you see a level of supply doesn't mean you should get short if you're doing that you really just You just basically just trading, you know chances or you're not you're not trading The best probabilities. It's best to have the fundamental edge as well within your trading And then you know, you can really be selective with the trades that you do take and take really higher quality trades with The the banks behind you with the financial institutions behind you because they don't trade only Fundamentals they I mean sorry technicals. They look at the fundamentals and risk sentiment. So Again partly resistance probably to the upside for the foreseeable future Looking at the dollar Swiss and the dollar Swiss. I'm really trying to get long on this Many of the guys in the room know that I'm also Want to get long around this 92 area? This is actually a bit of a what we would term a well I term is CPR zone and capture pain relief zone at this 92 area, but from a daily demand zone We're looking at 91 0.9 1 4 or 5 area before prices You know look for any kind of long trades, but I'll be looking at here first as a as an area to look for any kind of long trades We can delete this area of supply and I will start drawing some supply here because there is Supply not she's decent area of supply.  Of course. This isn't financial advice I'm doing is telling you what I am doing and with my own trading. So For me long dollar, but if you do want to get Long on the Swiss Frank or short on his currency pair again due to some sort of risk off sentiments and fear uncertainty And doubt that comes into the market then this actually would be a very nice short trading opportunity Dollar CAD so dollar CAD I was saying last week the CAD in fact is quite strong as a commodity currency and Even though we came back down into this zone I would not be taking that long and we can pretty much see how that works out again If you don't understand the fundamentals and you're just take taking technical patterns because you think that's a that's an area to buy You're literally going to be on the wrong side more often than not so This gets deleted you really want price to prove that there's some sort of demand around here So I'd want to see some higher highs higher lows being made and then I'll look for price to come back down here And also not even just price to come back down You I'd have to really see a change in sentiment the Canadian dollar for me to even think about getting Long but if you have to you know strong currencies For example the commodity currency with the CAD and the dollar which has some good sentiment as well as good economic data Then that's the kind of trade where you just want to stay out of what you want to trade is really look for Divergencies where you have a strong versus a weak currency And appreciating currency versus a depreciating currency This is what's known as divergence and that is actually what causes trends Yeah, trends go higher or trends go lower depending on if you're buying the base of the quote currency and You want to choose the best trades the easier trade out there is to always you know bet on Strongest versus the weakest right if you're you know placing a bet on any kind of sports team You would want to place the the bet where you're getting obviously good good odds, but The easier bet is You know the the best team versus the worst team or the best fighter versus the worst fighter or the best player versus the worst player Right, even though you get worst odds You know you get terrible wads for those because the bookies actually know but in in in forex trading We can get really good odds and risk rewards as well as pick the best Pairs and that's what it's really about. Anyways, I'm looking for any kind of sell trades I would probably look for That area this supplies I'm starting at one two six One two one point two six five seven area for any kind of short trades if you want to get short But personally this isn't really a pair. I'm really interested in Moving on to the New Zealand dollar and this is a pair that I am now interested in got in a trade Up at the top around here We was going over this in the group call that we had on Yesterday matter of fact Saturday and recording this on Sunday With the guys in the room and it is really because on the I think it was the worth of Thursday New Zealand, right when we're is at risk of a double-dip recession as COVID-19 recovery stalls so the news came out on the Wednesday night or London time anyway and By the time we got the data and what I'm a woke up in the morning I'd seen this and then literally entered into a nice trade right at the highs and Got short on this supply zone price entered into the supply zone and then a really really nice short trade So made a two-to-one on one position and now just a trying to swing trade the second position and Yes, so Hopefully, I think prices should want to you know, roll over a little bit more. We've definitely got some short-term negative bias on the New Zealand dollar even though it is a commodity currency, but I think with a double-dip recession in in the In the consciousness of people in the negative data I think we should probably see a sell-off and I think actually we might want to see a deeper sell-off and Down into the 70 cent there was a bank I saw an article a bank that was predicted Maybe 70 cent might be actually a decent area to look for some buys, but it really depends But I think with the strong sentiment around the US dollar and now negative sentiment around the the New Zealand dollar I think the 70 cent mark is a really good opportunity or a profit target For for me anyway and anyone else if you are in that trade Again any kind of long trades You probably I would say would want to wait for maybe a fresher area of demand that this level has been touched once Twice three times already. So I'd probably say this 71 areas if it does come down here It's probably going to break and then maybe if you do want to get long on the New Zealand dollar based off of maybe some Changing sentiment or fundamental data then look for any kind of long trades there looking at the Pound dollar and a pound dollar Again, the pound has been actually quite Strong in a sense that we've had The Bank of England upgrades outlook for UK economies to central bank keeps interest rates at 0.1 and sees no medium-term inflation risk so there's some positive news not necessarily the most positive news in the world but Risks of a recession are fading and So the pound for me is not necessarily a great buy But it's it's looking like a decent buy, but I wouldn't buy it really personally against the I'm not buying it I should say against the the US dollar. There are better pairs out there to trade the British pound against So for example the pound yen pound Swiss which has been an absolute tear Recently I've been waiting for a pullback for ages on that currency pair It just hasn't pulled back on those currency pairs. I should say but we're on the pound dollar. So Right now not really interested in it fundamentally, but if you are and you want to take these trades I would probably say the best area to look for Any kind of buy trades is maybe the lower side of that demand zone or even even better. You have that Demand zone down into the one point three six six. That's a decent area pullback You've got some decent support and resistance as confluence as well within that zone. So a decent pullback within there If you are looking to get short on this currency pair then I would say