So, my name is Erica Merritt and today we're going to go over some great singing exercises to get your voice warmed up and ready to go, okay? Before we start, though, we're going to do a sintering exercise that I like to do or a mindfulness exercise that I like to do, just kind of focus ourself on singing and also to get rid of any nervousness or anxiousness that comes along with singing, okay? So we're going to be again, excuse me, again, with closing your eyes, taking a deep breath, let it out, good, deep breath in, let it out, deep breath in and out, again, deep breath in and out, good. Let's roll our shoulders backwards, good. Now, can you do them side to side like this, good.  It's a little more difficult. Can you move your head to the right or to your left and up again, and the other side, and up again, to your left, to your right, and now we're going to make half circles. I'm rotating our head and our neck around, like this, starting from the side, going all the way up, a few down the way around to the other side, and back around to the other side. Do it again, and again, good. All right, let's not feel better. Okay, when talking about vocal exercises, I want you to understand that we need to make sure that our posture is up straight and that our diaphragm is not folded over like this, but sitting up straight or standing up straight, okay, whichever you prefer. I prefer to sit up and sing in vocal exercise because it works better for me, but you're more than welcome to stand, okay? The first exercise that we're going to do is, or all the exercises that we're going to do consist of a call and response method, where I will say it or call it, and you will respond by repeating what I said or saying, okay? The first one is called ni-ne-na-no-nu. Ni-ne-na-no-nu. Your turn. Ni-ne-na-no-nu. Try it again. Ni-ne-na-no-nu. All right, those are the sounds we're going to say that are incorporated with this vocal exercise. Notice that I'm going to start from a lower range, go to a middle range, and then to a higher range. Everybody's range is different, so you can start where you want or where you like when you're doing these exercises on your own, but for right now, you'll repeat after me and start where I start and end where I end, okay? So we're going to start at a lower range. Ready? All right. Ni-ne-na-nu. Make sure that you're taking a deep breath as we do this, putting air through your nose and into your diaphragm so that you have a lot of air to support these exercises, okay? We're going to try it again, and you only can take one breath, okay? In between. Here we go. Do these. Make sure that you're breathing through your nose, putting air into that diaphragm, having an imaginary rubber band around your waist here that expands and you put air into it. That's when you know that you're putting air into your diaphragm and then utilizing that diaphragm to support these wonderful notes, okay? Good. Now, notice that sometimes it can get a little difficult getting to those higher notes.  And it sounds like this. Woo! Right? Just like an ambulance or a fire engine, right? Woo! Woo! Right? I want to do that with you seven times in a row. So it will sound like this. Woo! Woo! Woo! We'll do it together eight times in a row. Are you ready? Read those notes, okay? All right. We're going to try another voice exercise and it's called, there's some ooze, okay? We're going to do lots of different ooze sounds, okay? Ooze. Let's try it again. A little squiggly. I like to make my hand motion so that you can kind of know what direction we're going, okay? Ooze. Don't worry if you sound kind of, I don't know, all over the place. I do too sometimes, but it's really just figuring out how to warm up your voice and getting those sounds out so that when you sing, it's almost like you are digging a tunnel, right, to your voice, right? And there's all this stuff. As you exercise your voice, you are clearing a path, right? Clearing a path that you can now utilize as you're singing. Sometimes there's lots of stuff there and you have to clear it out and that's what we're doing when we're exercising our voice and warming up those muscles, okay? All right. We're going to do one more voice activity and then we're going to do a song, a warm up song that I like to sing. The activity is going to be another sound and just repeat after me. All right. Na na. The song is this helps you kind of get in the mood to sing other songs that you wish to sing, but this is called Monday Morning.  This song is about getting through Friday and just staying on task and getting through it and doing the best you can and being able to celebrate when it's Friday, okay? I'm going to say the words to the song and then we'll sing it together. Monday morning seems so boring. I wish it were Friday again. Let's get to it. We can do it. And soon the weekend begins and it will be Friday. Yes, it will be Friday. It will be Friday again. So you're going to follow those moves if you like. I like to make a little bit of moves with my singing. Sometimes it helps me remember the words and you're going to follow me.  You ready? Call and respond method. All right. You ready? Monday seems so rich. It were Friday again. Well, let's get to and it will be Friday. Yes, it will be Friday. Exercises that get you all warmed up and ready to go.


