Welcome everyone to the TruePath Technologies web series called TruePath CoolTools. This is one out of the five-part webinar series. Our next one coming up December 16th. That is a Friday at 11 o'clock east coast. Hope you can join us then. And thank you of course for joining us today. It's a very exciting lineup that we have with cool tools to demo right here. Thank you to the participants who are joining us live. We've got a great number of you and we appreciate you guys being here today with us. And thank you for our viewers who will be joining us on demand. I'm Jamie Scott of TAYA, JSA. And it's my honor to introduce my friend, Douglas Mauro. He's the founder of TruePath Technologies, Douglas. How are you? Thank you very much, Jamie. Great to be here. And just a couple of words about Douglas. Toot his horn for him, if you will. He is the founder of course and the senior engineer at TruePath. Over 20 years of expertise in enterprise data centers and he wrote a book. Something many of you may not know but should. He's an O'Reilly author. There you go. There's the book. And that's Amazon's number one selling network management book, Essential SNMP. So if you want to know what makes SNMP essential, check out this book. It's now in its second edition. And also, of course, software publishing is very close to as hot as you can tell from TruePath's latest Telco web portal, LMS, which makes him the perfect guy, I think, to demonstrate what is cool in 2016. So again, the purpose of this is to really explore more cool tools that us business owners know about so we can include them in our enterprise endeavors. And so today we're going to be featuring three tools for us. Three tools. And so it's Jane, schedule one and join.me. And I think at first we're going to do Jane. So let's talk a little bit about Jane. When we talked about getting this series going, of course, there were a few tools that popped up in our minds. And I have to say, without a doubt, Jane was the very first tool that not just myself, but also all the engineers that I work with within my company, we use that day in and day out. And I was just saying to Jane me earlier that I was working with a tool, an online web tool, which I would love if we end up getting it going. It's called Clipfolio. And it's really cool dashboards. But I had some questions on it. I had some issues. And so lo and behold, I went out there live chat. I guess what the engineer was using. Jane was awesome. It made it so much easier. I gave him a clip. He gave me one back. Next thing you know, a problem solved is absolutely great. So let's get into a demonstration. And we're going to do that by giving an example. So what do they say? A picture is worth a thousand words. And a movie is worth a million. So what I want to do here is I need to explain to my lovely web developer that there's some sort of problem here going on with my web page here. And if you can believe it, I'm in charge of the play.google store. Not really. So what I want to do is just imagine me trying to explain this to them. Say, geez, anytime that I hover over books, it should be blue. It should be orange. There's some sort of issue there. Well, if I go to this utility, and the parent company is TechSmith, they have some other products too, which we're going to talk about. But the one that we're going to be focusing on right now and that we're going to be explaining is Jing. Free download. You can't beat the price. Zero dollars. Absolutely awesome. And very quick installation. And when you're done, there's a little sun that is down here that is ready for your capture. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to sort of move this over so I can see this little sun here. Give me one second. And I think, okay. So I'm going to go ahead and issue the capture. And what we're going to do is go here. And you'll see these little icons right here. And hopefully, Jamie, you can see this, right? I can. Very good. Good. So one of the options is capture image. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm going to capture the image and it's going to pop this little screen up for me. And what I'm going to do now is annotate it. Because I'm going to send this and say, geez, is this, you know, what do we want to fix? Music, newsstand devices? I really don't know. Well, I need to have books fixed. And I need to have books be colored in blue for some reason. I'm going to make that a little brighter. I'm going to add a few more of this and that. The other thing that we could do is we could highlight this and talk about what a great movie this is or what not and go from there. You can change colors. You can do all that.  The power within Jing is just the ease of capturing, annotating and sharing right up to the clouds. Absolutely awesome. So I'm going to click on this little upload button here. It says share by a screencast.com. When I click that, you'll see down here, it says automatically upload. I said upload the screencast and all this crazy text. I usually click just the auto hide. But the most important thing now is watch this. It's already in my clipboard. It's already sitting in there. So if I wanted to right here, if I had to share this with you, Jamie, or with our participants, I could put this right into the chat window. So when I am working with customers, when I'm working with developers, it makes it very easy. So let's get into another example here. I need to now go to this because the developer said, well, I don't know what you mean. It is blue. Well, it needs to be blue when I hover over it or something like that. So take a look. Now I can get into capture video. So I'm going to click on that. And by the way, if I screwed it up, I could just redo the selection or I could sort of make it a little better and move it around if I want. Let me just grab that in there. So I'm going to click on capture. No microphone detected. But if there was, I could go ahead and tell them and walk them through it. I click that. I click upload. And guess what? As you can imagine, it is uploading it. It's automatically putting it in my clipboard. And it is out there. I can very easily send that to the developers. And you can see that so quick, so easy, absolutely awesome tool. And let me just say that, again, very first tool that we thought of. We absolutely love it. And Jing is the first and the first tool to get our 2016 Cool Tools Award. Absolutely love it. Rightfully so. You know, my favorite feature here is that it's all via URLs. So you don't have these like big files that you're trying to email out. You can just instant message or Skype it, which we communicate for sure. Exactly. Now, I just touched on a couple of features of it. Some of the other cool features that you can do with it is you can copy the code. You could download the image. Really, it's just a nice tool to take little screenshots as well. So even if you don't share it, if you have to attach it, if people can't get to the site for some weird reason or if you want to put it within your knowledge base, you can actually copy the code and embed it. You can also do what's called a hotkey. Control-Shift-C, bring it up, and it automatically brings up the Capsu utility. Yeah, very good. So the other thing that I want to say is that they have the sort of next feature. Because again, this is freemium model. Now, TechSmith used to have a sort of pro version of Jing, and they did away with that, and they came out with a new product, different product, I guess you would call it, which is called Snagit. And one of the really nice features of Snagit, which is the next version up of Jing, if you will, is that you can actually do scrolling capture. So right now, if I just want to capture, the only thing I can do is just capture just the screen. But now with the scrolling capture, I can actually scroll all the way down to the bottom. I can scroll left and right, and it allows you to really get the entire picture. That's great for those like parallax websites or infographic that might be super long. You can't really see it. Exactly, that's perfect. And nowadays, take a look at what we're looking at on the screen right now, as you can see the little image right there that sort of shows click and hold, and it's dragged. Well, Snagit allows you to create little animated gifts. So as we go along, as we're describing our product, as we're sort of showing how to interact with our website, Snagit will allow you to do that. So 100%, we're talking Jing, Cool Tools 2016, and if you want to take it to the next level, definitely grab Snagit. I love those animated gifts. I know I can hear my social media folks cheering right now, because those are great for social. So love it. Quick review as to why we love Jing. Again, that URL is TechSmith.com, their parent company. Jing, one of the tools that you can get there. Easy capture and share tool. You can grab those images, the screenshots, his videos, users can annotate, make their notes, paste it, comes a link, which is awesome, again, for that instant message world that we live in. And Jing is the premium version of other TechSmith models, definitely worthy of checking out, such as Snagit. There we go. You can check out the next level at TechSmith.com slash Snagit.com. All right. So what's next to show us? Is it schedule one? So I'm going to show you schedule once, but let me tell you before I roll off of here, Camtasia, think about it, that's going to be coming up maybe in a couple more cool tools, because that's another tool I absolutely love. So just a little quick preview. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to schedule once.  So we deal with customers every day, potentials, people, partners like yourselves, marketing firms, we need to schedule a time. The issue becomes what works for you. And like we were joking about one of our calls before, as we are in New York, I, of course, have assumed that everybody is on Eastern time. When I say 10 a.m., we all assume that it's going to be 10 a.m. Eastern. So that's a little, that can be a little confusing, especially when the calendar invites actually come up. So what happens is that we sort of put an email out there and we say, hey, do you want to meet at this Thursday? An email comes back and says, sure, Thursday works good. What about 8 to 10? Well, 8 doesn't work, 4 works good.  