Welcome to the wiki tree challenge. Hi, I'm Mindy Silva. Welcome to the wiki tree challenge highlights reel. Today I have Tricia Andrew from the Kentucky Genealogical Society, as well as Kathy Kaiser. Welcome ladies. Hello. Hi. And I'm going to talk a little bit about wiki tree first for those viewers that don't know who we are. So for those people, our mission is to grow one accurate share tree that connects us all and is accessible to everyone free forever. It's all about collaboration. There's one profile per person. So if you and I share an ancestor, we work on that profile together. It's not that you have your tree and I have my tree. It's all one big tree. And we just passed 34 million profile milestone with almost 11 million of those having DNA connections to it. And I'm really excited this week because we're reaching another milestone with connected profiles. And we are so close to the 30 million mark. It's just really excited. We have like 29,640,000 something. Wow. I was looking at it this morning. Yeah. We need to connect us on. Yeah, we do. We have one coming up this month. So I think I think we're actually going to reach it before the thaw starts though. It's just crazy how fast these profiles add up, you know, with so many people working on it. And so what really makes wiki tree work is its community and a cornerstone of the community is our honor code. So anyone can view the profiles on wiki tree, but to edit anything more than the close family members, you have to sign the honor code. Now this emphasizes sources, giving credit, courtesy, understanding, accessibility, accuracy, and respecting privacy. And privacy is another aspect of wiki tree that makes it special. So even though we're growing a one world tree and we all collaborate, only close members collaborate on those modern family profiles. So as you go back in time, those privacy controls open up. And collaboration on deep ancestors is between cousins or other interested members who are serious about the genealogical research, careful about their sources and willing to see their research validated or invalidated with DNA. So if you aren't a member yet, come and join us. It just takes a minute to register as a guest member and you can delete a guest account at any time. Now the 11th wiki tree challenge of 2023 is over. We partnered with Kentucky Genealogical Society and boy, did we have a lot of fun with this. Of course, this was near and dear to my own heart. This is where my husband's family is from. And I've spent a lot of years researching the just really rich history of Kentucky. So I was excited to see that you guys were participating with us. Now they gave us seven names. We had seven days to find everyone we could within seven degrees. Seven degrees means seven steps in any direction. And on wiki tree, we call that a person CC seven. Our starting people were Jesse Hilton Stewart, who gained 3400 relatives. Alice Spencer Gettis Lloyd gained 20 or 2797 people. William Loftus Sutton MD gained 7,910 people. Josephine Kirby Williamson Henry gained 2124. Margaret Arvin Sasans gained 4,324. Cora Wilson Stewart gained 7,160 relatives. And Alberta O'Dell Jones gained 605 relatives. And here I'm going to show you a few of our top people during the challenge week. Patti LaPlante, who was our most valuable participant or MVP. Judith Fry and Sandy Paddock were our top bounty hunters. And Kathy Nava, who was the team captain for the week. Now, Trisha, do you want to go ahead and tell us a little bit about how you picked those seven people and, you know, tell us a little bit more about the society?  Sure, I'd be glad to. Well, the society started in 1973. And we have now over 1200 members. We're in all four, we're in 49 of the 50 states. We're still looking for a Rhode Island member. And we are in about eight countries. We have a number of programs that we extend out to our members. We have the grant program, which has been really very successful. It's been going on for about four years now, where we award money, have documents or photos, things like that digitized. And that opens up August 1st. And all that's on our website at kygs.org if you want to go over and check it out and see what all is entailed in the grant program. We also have on, we also offer our members, what is it now, Tricia, over 100 videos on researching that has been done by many great presenters across the United States. We also focus like in March on the Irish and Scotch Irish. And then we focus in August on Kentucky. And so we have a great resource there. We have a lot of digital documents available for our members. And this is all for just $20 a year. It's a great price for what you get. And we started up about a year ago, Front Porch Talks, where we meet once a month on different subjects. There's small groups and they meet online and discuss problems or new research techniques, things like that. And of course we also have a monthly Bluegrass Routes that is digital that comes out. We published our first book in a long time in May. And that's to celebrate our 50th anniversary this year. The book was Essential Guides to Kentucky Family Research. And then just now, brand new, last week we published the Kentucky and its Kin. So those are available on Amazon.com. And both of them must have if you're researching in Kentucky. So that's just a few things that we have going on at the organization. And we just, if you've got any roots at all in Kentucky, we think that you should come in and join us. We have a great time and we offer many things that'll help benefit your research. Some people just, they don't even have family in Kentucky. They just like our society because we're so involved. So that's kind of fun. And we are, if you're in Rhode Island interested in joining us, we'll give you a free membership. Just contact us. But the way we decided on our members, on the people we chose, Mindy, was we like to be very collaborative just like a wiki tree. And so we just did a little contest and we had people nominate people who they thought would be good for us, who would be notable. And we had over a hundred people selected and just nominated. So I palled through those and got it down to about 50 people. And then we sent that out as a survey and we let the members choose again who they thought would be the most interesting to do. And that's how we got our list. Yeah, that's great. You know, once again, I mean, there's just so many interesting people in Kentucky's history. It's just really hard I imagine pig just those seven, which makes it nice for us because we don't have to narrow it down. Just let you supply them. Really great stuff. Well, we have a good list. Returning to the challenge. It does take an entire year. You aren't the first society to say that. I know I'm still trying to figure out how I want the challenge to go next year. But definitely we will be having it again. It's just too much fun not to. So here we have, you know, it takes an entire team to collaborate and come out with these outstanding results. And we had more than 128 people participate over the week. And yeah, just an incredible show of collaboration. You know, so sometimes we'll get 150 people that sign up, but people get busy and things come up, you know, and we'll wind up with maybe 50 people participating. But this was more than 128. So 128 that showed up on our score sheet are tracking for those wonderful reports we get from a lash. Yeah, but that means there were more than that because there are things that people do during the challenge week. Sometimes that don't get them points, but it does help improve the tree. And so, you know, I always say more than. Yeah, and it was great having the discord because I know I, I got like two, I got someone's grandfather and I couldn't get any further. And I'm like, ah, someone helps, someone helps. Oh, I tell you what, you get hooked on it really quick. And you know, I find when I go to do my own research, I'll hit a point like that. And I'm like, okay, I want to go to my, you know, my focus group here, where's my challenge room? I want four people to look at this marriage record and tell me what's wrong with it, you know, or what they think. It's just, it's too much fun. Now, you know, because we look at all these connections on WikiTree, we took a look at to begin with all of our starting ancestors to, and we did find a few blood relations, but we also found many, many connections. So these are just some of the connections we found. Now, Jesse Stewart is 19 generations from Alice Spencer Gettysloid, being her seventh cousin, three times removed. He's also 10 degrees from Cora Wilson Stewart and 14 degrees from William Loftus Sutton. Margaret Arvin is related by blood to many of our genealogists. This was interesting from the first year of the WikiTree challenge, you know, and it's just so easy to pull these things up on WikiTree and see who they're related to. So it was fun to see that so many people were, so many of our genealogists were related to Margaret. Now, she's also 27 generations from Alice Spencer Gettysloid, being her 12th cousin once removed. She's 12 degrees from William Sutton, 14 degrees from Cora Wilson Stewart, and 15 degrees from Josephine Kirby Williams and Henry. And then for Alberta, we had she's 21 degrees from Jesse Stewart, 21 degrees from Cora Wilson Stewart, and 25 degrees from William Sutton. So, you know, just a good reminder that we're all connected somehow.  