And I just happy birthday myself. Okay, wait, that didn't drop. Oh No, how's it going everybody dots it away here back with another round of dragon ball fighters ranked matches this time We are once again playing our new main team of Krillin Goku GT and Yamcha We're running the team in back-to-back videos just so I can really get more comfortable using them Well Goku looking a little too happy to see Krillin there I Don't know why some of the poses for the interest always catch me so off go to age that yes Wow, we're starting the video off with a 2h from Krillin This this might be one of the rarer videos to exist on the channel. All right this time We're just gonna jump and dash in two weeks. Okay. Yeah, this video is actually fake You guys might want to pinch yourself make sure you're not dreaming I think I'm just gonna throw two bars there keep Krillin on point since he is our point character We might as well keep rolling with him I'm gonna back up and throw a beam assist. Yeah, just in case. Oh, no Yamcha on the ground. Oh He didn't attack with I thought he would go with like a straight medium there But I guess we were lucky not to get hit by that All right, what's the mix quit playing with me. Just show me the mix get it off of me All right. Oh I try to get the sides if we would have hit another 2h. I would have actually Deleted the video They I would have deleted the video just in case Ark's a sod and thought man We should nerf Krillin 2h. It hits too often It is the fastest man. It is a fast 2h. So I will give it that at least it has that I would have taken a bit extra reach, but I can't complain Oh, no. Wow, that was aggressive The way he cocked his head back like aim, you don't move. All right. He's gonna reflect here really Wow, he didn't punish me for that. I will take it No reflect Hey, we found the reflect. It was there all along just a little bit longer All right, do we have anything to offer here? I Wanted to get I was gonna 2h right there to get the sliding, but I'll take it.  We should be able to kill but just toss him back and accidentally do the reverse calm Am I on backwards? It's kind of interesting that Roshi is going to have a reverse coming on me as well rock. I said, oh You got a watch out for the rocks. I'm taking you all the way to the corner for that. That was a big miss All right, hold on. Oh the beam backwards. That was sick. Oh Did not expect him to jump up he kind of landed on me doing a reflect it just uh, I Swung down on my head and this is a lot of damage. I get he's in sparking and limit break and he's Broly What is with the grabs man? I'm level 3 if I live I'm down second level 2 I Guess we won't have to worry about that. I guess some things, you know You just our arm worth where we both have seven bars and because of that I'm doing raw level ones I'm holding you down. Oh Yep, okay. Yeah, that was smart. I did a level one in return I was like I got it.  This is where we spark And look he tried it again That is so sick that the rock comes down on him I think already we're getting better with that rock assist man At least that and not holding back when we call it which was a huge Huge breaking point for me with the assist because I was just so bad at that But with a little bit of practice with some real game experience under our belt It seems to be going away gradually. Also, I'm ready for this next game I got grabbed to I got grabbed too often for my own good there. I was not having a great time I back up through the beam assist Ah, so the shoes on the other foot this time I The shoe has it. Oh no Is this gonna be a bad game for you? Oh Wow, that was kind of night if I got to age there I it was over for me like the mental confidence would have been too much Fake it love fake of that light after image now. I definitely something I picked up from watching um Some Japanese pro player Krillins. They they love that light after image and maybe to be honest There might be a lot of other Krillin players that use it as well But I just noticed it a lot more in that particular set that I watched It was just really like I was like, oh, they really like that tool like I would use it every now and again, but To be honest, I would I mostly you I Mostly use medium after image for that. So when that got nerfed back in season 2, I kind of dropped it give me that I Kind of dropped the idea of using anything but EX after image, but I'm back in business now I'm a big fan being to y'all a quick bite to eat never hurt anybody. This isn't actually gonna kill. Oh Wait I'm on a I'm on a roll today. I'm on an absolute roll today. I cannot be stopped rock assist Look at that hit stun Why is it the strongest assist in the game and another 2h? Alright, I'm feeling it now I feel like we're rolling. All right, let's see if we can use the rocks like that That was perfect placement, too. I should have called the rock and run in Beamed beam beam with the option. Even no matter how much I'm feeling myself beam with y'all just not a good idea Nice, which I was Goku GT. Oh My I'll take it. I will definitely take that. Ah Bad that was a bad use of the oh This guy just has a very command grab centric team, huh? All right. Yeah, so we're just gonna we're probably gonna take a level 5 here. Yeah, he just wants to spend the bar That's okay though. I don't know what oh we're in the corner. Never mind. I'm gonna spark why not gotta block that over And I could I thought he was getting ready to block it But I guess not it looked like he was like all right Just show me show me one reason to block overhead and I was like nah I'm not gonna do it until I'm ready to 6m. That didn't kill, but I'm just gonna Wolfgang Missed my input. I was I was gonna Wolfgang fist hit him with the mix. Ah That's fine. That's fine because he has no clue what the mix is It was vanish and you know what? Not my best mix some would say but I think it's just good enough just good enough to get me by Man, I'm excited for this team, dude I cannot wait until later where I like really take Goku GT in the lab Even now I mean he's such a good character on face value like I'm already getting a ton of a usage out of them But I would love to learn the more complex stuff. All right. Let me back it up Let me back it up get in there through Yamcha sister round fake it I Love to see I think he might have been trying to call out a fake But I just did the drag rush a little too fake it. Oh did not fake it that time. Hey didn't fake it that time either That actually had pretty decent reach to it as well okay Yes, dude, he keeps trying to land with that button, but the button is what's really killing him The button any button he presses there is really killing him because a 2h is just so strong there Even with Krillin I'm gonna be able to time it most of the time and I'm pretty bad at typing 2h's beam assist run under all nice I had that time that button was pretty good But if we would have 2h that I would have felt like that would have been the last time he tried to fall with a Overhead we blocked it. Okay, but barely blocked it dude. I need a okay. Wait. Hold on a Little bit of a side switch with Krillin there No problem definitely didn't shut up because I was afraid to drop it and now we got to ask what the mix is Let me pose the question to you. What is the mix? You got one chance to block block low. Mmm. You didn't block low, huh? You got a block low after that. I feel like you should definitely with Yamcha. You got to start with