And you can see sort of this little very trivial demonstration of the number of emails that are coming up is that when we talk about potentials from a customer standpoint, as much as we want to interact with people when there's a potential and you have somebody on the hook, you need to really drill this down to a single email. When somebody says, yeah, I'd like to meet with you, you better make it as easy as possible. And that's what Schedule 1 does for us. So let me start with a simple example is that I need to send my link to somebody. And what Schedule 1 allows us to do is it gives us a link to Schedule. So this is what I send to people. Jamie, you've used this. People from around the world use this. And the first thing it asks you is, okay, well, what time zone are you in? Or really what country are you in? So we're in the United States. Today I'm sitting up in Alaska. We go ahead and click Next. Set the meeting minutes. I just need to do a quick 30 minute meeting. Now the power of Schedule 1 is that it integrates with a whole bunch of calendars. I have it integrated with my Google calendars. And right now I have a multiple calendar. I have my personal calendar and I have my work calendar. And they show up as busy times. So right here, you can see that not, you know, this isn't just 8 to 5 p.m. This is times that are available in their phone, right? Because again, I'm sort of pretending as though I'm the user. So they can say, okay, that works for me locally. And when the calendar invite comes out, it's going to be my local time. And when the calendar invite comes to them, it's going to be in Alaska time. So the other thing you can do is you can have multiple, you can, you know, I as the user of Schedule 1 or the, I don't even know what you call it, sort of the person that is providing the link, the person that I'm trying to hook up with, they can have up to two, three, one different things to say, hey, you know what, a couple of these times work for me. When they click Next, they put their information in here and they get, I get an email back that says, hey, John Doe wants to have a meeting with you. And it is these particular times. I click Accept. I send it back to them. I include the conference information and it's done. So it really empowers the person that you're trying to get connected with to pick times that work for them, that pick times that work for their schedule. And it also works for them. If they don't click on that today, and another two, they can click on it and guess what? They'll see their schedules, our schedules. It makes it so easy.  So Douglas, in that example, when you waited two days and maybe a couple of other meetings got booked, it didn't notice that or remove those times as possibilities? It totally does, yes. So when you go to this tool, go to my specific link, it automatically refreshes with the Google Calendar. And so it's really nice because if they didn't get to it or they didn't respond or whatnot, you can still keep hammering those prospects and say, hey, go ahead and hook things up. Now, that is a little bit of a still is a sort of a two, three step transaction. Schedule once also allows you to do instant bookings because let's say on Thursday between noon and 5 p.m., I do demos. So when a customer says, I want to do a 2 p.m. demo, it'll just immediately book it. That's it. It's locked in my calendar. And so you can really give that user the feeling like they've locked in a demo, maybe support, maybe some training, makes it very easy. I want to show another feature of it, which I am looking at another screen here so I can bring it over, which is to schedule multiple people. So I am going to schedule a group meeting. So I'm going to bring this over here. Now, this is what I as the organizer would do. I have to arrange something with Jamie. I have to arrange it with two or three other people. And so you'll see here all the blue are times that are on my personal and my work calendar. So it already knows what I'm busy for. So I'm going to say I'm free here and let's do a big block on Wednesday and maybe all of Friday and back it off because I want to leave a little early. I'm going to enter the subject. We'll call it a PR meeting. I can even add details, which is my conference call information. I can change the details, 30 minutes, and I can save and get this link. Now, what's going to happen is now I have this link here. Yeah, it is real fast. And I go and I now send this to somebody out in California. Well, guess what? Same kind of thing. And they now have the ability to say, oh, they're free here and here. And now Jamie, you get one and you see it. And when we're all done, after three or four times, I as the organizer get an email to say, hey, your people are done filling this out. Go in and pick a time and it looks like 9am on Monday or, you know, Wednesday works for everybody. Schedules it. So this day is better for me. Those kinds of things. And then we go ahead and click submit. I did that wrong. There we go. And now I'm submitting those times. And now when I go back to take a look at it, I will be able to see the different group meetings that are sitting on there. You can literally see who's available when. So if one person isn't, that's critical.  And that one not as critical person isn't. At least you can still book it then.  Not very few times is everybody available. So you need to be able to, you know, have those decisions and be able to say, yeah, this day is going to work for the majority. The other thing that I do want to say, Jamie, is that almost everything and anything within schedule once is customizable. So when we talk about the different landing pages, when we talk about the emails, we also get the users get reminders. So you can set up a reminder an hour beforehand. You can set up a reminder five minutes beforehand or, you know, a little bit of both. They have Salesforce integrations. They've really done a great job allowing you to customize this white label it so that it looks more like your company. But again, this is another tool totally wins our 2016 cool tools award. We use it every day and we love it. It's on my wish list for Christmas. So scheduleonce.com. It's a tool that others suggest meeting times using their time zones keeping that in mind for sure. It takes out all those back and forth emails. Automatic scheduling sends also reminders out. So you can even schedule it. So one hour before the call, which is critical for prospecting, right? A reminder. No, no, no, we're still meeting in one hour. Be there. Also, it syncs as you mentioned, Douglas, with Google calendars and more, as well as group scheduling, that cool green bar that you showed us. Pricing can be found on scheduleonce.com slash pricing. Now we're going to go to our final tool for our first installment of cool tools, which is joined at me. When I started TruePad Technologies a little over 11 years ago, one of the things starting a company is entrepreneurial. You have to find and use all the tools out there that sort of give you the biggest bang for the buck. They have to be easy to use. They need to sort of give you all the features and functionalities, and I think that over maybe 10 plus years, they've sort of come out with these freemium models, and we've seen a lot of that with the tools that we talked about today, and joined at me is another one of those tools. They have a wonderful freemium model, meaning that you don't have to pay for anything, but I have to say that the next step up, which is their first paid version, has a lot of features and functionalities that will work for most businesses. Let's talk about what joined at me is. Let's step back and say with this sort of, from the movie Inception, is we're on go to webinar, and we're doing a screen sharing, and we're talking about a screen sharing software. Join.me is another screen sharing software, hard to say that fast. Go to webinar is a very feature rich screen sharing software. As you'll see that there are presenters, there are handouts, there's ways to chat, you can do videos, you can do recordings, you can do all these kinds of things. It's a great tool for using it for this, but sometimes you want just a, and I don't want to say just down and dirty, but you want to get a very quick and easy way to share your screen. We use joined.me for this, and what I'll do actually is I'll just go ahead and start our meeting right here. So I'm going to, you can just direct somebody to joined.me. So it's very easy to download. It's really not even an application that is a very, it is a very light footprint. So it's not this huge application with all these other things. It can be installed very easily. And what happens is this, you start it and you get these little codes. So you can do this. You can tell somebody, oh, go to joined.me and put 1-9-0-9-5-8-5-0-6-0, or you can just copy the link and paste it. And that's usually what we do, right? And it's as easy as this is you start, you begin to share, and it's as easy as that. I love that. We're sharing your screen, that's sharing. Exactly. So you can do that. So when our engineers are working with somebody, Jing is a great utility that we can share a screen, share a video. I need to see it live. You have to actually walk me through it, and I need some questions. I need to ask some questions while you're doing something. And joined.me can do that. This is the freemium version. So if I click on this right here, you can see that I can't pass the presenter role. I can't annotate. I can't record. I can't lock the meeting. I can't do things like that. So you start to see that with the next version up, you obviously get a little bit more features and functionalities. And I'll go to the pricing of that. And it's really not that bad. It's just amazing that really just for a little bit of money, you get really an enterprise pro package. The other thing you can see when you get the pro is that you can have a customized link. So go to joined.me slash true path tech. And to have our own naming for that. And it goes up from there. So we tell people, hey, if you got to share something, go to joined.me, you download the app, they tell us the nine numbers, and boom, we're in. Couldn't be any easier. I love it. Yep. I'm going to jump just quickly over to, well, actually what I wanted to do is I'm going to exit this meeting right here. So I don't. So, you know, let's take a look. Free simple screen sharing, 10 meeting participants, five video feeds. You can just X out of that. Start joined joined.me box. Yeah. So you have a number of $20. Perfect. Thank you. Very easy to set up, install, all of these really are the same. The other thing that the pro gives you is a nice landing page. So you can tell people, hey, go here, and it'll tell you when the meeting starts, it'll allow them to knock on it, put their name in it, and then they can go ahead and join. Another very good feature of the pro is unlimited audio with international conference lines. We have employees, developers around the world, and that helps with schedule once, but we need to be able to have them talk to us too. So joined.me gives them the ability to have their own local international lines that they can use. And, you know, we're talking $20 a month. I'm pretty sure it gets even cheaper when you do it per year if you pay per year. We do a whole bunch of stuff. You can lock the meetings, you can do recordings, we do whiteboards, a lot of sort of neat screen and, you know, window sharing while you're doing it. So again, 2016 cool tools award definitely goes to joined.me. And that version where you can actually, because, you know, branding is all, we love branding. So the version where you get joined.me slash true path comes with that $20 pro package. It does. It does. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So I think that when you get up into, you'll see how their sort of business version sort of isn't as big of a jump, right? So you'll see sort of, you get probably 95% of their features in the pro. And then with the 25, you might get something into the cloud storage, single sign on, you know, things like that, 250 meeting participants. So it sort of jumps up to where you have some really large screen sharing going on. But for us, the pro version is more than sufficient. And when we're doing onesie twosies with the customers out there, the free works even more. So great tool. You can't beat the cost. And I'll tell you from customer retention and prospecting standpoint, for us, it's all about those video feeds. The fact that you can get 10 video feeds and that pro version, I think with the go to meeting, you get six. And that's for like $80 a month. So just to, you know, compare, it's, you're definitely getting a good bang for your buck for sure. The one thing to that that I want to add is that we've used a whole bunch of other screen sharing tools. And we've been using this one for years. And it seems like this is one of the easier ones for customers to share out with, if that makes sense. Sometimes when they have webaxes and, you know, go to webinars and whatnot, because of the sort of, I don't know, maybe the robustness of it, yeah, they have a hard time sharing it. We can't see their screens. And for the majority of the time, if not near all joined up me works for us. And, and, you know, we can see the, the customer screen. So lightweight, easy to use, can't beat the feature. Definitely a cool tool for us. So let me go ahead and do just a quick wrap wrap up. And then we want to, we want your questions on any of the tools that we just shared with you joined at me, which is the website as well. Simple and easy online web conference tools set up and use and seconds that just easy to type in those numbers and you're off and running. Users do have the option of phone or internet calls. So you can save money there. Advanced features include screen recording, making those notes, that white boarding feature, etc. And a true path tip, free work, great in a pinch. That freemium model, especially if you're having multiple, multiple sessions at one given time. But that pro $20 or business 25, certainly low cost still with a very feature rich. Check out the pricing for, for further details at joined.me slash pricing. So guys, if you have any questions, again on joined.me or schedule ones or ging, go ahead and type on it, type it in or just raise your hand and I'll give you a shout out on mute you and you can ask your question. Great. And while you're waiting on that, I do want to say that I've just touched on some of the features of these three tools. So make sure you do visit their websites. Check out the features and functionalities. I shared with you some of the things that we use on a daily basis with these tools, but I have to say you could spend two or three hours on each of these tools because they have tons of features and functionalities and especially when you get up into the paid versions, you get even more. So everything I showed you is not just what you get, a lot more fun stuff to each one of them. All right. Any questions? Oh, I have a question. There we go. Get to the question panel here. This one comes from Katie and her question is, Douglas, can you personalize the backgrounds to reflect the branding of your company? Good question, Katie. Yes. So I'm guessing we're talking about, well, let's see if I can do a little bit of all of them. So schedule once you have the ability to do branding, so that when we showed some of that landing pages, right? So when I sent them the link, you can put your logo in there and, you know, it looks more like a company. You know that it's just not some, you know, whizbang site that's out there. So definitely branding within schedule once and with join.me, you totally can. So when you get into your landing zone, and it's funny because remember how you said you like the background of my desktop, that is the same background that we use on our branding of our join.me pro site. So totally can and it really looks pro and again, you can't beat it. And they have that whole landing page you can customize on the pro version. Yes, yes on the pro version. All right. Well, thank you, Katie. Jackie is up next for schedule once. Are you finding a better conversion rate with prospects since using this? Jackie, good question. Great question. And I think I tried to touch on that at the beginning is that when you get that first customer on the hook, you really want to get it scheduled and get it going before the love sort of fades away. The next thing you know, they don't really feel like talking to you about your tools or your services or your products. So we have a very large conversion rate. I don't know if I can say as much as sort of making the sale, but definitely if not very near, you know, up in the 90s percent easily for getting somebody to make a scheduled appointment and getting it on the calendar so much easier. And I have so much more faith in it as well. Because again, it's something that they can go back to with that link, or you can keep peppering them with the same link. And finally, when they go in there, they can pick a time that really works for them. And they can take a little bit of time too. And you're not like when you're on the phone and they say, hey, is this work and everybody's trying to sort of, you know, well, I'm not I'm not here Friday afternoon. Well, why isn't Jim here Friday afternoon? You know, sometimes people want to say that, right? Like, I'm going to take off early, but they can take their time and go through that. So a great question from a conversion to making a scheduled appointment, very, very high. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Also, and those reminders that come out, you know, once it's booked. Yeah, totally. Also, that conversion, right? Let me just add one thing, too, is that there's also a link to read schedule, which we don't really push to the customers, but in the reminders or in the calendar invite, it has it on there. So the customer says, I can't make it. So they'll click on a link, they'll pick three more times, it'll get canceled and moved and boom, all done. So it's like you're giving the power to them to, you know, schedule within your calendars that that works for you really is beautiful collaboration. And then my next question here is from from Katie. She asks again, have you used the whiteboard functionality and joined up me? I have. Yes, great. Great question. So you can do the whiteboard where really it's just a so the funny thing is, is a whiteboard is really just screen sharing a white screen with annotations, right? So sometimes we would just take this screen and turn annotations on and start drawing on it. So we have to use that. And it's nice, you know, what a whiteboard is is a great way when somebody is trying to explain something, not only do they can use the whiteboard, but more importantly, have I understood what you're trying to say? So let me draw your network diagram. Do I have it right? Have I heard you correctly? And that begins the conversation. And the whiteboard allows you to do that for sure. And then one last question here from Terry. Can you personalize the notifications to the customer for schedule one? 100%. Yep. I like to think that schedule once if you sort of had to compare it for Apple to Android is, you know, for those people that have used Android, there's like 1000 features and with Apple, there's like two or three features, right? So if you like to really dial in and customize things and have embedded things within your web page and whatnot, you can really go to the max. I think we've probably touched on 10, maybe 15% of schedule once features, but there is a whole slew of other really neat things you can do from, you know, branding it with your company to customizing the emails and the alerts that your customers get through the email, for sure. Well, I think that wraps it up. I'm forgetting anyone's question out there, but we are definitely looking forward to Friday, December 16. Next, two-path technologies, cool tools, web series, so that'll be two of five. And I think you have a little preview for us, Dennis. Yeah, so we're going to be talking about hot keyboard pro. Interesting little utility for those that need to sort of automate things when you're using your computers from macro starting applications. And what's neat is that we're going to integrate some of these tools that we talked about today into the hot keyboard pro. So join us on the 16th.  Definitely. We're looking forward to it. Thank you, Douglas. You've been so generous with your time. We so appreciate all your insights and cool tools. And congratulations to the technologies out there who have been cool tools awarded, 2016 awarded for two-path cool tools. And we look forward to learning more about hot keyboard pro and more on the 16th. Join us then. And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out, PR at jamescoto.com. We'll get you registered for the next time. Thanks, everyone, and have a good one. Thanks, everyone. Find out.


