Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have a confirmed date for Team of the Year from EA Sports. It is coming on Friday, the 22nd on Friday. Team of the Year is going to be here. So we're gonna talk about today in Team of the Year preparation video number two out of pack special cards and icons. Cause I wanna take a look at how this market's gonna be affected over the next few days. And even into next week when Team of the Year starts, when could we see a time to buy some of these cards and what types of cards could rebound after Team of the Year, which cards are gonna go down after Team of the Year and icons especially. We're in a very interesting scenario because icon moments are only a month away. So after Team of the Year is over, yes you might see a rebound on some icons but you might see that dip very soon when icon moments come out in February. So let's show you guys the official date for Team of the Year was announced here on the EA FIFA 21 Team of the Year website. The file Team of the Year will be announced on January 22nd and obviously in on Instagram there was like a countdown. So it's actually gonna be announced pre 6 p.m. UK on Friday. It's gonna be announced early and then they said when special Team of the Year player items featuring some of the highest ratings of the season will be released in foot 21. So they're announcing it before 6 p.m. They're announcing the full 11 of players, right? But they're releasing special Team of the Year players impacts on that 22nd date as well. So I think we're getting cards impacts on Friday. If I read this correctly, we're getting the announcement and then cards and packs. Now it would be a super EA thing to do and also kind of correspond with how they've run Team of the Year in the past to only put either the defenders and the goalkeeper impacts or just the attackers impacts for the first couple of days. I think that EA instead of starting Team of the Year on Monday this year, realized they could start it on a Friday, get everybody to open their saved up packs on a Friday with lighting rounds with only a few cards and packs and drag this whole Team of the Year thing out instead of just being one week. I think they're thinking, hey, we can drag it out for an entire week plus a little bit extra. So that's why I think they're starting it on a Friday and I think they realize they make more money on a Friday's promos anyway. But this is the first time Team of the Year will have ever started on a Friday. It's always started on a Monday, which is very, very interesting. So how is the market reacting right now? Actually, to be honest with you, there's not really a ton that's happening. A lot of prices are still kind of chilling around the same mark. If we head over to Footbin and take a look at the popular page, which is one of my favorite things to do, is just to take a rundown of where cards are at in this game. And Bop, it was 825 yesterday, right? And Amar was 640, 650K. So some of these cards have maybe bounced back a tiny bit, but I do not think this is a time that you want to buy just yet because as we're gonna take a look at some graphs and just talk about stuff today, it doesn't seem to me that it's got low enough yet. I don't think we've had panic. We've only had a sell-off. So I wanna continue to talk about that a little bit, specifically with the out-of-packs cards in this game featuring Road to the Finals, Freeze, Team of the Group stage, Record Breakers, all that stuff. And Icons. I'm gonna talk about out-of-packs specials and Icons because I know a lot of you guys wanna buy them for your team or you want to make an investment on a player you think will rise after Team of the Year, which both of these types of cards, out-of-packs specials and Icons should be rising post-Team of the Year, right? So let's look at last year in FIFA 20 and talk about what happened. I'm gonna talk about out-of-packs specials first and then we'll go to Icons because the one thing that I think a lot of people wanna get in their teams is these out-of-packs special cards, right? Whether it's Team of the Group stages or whether it's Road to the Finals, whether it's just in-forms from a previous Team of the Weeks that were for Team of the Year. One thing, if we take a look at this last year, right, we had Ultimate Scream, Road to the Final and then Team of the Group stage and that was it before Team of the Year. There was only end-of-ones to watch. So four promos before Team of the Year last year in FIFA 20. Look at how many we have this year, right? We have got Headliners. We have had Road to the Final three times. We've got Freeze. We have Team of the Group stage, Record Breakers and Rule Breakers. So instead of just four promo teams, we have six and also we have multiple of those six promos, right? Three Road to the Final teams and multiple Headliners teams as well and multiple Rule Breaker teams. So there's even more out-of-packs specials on the market this year that we can see rise post-Team of the Year. The important thing is gonna be finding your spots and finding the ones that are gonna have the best return on your investment if you're looking to buy a card purely for investment purposes. So we're gonna talk about that here in a second but also if you just wanna buy it for your team that it's gonna be a great time to do that as well. If you're not worried about how much Road to the Final Rebitch will rise out of packs, you just want them for your team, well, this is gonna be a great time to buy them as well. So let's take a look back at FIFA 20 again and look at some of these cards, right? Hyunmin Sun, plenty of special cards last year inside of FIFA 21, FIFA 20, right? This guy dropped, obviously, when they dropped Team of the Year nominees some of them from 580K down to 446,000 coins and then rebounded in the weeks after up about 130K to 580,000 coins. So a nice rebound on a card like Sun and if I would go through here and show you all of these out-of-packs special cards, like, you know, not a lot of them, well, most of them, not all of them is what I should say, most of them rose, right? The main thing when you're looking at an out-of-packs card post-Team of the Year is, is it a live item? Is it a meta player? And is it a player from a top five league or a top nine nation, a player that is gonna be used by most people in this game? I really like Road to the Finals and headliners from this year for Rises Out of Packs. Take a look at this Road to the Final Conte from last year, everybody used Conte, but they didn't wanna use this Team of the Year that was, you know, two and a half for three million coins right away. So instead, I remember watching this Road to the Final Conte at 730,000 coins last year, he rose all the way back up into January to 914,000 coins. Now, let's talk about return on your investment or a Rises Out of Packs from Team of the Year. I don't think you're gonna see as big of Rises this year as you saw last year, and here's why. First of all, there's more promo cards, there's more cards where people can put their money towards, it's not everybody's going for this Conte, people might be going for Headliner Gretzgra or people might be going for another CDM in this game, since there's more promo cards out there, there's just more cards for people to choose from and they have more options basically. So I think that is gonna be a factor and maybe some of your Rises not being as big as last year, but also the timing factor because Road to the Final and Champions League and Europa League games are gonna be starting literally like two weeks after Team of the Year ends. So instead of having a month to rise on the market after Team of the Year with all those coins and even Headliners being after Team of the Year last year putting more coins on the market, this year you're only gonna have two weeks. So it's about half the time. So if you technically look at it this way, this year I would maybe expect Conte to go from 730K in a two weeks time span up to maybe about 870,000 coins. So it's only going up 150K instead of reaching that full potential and going up an entire 200,000 coins. Or maybe like 120K instead of 2,000 coins or 200,000. I think that's gonna kind of make your Rises a bit smaller and make your out of pack investments still do good, but you just have to consider the timeframe since Team of the Year is starting so much later this year, I think that's gonna factor in a lot to these cards rising out of packs. Now again, what cards do you wanna pick this year to rise out of packs, right? And we're not talking golds, we're talking the out of packs, we're talking the special cards, the live items especially and the rare ones are the ones that I want you guys to focus on, right? Road to the Finals for sure because these guys are gonna have games in mid-February, which will be just shortly after Team of the Year and these cards are super duper rare. I trade with them very often on this game and they fluctuate a lot and a lot of people wanna have these in their teams post Team of the Year, right? Even a guy like Varan, he's a 1.3 million coin center back in this game, arguably the best center back card in terms of his gold card. Watch this guy drop over Team of the Year as other