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My name is Jackie Hauke. I am from Northeastern University and I'm majoring in international affairs with a minor in criminal justice and Russian. I was looking for an institution that was highly regarded in international relations with a more regional focus because generally you take courses and it's very broad on the subject but I was looking to study more the Middle East, Asian and African studies which you don't get that perspective really anywhere else. I've got to say I didn't know about SOAS before I came here. I was researching what universities to go to and specifically in my field of study international relations. It's always nice to get a different regional perspective on contemporary issues and I feel like this is definitely the place to learn about conflict and development or international law and Middle East studies, African studies. They have so much that they offer and even for a summer course it's a good way to dive into a new area for a short period of time that you wouldn't normally experience otherwise. Everyone's so passionate about specific issues and just world events and everyone I feel like is driven towards activism here and I really like that back home it's not like that. I really like the small classroom environment. We do a lecture and tutorials so the lecture you get general information and then I really like the tutorial style where I had never previously done that where you get to engage with the reading material and just learn more in-depth about just different perspectives on issues. It was so diverse of ages, ethnicities, cultures, genders. People were expertise in their field for my course international law. We had a lawyer in our class and coming from like little previous experience on the subject it was interesting to just hear their take on the subjects and hear their expertise. It was a very nice balance of fun and culture along with the studies. London just has so much culture and energy to it. We would go to the touristy sites and go to a museum each weekend so you get a good balance. The activities we did, like the radio workshop, the banner making workshop, all those different ones I think helped bring people together and also the welcome day, the river cruise was quite fun, I did it twice. I would love to do work with international law after taking this course or law in general. So I think it was good to just understand what you'd like and what you don't like and it is a three-week course so it goes by so fast but you really feel like you gain a general knowledge of the subject and just specific issues that maybe spark your interest. It's just such a diverse and vibrant community so you do find your people here and I think everyone's just very motivated and it's a great environment to be in especially if you're just a driven student and you want to make a difference in the world.


Hey everyone, this is Dan with another episode of my video on interest rates and the TMF ETF. In my video last month, I said TMF would be a good investment. Indeed, the shares of TMF that I bought since November 1, 2023 averaged 34% gain already. I believe TMF can easily double in the next year. The Fed has been raising the Fed funds rate since March of 2022 in order to reduce inflation. But since August of 2023, the Fed has kept the Fed funds rate at 5.33% because inflation rate has come down substantially from a few months ago. The Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, of the Federal Reserve Banks have said that they would be decreasing the Fed funds rate soon if the economic data continued to point to low inflation. Let's talk about why we can profit from this trend by buying TMF. Oh, by the way, you might notice that I'm using the Christmas colors here because if I made the right moves, I could be giving myself a nice Christmas present with the return on my stock and ETF portfolio. I hope the same can happen to you. Merry Christmas. Ho, ho, ho. The Fed funds rate is a key to our discussion here. Let's see what we know about the future of the Fed funds rate. The FOMC publishes this dot plot chart every quarter. The chart shows each FOMC member's prediction of where the Fed funds rate will be in the future. This is a dot plot chart published in September. And this is a chart published just a few days ago on December 13, 2023. As we can see, the prediction for year end 2023 came down a little bit between September and December, the same with the year end 2024 prediction and 2025 prediction. In other words, the Fed funds rate will be coming down. In a few minutes, we'll talk about how soon the rate will come down. Let's talk about the TMF ETF, which is the financial instrument that I believe will help me make a lot of profit in the next few months. TMF and its inverse twin TMV are leveraged funds maintained by Derexia. According to the Derexian definition, these two ETFs are daily 20-plus-year Treasury bull and bear 3x shares that seek daily investment results before fees and expenses of 300 percent or 300 percent of the inverse of the performance of the ICE US Treasury 20-plus-year found index. TMF is a bull ETF. That means the value of TMF will go up when the market value of the Treasury bound goes up or when the prevailing interest rate goes down. What are the top holdings of TMF? According to Derexian, 71.96 percent of TMF's holdings is TLT, which is another ETF. And the TLT ETF's top holding is US Treasuries. Let's see how the price of US Treasuries has been moving. As we can see here, the price of the 30-year US Treasury has been moving up when the Fed Funds Rate was moving up in most of 2023. As the Fed Funds Rate became flat starting in August of 2023, the 30-year rate started to go down after October 19, 2023. Looks like the market was already pricing in the future decrease in Fed Funds Rate. We see the same pattern with the 20-year rate and the same pattern with the 10-year rate. Let's see how TMF has been moving. As you can see, TMF has indeed been going up since October 23, 2023. In fact, TMF has gone up 72.1 percent already since October 23, which is certainly very impressive. If you like what you've seen so far in this video, please remember to click the like, subscribe and notification buttons. It'll allow you to get notification when I post a new video or when I send a new message day-to-day in the YouTube Community section. It'll also help with the YouTube ranking algorithm. Thank you very much. Let's continue. We have a lot of important stuff to cover. If you look at the value of TMF in the last 10 years, you can see that it peaked at 583 back in early 2020, not including the short spike in early 2020. The high value of TMF was at about 460. Its value today is 65. In other words, if TMF goes back to the early 2020 level, it'll be a 598 percent gain. Now even if it recovers just half of its value, we're still looking at potentially about 300 percent gain, which is pretty nice. Let's look into how TMF has been moving with the Fed Funds Rate. The blue line here is the Fed Funds Rate. The green line is TMF. When the Fed Funds Rate was getting reduced during the COVID pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020, TMF went up. You can see that the movement of TMF preceded the movement of the Fed Funds Rate by at least three months. When the Fed Funds Rate started to go up in March of 2022, TMF started to move down more than six, seven months sooner. Even when the Fed Funds Rate flat now in August of 2023, TMF did not reverse direction until about two months later. My conclusion is that when the Fed Funds Rate starts to go down in the next few months, TMF will certainly continue to go up and that TMF won't stop going up until at least six, seven months before the Fed Funds Rate stopped going down. So for how long would the Fed Funds Rate be going down? According to the BAP plot chart, the Fed Funds Rate will most likely keep going down until 2026 or beyond. The TMF Fed Watch Tool is not a good indication of where the Fed Funds Rate will be going. The TMF Fed Watch Tool is the likelihood that the Fed will change the federal target rate at upcoming FOMC meetings according to interest rate traders. Based on this indicator, the probability of a 0.25% rate reduction for January 31, 2024 is only at 10.3%, but for March 20, 2024 the probability is 60.5% for rate reduction of 0.25% or more. For June 12, 2024 the probability goes up to 99.6% for rate reduction of 0.25% or more. Now that we know it is very likely that the Fed Funds Rate will be going down and that TMF will continue to go up in the next few months, let's apply technical analysis to help set our trading strategies. We can see that TMF has been going up since late October and is slightly above the upper ball in Japan as of today. The RSI value is above 70, which is very high. That means TMF is overboard for now. Typically both DMI and MACD are bullish, with the Fed Funds Rate going down, TMF will certainly go up in the next few months. But from day to day I see the possibility of TMF zigzagging between the middle and the upper ball in Japan. The reason why is because if you look back to May through July of 2023 when everybody knew the Fed Funds Rate was going up, TMF was indeed trending down, but it did zigzag between the middle and the lower ball in Japan. Typically when RSI was near 30 back in May of 2023, TMF reversed direction and started to head up. Now that RSI is above 70, I won't be surprised if TMF reverses direction in the next few days and starts to head down towards the middle ball in Japan before heading up again. By the way, the increasing trade volume of TMF in the last couple months means TMF is becoming more and more popular among investors. So what are my strategies? I bought TMF on November 1st, 2023 and I bought more TMF shares on November 1st, November 16th, November 28th and November 30th. Overall, my TMF shares already averaged 34.75% gain as of today, which is pretty nice. I might buy more TMF