Bonjour everybody. Well, he's Christian Pereira and he will be talking about internalization in Debian. Thank you. Do you hear me? Still? Again? Okay. Oh, that's not the title. Okay, that's the usual joke and I say hi to my son who's watching and this was a bet with him that I would show a SpongeBob in one of my talks and I did so so I won the bet. Okay, let's go for the title. Well, as usual, that would be the gazillions in talk. I do an internationalization in Debian for the Debcon. I guess in Debcon 50, I will be still be doing that very boring talk. Anyway, I know you all came for one thing to see the nice maps so I just I just put them at the beginning and then after you can go away and do more interesting stuff. So what would I talk about? I will try to give you a rough picture of who is involved. Who is involved in Debian internationalization? Who is working on this? What are we working on and also how we are doing that work? So who is working? In Debian, we have this common sense that we are very international project. I know you don't see anything. There are yellow spots on the map. You know about this map probably. This is the map of the developers all around the world. So we are feeling we are very international. If you look at the number of developers that's less obvious. There are six developers in Africa, 263 in North America, 33 in South America. That's a lot less. 51 in Asia, mostly in Japan. Six in Africa again. Okay, I messed up with the slides and a lot in Europe. That's too much for me to say it in English. So Saint-Saëns was on the set. And Oceania is basically this thing on the bottom right, which is named Australia and New Zealand. So as you can see, we are not that international. There are very wide parts of the world where there is basically no Debian developers. But, okay. So we are that international. These are the maps. Okay. So for those who have not seen this yet, we are basically painting the world in red. So in Debian Potato, we had one language covered for to install the system. In Debian Sarge, in Debian Hoodie, we had 16. Then we jumped to 40 for Debian Sarge. H, our last release has 68 languages covered in the installation system. And Lenny will have, I guess, 60. Okay, let's do it again, because we all love that. If that wants to work, crash, crash. And oh, yeah, I forgot. Maybe someday we will have 60, 78. So let's go back to see if it, okay, doesn't want to go back. And painting the world in red. So I would say we are that international after all. So with the IT and crew, I would say, Vundobar. Okay. Let's try to get a closer picture to all these places. In Africa, you have seen the map. The map is very empty, basically. I see two real reasons. We have strong, I said, colonial languages, the French, the English, and in some extent, the Arabic language. You see, these are language families in Africa, not all languages. You see a strong domination of green for Arabic of blue for French and orange for English. So this is what, in my sense, limits the development of internationalization in Africa, because the communities over there have really hard times to feel they should translate stuff in their language, in their local language. So one exception is South Africa, where there are some initiatives to develop the localization and particularly the Unlock, African localization network project originates in South Africa. And they led to the development of some tools, namely Putol, Putol, which we are using in Debian and originates in South Africa for projects from the translate.org.zda project. So Africa is becoming active, not visible in Debian, more visible and user project. So let's go to North America, North and Central America. The two together. Well, we have 100% coverage for what I would call the colonial languages, colonial languages, English, basically, and Spanish for Central America. But we could also have more coverage for indigenous languages. There are some initiatives that are beginning to cover the native languages of North America, and we'll see later South America as well. There is a great variety of language and a great of cultural richness to cover. And a few initiatives are beginning to work on translation for these languages. So I would like to introduce you to the Sekhwanpotsin. Okay, everybody got it? Sekhwanpotsin or Shuswap translation. This is an interesting effort that began in Canada, for instance, for a tribe of, I would say, 500 people in Canada's Alberta who speak this language, which I will not pronounce the second time. And I did it very badly anyway. So this is something that will develop, I guess, even in North America. There is not only English and Spanish. Let's go down, down under, to South America. Okay, South America, we have two very strong internationalization community. Either the Spanish one or the Brazilian Portuguese one are very strong, very efficient at translating, localizing stuff in their languages. And again, we could have the very same interesting situation where indigenous languages, and even more in South America, they are a strong feeling to develop the localization for indigenous languages. I had very interesting talks with people from Bolivia, from Venezuela, about localization in Aymara, in Quechua, and other languages I don't remember about. And this is beginning again. Also in Argentina, there are indigenous languages, even though there are some unclassified or undocumented areas. So you will all be happy to learn we are living in an unclassified area these days, but still. One challenge for these communities is to be able to translate not from English, but mostly from, let's take an example for Quechua or Aymara, from Spanish, which brings some interesting technical challenges for people who are developing tools to translate, because we should allow people to work from another language. The same stands for Africa, where many people want to translate from French. Asia, the picture of Asia is pretty hard. I made it on purpose, very confusing, very complicated. I don't expect you to read anything. But the basic picture, we have strong communities in China, Japan, and Korea. We are doing a lot of work for internationalization especially in Debian. We have a very strong community in South Asia, mostly India, who is translating in all the languages from this place. There are 21 or 22, I never remember, official languages in India. In nine scripts, nine ways to write things down, these ones. This is the letter KHA in all scripts of India. And there are very good developments in that matter, and especially also in Debian. We have a few localizations, including the installer. There are also some local and governmental initiatives, particularly again in India, but as some of you may know, in this small country named Bhutan, which is quite a model for me for to develop localization in local language. Europe, we all know about this mosaic of language. Of course, Europe has numerous efforts to localize software. We have a lot of communities in Debian. We are translating in European languages. We cover nearly all of them. We have strengths, but we have some weaknesses currently. And these weaknesses also apply to, I would say, nearly all the localization communities. I feel like I explained to people all this week that I feel like our localization team are weakening these days. We don't see many, many people coming more inside our teams. I don't know exactly the real reason, but they are going somewhere else. I think I know where they are going. Most of the people who are new to free software want to work on translation when there are non-technical people. And most of the people who come to free software to Debian world currently come through Ubuntu. And there is a strong demand in Ubuntu for localization, translation. They have an infrastructure, but this thing is not very organized these days and doesn't interact currently very well with Debian. We had discussions this week about this stuff. About Europe, I wanted to mention that many people feel like we have strong localization teams. The French team is known as the strongest team. We do everything. Indeed, we are very weak. We are few people. Not that many. And we are weakening. That's important. Oceania is basically Australia, New Zealand. At the moment, I don't know about many, many people or many, many initiatives over there to localize, to work on internationalization. Except if we include Indonesia, where there are a few local initiatives, some individual mostly. I don't know about many governmental efforts to develop localization over there. So what are we translating now? I spent a lot of time on voice translating. So what are we translating? Well, the most well known, my pet stuff in Debian. This is basically depth constemplates. Not because this is the most end user oriented, but probably because this is the easiest to do. These are nice graphs. Thanks to Nicolas François. We are showing the development between Edge and Lenny release cycles and the development of translation. These are interesting tools to see which teams are strong, which teams are weakening. For instance, you see the Portuguese team. I don't know if you see my spot. Yes. This is a huge effort to bring stuff. On the other hand, I think this is the Vietnamese team is weakening slightly. Or you can see somewhere, I don't know where the Swedish team, which was weakening and then revived recently. But as you can see, there is a good translation ratio for these depth constemplates. Because we have good tools, what happened at the end of January, probably Nicolas fixed some bug in the graph stuff. We are also doing for these depth constemplates, user interaction, maybe people of you heard about this project, English reviews. I launched that back in 2007. Under the name of the Smith project on April 1st, then no one believed this was serious. This was serious. And the Debian, Elton and English is currently, the DFR is currently stopped, but we will renew it for Lenny plus one. And we reviewed 150 packages for which we reviewed depth constemplates and package descriptions. And of course, this famous NMU campaign, which is aimed to bring these depth constemplates translation ratio up and up and up. It started in May, which is easily to spot here for the Galician translation with benefited a lot from it. And I actually NMU'd more than 100 packages out of six or nearly 700, which are using that company. Big effort, easy to do and good results. Another target are native Debian packages, native Debian packages, these are our stuff, not upstream, we don't want to translate upstream, we don't want to translate normal Kelly, they have their own internationalization team. But the package apt attitude, this is our stuff, we have to translate it. We have a very good internationalization of these things. We have good tools for doing this internationalization and the good tools to track them down. This is huge. This is difficult. I think that we in the room has been involved in deep package translation someone. Yeah, is here. This is a nightmare, basically a nightmare, because very technical stuff and how to translate. Not quite worth it. Having aptitude translate in French, Spanish or whatever is very good. So the results are here. Many languages are good translation ratio for these difficult tools. I'm sorry for this table, which probably unreadable. But anyway, package description, that's the Debian description translation project, the name TDTP. This was a Lenny release goal. So the tools had to cope with the translated descriptions of packages. We achieved an improved infrastructure, DDTP and what is named DDTSS, which is basically a web interface to get and send package description translations. We improved the methods. We are trying to improve the English usage in this