the Supply zone right at the top around that one for one area is something that I would definitely be interested in If it came to a short because I do think that prices should want to To start to range from now and then ranging over the past a few weeks anyway But I think the bigger range is definitely at the highest question is is why would the pound go higher than the one for two Or the these highs here This is obviously seen as over an expensive area for the For the pound or a bargain for the US dollar So I think this is probably now looking like a bargain for the US dollar So if prices do drift up here at some point in the future I think that actually might be a decent sell if I'm looking to if I was looking to trade this pair Moving on to the euro dollar and the euro dollar Really interesting over, you know the week and The I think a lot of traders got caught going long on this currency pair not necessarily a Supply zone from a supply zone perspective, but I was in a live call with some traders on the on the Wednesday Evening we have our calls on the Wednesday and This had happened and one of the comment Traders in the group commented basically don't FOMO in on that and a lot of traders would have definitely FOMO'd into that because that does really kind of draw traders attention Nice, you know long candle and traders will tend to feel that they're missing out on that and We ended up actually in real time as this was going on. We were reading this article here So Powell holds dovish line as a Fed signal zero rates through 2023 And as we were as I was reading this and we were going through this to the group We were basically we derived from this article that that it really wasn't as dovish as The the price action had suggested so I'll give an example right so an example of that was 7 of 18 officials predicted higher rates by the end of 2023 compared with five of 17 at December's gatherings. So in fact, there's more Officials that are predicting higher rates, which is basically, you know, a stronger dollar Right gives value to the dollar than there were in December three months ago So that actually is quite positive for the dollar also as well There was the the upgrade so the Federal Reserve chair Powell and his colleagues continue to project near zero rates at least through 2023 despite Upgrading their US economic outlook and mounting inflation worries in financial markets again They're upgrading their economic outlook that is positive.  I was still had a short bias.  I was we were waiting for basically a stop-hunt above this level right here That would have been really nice if we could see we saw some sort of stop-hunt. Unfortunately The trade didn't happen didn't appear, you know, but we got the direction, right? Which is always really the key. Yeah, is if we can get the get the direction, right? Then secondary is okay. How do we capitalize on that? We can't always capitalize on every single move but you know what we can do is if we stay in line with the fundamentals, eventually we will be able to get some entries and Get the the direction right and anyone who went long in this in this in this candle here in real time is now You know stopped out or they're in a bit of trouble because they're moving and removing their stop losses so, yeah, I do think that prices will continue to Go lower as I've been saying for a while But also as well just to back that up mind the gap of mind the economic gap Europe and the US are drifting further apart So speedy of sorry speed of vaccination and size of rescue packages Help explain the widening path to recovery and everything others I've been saying about divergence, right? Fundamental analysis is about finding value Yeah, I'm finding value from one currency and another currency looking at the economic data looking at monetary policy Yeah, and and seeing the divergences and what we can see is that the US is pulling away with extra stimulus right, so we've got the the US from a GDP perspective and we've got Europe in Japan lagging behind and And we've got fiscal support varies between countries Yeah, and the US closes their output gap swiftly and then Europe struggles to rebound fully and again I've been saying this if you've been following me for any length of time check out last week in a week before and week before that if you You know want to check out those videos, but I've been saying this for a while and we switched our direction back in January where we were looking for short trades and Looks like the trade idea is playing out. It's just You know It was unfortunate that we didn't get a bit of a stop on above these areas here before looking at getting or a dip me for me Anyway, an additional short trade to the downside as I'm already in a trade from From up here and actually up here as well. So just swing trading this two positions and and was waiting to enter into a third Anyways, if we do get any kind of pullbacks on the daily Yeah, any pullbacks Then it would be for long trades or say short trades is my bias So anything around here would be nice don't know whether we'll get that though But we could get prices prove that there is a bit, you know This area here is a bargain and if it does then you're looking for pullbacks into a demand zone Which would probably be somewhere around this area here and then look for any kind of short trades So proof of value first and pullbacks into the zone Moving on to the euro yen and the euro yen again Even though as weak as the euro has been doesn't mean that there aren't weaker currencies out there And you can see the Japanese yen in a risk on environment is probably one of the worst currencies to buy and Pretty much even though the euro again is weak The yen is the weaker out of the two So again, if you do want to be trading this pair, which I'm not really too interested in to be fair But um, if you are then that's a decent zone to get long on especially If you see I think it's down at the lows of that area there. Nice a bit of horizontal support And resistance in that 128 30 to 128 maybe 40s 50s If you are looking for short trades, I'd get a really wait for proof of value before You know getting short so basically waiting for price to kind of sell off prove that there's some sort of supply at these highs And then look for a pullback into that zone before looking to get short Also as well look for probably sentiment to you know, change a little bit as well Maybe some sort of risk off sentiment or even just some bad news around, you know, euros recovery Vaccine rollout, etc. Or in any kind of economic macroeconomic data points that come out are disappointing Moving on to the Australian dollar US dollar and again to strong currencies or appreciating currencies Australian dollar is doing really well They had some really good unemployment numbers and And again, the US dollar is is on the up and up as well So you should really expect what a ranging market, right? You should expect prices to kind of go sideways to a certain extent I think my bias though would be to the upside in them in the probably the medium to long term Although this isn't really a favorite of mine again when you're trading looking at two strong currencies or two weak currencies Those aren't, you know, the best trades. There are much more easier pairs to look to trades So if I'm looking for any kind of long trades, it would definitely be down by probably the 75 50 75 area If I was looking for any kind of short trades It would have to be at the really the highs before looking at