shares at lower RSI values, so that'll be at least a few days from now if I will be buying more. Even though I expect TMF to go up in the next year, I will observe short-term ups and downs of the chart and will shrink trade some of the shares to maximize my profit. I will monitor economic data such as CPI, core CPI, PPI, unemployment numbers, FOMC, dot-plots, etc. in order to predict where the Fed funds rate will be moving. I will post in the YouTube community section and will inform my Twitter or X subscribers almost on a databases about my latest market analysis and my trades. At this point, I'd like to suggest that you subscribe to my Twitter account in addition to subscribing to my YouTube channel. My Twitter or X account is DanMarketL. For example, on November 4th, I tweeted that I bought TMF on November 1st and November 3rd because I expect the 20-year rate to go down in the next few months. And then on November 11th, I tweeted that I bought more TMF and I expected the long-term T-rays to drop in the next few months. On November 14th, I sold BX Blackstone at 6% gain and I also sold some TMF at 0.5% gain. On November 28th, I tweeted that I bought more TMF shares. Starting about a month ago, I also posted the same messages in my YouTube community section. Thank you for watching all the way to here. I'd like to remind you again to click the like, subscribe, and notification buttons. As usual, I will very much appreciate your questions, comments, and suggestions. So what are my strategies? I bought TMF on November 1st, 2023 and I bought more TMF shares on November 1st, November 16th, November 28th, and November 30th. Overall, my TMF shares already averaged 34.75% gain as of today, which is pretty nice. I might buy more TMF shares at lower RSI values. So that'll be at least a few days from now if I will be buying more. Even though I expect TMF to go up in the next year, I will observe short-term ups and downs, up the chart, and will swing trade some of the shares to maximize my profit. I will monitor economic data such as CPI, core CPI, PPI, unemployment numbers, FOMC.plots, et cetera, in order to predict where the Fed funds rate will be moving. I will post in the YouTube community section and will inform my Twitter or X subscribers almost on a databases about my latest market analysis and my trade.


Welcome to my latest review of the Forbidden 2020 Manifesto and today I'm going to be looking at transport. Now while this may not sound like the most exciting policy area, it actually is crucial and it's one of those where you can really, common sense, again a common sense to me is the answer to most of life's problems, short, tough, we don't have to move mountains none of this is brain surgery or rocket science but these are crucial steps we need to take. So this is quite a short area, policy area but vital. So as with the other videos I'll have a quick read through and add a little bit of commentary. So for Britain believes it is time to give motorists a break. Some of you may know I've only just become a motorist and I know I look way too old for that. I am way way too old for that. But already I can see how expensive it is, how difficult it can be to find parking and I do think it's time to give the ever-boredened motorist a break. It goes on to say motorists are ever more bored and owning a car is becoming ever more expensive parking prohibitively so and this is particularly the case in city centres. If you've ever tried to park in London, for example, you'll know. If you've ever tried to park in Birmingham, Manchester you'll know. But even in smallish towns it's getting ridiculous. I live in a fairly small town and you have to pay to go to the local supermarket. It gets a bit much. On the flip side of that of course public transport is often completely inefficient and overcrowded. Again, if you've ever been on the Tube in London at eight o'clock on a weekday morning you'll know what I mean when I say this is unhealthy. If you've ever travelled from Northern City to Northern City early in the morning you'll know what I'm talking about. This is unhealthy. We are crammed into overcrowded carts and shipped around the country like cargo. It's got to improve. We have a mental health crisis in this country and there are so many things adding to it and I'm sorry but this is one, our inability to get around with ease is having a profound effect on us. So public transport must be improved particularly across the nation in between cities and what I'm largely referring to there are Northern cities. Transport between the towns and cities of the north of England are mission honestly it's like undertaking a mission sometimes. All efforts must be made to improve services and keep commuter costs down. In 2018 rail bosses received a six percent pay rise while commuters were hit with a three percent increase in fares. I spoke about this at the beginning of the year because every January we see a rail increase and every January we hear about no corresponding improvement in services. This is part of the disempowerment of the consumer that I've been talking about quite a bit lately. It's disempowering to watch the money being taken out of your pockets almost like the Brexit vote isn't it. We went out and we voted and then they tried their best not to implement that vote you feel powerless. It's the same feeling you get as a consumer when money goes out of your pocket time and time and time again and you're getting nothing it back in return it's profoundly disempowering and it has to change. Britain's taxi service must also undergo radical improvement and this is a flagship policy for us. We introduced a taxi service policy last year which written by a taxi driver fantastic policy again none of this is rocket science. None of it requires us to move mountains. It's a simple stuff and you think to yourself there really are simple answers to these to these issues so why are we paying so many politicians so much money to not come up with the answers. Britain's taxi service must also undergo radical improvement with safety and the ability of drivers to make decent living at the forefront as priorities. British taxi drivers are being priced out of the of the market you know they're already artificially low the price the cost of a taxi because British drivers are trying to compete often with illegal immigrants which is profoundly unfair but also with generally with an oversupply of drivers licensing is an issue in the taxi driver who wrote this he tells us about strange numbers of licenses being given out in certain towns people get being given license in one town and then traveling to another town to to ply the trade there it needs regulation it really really does. So for Britain will increase the speed limit on motorways to 80 miles an hour fairly self-explanatory but move us on a little bit impose speeding punishments only if the driver exceeds the speed limit by five miles an hour or more that is you know speeding laws that are speeding fines etc not to raise money for for the local authority but they are to keep speed in check and it's pretty easy to go over by a mile or two. End HS2 and invest in railways. I will link to an article below that I did last week about HS2 so so so much money I mean they projected cost to more than double what they were when they started into billions and billions of pounds and it achieves so little we could use that money the money still you know the idea that it's a waste of money to stop now we would save so much more than we've already spent and as the projected cost keep going up we would also avoid that we could completely revitalize the railways across this country using the money we're wasting on HS2 it's pretty infuriating. Provide two hours free parking in town centres again none of this it requires us to move mountains but this can have a profound effect it can help small business local business it can help the sense of community people are more likely to meet up in the town centre for a cup of coffee if they have free parking these are small measures that can revitalize a high street so let's do them. Ensure all taxi drivers have been legally resident in the UK for at least two years this is an attempt to keep illegal immigration out of the taxi service. Ensure all taxi drivers hold a license from the UK or Republic of Ireland obtained by taking the full driving test in the UK or Republic of Ireland that's fairly simple to understand too we want a certain standard of driving ability. Ring fence, road tax for use in the improvement of roads only. Again we pay our taxes for the roads let's use them on the roads and to this to add to this these toll bridges should be abolished we're already paying for our roads and in a similar vein charge foreign vehicles for use on British roads. Ensure all taxi drivers satisfy a copy hints of DOB check formally CRB check this is a criminal records check going back 10 years and if they can't go back 10 years they can't be taxi drivers we want to know who is driving our taxis. Ensure all taxi drivers are able to speak English and pass a national standardised English test I think it's reasonable entirely entirely reasonable for people in the service industry in an English speaking country to speak English we must have the confidence that they can understand what we're saying it's it's quite difficult when you're speaking to someone who's providing you with a service and you're not you're not confident that they understand what you're saying or that you that they yeah that they understand what you're saying or that you understand what they're saying and you get this you get this problem you get this communication breakdown and communication is key it's crucial so we want our taxi drivers to speak English finally ensure that licensing fraud or any fraud committed by drivers in the establishment of a taxi service is punishable with a prison sentence and or deportation for non-British citizens again we require people to obey the law and as I said earlier Ian the chap who wrote this policy was telling us about a hugely disproportionate number of licenses being handed out in certain in certain local authorities which are then used by drivers to travel around the country I said on a Friday and Saturday night and take trade from drivers in that area the whole thing needs looking at and needs regulation and as I said none of this is is particularly difficult is a simple common sense measures that will have a huge impact and that is the identity of for Britain if you like these policies if you like any of our policies get on board for Britain dot UK better yet join us join us and let's take this country forward to common sense solutions it's all we need


Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Quentin Brice, recently visited the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii to pay her respects to the fallen troops buried there and to discuss Australia's strong partnership with the US military. Please stand for the arrival of the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Her Excellency Quentin Brice and Mr Brice. What I want to say to you is how honoured I am to be here at this sacred place, to honour the service and sacrifice of American Defence personnel. We share a very special bond, a very strong alliance and we understand how much this very significant memorial means to your country as it does to ours. Strong bonds were forged in wartime in World War I but strengthened of course in this part of the world during World War II where we served together in very many battles, lost many of our Defence personnel. It's a wonderful thing for me to be here to pay tribute to that friendship that aligns. From the Defence Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer James Stollepack.


The tipping point, how little things can make a big difference, is a non-fiction book which explains how revolutionary new ideas, products or trends, spread quickly in society, almost in the same way viruses do. These new developments silently get acceptance or momentum before reaching a critical moment, a tipping point at which they start to affect society at an incredibly fast rate. The main theme of the book is, little changes can have huge effects. The involvement of just a small number of people can have a profound impact on society. This concept is exemplified in the book by a number of fascinating cases related to fashion, business, crime, suicide and smoking. The tipping point became an immediate success after its publication in 2000. It has been a number one New York Times bestseller and has been widely translated into different languages. The book writer Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author and speaker. His works make extensive reference to academic research and he's particularly interested in exploring the subtle implications of social sciences and psychology. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to social and literary arenas, he was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011, the second highest order for merit in Canada.


Hi, everyone. My name is Prakar. I'm here from Common Flour to demo our maps as you guys. So Common Flour is basically a real estate online portal where we focus on three main needs of the Indian real estate consumer. Namely, they are buying, selling and renting of properties and helping apartments manage themselves and some real estate content articles and things like that. So let me get straight to the demo. Where would you guys like to stay in Bandar?  So the normal property search that we had, this was the main problem that people could not visualize, especially people who are coming new to the city of Bandar. Like say, for example, our friend over here. So our map search puts all the properties on the map which make visualization very easy. So let me start with the demo. So as you see, it's pretty simple. We've got a very small form over here for sale for rent, city and locality. So once you select a city, like right now I've selected only Bandar. So then it tells me the overall bird's eye view. So as I keep zooming in, it keeps dividing that one place into multiple zones and regions that we have. So when you go on each of these, you can see how many properties are available. So as far as I clicked on one of them, the net is pretty slow. Let me take this example over here. So this is zoomed in into one of the regions. So as you can see, this is a polygon where we actually demarcate the area that this is where the area lies. And if you click on any one of these again, it keeps zooming in until it finally reaches the actual property or the apartment. So like as you can see over here, we have a lot of data related to apartments. So we group the properties to the actual apartment. So if there are multiple properties in an apartment, they all come as one marker. See two apartments. And similarly, so like that you can use this and open the full listing detail page. That's where all the information about that listing is available. So as I said before, the apartment information is also there. So you can correlate to the nearby places that are there and what are the amenities available in the apartment, especially for a new person who doesn't know anything about the area. So suppose say he's joined an ITPL. So he comes and he knows only that Whitefield exists and he has to find a place which is close by to his office. So using this map search, he's easily able to find out and figure out like, okay, our school is here, my child will go to the school. So I need to find a place which exists between these two. So it becomes very simple. Search for Whitefield right now. Most of our geo data comes from Google. We use a reverse geo coding and things like that. So there are errors like Bellandour is marked inside the lake. So I mean, this is just the first iteration. And since we met a Google person over here as well, we're trying to build up. It's just for this one. I mean, you guys got that just a bit. Thank you. Any questions? How did you get this data? Like I said, we have a large database of apartments and for the apartments, our own data team maps the geocode. And once we find out that the listing actually exists in that apartment, we use the apartment geocode for the listing over there. The apartment geocode from the library. And it's a live process. And we also use Google's reverse geo coding. So that sometimes needs to not give such a good business. So why don't we ask the apartment developers to use an android for the listing? Like I said before, common floor has multiple things. One of the things is helping apartments manage themselves. So we have our own software which helps manage their internal things. So once an apartment comes to that stage, then we add a lot of data regarding it like floor plans and things like that. So along with that, the geocode is also there. Another question, there is a lot of information we actually get from the listing when a person puts in a listing, including the geocode of the apartment that he stays in. So we have a process where we actually sort of take the feedback and then sort of supply it and push it by the Amazon. So the question is, if you are using an automatic geocoder, it's likely not going to be more secure. So it's very easy to make it from place to place. We will have that also when the user is posting a listing, he can choose his position on that. So Tanya, you can just browse in a particular area. I mean, not exactly, you can search directly, you can type the name of the locality or the apartment and you can go directly to that place. Also, if you zoom out to the say country level, then you can see a whole lot of data as in which cities have how many listings. But obviously these are only what we have very, very strong. So this 10,000 that you see is Bangalore, this is Chennai and these are all other small cities with the same listings as a whole. We use Apache Solar in the backend that's a search engine. It supports GeoHash and things like that. But as of now, this implementation does not use GeoHash. There is a feature in Solar called Face Sets which groups is somewhat like group by what you did on your website. Yeah, so in JavaScript totally, actually we are not using Google's own markers because they have some problems. And we could not put a large amount of text like these bubbles are bigger and these are smaller. So everything is custom done, it's an overlay on top. And we're using X and Y coordinates to plot it on the map. Yeah, we are considering it now after. Sorry? Yeah, I was wondering how you guys did the marker clustering. Is that part of the Google maps? The markers are all written by us along with clustering. How does the clustering happen? That's that. So there's a new scene based on it. We actually use the lag log to figure out how far it's from the airport. People lie about those things, right? We are not doing them but like map search version 2 is still in the pipeline. We don't have a lot of features planned. One of the listings we are reviving was in Kolmangalai, it's like 30 kilometers from the airport. You know the Skirogalai, you know Skirogalai? You know Skirogalai? You know Skirogalai? You know Skirogalai? I don't use it so often but I've just seen it once. They normally use a radial search, like they actually use G-orange. So they only show the listings within that area. I'm not afraid of to compare. I'm still in the process of finding a place for myself. Personally, I use this because it helps me see, even in my, I can see that. No, I don't have an account on common flow. And the only thing that I get from common flow is that. I think the other thing about this is that, you know, one of my cousins had come from Bombay, and we were searching all over the place between Guatemala and Iran. And the really good houses, they say don't get listed anywhere. So... That's not something we can take out. That's our problem, I guess. Any other questions? Thank you.