blocking low I super dashing again beam assist a nice. Okay. Definitely. He timed that pretty well Rock assist it beats Keyblast. It's crazy. How I'm just going to You see I I just got away with stealing so much time there for nothing. I like I did not risk much there God he tried to land with that button again. He's getting too anxious in the corner. All right. What does he do here? I love it reflect. Oh it's here Looking like Street Fighter 5 and after a little while a Wolfgang fist. They won't ever expect the mix up We should win here with just the assist. Yeah, the assist is gonna do it. Oh, we need a game for was that three games? That was like a small that was a speed run. We were feeling that one. This is one of those videos where I'm just going off We're hitting the two H's we're making we're making well not even adjustments really We're just we're really playing the game. Well, like we're just looking for that kind of stuff I would like to do more intricate. Yeah, why not? I would like to eventually in this set I would like to show off some of Krillin's block stuff. I'll block that. Oh, I keep forgetting he super dashes after that I always try to mash All right, I did that specifically because I wanted the corner really badly So we're gonna get him into the corner here go for the basic, you know jump up dash stuff.  I had to get him in the corner and ready to block So what I'm trying to show off here is like specifically like Corner pressure with Krillin with assist up and kind of deal like obviously it's not all there is to corner Like right here. So we're gonna. Oh All right, so we're gonna throw a bean and call an assist. I messed that up pretty badly All right, well, we'll get it on the next one guys. I Messed it up both times because I was trying to remember what assist I wanted to go with but this works Can't believe we let him escape with that. All right, let's just do this Dude you got a block He's trying to reflect. I'm trying to run block strings All right, that's fine. We'll take a little take a level one knock out here and hopefully Krillin will make it to the corner I also think Krillin's one hit. So we can't afford to get it by literally anything, but yeah, that's fine Blue Vegeta. This is just a little slow on the up.  Yeah, I could have air dash as well. I decided not to and just dash But that's fine. Okay, sis. Do I still have smash? I do I'm totally fine with that. I'll take the one bar kill again Yup, yup the damage on this it's starting to click at least neutral with this setup is starting to click We had that 2h as well. That was rough. We are dead here. Oh, I don't know why he was trying to get fancy with it I don't know why he's super dashed. I really thought he would have just taken it, but We could still lose here actually Let's not oversell limit break plus spark. There it is. Okay, so spark is out and I just happy birthday myself Okay, wait, that didn't drop Operation stall for time is in full effect right now boys Operation stall for time is in full effect, right? I missed it. I missed the backwards one. Oh, no But he just sat there and blocked are you just gonna sit? Make sense. Make sense. Make sense. All right, we're in losing territory We're losing territory. Oh, no. Oh, no, this wasn't I was supposed to go Try something. He's gonna try to command grab. I know I can actually feel his command grab coming. Wow.  You can feel his command grab I'm the back. You weren't ready for it as long as I don't drop it That's going to be game ex wolf. I'm gale club. We'll think fist. That's gonna take it I gotta go back for one more though. I Gotta go back. I can't I can't leave on that one. Plus. I didn't get to show the air dash off the bean So I kind of wanted to show that off a lot. I'm gonna go one more one more showcase run That was so close. I'm actually still nervous about that last game even though it ended already That's like anxiety super saying to like you can feel it after the fact that was a little Thank you. I Love that light after image. I also love that. We've been able to show off so much here. Okay, so I don't want to reflect But if he clicks a button on the way down, I gotta do it to him. I gotta get that to age I Would definitely say like Like if I could say one thing like the button as falling like I feel like if he did another escape path It would work more. I think oh nice. See that's the adjustments But now it's gonna be real. That was another great place I could have shown off the pressure, but I opted to go for another double overhead Which was fine. I think he's gonna Nice raw tag. I think you could tell I was trying to like get I was definitely trying to swing on a bet and get Back in the corner there. I was like running out Nice dragon rush up. We're gonna get switched here. No Dragon rush we tech those. Oh Yeah, dude I'm feeling good. I'm like, I'm really enjoying this team at that time. I can't believe you clicked them in the button I let's see. I Shoulda 2h that as well Still missing still missing some of the more reactable ones. I Try to do the corner play you can see right there the dash after the sense you mean That's more of like a corner thing. Obviously just because of pushback, but I Try to do it mid-screen just to see like mess around and see if I could you know Getting reflected a lot too Back in the corner. Oh I didn't expect that to hit. I thought that one was gonna get reflected as well to be honest But another mountain goes down in the background and now it's just Broly. He does have spark We kind of wasted ours. I don't even know when to be honest. It's gonna super dash. I can kind of feel it in the air there Here it comes There it is the super-dash in the corner Didn't get the side switch. That's fine. I can probably work something out here. I never mind Falling with a button. That's definitely been the story of the set so far and now it's five destructive this time Wow, what a versatile team dude, I okay, we're gonna call it there And I'll probably do some more suggested teams for ranked matches now, but whoo Let me get my zone with this team, dude I'm definitely gonna practice that more off-screen later, but hopefully you guys enjoyed this showcase video If you did definitely let me know down below in the comment section What your favorite moment was and what your main team is right now during this time of the game I know there's a patch coming out. Well, why do I always do this to myself? I pick a team before a patch and then I get so attached and then I just you know The patch changes my mind about things But while you're down below in the comments Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe to the channel to make sure you're up to date on all things Dragon Ball fighters Including that patch news and Master Roshi news whenever we get more stuff on that But other than that you can watch more videos on top of your screen right now if they catch your eye I have been Dr. Dewey and I will see you in the next one