description, but we will use only 150 packages. There are, you know, the number of binary packages in Debian, 20,000 or so. So this is a huge task. And I always tell to Montana, please pay attention to the use of English in your packages. Please ask for review and get you corrected. Even the native speakers, by the way. And now this is the very important and most important news. This is now flowing to the archive and thanks to the huge work of the FTP Masters team and the I18N team in this room. And this week, since yesterday, the package descriptions that are translated in the DDTP are flowing to the archive and you can see them when you are using packages.debian.org or aptitude. So this project, which started a few years ago is finally giving results. And I think they both deserve a big, big applause for that. No, not the moon. You can see in aptitude, or actually you cannot see, but this is displaying the description in French of my pet package, namely Genoweb in French. And this is the same stuff in packages.debian.org. So as soon as someone translates for the DDTP, this will flow down here. And this is very end user oriented. In contrary to depth const templates or the package which are oriented to administrators, this is end user oriented and a huge task. Now we have a huge challenge because we have to translate all these damn package description. So please write them down correctly, but not too long, please. Translation of documentation is a huge task, long standing task. We have large documents. They are basically written in HTML or XML. And for most of them, unfortunately, we don't have a very efficient or easy to use infrastructure. The current translator have to write XML files from the original ones. So very manual stuff, not very easy. Some of them, such as man pages, are going through a get text infrastructure with the use of PO4A. We are PO4A icing anything. Some documentation are translated, so it's translatable this way, such as the developer's reference. Many man pages also are translatable with get text. So the i18n team is trying to provide patches for this. And I urge maintainers to please adopt these patches. It makes our life much, much easier. The website also is a good target for translation in Debian. It is a long standing effort. It is giving good results. This statistic you are seeing, I picked them to illustrate the slide and not make it too empty, because Nicholas activated the statistic very recently, so we don't have a graph for a long time. So it's basically meaning nothing. But there, as you can see, there are many languages in which our website is translated. And unfortunately, with a quite difficult method to work and pretty not easy for newcomers to cope with. So we should improve that part also and use probably PO4A. There is also another target, some discussions I had this week with the Wiki people with Franclin, namely to try improving the translation of wiki.debian.org, which is becoming a source of information more and more important for our users. So we should try to have an efficient way to translate this. Currently we do not. How we are doing things? How we are doing all these things? I will not show you everything. Of course, that's not my point. The point is to give a general picture and anyway, I am not the one doing the work. I am just the one presenting the work and taking the credit for it. One of the main points what in the recent development is the introduction of the new server named Churro for Spanish speakers. It was introduced in 2006 during one of the extrema Dura sessions and it is becoming the main ITNN server in Debian. Currently under ITNN.debian.net. This is not admin by DSA. This is admin by us, ourselves. I would say Felipe mostly. Please raise hand, Felipe. Thank you. All the hidden magic we have. All the statistics you can see on the website. Most of the material is coming from Churro. Thanks to many, many scripts and many magic stuff written either by Felipe or by Nicolas who is standing close to him. At the end of 2007, also in an extrema Dura session, we moved the DDTP which was running on one of the servers of Grizu. Grizu, thank you. To Churro. Yes. This guy deserves the applause. Yes. And all this stuff is now running from this server, which is becoming more and more important for Debian. And someday in 2008, I forgot to mention, I did put in production the Putol interface. Putol is a web interface for translators to get translation, even do translation online. And this interface is now able to directly commit translation for the Debian installer in the Debian installer SVN, which is kind of the way we would like someday to work. Have a local repository for translation and hook up on it some stuff. Putol, a web interface, but maybe translator will want to work directly in SVN or maybe some other magic. Maybe someday we will want to hook Rosetta, why not on it, to exchange information with the people who are doing the translation and avoid duplication of efforts. There have been some discussions about this. And someday, maybe in 2009, we will be able to hook the depth of translation, this thing I was talking at the beginning, this easy stuff on it, and maybe move to i18n.debian.org. So that's psychological, you know. Turn this into a real production server. This is going on. And again, this will maybe happen thanks to one or maybe two sessions in Extremadura. Again, thank you for hosting the i18n.debian.net. Again, some applause. The workflow we have with, I started to talk about it before, anyway. The problem we have in Debian, we are very dispersed material. We have things in packages, we have things on the website in the wiki, et cetera. And we need to collect this into some place, this central place I was talking about. So that needs a lot of scripts and magic to bring this to a central place. I just discovered my integration mark went upside down. Interesting. Spanish effect, I guess. We want to hook put all on it. But this will bring us a lot of scalability problem, especially if we hook the Debian descriptions. There are 20,000 packages, about three or four paragraphs per packages. That means a huge number of PO files. And for instance, PUTL has never been designed for such amount of information. So we are working with the PUTL developer to improve the efficiency of their software also. One interesting development of, namely this week, this is a result, direct result of the depth conf and depth camp, the T depth. I will give you some words about the T depth, don't go into the grumpy nasty details because I don't understand them. T depth come from two ideas. The first one is make packages lighter. Localization stuff is very hard, very space consuming, particularly for the embedded device. So the idea of T depth was recently revived by Neil Williams, please raise hands. Thank you. To allow for M Debian to remove translations and bring them back only for the language that needed. This is basically the idea. And the idea number two, okay, I added this slide very late, so this is the ide number two, is to allow independent update of translations. For instance, be able to update aptitude translation for stable after stable has been released and this independently of the package. Two of these ideas combined in the idea of T depth, which is basically having some special debt packages containing the localization and translation material. So this had a huge impact all over Debian, basically. So this week, we made a few discussions first and then a very, very efficient meeting with the FTP master, Neil was there, the IT and false weather release manager look was there. And we went storming stuff and this gave the results in the small wiki page here. Thank you, Mark for collecting the ideas. And basically, I think, progressively, we will adapt the tools for any plus one, make some packages use T depth for any plus one. And the point is to make a release goal for any plus two. This is a long standing effort, it will take a lot of time, discussions, meetings, we will have one in November in excrements about this. I hope so. So that will be a huge progress, I think, because we will disconnect translation from packages in some way, but not too much. I will end up talking about the IT and workforce. This, this is ID I got when Steve did this team survey. If some of you read the report, he mentioned especially the IT team as a strange case, because many people were saying this is a good team. And I was saying, Well, I'm not sure this is a good team because I'm too much acting as this kind of team leader or whatever, that I feel sometimes that I'm censoring stuff and people are just waiting that I start project or whatever. This is the challenge for teams. You know, so basically, we are slowly building an IT name core team. Those who are doing the things are, I would mention I'm already mentioned a few people around there, but those people who run through are basically those people. We will need to develop collaboration. I mentioned earlier, we are weakening in some way the localization resources, the people who want to work on localization tends to go elsewhere and namely to go to Ubuntu. Whether we like it or not, this is a fact. So we need to develop collaboration talk with Ubuntu people to develop this and help them to organize their resources because they are not organized this way. I have been confirmed this week. So we need to talk and gather whatever. I don't know. We need also to lead this community to animate this community, which is quite a challenge. Well, I know that some many people are expecting this from myself, but that's a huge task and not easy to do. So that's the point of IT and workforce. I know more good ideas about it. Okay, against Saturn. And basically, that was my final point. Not really deep hardcore technical stuff. And yes, I did put a SpongeBob again. Yes, I won the bet twice. And now I'm open to your questions and whatever you might want to ask me. And please speak slowly if you are native speaker for God's sake. You're not, but please speak slowly to this question might be coming out of my own ignorance. But I was wondering how the developers who are not directly involved in translation. Perhaps you guys, we don't know enough languages to be much use. How can we help? Is there a central place that we can go to where we could learn the kinds of things that can be done to make the job easier for you? A specification point is I have been wanting to convert all my man pages into P for a and I have tried looking it up a couple of times and I got lost. And I have never actually managed to do so even though I want to. Yeah, where can I go to get help to help? How could developers get more help or more information about internationalization? I think this is one of the challenges I mentioned earlier. We did a lot of development, a lot of good work. You mentioned P for a and now we should also think about documenting it. And although I've been requested many, many times to document in the developers reference for instance, what I often explain to maintainers do how to do things well. So we have to do that. The challenge we are facing this is a very time consuming task. And the only people who know how to do these things such as pure for a our pure for a master Nicholas has only two hands and these hands are already doing some very good stuff on the it and servers. So yes, please the Nicholas next time you please document the pure for a process. That's an order. You have to do it. Thank you. No, for seriously speaking, yes, we have a challenge. We need to collect this documentation and I think and the devian.org could also become a central place for this. Marga. I have a few questions from the IRC. First, how can wants to know some numbers about the people working on internationalization