Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering DevNet Create 2017 brought to you by Cisco. Hello everyone, welcome to day two of theCUBE's exclusive coverage of Cisco Systems, DevNet Create, their inaugural event where they're putting the foray into the developer community in the open source community, really looking at DevOps, cloud native with data. Great move by Cisco, we're going to analyze it again here on the opening day and review yesterday a little bit and talk about what we think is happening here and give you the take on it, our angle, extracting the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host, Peter Burris for day two, head researcher, SiliconANGLE Meet also general manager of Wikibon.com, check out Wikibon.com, great research, some free, most of it, the good stuff is behind, subscription firewall, be a client, check it out, your business will do great because of it. Peter, quick plug there, get that out of the way, but let's talk about Cisco. We said yesterday and kind of played out, Cisco has an opportunity to transfer and grow their core development community DevNet, which is only three years old, is very robust, it's the heartbeat of Cisco right now, it's the core constituency for Cisco Systems. We're talking tier one elite networking guys, the plumbers, packet movers, whatever you want to call them, they've been designing networks from internet scale to today, everything from voice over IP, you name it, they've been doing it and the network has been the center of the action and the data center, it's been the most critical asset for availability, operational support, and stable, but not very adaptive, not very agile. So, you know, now we're- Almost by definition. And that's the purposes, the network guys choose to drive the network and enable opportunities, but now that shift has happened, it's DevOps, application developers are driving change to the network. And the big conversation is, what does it mean for Cisco, what does it mean for their communities? And we were saying that this is an opportunity to extend. We had the folks, the person from Red Hot on yesterday, talking about how when you have things come together, there's opportunities. There could be a collision or there could be an opportunity. So, these data science and computer science coming together, that is now big data that's changed the game in the world. Cisco now has DevOps and networks coming together, applications and infrastructure. This is an opportunity for Cisco. Your take from yesterday, do you feel it? Do you think it's real? What's your take? Well, it's real, digital transformation's happening because people can now do things with data that they couldn't do before and they're starting to. So, that's the basis of digital transformation, but the reality is, in a digital business, you're going to be by definition, almost inherently, highly networked. And your ability to move data where it needs to be, when it needs to be there to, whom it needs to be, so they can consume it, is emerging as an essential capability. But you're not going to do that manually everywhere. You're not going to do it manually in the infrastructure. It's just too complex. And you're certainly not going to do it manually in the applications. And so, you're absolutely right. Being at that edge, being at that margin between how the network does things, how the network is the basis for a very high-quality capability for distributing application componentry and how the data then flows over that network under control by applications is really where the next five years are going to be, a lot of the new values are going to be created. And it's great to see so many developers here that are actually creating code at a conference that's being sponsored and put forward by Cisco. The AppDynamics, certainly a forcing function for Cisco. Great acquisition. They paid a pretty penny for it. But it could have been more, had they gone public, given the market that's in. So, AppDynamics comes in, Cisco now has a cloud-native direction. Still work to do, but they're doing it in a way that's not all Cisco. They're not coming in with Cisco washing, hey, you know, this is Cisco. They're really doing it right. They come in, 90% of the sessions are not Cisco at all. It's all community-based. Is this a working strategy for Cisco? Do you see, and what would you advise them? Because this is important. They have to do this, in my opinion. I think it's a great move, personally. But now, the innovators dilemma is DevNet's exploding. You got DevNet's beautiful communities growing. It's growing really fast. But now you got DevNet create. What do they do? Well, so let's talk about the AppDynamics acquisition just for a second. As with everything, talking about a big company acquiring a company of any size, you always have to observe and see how it's going to play out. But it's got a lot of potential. One of the places I think it's got a significant potential is in that AppDynamics, as a technology, does a great job of capturing metrics about application performance on networks. And as we think about how the market and technology is going to be reconfigured so that networks can be better, more planful, more predictive about what kinds of things the applications are going to need, being able to surface that kind of data is going to be really, really crucial to setting up the next round of conventions. And that leads to the answer for your question. If we think about where the market needs to go, we have full stack developers, we have networks. They talk to each other, but they don't engage in a meaningful way as often as they should. And I think it's time for us to start thinking about above layer six. That layer seven, start breaking down layer seven and saying, well, that's where that full distributed stack development's going to take place. So that we can start seeing how data will be reused, application services will be reused, components will be reused across a variety of different use cases. And having that kind of a new structure defined and laid out so that it is built on the presumption that there's going to be a significant network in the middle of it, I think is going to be really important. Doing everything with RESTful APIs is really important, but I think the industry needs to get a lot more intelligent about how we're really going to build these things and not just presume that there is no network connection. There is network connection. There has to be one and we have to build that into the architectures that we put forward in the future. So programmable infrastructure is the DevOps ethos. That's what Cisco's proposing and saying they will and are becoming. I get that. I think that's the winning formula. But let's take that concept with what you just said. You're implying that, okay, with now distributed infrastructure at scale with app dynamics and other things, the notion of a developer changes because now Cisco folks and their developer community now is not just by itself, it's integrating in with the rest of the communities. That changes the notion of full stack developer because when you go higher, I need to hire a full stack developer. This is absolutely at the database or how low does it go? So I think you brought this up yesterday, not on camera, but after when we were kind of talking is that this is an opportunity to reconfigure the new definition of a full stack developer. Yeah, I think so, John. And one of the things we did talk about with Susie when Susie was on camera yesterday was the idea that, yes, we can as we introduce software to find infrastructure, the infrastructure becomes programmable. And so we now see Cisco, CLI type people thinking about programming instead of just doing command line work. We see it happening in the server world and the cod world, et cetera. So there's no question that that notion of programmable infrastructure is becoming very real. What we're talking about is stepping it up and having it be available to developers in new and different ways, but utilizing new conventions that start to suggest that for time purposes, latency purposes, security purposes, think about organizing your application componentry in new ways so that the underlying network and infrastructure can provide even more robust capabilities and more consistent capabilities so that we can see further future ways of integrating these things together. And I think that's where this ends up. Interesting point about the network opportunity is that Cisco and networking guys are not as strange as the services. Network services have been around for a while. When you look at what came out of yesterday's conversation this is consistent with a lot of our CUBE interviews we've done with cloud native players like Amazon and everyone else like AWS and VMware and everyone else. Is everything's a service? So the question that I have, the Cisco world is can they move quickly enough to a services model in this notion of a new network engineer, network developer, infrastructure developer? How well can they get transitioned over while preserving their core base of developers? I think they have to, and it's a great question and we're not going to have the answer from here but I think one of the things we do need to start seeing and we're starting to hear rumblings of it is the idea that the network has to become more intelligent in the context of the services that the application developer utilizes that run above it. And so the network doesn't necessarily have to be made explicitly or overtly available but it has to be intelligent enough so that it can provide new capabilities, new service levels, new security levels, et cetera in a response to the way the services are invoked and the patterns of operation. You know in many respects, we talked about this a little bit yesterday, John. I think we used to have infrastructure defined by hardware and that served the industry okay for a long time. And in the last 10 years we started talking about software-defined infrastructure. We moved from hardware-defined