Team of the Year defenders come out, he'll find a low point and you'll be able to snag him up and buy him and watch him rise because people are not gonna be afraid to pay two million coins plus for a center back with people going out and buying prime icons for the teams. These Team of the Year center backs are gonna be very expensive when they come out. So we'll be watching cards like that but also the headliners. I really think these new headliners just came out. Since we have, again, a lot of good players in here. Ben Yetter, of course, possibly getting an inform this week. Even like Bomba, Zaha is very potentially getting special cards because he scores a decent amount of goals. Hyunmin Sun, 1.1 million. We are seeing a little bit of a, not market crash, but just a dip on the market on some of these. Some of them, like Retzger, are just very high at the moment because people are already buying these to link together Team of the Year cards that they think are coming. Now, in my opinion, do you wanna buy this stuff yet? I don't think that you wanna buy this stuff yet because my number one concern with all of this is if EA drops Team of the Year impacts and they drop Team of the Year nominees impacts at the same time with the Team of the Year nominee pack weight being very high and the Team of the Year pack weight being, of course, what it is, absolute 0.0001%. Team of the Year nominees, if they do come, will still crash this market. No matter if people have already sold off those nominees, if they have the high pack weight, people will sell cards because those nominees will come out. They'll look like Team of the Years and everybody will be enthralled by those new items on the game. So that's my only worry, right? And I also, again, I've been mentioning the panic. I've been mentioning panic, wait for the panic. We haven't really seen panic yet, right? We haven't seen the panic that I was mentioning before. Now I'm clicking on the wrong tabs because I'm looking at icons here, but let's look again at a freeze card, right? Let's look at a freeze card. Let's look at freeze Portnardo Silva as a great example. A lot of guys want this for the team, right? Very good center attacking mid. Bernardo Silva was 580,000 coins. His lowest so far has been 536 a couple of weeks ago. And this really isn't a sell-off for Bernardo Silva, right? This really isn't much of a sell-off. He's been between 540 and 590 for the past two months that he's been in the game. And now this guy is just a little bit lower than that. Maybe he was 511K yesterday. Maybe on Sunday night he was a bit lower, right? 525, yesterday on Monday he was, okay, he went down to 490 yesterday on Monday and then he kind of bounced back when we had no content. I would, again, still want to see more panic on a card like this because like we saw on this Bernardo Silva card, some cards bounced back yesterday on Monday when we didn't have any content. So again, wait for more loading screens to come out. Since we have this announcement today, I would be not surprised if we had a loading screen today at 6pm because I think that will cause a little bit more panic, but I just want to kind of just say wait. I want to say wait right now. I don't think we've seen the panic yet. I think there's still going to be a time to buy. And even if there's no panic before Friday when Team of the Year actually comes out, you might see stuff go up this weekend, but then obviously if Team of the Year is going to be a longer promo, they could, and if they're not putting nominees in packs, stuff could come out next week that could really crash the market too. So I know a lot of you guys want to buy before and we'll still definitely look into doing that, but I'm going to wait and see what kind of content the EA drops, what loading screens they drop, what hints we get later on this week. So that's kind of the out-of-pack special card situation for me. Honestly, I think a lot of cards are going to rise. Just again, what I use with this popular page for is look at the cards that get on this popular page, right? People know Alaba, Goretzka with the links, right? Renato Sanchez as a very popular Europa League live item. This guy is probably going to go even higher after Team of the Year. I would like to see some panic on him, see him drop like 40,000 coins or so, lower 900s to get you a good buy price, but people are going to have the coins to pay absurd amounts for these overpowered OP cards later on after Team of the Year, right? Goretzka, a very OP, incredible looking card, right? That's why I like the headliners and the road to the finals honestly the most out of a lot of these special cards and just your normal informs too, right? Inform Ben Yetter, depending on what he gets today, you know, it's a very meta card people like to use. All these Bruno Fernandez special items. Now he's got the player of the month so that's a bit interesting because people might be crafting that. Marcus Rashford's special items, right? People are going to buy back that Rashford. Kyle Walker's Inform, this card right here, right? A lot of pros have this for their qualifier teams. This guy isn't being panic sold at all, but when there's a point when he does, this card's going to be one that fluctuates like crazy, right, because he's one of the most OP and used center backs in the game. So we'll probably do more videos this next or later on this week about what cards, again, we can focus in on, you know, out of pack specials and stuff like that, but I want to talk about those for a minute and now I want to talk about icons because icons are also a very big part, but I want to save it to the end because some of you guys, and it's fine, but not everybody in FIFA can afford an icon, but let's talk about icons this year. Puskas, baby card, right? These are out of packs. Baby icons out of packs. I want to show you what baby icons out of packs did last year. This is Eusebio, right? One of the most OP icons yet last year in FIFA 20. 3.2 mil on the Xbox, 3.7 mil on the PlayStation. Even with Prime Icon moments coming in February, this guy was so OP that he rose up to 5.2 million coins in late March on the PlayStation. 3.7 to 5.2.  Whether it's Croix that you want, whether it is like Rycard or Eto, Cantonal, one of the new ones, Vieira, Pelé, any of those new cards, I would argue that Pelé is this year's, or last year's Eusebio, right? Pelé this year is kind of like Eusebio last year from what I've heard and from what I've seen, but some of these mid-tier icons with the good links, they do incredible. Take a look at this Macalely, right? We can leave Panic sell-off down to 400,000 coins on both consoles, rebounds to 590,000 coins a few weeks after team of the year. Look at that return on your investment. Your return on your investment there is incredible, and this is mid-Macalely who was in packs, right? He was in packs, but then you can see as we get into February with icon moments coming out, a lot of these cards do tend to drop off, and of course, it's just the second half of the year, so prices drop anyway, but Baby Desai was another one. I don't think I have his graph pulled up, but that was another baby card. Like this year, Baby Canavaro would be a fantastic one to probably sink your coins into. I know I showed Puskas right here. You know, the new icons, right? Puskas, Eto, those top two for sure would be ones that I would keep my eyes on that are one of some of the most popular new icons in this game that people wanna use, especially just because they're brand new, right? And people have been using them all year. Now again, buy time for these. Puskas was 1.85, right? Now he's 1.66.  If you see 100, 200K drops in undercuts, whenever there's a lot of panic going on or open bid listings, that's when you're gonna wanna get interested on these icons. Now let's talk about mid icons for a bit too. This is Cruyff, check this out. Mid Cruyff last year, 3.5 mil, all the way down to 2.4 mil during team of the year, and then rebounded right back to 3.2 mil, dipped a little bit when prime moments came out, but this guy went out of packs then, and was so meta that he stayed very, very high. I do think you will see rises on icons this year, right? Again, just like we talked about with the out-of-packs specials, you gotta look at meta, you gotta look at popular, and top nine nation, right? No icon league, but yeah, the big names, right? The big name icons, and the ones that have icon SBCs, you have to be a bit careful with this as well because they have that icon SBC price that will kinda hold them in check, right? So like Roberto Carlos Caca, if you wanted to do Canavaro, his SBC, a lot of people will be crafting that during team of the year, they won't actually be buying those cards, so those cards you might see less of a rise on because they have that SBC available in game, and just beware if they drop more prime icons during team of the year, that might inhibit some of their rise there too. Now let's look at primes, because primes have not been in packs for too long this year. Let's look at what happened last year, Rio last year, 1.2 million coins, bounced hard on a weekend, kinda came back down to 1.3, rose into February, and then bang, right? 