in devian? How how many people are working and how many people would be expected to be in the core team you mentioned? How how many people are working on translation in devian? That's a very tough question. Actually, I would say it's easy for many languages. One one person for Tamil, one person for Gujarati. But dozens of persons for Spanish, maybe dozens of persons for French, we don't really count. We we don't ask people to register on some fancy website with nice colors and therefore we cannot count. They just show up. They subscribe to mailing list and they start collaborating and that's all. This is our only process. So frankly speaking, I don't know. I would say not more than a few per languages. And we have like, well, if we count di, I said 60 languages. But most languages are only covering di and not that much. So I would say not more than 10 to 20 for the most, the biggest teams and down to one person for language. What I would suggest to people wanting to join and know more is to reach to subscribe to the debut and I team and mailing list and start asking over there about this core team. Basically, that will be the people who invest themselves the more and start to work on these things we need to do about T devs or documenting the processes or whatever. I don't think it really needs to be formalized to say I am a member of the core team. Yes, good. I am the leader. No, but it always happens that teams forms when people are doing things. We did a team because few people just joined together. That's all. That's this is what I call a team. And this is as far as I know, this is how all teams are working in Debian. So second question from my RC Ingosite wants to know about quality control for the translations because some translations are not so nice. So is there any plan for doing any kind of quality control? So quality control, reviewing, improving the translation, basically. Well, this is a recurrent question in translating. Should we translate everything and do the QA after or do the QA in the process? So this is basically belonging to the teams. The Spanish team may want to use its own process for doing QA. They have a very formalized one, the same one we have for the French translation. Other teams are just doing stuff. This is their process. The point would be, yes, the quality control should happen during the translation process. For instance, I mentioned put all I mentioned web interface. One could speak also about the other well-known interface which is Rosetta. This should include quality control, review, criticism, suggestions and collections. But at the end, the limit is the number of people doing the work. And I can tell you, even for French, the quality control is not that good. There are some horrible mistakes slipping out. typos, whatever, spelling errors, bad translations and the like. This is probably important currently for the package descriptions. We need to enforce a better quality control. Question over here? I hope I answered. I just wanted to add that we have the same problem for the English package descriptions. For example, I mean, there are also some very horrible ones. You really can't understand many with typos and stuff. So it's not a problem that's unique to translations. I mean, we have the same problem with the English ones as well. Yeah, quality control or the control of English, the English usage is certainly important. Well, this is basically what I mentioned. Theoretically, each English text exposed to the public package descriptions, website documentation should be reviewed by the Debian, Elton and English mailing list. But this mailing list currently has, I would say, two or three active members. I mentioned how many developers I mentioned in North America, 260 and a little bit more. There are 70 Debian developers in the UK. So yeah, maybe some people should also work on English localization. We need you guys to improve our own English. And you need us to improve your own English also. You mentioned Poodle. I just went to the Poodle website for Debian. And there are the DI translations that you said are committed directly to the SVN and the PodDebConf translations. What happens with those translations? What is currently on Poodle? What is accessible to Poodle when? Yeah, rock and roll. Thank you. I tried to mention on the Poodle website, the only production and I would say semi production stuff is DI. This is the only thing that flows somewhere. Poodle is experimental. I think I hope you saw on the Poodle website that this is in somewhere experimental. Anyway, nobody has access currently. So actually, people can only view the Poodle stuff but cannot translate this way, make suggestions maybe, but that's all. Actually, the Poodle is only my own sandbox. We probably need a sandbox server for me to play and not break existing stuff. But this is what I mentioned. This is the future. It does not end up anywhere. If I have time, I may ask about this. The workflow we expect about Poodle specifically is allowing translators to make translation either through Poodle or through the SVN access in the central SVN, where we will keep these Poodle translation. And we have to find a way for maintainers to grab this translation at build time. Maybe some depth helper tool, some hook in PODepconf. I don't know. But we need to gather these things and allow you developers to grab these things down to your packages. But I don't know how to do that currently. Christian, one of the things we looked at with the FTP masters was that whole idea of possibly having a second depth GZ that contains the updates for the translations. And that could be a feed into that to help the maintainers get the updated translations at build time. Because they would be then part of the up get source or deep package source X. You mean having a second depth GZ for updated translation, which could include the PODepconf stuff also? Yes. Yes. And the point could be then that our central place would generate this stuff. That could be an idea. Similarly to T depth stuff. Yes. It would be based on the T depth scripts and the T depth generation process. That's interesting. Yeah, I think this is a way to make the balance between packages being dispersed, maintained individually and the need for translation to have a central place. That's balance. Are there other questions or comments here, Nicola? I would like to give an answer to manage an additional one. I think if you have some requests to internationalize some program or documentation, when I could be to send a request to the IE 18N mailing list, I'm reading that mailing list. So I would be able to answer, but I'm pretty sure there are other people who can work with PO4A. And if you have some requests to localize some packages, I mean to translate the package, then there is one tool which is named PODepconf report PO. And in the version of unstable and lany, you just have to go into the PO directory and call PODepconf report PO dash dash call. This will send an email to all the previous translator with the language mailing list in copy, the language mailing list which is specified in the PO file. And it will also send an email to the DBN IE 18N mailing list so that if the document is not translated in a language, the language coordinator for the language can request their team to translate the document. I think it's what could be recommended to the developers and it is what is currently or what is going to be documented in the developer reference. Actually, I have a patch for the developers reference to explain all what Nicholas explained. But Nicholas, are you ready to cope with Manosh, the DBN rules files? I had a follow up to that. Scalability. I have 36 packages. I can send you 36 requests, but then there comes the next developer. I know people who have 200 packages. And this, as Christian mentioned, you already are busy. So even though this is a one off thing, I can ask you to help me. I was looking for something where we can, people like me who are not very familiar with internationalization, we can do things on our own set up the infrastructure in my rules file without having to bother you. So do as much as I can to get move the process along. And if such a document can be created, it doesn't need to just reside in the developer's reference. We can, I think this is important enough to move into the technical policy as something that people must do. But I think internationalization is important enough that it shouldn't be a best practices. It should be, this is what the project has said that we will do in order to make Debian more useful. But before I can put it into policy, it has to be something more than me personally requesting a favor. There needs to be a documentation and a process which can then be put into policy. Do you see the difference? Yeah. Thank you, Manoj. I think we're running out of time, so I will have to start the question or comments. And I will have to thank you, everybody, for listening this very early talk after the party and waking up. And now I need some coffee. Thank you.


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Just briefly, breathing and sorting are the two that Think Tech Hawaii, two other programs that Think Tech Hawaii has offered me, and you can find those on our Think Tech Hawaii website, as well as Think Tech Hawaii in YouTube, and you can find those under elderhood. But the one that I want to focus on today is forgiving. And I ask people to be a part of my program so that I can bring in other people's insights. Today I want to share with you my own thoughts about forgiving as a person who has worked with people who are going through this stage of life. And one of the things that I observed is that forgiving is not a mandate, it's not a religious commandment that we have to follow. No religious commandment is involved in this. But what I find is people have, from within this urgency sometimes, to actually reconcile and resolve some of the conflicts that have been in their life. It may come to the fore as remorse, as regret. It can be a very powerful demand on our lives. It may just be something that we feel we've forgotten to take care of, and we want to resolve that kind of minor conflict that we had. I once had a phone call from my mother on a Sunday night, and she made an apology for something that I thought was no problem at all, but for her it was important. And then she died Thursday. So there's some relationship between this clear conscience, clearing out the conscience, and feeling free and liberated and excited. Now, whom do you need to forgive is the question that I'm thinking about. I want to make a distinction for you between forgiveness or the act of forgiving and the act of reconciling. When we often talk about forgiving, one of the things that blocks us, perhaps from forgiving, is we don't think the other person or the other people involved want to be friends again. It may be family relationships that have been broken, seriously broken in the past. And we don't want to forgive because there really is no hope of reconciliation. What I want to invite you to do is think of reconciliation and forgiveness as two options. And it is true that in reconciliation, it's required that two or more people want to reestablish a connection, a relationship that is honest and open and caring and loving. That is what reconciliation means, counsel together again, to build friendship once again. And that is something that some fact that will no doubt involve forgiveness for some people. But it can be done, it can only be done when there's the desire for more than one person to bring about reconciliation, friendship, family relationships again. Both people involved, making that happen, wanting that again. So what that does is leave forgiveness over here as an option