infrastructure to software-defined infrastructure and that's kind of where we are today with the idea of the network becoming more programmable. I think as a consequence of big data and recognition where digital business is going, where data really is the asset and the idea that we're not going to build applications and then find data, we're going to start with data and then decide what we need to do with that data through big data and other types of things. We're literally talking about in the next five years about something that we might call data-defined infrastructure where the data, the characteristics of the data, the location of the data, the way it's used, the way it creates value for the business, having a dominant impact on how the infrastructure gets configured. And I think that has enormous opportunity for Cisco. Pat Galsinger talks about the software-defined data center still part of the VMware strategy. This is kind of where it's going. So I'm going to put you on the spot. Yes, after yesterday's interviews, what did you learn? What did you walk away with this? Either net new information to you or something that validates something that you've been thinking about or have been researching and analyzing? Well, the first thing I'll note in somewhat self-servicing is Wikibon is known for being at the vanguard. We tend to be a little bit out in front and imagining how technology disruption is going to play out in response to the new use cases and business issues. And it's always good to talk to people that are smarter than I am to start validating some of our positions. So we heard a lot of yesterday that was pretty strong validation at a technical level on a couple of big vendors that are along the lines of what we're talking about. So that was very easy. What did they validate? What specifically? Well, this notion of, for example, the notion of data defined infrastructure. The idea that data in the future is going to be seminal to help, to thinking about how infrastructure is intelligently configured based on the needs described within the data and the metadata. So we heard that from a couple of different people. Another thing that we heard was that there is a, that this is not just, that Cisco's vision here of having developers and network jocks coming together to thinking about what the impact's going to be ultimately on how we create business value out of technology is something that's not just a Cisco pipe dream. We had four or five partners on yesterday, including a number of them who are quite sizable. Red Hat, for example, who trumpet and reflect and are promoting similar types of concepts. And the other thing that I heard, I'm particularly going back to the PubNub conversation we had. It's really nice to see technology that has been around for a while, that works well, be reconceived to be able to do new and different things. And in particular, PubNub was talking about a deterministic PubSub network infrastructure. Very interesting stuff. It's going to be really important. So, and the reason why I think that's important is because the lessons that we've learned in the past are not necessarily dead because we're going through the transformation. One of the biggest things I think we all need to take away from this is that we think about a computer, think about, you know, my iPad, your Mac, a Dell machine, whatever else it is. We think about that as a computer. We think about a server as a computer. But the reality is if you think about what we're trying to do through conferences like this is internet-scale computing. Where we look at the entire internet as a computer. Any data, any process, anywhere. The network is the essential element of it because that's what weaves the whole thing together. And I think what we learned yesterday is the lessons of the past, some are going to be gone and we have to get rid of them. But a lot of them have more to do with business models. This is still, we're still talking about computers and we're still talking about computer science. Great, great, great, great summary of your learnings. I learned just to wrap up our intro segment. I learned a couple things. Observations that just popped out at me. One is Cisco has a lot of women in tech, engineers. So that was a very cool thing for me because we always look at our index and the CUBE interviews over the thousands of people interview, still only 18% have been women interviews. We love to do more. That's our kind of passion. But they're smart and they're really knowledgeable and it's really awesome to see great women being featured. Certainly Susie's a rock star leader at CTO. On the other thing that I learned in talking to Abby, current executive director at Cloud Foundry and Dan at Cloud Native. His open source is changing significantly and open source communities used to be, my community, we're winning. And it's always been a gamer mentality or win-lose. And I think now with the horizontally scalable cloud, you're starting to see a cross-pollination of players, cross-pollinating and participating in multiple horizontal communities that together is an expansion of the overall open source ecosystem. I think this is a new next generation dynamic that takes the tier one open source position, which really, it's our generation, we've seen open source become tier one, not tier two. It's a tier one software where people's business models are now in open source, MuleSoft, these companies are going public, multiple IPO's since Red Hat, just recently going public. I think you're going to see more business models in open source and open source is changing. I think Cloud is a big part of that. I think it's a great point, John. And the only thing I'd add to it, since this is a great summary, is that we also heard yesterday that the very notion of leadership in the open source universe is starting to change. As people come up with new business models, they're also exploring with new ways of providing leadership that doesn't violate the basic precepts of open source. Because if there has been an issue in the open source universe, it's been that open source does a great job of if you have a convention and a statement about what a product is, like an operating system, open source can do an equal or better job of it. If you start talking about use cases and a lot of business uncertainty and how open source can sometimes spend its time looking at other projects and filling holes in between projects and not getting to that use case. We've known for a while, it's not new to us that open source with the innovation is, and that's certainly seen companies have their employees there, and that's a little recruiting is going on as well. But I'm being more specific. I think the changing game in the open source community is going to be one that's going to reflect the structure of the industry. And I think Cisco jumping in with this event will change the game and the makeup of open source in projects because if you believe that the network is programmable and that the cloud is one big computer operating system, then you have to believe that that's going to be a new domino that drops and falls. And I think the impact of Cisco making programmable internet, programmable networks, two developers will have a cascading effect that will ripple on, I think. So you're predicting a lot of new open source projects and Cisco's house to come along. I'm predicting some turmoil that could be positive. Again, is it a collision? Or is it edges coming together? And that's a chaos theory. You've talked about that. It's a good prediction. So I think it's a lot of good stuff. We'll be watching and covering it, of course, play-by-play action on theCUBE, more day two coverage of theCUBE after the short break. I'm John Forrier with Peter Burris after the short break, stay with us. Hi, I'm April Mitchell and I'm the Senior Director of Strategy and Planning for Cisco Dev.


One of the assets of the World Intellectual Property Organization, of which we are particularly proud, is the WIPO Academy. And so we have the happy task of rejoicing this year at the 20th anniversary, for the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the WIPO Academy. I think the WIPO Academy is first of all an extremely important institution because it focuses on human capital, which is the basis of the expression of all creativity and innovation, and thus something that this organization needs to address, and address in particular in the least-developed developing and the transition countries. The WIPO Academy in its time has been responsible for training almost 600,000 persons coming from 190 countries. It is an extremely successful example of international cooperation, and this because it is a true partnership. It's an occasion for us to thank the partners of the WIPO Academy, on whom we rely for the quality of the services that are delivered through the WIPO Academy. And here I refer to a number of prestigious universities, of course to our member states and the intellectual property officers of member states, to a number of distinguished academics who generously contribute their expertise and their time and their knowledge, and to an ever-increasing number of alumni of the WIPO Academy, who also in turn are giving back their expertise to the current participants in the WIPO Academy's programs. Another I think extremely important feature of the WIPO Academy is the way in which it has been able to achieve quite exceptional geographic and gender diversity. So as I have mentioned, participants amongst the participants of WIPO courses, we see represented 190 countries, which is really quite exceptional, and we're delighted that now we see more women than men enrolling in the courses of the WIPO Academy. So I think it is, if I may say, a real success story of the organisation and a great example of successful international cooperation, and we extend our thanks to all of the participants over time, over the 20 years in our courses, and all of the partners who have helped us to be able to deliver this extremely important service.


