I hope you all enjoy watching the glorious task, which is connecting laptop to the thing projector. I'm going to apologize. Probably everything that comes out of my mouth is going to be ridiculous, because it's been one of those really full days today. And I don't even know what my own name is right now, which is not entirely true. So thanks for coming and to hear us talk. We're going to chat about an idea called Open Cloud Exchange from Massachusetts Open Cloud. I'm going to talk a bit at the top and then pass it over to Christie. But first, just to introduce myself, hi. My name is Monty. I work in the office of the CTO at Red Hat. And people tell me that I am responsible for various things in OpenStack, which should terrify everybody. But I guess there's life. Do you want to introduce me? I'm Christie. I'm a software engineer with MOC. Yeah.  Oh, yeah. I also work upstream on Keystone, yeah. Cool. So as we're going to chat about, and also for those of you who know my tendency to run over time on presentations, given that we're starting a little bit late, that's even more so. And what's best is when I spend half of the time of the talk talking about how I'm going to go over time. So it's really a self-fulfilling prophecy. But I wouldn't want to leave anybody disappointed who's looking forward to seeing me try and squeeze in too much content in a thing. So anyway, we're going to talk about Cloud Landscape. It's out there, which drives use cases for this idea of an Open Cloud Exchange. And then we're going to talk about the, can we still call it the Massachusetts Open Cloud or are we just supposed to call it the MOC now? The MOC or the Mass Open Cloud? The Mass Open Cloud, the Mass Open Cloud. That definitely makes it better. It's too long. Yeah. Something, something, something. Yeah. So the thing that formerly known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud, which apparently has been rebranded because that's too much. And then Christie's going to talk about what they've done, lessons learned, and where we might be able to go next with that. So I'm sure we're all aware that there are these things called clouds. If you are at this point in the day at this conference, not yet aware of the concept of I as clouds, I actually really like to talk to you because I'd like to figure out how you've made it here without that. By and large, there's an interesting, you know, Mark talked this morning in the keynote about the sort of power of open collaboration. And we get all these different companies to get together and work on the software, which is fantastic and awesome. The clouds themselves that are out there, especially in the public cloud space, are typically run by one company, which is sort of potentially unfortunate if you think that a single company might be a bottleneck or a dangerous part of your chain. Those companies are typically pretty secretive about operational factors. We get really excited when somebody gets up on the stage and they talk about the specifics of their deployment. Like we ran these mini cores, and we deployed it on this specific hardware profile. And remember that the San Diego summit, Troy Toman from Rackspace got up and gave a bunch of specifics. And it was like, oh, my God. He told us exactly what they're doing. And people freaked out. And so it's tougher. We've gotten really good with open source. Open Operations is a completely new idea. We do it a bit in the OpenStack infrastructure team, which is the team that runs the developer tooling for OpenStack. Lots of people think that we run OpenStack, which we do not do. We have no idea what we're doing there. But it's a new thing. People aren't used to sharing and collaborating once you get to the operations layer. Like it's not a thing that they do. And that means that our exposure to information about how to optimize things, how to make things better at that layer is less. We know how to optimize software. We know how to collaborate on optimizing software. But we don't know as much other than anecdotally, if you happen to go get beer with the right person, you might learn something about how to optimize the operations of things. But that's not really a scalable process for life, unless you really like beer, which I guess I'm in Germany, so I should assume that we all do. And ultimately, even when people are running OpenStack, you can still wind up with vendor lock-in. There's things that OpenStack doesn't do. We'll mention a couple of those. But you get locked into various aspects of those extra things unless you very explicitly tie yourself only to that, to the core OpenStack pieces. And that can be hard to do, depending on where you're at. And even with the votes for the best of intention, there's holes they're having to fill in that just don't exist in the upstream thing. And so you can't blame them. Like it's not a, they're not trying to put you in a bad position, but it's still kind of there. So this idea came up. And I, golly, I think it was the first Vancouver summit, is the first place that Orrin, also the first Vancouver summit, the first Boston summit, we're repeating ourselves too much. I got to like, indicate which of the times we were in a city. And again, I'm just talking about myself. Came up with this idea of, we're missing some words on some of those clouds, aren't we? Whoops. I don't know where the words went. I was pretty sure there was words there. Sorry about that. But this idea that rather than just have one company run one cloud and operate that cloud and have the, we all know how different people are providing software services on top of a particular cloud. There's lots of people deliver services on top of Amazon and Google and those things. Can you have a collaborative environment where different companies can provide the underlying IaaS services into what you call an open cloud exchange? So it's in the realm of like a stock exchange, so that there's a marketplace for those services. So you might have two or three or four different storage vendors, for instance, all having storage service implementations underneath the underside of that cloud and that a user of that cloud can then select, I want to get some storage from this vendor or that vendor or this other vendor, is that even possible? So that was the sort of impetus for trying to work on this and trying to dig in. So the open cloud exchange is about sort of solving this, that you can have these different participants show up, stand up different services, and make them available to a user base. This allows us to have people collaborate much in the same way that we've been trying to pioneer in OpenSack development land. Pioneer is a strong word, I apologize. But we've been focusing in the OpenSack on people collaborating across organization on the development of things to collaborate on service offerings to actually be able to run that potentially reducing cost, access to data, especially this is sort of come out of university engagements. You've got lots of people doing research. You've got those sorts of activities that aren't necessarily trying to monetize directly the services. They just want to work with each other on these things and be able to facilitate that. And also, and we've got a little bit more in-depth in a later slide on this, that we can actually get a better feedback loop. So that Morgan and I are working on software upstream, neither one of us happened to be running that software in production. And so we're filtering feedback from users through maybe a vendor, and then through another person, and then there's a bug report. And you're like, I'd like to know some more information about how that's working. Can I see your operational logs? And they're like, yeah, that's going to happen. So that's kind of tricky. And this can be important, even if this isn't like a global scale cloud. A lot of people that I talk to when we talk about cloud things get really caught up in the, are you competing directly with Amazon, with this cloud? I'm like, well, OK, we don't have to all have. It's not necessary for every cloud we spin up to be at that size. We can collaborate on the things that are hard and do that. So I think I actually said all everything on that slide in the previous one. Sorry about that. So as, like I was saying with the Morgan thing, as we move forward in these things, as we look into this, having collaborative community access to data about real users, access to scale, most of the, a shocking number of the people who are developing OpenSack don't have access to bare metal resources. And in fact, the 8 gig VMs that we give them to run integration testing for OpenSack in the gate is often free. Those are actually sized because we know that we can count on somebody having a laptop with 8 gigs of RAM. And we want people to be able to debug the OpenSack software on their laptop. Most people run clouds that are larger than a single laptop. That might be shocking. But access to scale, I think, is a really important piece in this. And it is a real missing piece of the puzzle in terms of completing the loop. Those of you who are familiar, it strikes me that that's actually a really old book right now. Were you born when that book came out? When did it come out? Say 99? Yeah, it was. OK, thank God. No worries. I'm just making sure. He's young.  But the final reason of why we care about this is that we don't even necessarily know about all of the things that can happen as we open up collaboration across communities on new topics. I don't think that any of us, when we started OpenSack, would have imagined the size and scale. And I certainly wouldn't have imagined that AT&T would be making 5G calls from outside of a ferrity cage on stage on top of an OpenSack cloud when we were doing that. But those are those things you can't predict them. Like, they're what comes out of there. So Cathedral and Bazaar style, we've got these big giant proprietary public clouds. There's more of them than the US tech press likes to mention. But they're still there. So we're starting to see some of these things over here on the right-hand side. We've got MassOpenCloud, which Christy's going to talk more about. We've got other services that people are starting to provide. The Open Data Hub project, there's a third person who's supposed to be up on stage here bailed on us who would have talked more about that. So I'm hoping he's watching the livestream of this video and just know we're thinking about you. We're sorry you're not here. That's why we care. And I think I've already covered a bit of this.  