for us to consider as independent from reconciliation. Another reason that I wonder that people don't want to exercise forgiveness is because they don't want to feel vulnerable. I do not advocate forgiving without and forgetting. I don't think that's necessarily healthy. I think it's important at times to remember what the incidents have been that have caused a break in a relationship, what has been the behavior of people involved that can come again. Now it's kind of interesting that a neurolinguistic program, which I followed, they are very aware that the middle brain, which is the hippocampus, is what triggers us to have adrenaline flood our body and have life, flight or fight or freeze reactions. So the hippocampus is protecting us from that similar occurrence that threatened us before. The hippocampus is always alert to the situations around us that might be endangering our bodies and will flood us with fight, flight or freeze reactions. But when we move that memory up into our neocortex, we're able to analyze it and look at it and understand it. And that understanding has no, that neocortex has no emotional attachment. So we set the emotional attachment aside and we are able to understand and I think exercise forgiveness. There are a few examples of that. I have a client who just recently spoke about his father as he was growing up. My client is young as a man in the 60s and he's retired now and has this wonderful experience of looking at a truly extraordinary elderhood. And my friend, I won't use his name, but my friend, I consider him a friend now, is described how his father used to slap him as a young man, as a young boy, who was in his elementary age. And his father would slap him side to face, slap him again, slap him again. And as a young boy, you can imagine how he didn't know when it would stop, how he could respond to it. He had no capacity to fend off and defend himself, fend off the attack and defend himself. So all he could do was to accept it and try to figure out a way to avoid it, but he worked hard at doing it.  He says, I was able to forgive my father. I was able to understand that he was doing the best he could with what he had. And I forgave him for all that. He said, I never thought about that again until some 30 years later in a discussion with a friend. So I want to say that he had, this is a wonderful example of how he as a young man, as a boy, as I'm sorry, as a young adult in high school, was able to exercise the forgiveness of understanding his father's situation, his father's capacities, and to set aside that fear that was so prominent in him as he was growing up as a young man as a boy in his father's home. He also had the help of his mother who was very solid and understanding woman support him. So it's things that forgive these, these traumas can, and these offenses and this feeling of desire for retribution or revenge or for payback can bind us up when we hold on to them emotionally. Therefore, I do advocate that forgiveness when you're ready to forgive somebody is a liberating experience. It frees us up to move ahead, to move forward with our lives. And that is exactly what my client friend said, he was able to move forward from that. And he actually became a great success in his business life. Another story of a woman who was at a conference, the leaders of the conference knew her and knew that her life was pretty, pretty terrible as a child. She had been abused quite a bit and they didn't understand how she could possibly have grown up as an adult to be such a success. She was a successful human being and they said to her, how did you do this? How did you become successful? And she said, well, I looked at my past and I had my history and I actually rewrote my history. I rewrote my history as though I had the best parents in the world. And it was out of that new history that I pursued my life. Again, the rewriting of a story like that in a history is a way of shifting the mind from focus on the offense, the hurt, the emotional action, the response to a more analytical way of saying it was great. I could do what I wanted to do. I could be free of the bonds of that suffering that I had experienced. I am not advocating, again, forgetting, but I've gone before, advocating what's forgetting for what that experience was, but I'm advocating realizing and understanding with the strength of our neocortex how it came about. What happened? What can I free myself of just by letting go of understanding and reshaping my reaction to it? I had a similar experience of my own life. Personally, when I arrived in Oahu and Honolulu, I was introducing myself to people. And in small groups, sometimes with a kind of pastoral concern, I would tell my story.  And as a teenager, with a father who was alcoholic and a mother who was just really very understanding and very much a model of forgiveness for me. And I realized that I was telling this story over and over and over again about how awful it was, how bad my experience of my father was. And so I actually redid what this woman did at the conference. I rewrote my history. And I wrote my history as though everything had been the best possible situation, best possible dad, best possible mom, marriage that they had. And I found myself free of that anger that I had towards my father, which at one point was a desire to literally kill him, almost threw him out a window one time. And I found myself set free. So I advocate this, there's a very important part of those spiritual tasks that we hear and see and feel arise as we move into and through our elderhood years. I don't know what elderhood when it starts. I don't think there's any formula for determining when that is. I think it begins when you notice that you're doing this and grieving, you're telling stories, you're reconciling or you're resolving some issues in that storytelling. You're feeling a need to forgive, to get rid of the remorse and to exercise that liberating experience, to seek that liberation. That's part of that elderhood process. And so it's very important for me as a coach to enable people to go through that. Here's another example of how I was able to enable one person to do this. And I do tell this story in my book as well, because it's such a powerful story. And if you go to my website, which is www.personalcoachingforlifeandfaith.com. I know it's a long, long website, but once you get it in your search box, you'll be able to return quite easily. Personal coaching for life and faith. And you can purchase my book at that website. The book's title is Don't Just Age and Gage. So please take a look at that. But one of the stories that I tell about in that book is under this spiritual past of forgiveness. And I think this young man for really teaching me something that's quite profound, I think for all of us. Here was a situation. I was in hospice care. And this young man had had AIDS and had lost lower half of his right leg, was in bed, almost emaciated. He'd been a young man my size. And the AIDS had just ravaged his body. So he was lying in bed one day, very broken. And he said to me, faster and need to repent. And I said, well, okay, what do you need to repent? Is it general repentance or is it a specific incident that you want to deal with? And he said, it's specific incident. So I said, sure, okay, we can do that. And I said, does it involve a woman? He said, yep. So he was lying there on his bed. And I said, I don't know. I don't even remember his name anymore. Bob is good enough. Bob, I would like to invite you to see this person at the foot of your bed, standing at the foot of your bed now. You see her? Your imagination, of course. He said, yes. I said, okay, Bob, now you don't have to speak this, but I want to invite you to share with her your concern. And he had a silence for a while. And then he said, will you forgive me? I said, okay, is that all? Are you finished? He said, yeah. I said, now I want to ask you to go imagine yourself at the foot of your bed for years and you're in her place. And you're looking back at yourself in the bed now, right? Yeah. Okay, what do you hear her say? What do you say to Bob? And what now that you've heard him make this statement to you? And he said, I hear her say, I forgive you, Bob. Okay, come on back in your imagination. Now come back into your bed and into your body lying here. Okay. Yeah. Bob, how do you feel? Is that I feel like a weight's just been lifted off of my shoulders. And Bob died three days later. Clearing your conscience seems to be something we need to do. And if we don't pay attention to that, then it can be a just something that sticks with us and that eats at us. And the forgiveness is the only thing that will set us free. Now, who do you need to forgive? Is it somebody from your past? Somebody outside of your family or in your family? Somebody, some friend or some agency that you were part of or program that you were part of? Or is it yourself? Something that you did that you know the impact was affecting other people and yourself. Something that you regret having done or for which you have remorse. This combined you up in such a way that you you don't even recognize the anxiety that it creates the discomfort that you have with yourself. And it's important to be able to release that. Now I have a question from a viewer. What do you do if the abuse was completely unforgivable? No matter how much you warp the abuse, you can't see the bright side from it. Good question. Good question. Thank you so much for sending that in. Again, I'm not suggesting that there's a bright side to everything and that we have to find the bright side. What I'm suggesting and would work with you in is that the whatever the abuse was, the forgiveness is something that you do for yourself. It's not something that brings the relationship back together. Although if the other person wanted to reconcile with you, forgiveness, looking at the terror that was involved, being honest about the impact and the unforgivableness of the abuse would be important in the reconciling event. However, it is possible for you, for all of each of us to extend that forgiveness independent of that reconciliation. How horrible it was. And I want to tell you my sadness and sorrow that you experience such terrible abuse. I also think that we can work together and find a way to relieve that and release that anger, revenge, everything that that's left you with in your suffering. So there is no bright side to some of this. There is no bright side to connect with me. Please know that you can go to my website and personal coaching for life and faith. And on the website, I have, of course, my email address, telephone numbers, and would be happy to respond to you. And we'll do that as quickly as possible. I work online with Zoom, offer individual online one-on-one coaching. I offer also small group development and also some education pieces that I develop and keep providing there. So take a look around and see what's of value to you. Well, thank you so much for joining me and viewing this and being a part of my presentation here today. Taking a look again at the road ahead in elderhood, we have these spiritual tasks that come up and they don't necessarily need to be forced up, but rather they make themselves present to our consciousness. Part of the theory of stage development is these conflicts come within ourselves or these tasks come up in ourselves and the best way thing we can do is pay attention to them, engage them, and move through them. So who is it that you need to forgive? Who do you need to forgive? Thank you so much for being a part of this. I look forward to going through the other two tasks, preparing and letting go two weeks from now and four weeks from now. Come join me again, and thanks so much to Think Tech Hawaii.