Hi everybody, I am Matthew Miller and this is a Fedora council video meeting as I say every time the Fedora council tries to conduct our business You know Asynchronously on mailing lists on our discussion forum those kind of places a chat We have an awesome new Experiment coming up where we're going to be using matrix element for our chat instead of IRC. So That's going to be cool But once a month we try to have kind of a high band with discussion Where we focus on some aspect of the project that is you know interesting going well sometimes not going so well And figure out you know what we can learn from that and what we can do to help So today we have Alex Alberto and Efron from Fedora, Mexico And they're going to talk about initiatives there and hopefully again, we can learn some things and Figure out how we can help. So welcome everybody. Thank you, man Hello As I understand it there is a presentation with slides and this time We've been asked for a few questions till the end So I'm happy to absorb the presentation and I'm sure we'll all have lots of questions. So take it away Let me thank you much And you see my screen now Yep Yes, awesome Hello, everybody. I'm Alberto. He is Alex and a friend. We are from Mexico At this time we Will talk about the Mexican Fedora community How we rebuild the local community from Well, you know our story about how we are building this community in Mexico So will we start with the next slide please Alex Okay, this is a image image from the Or one of our release parties are most People in the Red Hat Mexican Office What we have here We are focused on only Many things in the negatives, but we had a lot of stories from From the our community by example that we have a friend a friend was on one of the of the most Famous ambassadors in Mexico. 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They have very hard to have this but we Steals up To do I'm Alex and so who can be really better Yeah We try to build the intercommunity bridges as a community Of course, we know that we are immersed in a more complex ecosystem And we need to start to interact with another project like like belated. It's a community from of woman's in Python developers and growth in Mexico with all participation from some developers of trust and of course a Local universities we want to do some events in all universities as possible And take these workshops today to the other people that we can Maybe proof that can see skills in our community. We start with some Presentation or worship about how we can do Maintain package maintainer and something like that But we need a maybe implemented an adoption of package program we have an idea that Do some program about a Increase the maintaining of the package with all the community members and Where we are looking for liking impact this package We are looking for help wanted activities and make it in an event. Maybe a qa test days or relation is print to have involved or community in this event and Increase the participation of in the project directly and well We don't know if the right formula to convert the peddler uses to a peddler contributors, but we are researching it as My partner and friend a friend says we do a hard work but We still need to do much more And That's that's our presentation. I don't know if you have some Questions or comments Thank you that that's great. I particularly like the screen full of all the different I guess YouTube things and events. That's an impressive array of things. So that's that's awesome to see I Have a quick question just kind of going backwards of the test a thing you just mentioned Would that be participating in existing test days or are you thinking of setting up like local area focused like Mexico? Group test days, which would also be fine. What what kind of thing are you looking for there? Yeah maybe We have an event that we do some test some test day in one day in one location What when pandemic allows right? Yeah? We're planning hits and maybe do some worship of universities something like that we start with Worship about the maintain package, you know, how the RPMs are building how you can be a maintainer of package and Maybe in this same format we can do the same in in the universities too I don't know maybe enable some some guys students to do the same and participate and I don't know they They like these activities Alberto you raised your hand We also have Insider in the QA team is Sumato he Passes the date of the next the QA day days this days and And and at this moment we are looking for make Evans the summary it's the same date of the test day to make this for the global community Running it in a local With the local people so we can get more people for more use case from a lot of people from the community and Help the QA team from the test day and in general Okay, so it sounds like you already have that connection So I don't I don't I don't need to make a to-do item to do that. So That's good to hear I guess my other question was actually kind of touched on here the pandemic How are you keeping things going and it seems like a lot of this is focused on local meet-ups Which is which is awesome because those personal connections are good How are you keeping this going through you know lockdowns and quarantines and everything else? Yes, since maybe March or May I think What's what The last March they think March. Yeah, maybe from April or Something like that We partnered with some friends that work in in a magazine a software guru, you know This magazine Improved the the streaming here in Mexico and they help us to to a streaming to Yeah From his channel to all the world, you know in YouTube Twitch and Facebook They record or meeting were written meeting and then We have some repository. It's just a couple of links where you can see all the the meetings and they record and give us the link and We put in the repository to be able to all the all the community Yeah, even today we have our last Virtual meeting of the year. We have a Christmas meeting Talking about the same article in the federal magazine about the LVM So It was a very Help us this to partner with this magazine the software guru. We are appreciate a lot Of course the key of all Making the meetings in the pandemics and this back them in pandemics time was the communication from inside of nor telegram growth from The met up for publishing our events and This magazine software guru canvas with the streaming making it available for everyone and Also publish it with professional Editing and a lot of things about like that This is helping use for maintaining the interest in the group and also communicate all the questions all the Big ideas from the group and Maintain the community rolling out No matters the pandemic or no is Is here What so what was what is the name of this magazine because I'm gonna type it in the chat so I can see it written software guru Okay, it's a local magazine He has the events from all the flows communities in Mexico and also Promoting a lot the open source Free software in Mexico Latin America That that sounds awesome. It sounds like they deserve some special. Thanks from us for that. So that's cool Yeah Even of that That allows for to have some international guests like my best friend Edward Lucerna that is present here. Hi and Some other people that if we don't use this this help, I don't know how we can do that A friend told about in the federal women's day. We have participated from Tatica from Venezuela and very talented guru in EA Susie from Germany and that's that's what's awesome from the students. Yeah in the federal ones. They I Think we have a heat a very heat. It's a we are very proud about this this event As you should be yeah, it's awesome I've got lots more questions, but I want to give room for somebody else to ask some Don't I'll speak at once though. I I Matthew you got you got my first question about coved, but I said I had a question just one What advice would you give to other local organizers who want to start or? Restart a community in another country or another local community Okay, I think the key of the success of the That was a success of the community in Mexico was we are working together. We are a team We are no more working alone Sometimes sometimes I go a friend by example make a lot of evidence a lot of events alone Yeah That evidence don't have the impact that we have now building this rebuilding this community from a team of contributors from the project and We are trying to Make the people feel part of the Fedora project not only the Fedora Mexico communities, you know All might be very part of the failure the Fedora project in general the global project is Is part of work don't work alone work on teams with another contributors of your country And make the people feel part of the Fedora project be part of 17 something More than the local community work in the community post both point to Contribute to contribute in the Fedora project in general Yeah, a friend mr. Kraken as we know it here. It's a very famous people in the community in Mexico All the the famous people in Mexico about the IT they know