1.28 to 1.46, was up almost 200K, and then icon moments come out in February and the dude goes to the bin to 1 million coins over the course of the next month. That again is gonna happen with a lot of cards, so just keep in mind that if you're buying an icon, especially a prime icon, right? Look at Rio this year, I think I have Rio's graph pulled up right here. Rio this year is 1.7 million. Some of these prime icons I feel like are gonna take a hit with the supply that comes during team of the year, because people are gonna, number one, sell icons to buy team of the year cards, and number two, these icons are gonna get supplied like they really haven't been yet, with the number of packs that are open on team of the year, and especially since we've had even longer time for people to save up packs for team of the year, there's gonna be a ton of supply, right? And then you have icons like got into it from last year as well. I wanted to show you this graph because some icons are just overpriced to start with. Garincha was 2.8 mil, dropped into team of the year to 2 mil flat. He did go up about 200,000 coins, but then his price just kind of stayed chill, and he didn't really move that much until throughout the rest of the year when he kept dropping, so again, you wanna pick the icons that are the most OP, the most usable, the ones that people have in their teams the most, right? Some primes this year that a lot of people like to use, cantona, eto, pushkash. Of course, everybody loves Dalglish, but the real prime is a big one. Fernando Torres' prime is gonna be one this year that I think you wanna keep your eyes on because this 88, even though he does have an icon SPC that's been out in the game, this prime is like, it's insane. So I want you guys to keep your eyes on Fernando Torres. That'll be one that I think could do pretty well. I think it needs to drop some more yet, but I also think it'll rebound. And when you're looking at a certain icon, if you wanna buy an icon for your team, right? Make sure you go on footbin and you compare the prices from this year to the last year, right? Where is mid-croiff right now compared to where he was last year? Mid-croiff on the market last year was again, during team of the year 2.4 million, he rose to 3-2. Well, croiff this year is still in the 3.3 million coin range. Now I know we have more coins in the game this year, but that's why I'm still saying I wanna see more panic on a lot of these cards. I wanna see more drop off before we actually look into seriously buying these for our teams. But regardless of whether it's special cards or icons that you're looking to buy, I just wanna take this video and kinda show you the rises and the market movements that you can see post team of the year on this stuff. Now I'm gonna make another video here the next couple of days on some of the best cards that I think will rise the most out of packs just because of their links, because of what happens to when team of the year cards come out. And a lot of people can't afford team of the years. So they just go back and buy a cards that they were using even before team of the year came out. So that's team of the year prep preparation video number two for you guys today. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. I know it's a lot of info and we'll break it down a little bit more later on this week. But if you enjoyed it again, hit that sub button. I would greatly appreciate it. It's been Nathan Ford Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.


So can the FreeNAS Mini XL Plus with the Intel Atom CPUs, the C3758s at 2.2 gigahertz with eight cores, can that run Plex at 4K? Can it do any transcoding? Can it do on the fly transcoding down to maybe a lower resolution? Short answer is yes. And we're gonna get into the details of it. So too long didn't watch. Yes, you can stop watching here. If that's the only thing you wanted to know, I'm not a clickbait person. We'll make you watch a longer video. I will just tell you upfront that it will do it. But let's talk about the details and some of the limitations and just how fast it will do it and just how many 4K streams we can run. And we'll get into that as soon as you click the like button to help drive the algorithm to let other people know that they would like to watch this video as well. Helps me a lot with the channel and click subscribe if you wanna see more videos and content from my channel. All right, back to the content. So this specific machine is the FreeNAS Mini XL Plus. As I said with the Intel Atoms, does have 32 gigs of RAM in there. And we have a GL set up with Plex in it. We also are running and we'll go over here to the drives just to show the storage pool we have set up. Western Digital Reds. So these are a ZFS2 configuration. So we'll look at the status real quick. Just, you know, it's a ZFS RAID Z2 setup. And these are just the 5400 RPM, not the real fast drives, just some basic NAS drives. But for video, that works perfectly fine and we have a drives here. Then we have a folder called video editing test, which I was using in a previous video to edit videos.  So I don't have to worry about copyright of any other videos that you may want to watch with Plex. But because some of these videos are at 4K and high res and other ones are at 1080, it gives us some different variables to test with. Now, setting up Plex. Let's go over that real quick. I may be able to do a further video in depth about it, but the short answer is you go to the available plugins, choose Plex, click install, which I already did that part. Once installed, it shows up here and you can go to the management and that opens up a new window with the Plex install. But the part that people get confused about, the tricky part is how jails manage mount points. So we've already created the mount point and I'll show you how we do that. So we go here to the mount point and what they mean by source and destination. A jail sits nested within slash MNT, tank IO cage jails, Plex, root slash MNT, videos where we have it mounted to and here is the video editing test folder that's under slash MNT, tank video editing. How do you do that? We're gonna go here and edit and show it a little bit closer here. So anytime you have a jail and this is part of the security of the jail system, it doesn't have access to data. It sits in its own jail, much like the name implies. And that jail keeps it out of being in other places. So you have to take your existing storage and in this case, it's slash MNT, tank video editing, video editing test, actually. We click there as the source. We're taking all those video editing tests and we're mapping it to the inside of the jail. And we went here to MNT and I just made a folder called video. So by selecting this, that's how we get the two different locations. How does that look inside of Plex? Well, even though we see this long path because we're mapping it in here, what Plex sees is we're gonna go here, we're gonna look at other videos and we're gonna edit folders and that says MNT slash videos. So that's all you really have to do. Plex can't see further back than MNT but when you're mapping the storage, it's MNT slash tank slash IO cage slash Plex slash root. Then the MNT is being added on here. So Plex starts where MNT starts here, root slash MNT versus this is the entire path of where everything is. It can be a little bit confusing. There's more in-depth videos I've done on how the jail system works or how to mount storage back and forth inside of there on Freeness. But you kind of get the idea that I at least wanted to cover that because people always ask about how did you get it set up? Now this is net data which comes built in to Freeness and we're gonna be use this to see the CPU usage of the watching the Plex videos. And we'll close this here and here's a variety of videos I have. Just kind of some miscellaneous random ones. I threw like the old video me and Corey we'll start from beginning when we did the wall video. So here is no problem. This is a 1080 video actually. Let me turn the sound off. All right, this is a 1080 video. No problem on the playback works perfectly fine. I can seek ahead. It's pretty much instant. And we can see just that's just a blip to Freeness in terms of playback. In my computer is no problem handling 1080 content. Well, I should say the browser. It's not just the computer. It's when we play it back in the browser. This is a higher rate 1080. So it's actually 60 frames a second but I'm recording at 30 so it probably doesn't look any different to you but it plays this perfectly fine. No problem and we can go here and see this is a 45 megs per second at 1080 HD and still same thing. Doesn't really affect Freeness, the Freeness many much but when we go up here and let's play something at 4K content this is where my computer will start to have a problem. Now the Freeness is not doing much here. Freeness is barely peaking anymore sending the content. There's always the initial seek of when it loaded the content but you can see that the browser starts jerking a little bit and that's because it can't handle 4K the at the 60 meg rate that is coming in at it and it's just a browser limitation. So it's gonna go a little bit. You see it kind of jerking and not