You pretty much went in a direct line because that's all you could fit on the page. And now you just click a couple of links and it tells you who all you're related to. You know, am I related to the queen? How many steps does it take me to get to Abraham Lincoln? And it's just all right there. And then we do have a lot of fun using this connection finder during the week to see who we're the closest to. So this is your captain's connection to Alice Gettis Lloyd. They're actually blood relations being seventh cousins three times removed. And we do this a lot, like we follow it throughout the week. If you're in discord at all and doing the chat, you know, and we look at those distances. So, you know, we'll know that we were maybe 26 steps from Margaret at the start of the week. Well, of course, once you start adding these people in the connections get better and more accurate. And then all of a sudden, you know, you're only 18 steps from her. And so we like to follow those. Yeah, I was surprised that I knew Jesse Stewart because he was from Eastern Kentucky, I would be related to him. But it turns out I'm more closely connected to him through a marriage than through our shared grandmothers. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's always fun to see. And then, you know, here we never know where we're going to find a connection at when we start the week out. And we actually found out that Jesse Hilton Stewart, who seemed to be connected to everybody also, is a blood relative of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Ali, so better known as Muhammad Ali. He's actually his sixth cousin. Oh, wow. Yeah. Very cool. I was not expecting that one. Reverend Isaac Aira was the manager and founder of the Christian Standard in Cleveland, Ohio, which was the first of its denomination in the United States. And he was a close friend and eventually the funeral orator of US President James A. Garfield in 1881. Isaac is only four degrees from Alice Gettisloy. These are great for the descendants, you know, and I hope for all the things that I get to mention here today, there's like, you know, 100 more that I don't, I'm not going to be able to fit in. But I really hope all of the descendants of these people take the time to go out and look through the branches, because there's just so many fascinating people in there, you know, and we try really hard to bring these people back to life and find something unique and interesting and let you kind of know what their life was about. So hopefully, people are looking through the branches to see what we have. Now we'll take a look at some other interesting finds and connections starting with Jesse Hilton Stewart. He was the author of more than 55 books and 500 short stories, first gaining recognition for Man with a Bull Tongue Cloud. He won an Academy of Arts and Sciences Award in 1941 for Minna Mountains. His best known work, the 1943 novel Taps for Private Tussie, won the Thomas Jefferson Award. Stewart was appointed the Commonwealth's Poet Laureate in 1954. He later acted as a literary ambassador outside of Kentucky, spending the 1960s lecturing around the globe for the US State Department. So definitely a good one that was nominated during your big selection. Now did he have chat GPT to help him or did he just had to do it by himself? I don't know. I know. Can you imagine now if he had chat GPD, he'd be like he'd be at 1500 articles instead of 500. Here we have in his branches Hazel Sprouse Adkins. Now Robert Bob Stewart's sister-in-law was Hazel Adkins. She married one of the three Dottermont brothers, Ray, who was wanted after a failed deadly train robbery attempt in Southern Oregon in October 1923. So two years later they married. Ray used an assumed name on the marriage record and fathered two children with her before somebody figured out his whole facade and he was apprehended finally four years after the robbery. Yeah, can you imagine finding something like that out a few years after you married? That's just crazy. Well, the bad thing is at that time, you know, women didn't have as many choices. So your husband was a was, you know, was a big deal if he couldn't hang around. Did they stay married? No, should they wound up splitting up. He was arrested and she went to live with her parents and raised the children there and she did eventually remarry. Oh boy. The skeletons that fall out of the closet when you research, right? That's a fun one. And Bob is three generations from Jesse being his uncle. So Hazel is only four degrees from Jesse one step further. Oh boy. Archelist Kraft was also in his branches. He was in the American Revolutionary War as a private in North Carolina. He was a centenarian and he died at the age of 104. Now, according to an article from the Pine Mountain DAR chapter, Archelist split 100 fence rails on his 100th birthday. Can you imagine? Now, Mindy, this is my grandfather. So he also started that Indian Bottom Church. He was a very religious man and was very instrumental in getting that church started. I think it was even they sometimes met in his house, but that's just family lore. So I don't know if that's true or not. Oh, wow. Somebody does something to aspire for though, right?  Not that I want to go split 100 fence rails, but I want to be able to split 100 fence rails. Now, he was the fourth great grandfather of Jesse Stewart. And coincidentally, Archelist is my sixth cousin seven times removed. So you and I are connected in Mindy. I can't believe you're not connected to Archelist. I'm not familiar with his name, but you know, it could be just a branch that I haven't discovered yet. Right, because he was in Fulwood County or Lettuce County. So there's there's no way that the Hall family isn't somehow hooked in there. Yeah. Just a little more research on you'll find it. I hope so. Now, Alice Spencer, get us Lloyd, a.k.a. cake was our second starting person in 1902. Alice was the publisher and editor of the Cambridge Press in Massachusetts, which was the first publication in America that had an all female staff. Eastern Kentucky was sorely lacking in educational opportunities when Alice arrived in 1916 in Ivest. And, you know, she saw the need for a regional uplift and felt through education that Appalachian people could have a brighter future. She was the co-founder with James Buchanan of Cane Jr. College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. The school was to become a four year college and was renamed in her honor as Alice Lloyd College. So, you know, definitely a trailblazer and out there, you know, trying to improve our state through education. And it was really hard to pick for Alice. She had, she was one of those that just had so many interesting people in her branches, you know, and sometimes we don't find as much for the ancestors and the peripheral relatives, but other times they just find all kinds of discoveries for me. And so then it's kind of hard. But one of the people that was found out in her branches was William Herbert Murphy. Now, he was the co-founder of Cadillac and Lincoln automobile companies. Murphy was the lead financial backer of Henry Ford's first gasoline powered vehicle, a delivery wagon after Ford had taken Murphy on a three hour drive in a prototype. Murphy would be the main, yeah.  I mean, who were all the people around him that supported him and gave him ideas and gave him money and, you know, all these different things. There's just so many people that went into the, you know, these, these discoveries and these, these new companies and you don't really hear about the rest of them. And, you know, poor Mr. Murphy here isn't as widely known as Ford. Is that supposed to be a Cadillac or is that a Cadillac in the, in the picture? That's supposed to be one of the wagons, the original delivery wagons that had been fashioned to be, yeah, before they came up with the regular automobiles, they had these, these delivery wagons. And I guess it didn't really, they didn't really do very well. So I'm not sure, you know, what it was, if it was something with a designer and what it was, you know, that didn't do really well, but they still believe both of them in the future of the gasoline automobile. And of course we know what happened to that, looking at the roads today. They were highly successful, even if that original delivery wagon wasn't, wasn't as great. But, you know, Ford eventually gave up the right to run the company, but he allowed them to retain his name. And once he was gone, Murphy went ahead and rebranded it to the Cadillac Automobile Company, which was established in 1902 and named after the French explorer, Antoine Lemaite de La Molse, or the Cadillac, who is the man that founded Detroit in 1701. So yeah, yeah, now we know the true story of where Cadillac came from. Ford, we love you, but it wasn't all you, honey. And William here is 18 generations from Alice Lloyd, being her eight cousin. So fun.  That's nice. Yeah. And you know, I mean, that is kind of our focus this year, we're doing 2023 is our year of community connection. So not only are we connecting with genealogical societies such as yourself, you know, but we're really supporting people in learning how to make their own connections on their tree and increase their family. And you know, in modern day though, I mean, sometimes you see so often that people just work on those direct lines.  You have cousins that you grew up with, aunts and uncles that had something to do with your life. So really all of these peripheral people make up your family unit and kind of how you view the world and what your world, your life experiences are.   