We're at two minutes past the hour, so we should probably get started. I wanted to introduce Akash. He is our speaker, and he's going to talk about the Fedora website and apps revamp.  Right. So let's check if it's working. Can you folks hear me? Perfect. Thanks. Right. Morning, folks. Two folks who know me. Nice to meet you. Nice to see you in person again after so many years.  I work in the Red Hat community platform engineering team as a software engineer. That's my day job. Apart from that, I take part in things like mentorship, documentation, packaging. A bunch of stuff I do is about making sure that Fedora Workstation becomes a platform of choice for video gaming and stuff. Nice to meet you, folks, too. Right. Today, I'm going to talk about Fedora website and apps revamp community objective. That was how it was called back in the day. Nowadays it's called community initiatives.  You select yourself a task, a goal that you would want to achieve in a given time and then you pick your own team. You check if the things that you want to achieve with that community objective doesn't really bring Fedora forward as a community. This is the story about that and the things that we learned during the way while we were revamping not just the websites and applications. Like, sure, that was the goal, but what we really wanted to do was revamp the team while we were at it. So here's the story. It started off at December 2020 where we were like four enthusiasts who were working on Fedora mode. If you don't know, it's a meatpot logging application. We used to have, or we still have, ISE meetings, meetings on matrix that needs logging for folks to look back to, check to the records. And that's what we used to make use of for logging them. So we started off with that because the app was falling apart. It was in a sorted state. And the team of four was myself. Justin, Ramya Paremi and Nasir Hussain. We decided that we'd start working with that and we slowly started to increase that remit of websites and applications that we would take care of because we totally could do a lot more than just that. Initially, time the team was called DevOps Sig, but we quickly thought to not increase our remit that much because, well, that would include almost every application that's maintained in the infrastructure, and maybe that would be a bit too much. Jumping in the deep end when you don't know how to swim, not something that we would necessarily want to do. We were assisted by Marine Orden who helped us bring all those ideas together so that it does not sound as crazy as we made it sound like initially. And it looked a lot more achievable, a lot more quantifiable, and then it became a council objective when we proposed it to the council.  But when we got our ideas formalized, we wanted to make sure that we really have a team, some calculatable, quantifiable goals to accomplish when we can say that, yeah, we are indeed making some progress. Otherwise, we can just go on and on about revamping our websites while not doing anything at all. So we drafted our mission and vision statement, the long-distance thing, the 10K feet view of our goals. And one of the things that really helped us to get action items from those was the logic model. And it was really helpful because it was actually allowing us to move left from the goals, from something that we would want to end up doing after 18 months or 24 months back to something that you'd want to do right now. If it's code, if it's documentation, if it's making sure that you're able to onboard people onto the team as effectively as possible, it was allowing you to connect those goals to things that you could start off right away. And well, we were helped with Ben Cotton to make sure that we choose really realistic goals and not something that's way beyond our means with both respect to the time as well as the efforts. And finally, this proposal was met by the Frider Council with a universal approval. All plus ones, no zeros or no minus ones whatsoever. And then we really got up to starting doing things which were much more than one application that we started off with. That was federal meat pot logs. Right, so the very first thing that we did was to create a team because how much of a dent would a team of four people would end up making, right? We needed more folks and we needed more folks fast. The existing team that we had was only a team of one person. So you can imagine how bad that would end up being if that one person was to disappear or one person was to become really busy. And we were having a Fedor Linux 39 coming out at that point in time, but our websites are not updated according to that. So we really wanted to make sure that we have more points of failure and not just one. And then we started looking into the appropriate tools, web technologies, workflows, the design things that we would want to take into account while making our websites and applications. And this was around a time in June 2021 that I joined Red Hat as an associate software engineer in the community platform engineering team. Moving on to August where we started writing down the rules and regulations because we really wanted to make sure that we are progressing towards a certain goal and we are not deviating ourselves with ideas that might just come in and that might look all shiny and we might want to pursue it. But this was around a time when we had a bunch of disagreements. A lot of disagreements, a lot of dissatisfaction within the team because well, admittedly everyone was really, really enthusiastic about what they want to do and it's almost like the purpose for everyone to do with the objective was a good one. Albeit the way of achieving that goal was a lot different. And this time again, we were helped by Justin and Marie. Unfortunately, this was again the time when Naseer had to leave the efforts for a while. And moving on when we actually got back on track on October 2021, we acquired interns because we wanted to really make sure that we not only keep our instructions to ourselves but well, maybe we could onboard some interns, teach them about stuff and who knows, we can have them as long-term Fedora project contributors stand the line. So, me and Franchoa Andrew was one of the contributors who worked on the Fedora Meet Part Logs project, pushing it to the completion while the Fedora websites, the general offerings websites, the place where people download ISO images from, let's just say, were mentored by Honorabh Sesar and Michael Shero. We continued on conducting regular planning meetings for the co-leads to make sure that we are really up to the task for leading the entire team, which was getting significantly bigger. At this point, it was no longer a team of four, we had already become a team of over 20 people. At around December 2021, Ramya Parimi, who was a co-lead with me in the objective, decided to step down and the Fedora Easy Fix project, a website where people could take a look at good first issues, you know, to just get started with contributing to the community, it had to be abandoned because there was a lack of interest in the community to use that website. Again, not a good time for the community objective and this was again helped by Graham White who stepped right in as a co-lead and he used the project management skills that he had to guide the project forward, guide the community forward into revamping our websites and applications. The interactive organization chart, the one that we, Marine Norden designed back in the day, which encompassed everything from Council to Fesco to all, Little Six, was made interactive by Honorabh Sesar at around this point. By February 2022, the revamp efforts for the websites was started off, it was proposed by Pavel Zelowski. Regular discussions with the stakeholders, which includes folks from the Different Six, as well as the ones from the Infra team, marketing, you name it, were conducted from then on. We