going well. So here's the test. Can the Freeness can these Intel Atom processors down sample this to something that my browser can handle like 1080 at eight megabits? Sure, let's give that a try. So we're converting on a fly. This was not pre-transcoded or pre-loaded and there it goes. It's going, going, going, hit play. Get a second to buffer here. Perfectly smooth because now it's handling it because now it's sending it at a rate that my system can handle. Now what does that do to the Freeness? Well, when you're taking 4K and sampling it down to something else that does, well, pull some CPU. So it looks like it hits the CPU. It peaked out when it started buffering we'll keep it playing here. Actually we'll pop this window out and see where this is at now while it keeps playing. Get it down here. Actually you gotta also move these windows all around. Set this to settings. Always with that means is when to refresh the charge that way the charge keep going even when I'm not on that screen so the work behind the screen. So we're still playing back nice and smooth here and you know we're probably keeping this at the 70% but what if we open up another window? Well that then choke it. Is it still responsive at all while it's doing this powerhouse over here reducing the video? Let's play another video. Actually just pop this out. So that one stays playing. Let's move it over a little bit and then we'll play something else. Let's play this one now. Start from beginning. And this one's playing now. So this one, let me rewind it so it starts over. It didn't stop, they're just getting out of the car so we'll actually play this one over. Jump backwards. It's got a buffer again because it's not saving any of the transcoding it's done but we're stressing the machine a little bit here so okay now this one's playing. Let's do this. Let's get another video playing. Plex is still responsive. It's easily loading other videos. Ami and Corey having some beer after work here. That's actually part of this video where we did that. So here's another video playing. So we got that video transcoding down to a lower bit rate so it's re-encoding it. This one's playing perfectly fine and we're peaking out the CPU about 90% but it's still completely responsive so we'll wind it open another one. Let's choose a different video again. So go to other videos. Let's choose something else. What do we got here? Some with a drill. Oh that's a short video, let's find a longer one. I'm not sure what Corey's doing here. There we go. Another drill video so now we're playing one, two, three, four and one down sampling to another rate and I mean we're not stressing out the freelance much. Matter of fact, because this video is towards the end the buffers already caught up and it went back down to hardly doing anything. So yes, you can not only play multiple streams so if you had multiple devices for playback, multiple TVs in your house, one Mini XL would certainly handle it. Yes, it can on the fly do the encoding even at 4K down sampled which is not always what you're doing. Most of the time with me I'm playing things back if I have something natively 4K and I do have a 4K TV at home. It'll just play it back natively on there or in some cases even though you have 4K content the device itself will just down sample it depending on what your playback device is to another rate but the point really is these atom processors despite not being particularly fast processors obviously they're working perfectly fine. So we're able to see all this going out. Actually I hear the motorcycle in the background start closing all these windows. All this stuff I got open. Yeah, this is playing perfectly. Anything that's not being trans-coded still plays perfectly fine or re-encoded I should say. So that's all working perfectly fine and we didn't completely stress this machine out. We had a couple of peaks when we pulled all of that but clearly you can run all these streams all at once on this system and, ooh, CPU temperature. Did we raise the CPU temperature a little bit? Not enough, not even enough to be significant. We did see a little bit of load over here on these charts. Here's the CPU temperature. So we went from before I started this video 34, we hit 39 and it's cooling right back off there. So not even in any type of danger zone going from 34 to 39 degrees centigrade that's really nothing for these processors. They can generally get a lot hotter now that you want them to without any real problem. So at least this gives you an idea though though yes it can handle it, yes it works well. Not any problems with it. Real-world testing, that's some benchmarks that tell you that well that processor's slow, it'll never do it. It comes down to all the different instruction sets on a ship set, the optimization of the software whether or not it's good for that CPU. And these Intel CPUs don't have any problems handling the media codecs that Plex uses to do the encoding and that's all I want to do is kind of prove that point that yes it'll work fine inside of here. So if you're considering this box, it's still a good purchase, thanks. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. If you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content, hit that subscribe button and the bell icon and maybe YouTube will send you a notice when we post. If you want to hire us for a project that you've seen or discussed in this video head over to launchsystems.com where we offer both business IT services and consulting services and are excited to help you with whatever project you want to throw at us. 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Welcome to theCUBE's coverage of Couchspace Connect Online 2021. I'm Lisa Martin. I have a first timer here on theCUBE. Priya Rajgopal, the director of product management from Couchspace joins me next. Priya, welcome to the program. Thank you, Lisa. Thanks for having me here. And glad to be here, first timer. So really excited. Yeah, we'll make sure that you're going to have fun. We're going to talk about edge computing. And what I'd like to get is your perspectives on what's going on and the evolution in the last 18 months. I'm sure so much has changed. But talk to me about edge computing, what's going on and how mobile relates. Sure. So I like to start off by defining edge computing because there's a lot of literature around there and different interpretations. And the way we see it at Couchspace is it's a distributed computing paradigm that brings compute and storage to the edge. And what is the edge? The edge is the location where data is generated or consumed. And so the edge, again, the taxonomy is varied, but it's really a continuum. So it's not a tank, right? So it's a location. So it could be a single device or it could actually be a data center. And so it's getting a lot of traction with the proliferation of a lot of applications around ARVI, IoT, and mobile devices and mobile applications because it delivers on the promise of ultra-low latency access to data because the edge is where the data is generated and consumed, data privacy, governance, resiliency to network disruptions, low bandwidth usage. So to your question on how does mobile fit into the space of edge computing, in my view, mobile application, mobile devices are a classic example of edge computing because when you think about mobile devices, right? I mean, they're generating data, they're processing data, applications are processing data right there on the devices. You can store data in offline mode on these devices. So it is a classic edge device. And of course, the data doesn't have to be generated on the device itself. Those mobile applications could sort of be gateways to other external variables, for instance, and other IoT devices, which can connect to these mobile applications and these mobile applications could process those data, that data. Got it. So thank you for sharing couch-based's definition and it's a good point to do that as so many times, there's so many different terms and solutions and technologies that can be interpreted and explained many different ways. Let's now go through couch-based's role in edge computing. Help the audience understand where you fit into that. Sure. If you recap the definition, right? I mean, edge computing is all about storage and compute to the edge. So clearly your database has a key role to play in this model, right? Or in this paradigm, because when you think about it, a classic application architecture, you've got three tiers, you've got an application tier, it includes your business logic, some of the UI elements, it's optional. You've got your database tier, which drives your application because the application needs data, it's driven by the database tier, and then you've got the infrastructure tier, that includes your network storage compute. Now, when you're talking about an edge computing architecture, you're talking about distributing all these three tiers, your application tier, a database tier, as well as your infrastructure tier. And couch-based is a fully distributed NoSQL database solution. So it fits in right into this paradigm of edge computing. Now, when we're talking about distributing storage, that's just one aspect of it, right? I