I've been looking this whole time for something. I love probate files. So, you know, we try and provide these experiences that teach people to, you know, improve their own genealogy skills so they can get through those difficult brick walls. Now, here we have an educator in a different way. We have Dr. John Leopold Will and he, along with his wife, Jerry Will were superb clinicians who spent their adult, adult lives helping heal emotionally troubled children. Their goal was to strengthen their psychological well-being. He was a published author on the subject. And in their memory, the John Leopold Will and Geraldine Rickard Will Memorial Charitable Foundation was created in 1999. Now, the tasks of emotional development, the TED test, everybody hears about today, those were created by Jerry in 1971 and they're still widely used in the schools for the assessment of children 60 years later. You know, so John and Alice were both committed, obviously, to the education and wellness of their communities and what wonderful ties to find out in those branches. And John is six degrees from Alice Spencer Gettis Lloyd. I also want to give a quick nod to Edith Marion Kingsley, another of our centenarians. Now, she was also six degrees from Alice Lloyd and lived to be 101. Very nice. But not splitting any friends. No, no. And she didn't go bake 100 cakes either. So a kudos to her for toughening it out in the region at eight. Third starting person we had, of course, was William Loftus Sutton M.D. and born following the aftermath of the American Revolution. So in a very interesting time in our United States history, William was described by his great-granddaughter as thus, Dr. Sutton was a large man of medium height. He had dark hair and blue eyes, a well-shaped nose, and on the whole, a rather commanding appearance. He was genial in disposition and enjoyed the company of his friends and neighbors when he had time for social activities. William was called an unsung hero to the Kentucky genealogical community and was the author of Kentucky's Vital Statistics Law. So we love this man because that was one of the greatest things that happened for us in Kentucky. He is our hero. Otherwise, you're relying on trying to track down a church record and that's knowing what church they were in.  You had no idea unless you had another one tracking them down. Here we have Charles Lensford Neville Buck, who was an author and had several of his stories adapted in place for the theater and also his silent movies. Now, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Hugh Lensford. He grew up in Kentucky except for four years spent in South America with his father, who was serving President Grover Cleveland in Paris. Wow. Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, one of the other really fun things about, you know, wiki trees. I mean, I always tell people one of my favorite things, above and beyond the community, because that's my absolute favorite, you know, the collaboration and the community spirit, is I love this white space of the biographies.  But, you know, it also gives you a place to put your research notes and your sources and, you know, you don't have a separate research log. And then just as a fun thing, we have these little, what we call stickers. So like where you see, you know, that he's an Appalachian notable, that one just says he is notable. That's called a sticker. We can put those on there so people are aware as soon as they go into it. And then as you see these little snippets of the profile, like here on the left, where you see the bees, that's where we can put a wallpaper. So, you know, you can pick a feather design or books or just a pattern or whatever. If you want to, you know, I mean, you could leave it the gray that it is, or you can pick a really cool background and just put something to kind of liven up those and catch somebody's eye when they get in. It just makes it fun, I think. I'm a big fan of stickers. Oh, yeah, I am too. I like to end the categories. I tend to maybe over-categorize. There's no such thing. There's no such thing. And it's great, you know what I mean? You can go in and say, oh, I want to know, you know, how many people were in the Georgetown cemetery and go into that category. And you can go, oh, there was all these, you know, there were five different losses in there. Wow, I didn't realize there was that many, you know. And then not only that, but since we've improved to this connection theme and we've really gone with it, now you can go to that category, click on the button that says my connections, and it'll tell you how many of those people you're related to. Oh, I know that.  It's awesome. I'm like, wow, I didn't know I had that many cousins there, okay. That's awesome. And they're all dead. I don't want to buy Christmas gifts for them. Yeah. Yep, it doesn't increase my Christmas list at all. Now, Charles is three generations from William Sutton being his first great-grandson. Next, excuse me, we have Edmund Kirby Smith. And he was the last surviving general from the Civil War, dying in 1893. He fought on the Confederate side. I know not popular, but it is part of our history. He was also a professor of mathematics after the war. And you know, after the Union won the Civil War, he retreated to Mexico and then to Cuba to escape charges of treason. And yeah, later, for whatever reason, was given amnesty by the United States, but obviously very, very unpopular after the end of the Civil War. Wow. Well, when I was studying Florida, because I live here, they, you know, once they became a state, once it became part of the CSA, you were told to go fight. It wasn't like you're like, oh, I'm just down with this whole CSA. It's like, you know, here's your gun. Get on. Get on. Get out there. Yeah. Yeah.  And, you know, right. And we'll be covering that at the end. Like I always do a little military section as, you know, just kind of a salute to anybody that had to go out and serve. But the Civil War is such a, it was not a thing like, oh, I support this war.  I mean, here was a lot of infighting and, you know, very political war. And not only that, a lot of the soldiers really didn't have a choice.  It wasn't really a good outcome for anyone. Well, obviously there was some good outcomes. But yeah, but it unfortunate that it needed to occur, you know, that the country couldn't straighten itself out without coming to that. And, you know, one of the other things I know I saw even in my own branches or people that bought it on both sides within a family and yeah, you know, I just can't even imagine.  You're like, oh, I hope I don't run into my brother because he's fighting on the other side and, you know, we're in the same area. Well, it's especially true in Kentucky, these are border states. So it was, you know, easier to happen. So just traumatic. Now Edmund is six degrees from William Sutton. I really wanted a picture of William because he was the only one of the seven starting that we did not have an actual photograph for, but I was not able to manage that before we could have used anyone. We wouldn't have known. Because of another sitting Harvey, this is Edmund. Now here we have Harvey Samuel Firestone and Ida Bell Smith Firestone. So I know we recognize that name. And besides being famous for the Firestone tires, they had a radio and television program called The Voice of Firestone, which focused on classical music. And I never knew that. Well, I always think of classical music when I think of tires. Yeah, me too. I mean, where else would you go? Now their grandson married Shirley Tender Firestone, who was the second great-grandnie of William Sutton. There we go. Yep. Oh, Bill's family got around. Next we have Josephine Kirby Williamson Henry. She was born in 1843 in the northeast part of Kentucky. Josephine was an American Progressive Era women's rights leader. She was a suffragist, a social reformer, and a writer. She was instrumental in the passage of the 1894 Married Women's Property Act, you know, which said in an act approved 1894, married women in Kentucky obtained the right to hold real and personal property in their own name after they were married. They could acquire, purchase, and sell property as if they were unmarried and make contracts and sue or be sued. You know, and of course this we know, especially, you know, as women that this was impactful and genealogist, because women's names didn't often make it on the land records at all when they were married, let alone, you know, be able to be on a piece of property all by themselves and own it. Well, there's so many stories like I think it was Cassius Clay's, when he died, his property passed to his brother who was no good, and he squandered his brother's fortune leaving his widow and children just penniless.  It should have been her home. I mean, she lost everything because of this scandal and the laws. Yeah, yeah, I'm so unfortunate. But, you know, I know just even looking back though sometimes and overall women just of course did not have the rights that they have today, you know, so when you're trying to trace your genealogy, you can find all kinds of things on your great-grandfather, you know, but the most you might know about his wife is that she's Hannah. Yeah, exactly. I talk to, I talk to Kathy about it all the time. I'm like, I've got a grandma's soup. That's all I know. Yeah, that's all I know. Sorry. I don't know. You know, and I'm a member of the Daughters of American Revolution, and, you know, that's one of the hard things we have. I handle lineage research is, you know, trying to convince people that they have to find something just a little bit more that proves who that wife was, you know, and it's not that I don't feel for them now because I know myself, you go back in those records and they're just not on the deeds. They're not in the early census records. You know, when they, when they made any kind of big transactions, the women were most likely not married, and even in the birth registers for their children, you know, it would say, okay, Henry so-and-so, and his wife Hannah, and that's it. You get no maiden name, no nothing. Well, I know Kathy recently helped a DAR person. She popped over to the KDLA.  Yeah, the idea. KDLA hit over there all the time. It's a great place. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I love anything to do with probate, you know, and then when I find those ones that just say, I leave everything to my wife and all of my children, then I want to cry. They don't lose the children, they just say, and all of my children to be split equally. Yeah, like it would be so hard just to name them out, dude. I know. Did it take you that long to name your five children, really? Did you forget their names, maybe? Well, some of those family have like 17, so probably they did forget some of them. Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah, I hear that, definitely. I have a lot of large families back in my branches, some very large ones. As a matter of fact, if I'm researching on my dad's side, and sometimes on my mom's side, and I only find eight kids, my husband will go, okay, who died? Does the wife die? Do you need to find the second wife? They only have eight children, and I'm like, I know I'm still looking. I'll find the other seven or somewhere. I have a number of lines that they want to have multiple wives and children from each wife. One passed away, and of course he had to marry again to take care of those children, and then he had more children and more children, and so sometimes it's difficult to figure out which wife belongs to which child. Uh-oh, Euclid Avenue. Yeah, well we're on Euclid Williamson. Now he was the owner of a steamboat, the Paul Jones, and on the 3rd of February, 1848, the Paul Jones collided with the steamer Major Barber. There were several deaths reported. In 1851, the owners of the steamboat Major Barber brought a suit of trespass against Euclid Williamson and the owners of the Paul Jones before the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, and you know in one article it was stated that they put the blame on the captain and the pilot of the Paul Jones, so the error was supposedly in that crew, and you read the article and it's just kind of heart wrenching, and it says, you know, if there's any way to reach the guilty ones, we hope they may be punished as they deserve, and you know accidents happen though, I mean. Well they were always so harsh at that time, I mean.  They would have been good tweeters. Definitely, and Euclid was Josephine Kirby Williamson's father actually, so. No, okay. I don't usually do them that close, but that story was interesting, you know, and just interesting to read the articles and stuff that you find, and yeah, like you said, you know, they were very creatively written back in those times. Now here we have General Scott Brown Jr., who was the Adjutant General of Kentucky from 1849 to 1861. He served under Governor Brian McGuffin. Scott was born and died in Franklin County, Kentucky, and laid to rest in the Franklin Cemetery, and you know, I couldn't find a copyright free image of Scott, but he reminds me a lot of Abraham Lincoln. He has a long face and the hair and the beard, and I was like, is that Abe? Okay, that's not Abe. Maybe someone just used my trick and said, oh yeah, this is Scott. Very true, very true. And Scott Brown is only three degrees from Josephine, so another, you know, fairly close connection, which is fun to find, and only changes once by marriage. So when you see those connection paths like that, where it goes from green to yellow, that's where it swaps over. So it's a blood, blood, blood, you know, relationship, and then by marriage. Okay. Well, I think Josephine's hair there, it's really, it's really smart looking. It's awesome. Yeah. Fifth, we had Margaret Willie Mary, Arvin Cissons, her mother Betty joined the American Red Cross in 1917. Now, Mary was stationed at the Harvard unit, Base Hospital number five, a hospital staffed by physicians and nurses from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Mary was living in Orlando, and later moved to Kentucky. She was a graduate nurse and was said to have held an enviable record in Red Cross overseas service. She married a World War I veteran, William Tiller, and then after he died, of course, she married Robert Cissons, where she got the current, her final surname from, who was also a veteran. And Mary is Kentucky's most highly decorated female veteran of World War I, having served in France at a British Army hospital. So, you know, really did some incredible things. And I love to see these, these females that were out there making history. Yeah. She looks like a pleasant person. She reminds me a lot of my maternal grandmother who was also a nurse. Now, this was just kind of cool. Kenshin Davis Little, if you've never heard of him, he was actually born in 1830 in Georgia. He married Elizabeth Martin in 1864, who came from a family of noted Georgia educators. Kenshin was a county commissioner for many years and said to be held in high esteem. He owned a plantation on the Okeney River in Putnam County, Georgia. A bird shaped mound was present on his plantation created by Native Americans. And it was present on a stony ridge built from white quartz rock, you know, that really be cool to be hovering over or flying over where you could really see the true shape of it. They go into extensive details about the shape of the wing and what the distance is and what it all means. The bird's 102 feet long from head to tail. He kept this lamb protected. He's never cleared it and kept, you know, something around it circular so that no harm would come to it. And when Kenshin died, he was called one of Putnam's oldest and most highly esteemed citizens. He left behind his wife Elizabeth, four sons, two daughters, and a large number of grandchildren.  But I think I'll just leave this little patch over there because it has a bird on it. Well, he probably is like everyone else. He's like, let's really curious. And Kenshin is five degrees from Margaret. Now, here's Granville Martin Sems. The second is I learned something for every one of these challenges. I learned some. He's the original founder of 1-800-FLOWERS. Now, he had the idea while in the shower, he claims. He was friends with both a florist and an executive with a telecommunications company and he thought, wow, why not just bring those two things together? So, you know, he looked into it and 1-800-FLOWERS number was already taken. So he flew to Wisconsin to purchase that number from the person that currently owned it. And, you know, the business eventually floundered and the assets were bought by the current owner who, of course, appears prominently in the commercials, Jim McCann. Now, both Sems and McCann claim to be the founder, but Sems is the one that actually started the company up and, you know, had the original idea. So, Jim, you didn't go beg for the number. I don't really think it's yours. And pay attention to those ideas that you guys have in the shower. I mean, you're best thinking there. And Granville is six degrees from Mary. Now, sixth, we had Cora Wilson Stewart. She achieved her teaching credentials at Morehead Normal School, which later became Morehead State University and the University of Kentucky. She began teaching in 1895 at the age of 20. She, of course, paved the way for adult education by opening her first mainline school in 1911 in Rone County. The idea was that the adults could attend school in the evenings where the children attended during the day. So, ideally, the school only operated on moonlit nights so that the attendees could get there and back safely, hence the name, and the program was later expanded across the state and the nation. And, you know, it was just really cool to read about how many people went in and volunteer their time in support of this program and, you know, help educate these people that were looking to improve their lives. Yeah. I mean, education makes such a difference. And Kentucky's got a, you know, a long reputation, if not of illiteracy, that it's just good to see someone like her. Uh-huh. We need those role models. That's right. Yeah, here we go. Now, you know, Cora had so many interesting people in her branches and, once again, always difficult to pick who to highlight. And, you know, though she represented what was good about Kentucky communities, I did choose a few that are a reminder of the more turbulent side of Kentucky history. And the first of those being Leslie Obadiah-Faltz, born in 1845 in Carter County, Kentucky. Now, he married Winnie Davis in Grayson, Kentucky at the age of 24. She was a mere 15. And apparently there was a feud between the Stamper and the Faltz families. So Leslie was shot while pursuing a wanted man with a group of other family members and died at the age of 32, leaving behind a wife and, you know, three young children. And of course this, yeah, this isn't a sad but true part of it, US history anywhere, you know, but I think it's more pronounced in some areas in our state when you look at how many of the communities were so small or isolated or bold, you know, and that they're so closely knit that any kind of these disputes popped up and everybody knew about it.  You know, it was, I mean, it was, everything was common knowledge.  So you do read about them a lot.  And, you know, we know that that's true. Oh, but far not the only ones. That was how they said everything. It's just, I mean, Bloody Britt, they got its name for a reason. Yeah. You know, but more often, I mean, if you look at the overall history, more often you find that families, there are just so many families that pitched in when somebody was in need. And, you know, neighbors that were really more like family than just friends. And so while these things were publicized and we know that we have this dark side of our history that we can't really hide because it's there. It's the truth. You know, we really did have a lot of good people that have come out of the state also. And here we see the path where Leslie is six degrees from Cora. Let me go. Next we have James Claiborne Jones. Now, he was on the other side of these views. He was born on Arnold Fork, so a branch of Beaver Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky. He served in the Harlem Battalion during the United States Civil War. They called him Old Claib Jones and a famous gunfighter in the Old West, his occupation, a lawman. According to Knot County history, Claib and his men turned the jail into a fort during the feuds of Kentucky. And that's pretty bad saying, you know, that there's enough of the feuds that they had to take the strategy, right?  