getting Short on this currency pairs, but overall, I'm not really too keen on looking at that I don't think there's really much opportunities from a fundamental perspective Ozzy yen and Ozzy yen again, as I've been saying and I keep repeating The Japanese yen is not really the one to buy in a risk-on Environment and you're seeing that happen. Look at that. We just seen, you know, this massive uptrend so Yeah, it's been again a bit difficult looking for trying to get in on an entry On the Ozzy Ozzy yen Over the past month or two, there's been a bit of frustration, but again prices will always come back and Hopefully we can capitalize on this. I think I'm gonna move this Up to here again, this isn't the strongest area of supply But well, I really want to see prices kind of come down into its demand zone Before looking at getting short if I was to get any if I was to get short or again getting short around here Would pretty much just mean that there's some sort of risk-off sentiment Yeah, so looking for risk off before looking at getting short as long as you know, the global economic recovery Still stands and still that's the narrative then for me It's the path of these resistance is to the upside has to be so any kind of pullbacks into those demand zones are gonna be the trade and finally we're looking at gold and gold We've had a bit of pullback on gold for me just my bias overall gold is a buyer, but From a fundamental perspective With there's a lot going against gold. There's there's bonds going against Against gold because yields are going higher, right? It's the yield curve yield percentage. I guess it's going higher So bonds government bonds are also a risk Off asset, but if you're getting yield on bonds or safe haven asset I should say if you're getting yields on bonds Rather than gold money's gonna flow out of gold and really kind of the logical play is kind of into bonds because you're getting a yield For holding government debt rather than no yield for holding gold The thing that is going for gold. I think is inflation worries, right? So gold is a hedge against inflation, but I think until until we do see Inflation start to get out of hand. Yeah, then I'm personally I'm not really a buyer of gold at the moment, especially with the with the dollar, you know potentially strengthening going, you know from Strength to strength, especially, you know, the economic recovery I can't I can't really see myself buying gold in the near term, but again if that that would change if Inflation really starts to become a problem and Again, there's always an opportunity to buy gold So I don't really look look at this as far as missing out on the absolute lows But if you do want to get long on this currency or this gold Then I would probably delete that just draw a few Demand zones probably one there Yeah, I'll put it say that one there as well. So Any kind of pullbacks I think is decent for a long trade, but I really want to see Some some sort of sentiment change against the US dollar so again So if there's if there's some really disappointing news on the dollar So anything regarding, you know, any kind of economic recovery or even Inflation not necessarily getting out of hand. It's kind of intuitive I know I said definitely buy gold say definitely buy But you know, you might want to get into gold if inflation is you know getting out of hand But I think also gold does react to negative Dollar news a US dollar news. So there could be a decent buy bias if there is a lot of disappointing news around I would say especially probably more to do with the economic recovery. So At the moment sentiment isn't with gold, but I Would probably say if you do want to get short then that would be the area to get short that that daily supply zone If you're looking for long trades, I would definitely say the lower end of this is sewn right here this 1676 1699 Area so that brings us to the the close of this week's fundamental and technical analysis Don't forget to like subscribe and share it costs you nothing and hopefully common will also come at your weight and Guys take care. I hope you have a great trading week and speak to you all soon


who are capable to listen to one more presentation. This is the last presentation. It's in the Devin Outreach track, and I'm happy to once again welcome Andy to the talk that he will be given. Andy is working with O'Reilly, and he has the honor of having published the first book on Linux with that publishing company. So that's amazing. That's a long time ago, if I remember. 1994, here. And he is also very much interested in the relationship between open source and the openness of governments. I'm not quite sure if that is the topic of this talk, but I'm sure you will enlighten us anyway. Okay. A plus for Andy O'Reilly. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I don't want to give you a big PowerPoint extravaganza at five o'clock in the afternoon. Nobody wants to deal with that. I'm not going to overwhelm you with the statistics and stuff about floss manuals. And in fact, I just see a few segments of floss manuals, and I'm going to talk about what I know. We have one other person here, Moshon, who has done a lot with floss manuals. I invited a lot of people, and some people said they could come, and then they couldn't come, and it's too bad. I wanted to have a panel, but we'll talk about what we can talk about. This is what floss manuals looks like. And I thought it would be interesting to go over what we have. We have a little bit of sort of, I don't know what that is on the left. Here we have a big list of manuals. I believe all the manuals are here. You will notice that a lot of things are on end user tools. They don't tend to have things like GNU C compiler manual, that kind of thing. It's more like the Audacity manual, the Inkscape manual. A lot of things that are for artists and creative people, which shows you the origin of floss manual. On the right are some of the more popular or recent things, like Civi CRM is in here. I worked a lot on that one. Can't find it now. There is one big element that you see on a lot of web pages that is missing from this page. Anybody, of course, this is not so common for you in the free software community, but there is one big element, you go a lot of web pages, you see it, but it's not here. What do you think? Actually, there is a login, but you have to go to another place. You have to go to the right page, the WH. You can log in, it is a wiki, so you can log in and change it just like Wikipedia. So, well, there's another element that's missing. Anybody else wanna think of what I'm thinking of? Ads, yes, no ads. This is basically Grant supported. I don't know how the founder, Adam Hyde, can do it, but he got a grant very early in the process to set this up. He has money to pay himself to fly around the world, doing his work on this stuff, which I'll describe later. He has money for two programmers, and I don't even know if they're full-time programmers, but they're doing this great work creating a whole new look that's going to be much nicer. They call it bookie because it's like wiki, but it's more for a book. So, this is a, and there is the login here, except I'm already logged in. So, FlossManuals is free software, let's see, the slogan is free manuals for free software. And it was started by Adam Hyde, who was sort of an artist, he's an installation artist and has done some radio work. He comes from the art community, and a lot of people he got interested in this beforehand