Well, I think the biggest problem that a mainline economics faces is the same challenge that Adam Smith faced, which is that economists are talking a lesson to politicians which politicians don't want to hear. And so as a result, since politicians have to hear it in order to implement it, but they don't want to hear it because it puts constraints on their behavior, that communication gap is always something that we have to work at. And there becomes only very significant small windows of opportunity when real social change can happen. And the question is, can you capture those strategic moments? We at Mercatus are involved in the ideas business, and that's our main focus, is to actually work on ideas to, again, social understanding and social criticism. But there might be a time when, based on our social understanding and based on our social criticism, there might be an opportunity to introduce real ideas for change. And that is what we have to sort of work on doing, but our primary responsibility is first and foremost as scholars and scientists, and that is focusing on social understanding and improving our social understanding, and that's what we're trying to do with our different research initiatives and educational initiatives here at Mercatus.


对了,这些图片在这里,你可以在这里换一个微chats图片然后我们会发行PPT和币面图片我们将用到诗墨.im,这是中国的图片,就是Google.com如果没有微訊的话,那你就可以尝试着和坐在你旁边的其他人来一起一起分享一下吧不好意思对了,后来我会说中国的英语,我的英语不太好加油加油对对对,他是高材生英文这位女士说英语,但我不懂请让我说诗墨语我们还在前一段时间,让我们来试试今天这个图片是在中国最大的社会发展中,在我发行的这些图片,就是英语,但现在已经进入中国所以我们可以看到,这里有十多个人,他们是从中国来的所以我相信,你可能会觉得很有趣的是在中国的美国社会发展中的发展,我从台湾和海外发展但是我现在在上海在华为工作,所以我其实在美国社会发展中的发展在美国社会发展中的发展中,中国美国社会发展在台湾他们可能会有不同的评论,这些东西我会分享在这些表演中,所以中国美国社会发展中的发展可以更多了解台湾美国社会发展我 also invited some of the language speakers this year to TaiwanSo to the biggest open-source conference in TaiwanI invited 10 of them from different organizations, and invited them to TaiwanSo while we are in the greater China regionSo we have now forked into two branchesAnd most of our calls are the same, but we still have differencesHopefully we can look at each other's data calls moreSo that we can better understand each otherOk, now let's kick off, I'm RichardLing ChengI mean currently I work at Huawei and the developer ecosystem managerMy job is about developing the developers or the usersI'm now promoting this model artswhich is this logo here, which is an AI development platformIt has nothing to do with my topic here todaySo this is the end of the commercialOk, about this one, Open Country, what is it?I used to work with the central institute of Taiwanwhich is just like Chinese Academy of Sciences in Chinese millionSo at that time the Taiwan government invested some moneySo that people could use the fundingDeveloping the open source community to do the incubationSo I was based in Open CountryI was doing research on open source at that timeSo downstairs you can seeThere is the open source Kaiguan Sheawhich has exhibition booths down thereSo it's a communityI started in Chinese million with some peopleSo it's like open source communityYeah, literally, that's a Chinese wordAnd also I worked with the Shanghai Linux user groupAnd I was an organizer in thatSo I have been working in open source for over 10 yearsAnd I did some presentationsWe're out of power, right?Ok, so I was comingAnd also there was this conference in USMy company sent me to speak thereAnd also the Chinese open source conferenceCoast ClubAnd conference forCoast ClubWhich is an open source conference in TaiwanAnd also Hong Kong open source conference and so onI did attend those conferencesI mean, for greater China regionOr the Mandarin speaking Chinese speaking regionI have some communication with different partsSo for those people who just arrivedAs I just said at the beginningYou can join the WeChat groupBy scanning this QR code and grab a copy of the slidesHelloIf you want to get the slidesScan this QR code and join our groupI'm also from TaiwanI started working with the open source communityAbout 5 years ago first with Kaiguan SheaThen with an internet community in TaiwanSo we want that communityUse technologies to improve the societyAnd also there were other open source communitiesFrom TaiwanSo today my topic in this presentationIs about the practice in the open source communityAbout what we have been doingAnd of course we want to learn more from Chinese mainlandNext slideOk, I have my microphoneOk, my topic is aboutGreater China region open source community developmentMost of you are already in this communityAnd downstairs we have the exhibitionAnd you can see that in China regionThe open source community has been developingBut you may not know muchAbout the Taiwan open source communityAnd for those friends from other countriesIf you want to find out more about Chinese mainlandOpen source communityI'm sorry that I will not talk about it muchBut of course you can always talk to meAfter the conference, after the presentationAnd talk to other friends hereTo find out more about Chinese mainlandOpen source communitySo here is my topicGrass root open source communityThey have to growAnd grow their roots deeperAnd this is a voluntary communityI can see a difference between Chinese mainland and TaiwanIn terms of the open source communityLet me move onYou know this mapThis is the Greater China regionIncluding Chinese mainlandTaiwan, Hong Kong and MacauI was born in TaiwanWhen I was 30I came to mainland to workAnd participated in the open source communityI had a big cultural shockMy wife is from ShanghaiShe had a big cultural shockFrom Taiwan, from me as wellSo I was quite impressedEven though geographically we are so closeJust as I saidWe had the same source codeAnd now we're floating to two branchesAnd it's been to take some timeTo merge into oneSo let's look at each other's codesOk, we are the sameIn terms of the social progressThe free and open source softwareIf you look at these words hereOpen up and reformOk, when we talk aboutOpen up and reformYou think about 1979In Chinese mainland and Deng XiaopingBut actually when I was a childTaiwan also had the open up and reformThe president, Jiang Jinguo of TaiwanOpened up the economyAnd so did some reformSo for my parents' generationIt was likeThe earlier the economyHad been pretty isolatedSo when I was youngTaiwan was richer than mainlandBecause Taiwan opened up earlier than mainlandNot because Taiwan was strongerAnythingI mean when I was a childMy father in 1980My father could earn like7000 to 8000 Chinese yuan per monthAnd for Chinese mainlanderAt that time they earn like700 or so per monthThat was a huge capTaiwan opened up and reformedA little bit earlierSo it got richerA little bit earlierAnd then became a moderatelyWell-off societyAnd then open source communityBecame good as wellAnd this second lineSecond bullet point isTaiiping Taihui is a South China songI was surprised at when IWhen I was in Chinese mainland2014 this song was still playedIt says if you fight you winSo Chinese mainlanders believe thatIf you fight you winYou succeedSo however for TaiwanThe economy has long plateauedThey reached the ceilingSo Taiwan couldn't really growThe economy much furtherSo whether you win or you loseHas been decided by your birthOr by your parentsSo I believe in the next2013年The same will happen inChinese mainlandIn ShanghaiSome people they haveQuite a few apartmentsThere were tens of millionsSo if you come to this cityAs a newcomerNo matter how hard you workYou don't winYou don't win over themAnd also next aboutThe open source lineThey started as studentsSo I mean studentsAre important forThe open source communityWhen I was youngTo really handleVery stressful tasksFor my studyAnd for my jobAnd that wasWhen I was youngIn TaiwanBut not in ChineseMillionThere is even more stressBecause there are so manyPeople in ChinaNow people haveParents have to goThrough interviewsTo send their childrenTo kindergartenAnd also the kindergartenDo background checksAbout how long the parentsThe family have beenLiving here and so onI mean they screenThey select the childrenIn kindergartenThere has been competitionStarting at the kindergarten levelIn TaiwanSuch competitionAnd differentiationWhen it starts in high schoolSo here in ChinaPeople are trained