Another big feud, of course, was the Wright family, where William Wright had murdered Linville Higgins in Knot County. And this feud lasted for several years. And they say approximately 150 men were killed by the time that feud was ended, 150. Sheer craziness. And James is seven degrees from Cora Stewart. You know, so yeah, when you look at the movies and depictions of the Wild Wild West, part of that was also Southern, because if you look at some of the Kentucky locations, that was us. Well, you wonder how this influenced Cora, like did she start thinking about these people just, you know, if they had more education or if they had more opportunities or, like my mom always says, if they just had, you know, if they had a mortgage, they wouldn't be getting in so much trouble, they'd have to have a job. Right. I mean, she had to have been somebody that could look at the bigger picture, you know, and say maybe if we can educate the state, you know, then people can move on to do better things. Because yeah, it's when there are no opportunities and you're looking around at life and there's no way to improve things, you know, you find that those are the ones that are getting into trouble. And you know, the ones that are like, oh, wow, I can do these great things with my life just aren't. So I mean, she just did so much, so much for the state. And a smart dresser. Yes. Very much so. And then on the lighter side of things, we have Alfred Charles Danna, and this was fun. He was a Kentucky Appalachian who helped make bacon and ham more flavor. Right. Right. In the packaging business. Now he first worked in the steel mill, so that's kind of a big jump. And they even said that when they talked about them later. He was a native Kentucky and that also lived in Virginia and South Carolina for a while. He says he got into the packing business through the back door. So see an opportunity opened up and he just slipped on in there. Now he wound up actually moving to Texas, where he worked at the Gooch packaging plant. And they say his methods reduced the curing time making bacon tastier and that the country style ham and sausage he introduced were reminders of the old South. So, you know, I couldn't find a reference to cornbread anywhere during the presentation. But surely the country style ham is a Southern treat if not a staple in some homes. So yeah. Gotta have that country style ham. But who knew that, you know, the person that made bacon better came from Kentucky. That's awesome. Now you can remember that any time you're serving bacon up in the future, you guys should be thankful for Kentucky. That's right. Or your bacon wouldn't taste as good as it does right now. And Alfred is seven degrees from Cora Stewart. And then our final person was Alberta Odell Jones. Alberta was an attorney and a civil rights icon. She was one of the first African American women to pass the Kentucky bar. And the first woman appointed to a city prosecutor position in Jefferson County. She also helped educate and register black voters, integrate the University of Louisville. And she negotiated a contract for boxer Cassius Clay, of course, Muhammad Ali popped up again, which was fun because we found that connection earlier. And it was before I even realized that, you know, we were going to be talking about him in relation to Alberta. And that he was her neighbor.  Sure, I'll do that contract for you. She was murdered, unfortunately, in 1965. And I know as of 2017, her murder still had not yet been solved. So sad ending on that one, but, you know, did a lot of powerful things during her time. I don't know if you've ever read anything about Muhammad Ali, but I've read a lot of interviews with him. And he was so charming and so funny when he, when he spoke, just, and you can see that with his, you know, fly like a butterfly, sing like a bee, but he really was something. Yeah, he was very personable, I think. And then not only was Alberta notable, but she was surrounded by many notables in her branches. So here we have Grace Morris Allen Jones. She was an African American educator, a school founder, a fundraiser, postmaster, club woman, reformer, and a writer. Not an overachiever at all. She just did everything. She was superwoman. And as well as founding her own vocational training school in Burlington, Iowa, she was instrumental in the success of the Piney Woods Country Life School, which she ran with her husband Lawrence in Mississippi. Her grandmother was abolitionist Charlotte Gordon Piles. And Grace later wrote about her in the Plympsest in an article titled, The Desire for Freedom. Among Grace's many accomplishments was establishing an integrated kindergarten in Burlington, and the Grace M. Allen industrial school for African American youth. So, you know, here we have another one that's interested in improving the community and hopefully opening up opportunities for, you know, the young to keep them out of trouble. So they aren't huge. Really, really amazing. I guess they weren't interested in improving the community because there's never anything written about them. Like they must have just went to church and took care of their farm and that was all they did. I have some of those that just live completely off the grid. And, you know, and I talk to people on withy tree and they're like, oh, I'm still waiting through the 37 letters that my grandmother wrote to my great aunt.  I wish my great-grandfather could have was literate. Right. Right. I want to go back and say write this stuff down and name all the kids because I know you had nine, but I can only name six of them. And spell their name correctly too. Don't use nicknames. Write a diary. I want to know what your house was like, what you grew on the farm. I want it all. I need Facebook for 1850 is what I need people. Very definitely. I know everything's out there on social media now.  They can FaceTime you. One of my grandchildren learned at like age three how to call grandma and, you know, everything's on Facebook and Twitter and wherever.  Now you don't even do that. You're like, well, you follow me on Facebook, right? They're all there. Yeah. You had to flip over to Ola Mills and in your best outfit and hope you didn't miss it out. Right. And Grace Jones is six degrees from Alberta. Next we have Helen Jones Woods. She was the adopted daughter of Lawrence Jones and Grace Morris. She spent a brief time in the orphanage for white children in Meridian, Mississippi before being adopted by Dr. Lawrence and Grace Jones. And Helen was a jazz and swing trombone player. She was a founding member of the first integrated all women swing orchestra. Very cool. We had a lot of really strong women in this, in these branches. And, you know, she, the orchestra, the international sweethearts of rhythm did a United States service, so a USO tour for the troops and performed at very prestigious venues ranging from the Apollo Theater in Harlem to Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. She shared the stage with or back acts such as Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, you know, Louis Armstrong and Count Bessie were fans. So I mean, here's all these big names that she was associated with or knew or met. And she was inducted into the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame in 2007. So, you know, I mean, once again, like I said, there's just so many of these people out in these branches.  And it's just so much fun, these challenges are. And Helen was six degrees from Alberta. And then here's what I was talking about, you know, with our veterans, they all gave their all to support and protect our country. But, you know, it was hard. It's hard to look back at wars like the Civil War. And we still want to acknowledge the fact that these men did go out and perform their duty, whether it was voluntary or not, and, you know, tried to protect freedoms or, you know, support whoever it is they were supposed to be supporting and protect their families mostly probably more than anything. But we have James Little, who served in the 49th Volunteer Georgia Infantry. He was wounded in June of 1862 and unfortunately died the following month. Algaron Forrest Little served as a Sergeant in the 12th Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Allegheny Mountain in 1861 and he died 12 days later. Thomas McBride served in Company K on the Union side of the 100 Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry. So he went in a private, came out a Sergeant. And as the captain of Company B of the 39th Regiment of the Colored Infantry, William Asif Judd was a private who served in the 53rd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. Joseph Howell served in the 26th Regiment Tennessee Infantry, went in as the 2nd Lieutenant, came out as an acting quartermaster. Francis Pennington was a private in the 10th Regiment of Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate side. And Ruth Huntington, 9th Regiment of Illinois Cavalry Union. Erastus Buck Cake, that's a name, that's a mouthful. 