also acquired a couple of interns, namely Subhangi Chaudhary and Ujong from Outreachee and their first two rewrite meatbot logs and their fedorographs were enhanced just because we had more people on the board. Now that we had things really chocked out, the path really planned for us, we walked on that path to make some progress. So my focus, which was previously on engineering because well, I used, I love writing code, but I decided that, you know, it's just me that I'm addressing and some more people who would work along with me. I would much rather write documentation to help people do the stuff that I do whenever I'm not around, let's just say. So my focus shifted on to writing documentation for both development of the code base as well as the workflow as to how teams should operate, how meetings should be run, stuff like that. We also continued to having active presence in events like Nestled Fedora. In Fedora Linux release parties, we conducted a bunch of workshops, Ashlyn, Nox, and Onorabsaizer again to thank for that. And we really used that time to convert a bunch of Fedora Linux users into Fedora project contributors because we used the time to tell them about the stuff that we have been up to and how they can be a part of it. Then this was again the time when the internships were headed towards completion. By June 2022, multiple outcomes of the objective and outputs were completed. It was again the time where we were checking things of left, right, and center because, well, we were making some good progress. The first mockup was for the renewed websites for the Fedora workstation, which arguably is our primary offering, was designed by Maureen Duffy. She's over there. So the talks about the discourse about the Fedora badges, the fact that we would want to use something that's already there, that we are using for discussions, and to use that for Fedora badges front end was started by Matthew. Onorabsaizer was elected as the mindset representative for the team. So moving on to August 2022, where we had the first in-person representation for the team in the Fedora Hatch Pune 2022, I met with a bunch of people from not just within the community, but also within Red Hat, who were not necessarily a part of the Fedora project community at that point in time, but just because they worked on web technologies, they were really interested to get their hands on to building something that they would find interesting with people that are not necessarily their colleagues, you know, just community people and have fun while doing so. The Fedora website's 3.0 manifesto was designed by me and shared both within the community as well as within Red Hat. The design walk-up for the Fedora IoT website was created by Emma, and the rewrite for the Fedora Meetbot Logs 2.0 application was finally completed at around that time. By September 2022, the team enthusiasm was again reignited by the advent of Fedora websites 3.0. This is where we decided that, not only redesign our websites, but the navigation, the look and feel, using a newer set of technologies rather than just bringing along the old ones that was based on frozen flask, and Nuxt.js was selected for the websites, while View.js was selected for the web applications that were under a remit. The discussions for the long-term maintenance for the Fedora badges was started, and the third design walk-up, that is, for the flock to Fedora websites, was created by Ashlyn. Moving on to October 2022, the development efforts for the websites were joined by a bunch of new contributors. A lot of those really stayed back for a long time that I really appreciate. Folks like Nico Dunck, Jefferson Oliveira, and Deepesh Nair. The design efforts were joined by Madeline Peck, Jess Cheethus, and Don de Marais. Effective collaboration was done, and it was not just the websites team by themselves, but they also started collaborating with people from Fedora infrastructure, Fedora design, Fedora marketing to better collaborate as to what should be there in the content of those websites and how it should be deployed, stuff like that. The progress along with the development for the Fedora badges, we really need to understand if the Fedora badges was something that the community really wants to revive, or they could simply use it in the state that it was in. So we started collecting testimonials from the community. By December 2022, Sandro and Errol Skin, they volunteered to look after the Fedora badges project in the state that it is in. The technologically feasibility investigation, basically we're just investigating what kind of technologies that we can make use of to revamp the Fedora badges web application was done by me at around that time. The investigation was joined by Mikal and Lenka, who are over here from the community platform engineering team. And the work on the Fedora websites 3.0 project was at that point in time, it was in full swing. The mock-ups that were made were actually implemented in the code base, and in the final phase of the community objective, when the badges technological investigations completed, we started writing code for it, and this was around the time when the code base for the Fedora websites 3.0 stack, say the components or the tools we made use of was nearly completed. This was again around the time when Fedora Linux 38 came out, and I think that we decided that it would be for the best to not just bring out our new websites in front of the community with the release of Fedora Linux 38, but also to call this council objective as a success. I visited the council face-to-face representing this community initiative in Frankfurt in February, 2023, and by April, 2023, we got back to community survey results as to understanding how well we have been doing our job in the community as a team which takes care of our websites and our applications. Matthew Miller and Ben Cotton proposed a closure of the objective at around that time, but I was still thinking that maybe we could use some more time to connect the infrastructure elements, maybe make the community folks a lot more welcoming to the infrastructure tools because it's still something that requires intervention from dedicated teams. The Fedora Badges 2.0 and the remaining websites were elected as future scope because, well, if we try to make things perfect in the very first attempt, we're only going to fail at it because attaining perfection is an elusive goal. And finally, we decided that, you know what? Let's call this thing as a success and everything else can be done down the line. And that is where we were able to call this thing as a closure and it's probably one of the most recent community initiatives from the Fedora Council. Right, so, sure, that was the story about how we started the, well, the rocky path that we took, the changes of the remit that we went underwent and the kind of results that we ended up having, but what did we end up achieving? What were our achievements? So in order to retain contributors that we onboarded because, well, onboarding is easy, but in order to make sure that the folks that you have onboarded, they stay around for a while and they communicate actively, they contribute, we really needed to make sure that they were recognized for their efforts. And one of the first things that we did was to have a badge dedicated for folks working in the team. And it's called Rock the Web. We award it to anyone who participates in the team and we do plan on