this wayThey have to study so hardWork so hardHowever for open communityOpen source communityIt requires a lot of interestAnd also the university entranceIt's not a big challenge in TaiwanAnd also some peopleEven if they don't go to universityThey still succeedMy friend started this communityHe only graduated from junior middle schoolAnd started this communityAnd nowHe is a lecturerIn China UniversityIn TaiwanThat people in open sourceHe worked for so longAnd he loved educationAnd alsoTaiwan has the policySo that even peopleWith out very high diplomaThey can still go toThey can still join the universityAs a lecturerIn Chinese mainlandYou have to really studyAnd get thatAnd nextIt's about division of workIn Chinese mainlandIt's very top-downThat is to sayEverybody wants to look upwardAnd climb up the ladderBut in TaiwanIt's differentLike the grassroots levelCan also helpChange the societyAnd the last oneIt's a mass loss hierarchy of needsTheorySo in TaiwanPeople are getting closeTo pursuing their egoBut in Chinese mainlandPeople are stillThinking about making money so muchBecause their jobTheir life is so stressfulSo I thinkI took up so much timeRight?Already 10 minutesOkay, let me move onYou need to think about your identityI have toOkay, sorry to the interpreterSo I have to get fasterSo I believe that communities are connectedSo no matter where you workYou have different identitiesYou might be working in education sectorAnd also you might be involvedWith the government or the companiesSo sometimes you have double identitiesAnd the community can connect peopleLet me tell you a storySo what makes it possibleFor this oneThis is Niao GeAnd he lives in TaiwanAnd he started his websiteAnd he has been playing with LinuxAnd takes many notesAnd then he build a website for his notesAnd after he has been doing thatHe has a lot of interactions from peopleAnd then he turned it into a bookSo sometimesPeople can read his things onlineBut the publishers insistedTo publish his bookAnd eventually he was publishedAnd he is a contributorIn the open source communitySo he did not make a lot of moneyWith this bookBut he has contributed a lotIn the community with this actionSo in TaiwanActually we have many hardware companiesAnd for GPL violationAnd people are concerned with itAnd in TaiwanThere is one company that has been suedIn GPL violationAnd there is open source fundAnd which is called OSSFAnd this has been led by the governmentAnd in mainland there is COPUSo in TaiwanWe have also got criticism for OSSFSo we didn't see that kind of criticismIn other placesSo in scientific researchWe need to have an open source releaseIn 2013It does not have a deep hubSo for OSSFDid the open fundAnd then this has worked withMany scientific programsSo Taiwan Jordan UniversityHas started courses in FOSSAnd CSAnd alsoAs we mentionedWe have the Open Club AssociationWhich is actually a student associationIn TaiwanAnd in the middle schoolThere is the EZ GoWhich is the software centerAnd in the civil societyWe have SLADSThat is the software liberty associationIn TaiwanAnd also we haveOpen Culture FoundationAnd WekiSo as forThis kind of civil organizationsActuallyTaiwan has a lot of sponsor for thatSo let me show you something hereThis is the default community in TaiwanSo as you can seeThis isThis are the communities likeOS developmentAnd DevOps etcSo if you click hereThere are thousandsThere are hundreds of communitiesSo Taiwan has a populationOf only about 3 millionBut for each communityWe have about 10 peopleSo this is a photoThat I have takenIn the Linux user groupSo first there is a main listWellMaybe you think that the main listIs easyBut for Chinese open sourceMain list is not effectiveBecause for mainland peopleThey do not use the main listSo Shanghai is no exceptionSo for mainland ChinaThey use WeChat groupsOr Telegram groupsSo if they use TelegramThere are more entry barriersSo it's not that easyFor you to get involved in itAnd alsoThere are other kind of online sourcesFor offlineWhy did I highlight itWell,actuallyFor hacking ThursdayActually this is an event in TaiwanSo this was startedBy a guy from TaiwanAnd then he organizedIn Shanghai at Junan TempleAnd this is an eventWhich happens every ThursdayMoreover there is a monthly meetingSo the photo you have seen on the rightIs the hacking Thursday in ShanghaiSo welcome to join usAnd I occasionally join itBecause I have been so busy in HuaweiSo for CosepActually I've been involved with itIn Taiwan for many yearsSo for many of you it's newBut you know that in TaiwanThere are hundreds of communitiesSo some has 10 or 20 or 50 peopleBut with this CosepapThen this is an annual meetingOf the different communitiesIn open sourceThis is the conference for open sourceCoders,users and promotersSo the contributors include codersUsers and promotersSo we have been talking about codersIn mainland ChinaBut sometimes people forget usersBut it gets useless if you do not have usersOr promoters or fansSo that's why it's really niceAnd you have free registersAnd there's no entry barriersAnd actually you can get the sponsorsFrom companies or from individualsAnd moreover you have a peer review in itAnd there are some cross-border communityCollaboration at CosconIn TaiwanThere is a sitcom that is student IT conferenceThat means the studentsAnd there are volunteersThere are about 200 volunteers every yearAnd then they organize these kind of conferencesSpontaneouslyAnd students are the organizersAnd they would invite those teachersWho make a lot of contribution in itSo the students can invite the teachersTo join the conferenceAnd usually it's the teacherWho organize the conference like CCFBut in Taiwan this one is the oppositeAs for this concept actuallyIt has been popularIn Taiwan and has been borrowed in Hong KongAnd in Hong Kong there is sitcomHong Kong and in mainlandIt has a source conWhich is a student open source conferenceIn mainland ChinaBut for bottom up it's really importantAs for the conferenceThat were big eventsBut in Taiwan there are also smaller onesLike Shanghai Hacking TuesdayThat's the Hacking ThursdayWhich is smallerAnd also the Mozilla SpaceActually has a sponsored spaceWhich can host about 20 to 30 peopleTo talk about open sourceAnd you can actually apply for this spaceIf it is about open source eventsAnd you can apply onlineAnd actually the management of the spaceIs also done by volunteersAnd actually the cleaning of the spaceIs also managed by the volunteersSo if you are freeYou can just buy this spaceAnd that might be something interestingSo this is mostly about hardwareOpen sourceSo in ShanghaiThere are also similar organizationsAnd in ShenzhenThere are also similar programsAs Richard mentionedTaiwan has the open source community cultureSo people are gatheredBased on the same hobbiesAnd for this kind of cultureThis is really influencing TaiwanAnd actually as for open sourceActually in the pastYou are waiting for people to teach youBut with open sourceEveryone is a collaboratorAnd everyone can actually contributeTo the communityWithout waiting to be calledTo make a contributionSo people have been talking aboutGo and cognitive and deploymentBut we were talking about G0VOr we call it GOV0So actually this is a communityBased on internetAnd this is a non-profit communityAnd we believe that we can bringBenefits to the societyAnd the mission isDon't ask why nobody does itActually first you need to knowThat you are nobodyAnd nobody is capableOf doing everything on himself or herselfThereforeWe propose this conceptAnd the QR code you can see hereThis is the WeChat groupFor this presentationSo I believe there are a lot of thingsThat we can do togetherFor the communityActually it's not based on any languageOr on any technologySo actually we have been involvedWith many thingsWhether your work hoursIn violation of the lawsOr we also help peopleTo measure their plant conditionsAnd also we help peopleWith their household stuffSo this organization helpsIn arts, education and agricultureNon-profit and journalismDisaster prevention etcSo there are a lot of thingsThat we launch in this communityA lot of things has been addedSo many languagesHas also been addedAnd also some local