142nd Regiment Ohio Cavalry Union. William Smith Arrett was a private in the 65th Ohio Regiment Union side. We had James Arrett, 21st Michigan Infantry, Company D, and then Alvin Buck, 17th Virginia Infantry, Company B Confederate. And anybody that's following this is welcome to go look. When you see our post and you'll see the highlights post in our G2G, which is our genealogist to genealogist forum. And it links off to our resources page. And what that is is kind of our catch all page for everything. We really rely on it during the week. And it has our quick links off to the starting people, but it also has resources for the location that you're researching. And we put our discoveries there, and we put the military there, and you'll see the other ones that are veterans from the various wars that people come across. Locations we research, there's a little of everything on there, but it's not just the Civil War that we focused on. People were really good about notating those military profiles as they found them. And here we were talking about this earlier on Wikitree. We're all cousins by blood or marriage. And right now there's 29, and it's actually more than I looked this morning. At the time I did this, there were 29,934,319 cousins on Wikitree alive or not. And so very, very exciting. We're going to hit the 30 million mark of people that are connected before we even get to the connectathon. And then we'll just bump that number up even more because people do crazy big numbers during the connectathon. Wow. Well, it's so exciting, Rudy. I mean, I love the way Wikitree, like we, KYGS does a good job of like educating people and connecting them, but you guys really kind of put the rubber to the road. And that's, that's why this was a good partnership for us. And just a very exciting and interesting to see, you know, Kentuckians, how they've made an impact in the world. Yeah, definitely. I agree. And, you know, here our research focus began in Kentucky, but by the end of the week, we had researched in the following locations, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, and of course the United States. And, you know, this is one of the fun parts for me is I love seeing where we wind up tracing those family lines. And, you know, it'll start in some little community or some state in the United States. And, you know, we'll find people in Japan and Australia. And I mean, just never know where people are going to wind up at. So for anybody watching, if you have questions about the presentation or Wikitree, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, or wikitree.com. Don't forget to like the video and subscribe to our channel. And then while the image credits play, I want to take a minute to thank for one thing, all of the incredible Wikitreers that helped with this research during the week. Once again, we had more than 128 people that took time out of their lives to volunteer and do this and take on this challenge and improve the presence of these Kentucky ancestors. They found an amazing amount of discoveries and we're just such a fun group to work with. You know, I want to congratulate and thank Kathy Nava for leading such a successful week as a captain. We broke records for all of our numbers for the challenge for 2023 so far and so for people created and, you know, points that everybody got. It was definitely a record-breaking week.   My pleasure. So how did we do? Did we meet your expectations for the challenge or did you have any? Well, we know it would be fun. Like I told you earlier, a lot of people in the society who had been kind of stale Wikitreers, I got turned on the Wikitree again and they found out some of the different parts of Wikitree that maybe have developed over time and got them back interested in taking care of their own trees. Did you think that was true, Kathy? Oh, I agree. Me being a newbie, you know, I had never done Wikitree and so I'm excited to learn more and many of you've even extended things here on this presentation that I didn't know about and I'm sitting over here making notes so that I'll think, oh, I've got to try that. I've got to try that. And another thing is when I'm doing research for friends or family, I use some of the other sites. I've never used Wikitree in and the last few weeks, that's the one I've been using is Wikitree because I like that the resource and the sources are there. So, you know, I just, I think it was wonderful and I really appreciate all that you and your team did for us in helping us break a few records here. That's exciting. Yeah, it is. Well, thank you again and I hope anybody out there watching, if you haven't tried out Wikitree, come try it. And if you're interested in one of these challenge, Wikagall newbies, you're welcome to join us. Thank you. Thank you.


Hello everyone, my name is Katie Gomanchi and currently I am an ecosystem advocate for the CNCF. I have joined CNCF quite recently and my responsibility within this role is to grow the end user community, but more importantly to close the gap between the end user feedback and the projects currently residing within the CNCF landscape. Today, I would like to talk about the building blocks of DX, more specifically the Kubernetes evolution from the CLI to GitOps. And to do so, I would like to firstly introduce the cluster CLI known as KIPCTL and how it provides this native way of interacting with Kubernetes. I would like to follow that with the DX enhancement section, which is going to focus on how can we further extend the KIPCTL commands and wrap them through graphical representations such as web and terminal UIs. And lastly, I would like to conclude by introducing how can we automate most of the operations within the clusters by talking about the application ops.  Before I move forward with the topic, I'd like to introduce the ecosystem which allowed this evolution all the way from the CLI to GitOps. If we look six years ago, the container orchestrator framework space was very heavily diversified. We had tools such as Docker's firm, Apache Messos, Kubernetes, and all of them provided a viable solution to our containers with scale. However, Kubernetes stood the lead in defining the principles of how to run these containerized workloads. Nowadays, Kubernetes is known for its portability and adaptability, but more importantly for its approach towards declarative configuration and automation. And this can actually be seen in numbers. When you look at the CNCF survey in 2019, more than 50% of the companies are using Kubernetes in production. The other 42% are actually prototyping Kubernetes as a viable solution to move forward. When a transition towards the contributor community, there are more than 2000 engineers actively collaborating towards future build out and bug fixing. And when we look into the end user community, more than 23,000 attendees were registered at the KIPCONS around the world. Now, these were the in-person events which were in Europe, China, and North America. And this flourishing community around Kubernetes has been extremely beneficial because over time, multiple tools were built around it to extend its functionalities. And this created what today we know as the cloud native landscape, which resides under the CNCF umbrella or cloud native computing foundation. Now if you look into all of this tooling, some of them are going to provide similar capabilities such as service mesh, networking, storage, runtime, and many more. And a more diverse tooling that means we're going to have a more diverse user base as well. Because engineers with different capabilities will need to interact with the cluster, either to manage the cluster or deploy to the cluster. As such, we can identify free main personas or free main user groups here. The application developers, application operators, and infrastructure operators. The application developers are the engineers which don't necessarily need to interact with the cluster. However, they will need to be aware that the application is going to be containerized. As such, they will focus on the business logic, but at the same time, they'll need to be aware to develop employees such as liveness and readiness probes. The application operators on the other side are the engineers which will interact with the cluster and deploy the application. They will be aware of all the resources within the cluster and any components that are necessary to make sure that application is up and running at all time. And infrastructure operators are the engineers which will not only understand all the resources within the cluster, but they'll be aware how to create, manage, configure, and delete the cluster from scratch. Now usually speaking, the application developers and application operator roles sometimes are overlapped. However, it does not always the case in current organizations. Hence, we need to segregate them at the moment. At this stage, we require one set of tooling which will allow us to interact with the cluster based on all of these end user groups. And currently, this is provisioned by cluster CLI known as KubeCTL, which provides a way to interact and manage Kubernetes objects. We can think about KubeCTL as a way to close the gap between the end user terminal and a cluster if running locally in a public cloud or on a data center. And to connect to those clusters, we'll require a KubeConfig file, which will have all the metadata necessary, such as the APA server endpoint and authentication data such as certificates or tokens. Usually the KubeConfig file can be found in the .cube folder, or it can be specified as a flag for the KubeConfig flag, or alternatively it can be consumed as an environmental variable. When we refer to KubeCTL, we refer to 6 CLI, which currently resides under the Kubernetes Community umbrella. Currently, KubeCTL offers more than 40 operations and these are going to be actions we can perform on top of the resources such as create, delete, run, get, and many more. And these operations are associated with more than 70 flags, which will allow this tailored and custom experience. Quite limiting, but still it will provide that. We'll be able to either provide more information on creating a cluster, we'll be able to specify more details when we try to get information from the cluster. But more importantly, with KubeCTL we have the support for declarative and imperative management techniques. When we refer to the imperative technique, that means that we're going to operate on the live object