also came from the art community, and I think you can see that in a lot of things about it. You can see it in the aesthetics, which are, let's not try to do things perfectly, but let's just get something out there and see what it looks like, and you can see it as I showed you before in the list of topics. And we have wiki media commons, alchemy, WordPress, M player, and so forth. And he just got a bunch of people to start writing. The first minute, I think I'll go to my slides here. I did prepare a few slides, nothing too heavy. And the very first one they did was called Audacity. It's about the audio editing tool, and this is the old look. It's not great, but it's good enough. And there was a lot about this that was good enough. The editing interface, which I could show you, is just like what you see on a lot of blog sites when you put in comments. It has a WYSIWYG interface. You can do bold and italic, and you can do some indents, pretty simple stuff. And the way it looks is good enough. And the IRC channel, which I could show you if you like, is good enough. It's this little box where you can watch what other people are doing when you are editing, and you can have a quick exchange of comments with someone if you're both having to be online at the same time. And translations, oops, I didn't mean to do that. I meant to do the next slide. This is the Hindi version of the Audacity manual. Translations are a big part of it. They are all volunteer. Everything is volunteer except for the couple of programmers that they've hired to make the new system. Here's another manual that interests many people. This has, besides the Farsi translation, the Chinese and the Russian translation, they're doing some others. There are many sites, which I'll get to. I lied about the statistics. I did want to impress you that there's a lot of people involved. The regular users, I'm not sure what that means. I think it's better than just people with accounts because Facebook has 800 million people on their account, right? So the regular users are something. All these other things mean something. I actually think that the request change tickets, that's a very low number. That's what I saw when I looked at their bug reporting site. And 50 manuals in English. Here are some of the translation sites. As you can see, some people have actually set up entirely their sites at particular countries for their translations. Sprints is a very interesting and sort of something that came later after Floss Manual started. Adam had heard about Code Sprints and there was someone who had talked to him about the possibility of doing book sprints and he thought, well, we just get people together and have the work eight hours a day or so for five days and see what comes out. And it's been really amazing and people can do a lot. In fact, I've gone to my company, O'Reilly, and said maybe we should have people do books this way because the typical way of doing a book, I can tell you working at a publisher is you sign a contract with somebody who is already a big shot and they have a job and they're probably doing training and consulting and they may have a family and so forth and they're wrenching three or four hours a week out of their schedule and always putting things aside and making excuses to people and then making excuses to their editor because they can't get things done fast enough and it's really agony. And it might be actually better for them just to say, get the babysitter. I'm gonna take a week or two vacation from work. I'm gonna say goodbye to my family for just a week or two and go off and do it, especially if you had a few people collaborating and you could come out with a book and perhaps in that time. But one of the problems with doing that is that commercial books usually have to be a certain size. If they're under, say, 200 pages, it's not very easy to sell it and make money on it. Just the whole print aspects. It might work better with electronic books. And I tend to notice that the things produced by these sprints are anywhere from 75 pages to 150. I worked on one, the CIVI CRM manual, that was like 150 the first time around and then the second edition we got up to over 300. So it is possible to do it incrementally and make it better and better. But it's an amazing experience doing a sprint. You get in a room with people, you're chatting, you're working together. You've probably done this in another context and it's really nice to do something that's really creative like writing at a sprint. You certainly want people who know their stuff, who come in having done the research, having done the basic things they need to do already. But it's a wonderful way to build community and it creates this center for people can focus on this thing while they're doing it and afterward. This is our book. We did this. And it's something that you don't get just by working on a wiki. And I noticed that either tomorrow or the next day there's going to be some talk about the W and wiki. So wikis can be pretty neat, but it's really something to do a book and it's really amazing to do a book in a short period of time. And Mouchon did one on Collaborative Futures as you mentioned before. And I think I might have another slide somewhere. That was all I had for slides. The software I'll talk a little bit about. It is based right now on T wiki. And it's okay, as I said, it's good enough. T wiki has some limitations, I think limitations on the output, on producing a nice output with a lot of interesting CSS properties and probably some problems with the input as well. So the Adam Hyde, who as I said, is the founder of the project and a couple of the people he hired decided to throw everything out and just take Django and create a new interface from scratch, which is what they're doing. And they've got some pretty grandiose plans. Right now, all you can do is produce a PDF, which I think I have over here. This is a sample of what it looks like. We have something much better now. Unfortunately, I didn't save the screenshot of what it looks like with a really nice fonts and a much better layout. But they're trying to make it look like a really good professional book. And I think they've gotten pretty close. So you can produce a PDF and they want to be able to import lots of things, export lots of things. Do you have a question or a comment? We should get the microphone, oh, this. See whether it's on. I think the problem is that the battery's dead and so it flashes and then it stops. Okay, so I'll repeat the gist of what you say. Yeah, it's on. Thank you. You rule. Yeah, I guess. So I feel like in my life I've moved away from using technical reference books toward just when I have a problem searching for a solution. And I guess I'm wondering what you guys have thought about in terms of what users you're targeting with these books and you've gotten a few back on if they solve their problems and how you chose books as opposed to some other kind of writing to choose this. And that reminds me that I didn't tell you anything about the read, write, and remix interface, which I should do. I was rather surprised too when Adam contacted me. My own way of getting involved was that I have been very concerned about books maybe being irrelevant or not meeting everyone's needs because information moves so fast. And so I have written a bunch of articles about how experts who are normally asked to write books for publishers, experts could collaborate with people online doing wikis, even doing mailing lists