creating more badges dedicated to particular websites or particular applications like, let's just say that it's the badges website that's being reworked on. So chances are that if people are to participate in that, they might be awarded with that badge. The next thing that we worked on was to give some tangible swags and we have planned that. It's still something that we are having in process, but we really want to make sure that people understand that, yeah, we really, really appreciate their time, their effort that they have spent within the team, making our websites and our applications much better than how they were before. The next thing was about the ability. We wanted to make sure that people not only jump on the team just because they wanna do something, but they also have what it takes to update these legacy websites and applications or if they don't have what it takes, we should provide them with a platform where they not only do stuff, but they learn stuff about it. They learn the technologies, they learn about the workflows that's required and the team had been and it continues to maintain a bunch of projects in its current state. A bunch of projects that we started, we thought we would be maintaining, but just because it became too big of a deal for us to do that or maybe we had another team that was taking care of it, we decided to step it down from our remit and probably pass it over to some other teams. And then finally, there were certain projects that we could not maintain because of the lack of the community interest in that project. So we decided that, you know what, we just simply deprecate them and of course the deprecation happened only after we were able to get the community approval that yeah, if it's something that people could really make use of. Finally, we really wanted to make sure that the information about maintaining these projects, because mind you, the ones who are maintaining it right now, they might not be maintaining it forever. They might start doing something else, some months down the line, some years down the line. So there should be some documentation that people can follow and do the exact same thing as others did. We did document that as well. Then comes the regularity and responsibility. It's about achieving that the Fedor Linux websites are updated regularly as soon as the new updates come out. So we wanted to make sure that the team had what it takes. The technology was up to the mark for that to happen. And the responsibility means we had to really make sure that we were sizing it only up until the kind that we had the capability for and nothing more than that. Then the knowledge of maintaining these websites and developing them as well as the interest to not only create these websites, but also to onboard the newcomers so that they can find something that they would want to really work for very easily. And finally mentoring them to make sure that they really stay back and they feel really welcome in the community as well as us participating in a mindset community so that we not only represent ourselves, but we also get to understand what others have to say about us. Right, I'm gonna take a couple more minutes for the lessons. And I'm going to be really quick because every lesson is just a couple of words. So we made sure that we start small and connect goals to the work that we wanted to do first and to remain regular because trust me, if you don't have that momentum, things are gonna fall apart and you can't do it alone so you would have to recruit members, lots of them. Then finally expect disagreements, debates, accidents, it's normal, it's fine, don't freak out and document everything so that you get to come back to things later and it's not all alien stuff for you. And finally, recognize stuff, recognize people's efforts, their time and communicate often whenever you are taking decisions. That's about it. Here are the links that you can follow to know more about the team. While the objective is complete, the team still stays and takes care of the websites and applications so you are by all means welcome to be a part of it. Here are the places where our documentation, our chat platform, our repositories as well as our discussions are done. Thank you so much. Right, so do you folks have any questions? Hold on, hold on. So you are saying that you are using Next.js for the websites? Yeah. Are you doing anything to make sure that the non-interactive parts of the website continue to work without JS enabled on the browser? Yeah, we are. So we are in the process of minifying the JavaScript parts as much as it's possible to a point that a bunch of things minus, well, the things that require to interact with the server to get the ISOs, what's that thing called? The integrity checks, you know? So the hash keys are the only parts that require JS right now, but everything else works totally without JS at this point. We really made sure of that. Oh, well, a lot of people don't. Yeah. No, it was one of the design ideas, by the way, because we really wanted to make sure that this is not just accessible to normal browsers, but also those which are, well, outdated. How are you integrating with other teams? So it goes by the need-by-need basis. Certain times we, of course, started off with the teams that we really needed to integrate with. So if it's coming to deployments, so we really had to communicate with federal infrastructure, but we really did not want to limit that interaction on the basis of what we wanted to do with them. We wanted to learn how we can do much better at providing them something that's easy to deploy rather than just giving them a docker file, you know? And that's how we were also attaining that information to do a bit more towards that time. Also, when it comes to design as well, I think a bunch of folks from the design team, they became a very integral part of the websites and apps team as well. So they were regular parts of the meetings, regular stakeholders who would actually help us decide things that would make sense, you know? Yeah, I mean, I was one of those stakeholders. And I felt, so very clearly I felt included. There was no point at which I did not have an opportunity to express my needs or to listen and get more feedback. But there was a complication around participating in the regular cadence. And that's something that I would love to see maybe an opportunity from the perspective of running another team to look at how we can maybe create an integration point. Do you note it? Yeah, one of the things that has happened very recently is we started dividing our meetings to two parts, something that's a lot more accessible to folks who live on the eastern part of the world, let's just say, earlier time zones, versus the ones that's a bit late. Say, we really want to make sure that there's a common time that's suited for everyone, but as time zones are difficult, yeah, it can happen. Thank you so much. Do we have the time for it? I just had a very fast question. On the slides, you had three languages. Could you explain that? Oh, yeah, so the first one, the one that's in the larger type phase is English. The second one is Bengali. Third one is Hindi. And the fourth one is Irish. So really wanted to not just pay homage to the mother tongues that I have, but also to the beautiful country that I'm in right now. So yeah, that's the rationale behind those. So you coming in? Yeah, definitely. Cool, thank you so much.