straight away. So this is going to be an engineer which will either create or delete the resource and this is going to be straight away visible within the cluster. The good thing about this approach is the fact that it can have a very quick upscale for our developers. They'll be able to deploy their application, if it's not correct especially, they'll be able to deploy their application to the cluster immediately. And the downside of this approach is the fact that it has no source for the configuration. So if you'd like to share this configuration with other teams or with a wider organization, it's going to be difficult for us. And that's why we have the declarative approach which allows the operations on file stored locally. So we have the full representation of our manifest, Neamo, and we'll be able to apply them to the cluster. The good thing about this approach is the fact that it allows the directory level operations. Usually when we deploy an application, we're going to have a deployment and that's going to be associated with a service, service account, configuration map. Maybe we're going to have a secret and ingress and that's already more than six components we require. With the imperative approach, we'll have to create all of these resources manually. However, with the declarative approach we have directory level operations, which will allow us to create all of these resources with one command. However, on the downside of this approach is the fact that we have quite a high learning curve, because it requires an in depth understanding of the nested YAML configuration, and it can present some challenges while we debug and troubleshoot our manifest. Now cluster Ctl is a cluster. Ctl is a great way to explore the cluster assets. However, it is generally and wrongly assume that everyone interacting with communities is going to be fluent in Ctl. A clear path was discerned from the community from this point to further enrich and extend the cluster DX to make it available inclusive to engineers of all levels. As such, when we mention DX enhancement, we can refer to four main principles, simplicity, optimization, transparency and durability. Simplicity means that any changes or any new tooling that we introduced in track to the cluster needs to remove some of the complexity rather than making it more difficult for our engineers to get information from the cluster. Optimization is all about finding patterns and trying to simplify them. For example, if engineers always need to look for the CPU and memory for an application, instead of grabbing the YAML off a pod and looking for the right files, but for the right configuration, we'll be able to write for example a plugin, which will date for them with one command. Transparency is a principle which should be true at all times. When we introduce new techniques to interact with the cluster, our engineers should always be aware where the application is deployed and how they can connect to it. It is going to be a major blocker if we don't have the transparency because we're going to become the bottleneck when the application team will require to troubleshoot for example during a production incident. And the last principle I would like to mention is durability. Any changes that we introduce, they should just be the building blocks of the interactions in the features. It should be something which is easily extensible, but more importantly, it's something which is going to stick with our developers. It's quite important to introduce these changes frequently, but with a good pacing to remove the developer fatigue as well. I want to refer to the DX enhancement with kubectl, we can identify two main areas, extensions and wrappers. The extensors are going to be represented by kubectl plugins, while the wrappers are going to be represented by web and terminal UIs. I would like to dive a bit more into both of these areas. Now, as mentioned, if you'd like to extend your kubectl commands, then you're going to write a plugin which will be able to write these custom extensions for your end users to consume. The more important thing about plugins is the fact that they can be written in any language, underneath they just a binary, and as long as they have the right file name and are in the right location, they'll be identified by kubectl and the end users will be able to utilize that. But the key point about the plugins with extensions is the fact that we can really provide a custom DX which will focus on our simplicity and optimization principles. Let's look at how kubectl plugin could be written. Here I have an extremely simple shell script, which is going to have an echo command. However, I'd like to draw your attention towards the path and the file name of this particular plugin. The location of the file should be in one of the binary folders defined in the path environmental variable. As such, in this example, I have it under slash user local bin. And the file name for a plugin should be always prefixed by kubectl, followed by the actual command. So here we create a greetings plugin, and the file name is obviously going to be kubectl greetings. Once the file is in the right path with the right naming, we don't need to do any install, it will be automatically identified by kubectl. And we can validate that by doing a list of our plugins, and you can see the first result is going to be our greetings, followed by any other plugins we have installed in our machine. And to test that our plugin is working, it's just enough for us to do kubectl greetings. And this will go to our shell script, we'll execute that and print our echo command. As simple as that. Now this stage we could extend or we could share some of these plugins with wider organization, however, over time there are plugins which were found useful across the community. And it was required to have a centralized mechanism to collect index and distribute these plugins and currently this capability is provisioned by crew. You can think about crew as a service discovery for plugins. Currently, it allows the install of more than 90 custom commands for kubectl. And a cool feature about crew as well is the fact that it has its own version manager. So you can have it's your kind of separate way of managing your plugin for crew rather than to make it very similar to your project versioning. And if you look into the most widely used plugins at the moment, there are plenty of them, but as you can see, search manager has taken quite a broccoli, I would say. It has more than 700,000 downloads at the moment. And search manager is a plugin which allows you management of the TLS for kubernetes cluster. Ingress nginx is another plugin which allows the inspection of your nginx controller within kubernetes. Crew, which is our plugin to install other plugins, so we have a slight inception here, has been downloaded more than 150,000 times, so astonishing amount of number. Tail is another plugin which allows the streaming of logs from a collection of pods, while score is another tool which allows the static analysis of our YAML manifests. Now if we'd like to distribute our greetings plugin with crew, we'll require to write a plugin CRD for customer service definition. Now this plugin is going to have two main areas of information, and this is a trim output of our CRD. The first section is going to be informative, while the second one is going to be a guide on how to install the plugin on different operating systems. As such, in the informative part, we're going to have the version, the page to our repository along the short description. While in the platform side, we're going to have information on how to install our plugin. So for example, we're going to point to the right binary, we're going to point it to as well to our shell script. And we'll be able to see that in more details during the demo, which follows at the moment. Now currently, let's see how can we distribute our greetings plugin. To do so, I'm just going to list all the plugins I have currently available on my machine. I don't have the greetings plugin, and I can further validate that by doing a crew list, which will list all the plugins which were installed crew. The greetings plugin is not there anymore. Now let's look at our plugins CRD. As mentioned, we're going to have two main areas. This is going to be the informative part. So as mentioned, we're going to have version home page, a short description and a long description which probably can be useful if you have multiple commands for your plugin. And you can actually have this health message described over here. And the second part is going to be how can we install our plugin on particular operating systems. Here we're going to focus on Darwin Linux operating system. Mainly, we're going to point it to our binary. So this is going to be a zip folder of all our files. And we're going to have a check some to make sure that our integrity of the files is going to be kept all times. Because underneath it does an extract operation from our zip, we can specify what we want to extract from that folder, and we can specify course we actually need to specify our exactly binary that's going to be executed for our QCTL command. Now let's install this particular plugin with crew. With that, I'm going to do a QCTL crew install. And I'm going to point it to the manifest that we have seen which is plug in the channel. Cool. And to validate that I'm just going to do a crew list. We see our greetings plugin with its version as well. And of course I can do a plugin list to be identified as well, just over here. And to further validate that our plugin works, we're just going to do a QCTL greetings. It will go to our shell script and output our Hello Cloud native message. Now this pretty much concludes the demo for the crew plugin. Before I move forward, I would like to leave a few takeaways about the QCTL