it and know his work and so it's just Come on and bring together all the See Okay, I muted them I I don't know what they were saying there because I do not speak Spanish I Kind of picked up bits and pieces that but I was very confused what it had to do with this if that needs to be censored from the video Let me know yeah, I Think he's watching TV or something like that Okay, so yeah If I miss very famous in here in Mexico and it's just easy to say hey come on come with me and do a group And this effort be bring together and make a team and we see in the in the slides in the presentation We take some basic steps first step come come together all the famous people like that likes Fedora Join us and and then we start to the meetings and then we create some events there is We're still working on that we we know that We need to do more participation Not just for the community not just for the shared knowledge even Do a contribution contribute more to the project This does the whole world that the Fedora user in Mexico Be a contributor in the in the Fedora project So I guess I hear three things overall to work work as a team To make feel people feel like they're part of the project and like part of Fedora and part of the team and then Find some celebrities if you can Yeah, the last one might be hard I wonder what what things we can do as Fedora overall and Fedora Council to make people feel like they're more Part of the project are the things we could do better or do differently that would help that more I don't think so I think you are You do a great great an excellent job in the in the past events the the next and the release parties have some We know that we have some celebrities in the world and We know that They use Fedora as you know Even Linus Torval says I'm used Fedora So maybe Here in Mexico we are So proud to to say I'm touched with that guy. I'm know it maybe by email, you know But we we know it yesterday a friend Participate in a in a local Streaming that is very important here in Mexico and they have the one of the creators of genome project that Who is Mexican? You know a genome project was created by Miguel de casa and the Federico Mena and they And yesterday they have a sim bit in the In this streaming and that's what's awesome all people in Mexico about a committee of It is watching this this this streaming it's awesome And and and these guys Talk about red hat and talk about fedora and talk about all world Project and and very it's very interesting. Maybe You know, you know, we have some celebrities here in fedora project And I like and I love so much Having touched with them You know, maybe of you are these people and Another I don't know. I'm I'm very fan of of the watch, you know Yes And I like so much having touched with with them Awesome. I I'll make sure Dan sees this Marie had written Yeah, you guys mentioned both And the release parties So, you know, those were obviously global events um What do you guys feel about creating a last-hand specific conference using hopin Um, that's something you would be interested in doing something is that way we could help? um Like foster the local community there because I can coordinate that with you guys and the mind share committee can support it as well Yeah, very thanks. We are Very happy to participate in a lot of events like federal women's day release parties uh, the next We Are very proud to talk about the community about your work in a lot of place And also to learn from other people from other parts of the work In that in that kind of events. We are very happy and always we treat we We want to participate in every event from the federal project the global federal project Because we are looking Make or or Fellows Be part of the project feel part of the of the project Uh, and also we are very happy with with the help from the mean share coming commenting Because we have black we have The possibility to make the Meetups They are helping a lot from where get a lot of help from The mean share and the project the federal project in general Would it be cool interesting to have a good Oh, so to say like cool. Would it be interesting to like would it be good to have like something specific? To mexico or latin america and then like, you know, like math you can come and speak specifically to To that community and I come and talk about community stuff and you know, we could have Some of these people that you might want to get like a Better connection with or learn from we can invite more people as well But I think it would be something that would help foster the local community to grow or to even just Sustain and and stay healthy like during this time. I guess I'm trying to say we have even more to give you To use to make it awesome. So of course we want you to participate in everything we're doing But we also want to give you the option To create your own thing thinking think of something like, you know Fudcons that used to exist. I think that would be like An example, right of what what i'm kind of thinking of But like virtual Possibly something with us with maybe primarily spanish speaking Um, I am limited in that but I could I would be happy to do a talk Maybe with the real-time translator for example and have my slides, you know two languages and then have Somebody are repeating repeating after me in spanish if that would help. I know I don't know All of you here speaking English wonderfully So that that is easy, but i'm sure that's not the case for everybody who could be in fedora Yeah, that's a lovely idea we we In the in the past we talked with some guys in in the fedora latam group To do the same the maybe A food con or maybe a meet a virtual meeting with all the latam-american guys that we are Very talented people like my friend net worth or tattica or louise louise basana, you know Or or all the brasilian guys We we planning that even if In this in these days we we planning Oh, if we can do in mexico, it's Good idea or maybe more in latin america, you know, maybe a middle middle country that I don't know a that was an idea to to be the former food con and now in virtual in virtual stage and We love that that idea. I think it's it's because First uh here in mexico, you know, we do some logo with the with the Monument representative from mexico city And we say we are fedora mexico not not just only Mexico city, you know We have a lot of states here in mexico and we say we are fedora mexico not just from mexico city and we We want to bring together all the states on all the people in the north in the south of the country, but Beyond of that We like to do the same Think in latin america, you know, we have maybe in touch with the brasilian guys with the brasilian teams With edward with tattica with louise with all these incredible people And we like to to do the same Effort in in in cross latin america and that kind of events I think Is maybe do an statement day.  Hey, I have this little telegram group all mexican You can help me modding that like you're modding the the international group and say yeah, I can help there are like Five to ten members. Maybe something like that. I say yes, I can help I was helping like two weeks and I Totally disconnected for a while when I went back. They have a whole structure Method meetings a whole team admin the group and say hey, they grow very fast and very strong It was very impressive and very proud of the mexican community that having Able to pull this community of this local community is is is very strong And I think it's a except a very great example to all the latin community to To show how they can do a strong community a strong local community and I was thinking a little bit that was mary was saying about having kind of a Latin america event globally in hopping and Even when I really agreed about it, I think It should be great for you to start with a mexican event Sponsored by the federal project in hopping What I mean is that I think that a part that is really important for this community growth Was to be To felt part of the community the third part of the project Not only the local community but part of the global project And I think that having a local event but sponsored by the whole project to be A great step for them, you know And my question now is for the mexican guys Is How are you working in the project now that the ambassadors is kind of Spars in time and place and we have a An effort Leaded by mary and the manager community to revamp the whole ambassador community Okay We're very We have a more or less Five or seven ambassadors active Mostly are here in the community. This is good and We are working together the telegram group help us help us for make the communication easy a To organize events in every part of Mexico We go need to meet the people face to face And coordinate all the work the ribbon really Make us I think a thing a lot about how We are doing our work and if we can Help to revamp the revamp initiative to You know As an example of who we what we need to do the ambassadors now For the world project. We are thinking an ambassador need to create local communities an advocate can do Evidence