We're glad to know you're still there. Right now, we're taking the next hot topic and that is the Federal Inland Revenue Service to boost tax revenue collection by 57% in 2020-24%. So more than half, more than 50%, the boost in tax revenue collection by the FIRS. We have Mr. Bola-Hon, a public policy analyst who has just joined us to x-ray this. Good morning and welcome to the program, Mr. Olojide. Yeah, thank you and thanks for coming. Okay. FIRS to boost tax revenue collection by 57% in 2020-24. To some of us who may not know the numbers so well, it's a lot. So what do you think about this? What's your take? Well, it is one of those things we have advocated for very long. Typically, when members of the public hear news like this, what comes across to a number of people is that they are going to tax us more. They're going to have to pay more taxable. That is not what this message is saying. This message is talking about collection. So there is already a lot of taxes on the table for which collection efficiency is very poor or that we're not even collecting at all. So it is not additional taxes. It is not an increase in tax rate. It is an improvement in collection efficiency. One of the news item very recently was how one of the tobacco companies in Nigeria was going on to buy 100 million dollars or something like that. So the question you ask yourself is why was that money left on the table? So that is the problem of collection. It has nothing to do with revenue, that with tax rate increase or with expanding tax available taxes or the number of taxes. No, it is about saying the existing taxes at the existing rates collect more of them from the payers. That's essentially what it is. You have always said to improve tax collection, they need to widen the tax net and all that. Some of those solutions that you've been giving us. But now that they're talking about the rate of collection, the improvement in the rate of collection, have you seen anything in that document that suggests that this will be a success story? Well, improving the efficiency of collection relies heavily on the internal restructuring within the institution itself to be able to collect more efficiently. Of course, there is the fair government committee that is working on issues of proliferation of taxes, multiple taxation and fiscal policy. That is a very important part because part of the collection problem is also the fact that there are so many taxes to take away and we streamline it and make it easier for the payer to be able to make the pay. Number two is improving on the ease of collection. How easy is it for the payer who wants to pay to even pay? No, there is also a corruption that is involved in the taxation space, whether it is oil and gas or the non-oil side of it. There is a lot of corruption. Now, to deal with that matter, it's also heavily on internal discipline and the message sent out by the collection agents if I have it. So, make it easier for people to collect, deal with corruption that is involved in that space. Issues of proliferation of taxes streamline the number of taxes, create platform for me to sit in my office, permit my taxes and if I need to engage with tax officials, make it easy to have that to make that happen. It will have a great deal to facilitate collection. Let me give you a very, an example that is easier to relate, though it doesn't relate to the federal taxes. It has to do with payee. So, you have a lot of organization who deducts payee from the staff salary. After they have deducted it, they are not remitting the payee, they are just keeping it in their own books right there. Meanwhile, the staff, the employee has already suffered the deduction. I said the total salary is 100 but at the end of the month, I gave you 80. I said 20 out of the thing is for taxation. For that 20, I held on to it. That is a collection problem. If the collecting agency is not able to lay hands on that 20, and there is a lot of those happening. I can also, I would also like to add that there is a principle that the president has been mentioned, it's very important to say, look, we will tax the fruit, not the seed. That is a very, very important cardinal of taxation. Speed is what you need to be able to produce the fruit. So, if the seed is not right or if the seed is depleted, then you will not be able to produce the fruit or produce the right level of fruit. But if you allow the seed to be, and people are able to sow the seed and produce fruit, then you can go ahead and tax the price. Oh, now that you have produced fruit, which in this case is going to be profit, bring a little bit of this profit as taxation. That is very critical, and like that, the part of this improvement of passive income collection that we are talking about. If people don't make the profit, if you tax their seed, then you're not going to get the right level of taxes. Yeah, when dealing with numbers, detail is very important. In fact, in everything, detail is very important. This committee that you said is fine-tuning some things to come out with a blueprint on how taxation should go. Have they given their report? But if they have not, how did they come about the 57%? Are they just assuming that that's what it's going to be? Because if not, it's going to be a problem. 57%. And you don't have a document, a working document, something to show you how to go about the XYZ of collection. Interestingly, the person who is heading that committee is a professional tax man who has done it. So he knows where all the debt will be. It's not difficult to put together numbers to make an estimate. It's not going to be a perfect estimate. For example, if you want to know how many companies are registered in Nigeria, how many companies file a return?  We have GDP numbers. We have companies that have quoted whose numbers are public information. So essentially what I'm trying to say is that information is available to be able to make a rough estimate. And say, look, from all the companies that we believe should be able to pay money in contact, this is what we expect. But this is what we are getting. By virtue of what we are getting, we know that there is still this food, there is still this gap that is possible if we work at it. So it is possible to actually put together those numbers and arrive at a rough estimate of how much more we can collect. You can even have it in faces. Say, look, maybe the target for this year maybe 57% more. Maybe by next year, the target might rise up to like 80% of what is collectable is what we are now targeting. A lot of inefficiency in the system is creating leakages. Government revenues is leaking into voids that we cannot even begin to talk about. Think about it. If Nigeria is indeed the largest economy enough, how come the entire revenue, including equal-noil revenue, is not up to value added tax revenue. All of that, all of our revenue, put it together, the return revenue of the federal government of Nigeria is not up to that collection. It shows that there is something wrong somewhere. You cannot have this huge economy and things, the kind of revenue you are able to generate from it, is not good enough. And I would like to bring in the issue of taxing the fruit and not the seed. Because see, if the right environments are created for these businesses to thrive, when they are doing well, they are more in their capacity to pay their taxes in hand. If they see what is being done in their environment with their tax funding, then they are also encouraged to be more faithful about their taxation. There are so many organizations that have two, three different accounts. You know, depending on what purpose they want to use their account for, they know the one that is correct, which is their own. They know the one they give to the government for the taxation purpose. Now, we need to be able to narrow all those kind of gaps, which is where all these some of these revenues are happening. Government on its side also must be able to show the right direction. When people hear about how government is spending money and if they are not happy about it, they are asking them, so why should I continue to give this government that is not spending its right? More money. So the discipline, the fiscal, financial