mean, you have to distribute it to these edge devices, you may have to distribute it to edge data centers, but then there is this notion of data movement. You need to be able to sync or move data between these distributed cloud environments, right? So data synchronization is a key component of the tier of edge computing architectures. And then finally, there's data management. That's all about enforcement of policies when it comes to data privacy. You know, what data needs to be resident at the edge, what data can be transferred to the cloud for processing, what data needs to be filtered, what needs to be aggregated. So you need a solution that can provide those hooks that allows you to enforce those policies. So a database like couch-based has a critical role to play in this tier because it has a fully distributed solution that can be deployed in the cloud or it can be deployed at the edge. And again, the edge could be a data center or it could be a device. So what about device? We have an embedded database solution for mobile desktop and embedded platforms. And then of course data movement which is enabled through our comprehensive data synchronization technology. Let's go through specifically some of the capabilities, database capabilities that are required for businesses in any industry to be successful in edge computing. Sure, absolutely, right? I mean, to sort of reiterate or reinforce the three concepts, right? Data storage, data movement, data management, right? And couch-based technology because the stack consists of couch-based server, flagship, fully distributed, no SQL data platform. It can be containerized. It could be deployed in any public or private cloud. It could be deployed at the edge cloud. And then you've got couch-based light. Again, no SQL embedded database full-featured, right? Anything that you can do with a standalone database, you can do it with the embedded database. Now you can embed that within your mobile applications, within your other embedded applications or desktop applications. And that's great, right? That's the data storage part of it. And that's one part of it, but what about the data movement? And that's where you've got a data synchronization technology where we facilitate high throughput, high performance, highly scalable data synchronization between the edge and the cloud. And of course, as I mentioned, data management is a critical aspect of all this, right? And so the synchronization technology has got components that allow you to set filters, access control policies, and there's a lot of hooks when it comes to data governance. So for instance, if an edge goes out of commission or if there's a security breach, for instance, you want to isolate the edge. You can do that. The data that was previously synchronized to that edge, you want to be able to purge that data. So we have options that automatically purge the data if the device is no longer in the hands of the right recipient, for instance. So those from a user's standpoint, those are the critical aspects. Of course, the overarching theme is security, right? And that goes hand in hand with encryption of the data addressed, encryption of the data in motion, then authentication, authorization, access control. Security is even more important in given the events of the last 18 months where we've seen a massive rise in ransomware, we've seen a huge rise in DDoS attacks. Let's double click more on the security aspect of what Couchbase is delivering. Sure, absolutely. So when it comes to security of data at rest, right? Even when they with Couchbase Lite, which is our embedded device, all your entire database is encrypted, yes, 256 encryption, data encryption. And then data when it leaves the device through a data synchronization protocol, everything is encrypted. And of course, when it goes through a sing gateway, the sing gateway is sort of, as I mentioned, the middle tier component that is responsible for data synchronization between the embedded devices and a Couchbase server, that entity is responsible for enforcement of access control policies. So you are guaranteed that only users who should have access to those documents or data are granted access to that. And in fact, we are no SQL JSON database, which means everything is modeled in the form of documents, JSON documents. And so when we're talking about read, write access control, read access is at the granularity of the document. And write access can be enforced as the document at the granularity of a property within the document. So you may have access to an entire document, but you may only be allowed to update a certain property within the document. So as I mentioned, when it comes to distributed computing, architectures like edge computing, security is even more paramount, right? I mean, you have devices going offline, coming back online, and you might have a breach point at one edge environment, whether it is a data center or an edge device, you need to be able to ensure that you have isolated all the other edge components from that breach. And as I mentioned, when it comes to data governance and so on and great data retention, for instance, even if it is not a security breach, let's say you do have, for some reason, the owner of a device should no longer have access to that content, you know, their role has changed, they have transitioned to a different company, for instance, then you will have a way of automatically purging all that data that was previously synchronized to the user's device. Got it, okay. Let's continue talking about the events at the last year and a half, because we saw this massive scatter 18 months ago of, and then explosion at the edge when everyone went, a lot of people from the office to this work from home, work from anywhere environment in which we're still in. So how has the pandemic and the events that related to it changed, mobile apps and edge computing, and what are some of the new requirements that customers have? Sure, well, as you rightly said, right? And in fact, if anything, the relevance of mobile devices and applications has just grown in significance through the pandemic. And it's kind of interesting, you know, there are some surveys that have suggested that through the pandemic, people have been using their mobile devices as the primary communication device for accessing the internet. And it's kind of interesting because you think, well, everyone is cooped up in their homes. They probably will have access to other forms of data consumption, but no, it's mobile devices. That's what they've primarily been using. So with that, there's also a new range of use cases and applications which are driven in large part by the events of the pandemic. But I think that's just made things much more efficient. Customer satisfaction, user experience is paramount, is number one. And I think a lot of that is here to stay even following our post-pandemic because it's just made things a lot more efficient. And we've seen that through different industries, right? Healthcare, I mean, there was always telemedicine, but now for non-essential care, it's always telemedicine. Yeah, of course, specific to the pandemic, there was the tracking, the contact tracing application, right? I mean, and that's enabled through technologies like Bluetooth and GPS. So they track the whereabouts of infected persons. But then even if you arrive at your doctor's office, right? You wait in your car and you get notified when the doctor is ready to check you in. Then in the retail sector, e-commerce, right? Of course, everything was moving online, but everything is overwhelmingly mobile first. People are shopping online through their mobile devices than the traditional web-based applications. And you order on your phone, you pick up at the store, right? So curbside pickup, you pull into the store. The store clerk is notified of your arrival. They come out to the curb with your order. And here's the interesting bit. You know, it's kind of intuitive that it's going to be e-commerce applications. They got a huge boost through the pandemic. But interestingly, even the experience when it comes to retail in-store, that's undergone a transformation because it was all about, how do we make the process very efficient? So customers are in and out of the store really quick, right? I mean, there was a reason for that, but now we can translate to making the whole shopping experience much more easy. So you walk into the store, you meet sales associate who can bring up information about the catalog inventory, right there on the iPad. And so if you have any questions whether something is available in the store or an accessory you're looking for, they can give answers to you immediately, right?  And you know, the list goes on, right? We talked about healthcare, retail, same thing in a restaurant, right? A curbside, you know, delivery and pickup. You can now track your delivery order because now it's just a huge surge in order deliveries. And then the same pickup concept, curbside pickup concept.  