It's kind of an insane amount of that. But the thing we don't do is we don't have the delivery deployment part of that down. There isn't a cloud that all of those patches are flowing into that the OpenSack developers have access to. Some of them are running clouds. Some of them are not running clouds. So there's pieces. We do lots of synthetic testing. We try and do our best to set these things up. But we're missing a feedback loop. And so if there is a community-oriented cloud, a few years ago, HP donated a couple racks worth of hardware to the OpenSack project. And it was we actually, so the OpenSack infrastructure team actually did run an OpenSack cloud. It was really weird because we told people we don't run OpenSack clouds and then we were running an OpenSack cloud. But it wasn't for the purposes, it wasn't for this. It wasn't for the purpose of having an open and transparent operational loop so that as things are flowing through the community, they can flow into a running cloud and we can get feedback from them. It was so that we could have more testing resources. It was a special purpose cloud that we just used to get more VM capacity because that was all that was able to be given to us at that point in time. So there isn't a equivalent place where the community can collaborate on those sorts of issues other than just talking to each other over email because of their actual things. And as I'm sure we all know, there are issues that don't show up at eight gigs of RAM of size. And that also might be shocking, but things like that database index is not good enough. If you've only got 1,000 records in a test database, you're not gonna notice that. Might be an important thing. In fact, that's actually several years ago, Rackspace had a third-party CI that was running all of the Nova migrations on their actual production data, a copy of their production database on every change because of this very reason. Like we kept landing database migrations so when they went to roll them out of their public cloud, like took the cloud down for like a period of time and they got, I don't know, they found that frustrating. So anyways, this is a thing. Just having access to a quantity, having access to a larger thing is a potentially great thing. So that said, if you run such a cloud, it's a really great collaborative effort. There's use cases that are gonna be good for running on top of that cloud and there's use cases that are not gonna be good for running on top of that cloud. I probably wouldn't run a Tinty's 5G mobile network on top of the community-operated cloud, not because it's not gonna be good for software but just because, let's be honest, this is gonna be in a more experimental state. Being able to use that cloud to sort of like the one that we ran in in for a few years ago for a minute until the hardware got put into a data center in Houston and then it was flooded in Houston and then we didn't have hardware anymore because of the hurricanes. Apparently they were also just not even on rack. They were just sitting on top of each other in a stack. It was very strange. So being able to provide that to the community for CICD is a really great thing because we already have eight, nine different clouds. So if one of them goes away for a minute, it's okay. It doesn't affect us. It doesn't kill us in production and it's great that we've got more capacity. Doing scale testing on things. Again, if you've got a thing where it's okay for you to spin up 1,000 VMs in the cloud because it's not gonna kill somebody's profit margins, that's kind of a really cool thing. Data analytics and AI and L. These same things. These intensive, cool sort of cutting edge things. These are great workloads to try out on such a cloud. These are things where we can collaborate on the cloud but then having load on that cloud is useful to the people collaborating on the running of the cloud because a big cloud that doesn't have any users, well, you're not really getting any feedback on how it works at scale, then, are you? So you've gotta have this virtual circle but this gives us an opportunity to both give resources to potentially under-resourced research projects as well as learn from the operation of it itself. We're into some things we've learned so I think it's about time for me to, is that, is that your slide? You can do this as well if you want. We're getting close to his turn and I will just keep running my mouth. I'm trying to be cognizant of that. But yeah, so we've got, there's a lot of alternatives but learning and operating abroad, operators don't want to sit out there and learn about running my open stack on top of MySQL and Postgres. Nobody does that. That's a terrible idea as an operator of an actual service. You run the service the way you're gonna run it and doing things like running some of the newer open stack services maybe even before they're ready, well that's not a thing you're gonna do in a commercial public cloud because you would all of a sudden you've got customers on the hook for that. So it's a thing that you can learn. Individually it's hard for a lot of the smaller clouds to get the types of scale that we're talking about for doing massive scale testing and there's just other things. So the highlight of the thing there is the sort of key thing, without having real users and real workloads without collaborating on the running of that there's a real informational missed opportunity and then it makes it harder for us as a community to address real world, real customer usage without sort of an intermediary on our behalf. With that I'm gonna let him talk and I'm gonna try and stop talking. It's so cool. Not really gonna work. I'm not gonna let him really talk. I'm gonna try, I promise. Thanks Monty for doing pretty good motivation while you should have an OCX. I will now try to speak about how we're trying to turn this vision of an open cloud exchange and how we're trying to make it real. So we're a nonprofit and we have a very small team so it's three developers, one operator and a bunch of student minions who come and go all the time and even so we are trying to build this as a nonprofit. We still want it to be sustainable so we wanna charge and have actual customers on top of it. This all means that we should have charge back, show back, building reporting, all of these features which a public cloud generally has are required in our cloud as well. And OpenStack was not really built with these things from the get go and in mind and that's one thing where the collaboration that we're having with OpenStack and the upstream and everyone else is so important. So what is the MOC? It's a collaboration between five universities of the Boston area. So it's UMass, Harvard, MIT, Boston University and Northeastern but not only that it's also a lot of industry collaborators. And one of the things that makes us special is the MGHPCC which is a huge data center hosted out of Olioke. It has hundreds of thousands, space for hundreds of thousands of cores with room to grow. And another cool thing about the Boston area is that if you take all the Pacific Research Platform and you shrink it to the size of a building you basically have the MGHPCC which is where we're hosted from. So what are the capabilities which we have to build to have an OCX, like an MVP of an OCX? So first we need an elastic secure infrastructure for on-demand hardware use, a production OpenStack-SEF and Kubernetes services for both end users and high level service offerings, single sign-on, resource federation with multiple OpenStack services, a pricing guide and building system and user management. So, and once all of that is done participants will be able to deploy their own hardware, deploy services on top of hardware allocated dynamically for the purpose and charge for the services. So build a sustainable marketplace. So let's go one by one. So an elastic secure infrastructure for on-demand hardware use. We actually have built that. It's called M2. It's built on top of Hill, which is a service we have developed which does network isolation at the switch level. So each nodes gets its own VLAN and users communicate with an API to reserve nodes and give them back to a pool of shared nodes. We also have M2 which is network booting and image management. And one of the cool things about network booting is that it allows you to have VM style image management so you can suspend a VM, suspend a bare metal machine, give it back to the pool of machines then get it back and use it for something else. And assume the job you were doing after you get it back without even noticing. And we're also working on having a snapshotting of the memory so you could just pick up exactly where you left off. But this wouldn't really be useful if it wasn't safe. Like say you gave a machine up and then you got it back and someone messed up with a firmware. So we're working on Bolted which is a project which combines Heal M2 and Kilimata Station from MIT Lincoln Labs to make sure that bare metal machines were intempered with the time that you gave them back. And you can do this verification. You don't have to trust someone else. So that was the first one. Then you need a production open stock, self and Kubernetes which is harder than it sounds. Trust me. So we started. It's easy. Of course. So we started with 500 cores but 1,600 cores will soon be