plugins. The most important fact about QCTL plugins is the fact that we can further extend our CLI and provide this tailored experience for our end users. Another quite widespread practice is to use QCTL plugins in association with Alesis, so we can have sure the commands to interact with the cluster. Another profile to mention is the fact that they currently cannot override the existing QCTL commands. So QCTL get pods is always going to perform the same operation. We'll not be able to change that. However, we still have a bunch of plugins which are just one install way of crew. Now when referred to the wrappers, this usually focus on a graphical representation of our cluster state. The wrappers are how can we visualize some of the resources by using the QCTL commands. And as mentioned, it's all about this operational view of the cluster state. So it's going to be easier for our end users to understand what's happening with our resources. You can think about QCTL wrappers as a point of presence for the clusters. And this is quite important because currently within the team, we're not going to have just one Kubernetes cluster. We're going to have three clusters per region. So we're going to have a sandbox staging and production, and this is the minimum. And this can be replicated by the amount of regions we'd like to distribute our cluster to. So it is we can have 10 to 15 clusters nowadays. With the terminal UIs, or web and terminal UIs actually, we'll be able to quickly interchange between these clusters and interact with them. Another cool feature about the wrappers is the fact that they are developer-first.  As such, it can really have this developer-first experience because our engineers will be able to explore what's happening in the cluster in finite world of actions. But more importantly, QCTL wrappers currently, most of them actually, are providing a basic coverage of the QCTL operations. So mainly it's going to focus on the read-only commands such as QCTL get. However, it provides some support for operations such as scale, delete, and port forward. And we're currently into the ecosystem. There are plethora of tools for provisioning the UI capabilities from which Optint is one of the most prominent tools. It has been developed by VMware, actually by their SRA team. And in addition to the presentation of the cluster state for the developers, they have a section for the Kubernetes operators as well. So they'll be able to see the nodes and any information associated with that. K9 is another terminal UI, actually, which has a wrapper around all the QCTL commands. And Lens is another tool, which is a Kubernetes IDE, and it can be installed on any operating system as a standalone application. Now, at this stage, we can extend and visualize the end user journey within the cluster. However, all the operations we've been performing have been manually. To introduce plugins, you'd have to manually type them to interact with the cluster. And if you'd like to visualize it for a dashboard, you still have to click through different menus to understand what's happening underneath. We're talking about the application deployment. We need to think about automation and how can we automate most of the operation for our applications to be live in the cluster. But for that, the next organic step is to actually introduce templating, because as mentioned, we're going to have multiple clusters and we will require you to tailor the configuration for those clusters. And currently, these capabilities are provisioned by configuration managers such as Hell and Customize. Now, these two tools have completely different ways of provisioning the template capabilities. However, Hell at the moment uses a template-driven approach, which means we're going to have the YAML representation with the options to inject values to our templates. Controversial idea here, but Hell goes slightly towards the imperative approach. And this is because if you think about a chart that actually includes other charts, or it has like, you have a Hell umbrella chart, which actually utilizes other charts as well, you're not going to set every single value. And because of that, most of them are going to be set to their defaults, which means that we're going to use the imperative approach. And the good thing about Hell is the fact that we have a collection of upstream charts, which allows the install of many cloud-native applications nowadays with just one command. Customize on the other side uses a template-free approach, meaning that we're going to have the full representation of our manifest, and that's why we're going to have the declarative approach. And the way Customize works, if you'd like to tailor your configuration, that's going to be done through the deep mergers. Now, to tailor your application or your deployment for through Hell, you'll have to use multiple values files, while with Customize, you're going to have a base and multiple overlays. And once we have our templating layer introduced, that means that we can automate the configuration moving forward. And these are provisioned by some of the techniques such as click-ups, skate-ups, and even sheet-ups. Click-ups is a technique which is represented by a collection of clicks through a set of menus. The most important feature about the click-ups technique is the fact that it provides a very powerful DX. Our engineers do not need to care what's happening on the infrastructure there. All of this is going to be abstracted for the UI. However, it's very important to keep a balanced abstraction level, because if we provide too much information for our developers to configure, or if we provide too little information for them to configure, that can actually distort their experience of interacting with the cluster. And with the click-ups approach, it's quite important to think about operations such as configuration storage, rollbacks, and roll forwards. For example, if something goes wrong in production, and if you'd like to use a new version, or if you'd like to revert to an older version, is this going to be represented by a myriad of clicks, or is this going to be something you'll be able to restore from a state storage somewhere. So this is an area to be photographed with this approach. The click-ups technique, actually some of these issues are tackled. The click-ups approach is represented by a set of click repositories, which represent the desired state of our application. The key point about the click-ups technique is the fact that it's PR-based rollout. That means that the delta between our developer terminal and the cluster is just one PR away. So here we have a more powerful automatic reconciliation. The click-ups model works with pull approach, which means that if it identifies any changes to the image repositories, it will be able to identify them and apply them to the cluster. But more importantly, we're going to have a version state of our cluster, meaning that we always can revert, using it, to a version of the cluster which was up and running and with no issues in production. And currently, the key-ups capabilities are provisioned by tools such as Flux and Argo CD. Flux is a tool provisioned by Weaveworks and currently is a sandbox CNCF project, while Argo CD currently moved to incubation stage. And to end on a lighter note, I would like to introduce quite a controversial technique, which is sheet-ups. And sheet-ups aims to control the Kubernetes state using Google Spreadsheets. It's a very new technique. It hasn't been developed that much, but at the moment if its mission is to replace YAML with Spreadsheets. So if you heard or heard of your engineers complain about YAML, you can allow them to manage your Kubernetes state through Spreadsheets. And to actually showcase this particular model, I would like to use the sheet-ups technique to scale an application currently. So at the moment I have, let me just move this slightly. I've already my cluster linked to a Google Spreadsheets where I can see, as mentioned here, I can see all of my namespaces. And currently, in my terminal, you'll be able to visualize all my pods in my Argo CD namespace. And currently, sheet-ups actually only allows the scale operations. However, it's something you truly care about. However, extended to support other operations and techniques as well. So if I'd like to increase my Argo CD Redis amount of replicas to free instead of one, I'm just changing it to my desired state in my Google Spreadsheet. And this, as you can see, is already applied to my cluster. And the same goes with the scale-down operation. I can scale it to two. You'll be able to be identified. And it will delete a cluster. It will delete a pod straight away. Now, this pretty much concludes the evolution all the way from the CLI to techniques such as Github's. We started by introducing the native way of interacting with the cluster by using kubectl. And more importantly, we focused on how can we further enrich and extend that with the kubectl plugins and the wrappers represented or translated through web and terminal wise. But more importantly, we see that we have multiple techniques nowadays which really tries to automate most of these operations by introducing techniques such as click-ups, githubs, and even sheet-ups. And all of this evolution has been possible because Kubernetes has a declarative configuration schema that really advocates for extensibility and the optimization of the end user journey within a cluster. If you have any questions in regards to this talk, please reach out. I'm going to be available on social media such as Twitter and LinkedIn. As well, you will find a more detailed blog about this particular talk on my meeting account. As well, I'm writing any other blogs on the new tooling that I'm exploring and you'll be able to find them there. Enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you.