Very streamlined drive-through. You've got people now coming to your car, taking the order right there from the car on the tablets. That's synced in real time to the back-end kitchen, your order and you get notified when your order is ready. So I think all of this is about making things a lot more efficient. It's about customer experience. And edge computing is a big role to play in that. And so I think it's, if anything, it's just propelled the growth of mobile applications and use cases. Yeah, that propulsion is something that we've been hearing a lot about the acceleration in the last year and a half. You did a great job there of painting a picture of some of the positives that come out of this accelerating the efficiencies that we all as consumers and in our business life expect to have and this explosion at the edge that's really become even more of a lifeline for millions and millions and billions of people globally. I've got to ask you that from a connectivity perspective, that's another area where we have this expectation as, again, consumers are in our business lives that we have connectivity. Where does all the talk about 5G, where does 5G fit into edge computing? Sure, that's a good question because 5G and edge computing sort of go hand in hand so much so that they have been used synonymously in some cases and that's inaccurate, okay? So because every time people talk about edge computing, there are folks talking about 5G in the same breath, right? But really 5G, as we all know, is a next generation cellular technology promises ultra low latency, very high bandwidth. Now we talked about this huge surge in mobile applications and new sort of use cases where a lot of the data is generated at the edge, IoT applications or just data intensive applications, right? Gaming apps and so on and all of these applications, they demand ultra low latency, right? And they're generating a lot of this data and all that data needs to be processed in real time. So if you have to send all that data back to the cloud and then you get the responses, that's a really bad experience. So that's what 5G is here to solve, right? I mean, it's like low latency, high bandwidth, high concurrency. Now that's all great. But then the coverage of 5G, it terminates at the edge of the mobile operator network. So you have all these massive influx of devices generating all that data and all that stuff is transmitted under very low latency conditions over a 5G network. But then if all the data from the mobile operator network has to be backhauled to the internet, to the backend servers, then you kind of defeat the whole purpose of ultra low latency applications. So that's where edge computing comes into play because edge computing is really an architecture, right? It's a distributed architecture. So now what mobile operators are doing is deploying what they refer to as MECs, but it's effectively micro data centers at the edge of the mobile operator network. So you have all this data coming in over the 5G network, great. They get analyzed, they get processed locally at the edge of the mobile operator network and you get real-time responses. And of course, as needed, that data in aggregated form or filtered form goes back to the cloud. And so that's where the two relate. So in my view, I think edge computing architectures are important to deliver on the promise of 5G, but 5G has propelled the relevance or importance of edge computing as a solution, as a deployment architecture. So very interrelated. Very interrelated, very symbiotic. And of course the need for real-time data, real-time analytics in every industry became very prominent in the last year and a half. We had this expectation that we're going to be able to understand things in real-time. And that's often a huge differentiator for businesses. We're out of time, but I want to ask you one more question, Priya. And that is, how can customers go to get started with CouchBase? Oh, absolutely. So CouchBase servers in Gateway, you can deploy that. It's available as software. You can download it from our website. CouchBase Lite is available for all your mobile applications. So it is available as a download, but you also have the classic package management systems through which you can download CouchBase Lite. And then of course, as I said, you can deploy this standalone, but you can also deploy it in the cloud. So we have marketplace offerings for both CouchBase server and CynGateway. So if you want to deploy it on AWS, Azure, Google, you can do that as well. Excellent. Priya, thank you so much for joining me on the program, talking about CouchBase, the evolution, the changes, the opportunities with edge computing and mobile and how CouchBase is involved. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And thanks for having me. For Priya Rajgopal, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching the cubes coverage of CouchBase. Connect online, 2021.


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Jonathan comes in on the. Hosted link. For the committee, you know, the public link, we can, you, your host and you can bring them in as a panelist. Yeah. We are now live and we are recording. And there does seem to be, I'm looking. Yeah, someone has just joined us. Matt Holloway. So that's not Jonathan. That is not. That's my neighbor. Hi, Matt. Hi. So we should wait for Jonathan. Yeah. So I will declare the beginning of the meeting. Kathy Shane. I'm the chair of the elementary school building committee, but this is the first meeting of the subcommittee. To draft the OPM request for services and be the. I'm working with the full committee. We're conducting this. Meeting virtually because of the governor's order and three, four committee members are here out of five. So I'm just going to make sure everybody can hear us. Jonathan just came in. I'm promoting into panelist. Okay. Okay. At this point, the full committee is here. Jonathan has to unmute so we can hear him. And I'm just going to go around making sure everyone's audio works. And we're all here. So Anthony. You can just say here, I can hear you. Here. And I can hear you. Wayne. Steve. Here. And Jonathan. Here. Okay. I think the first order of business on our agenda, since we have a pretty short agenda is to. You know, I'm not going to select officers for this subcommittee. I'm the chair of the full committee, but I had not intended to be the chair of the subcommittee. So I. Will anyone who would like to chair should say, should offer their name if we get volunteers. I'd be happy to chair if nobody else steps forward, but I'm happy to yield if. I don't mind chairing either, but I also don't have a passion to do it. Yeah. So Steve, if you want to chair, you know, the main tasks will be. Keeping us moving. You know, and Jonathan did the little prompt this last time and saying, shouldn't we be meeting? So the answer is yes. And we, so if we have a volunteer, are there any other volunteers? Jonathan, do you want to do it? I mean, I don't mind doing it. I can do it. Yeah. I don't mind keeping us moving forward on this task. Okay. So now do we, do we have one volunteer? Jonathan's the volunteer. So how do, what do I do? Do we just. If there's one volunteer, we declare him chair, or do we vote? Okay. I will take a vote on Jonathan as chair of the some committee. Anthony. Hi. Dwayne. Hi. Steve. Hi. Kathy is an eye. Jonathan. Sure. Yes. Okay. Unanimous. And I will continue taking minutes for the subcommittee, just like I do for the committee. So I'm turning, I'm turning. I'm turning the chair and this over to unit now, Jonathan. And as you know, we have a beginning draft of this. So I will let you just lead, lead into the next part of the meeting. Okay. And I, now I'm wishing I had gone to my computer that had two screens so that I could see the, the agenda at the same time. I'm going to bear with me a moment while I attempt to bring it back up here. That came from you, right? Kathy, not. Or did Anthony send it directly. And if you also the Anthony email that he just sent us had, it's a pretty short agenda. So I'm just going to, I'm just going to, I'm just going to complete the missing parts. The first time I tried. There we go. So we've, we've decided on a chair. The next item on our agenda is to review and discuss the, the OPM or F. And Anthony, do you want to, to.  I'm just creating it. So. I'm assuming everybody at least kind of. Did a very quick look at. At what we are. What's in for us. It's. It's a fairly structured document that we're mostly. Filling in the areas that. MSBA has set out for us. So I think the way to do this would be to kind of start at the top and go through it. And maybe not spend a great deal of time editing in subcommittee, but maybe highlight which sections. One of us feels competent to fill in which sections we need to send to Dr. Morris or Mr. Roy Clark or others. And maybe just start at the top and go through it. I don't think. It's, it's 22 pages. I don't think this is a. Terribly intimidating document. I think we can. Get to have this ready for when. For when MSBA gives us the nod to proceed with it. So. I'm sorry. One moment. I need to ask one of the, the young residents of my household to make their device quieter. So that you're not hearing it in background. I'll be right back. My apologies. There's no school today. No school today. There's no school today. Teachers work day, I believe. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think it would be helpful to. For folks to know which parts of this we can actually edit. I mean, and which parts are, are. Are kind of compulsory. Yeah. Essentially anything that is in this bold italicized font is where the MSBA wants us to edit. Oh, okay. So. And, and I have already. I've started with some of the most basic of fill ins. Like I have put in the town name. But where you see an area like this where it's in bold and italics, that's from MSBA and that's where they want us to edit. Okay. I took a stab at this background section.  I put my own name. Yeah. I put my own name in here. I put my own name in here. I put my own name in here. And some of these dates, we will not actually know until we formally get the nod from MSBA, but we can, you know, we can put them in as guesses. But yeah, essentially anywhere you see bold and italics, we can edit and. There may be other places where it would be prudent to fill in, but we'll be sending, we'll be sending MSBA attract changes. Word version of this so that they can accept or reject. Any, any edit we make to any part of the document. All right. There are some, there honestly there's some parts of this document where I'd love to edit the spelling and grammar because I don't think it's great, but it's, it's not, it's not highlighted. So I won't be, I will be refraining. That's a shame. Some of these things really, you know, they, they write them once and then they never come back to them. And you're left with all kinds of awkwardness for decades. I mean, how do folks want to tackle this? I mean, one way would be for people to volunteer to take on a section. I have to admit, I don't have a already in my head or in, in note form items that I was, was ready yet to kind of suggest. But, but others may have had more opportunity to read this. Than I have. I read through it pretty quickly. And so, for example, on the background section, I thought it needed to be updated because it still reads like when we were sending in the SOI, you know, that we're planning on doing some of these things we have already done. And what my question was, how much we put in the background section. So for example, we did do, and I chatted with, you know, the Fort River study that got a lot of information about the piece. We had a background study of. The Wildwood site that has some, we did do a space study at the middle school on whether we can move the sixth grade up. So I thought if it's where, whether that goes in background, but it would say, you know, here's a link to this. Here's a link to this. Here's a link to that as information on what's already been done up to this date. So I just wasn't sure whether it went in here. Or went into another section. And I would volunteer to. Since I want to know some of this, I would volunteer to work on some of this background, making sure with Mike and the school committee, it gets updated. So I would be prepared to, or Dwayne and I or some, but that's when I was sort of my question was updating it to be what we've done. And some links was my question about what would go in there. Anthony, how does that work with. Yeah, I can see you're writing a note. Are we allowed to put links in the document like this? Or does it have to go as basically in an addendum, you know, or. Right. That's, I didn't know. We're at an appendix. There we go. So I don't know if MSBA has their own policy on this, but generally speaking, you wouldn't put a link because this document. Right. Might be put in a format that a link wouldn't survive, but you could spell out that I spell out the URL in full. So I don't know if MSBA has a feeling on that, but in general you would have, you can absolutely include links. I don't, I don't really think like the Fort River study would make sense as a, as an actual addendum or appendix documents, but it, but a link would make a lot of sense. Okay.  And they're going to do their own, you know, background research, you know, Google, whatever, I think making material as convenient for them as possible is great. I mean, it will help get better proposals, but I'm not sure that we need to, you know, because this is such a desirable contract, I'm not sure that we need to include everything. In fact, trying to include some of the things might actually confuse, you know, the matter. Yeah. And I probably misspoke. I did mean what you just said, Steve, you know, to try to collect this stuff in a place and can say that it's a good idea for this background, you know, this is where we have got it for them to read and review as they want to, rather than a required reading. So I've taken the liberty of assigning Kathy to section two. To background. And I would imagine you could, you might work with Dr. Morris on this or someone else. I think I'll work with Kathy on this one with the background. That's great. And I would just copy and paste what you've done Anthony into a separate document and work on it as a word document. So then we can put it back in. Right. So that all the change so that all the changes are preserved in one document. Yeah. Okay. You know, there's a reference to the failure of the project in 2016, but I don't know. I know that this will be work time. So I know what that means, but I'm not sure. Does it say somewhere else? What that failure was. It doesn't. So I cobbled this together from the statements of interest. So if there wasn't more detail in the SOI. It's not here. Okay. Yeah. Actually the SOI didn't even have the year. Yeah. No, and that's what I saw it, Steve. A lot of this is written in the, you know, we're thinking about doing a bilingual program, but at this point we've actually done one. So I, the tense is not quite right in an either more information or less information about the last time around. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anthony, shall we scroll? Cause I don't think I can control the scrolling. Yeah. I could give you control if you wanted it. I don't, well, it doesn't matter either way. Right now it's working. All right. So the next section is project description objectives and scope of services. So this would be. To provide specific information about the school. And list the objectives. I would suggest that maybe I would take this section and work with Dr. Morris and Rupert. I think that makes sense. You probably have the easiest access to some of that data. Okay. And this includes the Vegas notion of a timeline. I had one question on this section, Anthony. And it was a question of where something goes. We got this letter back from MSBA that gives us the enrollment cert certificate. I just was wondering where that goes. You know, like we were, we're starting out with. Two frameworks. And I didn't know whether that goes in this. It's a purely a question. When we say something about that. Yeah. It does identify here to include the current grade structure and enrollment and the MSBA agreed upon enrollment. In this section. Okay. So that's where this would go, including that projection of how many we're going to have in, in each of these great core hordes. Okay. Okay. Minimum requirements and evaluation criteria. These are already fairly laid out. There is the instruction that we should designate a specific number of points to each of these criteria. And this would also be where we would. There's no specific instruction, but this is where we would add any additional criteria. We would need like, for example, zero energy. Yeah. I don't mind taking a stab at that particular piece. Yeah. I can work with Jonathan on that. Okay. That'd be great. That's, that's four. Okay. Section four. I'll wait for you. Is it possible so. So evaluation means minimum. If you don't meet it.  Basically. If you do meet it, you go to the next round. Is it possible to move more things into minimum, right? Minimum requirements. Like, for example, I see evaluative criteria knowledge of. Massachusetts state building code. So to me, that would be a minimum qualification, right? But if you don't have that knowledge, you can go to the next round. So. We could, we could ask that. I mean, generally. I think it's placed in evaluation criteria because you would be. Evaluating people based on how thorough or. How good their knowledge of that is. So rather than be a checkbox, it would be something you would want to be able to weigh. This person has. Five points on there. And this person only has three. Whereas if you move it to minimum, it becomes a, a do not pass go thing. And Anthony, I think we would. It is part of editing the evaluation. We. You were saying we could essentially figure out the. The points we wanted to wait things for. So we can say things like. Yeah. So less than three years is one point, but you know, more than 10 years is. Six points that that's within our purview, correct? Yeah, that's, that is quite unusual for a Massachusetts procurement. Normally we're kind of discouraged from. Making a score sheet like that, but the MSBA, that's how the MSBA does it. So can I ask one more question? So then regarding the minimum criteria.  So either you're in or you're out. And so then you go. So then you started zero in the next category. Right. Got it. So then we need to go. Yeah. We need to make sure that the said project director who has met these. Minimum criteria then that we're evaluating. The depth of that. You know, the depth of that experience. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what we're doing. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it on their financial capability and all that stuff. So if Steven, Jonathan, take this, will you also, you know, we have a. Meeting set up for next Wednesday and the following Wednesday, if we need it to get to as near to a full draft. Will you come back? I'm hoping you'll come back with us with tentative points. Yes. And the only thing I saw missing. Was the meeting. I was talking about the meeting. And there is an energy section. So leaving it to you, what you do there. As we talked about. In the meeting. And I have no idea how to frame this as a, and is it, is it a way. Away the OPM. Communicates with the outside world like their website techniques. You know, some. I don't know how to phrase it, but it's. Yeah. They're communication skills. And I agree that it'd be important to, to, to find a way to frame it in here. It'll be a tricky one to evaluate. Using this kind of point system. It's, it's tough. But that doesn't mean we don't try. Yeah. So it was, you know, I was thinking of, you know, the things they could show us is how have they organized past websites? You know, I don't know what they might say, but things that they've done, that would be making the work of their work accessible to the community. So I don't care how it's framed, but phrased. And I agree. Assigning points where there would be like, they've either done something interesting or they, they all look the same. That's the challenge of it, but, but in this community, it's going to be key. I mean, communication, people are already, you know, asking for, for more information. So the, the skill that these folks bring to the table will be critical. So are we still in section four? Yeah, I think it sounds like we're, we're good on that section. And when I looked at it, that was, you know, it was, you know, it was, you know, in terms of other than wording of different pieces. So. Section five is selection process and schedule. Some of this, we'd have to fill in later. Yeah. I don't know yet. Yeah. I wonder if maybe we don't assign this section at this moment. Yeah. I'm going to put my own name on it just to like maybe give some tentative dates. But. During the last meeting of our committee. You put a, Mike gave us this MSBA schedule. You know, if, if we wanted to, be on their docket, we had to be ready by X date and then, and Paul suggested, you know, working as hard as we could to aim for, I think their June date, you know, what, so I was going to be working. So, Anthony, I was just thinking working backwards. We'd have to be, we'd be telling the bitter that we're hoping to be here. Whatever. Yeah. Yes. I would, that, that is where I would start is with that, with that chart, but Mike presented. And can I just, can I review that? We, we do this draft. We have, when we get it done, it says, we have to go to legal counsel to make sure they've reviewed it. Then MSBA reviews the draft before. We put out a request, correct? And that's what they're doing at this next meeting that, that we're trying to get this into. No, I believe. Here in my head. Yeah. No, I believe that the next meeting is when they actually give us the okay to. Proceed to this step. They, I don't think they're ready. I think. I think it actually says here what it. So, so then we're actually sending our draft to them. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, at the next, at the next meeting of the board of directors, MSBA will vote to issue an invitation to the owner to conduct. The study. So. Okay. Anthony, just for, for. Kind of clarity. So who is technically putting this out for responses. Is it us as the town or is it. The MSBA. I believe it's, I believe it's us as the town. Okay. It doesn't really matter, but in my head, I believe it's us as the town. I believe it's us as the town. Like, like the instructions here about to obtain the RFS. Contact me. The instructions here were to fill in my name. So. Yeah. Section six requirements for content of response. There's not. There's not a ton of things to change here. I'm going to, I'm going to throw. I'm going to suggest that maybe we. We throw Jonathan and Steve onto this section just in case. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's a good. There's not a, there's not a ton here. To you. I love that type written. This is all very boilerplate. Nothing in seven or eight. Nothing here. We'll, we won't, no need to assign anyone here, but we will want to think about anything else. We want to actually attach. Yeah. Yeah. This would probably, this might also be a good place to just include. Our document repository. Maybe. Maybe here, maybe in background. And then yeah, we have statement of interest, standard contract. This is the selection form. Which. Is standard throughout the Commonwealth. Nothing to edit here. I know it well. Okay. This is really not too heavy a lift. No, not at all. And the only thing is the timeline. So do we want to target if we meet. Today is Friday and we, everyone said they could do either next Wednesday or next Thursday when I put out tentative dates, but if we're. So if Dwayne and I. Quickly convene and then we draft something or we get Mike's attention. Are we trying to get like the draft of. My ours is section background. Ready for us to look at by next week is the question. I would press for that if we can.  I respond well to deadlines myself and. I do. Keep us on task. Okay. So that. So then do we want to say to give us one more day? Do we want to make it Thursday morning rather than Wednesday morning? I'm flexible either way on the date. Thursday. Thursday is better, but I could do either. Okay. Why don't we say. I think Thursday is better because I'm just thinking that it's Friday and. Whatever else is on Mike's plate. We want to make sure we give him some breathing room. Yeah. Oh, not to mention Dwayne and Kathy, but.  Do minor edits. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And so anything you can just post that again then, right? So we won't. Take care of the posting. Thank you. Thank you, Anthony. That was that was my next question. Now that I have chairs or refreshing my memory on how postings happening. Yeah, I'll, I'll do that right after we leave here. Just so it doesn't get. Lost. And that is at 8am, right? Yeah. Jonathan, what's changed is because we have to get a zoom assigned to us. Yes. Yeah. Taking some of the responsibility off the chairs. Because. Because we can't do that. I'm not going to complain. I'm just looking back at our agenda for today. I think we've hit one, two, and really we've kind of hit three. I can't tell from my, my one attendee has, has left us. So there's no. Okay. And presumably we don't have any unanticipated items. Yeah. I did those as boilerplate just thinking, you know, that was always there. Yeah. All right. So our agenda for the next meeting then we'll, we'll be. Yeah. Similar to today's, except it will be review changes on each section from the signed. People. Yep. And then I'll include everything else. So. Is it. I guess we can. Google or whatever, but it'd be helpful to. You know, look at what other RFPs. For OPMs. Are looking like. And I can probably, I just go to the central. I can go to the central. Register or. To the school building committee itself. To the MSBA itself. But that would be helpful to. To see. I don't know, Anthony, did you have any that you were using as models or. You just took their, their template. Yeah, I just took their template. You know, everything you see here was pretty much already there from MSBA. I can. And I mean, I've looked at other towns, I looked at other towns years ago when we were starting before. I haven't looked at anything recently. And I'll do, I can do that. I'll look. And if there's something that seems reasonable, I can. One thing I remember Steve from when, and we could probably just follow up you and I on this, but when we were doing Fort River. Somewhere in the eastern part of the state, there had been recently. A zero net energy school. Yeah. That would be the one that I'd be most curious about. And how they frame. In their. Request, but I don't remember which town it was. It's coming to me. And I'm sure. The whole, but it's not. Yeah. Yeah. So then, then of course we have to agree. We're only being one person with that experience. So. And the. The other thing I was thinking East Hampton was just in the newspaper of. You know, they're consolidating all three of their elementary to one, but that must have been really recent. So I think at least seeing what kind of weights did other people put in your request. And their, their OPM has been coming to our meetings. I've noticed. Interesting. Yeah. But they're not here today. Okay. Well, Steve, you and I can connect after. That's via email or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Could I have a motion to adjourn? I may ice. I move that we adjourn. We have a second. A second. All in favor. Yay. Yay. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. I'll be back in touch with you. Drain. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you. Yep.