available. We started at Kilo and we have Pyke now. Upgrading was a rough process because we were using puppet manifest from the Kilo era and we just forked them and slowly started patching them up to support Pyke. And this grew very, very hard. And now we're planning a redeployment with Pyke with all supported bits. So we won't have to mess anymore with changing puppet manifest to that extent that we have. We also have a pure research open stock cloud which we only mostly reserve for researchers and it has GPU nodes and stuff like that. But we do not support it as much as the pure, as the production cloud. We also have an open shift running on top of open stock and upgrades with it have been pretty hit or miss going from one version to another. It's almost like you're saying that upgrades are hard. Upgrades are always hard. So lessons learned. Cep is hard. We got bitten by the Velosev Raptors and user support is very time consuming especially when you have a team of one ops. So, SSO. So yeah, we want users to come in and have one single account and with that account be able to use our multiple production, our open stock clouds, open shift and the other services which we deploy like dataverse, open data hub, et cetera. So, we have federated with Incommon which is a federation of universities and we use key cloak as an IDP proxies. So users go into open stock, they get redirected to key cloak and then the key cloak sends them back to Incommon and their key cloak session is valid for all the open stock or the MOC services that we have deployed on the cloud. This was of course more complicated than it looks because key cloak doesn't really support federations. So we had to build another IDP proxy layer which is composed of shibboleth and simple SAML PHP. Hopefully we will be able to roll this into Keystone. We are talking with other Keystone folks about this and some specs will be pushed up for review and you can take a look at them and contribute to the development, open source development process. There is in fact a talk about that. Do you keep going in one second? So, it's all good. Now a user is able to log in and come to each of the services but what if they wanna combine the resources they have in one open stock cloud with another open stock cloud or with OpenShift or use their data sets from dataverse into open stock. For that we have built resource federation. So say a user has, so the MOC isn't really like a single cloud but think of it as a federation of smaller clouds. So do you run their own infrastructure? Northeastern runs their own infrastructure, MIT runs their own infrastructure and the user has a machine which is running on BU and wants to attach a volume running from Northeastern. Through resource federation they should be able to accomplish this and for this purpose we have worked, we have built Mix and Match which is an open source API proxy. It does Keystone to Keystone federation between open stock clouds and forward API requests to the appropriate deployment. So the Nova service will be able to use Cinder volumes from a different service in a different cloud. And wow, we went through four, now there's five and six. So probably the harder ones. Pricing guide and billing system and I guess you're all curious to know how the pricing would work and we actually expect to be able to charge half or one third of commercial big clouds and we also need to figure out other models because research is different. So sometimes researchers have grants for purchasing hardware but do not get grants for subscribing to clouds. So we should have a model where we allow them to set up their hardware into our cloud and then they can use that for credits or we're still working on this but there's a lot of cool things to think about. And yeah, of course, users want to have something that works and lets them solve the problem and that's especially true for researchers which have very strict deadlines. So in terms of billing, it should be per project, the organization which is sponsoring the project. Well, this is boring stuff but it's very hard to get all this information. Projects then should be aggregated by institution because the institution should receive the bill for all the projects that they're using and we have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. It actually was so much harder than we expected, especially gathering telemetry data from OpenStack. When we started about three and a half years ago, Syllometer was very slow and it made our network crash. We investigated Monoska, then we switched back to Syllometer because a tool we tried to use to solve that issue required it but it didn't fit our use case and now we're back to reinventing the wheel yet again and it would be so much better if we could work with OpenStack community to have this upstream. Yes, this is the hardware we'll need the most help. Then user management system. You as a user or I as a user want to go into the open mass open cloud, sign up for multiple services and when I leave I want my resources to be automatically returned for other users. This is one of the harder problems in OpenStack especially reclaiming the resources and this is another area where we should collaborate with the OpenStack community and we actually have Adrienne Terjack here who developed Adjutant which should help us optimize or build these workflows into an actual official OpenStack project rather than yet again reinventing the wheel. I think there's a session this week on that too, really auto deleting or deleting cleanup. Yeah, it's next. It's next. Excellent, good. So yeah. Yeah, the identity federation proxy thing is tomorrow at 11.40 by the way. Yeah, so one important missing feature in OpenStack is that users of projects and organizations should be able to sign up for resources without requiring human intervention. Everyone has gone through that stage of their OpenStack career where they had to write this. Maybe we should do something about that. Yay! So other stuff we've been working on we have a bunch of FPGAs and GPUs into OpenStack and OpenShift. We are reaching out to startups in the area so our audience is not just researchers and students but it's also startups and manufacturers and every user which has an interest in using our OpenCloud to research IT organizations which want to offload their infrastructure or help us in collaborative running our infrastructure. More things we've learned. Yeah, every time someone says a feature will work make sure that someone has tried it before actually pick flowing into the production. It's a very important question. And if your only senior infrastructure engineer is out of town, run. The community has always been incredibly supportive and giving so thanks to everyone of you who is here and who has helped us. Thanks a lot and we still want your help so we're not fully through the hardest parts yet. What sorts of things do you need? User, developers, money, everything you can throw at us. I'll take it. Do you need more requirements? You go with use cases?  Would that be helpful? Probably not. We're already swimming in use cases. There's a link there to a very horribly designed website that's something we're malisonian helping. Yeah, well thanks everyone. And we are at time. So we actually, I think have, we have zero minutes for questions. So if anybody would like to ask or we could probably squeeze one in before they kill us for going over time. Yes, go for it. Good day.  It's very much about the content, the applications. Is there any thinking in the community around creating like a application repository sort of for this open state community? Like a juju charms or a doing, but connecting these community clouds into that? So... Interesting question. I know that there was, so there was a thing that doesn't exist anymore called, there was the Murano thing, but there was a public Murano repository that Olaf was PTL of for a second. I can't remember the name of it, but yeah. So that actually at the, that was spun up around the first Vancouver summit. So somebody sort of started going down that road. And unfortunately it didn't get anywhere. So it was one of those sort of things where it's a really good idea and nobody showed up with content essentially. So it would probably be really worthwhile to, I don't want to hand Christy another use case, but I do think that's definitely a thing that would be really helpful. It's an important use case because if we build a marketplace of services, like the service doesn't have to be open stock, it can be an application. Like if you were in yesterday's keynotes, you saw Red Hat talk about Chris. It's an application for radiologists to consult and run processing jobs in our cloud. So that's one type of application that can be exposed to users. Also if the pricing stuff works, then people offering their services in our cloud also will get money back. So there's more of an incentive to provide services. Whereas in Murano, probably you get nothing except photos, so. She's pulling on as great. Yes, if people get money out of it, people will provide their services, same as the App Store and other kind of stuff. Yeah, cool. I think they're gonna kick us out of here. So thank you very much.


Greetings everyone, this is James from the Facebook group, Everything Is Food, and I'm here at La Fortuna Restaurant in Garfield, New Jersey. I'm in Midland Avenue in Garfield, New Jersey, and here we have Margaritas served in a traditional clay cup with bats, with rubber bats. Because why? Because Halloween, all Hallows Eve and all Souls Day and Day of the Dead is around the corner. It is the month of October 2017, and this is very nice, very applicable to this time of year. And I'm here with my one and only love of my life, Natalia, on her first day from San Diego, California. So I'm going to have a Guanabana, which is Soursop Margarita. What kind of margarita did you get? Same thing. Guanabana? Okay, so she has a Guanabana also. Cheers.