and forums, try to find ways to bridge these things. So that you have the instantaneousness and the community aspects of all the benefits that has, along with the benefits of having experts who sit back and take time to think about it and put out a great statement. So I wrote some articles and Adam contacted me and asked me to be on his advisory board and then I did some volunteering and I went to a conference where I met Biela Coleman and that's how I got involved in this deviant conference and so forth. So it seems that people still want an authoritative source and there are times when they just get frustrated trying to get their information in bits and pieces. I think really you can do it for a certain amount of time and there's some people who boast about never having read a book or not reading a book about something. I think a lot of people say, I really need to get my head around at this time and say in CIVI CRM, which is one of the things I worked on, say well we can tag things just like in Facebook or dig you can tag things and there's tags and there's other things that look similar and I don't quite get the difference in when do I use one, when do I use the other and eventually they say I really want to get my head around it so a book will be useful for that. They might not read the whole 350 pages which is now the size of the CIVI CRM manual but at least it is there organized. I know the way I've read manuals, I sometimes read cover to cover which is of course the right way to do it. I want you to read the whole thing but sometimes I'm in a hurry so I'll go look for an example and I'll say oh yeah let's try this, that doesn't work so I'll back up 10 pages and see what it says about the example and try it again, that doesn't work, I'll back up another and you can do that in this book but it's nice to have a book that's well organized so even if you're reading in that kind of dyslexic way you can still get continuity and a narrative from it. So having answered that, let me talk a bit about this read-write remix. Read is just a website so you get the canonical information. I think here they solve some of the problems that you worry about with other wikis when you worry that people are gonna just, maybe with the best of intentions people are going to put in incorrect information and try to update something without really understanding it. So the read site has been validated by someone, there are certain maintainers, although we were just trying something before where I published a new version inadvertently so I suppose maybe it's not as secure as it should be. The idea is that the maintainers look at, every couple months they can look at the wiki part, see whether it's good, make sure it's good then they publish it. Now if there's new stuff that you're looking for you can go to the right part. And right means if you log in you can add stuff, you can change stuff and you can also see what other people have done and it's raw, it's more like Wikipedia where you just get what's there that's day. Remix, I'm not sure how much people are using it but it just means you can take different chapters from different manuals, the granularity is one chapter. And also for editing, the granularity is one chapter, you can't have two people editing the same chapter at the same time. But remix could be very useful say for people who want to do textbooks and want to take one thing from here, one thing from there. Yes? So one of the projects I work on is the Open AFS project which is a distributed network file system that originally began as a CMU project but it became a commercial product from Transarch which was purchased by IBM that they had an open sourced. So one of the things that's a little bit unique about it compared to a lot of open sourced projects is that we got it as an open sourced project with both not only a complete reference manual but a complete user manual written by professional documentation writers at IBM. And so one of the things about the presentation about having a website like this and having a set of manuals like this that brings to mind or the sort of combination blessing and a curse that we ran into with having this in an open source project, we have this large manual which was clearly written to a consistent style guideline with a whole set of conventions and then we have an open source project which being the open sourcing of a commercial application that had stagnated for years before it was open sourced immediately after it became open sourced changed drastically, quickly because all this pent up demand and all these pent up patches that everybody had flowed into the tree. What happened in practice was that the manual and even though it was even in the same project and these are kind of a separate website from the project became very quickly rather significantly out of date and then became extremely intimidating. And so we had this problem where how do we get back to having a well written manual when we have this sort of extremely well written but wrong manual and can you set guidelines that say that you're not allowed to change something in the source from this point on without also updating the manual and then you get into a whole bunch of questions around who you can ask to update the manual and that sort of thing. I think that's one of the things to me that's a challenge for open source manuals because open source changes. Commercial products, they release a commercial product you write a manual for that product. It's gonna change eventually but that product is a lifespan and over that lifespan it's not really gonna change very much. I know in the CIVICRM manual we deliberately decided not to try to go into great detail about which manual you use for which thing and how to do, say how to get your mail server to work with other, you know, with the spam filtering and stuff. All those details were still on the wiki and the book was more of a conceptual book. How do you think about tags as I mentioned before? How does tags compare to other things and how do you plan ahead before you put your data into CIVICRM so that you can use all these features? So that was meant to be a more stable kind of information and, you know, it gets out of date fairly quickly. That AFS situation, a very interesting one where you had a manual, I haven't read it so I don't know how good it is. You might think it's good on one level but sometimes if you try something totally different you might say, wow, we really wanted this other one. We didn't realize that we were missing so much. Oh, I mean, it's technical documentation. It's not written as a book. So it falls short of the standards of an O'Reilly book, for example, in the sense that it didn't have that kind of degree of editing for flow. But, you know, in the community it's pretty well respected. The people who have gone and tried to run AFS really liked the manual up until the point which led them off a cliff because the software had changed. You know, it's a tough situation and I think it's probably the same with code and with anything else in life. You have to decide what part you're going to keep and sometimes it's better just to start over but sometimes you can keep some part. Yeah. I mean, in a way, the situation you've described is that the manual has a dependency on some version of open AFS. And that version isn't encoded necessarily in the manual, or maybe it is, I don't know. Well, I mean, we can say, the problem is more that that's not the version that anyone runs anymore