decision on the side of government is a critical part of making taxation work for us as a people. So what are these things to be put in place by the government to make sure that this comes about? Because for a company to owe up to a hundred million dollars, it means there are some people who might have been collecting some sort of revenue that do not go into the coffers of the government. So how much discipline can be brought into that sector? What is supposed to be done for there to be that much discipline that will make this money get into the coffers of government? Because it's one thing to say we know where the tax money will be coming from. There's another thing to get this money to the actual place that it should go, the destination it should be. So what do you think the government should put in place in terms of monitoring and all that to make sure that the tax get to where they should get to? Of course the monitoring, like you've said, is very important. Government has been talking about performance management and what is performance manager essentially saying, look, I have said I will do this. Then periodically somebody monitors what is going on. I said I will deliver 20 million in January. So at the end of January, somebody who can say how much indeed have you delivered in actual time? Oh, it is 15, I have delivered. Why were you not able to do 20? What accounted for the gap of five? So we do an analysis and we can realign our strategy to ensure that by February we are able to meet the target. So monitoring is very critical. Beyond issues of where we need to deploy IT, capturing the right data of the payee or the payers rather, the right data with the square issues of we still have several accounts with no BPR system, all those things are still there. Beyond all of that is leadership. Leadership is what send the strong message of what, about what will be acceptable in an institution and what will not be. Once leadership is given the right way, follow the right way, automatically line up. I will give you a very good example. When the late Akun Yuli became the director general of NAFTA, some people did not even know that NAFTA existed before Akun Yuli. Akun Yuli did not, it was not the first DJ. He wasn't founded because they had been leaders in that sector. But when she came, it wasn't as if she brought in some new people from his Anumbra home state and whatever, common property. No, the same people. The only thing that changed was leadership. A leadership that says, this is where we are going. So you either ship in or you align or you ship out as simple as that. And what did we see? Result. Result. So beyond all the other things that we need to do and put in place, monitor, deploy the right IT, the leadership must show the right example and lead people in the right direction. When they do that, people are watching. If leadership is not doing the right thing, they also will align accordingly by not doing the right thing because they are watching the post. That is it. Okay. When you say leadership, you have to define it, leadership of what? Leadership of the nation, leadership within the states, leadership within the space, the FIRS space or what kind of leadership do you are you talking about as we wrap up? At all levels. Starting from the present who is on those desk or box. Start from him. The leadership of FIRS itself. The leadership of the various departments on that FIRS. People who are watching, followers who watch what leaders are doing. And once the leaders are setting the right example, they tend to align. That is why you see a particular governor came into CBA. And all of a sudden, the bank examinations that were done like three months before and everything was okay. The same examiner, the same set of people went back to those same banks and they said everything was not all right again. What changed? Nothing. He's the same book. He's the same bank. He's the same examiner. The only thing that changed in that instance was a governor that says, this is where I'm headed. And everybody lined up and they made it happen. Why leadership is very important. And it's at every level, not just at the FIRS level. People are also watching even beyond FIRS boards and their own immediate process. Okay. Well, this is where we'll draw the curtain for today. I would like to thank you for being a part of our program this morning. Thanks for having me. Okay. We've been talking with Bola Horo Olojiedi, a public policy analyst. And we were talking about the promise of the FIRS to boost tax revenue collection by 57% in 2024. And this is where we draw the curtain on today's broadcast, or breakfast rather, on Plus TV Africa. We'd like to thank you so much for being a part of it. Let's do it again tomorrow. My name is Nyamugul Aghaji.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Abdelai Ddokore has given an interview and given his preferences as to what new medical nobody likes to play in the midfield. He said he prefers to play in a three, which was nice of him really to put that out there, but he said he is okay in a two as well. I think the thing with this is it's just a way in on the debate of this five at the back which he haven't been playing at the moment and I think a lot of Evertonians want to see a 4-3-3 I think and obviously Ddokore has subscribed to that as well doesn't he in that three man midfield because I think what you can do when he's in that three man midfield is break forward into the box, none of our other midfielders tend to do that so hopefully Rafa Benitez will take this in the spirit it was meant and not get a cob on with another one of our French players and hopefully we will see three man midfield restored as quickly as possible and free up Ddokore to break into the box and maybe add some goals from midfield so watch this one it is a hot topic right now on social media Ddokore's interview lots of people weighing in on their opinion on what he said so we'll see how that one goes. Mason Holgate is apparently being tracked by three teams with a view to taking this January two of them are in France, Nice and Monaco and the third is apparently an unnamed Premier League club Holgate 25 now has fallen out of favour at Everton he hasn't really been able to rediscover the form he showed in AntioLotti's face season at Everton and since then he's been in and out the side and I guess a lot of people wouldn't be wouldn't be that disappointed to see him move on in this January maybe for his own good as well but you know we'll see whether this anything is in this whether it's alone or whether it's a permanent but apparently three clubs checking on his availability at the moment. Young Everton goalkeeper Harry Tyra signed a three and a half year extension with Everton he's now contracted to the club until 2025 the 22 20 year old rather has been given an interview to evertonfc.com saying he's delighted to sign the extension and he's going to work hard and try and force his way into the first team reckoning he played is one and only game for the first team and a preseason friendly under Carlo AntioLotti. Everton be pressed in a 2-0 win but that's when he made his debut so short of debut but he has tied down now till 2025. Everton today have again been linked with the move for Alexander Gullivan the monocombing field that is apparently interested in joining Everton as because of his admiration for Rafa Benitez did as well it says in the report today but a fee of 40 million euros has been mentioned which I don't see Everton going near anything like that at the moment a champion at reporting that from France today and finally another link to David Neres the Ajax Brazilian winger has appeared again today he's out of favour at Ajax at the moment mainly being a sub this season but he is a talented player he's been linked with Everton on numerous occasions the latest one is today because obviously it is out there that Everton are interested in bringing another wide player in and Neres is the latest one that they're attracting so let me know what you think on the Neres link that is it for today make sure you give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos including daily live videos why not become a patron the link is in the description see you later