Chop an onion. This is the root. That's absolutely crucial. Leave that on there. To cut that off, the onion will start to bleed and you'll start crying rapidly. Slice going forward. Let the weight of the knife do the work. Three fingers, one in front, two behind. And this, part of the knuckle, is going to guide the knife. Fingers on top of the onion to point the knife towards the root and try to get as close to the root as possible. So what does a cooking video and say a music video have to do with designing a corporate onboarding program? Both tell us how learning experiences must be designed. Hi, my name is Abhijit Bhaduri and I want to talk to you about how to onboard new hires. So let us start by listening to MasterChef Gordon Ramsey, where he explains how to chop an onion and just watch the details and how he appeals to the novice and the expert. Now, this video has been viewed 34 million times and it uses the first of the four steps of designing a cognitive apprenticeship. The weight of the knife do the work. Three fingers, one in front, two behind. And this, part of the knuckle, is going to guide the knife. Fingers on top of the onion to point the knife towards the root. The conversation I had recently with the hiring manager of a music streaming company about a new hire. He says, we hired her because she's absolutely amazing as a machine learning expert, but she has no understanding of our business even after spending months with us. During the interview, you know, we only evaluated her machine learning skills and let's just say she is easily the best machine learning expert we have, but she does not understand our business and she was off to a great start from day one and then her lack of appreciation of our business simply limited her impact. We were so impressed with her academic background, you know, her work experience and her technical skills that we did not even stop to ask if she could potentially be the wrong hire for us. And after all, we are a music streaming platform and she does not understand the business of music. So did we make a wrong hire? Hey, Abhijit, do you think we should move her into a role where business knowledge is really a precondition for success or would that be unfair? Maybe we did not onboard her in the right way. Well, that's important because onboarding is really about bridging knowledge gaps. So whether it is the new vice president or the summer interns from college designing a great onboarding experiences complex. A well-designed onboarding program helps the new hire to become productive and well integrated into the organization. And that means bringing tacit knowledge historical context, you know, which explains how did we get here and what may potentially be critical to your role. So you have to design it like a learning experience. The interview notes that you take, for example, should tell you not just about what you think about the person, but specifically about the knowledge gaps that have to be bridged. And how long do you think it is going to take before that person picks up those pieces of information or knowledge or skills and becomes productive? For experienced hires, it could mean teaching how to avoid the being there done that kind of a mindset. But for the interns, it could mean helping them apply their freshly gained knowledge to a business context to solve a business problem. So the first design principle number one is match the content, which in this case means the knowledge and prior experience. So match that to the new context. One, you do that by teaching them new tricks, which means experienced people may get off to a quick start and draw on the talent pool of previous employers. But the experienced people are also slow to spot the unique opportunities and unfamiliar challenges of the business. So how do you do it? The suggestion is create opportunities for peer to peer learning with peers drawn from across the business. Spend about 15 to 20 minutes each day to connect with the peers. Second thing you can do is teach them about the business. I heard a Gen Z student mention on one of the conversations I had recently, how her recent internship experience was fairly unfulfilling. The intern does not have the business context and cannot create the impact they would have loved to. The business leaders are reluctant to spend time to bring the intern up to speed. So how can the learning be designed to create value for both? Which brings me to design principle number two. Workout loud. John Stepper talks about working out loud and the principle is very simple when you put your work out in the public domain, it benefits others. Feedback from others helps you improve. So make your work visible so it helps others. So now we come to the third design principle. Build key relationships first. The people we spend with shape our thinking. Yet when a new person joins an organization, this is exactly what they lack. Onboarding is a relationship building phase. Let me say it again. Onboarding is a relationship building phase, dumping them with information, business plans, etc. Just simply slows down the new hire. So you can do a couple of things. I want to share with you one create short videos and explainers to deconstruct the information the newbie would need. Secondly, ask the new hire in each department to write down the questions, which if answered would help them become effective at the workplace. Now use these to bridge the gaps and keep tweaking the onboarding experience. Third, conversations create clarity, being able to talk to experts as well as well as some experienced peers can really help the learning process. So Gordon Ramsay's video that we heard right in the beginning is a great example of working out loud and the first principle of creating cognitive apprenticeships. If you like any of these sketch notes that I have created, feel free to use them and thank you in advance for sharing this newsletter. Here is the music track that I promised. It has Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar playing with his disciple come daughter Anushka Shankar and it's magical, simply magical. And if you have any questions for me, follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and the Mensa app at the rate Avijit Bhapani. Goodbye.


Hello everyone, I'm William Maia, STM Microelectronics FAE for Microcontrollers, and welcome to this video series on STM32 Cube Programmer. In this video series, we will go over some topics to better understand how we can use these two to program, read, and configure your STM32 microcontroller. First, we will see an overview of the STM32 Cube Programmer. And then we will go over this configuration panel. We will look at the memory view, the external loader view, how to read, change, and program the option bytes. And last, but not least, how the command line works. In this video, we will cover the overview, configuration panel, and the memory view. So what is the STM32 Cube Programmer? The Cube Programmer, as we will call it for now on, is a standalone software tool that can automate STM32 programming via a very easy graphical and or command line interface. It is capable of using a variety of different debug and boot loader interfaces. It can program and configure the option bytes after or before the firmware download. It can be automated via command line interface for repetitive and multiple device programming. The Cube Programmer is a multiple OS tool, so it can run on Windows, Linux, and macOS computers. We can use it to erase, program, and handle internal or external microcontroller memory. As I mentioned, we can have several interfaces to connect to this microcontroller. This could be stlink via swd or gtag, bootloader via uwork, usb, or ota for stm32wp, for example. When using the stlink v3 with its bridging capability, you can also use additional bootloader interfaces, as i2c, spi, or can to program stm32mcues with native bootloaders that support those interfaces. We can perform several memory operations using the tool, read memory, or registers using their address. With a specific starting address and size, save the memory dump. This could be firmware or memory regions for analysis. Download a new firmware binary to the MCU. Verify if the firmware on the MCU is the same as the file loaded into the tool. Another useful memory operation is the full chip arrays, erasing the entire flash memory in just one click. Another features to interact with memory are in the Erasing and Programming tab. Here we can erase the entire chip memory also, but we can't do it in small memory areas instead. We can program the microcontroller with a selected firmware image, and also we can program the option bytes in an automatic mode tab. This tab is very useful if you do want to have access to programming tool for the assembly line. As we saw for internal memory, we can work with various external memories connected to the microcontroller. The tool offers an external loader tab, where we can find the supported external loaders. For more information on external loaders, look for a video in this series on the ST YouTube channel. To finish the memory operations, we have one of the most useful tabs on the Qt Programmer, the Option Bytes tab. In this section you can read, modify and apply all the different configurations we have for the option bytes, such as memory protections, user configurations for bootloader interface and startup, and some more security features. So now let's see the tool in action. First of all, let's take a look at the various interface we have here. We can use this drop-down box to connect over UR to the SM32 native bootloader. If the bootloader supports it, we can connect it over USB 2. For the SM32WP MCUs, we also have an over-the-air OTA interface to connect over BLE. By the way, we do have a series of videos explaining how to use that interface in that family. Take a look in the ST YouTube channel. If you use S-Link V3, you have additional options for bootloader interfaces such as I2C, SPI and CANBUS. If you want to connect over a bootloader interface, you may need to make sure your user configuration option bytes have enabled that in some cases. You can find details in another video in this series. With ST-Link V2 or V3, you have the option to connect over the debug interface SWG or GTag. Our Cortex M0 families do not have GTag interface, so let's choose SWG here to connect to our SM32 board. One important point here is that sometimes, depending on what you have flashed in your flash memory before, for example, code that puts the MCU in low-power mode, you may need to choose a different configuration after selecting the interface itself. Take a look at this mode configuration. We can, for example, choose between normal, under reset, or hot plug, depending on your application needs. One robot solution to make a reliable connection irrespective of different CPU states is to choose under reset for mode and set the reset mode to hardware reset. This will ensure that the debugger connects to the CPU core while the CPU is held in reset. We can also choose the frequency, the access part, and if this ST-Link is being shared by more than one instance of Qt Programmer or other debug hosts. Sometimes your ST-Link firmware version could be too old to connect or to enable some features. In this case, we can use Qt Programmer to upgrade the firmware by clicking this firmware upgrade button. Now that we connected our microcontroller, we can try several memory operations. Let's start with the read memory. Here we can see the entire microcontroller memory. It's important to notice that this is only possible because we have not set any read protection level for this MCU. We will show how to do that in another video in this series. We can also access the registers using their address with a specific starting address and size. Now that we have read the microcontroller memory, we can also save all the data we extracted. Take a look at how easy it is to do that using the drop-down selection. The opposite is also possible in this field. We can program our microcontroller using a .elf or .pin file that we have in our computer. To do this, we have to open the file from this open file tab or the plus sign. Choose the file we want to program and then click the download button. Another useful feature is to verify if the device memory has the same code as our file to make sure that we are running the same version of firmware, for example. To do that, just click on verify and the tool should give us a success message in the memory and file matches. That's all for this video. Hope you have fun in this journey and thank you and we will have more videos on Qprogrammer topic in the near future.