because it's the version that was originally released open source, which at this point was 10 years ago. So, you know, we're trying to do updates to the manual. It's just that one of the problems that we're running into is that if what you ask people to do is like the kind of documentation you're talking about, go to this menu to change this thing and it moves to a different menu, it's actually really easy to tell people, oh, you have to change the manual when you move the menu. That's trivial. What actually is harder is when the conceptual, is when you introduce a whole new conceptual feature to the software. Getting the person to write who's writing the software to also write the manual entry is actually quite hard. That's the problem we've more run into. I have a little trite answer for you, which is to run a bookspread. It seems like you've just got to solve it if you're going to have it solved. And after Karl talks, I'd like to put Mushon on because he has so much that he could say about fonts and design and bookie, new bookie stuff. Oh, I better get my question in then. Okay. There's no chance going next. This is sort of a technical question. There are a lot of free books out there already in freely licensed and in free-ish formats. I'm thinking of one in particular that you edited. And is there a way to import those into Floss Manual so that they can become part of that editing environment in sort of joining the Floss Manuals community, even though they were not written in a bookspread? Well, that's part of the grandiose plans to have a lot of import and export. And Docbook, which producing open source software is in is one of the things it's planned for, but it's kind of, it's a big job. So I think first they're trying to get the new software just working, have a nice interface, have a nice output PDF look. And I think that the other things are on the way. So, okay, why don't you talk about that then? Can I respond to that? I'm done, sir. Okay. So when we worked on Collaborative Futures, the Collaborative Futures is a bit of a different challenge because Collaborative Futures was not a manual. It was, we were invited by, Floss Manuals was invited by the Transmediale Art Festival in Berlin to write a book about the future of collaboration. And we didn't know anything about what this book would be other than the two words Collaborative Futures. And it's not a manual book. So there's not like, like in the case of the, that I've just talked about with design, it's not like there's this object that we respond to. There's more like different people thinking about different things and responding to it. Now it was the first time we, bookie was used, it was like pre-alpha basically. It was crashing all the time and everything as you would expect. But the nice thing is that it's all, like the syntax is all HTML. So it's a, it's a smart kind of whiz-weak editor. So every time bookie would crash, we would just revert to some other editor. I worked on a WordPress editor and just copy pasted it directly into bookie and everything worked. So again, a matter of open standard and the open standard is HTML. Do you want me to actually show bookie? That would be nice, yeah. I'll look at, can you do it here? Do you want to pull up there? Yeah, yeah, I can do it on your computer. All right. And as we're doing that, I'll just respond to your question about. What should I pull up? About Emmanuel, I agree with you. If I have a bug or something, I'm searching for it online and I rarely come, I get a response of a book. It's usually a blog post. But what is happening with these books is that the fact that it is a centralized artifact, which is kind of the opposite of many of the things that we're doing, it's like this conference. This conference is a centralized artifact.  The same way that people get excited about writing a book, because we come together, we work together, and we come up with a product. And that product is like, we wouldn't have invested so much time and so much focus collaboration on writing a manual. That manual is available as HTML online and it has been thought about by different people. And that's basically, a book is a good excuse for collaboration. And I think that's one of the great strengths of Floss Manuals. This doesn't bode well. I don't know whether we should blame the Columbia Network or the bookie site for the long loading. So, yeah, oh, so it's just loaded. I pressed on this. This is the core components of that's what you wanted. So let's just try. Yeah, sorry. Now, I should mention, of course, that a lot of products are funded. I believe, who funded the Collaborative Futures Well, the Transmediale Festival funded the Collaborative Futures. The first Collaborative Futures, Sprint, and then the second one was funded by, the second Sprint was funded, sorry about your Facebook here. Oh, it's down. Yeah, I think it's actually going through an upgrade right now. Okay. So we won't be able to show you that. But the point is that for the case of, I'm really interested, my background is in design and I've been doing print design much before I've been doing web design and much, I guess, before there was web design. And to be able to control the book through the same language that I control CSS and to collaborate around that is awesome. And the book is designed with CSS and actually at the moment, Floss Manuals is trying to contribute back to Firefox to implement CSS three standards that are not implemented yet that are about printing because Floss Manuals is in the cutting edge of using web technology for print. Are you saying that the PDF style is encoded using CSS? The CSS, yeah, it outputs PDF, it outputs the EPUB, it outputs HTML. So everything that is written for the book is also available as HTML and is searchable and so on. And then, again, it's an excuse to create the content. The book as itself, it's great to have on, it's great to hold, but even if you're actually, if you actually have the book, you can search it. You can still search it online and then, oh, it's down there in this chapter. Oh, it's going fine. It's going fine. Thanks, so it's sort of the $64,000 question. Do we have any stats or data about the number and demographics of people who are reading the manuals? Well, except for that, Adam said the brief message saying he has 2,200 regular users and I don't know what that means. It would be great to get downloads. I think someone asked me earlier today, suppose you wrote a book and you'd like to know how many people downloaded it. Yes, they should be giving you that information. I haven't seen anything like that, except once in a while, someone will say, hey, somebody wrote this great blog or we got on Slashdot or something and we had a spike in usage, but we should be reporting this more regularly. I like that. Yeah, it would be really useful. On my laptop, which I'm gonna get to real soon now, but it's in a gift repository on my laptop right now is a project I'm thinking of called DebianTFM because they always say RTFM, but there isn't really an F-ing M for Debian. So this is something it was gonna be, it's all in doc book, GPL'd, and it was gonna be like one of the typical operating system level. You're certainly a trooper to be doing it in doc book. Operating system type books that you see in Barnes and Nobles or Borders. But my thing is that I don't really need help with the writing, but the other aspects of producing a book, the design, the editing, and so on. That's not skills that I really have. So