dialectsHave been added in this platformSo these are the thingsThat we want to doSo the programmerWants to put on some vegetablesSo actually they are all in GitHubAnd all of that are open sourceSo actually for open sourceThis is really inclusiveSo as for our communityDo a lot of things about householdsFor exampleIf you are workingTo help different industriesWe need codersBut we also need other skillsSo here are the skillsStickersWhich shows the skillsThat people have in this communityAnd every two monthsWe have a HexonWhich you can hostAbout 100 peopleAnd people argueWhat can you doIf you organize a conferenceFor one dayIn every two monthsWell the fact isThat it has been runningFor one year or two yearsAnd for HexonActually you meet peopleFrom different industriesAnd you might meet peopleWho are in iOSOr in app developmentAnd you can start collaboration with themIn this platformNext I want to talk about a toolAnd how we havePromoted the open projectSo we believe everything is equalAnd actually it is decentralizedSo in the Hexon proposalWe use the Hexon folderAnd you can actually sendThe proposal and the GitHub connectionAnd whether it's MITOr other authorizationAnd then in the app folderThen you can listThe different connections hereSo when we have an annual conferenceFor 1000 peopleWe use the same proposalsThe same proposalsAnd everything that can be publishedOnlineAnd for exampleThe information about the venueAnd the financeAre very transparentSo we also useHexon folder for aspect in TaiwanSo when there was aspectActually we integrateAll the resources onlineLike all the news onlineAnd they are like20 or 30 people onlineAt the same timeSo they can do it in 10 minutesAnd it can be connectedYou are existingPerfectAnd which hospitals still have bedsAnd also the reports from the residentsAre put into a mapAnd nextI want to talk aboutThe open source communityIn Chinese mainlandI know this thingsBut I always thinkI want to tell the open sourcePeople in mainlandThat in TaiwanOpen source communityHas been doing things for many yearsHowever they are not knownIn Chinese mainlandSo it happened to meThere are several members hereFrom the Taiwan showSo I want to say thatThis is a platformFor all of you to join inSo that we can connectThis open source peopleAnd then they can do something togetherIt's not like what's beenDone in TaiwanBecause it's been like thatFor over 10 yearsFor exampleApache Roadshow in 2015Apache FoundationFor the first time in ChinaAnd we as conventionWorked with themCollaborated with themSo at that timeWe thoughtLots of the Apache projectsWere introduced to ChinaI mean it was not so formalIt wasIt's sort of likeWe became a partnerApacheAnd also we haveThe open sourceAny conference in ChinaIn the pastHow the organizationsHad done similar thingsSimilar eventsBut we selected the topicsAnd that were sort of differentAnd we were less commercialAnd we had different opinionsWe want to letThe open source peopleTo decide everythingAnd also we talked to universitiesAnd also likeAfter competition and so onLast yearWe made thisChina annual reportOpen sourceSo you stillAnd also in itTo send out questionnairesSo todayIf you happen to passBy Kai Yuan's boothPlease fill out our questionnaireSo that we canMake the 2019Any report of ChinaOpen sourceLaterIn to send the linkTo our WeChat groupWe should just join inSo if you have timePlease help usBy filling out the questionnaireI as one personCan not do muchAnd our core teamOnly has like20 membersBut I want more peopleTo join the Kai Yuan showI work in HuaweiSome other membersWork in other companiesBut pleaseLet's both spend some timeA little timeDon't just push others to do thingsNobody isOmely potent or anythingWe just want to invite peopleTo join this organizationSo together we can do thingsThat's the important thingI'm not trying to advertiseFor Kai Yuan showBut I thinkYou may have ideasAnd you don't haveTo join this organizationYou can also startYour own organization or somethingSo that China will becomeA more fertile landFor open source communityAnd we still needStill need to spendA couple of minutesTo wrap up this sessionOkAbout the open source codeWe knowThe community is more than the codeWhen people only look at the open source codeThey only look at the achievements of the peopleThey don't want to contributeThey only want to use othersOthers codeOthers achievementsIn the past yearsChina really took lots of thingsFrom everywhereBut now graduallyChina's attitude is changingThe sentiment is changingChina now wants to contribute toIf you readIf you read the BibleIn ChinaMaybe not many people read itIt's a better fortuneTo give than to takeSo in the pastChina left everythingSo it took many thingsFrom all over the worldBut now China is becoming richerSo it should do somethingIt should giveIt should contribute moreSo that we will haveMore positive cycleSo togetherWe can fertilizeThis land of open sourceWe often sayThis is a fertile landAnd that is a fertile landBut that meansThat we contributeTo make it fertileSo let's roll up our sleevesAnd work hardThat's what the Chinese leaders saidSo talk his lipsSo we don'tWell, I think I just remindedThat I still have five minutesSo let's keep those five minutesFor Q&ASo I have to sayFor presentationSo any questionsThis one pleaseWell, you knowIn Chinese millionPeople work likeYou know 996Have you heard about 996?They work 996 days a weekAnd thenThis traffic jamThey get home at 11And then the next morningThey go back to workSo how can they have timeTo workAnything for open source communityWhat's your suggestion?Oh, very good questionSo my suggestion isYou can always spare some timeIndeed, this is a harsh environmentI actually visitedEuropean AmericaAnd I visitedFacebook and Google and so onThe world is not equalBut even though it's not equalWe still need to make progressI mean, this started earlierIn ChinaSo they are not doing betterSo we always do have to doA difficult job here in ChinaStill, we should contributeTo the open source communityAnd if you are able to do itIt means that you are very competentIf you are very competentOr if you have highIf you have high competenceAnd high expectationYou can do itSo it's the strong peopleWho do these things, right?Let me add somethingI follow a questionAbout 996996 days a weekSo I think many organizationsThey stay in the office until 9 p.m.Because the boss is still in the officeSo they feel reluctant toTo leave earlySo they are just sitting thereLike idling aroundWith all going homeHowever, if you sit thereIn the officeBut being unproductiveThen spend that time quietlySpend that timeThe evening timeIn the office on open sourceYeah, you don't have toLet your boss goI mean, it's not much timeIt's not easyAnd you don't have toWork on open sourceYou can also do somethingTo maintain your healthLike sometimes people sayThat they work 996And they become unhealthyBut don't say thatDon't blame your bossDon't blame your companyDon't say thatAnother company is likeAnother company is goodAnd yours is betterOpen source is harderAnythingLet's justLet's justWork on the difficultiesAnd find outOur opportunitiesTo do moreFor open sourceAnd otherwiseAnd I hopeWe don't have toWork 996 in futureOkay, thank youWell, I want to add somethingSome people sayThat open source isVery demandingThat I have toParticipate in big projectsI have to likeWrite lots of codesOr anythingBut actuallyYou can do very small thingsMake a small toolOr likeThere are some research workYou cannot do on your jobSo you want to doOutside your jobI mean it's notThat very high requirementYou can take thoseVery small stepsBaby stepsAnd still make progressIn the open source communityThank youHere's one questionAnd then nextIs that oneOkay, my follow up questionI think you haveGreat experienceYou have been workingOpen source communityAnd meanwhileYou work atHuaweiSo I want to ask youHow isAnd how isHuawei doingLike howAre they promotingOpen sourceBecause I thinkDoing a job inHuawei is very stressfulHuawei is aVery demanding employerRightSo your jobIs already busyAnd stressfulAnd thenHow do youWork on the open source communityAnd alsoHow is the open sourceWork helping your jobAndHow do peopleShare the resourcesAnd