Hi my name is Christina Ismail. I'm the senior project manager on our education policy program and I am joined today by Carla Diaz. Hi Carla, how are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and broken-air public schools which is what we're here to talk about? Absolutely. So I'm the associate superintendent over instruction that means I oversee pretty much anything that happens in our pre-k through 12th grade schools, Republic School District in Oklahoma. We're in the suburbs. We have a little over 19,800 students or stand-alone pre-k centers, 15 elementaries which are K through five and five male schools, a ninth grade center and then we have the largest high school in the state of Oklahoma. Really? As well as an alternative academy and a virtual academy. Okay, so that's over 1,200 kids a year. So that high school that I got to visit a couple of years ago was that high school? Okay. How are you doing as a district leader in such an unprecedented time and during a pandemic? Well, that's a great question. It varies day to day. It's a little bit of a roller coaster. It started out completely overwhelming. We spent about two weeks at the initial onset when we came into Safe Shelter preparing curriculum. We shut down all the schools under the state superintendent's order and our instructional team and different leaders spent two weeks just planning distance learning for all the students, reviewed all the devices that we had in the district, got feedback from parents on internet and Wi-Fi availability and we dove into setting up the curriculum. So the weeks were overwhelming. Then it kind of got smooth for a little while, seemed like we were getting in the rhythm, but now it's also overwhelming again as we look to the upcoming school year. Yeah, oh absolutely. What have been some of the biggest challenges that you might have faced as a district or even personally? Well, our most biggest priority at first was just feeding kids, making sure kids had basic needs met. Absolutely. So that was the biggest thing and then once we got that, I think biggest hurdle has just been inequities of families. How do we help the families that don't have Wi-Fi or even if they do, one thing we've learned is families have several kids at home. Parents are stretched pretty thin helping them and supporting them. Or they may have pulled us to have a device, but that was one device for several kids. They really don't have enough. So I think that's our biggest area. So I've had the chance to visit your school as well as work with the district over the past several years on your work with open educational resources. When the district made the quick transition to the distance learning back in March, how did you all approach this? You had mentioned like the devices and the connectivity, but what did that process look like and how did you prioritize access for every student? Well, we are lucky because I think, as I said, we're a one-to-one device district for sixth grade through 12th grade. Part of the reason we did that was because of the OERs. We just learning online and it's constantly developing. It's a natural way for students to learn. So that actually made the secondary somewhat simpler. We started more than we were not one-to-one. We do have an exchange amongst our schools. Some of our schools have a lot of Chromebooks. Some don't have as many. And so that was one of the biggest areas that we really had to focus on. That was a big challenge. But we addressed it just our principles, our building principles are amazing. So they made lots of phone calls. We tried to point and then we offered devices for families that also had internet access. Another thing we ran into was teachers that don't have Wi-Fi at home. Just assume they all do, but we have some who live out in really remote areas, they either don't have access to it or some who that's not part of their budget. So for those, they provide hotspots. Okay. Wow. I heard a story from one of your district leaders about working with the Walmart in your area and kind of leveraging business partners in all of the work that you did. Can you tell us a little bit more about this? Absolutely. This was a huge win and I just kind of came through a brainstorming session with my instructional one of the things we did for the kids who didn't have devices or maybe our parents preferred a tangible hands-on activity. It packets for pre-K through 12th grade. By 6th grade through 12th grade we did it by subject area and content. Okay, okay. Pre-K through 5th, we did it grade level and subject. And so we were like, how are we going to get those packets? And without, we really didn't want a lot of people on the streets. It was, you know, safe at home. Oh, yeah. We reached out to our local Walmart, who are amazing. They're super supportive of the schools and just asked if we could do kind of the kiosks that they do before school starts with school supply lists and information. They were awesome. So every Thursday, my awesome office team would go run the packets and deliver them. We had three different super wallmarks and destroy them. And then we learned through some mistakes that you want to hear about. Yes, of course. Always want to hear the lesson playing. So, I think you learned. Well, one thing was a great idea. It wasn't mine, but you know the little Scantron codes, you know, the QR codes. Yeah. So that was one thing we did. We did put QR codes on the kiosks and they could use that. Parents could use those and that would notify my office if we were out of packets. Brilliant. That was a good lesson. But then one mistake we learned was we ran what we thought they would need. So the shortage of devices is how many we ran. Well, what we found was families, even if they had devices, they wanted the hard copies for whatever reason.  So they, I mean, we were running up to Walmart every day, which defeats the purpose. Yeah, a little bit. So after the first week, what we decided to do was we would also email the PDFs to the families. So we just said, hey, if you kind of printed at home, you can. That solved it. Then we were literally just having the families that actually needed them come out because they didn't know how to do it from home without the PDF and we were just getting online, trying to figure it out with the links, the live links. So once we gave them those printable copies, it solved the problem. And once in a while, we'd have to run back up and replenish, but for the most part, we didn't. So it was really good. Amazing. We had businesses like pop up from all over the place that wanted to support us. So if we have to go through this again, I feel like we'll be more intentional on how we ask for help and get help. Sure, absolutely. Such a great business partnership to leverage there. I know that I have mentioned this specific example to others and to other school districts to consider. And they have kind of run with it. Maybe it was a grocery store that they have a business partnership, even my former district in Omaha, Nebraska, they have a local grocery store that is just down the street from my last elementary school building. And they were like, Oh, we can do that. So yeah, this is such a great idea. And I'm so excited that we get to share this story with others. Yeah. And it's an essential business. So we knew they'd be open and they were happy to have and mom or dad could go get groceries and then go get the kids packet and just be out one time. So it was good. It was a win-win. That's great. That is great. Do you have any other advice or information that you'd want other district leaders, policymakers, or even just general educators to know right now? I think my biggest thing is don't be afraid to ask for help and be flexible and understanding with parents. And my own granddaughter here a couple of times, my daughter is an essential worker. She's a physical therapist. And so a couple of times, I've had her here with me and I will reflect and go, wow, it must be really hard on our teachers to be teaching right now and have their own children at home. So I think it's really important to keep those different perspectives. We caught our own little bubble and think, well, they can do that. And I think we touch on each other a lot of grace and those parents who are working who are also trying to teach their kids. I think it's really important for us as educators to be flexible, be flexible with the time limits and think about those assignments as we give them. How can we provide support for the learning that doesn't require parents to have to do it because either don't have the time or they aren't able or they're just stretch really thin and they're just trying to get by right now. So I think this might be absolutely. Yeah, I really appreciate that. I appreciate the focus on kind of people's well-being and wellness right now. That is something that I'm hearing a lot or the original social media kind of tweet that came out about here's our at home schedule and here's how we're going to do this. And then everyone's like, we're going to take a step back. We're going to deal with what we can deal with. And so, yes, a lot of grace and flexibility is what I think is a theme for right now. So, well, Carla, I really appreciate you sharing the story of the work that's been happening in Broken Arrow. And I wish you safety and healthiness and hopefully, hopefully a new 2020-21 school year that is a little different. I hope so too. Thank you. And we appreciate all your support as well. Oh, great. Thank you.