is that something that Floss Manuals could help with? As far as I know, well, certainly editing is done in various ways. I'm a professional editor. So I've donated some time and I've been paid for some of my time to work on some of these things. So I'm talking about commerce, semicolons, and things. Well, more than that, developmental stuff. There are people who will go through, unfortunately, a lot of people don't have as good a command as they think they do of good English syntax, whether it's British English or American English. But there are people who will go through and they'll do a pretty good job. I said everything about Floss Manuals is pretty good or good enough. So yes, there are people who will do that. And as for design, I guess we basically have a standard design, right? And the standard design can change, but I don't think you would probably tweak too many elements of it. You would probably use the same design as the other books, I think. Okay. And because it's the third one, don't you think? Well, actually, I did want to ask one more like follow-up to that is also, could you comment on getting Floss Manuals from whatever source into bookstores? Because I think that's violent because a lot of people can read stuff online, but there's a lot of people who don't. Yeah, I ask O'Reilly how to get books into bookstores, that can be hard enough. You go to the bookstores. Well, I believe that Floss Manuals could, I don't think they have any connection with the booksellers like Amazon.com now, but they certainly can put ISBNs on books. Do we have ISBNs now? Yeah, so getting an ISBN is really easy, and it's cheap, it's like $25. And we actually, it was cheap enough for us to get different ISBNs for the two different collaborative futures editions, even though there were only five months between them. But, and then you can actually get it on Amazon as well. So when you have an ISBN number, you can put your book on Amazon. There's a bit of a process for that, but it's completely doable. Now you can also put it on lulu.com or other print-on-demand bookstores. So if you're thinking about supporting the production, the way print-on-demand works and the way lulu works, they say it would cost you, let's say $8 to print a single book. And then if you wanna pay, if you wanna sell it for $12, you'll get $4 from that. And it still follows all of the principles of free software in that sense. So I think that that can be another incentive and another set of properties for collaboration in that sense. I did go into lulu, and my concern is the same with having stuff online. It was working. The people who know can get to the information, but I think a big audience nowadays for computer books is people who are just casual computer users. And the first thing they do is go down to their local borders or Barnes and Nobles and look at what's on the shelves over there. And they'll see like maybe 20 Fedora books, 20 Ubuntu books, but maybe like one full-on copy of like Martin Craft's Debian book from like three years ago. So if we really wanna get books, if we wanna get information on Debian out there, we need to get it into the bookstores as well. Along those lines, I mean, I agree with you that it'd be really good to have people be able to stumble across this information when they walk into a bookstore. But a different thing we could do is on project websites, like the Audacity website, there could be a big button that says like, so there's a documentation tab on the website. And there's just this enormous button that says click and we'll take $25 and give you a book. And like to tie it to software acquisition, especially for Windows users who don't install these things from app. Let me see where the CivvCRM did that because they are very proud of that book while we're talking. My question is for you. You said that you have export functionality for the books. Can you export currently in Floss Manuals to anything besides PDF? Because when we tried it, we were only able to get to PDFs. Can you do DocBook? Can you do HTML dumps with Floss Manuals that exist now? Or do you have, you can? Oh, by the way, CivvCRM does play up the book. You're running a lot today. The free book. Basically, you can with Bookie. Bookie exports to multiple formats. Bookie.cc does exist. It is, I think, it's public and it's usable already. Again, we used Bookie in its pre-alpha version. I would say it's kind of better right now. And it's, unlike in the first, in the first sprint where it was really crushing all the time, this time we actually used it. It has IRC built in. So we're chatting about the book in real time and we're consulting about it. Like if you go and read the Collaborative Futures book, you'll actually see samples of our conversations because basically we were also researching ourselves through the writing of the book. So yeah, it is usable. You can export it to multiple versions. It's still in a lot of development right now and there's still a lot of bugs but they are being crushed on a daily basis. Yeah, I think it's of Javi.flossmanuals. But Flossmanuals is being imported completely to Bookie. So I would say I don't want to put a deadline but it is being worked on right now and the reason we can't access Bookie.cc is because right now they're doing a major upgrade. Hi, I'm Maxi. Could you please put a big page with the URL of the site that you're mentioning? The Bookie one? Yeah. Bookie.cc, which is... Yeah, well one gets in the video and no spelling errors and so... It's too small for the video. Thanks. Okay, let's try that. All right. Let's see. B-O-O-K-I-DOT-C-C, so. Oh yeah. Woo! Hi, I was just wondering if you have any facilities now or plans in the future for some sort of workflow between programmers and writers. I was just thinking of the question here from AFS. It sounds like one of the problems that he's facing is that, and correct me if I'm wrong, you don't have any professional writers on your staff, right? And a lot of programmers are not good writers or don't like to write. And if the leap is straight from coders and now I'm gonna write a book, you maybe have a much larger leap than coders writing some sort of intermediate or using some sort of tool to prepare the, to provide the basic information for a collaboration with the writer. Is it, do you have any plans or ideas about how that part of the process goes on to bring the, for things that are about a program, an application for instance, to bring the programmers into the writing process if they don't feel comfortable doing it themselves? That, I'm gonna take that to a higher, a more meta level. There is an attitude in Floss Manuals of let's just throw things together and see what happens. Certainly we want the programmers on a project to be involved, to do the writing or be available, pretty much like a standard tech review sort of thing. But I don't think we have too many workflows, too many processes. Adam is really kind of against that.  