wing togetherIn open source communityWell, it's not justIn HuaweiI mean anyChinese companyI worked withHad only two possibilitiesTo do theOpen source contributionOne is thatYour companySends you toDo contributionTo make contributionTo the open sourceAnd alsoOtherwiseIt's your personal hobbyAnd interestSoOpen source projectIn ChinaSo it's theFirst Apache projectBy a Chinese teamSo HuaweiThink it's importantThat's whyThey send people toWork on itAnd those peopleWho were sent toDo it are nowMy bossSo I understandTheir ideasAnd they didComplete their jobAnd they becameOpen source expertsTo find out moreAbout ApacheThey learned a lotAnd graduallyThey learnedIt was funAnd thenThey made friendsThey worked withLots of Indian friendsAnd work on it togetherNowThey really enjoyOpen sourceEven thoughThey may haveDifferentInitial impressionAbout Open sourceThey did it for their jobI started for my hobbyBut we bothWorked onOpen source communityIn ChinaAnd we areBoth contributingSo there'sNo conflictNo matter it'sYour job or your hobbyHiAboutOpen source communityThe individual contributorsAnd corporate contributorsAre both importantRightYeahLike in ChinaWe can seeThere are moreAnd more companiesAre paying attentionTo open source nowBut nowThe phenomenon is thatSome companiesUse the open sourceAs a KPIKeep performance indicatorsSo they firstDo some projectsOn open sourceAnd thenAfterwardThey don't pay attentionAndIt went sourSoWhen you look atOpen sourceCommunitiesIn TaiwanIn the other countriesAnd regionsAccording toYour knowledgeIs thatSomething thatHas to happenIn open sourceOr is it just becauseChina is stillUnderdevelopedIn terms of open sourceWellIn ChinaIn Chinese mainlandThis isA special phenomenonSoEven ifYou go toDNPConsumer review websiteThey still tryTo fake the ratingsBut thenThey may fake the ratingsIn GitHubAs wellSo they have toExceed the KPISo they tryTo do thingsTo achieve the KPIEven byNot very goodNot very healthyMethesBut ultimatelyWe have to askThe fundamental questionIsIs such actionContributing to theIndustryOr to the sectorSo nowThey areNot thinkingAbout this questionHard enoughLikeNo matterHow hard youFake the consumer ratingRestaurant reviewWebsiteOr appUltimatelyThe businessDepends onHow did the food isSo if you lookHow manyProjects are openBut how manyOf them are focusedDepends onAsSoSo saidI have darknessAndAnd3software and open source softwareHow do you think of them?Well, I started my journey by looking forfor free software on the InternetI mean, I had to look for key, you know, on the InternetYou know what I'm talking aboutAnd then I thought it was not so goodI mean, since I was a childI was educated about for IP protectionTaiwan was blacklisted in the United StatesSo it was sanctionedSo I knew piracy was badSo I started to look for non-pirated free softwareBut sometimes they were bad thingsRapting it right thenI thought maybe open source softwareDidn't have that issueSo I looked for themSo I wonder why were they so sillyMaking free software, not charging the usersAnd then I got startedAnd second, about the free softwareAnd open source softwareI read Thomas and RichardAnd read their worksAnd then I understood it betterI mean, when I was placedThe Taiwan Central InstituteI read those books and understood moreI think we are overtime, are we?Yeah, alreadySo, we can still talk to each other afterwardsRight, we are in a WeChat group alreadyAnd I will be outsideAnd please feel free to talk


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So today we'll look at some of the new features that we've added in the settings and maintenance module that you might have missed in the process. We've added an extra feature where you can create an additional button on the company card that will automate some manual tasks that you would otherwise have to do one by one. And we do this by using a CRM script. And a CRM script automates manual tasks by creating different documents or activities automatically for you when you press the button. So let me give you an example. For example, if you've just added a prospect to your database and you want to book an appointment with them, but you also have to create a new customer visitor document and you want to create a new sales opportunity. With this new button on in the screen designer, you can run a script that does all these three things automatically so that when you as a user press the button, super office will automatically create the appointment for you in your diary. It will create a document for the customer report and it will create a new sales opportunity so that you don't have to go into these different different parts of super office to do that manually, which of course will save you a lot of time. If you would like to use this feature and you're not familiar with CRM scripts, please contact your account manager in super office because they will be able to help you or point you in the right direction. We have now made a change to the address line on the screen designer in super office. The screen designer as you know, is where you can configure and customize the company screen so that it only contains the information that you as a user and your company wants to use. Now, the address line normally would take up multiple lines which would show the street, the zip code and the city. Now you have the option to choose whether you want to have the old two line address line or you can switch to a single line address where you don't see maybe all the details straight away but you do see the most important part of the address and that way you can save a little space on the company card. I've got one more thing that I would like to share with you today and yes, I went and got a haircut. In last month's product roundup, I was joined by my colleague Jan Petter who talked about the mobile CRM app. He mentioned that they were working on a new feature called the caller ID and I'm happy to report that this feature has now been released. For those who didn't watch last month's episode, let me quickly explain what the caller ID feature does. As you know, your phone is one of the most important work tools that you have. Every day you make and receive a lot of calls and if you know who you're calling or who's calling you, you can always pick up the phone in a very personal way but sometimes it happens that you're not able to pick up the call straight away or you don't see that you're being called at all and in that case you wouldn't be able to call back people afterwards and then it would be nice to know who it was that called you. But if you haven't saved the person's name in your phone, you won't be able to see who it was that called you. With the caller ID feature or mobile CRM, you can always see who is calling you as long as this person is either saved in your super office database or saved on your mobile device. This has several advantages. First of all, you can see who's calling you and pick up the phone in a personal way. The second advantage is that when you get a call and you're in a meeting, for example, you can choose whether you want to pick up the phone now or call this person back later. And the third and final advantage is of course that if you have a missed call, then you can easily see who it was that called you so you can see whether and when you want to call them back. The caller ID feature is part of the mobile CRM app. And this app synchronizes with your super office database on a daily basis. So any new contacts that are added to your super office database will be available in the app and therefore will also work with the caller ID function. For those who haven't downloaded the mobile CRM app yet, make sure to go to the app store or Google Play and download it today. So in short, the caller ID will help you to give you a more personal touch to the phone calls that you make with colleagues, partners, suppliers and customers. And we'll make sure to share the article that explains how you can set up the caller ID on your mobile CRM app. We really hope you guys enjoyed the show. As always, the resources will be in the links down in the description. So make sure to check those out. Thank you for watching and see you next month.