First Wednesdays is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and by the Kellogg Hubbard Library with video production supported by Orca Media. We're producing farmers tonight with Sarah Coffey, John Bartholomew, and John Halecki. And it is with great pleasure and joy tonight that we welcome you to the people's house. We are here tonight, enabled completely by our superb Iran Miss Building, our Sergeant-at-Arms and Herb Crew, our Capitol Police, our splendid State Curator and his team who have, we've had a day of celebrating their work. And this is the culmination of that. I would urge you to look online at our schedule for Farmers Night. We have a, if we do say so ourselves, we have a terrific lineup and I encourage you all to come every Wednesday night except for town meeting week at 7.30. And next week we have a wonderful tradition of having an incredibly talented legislature. And this is next week we have one of our own elder statesman, Hale Elder, who is performing with his super high energy bluegrass group. And I encourage you to come back and book a wedding with Hale. And so 7.30 here in the house. And then we have all sorts of great things after that. So I encourage you to take a peek at the schedule. And so without further ado, to introduce tonight's proceedings, I give you our own of the state, the State Curator, David Cheese. Thank you for coming tonight. This is a really special day and night. We had a party this afternoon downstairs in the lobby to celebrate the installation of a brand new exhibition here at the State House. Women in the State House. Women have very much been a part of this building and its predecessor. Clarina Howard Nichols addressed the legislature for the first time in 1852 at this very podium in the previous State House. And she was talking about something outrageous at that time. Women suffered years ago. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution took care of that. And we have devoted ourselves to documenting the story of women in this building from Clarina Howard Nichols' time to the current time. And you'll see it in the East staircase as you exit the State House. Be sure to take a good look at that story. It is a story of empowerment. It began with her back in the 19th century, but it has had many characters. So tonight we saw the ghosts of the State House. Women such as Edna Beard, the very first to take her seat in this chamber as soon as women had the right to vote, they sent Edna Beard here. And today 40% of our legislature are women. Important ways. For example, all four committee chairs that control the appropriations and the taxation are controlled by women. They're invested in their hands at this point. I think it's safe to say. And that's the story we celebrate downstairs. It's also the story that we celebrate tonight. With the help of our partners, the Friends of the Vermont State House, let's give them a round of applause. We've had a lot of partnerships with the Vermont Humanities Council. They put this program together tonight, and here to talk about it briefly is Tess Taylor, Director of Programs. Organizers of farmers are hosting the Vermont Humanities with our partners, the Friends of the Vermont State House, and the Call of Hover Library here in Montpelier for this evening's event. This honoring the 19th Amendment through word and song has been a real labor of love for quite a while. It's always a pleasure and honor to be here in the People's House surrounding by lawmakers, citizens, neighbors, and friends. So friends, let me talk about the people who helped make this possible. Our state-wide underwriter is the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Vermont Department of Libraries. Our Montpelier series underwriter is the period they'll work and download on. Our library partner is the Call of Hover Library, and the underwriter of this talk is the Cabot Cooperative, and there will be cheese afterwards. This program is a collaboration, a first, and a world premiere. The collaboration between Megmont, Constitution Scholar, and Mealy Bruce, composer, and also Constitution Scholar, and singers comprised of your neighbors, your legislators, and friends of Mealy from all sorts of places, Massachusetts, Connecticut, all here to lend their voices to this beautiful music. The first that's happening here is this is the first time that Mealy's compositions, setting the bill of rights to music, will have been performed in the state capital. And then the world premiere refers to the fact that you will be the first audience to hear Mealy's brand new composition, the 19th Amendment, some here, some anywhere. So I'd like to present our presenters' bios, and then I'll turn the program over to Megmont. So Mealy Bruce is a professor of music in American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is a composer, conductor, pianist, and scholar of American music. His largest work is entitled Convergence, commissioned by the American Composer's Forum as part of its continental harmony project. It premiered June 18, 2000 as part of the New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Bruce's opera, Hansel and Gretel, commissioned by Connecticut Opera, received its first performances as a chamber award for children in 1997. Megmont has been writing about the Constitution since she was a columnist for the Gretel World Reformer in the 1990s. She earned her first PhD in political science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she wrote her dissertation on the Spanish Inquisition. For the last 20 years, she has taught political theory and constitutional law at Marble College. Her opinions on due process and sexual misconduct cases have been published in The Washington Post, inside Higher Ed, and cited approvingly on Gretel. She is currently working on a good clash, the art of productive disagreement. I'm going to find my seat with the singers and make some takeover. Thank you very much, Kat. Thank you. Is my mic working okay? I'm having this amazing effect because I'm underneath the chandelier. First of all, I'm a little nervous, but second, there's this acoustic moment. So I feel very live right now. Is it too live for the rest of you? Oh, okay. Um, Amhert requires us to speak carefully, to be able to hear one another well. And that has something to do with the acoustics. I noticed today when I was sitting in the assembly that people who spoke rapidly lost some of their words. And that makes sense in a deliberative body. So there's something about the architecture here, which requires all of us to slow down and to be able to speak in such a way that everyone can hear us. I'm very excited to be here tonight because Pess, I think we spoke on the phone a year ago, and she had heard about the Debating Our Rights series that I've been doing in Bradwell, and I said to her on the phone, there's this guy in Connecticut. I haven't actually met him, but he is, I think, on the exact same wavelength that I am on, which is that the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, all of it belongs to us. And though I love, love, love, love, love lawyers, lawyers do not own the Constitution. Respect enormously all the Supreme Court justices, even the ones whose opinions I may not agree with. I respect their judgment, I respect their intellect, but even they do not own the Constitution. And something that's been happening in this country that is very, very sad, so sad, truly I'd be weeping right now, it's that a key element of our American constitutional system, which was the jury, which taught average citizens legal reasoning, which taught all people how important the law of laws is, hardly exists anymore. So I am just to give you a statistic, maybe some of you know the Seventh Amendment, there will be some quizzes later if I ask you exactly what amendment is at stake, but if you knew the Seventh Amendment, you might know it has something to do with civil juries and how important they are. And I'm just curious, does anybody know what percentage of civil juries in the federal system actually perform their duty? It's zero. Okay, it's under one percent about criminal juries or grand juries, the numbers are pretty sad. We have one person here from the ACLU, probably others. The key element, the word jury, shows up four times in the Constitution and they hardly exist in this country. However, nature abhors a vacuum. I'm seeing this production tonight as something like the jury. Of course, we have a composer. We're going to hear lots of voices. So it's been a very exciting thing for me to be able to be part of a citizen jury, spreading the word about the Constitution. I take this almost like a gospel. We're spreading the word of the Constitution and for everybody to have these words at their hand. Or in their diaphragm, which is what we're going to get tonight. Before we actually get going with the role premiered in 19, I want to just take this opportunity because it's always fascinating to talk to the composer. So Neely, can I ask you just a couple of questions? Sure. I do want to know. Can people hear Neely? Can people hear me now? Yes. Hi Neely. It's great to be here. Yeah, this is such a fun thing. It is. You do this and you wanted all these people to sing. What's the role? Well, I had sent the Bill of Rights to music and then I was asked to set the 19th Amendment to music. I was on the call. People have asked me to set other amendments to music. I've also set the 13th Amendment and I will be, that's one of the three reconstruction amendments that pertains to the slavery, the abolition of slavery, universal amendment and suffrage. And I've sent the process of setting the 14th and 15th. So I think that's going to be it. But who knows? I might, I have this, some wit and by playing up Sumo Suite, set the prohibition amendment back to back to the abolition of prohibition. And what about the preamble? Can I make a request? No, that's already been done. You wouldn't do that. No. Okay. Okay. Just playing the sentence and the preamble. I'm not in competition with that. Okay. And one other question I have is welcome to your mind. Thank you. Can I hear you? My mic is gone. My mic is gone. Sound, please. What? Take the lyrics. Oh, that means I'm going to need to do it for the duration perhaps. The technology. All right. I get it. We can share. So I'm just curious, what is some of your thinking as you're composing it? Because you don't just run through once. All sorts of other things are happening. And I'm curious, what is the musical thinking behind your compositions? This is a dangerous question to ask a composer, but I will be very brief. The Bill of Rights. Oh, yes. Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody. The Bill of Rights. Listen, the Bill of Rights, as you will hear, some of you are familiar with early American music, and specifically the music of William Billings. So the Bill of Rights is based on the musical style of William Billings and early American composers in general. But that seemed to be inappropriate for the 19th Amendment because it was not, that's not an 18th century text. That eventually gets adopted in 1920, as we know. So I thought, well, what would be an appropriate style? Well, some of you know about this, but there's a whole repertory of early 19th century and to mid 19th century pieces called Glee's. What is a Glee, G-L-E-E? It's what a Glee Club sings. And of course, Glee Club's not singing all kinds of things, but historically that's what they sang. A Glee Club is a group that sings Glee's. And this is a part of music, recreational music for men and women to sing together in the 19th century. And there are lots of goals of this kind of music. It's a somewhat different style. It's more of something like the style of heroin music later on in the 19th century. It's a little bit more relaxed. It's not so entrepreneurial as the style of William Billings. But even that is my model for this. And you'll hear, composers just repeat text because two reasons. One is if you repeat the text, you'll actually understand it eventually, which is true. And the other thing is you've got to make a larger piece of music anyway. It takes seconds to read the 19th and then it takes us about four minutes to sing it. Great. Thank you very much. All right. I guess, do I need to try the handheld? Okay. All right. I'm going to go with the handheld, which means I am now both hands are filled with technology and that's pretty much my max. So if anybody gives me another device, I'm calling over sideways. That's just going to have to be how it is. I wanted to get, before we start with the music, just a quick overview of what's going to happen. We're going to begin with the 19th. And then I want to bring in some voices from the past. Because the thing I like best about our Constitution is we may use the same words, but we don't agree on what they mean. We're a cantankerous species. We're a contentious species. And what I want to draw out are some of the arguments around the 19th Amendment. Now you may say, what are the arguments against the 19th Amendment? This is Vermont. We do not hear arguments against the 19th Amendment. Well, I'm hoping by the end of this evening, I will convince you that hearing the full debate is very, very useful. And not just hearing one side of the debate. So that's why I do this historical, let's go back and hear what the debate was all about. Then there will be a quiz. And I will be asking you questions about the Bill of Rights. My guess is we may have some help for you all to know what the Bill of Rights is, but I'm going to put you all on the spot. I am a college professor and I love to grill people. Then we will have a little bit of a discussion about the Bill of Rights and suffrage because voting is not necessarily a right. It doesn't show up in the Bill of Rights. So we'll have a bit of a discussion on the Bill of Rights and women's participation. And then we may find out how women change our understanding of the Bill of Rights, particularly the Ninth Amendment. Then I will ask you more questions. I will hope for a bit of a deliberation, a bit of a debate, and then we will end with the 19th Amendment. Again, we're going to begin at the end with this beautiful four-minute piece. So let us begin with the music to make sure that no state abridges the right to vote on a count. This is fantastic. A hundred years ago this happened, go team what we should be hearing, which is from state July 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as we might say in the trade, but she had some very impressive claims that she wanted to make to try and start a new revolution. I think Elizabeth Cady Stanton is in the house. Does she have a mic? It's this idea of coverture that when you married, all of your property went to be husband. So if you were unwed, it was usually your father who was in charge. Your property became the property of your husband. What else did you have to say? In the formation by which she had no voice. It has some other people supporting her. Let's see. This denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of women and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the meaning and repudiation of one half of the moral and intellectual power of the government, of the world. Frederick Douglass, because about you, 19th century, stood each other as having tremendous capacities.  And if we can't exercise certain powers, that light is dimmed about the franchise. It is opening up for women this capacity to be intellectual, to be moral. And the entire country is going to get and brighter. This is an old term. We don't talk about civic humanism anymore. But that's exactly what this idea is. So thank you, Frederick Douglass, for aligning us of our history of civic humanism. I think I know who wants to speak here. Four mother of my partner, who's why we have this name, been voting. And that's her response. Now you might think, oh my goodness, she had false consciousness. She had internalized the patriarchy. There must be something wrong with her. Who would she, Lucretia Mott, say this? Well, maybe it's because she had internalized this notion that if women were to get them, those things would happen. And this is what one magazine suggested for breach of promise. Because we all know what would happen if ladies, 19th century ladies, were able to vote, were able to sit on curies, were able to be judges. They would bring in the scoundrel, the rascal, who promised marriage and then ran off with the girl next door. In the minds of people as they're thinking about this, you let women take over. And it's going to be a soap opera. We can all count on it. But was that what Lucretia Mott had in mind? She says, we have to consider voting carefully. Instead of seeking to enlighten the public mind, you vote. You're prior to this, the suffrage is going to do anything. Men have the right to part in politics, state of government. And if we think 1848, Lucretia Mott and other abolitionists wanted things to change. They wanted to end the slave power. Many of them did not feed sugar, they did not work hard. And so this idea that life in politics is new will work better as well. It was corrupt. It was not just Lucretia Mott. We see who that is, but maybe you've heard of William Boyd Garrison. Constitution, I'm a constitution man. I love the fact that we have rule of law. I love the constitution in all its imperfections. But William Boyd Garrison said, Constitution is an agreement with hell. Constitution, don't tell me about voting. Don't tell me about trying to change things through the system. It will not work. It is too corrupt. As useful as your fingernail would be something superficial. It wasn't going to actually address the issue about how bad the system was. In 1848, when Lucretia Mott said, I don't really care about this voting. People are just going to go to polls and they're going to vote in warriors. Constitution, there is this clause. It was known as the Puget of Slave Clause, which is that if any slave got out of the slave states into free states that wherever they landed they need to be returned to their masters. It was a property understanding. The slave states thought that was not rigorous enough because people were not actually enforcing it. They passed the Puget of Slave Law. It's a powder keg and from there, not surprisingly, we go to Civil War. But I'm wanting to hold this out here. Before we get to the suffrage, there's a lot at stake. It's not just a simple matter. Why there was an argument about suffrage and about them and suffrage that was beyond perhaps the issue of voting itself. It was much bigger. I said there might be a quiz and I'm just curious which in the Bill of Rights actually gives anybody a right to vote. Is there anything in the Bill of Rights that gives anybody a right to vote? You know what amendment that is? Somebody's saying no. There is none. And somebody who's away, and you also not know if there's anything in the Bill of Rights about voting, it's amendment right. So we have something about voting in the 15th Amendment but nothing in the Bill of Rights in the programs for any sort of medical emergency or are we okay? Yeah, keep going knowing that people are doing what they need to do over there to take care of somebody who has some needs. So I think now may be a good time because I'm going to have lots more questions about things that maybe women could do that had nothing to do with voting. But before I will be with this question, is there anything that women had to vote that might show up in the Bill of Rights? It's a citizen. Even if they weren't voters. Speech. Excellent. Okay, so I'm going to turn it now back to the Coral. The first five amendments at this point. There will be two, the first half of the Bill of Rights. The second and third amendments are short and they will be summed as a single composition. So there will be four pieces of music. The first amendment, the second and third, the fourth and fifth. In terms of your marriage return to your seat, you're going for that traction today. But do you see any impact here in the Bill of Rights? Sorry, everybody, I got a little distracted and glad that we're going to be worked out. Before we go to our primer on the Bill of Rights, I wanted to just raise some other issues about the suffrage. And that is that the only way that any group of people in the United States have gotten the suffrage reliably is because they fought in a war. There was a big question, are people going to trust? And I don't know if you can make out that scene. There's two pictures there, side by side. It's Lady Liberty who's trying to decide who should vote. On the left are Confederate soldiers who are sitting at her knees just come in from the war. On the right is, and I'm sorry that the light isn't better here, but if you could make out that is in wounded black soldiers. So there's a question. Who shall I trust? These men issue to how people were going to give the vote to African-Americans. And it was because they had suffered greatly in the Civil War that it became impossible to argue against giving them the vote. At the exact same time, again I apologize that the lighting is a little hard to see these pictures, but that's from around the time after the Civil War, there are all these women who have taken care of soldiers who've changed their wounds, who've helped out with creating uniforms for them. So the question was, can't we trust these women? There was a big effort at that moment for giving franchise to African-Americans and also to women. It's a time in the country where one historian said