in every part of the country the local communities would at part of the team so ambassadors need to foster new communities or local communities and here I think is the new the new The new best work for the ambassadors make local communities grown healthy and afford contributors to the world project is is Our vision of the what an ambassador need to do he I think this is part of the revamp Who are under the umbrella of the combs looking for you know a Make together going together at the the effort or for to Get new contributors to so a I think The revamp head was The music and community we are not affected because we are mostly at beefs In all the aspects and we are very happy because we have a Contributor say like packages like translators that help us to See another part of the of the project not only the ambassador part part of the May the work the community works also the technical words, so we have A variety of the contributors in our community. This is important because You know the advocate is a fedora contributors in In in any part of the project and want to make Even make to to make a talk about the fedora project those This is great for us make a And the coming in Mexican community is looking A the results of the revamp. We are thinking is there the right path Because Is a reflect of the work we're doing in our community cool And neil you had your hand up as well Yeah Give me a second if I remember my question now. Oh, yeah It's it's been a long 72 hours But so something that Occurred to me while we were talking about events and and things about bringing people together and then talking about You know idols and and and celebrities and all this sort of thing I Don't and this might be my ignorance because I'm not too plugged into the Spanish speaking community. I I used to know a little bit of Spanish. I'm not very good at it anymore right now, but you know um Where are the Spanish speaking podcasts and and and? And and youtubers and all those people who tend to do you know talk about linux and technology and that sort of thing You know are those Have we talked about maybe having some kind of broader strategy of engaging with those? To broaden the reach of the door with the Spanish speaking community Of course in latin america, but also the broader, you know I I think it's a fair question to say like the broader Spanish speaking world Because like I tend to jump in like in english speaking podcasts And and youtube shows and stuff like that every once in a while as a guest Uh But like I personally i'm unaware of any such situation where we're doing this for spanish speaking ones And I'm this also goes to all the language other for other non-english language Technology consumption news stuff I don't actually have a word for what you media technology media. There we go. I have a word They came back to me for that It's been a very long couple of days But yeah, so like that's the sort of thing that it's like I haven't really heard too much about this and it feels like this is one of those avenues where we tend to get a lot of understated breath and mind share and and and reputation Gains across the board When when we have engagement in those particular areas So is there anything that sort of thing that the project can help with or at least maybe there's some kind of thing that we can do to To help support that kind of thing or even maybe even start a spanish speaking podcast or something I don't know like What do Yeah, it's it's very curious because Even in Mexico, we don't have the maybe all the impact about the podcast you say Here in Mexico, we are more maybe Graphical or you know, if you Have a twitter account for example Yeah, and you post some code or some github repository or something like that you have some Gain some famous or be in the middle of the the it community guys, you know in the In the meetups All the this This talks on this presentation was about 10 technical things how you how you can do that. How do you be The best programmer or or best coding. I don't know It's very curious because here in Mexico the maybe the thing that is Very important is shared knowledge You know, maybe not just for for talk It's okay. You have a you are a Linux guru Show me like a like linus says, you know a here in Mexico, we have some Quotes about that and a they say I'm sorry about this quote this translation, but we say Fuck noots Send me your code Sorry, sorry about that But this is you know, this is the the main one of the famous the quotes of of linus torbats You can say all that you want but show me your code Yeah, and that was maybe the the the thoughts here in Mexico You are something in it from your code and show me your your job and And So the people who who have some famous like or mr. Kraken here in Mexico, they have a Lot of histories in in twitter about how he Go to the food con at nicaragua by right, you know He he he puts in the in the highway and say oh come on. I'm go to the to the nicaragua about Five or ten thousand miles to Mexico City and go just with his backpack and he Go to the food con in nicaragua and take pictures and say and he says I do it I can do it and if I can do it Or we can do it That's one thing One thing I want to highlight there is that what we're saying show me the code doesn't necessarily literally mean programming code, right? And that in that story it was it was driving 5 000 miles and taking photographs like that show me the code as well Right, so it's not just programming. There's lots of other ways to Show your receipt Right, exactly Yeah, and and that's what Mr. Kraken is our hero or personal hero because he made these things alone By himself and I don't know. We are proud of happening in this group and we Always follow his I don't know He's a he's a great person. I think cool And maybe to to continue a little bit with a question that that Neil does In Spanish it's hard to follow in the In the technology side because fine at the end you Do end up in a english speaking podcast or show or youtube channel There are some maybe Little niche that have some reputation But at the end you are You are going to going to end in destination linux or in linux and plaque or or in something In english at the end you can start like a little bit, but there is no There is hard to follow something Specific in spanish at the end they are going to you are going to end in the in the english speaking shows And in terms of media at least Something maybe there's opportunity there as well If there's energy to match the opportunity Yeah, for sure. We we we saw last night with this talk with Federico Mena They told about how genome starts and everything and they have many 100 or 200 people at the same time in the streaming. It's a freaking I think yeah, maybe 100 or 200 For four is for four hours For four hours. Wow The one the one cup And two cups Three hours Yeah, what's what's yours? Um, I don't know how many views up What I love Yeah, good good good be concurrent viewers like 200 or 100 200. It's Yeah, my release Okay, um Marie and I have a meeting with some lawyers about the fedora logo Progress soon coming up. So we need to we need to wrap this up But I do have some yeah, you know, don't face fault too hard But I I have a couple things to add which are that So we do have some money in the fedora budget to help support you So don't be afraid to help to make requests. I mean we can't do everything But like if there are things that you do that like help people feel like part of fedora like swag is obviously an easy thing I see your awesome fedora ambassador shirts like if we need more stuff like that. Let's let's talk about it and then also Marie hooked us up with some pretty awesome team building things earlier this year where we did some fun events as part of Nest stuff and just for the fedora council and things If there are like team building activities that would be helpful for your group I am totally in favor of those kind of things even if they cost a little bit of money to do some sort of like some kind of fun online Event just just you know for the core group of people or for a bigger group of people to try and Just make it feel you know Like a like a team and friends where we're totally down to provide those kind of things You don't need to think of them right now, but feel free to ask us more about that Thanks a lot Thank you Does anybody else have some last comments here? Oh, go ahead. Justin. I just wanted I just wanted yeah I just had a maybe a closing question to ask to each of you What's something for the fedora mexico community that you are excited for for 2021? vaccines Yeah, yeah, we we miss a lot be together, you know, it's a very chemical maybe a reaction we that we add together and you see in the pictures or federally release party was incredible with pigs and cupcakes and Yeah, the it's That's what's magic. Yeah for sure. We miss that and we hope Very soon as possible. We have back again these meetings Yeah Yeah in person meetings will be great also had events in in another parts of mexico invite new new Look for new speakers in another spot in another parts of latin america Banya or another parts of the world we can do some effort for translation More or less, but and also we can we will will will be great a Make some It's for some speakers for fedora prog it events Like I don't know a roll man or some like like that or Show show to the world the keynote tells we have in the mexican community And because I think by example we can look a local Similarities and maybe ground and other communities from I don't know a It's fine or or germany And another part of the work you can benefit from our experience Absolutely But did you have a great talent in the kubernetes part? I was seeing the talk they had do about kubernetes and was Very very awesome Yeah, we have a very talented people that Uh, we like to show to the world. They are mexican too Yeah, absolutely that that local pride is cool as well. Yeah Um, all right. This was really interesting. I'm I'm glad we did this Thanks for sharing with us and I think there is a lot people can learn from this and it was very inspiring and like I said anything You need for help. Uh, we're here for you So, yeah, uh, thank you very much and we'll get this online for everybody else to see as soon as possible Bye everybody All right, that is adios