The third one is, I've had pretty good luck with thrillers from them, so, because my patrons like to choose violence, paint that just the way it's dark, and it's just not fun. March TBR? How is it already March? No way. I'm actually pretty delighted with how relatively small my March TBR is, um, cause January and February were a lot. It's still quite a bit, don't get me wrong, but it feels very light to me, especially because February was a short month with a very long TBR. Oh shoot! I'm missing a book. Well, I may be missing a book. Anyway, let's do it. So the book that I may be missing is the third book in the Five Warrior Angels trilogy that I am buddy reading, doing a read-along for, with Erin from Bookton Busy. However, when we chatted about Book One, neither of us was a huge fan of it, and we were like, well if Book Two is not much better, then we probably won't weird Book Three. And right now, I have not yet read the second book, nor have I talked to Erin about it. I have heard bad things in my discord from patrons of mine that are reading it or have read it or just finished it. So we'll see. So possibly, I don't even know what it's called. Wait, it was The Forgetting Moon, The Blackest Heart, and whatever the third one is. The third one will be here. So that one, I'm possibly reading in March unless we decided not to, and I don't know if that's the case right now, so. Anyway, books that I'm definitely reading are as follows. The Year of Game and Continues with Smoke and Mirrors, which is his first collection of short stories. This was also the first collection of short stories from him that I did read, although this collection of short stories was not the first game and thing that I read, but it was the first game and collection of short stories that I read. Not that it matters. Anyway, have I read this? No, I have not read this since I first read it. This will be my second time reading it. I have read, I think, some of the stories again, because I think they have appeared elsewhere. Is that true? Or maybe I've just heard him because I've wanted to see him speak a couple times. I might have just heard him speak. I mean, read them, one of them, some of them. Oh, okay. Well, I do have the illustrated version of Snow Glass Apples, which was published separately, and I have heard him read Chivalry a couple times. I think both times I saw him speak. He read Chivalry aloud. That might be it. So, yeah, most of these I haven't read in several years, so I'm quite looking forward to it, as I'm always looking forward to reading Gaiman. That's why I've been the whole freaking year of Gaiman. Next is a book that was quite an anticipated release for me, and then I haven't read it yet. I think that's just the way. And that is The Hood by Lavi Tadar. So this is a sequel to Biforce Alone, but only so far as, like, this is part of the same project. So Biforce Alone was a grimdark, slightly speculative retelling of the King Arthur story. So Lavi Tadar is giving this same kind of grimdark speculative origin of the myth treatment to several stories in English history. So he started with King Arthur. He's now doing Robin Hood. So it's not a sequel in the way that it's a series where it's the same characters. It's obviously very different characters separated by many, many years. He's giving it the same treatment. It takes place in the same world. The same sort of grimdark speculative version of our world. So I loved Biforce Alone. It was very, very weird. I've convinced some of my patrons to read it. And so far so not bad. I don't think anyone's hated it yet. So yeah, I'm just very excited to see him give that same treatment to Robin Hood. And I am reading this with patrons. So like those same patrons who are reading Biforce Alone, I think are also reading The Hood with me in March. Next is the continuation of the Book of the New Sun read along on my channel. So at March we are on Book 3. So we are going to be reading Sword of the Lictor in March. This will be a reread for me. That's the last reread for me in April when we read Citadel of the Autarch. That will be new for me. So I'm very, it's going very, very well. I'm very excited. It's very, it's really honestly really great to be able to pick it apart with people to like read it together. And like our first chat about the first book Shadow of the Torturer. We chatted for like three hours about it. So it's, it's been really, really great doing this. So I'm really glad we're doing it. And I'm really looking forward to the next installment. Next is the conclusion to another read along going on my Patreon. And that is the His Dark Materials series. So we are at the third and final book, The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. This is my least or my first time reading the series. This was my least favorite in the trilogy. I suspect that will still be true on reread, hoping it's not. But I'm still looking forward to it because I like Philip Pullman's writing. And I like this world and I like this story. That's why I suggested doing a read along for it on my Patreon. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't like the series. But it does go a bit downhill as the series goes, in my opinion. Or at least I felt that way the first time through. So we'll see. Next is a book that my patrons have chosen for me to read and vlog for them. Even though they all think that I'm going to hate it. Because my patrons like to choose violence. That is The Three Body Problem by... Okay, I've, someone told me how to pronounce it. And I forgot. And I didn't think about that until right now. I should have looked this up. Um, by Mr. Liu. I mean, I'm excited if I'm honest to read it because it was the winner of the Hugo. There's going to be an adaptation of it. A lot of people I know really, really like it. But everyone is like... The character work is still abysmal in this series. That's why everyone thinks I'm going to hate it. I'm pretty sure. I think that's why everyone thinks I'm going to hate it. So we'll see. I kind of like a book that has other things going for it, I think. I'm sure I must have done it at some point. Um, can't think of any examples right now. Yeah, so this is happening. Um, we shall see how it goes. So yeah, blog in this one. Next is another read-along going on on my Patreon and that is The Golden Wolf Saga, another reread for me because we gave up on The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell and swapped in The Golden Wolf Saga. So we're on book two, The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartziker. And it's a reread for me. I love these books. It does not go downhill as we go. I really, really like The Sea Queen if memory serves. I kind of, I read them all back to back the first time I read it. So I get a little muddled in my mind which things happen in which book. But if I remember correctly, The Sea Queen was possibly my favorite installment, but I loved all three. So very much looking forward to some Viking vibes. Next is another read-along. That is the Red Rising read-along continuing with Golden Sun, which remains my favorite book in the original trilogy and is probably my favorite book in the Red Rising saga to read. By which I mean, I don't think it's the best quality. Like I think his writing, like his ability as a writer, have substantially grown and I think the best quality thing he's written is Dark Age, followed by Iron Gold. His new books, like, he's grown so much as a writer. The quality is just miles away better. But it's still the most fun to read Golden Sun. That'll be hard to beat. The new books are really good, but they are not what I would call fun. Dark Age is not fun. Yeah, Golden Sun is just a good time. That's not to say that there aren't dark things that happen, but it's quite a ride. And I'm very excited to go on this ride again. And of course, to chat about it with Angela and Alex. And last and probably least, is my Book of the Month book. So my book of the month is, I've tried not to