it's when all the blacks were men and all the women were white. There started to be this strange coalition. It was working together really well. We stand in. I think she may still be here. I think she saw an opportunity of a strong heart and blue uniform of the black soldier to walk in by his side. What a great picture of people. Let's trust all those people. Soldiers, it turns out, the door was fairly narrow. Lionel felling to say against Lionel Phillips. Again, an abolitionist. He did not eat sugar. He did not wear cotton as somebody pointed out who was over there. Yes, it's the 15th Amendment. Three letters. S, E, S. Condition of servitude. Section two exactly the same language. The muscle. Section two. They were ready for that to happen. It did not happen. It's the first time, not the 15th, the 14th Amendment which comes right before that is the very first time the word male appears in the U.S. Constitution. A big step forward. It can do. It gives us that really important phrase equal protection under the law. It also says male. So we give and we take. It opens and it closes. Suffrage at this time. Women occupy absolute fear. Frichemont said, I swear in these chambers, it's dirty. Frichemont said, be careful what you ask for, ladies. People have something in common. Because they were understood to either be under this way of their father for why women could not get the vote. It would just magnify the votes of married men. So that was not going to be a good idea. So yes, you give votes and I'll say you vote. So there was this idea that giving women a vote and then not only would they have no power, they'd use their special powers to make sure things go in our way. That was a great vote. This is the key one. And this is still the law of the land. If you read the Bush v. 2000 U.S. Supreme Court of Felons in many states, not this one, there are ways in which a person can lose their right to vote. It is not a natural right. And if you notice that 19th Amendment has now been put to music so beautifully, it says I love rich. The idea is what did it mean for women to vote. Right here, in just a second in 18th should get the vote. We will have pure legislation. Fewer tippling shops this way. This country buy women using some of their other rights laws. And this was an argument for why you wanted women to vote. You would have less behavior. Exactly. She said it in 1866. She said it in 1898. Maybe she was at her wedding for trying to get women's vote. And why, time and again it could not happen. But we understand of how people get the suffrage. It is often somebody else's expense. We can't stand this. Now, we can get back to our bill of rights questions. So women may have not had a vote, but they must have had other rights. My earlier quiz at least at the First Amendment. Are there other rights you think in the bill of rights? Just curious that women had assembly. Exactly. Very important. Which amendment is that from? The third? Or was it the fourth? Or was it the first? No. It's not the term that we use in the United States. We use the word suffragettes because usually suffragette was used in a drive to our way. So put that on your calendar for 2020 and suffragettes not suffragettes. Is a suffragette legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters which open conventions to write women's suffrage into state elections. That's the first against, again, with assembly. Women's suffrage plans in party platforms. If the amendment you want to run to it'll take you through the whole life cycle of being a citizen. The first one is about religion. You get to have the largest questions about life. Then it goes to speech. You get to say them to one another. Even publish them in the press. Assembly to build your political ideas. And then you petition the government for grievances. There's a reason you all just like hit that again and again because you showed us the life cycle of a citizen. They were meaning voting in order to actualize themselves as citizens. But whether they won in 1849 or won in 1888 who cares through the first amendment? Let's just hold that out. The first amendment is an awesome amendment. If you saw the movie Harriet there's Harriet Tubman. And then there's the Nancy Hart militia from Georgia of 1865. That was a militia in the Confederacy. What amendment were these ladies holding on to? And a lot of people would not have been able to say. So, hey, I consider it a step forward that the second amendment is better understood. Okay, this is your trick question for this section of the Bill of Rights quiz. I'm just like this. I could lead over, but I can't do my hair the way she could do her hair. And she told us something very important about the private sphere. Which is men's freedom is women's realm of collective subordination. Which is a total reframe on anybody know? I'll give you a hint. You see what that welcome man said. Actually, I would like the officer to come through the door and he beats the blank or secure it in their home is completely misrepresenting. At least that was the argument that people like Katherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin made. I see ladies, it's not going to work now. But the fourth amendment is something that women had to think about. But because we only heard the first because I'll take a slate of rights the fact that women has totally changed how we understand one of them. And we'll wait to see which one that is. basketball basketball basketball basketball soccer basketball basketball basketball CNN MAINT was supposed to be here but because of the weather but thank all all of you. time they are true or sane. What could be a better, we'll hear more about the Tenth Amendment in just a minute, but what could be a better image of the state's rights of women than four different voices saying singing four different things and four different fuel passages. In the score it says if William Billings had written a quadruple few it might sound something like this. In 17 people are reserved to the state's respect of the... ...juries. There was a year and she came home, there was a divorced and then remarried. He was a philanderer. I read all these things in the paper. Quite significantly he wasn't any details, but she's hauled into the pokey. He exempted women from jury duty. The second degree and the jurors were all malation of my 14th Amendment protection. Those decisions. I think we have a justice harrowing in the house, as I've made a decision to justice harrowing. Despite the enlightened emancipation of women from the restrictions and protections of bygone years, in their entry into many parts of community life, formally considered to be reserved to men. Women is still regarded as a center of home and family life. Exactly. Thank you very much Justice Harland. 1961 it was still understood that if a woman was to be called to a jury it would be too disruptive to her home. The 6th Amendment worked for women. They had the vote in the 1920s. Change the Bill of Rights. Here's a picture from the 1970s that shows one sign you can't read it because it's off the screen, but it's vote-baby voting. And the other is voting is people power. The Bill of Rights, particularly the 9th Amendment. Probably one of the more known of the Supreme Court decisions is Roe v. Wade. Thank you. Yes. For control? That's one of his control over the development and expression of one's intellect. Oh, he must have left. It's fine. Not to mention he leaves these things around so he can find them on the wall. The 9th Amendment's reservation of rights to the people is broad enough to encompass whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. Her intention in second wave feminism about privacy. We heard earlier Catherine McKinnon's concern that privacy made women more vulnerable in the home. In 1973 Justice Blackburn said the 9th Amendment, which she by saying so beautifully, that's the one I like to sing to myself before I go to sleep at night. The 9th Amendment is consoling. Well, here we have an understanding of it, of the privacy. It's now not just within a person's home. It's within a person's self. It's ambulatory privacy. Also, perhaps remember that Catherine McKinnon was not so keen on the Roe v. Wade decision. Because she thought it actually made life easier for the Philanderers, the Pernon-Refers. Then the consequences of their Philandering were not as real. So that's what I like about human beings. They never stay in their fixed orders. They find other reasons to disagree with each other within those orders. So, you've been so patient. Thank you so much. So, here's the control over the development and expression of one's intellect, interest, tastes, and personalities. So, here's the, which is very individualistic. Freedom of choice is the basic decisions of one's life, respecting marriage, divorce, procreation, contraception, and the education and upbringing of children. So, here's an argument for within the home domestic issues, but it is also the basic decisions of one's life so that it's not just gender. He wants to expand what the Ninth Amendment can mean. And here's my favorite. Freedom to care for one's health and person. Freedom from bodily restraint or compulsion. Freedom to walk, stroll, or loathe. I want to think about, in relationship to the Tenth Amendment, Justice White. Here I am. In Progressive Vermont, Justice White. Anyway, I appreciate you coming back for this. I find no constitutional warrant for imposing such an order of priorities on the people and legislatures of the states. This issue should be left with the people and to the political processes that people have devised to govern their affairs. Right. So, here we have an argument for states' rights who say, with the states, it would not have become so contentious, changing their laws. The Supreme Court comes in, knocks down everything, and certain states get very angry. And that's where we have this building of a religious right against abortions where Canadians had gone with the states, it would not have been so contentious. That's a strange thing to say in 2020. However, this is me always on the right side, if Roe gets overturned, it'll go back to the states. And we'll see what happens. Questions before we get to hear the Nineteenth Amendment again? Did politics ruin living? That was a big question. For a bunch of different reasons. Did they ruin living? No? Okay. Issue. It would say to violence. Yes. Mixed by hearing myths. Mixed myths. Yes. Wherever I am. And here's my final one from Lucretia Mott to Enlightenment. Read. Have them all seen. And have them all. Is it we do politics? Not to, but to enlighten the public mind. It's an old idea. I think we could still use it. So those are things with another, because that's really what we came here to hear. We can supply you with it.