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From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS ReInvent 2020 sponsored by Intel, AWS, and our community partners. Everyone, welcome to theCUBE's live coverage of AWS ReInvent 2020 virtual. We're virtual this year. We are theCUBE virtual. I'm your host, John Furrier, Joe and Dave Vellante for keynote analysis. Andy Jassy just delivered his live keynote. This is our live keynote analysis. Dave, great to see you, Andy Jassy. Again, it's our eighth year covering ReInvent. Their ninth year, we're virtual. We're not in person. We're doing it. Great to see you, John. Even though we're 3,000 miles apart, we both have the COVID hairdo going. Happy birthday, my friend. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Five years ago, I was 15 and I had the cake on stage on the floor. There's no floor this year. It's virtual. And I think one of the things that came out of Andy Jassy's keynote is obviously, you know, I met with them earlier, telegraphed some of these moves, was one thing that surprised me. He came right out of the gate and he acknowledged that social change, the cultural shift that was interesting. But he went in and did his normal end-to-end slew of announcements, big themes around pivoting. And he brought kind of this business school kind of leadership vibe to the table early, talking about what people are experiencing, companies like ourselves and others around the change and cultural change around companies. And the leadership it takes for the cloud. This was a big theme of reinvent. Literally like, hey, don't hold on to the old. And I kept thinking to myself, David, you and I both are historians of the tech industry. Remind me of when I was young, breaking into the business, the mainframe guys and gals, they were hugging on to those mainframes as long as they could. And I looked at them like, that's not going to be around much longer. And they kept, no, it's going to be around. This is the state of the art. And then they extinct instantly. This feels like cloud moment where it's like, it's the wake up call. Hey, everyone doing the old way, you're done. This is it, this is a big theme.  So I tried to break it down into three things in addition to what you just mentioned about him acknowledging the social unrest and the inequalities, particularly with black people. But so I had market leadership and there's some nuance there that if we have time, I'd love to talk about the feature innovation. I mean, that was the bulk of his presentation. And I was very pleased to, I wrote a piece this weekend, as you know, we talk about cloud 2030. And my main focus was the last 10 years about IT transformation, the next 10 years are going to be about organizational and business and industry transformation. I saw a lot of that in Jassy's keynote.  We've only got a few minutes here, John. But let's break down the high level theme before we get into the announcement. The thematic part was, it's about reinventing 2020. The digital transformation has been forced upon us. Either you're in the cloud or you're not in the cloud. Either way you got to get to the cloud for to survive in this post COVID error. You heard a lot about redefining compute, new chips, custom chips. They announced a deal with Intel, but then he's like, we're better and faster on our custom side. That was kind of a key thing, this idea of compute. And I think that comes at the play with edge and hybrid. The other thing that was notable was Jassy's almost announcement of redefining hybrid. There was no product announcement, but he was essentially announcing hybrid is change. And he was leaning forward with his definition of redefining what hybrid cloud is. And I think that to me was the biggest signal. And then finally, what got my attention was the absolute overt call out of Microsoft and Oracle and, you know, subtly behind the scenes on the database shift. We've been saying for multiple times, multiple databases in the cloud. He laid that out and said, there will be no one thing to rule anything, no databases. And he called out Microsoft. If you look at Microsoft, some people like cloud wars, Bob Evans, our good friend, claims that Microsoft's been number one in the cloud for like year. And it's just not true, right? It's just not number one. He uses revenue as the benchmark. And if you look at Microsoft's revenue, bulk of it is from propped up from Windows server and SQL server. They have GitHub in there, that's new.  If you look at true cloud revenue, there's not much there, Dave. They're definitely not number one. And I think Jassy kind of throws a dagger in there with saying, hey, if you're paying for licenses more on Amazon versus Azure, that's old school shenanigans or sales tactics. And he called that out. That to me was pretty aggressive. And then finally, just COVID management stuff, democratizing machine learning. Let me pick up on a couple of things. There actually were a number of hybrid announcements. ECS anywhere, EKS anywhere, so Kubernetes anywhere, containers anywhere, smaller outposts, new local zones. They announced 12 new cities, including Boston. And then Jassy rattled them off and made a sort of a joke to himself that you may as I remembered all 12 because the guy uses no notes. He uses amazing, he's up there for three hours, no notes. And then new wavelength zones for the 5G edge. So actually a lot of hybrid announcements, basically to your point, redefining hybrid, basically bringing the cloud to the edge of which he kind of redefined it. The data center is just sort of another edge location. Well, I mean, my point is that he actually said, it needs to be redefined and he kind of paused there and then went into the announcements. And I think it's funny how he called out Microsoft. I was just saying that, which I think was really pivotal. We're going to dig into that Babelfish open source thing, which could be complete competitive strategy move against Microsoft. But in a way, Dave, Jassy's pulling and Amazon's pulling the same move Microsoft did decades ago. Remember, embrace and extend, right? Bill Gates' philosophy. This is kind of what they're doing. They've embraced hybrid. They've embraced the data center. They're extending it out. You're seeing outpost, you see 5G, you're seeing these IoT edge points. They're putting Amazon everywhere. That was my takeaway. They call it Amazon anywhere. I think it's everywhere. They want cloud operations everywhere. That's the theme that I see kind of bubbling out. And they're saying, hey, we're just going to keep doing this. Well, what I like about it is, and I've said this for a long time now, that the edge is going to be won by developers. And so they're essentially taking AWS and the data center is an API and they're bringing that data center as an API virtually everywhere, as you're saying. I want to go back to something you said about leadership and Microsoft and the numbers, because I've done a lot of homework on this, as you know. And so, Jesse made the point, he makes this point a lot, that it's not about the actual growth rate. Yeah, the other guys are growing faster, but we're growing from a much larger base. And I want to share with you a nuance, because he talked about how AWS grew incrementally 10 billion and only took them 12 months. I have quarterly forecast, and I've published these on Wikibon and SiliconANGLE. And if you look at the quarterly numbers, and now this is an estimate, John, but for Q4, I've got Amazon growing at 25%, that's year on year. Azure growing at 46% and Google growing at 58%. So Google and Azure much, much higher growth rates than Amazon. But what happens when you look at the absolute numbers from Q3 to Q4, Amazon goes from 11.6 billion to 12.4 billion. Microsoft actually stays flat at around 6.7, 6.8 billion. Google actually drops sequentially now. I'm talking about sequentially, even though they have 58% growth. So the point that Jess is making is right on. He's the only company growing at half the growth rate year on year, but his sequential revenues are the only of the big three that are growing. So that's the law of large numbers.  