pick the speculative ones because I always hate those. I don't think I've ever liked a speculative book that I picked from Book of the Month. But when I have liked Book of the Month book books, which has been rare because I always picked the speculative ones, they've never been speculative. So I have, like, disliked books from them that were not speculative. But I've never liked a book that was speculative. Anyway, I'm trying to increase my odds of liking Book of the Month book books by not choosing speculative books. So I chose the thriller this month and that was the writing retreat. It sounds like it's an isolated, closed-circle mystery about writers, which, like, that sounds great. I don't know how it'll go. But I'm betting it will be a page turn at the very least. So I'll have something of a good time, even if it's not that great. But hopefully it'll be great. Hopefully. I've had pretty good luck with thrillers from them, so. And my other Book of the Month club was an add-on, because I loved The Lincoln Highway so much, which was my add-on in December or January or whatever. I got another book by the same author. I picked Rules of Civility. They have three of his books on Book of the Month club. I think I probably should have chosen the other one. Two Gentlemen in Moscow? Is that what it's called? A Gentleman in Moscow? Something about Moscow, I think. Anyway, people told me that that one is way, way better than Rules of Civility. So I mean, I'll give that a go, regardless of how this goes, because I like Lincoln Highway a lot. People told me this is very reminiscent of the Great Gatsby, and that's why they don't like it. And I don't love the Great Gatsby, but I don't dislike the Great Gatsby. So I might do better with this than other people have, or I might hate it. Who knows? But at least short. And I do very much like the cover. That's neither here nor there. And those are all the books that I'm for sure, for sure reading. And February, as well as one that I might read. In March! Not February! Oh my God, you cannot convince me that it's March. Have I been saying February for this whole video? I've been saying March. Let me know in the comments below your thoughts, what you're going to be reading, if you've read these books, if you are joining for any of these read-alongs, whatever you don't let me know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random times of all the Saturdays, so like and subscribe to my Patreon, if you feel so inclined. And I'll see you when I see you. Bye.


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Hello everyone. Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge all those who have been affected by the fires in the forest or where the St. John's Agne is located. It has been a difficult period. We think of you and all the firefighters, the first volunteers who work hard to keep the fires and protect people. Thank you. Although this has been a very tough few months, for many people it's starting to feel like we've turned a corner. Businesses are reopening their doors to serve their communities. Employers are putting new precautions in place to keep people safe. And right across the country, business owners are using the wage subsidy to get back on their feet and rehire their employees. By using this benefit, employers have helped 2.6 million Canadians stay in the workplace. These are jobs that people rely on to pay their bills and to put food on the table. Jobs that matter to Canadians and to their families. Take romers in Vancouver and Port Moody. They use the wage subsidy to rehire over 150 employees and reopen their three neighborhood restaurants. Or enable education in Milton who applied for the benefit and were able to keep a team of 18 people employed and busy. And that's what this program is all about. But even as things start to improve for many people, we also have to remember that some industries have been hit harder than others. And if you work in one of those sectors, it might take longer to find a job. In the coming weeks, we want you to be able to focus on finding work, not be worrying about your benefits. So as I announced on Tuesday, we are extending the service by two months. This help will continue to be there for you and your family. Over the last few months, we have set up a whole series of programs to help Canadians through this difficult period. Since the very beginning, we have said that as the situation evolves, our response will evolve with it. So we have decided to extend the Canadian emergency service and the emergency wage. We understand the challenges people are facing, and we want to give them enough time to find work. Of course, it's not always easy to return to work. Many companies have to transform their ways of doing to be able to reopen their doors. If you have any questions about the procedures and measures to be respected during the recovery, we put several resources at your disposal. The Canadian Work Safety and Security Centre has just published on its website information files on public health, which are excellent training sources. It also launched an online portal where companies can share their experiences and exemplary practices, such as things to disinfect the workplace or advice for the mask. We have a lot of ways to travel in the coming months, but working together, government, companies and citizens, we will go through. With businesses retooling their operations to produce hand sanitizer and people finding creative ways to stay safe, the last few months have shown us the power of thinking outside the box. Going forward, that will serve us very well, because finding new ways of doing things and collaborating between sectors yields great results. In fact, for tech and agriculture, we've already seen that potential in action. As people around the world start eating more plant-based products, we have an opportunity to bring together Canadian innovation and Canadian crops, and a chance to create good, well-paying jobs. We've already invested in this space with the Prairies-based Protein Industries Supercluster, supporting thousands of jobs. But this industry is growing fast, so we're not stopping there. Today, I can announce that our government is contributing almost a hundred million dollars for the new Merit Functional Foods location in Apec. This facility will be a world leader in plant-based proteins and will create good jobs in a fast-growing field. And by using 100% Canadian inputs, it will also support farmers who produce the canola and yellow peas used in Merit's products. Standing up for hard-working farmers, creating good jobs, setting up Canada for success on the world stage, these are things that our government will always get behind. I've just finished this morning by talking about the steps that Canada undertakes on the global stage.  Of course, for a large number of women and girls, inequalities in health care have nothing new.   And too often, the right for women to make decisions concerning their own body is questioned. Since our arrival to power, we place gender equality at the heart of everything we do. And that's what we continue to do today. This morning, Prime Minister Gold participates in the conference She Decides Now and announces that our government will invest nearly 80-14 million dollars to support health and reproductive rights of women and girls most vulnerable in the world. These funds will allow for a series of services, such as helping professional and certified women in Somalia, or against violence based on sex in Rohingya refugee camps. If this pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for our country, it has also been an important opportunity to figure out what really matters in our communities, to have meaningful conversations about how we can take care of those around us, and perhaps above all, to think about what kind of future we want to build together. We have the chance to shape our country and our world for the better, and I know that we're up to that task. Thank you.