And he comes, one of the few times that he came down really hard and insisted on his way of doing things was to say I don't want people to insist on their way of doing things. And he says it's okay to write style guides and people can look at them, but we don't enforce it, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'd like to have an organized way for developers. I wasn't thinking so much of having an organized way for it, but people can't work in a vacuum. So suggestions or if there is, even if you don't have a set of style guides for it, is there some sort of intermediate form between the comments and the book that the programmers then could, in their unstructured way or structured way, produce to prepare for your process. I mean, to prepare for. So they could use something like the web program that Donald Canute designed or something like Java Doc or PyDoc and then take the comments. I can respond to that as well. Okay. So one thing that is being worked on is a book for facilitating book sprints. And so it's going super meta. So the, and the facilitator, like I was a facilitator on the second collaborative futures sprint and Adam was the facilitator on the first one. And the facilitator has a very important role as much as the horizontal and collaborative, blah, blah, blah, it might be. There are some best practices and best practices that are based on the floss manuals experience. But another thing that happened is the point where I really agree with Adam about let's just get something out there is that it's much easier to make something better when there's something to make better. And what happened with, again, what happened with collaborative futures is that the first book started from two words. We didn't have a software to respond to. And the responses for the first edition was really good. But the second edition, when the new authors came in the room, they were saying like, we're not here to edit it and kind of fix typos and stuff. We're here to actually respond to a body of work that has been gathered. And we actually have a lot of problems with this body of work. And collaborative futures not being a manual is actually, there's a lot of conceptual and ideological gaps between the different authors. But the second that the authors could respond to an existing book, then the level of progress was much faster. So you need to get something down there and then you can improve on it. I can make some philosophical statements about programming and documentation. The programmers should definitely be working very closely with people who do documentation. Just as in your own talk, we've shown you said that programmers and designers should work closely together. Now, when I was working on the CVCR manual, I was editing, going along, and I keep reading something that says, you have to have a profile to do this. So if you have not created a profile, go do that and come back. And this is happening over and over again. All these things depend on profiles. You always have to go through the profile first and come back. And I finally wrote to them and said, have you thought of making a design change so that you can just press a button and it takes you to the profile page right there. You don't have to interrupt your flow. And they said, yes, we're thinking about that. So design, documentation and design really do go together. Programmers should be thinking about the people they're programming for all the time. That affects design, that affects documentation. And as to doing, and I know you would like to have better workflows and better ways to organize that, but that's pretty hard to organize. Yeah, I just had a question going back to what you were saying earlier about design. Last year I did have an opportunity to write a book, become one author on a book. We only had six weeks. So we worked on it eight hours a day, more likely 12 hours a day for six weeks. So you have this idea where work on the book, you're in almost like a lot tech interface where you're just dumping information. Then you want some style applied to it and then read not only your chapter but other people's chapters because what was happening was someone would write something and then everyone else would go, oh, I'm gonna keep it and that flow is good for me. Oh, you're kind of not the same information but the same layout. So is there any way in this to keep that style kind of locked to allow the, just so that I can sit there and type in the information in a tech kind of way and give you the hints, but then magic happens on the back end. I can look at the printed page or what would be a representation of the printed page. Do you want to answer to that? Because basically. If it's about design, you'd better. If you're talking about design as in, do you mean design as in graphic design? Okay, yeah. Completely. I don't want to deal with that. You don't. And that's actually one of the strengths of Bookie. I've been designing books with kind of the leading proprietary software in the field which is InDesign. Now InDesign is really based on, is trying to basically mimic CSS. It's trying to, like you can select text and say this is the type of text. It's like a class. You can say this is a heading. Like it's really based on the idea of CSS and then it's actually much easier to manipulate the content in Bookie than it is in InDesign. No matter how advanced the software is and it is, you know, Bookie is not there yet. But they inherit advantages of the separation of content and presentation. That is what HTML and CSS are doing. It is really great. Like I have been, when I'm designing, when I'm working on the design for collaborative futures I'm actually even using CSS3 kind of selectors to actually break the fourth paragraph because it happened to be longer than the others. Like I can really do a lot of manipulation through the power of CSS. So yeah. In- So you're going to hand to the backend publisher? Yeah. First of all, you can export from Bookie, you can export a large array of sizes. But in general, because the content itself is HTML and what Objavi does, Objavi is the engine that transforms the content into a PDF or an EPUB. It basically manipulates this HTML and it's actually using the, right now it's using WebKit to actually render the book and we're contemplating moving to Gekko, the same engine for Firefox if we get to implement some CSS selectors into it. I just had a very quick question. Is XSL a dead end now in your opinion? Well, I think it is because if HTML can be as, or even closely as selectable as XSL, then we have a format that is much more adopted and much more readable because XSL is a nightmare to read and this is about reading. I think the investment in HTML and in web technology for writing books is the right way to go, especially since one of the exports of the book is a web page. I think we have to wrap up. I would like to take sort of speaker's privilege to talk about one quick thing that's totally different. I have this thing called Blue Hacker, Blue Hacker.org. I don't know if you've seen this before. It was given to me by one of my authors. One of my authors went through a terrible period of depression and nearly dropped out of working on a book and he got involved in this organization, BlueHacker.org. When he talked to me, I said, well, I have family members who have dealt with depression. He said there's a lot of people who deal with depression and it's hard to talk about it. One of those things that can be biologically based but it's still hard to admit. So I wonder if you feel comfortable. How many people here have dealt with depression or have close friends or family members? Could you raise your hand if you can talk about that? So if you would like to be part of this movement, just to make people feel better, feel like there's other people who suffer with that, you can get one of these Blue Hacker stickers and when you go to a conference and speak like I'm doing, you can bring it up and we'll create a little movement around that. That's all I wanted to say about that. Thank you.