Wat te denken van een Aurelix streamer die minder dan een terde van de Aries en alleen een half van de Aries LE zal het zijn Aurelix genoemd. Aurelix werd snel gekozen voor de Aries streaming bridge. Dat is niet een streamer in de klassieke zin, omdat het niet een D.A.-converter was. Het was nodig om met een externe D.A.-converter met SPDIF, DOSLink, AES, EBU of USB te zijn. Er zijn twee versies van de Aries, de volledige versie en de LE versie. De Aries Mini, op review hier, gebruikt dezelfde Tesla computerplatform en controlesoftware, maar is aangepakt op de low market. In plaats van 1749 voor de Aries en 1099 voor de LE, de Mini zal je terug 499 euro zetten. Voor dat geld is er ook een internal D.A.-converter, maar laagst de display, remote control, AES-EBU output, half de RAM en de unieke huising. Dus de vraag is of de Mini mis gebruikt de goede reputatie van het gebouw of is het een goede offering zelf? De betreide of zwarte plastische huising measures 135 x 135 x 30 mm. De top van de front houdt drie botten, die functies kunnen veranderen tussen volume en paus of de volgende track en paus. Alles andere is gecontroleerd door de iOS app. De rear holds een 15 volt DC input, een netwerk connector, twee USB 2-connections, optische en coactuele SPDIF en een stereo analoog uit een RCA. Het is allemaal heel simpel en klaar, maar het is ook belangrijk dat de USB's both accept storage devices like harddisk and thumb drives en USB audio profile to DA-converters. De Mini komt met een 15 volt switching power supply. Een panel onder de bottom is held in place by only two torque screws and when you open it, you can add a two and a half inch harddisk or SSD. A mounting bracket, a torque screwdriver and the necessary screws come with the unit. After installation the harddisk needs to be formatted so there is no point in copying music to it prior to mounting. After installation and formatting the harddisk will become accessible over the network as a share so you can copy the music to it. A standard way to control the Mini is by iPad and while an iPhone version is near completion there is no mention of other OS's. According to the manufacturer there are several other ways to control it. Open home compatible control software and UPnP AV compatible control software. For that you need to use a UPnP AV server like Minim server, Tronkey and for instance J-River DLAServer. That will most likely slow down operation voor de Auralic lighting DS control software is quite quick as where the UPnP AVslashDNLA often isn't. Apart from that the Mini also supports Soundcast and Apple's Airplay via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Installation is simple. Install the app on the iPad and just follow the steps on screen. You'll be asked what Auralic device you want to install. Get instructions on connecting the Mini and fill in the password for your Wi-Fi access. After that the install program will automatically check for updates. The last step is to tell the Mini where the music is after which it will start indexing your music collection. Depending on the size of your collection this can take considerable time during which you do need to keep the iPad app up and running. De number of tracks that can be indexed using the Lightning DS control software is not published but my 8500 plus albums 128.000 tracks gave no problem. En if you use UPnP there is no limit other than that of your server. In the app the setting menu lets you change the name choose the operating mode Lightning or UPnP switch to Airplay and Bluetooth choose for a wired wireless LAN several reconstruction filters digital out over SPDIF or USB DSD over PCM on or off and the functions of the buttons on the top front. There are many other settings of which I only mention languages where the choice is English, German or two languages that uses Chinese characters. The settings menu also gives access to the online user guide. As always, if you're not interested in tech skip to the timecode below. Apart from the hard disk dock the mini is not supposed to be opened by the consumer. But nothing stops a veteran I thought. Well, not. After getting the housing open it appeared that almost everything on the PCB is wrapped in metal as if rapper artist Kristo was involved. De metal covering is not to keep out prying eyes but to avoid interference. A second metal plate is mounted below the PCB. What I could see is a 5 volt voltage regulation with filters built with capacitors and inductors, very nice. The other thing that became visible is the tri-band 802.11ac wifi board. This is the latest standard and not often found on streamers. Aurelix doesn't make a secret of what's under the tin. A 1 gigahertz quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor with 512 MB of RAM and 4 gigabyte of multi-level cell SSD for data storage. This is where the database of your music collection is stored. The A-conversion is taken care of by the Sabre ES1980K2M. This DAC is well respected but as I've said before the way it is implemented is very important too. Just using this chip doesn't guarantee quality. The build quality here is excellent. The only wires I see are to wifi antennas and the extensive shielding makes me hopeful. The mini eats about anything you can call music. AAC, AIF, ALAC, APE, DIF, DSF, FLAC, MP3, WAV, WV en WMA containing PCM in 44.1 kHz to 384 kHz en up to 32 bits or DSD at 64, 128 or 256 fold sampling rate. If you want to connect an external DA converter it will support DSD over PCM as well up to DSD 256 using the Coax SPDIF or USB outputs. Je optical connection is, due to its nature limited to 192 kHz PCM en dus DSD64. The app is very responsive even with my large catalogue. As always it does take some time to get used to but that goes for any controller app. Remarkable is that you cannot only sort your music on artist album composer in genre but also on release date, last modified date, last import date sampling rate en file type.  De categorie Local does indeed provide me with Dutch stations. Tidal is also supported en na mijn subscriptie was it quite easy to find the impressive farewell album Blackstar by David Bowie. To describe the sound of the beanie I have to let you in to trade secrets. Manufacturers make a distinction between normal people and audiophiles. There are even large manufacturers that have loudspeaker lines for both markets. It's not that they put all their qualities in the audiophile product while putting less effort in with products for normal people. It's more like car manufacturers making family cars and sports cars. Family cars are for travelling with all the family members in ease and comfort while sport cars are for performance and entertainment. The Airis Mini clearly is a sports car type. The sound using the analog outputs is analytic and spacious. It will set your auditory system to work. It sounds more high end than its competitors which makes it a less preferred choice for my 700 euro set 3. There a blue sound note 2 produces a more comfortable sound. But in the 3000 euro set 2 it's a better choice although it will scale in at the lower end. And then another high end property of the Mini comes to aid. Tweakability. Replace a standard power supply for my favorite linear power supply the sBoost the best of two worlds and you're up to almost middle set 2 quality. Connecting the cord Hugo DAC brought it in the upper regions of my set 2. By the way go to thehbproject.com slash em slash about for a full description of my reference set. Let's take a look at the competition. The Sonos Connect is an antiquated design that is limited in the number of tracks that can be indexed and sampling rates and does no DSD. The Raspberry Pi using the Hi-Fi Berry DAC Plus Pro with proper linear power supply doesn't have these limitations. It sounds better on normal CD quality files than the Sonos and offer higher sampling rates and DSD too. But you do need to be handy with computers and a soldering iron to make it work as I described in a separate video. See the link in the top right corner. If the sound quality is a priority the only ready to use products that came close to the Mini is the Blue Sound Node 2. It is limited in sample rate but who uses sampling rates higher than 192 kHz. It doesn't do DSD which might be a limitation to some. Just like the approximately 3500 CD capacity of the memory. Having said that it does have inputs that can be shared over the network. Has 6 presets and supports more streaming services including those that do MP3. See the top right corner for a link to the review of the Node. To use the metaphor again the Blue Sound Node 2 is a very good versatile family saloon. The Auralic Aries Mini doesn't support MP3 streaming services has no input to share over the network but has a very fast 802.11ac tri-band wifi does Airplay and Soundcast supports up to 384 kHz sampling and DSD 256 support DOP to send DSD to an external DA converter has external power supply that can be upgraded and like the Blue Sound Node it will support MQA as a free update as soon as it is released by MQA. It will be clear that the Auralic Aries Mini is a sports car here. It is the more audiophile product in start with a Mini only then over time improve with a better power supply and an external DA converter in that aura. People that hate computer equipment switched on to play music can have a hard disk or SSD built in for the cost of the hard disk only. Two and a half inch drives coming capacities up to 2 GB for only slightly more than 100 euros. SSDs with the same capacity come at prices from 160 euros upwards. 2 GB can hold about 4000 cds in Flac or A-Lac. The Aries Mini isn't the average Joe product. It's a true high end product at a non high end price that will please any connoisseur including myself. It makes me curious how much better the Aries sound. So let's put on my review list for the coming time. So if you want to remain informed subscribe to this channel follow my facebook or google plus page or my twitter account. You can also post questions there. You'll find the information below this video in youtube. If you like this video give it a thumbs up and tell your friends on the web about it. I am Hans Beekhuyzen for the HB channel. Thank you for watching and see you next time on the HBproject.com And whatever you do enjoy the music.