Who would you rather be? I think, I mean, it's clearly that Microsoft's not number one, Amazon's number one cloud. Certainly infrastructure as a service and pass, major themes in the analysis. We won't go through and we'll dig into the analyst sessions. We come at two o'clock and three o'clock later, but they're innovating on those two. They won that. I would call this member, Jess, who says, oh, we're in the early innings. Inning one is IaaS and pass. Amazon wins it all. They ran the table, no doubt. Now, inning two in the game is global IT. That was a really big part of his announcement. People might have missed that. If you're blown away by all the technical and complexity of GP three volumes for EBS and Aurora serverless V2 or Sage maker, feature store and data wrangler, elastic, all that complex stuff. The one takeaway is they're going to continue to innovate on IaaS and pass. And the new mountain that they're going to climb is global IT spend that's on-premises. Cloud is eating the world and AWS is hungry for on-premises and the edge. You're going to see massive surge for those territories. That's where the big spend is going to be. And that's why you're seeing a big focus on containers and Kubernetes and this kind of connective tissue between the data machine layer, modern app layer and full custom IaaS on the bottom stack. So they're kind of just marching along to the cadence of Andy Jassy's view here, Dave, that, you know, they're going to listen to customers and keep sucking it in to Amazon. And pushing it out to the edge. And we've said it on theCUBE many years, the data center is just a big edge. And that's what Jassy's basically saying here in the keynote. Well, and when Andy Jassy gets pushed on, well, yes, you listen to customers, you know, what about your partners? You know, he'll give examples of partners that are doing very well. And of course we have many. But as we've often said in theCUBE, John, if you're a partner in the ecosystem, you got to move fast. There were three interesting feature announcements that I thought were very closely related to other things that we've seen before, the high performance elastic block storage, if we get the exact name of it, but it's sand in a cloud, the first ever sand in a cloud. It reminds me of something that Pure Storage did last year at Accelerate. So very, very kind of similar. And then the AWS Glue elastic views, it was sort of like Snowflake's data cloud. Now, of course, AWS has many, many more databases that they're connecting, you know, Snowflake has one, but the way AWS does it is they're copying and moving data and doing change data management. So what Snowflake has is, what I would consider a true global mesh. And then the third one was QuickSight queue. That reminded me of what ThoughtSpot's doing with search and analytics and AI. So again, if you're an ecosystem partner, you got to move fast and you got to keep innovating because Amazon's going to do what it has to for customers. I think Amazon's going to have their playbooks when it's all said and done, do they eat the competition up? I think what they do is they have to have the match on the Amazon side. They're going to have a game and play and let the partners innovate. They clearly need that ecosystem message. That's a key thing. Love the message from them. I think it's a positive story. But as you know, it's Amazon's, this is their Kool-Aid injection moment, Dave, it's educational or AKA, their view of the world. My question for you is, what's your take on what wasn't said? If you were in, you know, as we're in the virtual audience, what should have been talked about? What's the reality? What's different? What didn't they hit home? What could they have done? What's your critical analysis? Well, I mean, and I'm not sure it should have been said, but certainly what wasn't said is the recognition that multi-cloud is an opportunity. And I think Amazon's philosophy or belief at the current time is that people aren't spreading workloads, the same workload across multiple clouds and splitting them up. What they're doing is they're hedging bets. Maybe they're going 70, 30, 90, 10, 60, 40. But so multi-cloud from Amazon standpoint is clearly not the opportunity that everybody who doesn't have a cloud or also Google who's distant third in cloud says is a huge opportunity. So it doesn't appear that it's there yet. So that was a, I wouldn't call it a miss, but it's something that to me was a takeaway that Amazon does not currently see that as something that customers are clamoring. There's so many threads in here we're going to unpack. I mean, Andy does leave a lot of, you know, signature stories at lines in there, tons of storylines. You know, I thought one thing that that must Amazon's going to talk about this is not something that promotes product, but trendalize, I think one thing that I would have loved to see more conversation around is what I call the snowflake factor. Snowflake built their business on Amazon. I think you're going to see a tsunami of kind of new cloud service providers come on the scene, building on top of AWS in a major way of like that kind of value. I mean, snowflake went public to the level of no one's ever seen ever in the history of NYSE. They're on Amazon. So I call that the next tier cloud scale value. That was one thing I'd like to see. I didn't hear much about the global IT number penetration, love to hear more about that. And the thing that I would like to have heard more but Jassy kind of touched a little bit on it was that he said at one point and when he talked about the verticals that there's horizontal disruption. Now you and I both know, we've been staying on the queue for years. It's horizontally scalable, but vertically specialized with the data. And that's kind of what Amazon's been doing for the past couple of years and it's on full display here. Horizontal integration value with the data and then use machine learning with the modern applications. You get the best of both worlds. He actually called that out on this keynote. So to me, that is a message to all entrepreneurs, all innovators out there that if you want to change the position in the industry of your company, do those things, there's an opportunity right now to integrate with the cloud to disrupt horizontally but then own the vertical. So that'll be very interesting to see how that plays out. And it's interesting you mentioned Snowflake and I was talking about multi-cloud. Snowflake talks about multi-cloud a lot but I don't even think what they're doing is multi-cloud. I think what they're doing is building a data cloud across clouds and they're abstracting that infrastructure. And so to me, that's not multi-cloud as in, hey, I run on Google or I run on AWS or I run on Azure. I'm abstracting that, making that complexity disappear and I'm creating an entirely new cloud at scale, quite different. Okay, we got to break it there, cut back into our programming. This is our live portion of CubeLive and EKS everywhere, Dave, that's multi-cloud. If they won't say it, I'll say it for them. But here we go. More live coverage from here at Reinvent Virtual. We are Virtual Cube, I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante, we'll be right back.


Hi everybody, spring is here, which is very exciting. So let's talk about how we can prepare our plants so they can grow happy and healthy. The first thing that we wanna do is to clean our pots. So I have many plastic pots, such as this one's at home. I also have cerakota pots, and we have some ceramic pots. And sometimes our pots have some soil inside or residual from the previous plant. So it's very important that we clean them. This is to prevent eggs that pests may have put inside our pot or any bacteria or fungi. Because in the spring and especially in the beginning of the spring, we may have to repot some of our plants as they will need more space to grow. So yes, I would recommend that you clean your plastic pots and your cerakota pots, just to make sure that the environment for your plants will be clean and healthy so they can grow their roots. Another very useful tip that I learned from Becca de la Plants is that we should clean our window seals, our windows, and even spaces where we have our pots, so underneath the pot. This again, because these places may be perfect for dirt and pests to hide. So in order to prevent any pest infestation, it's good that we maintain the space clean, especially window seals and shelves like this one, for example. So we prevent any soil, eggs, or pests. Okay, now that we have our plants space clean, we can look at our plants. And the first thing that I always recommend to do with our plants is that we remove damage or dead leaves in the soil or in the plant. Dead leaves are perfect spots for mold to grow or pests to hide. So it's good to remove all of that and on top of it, we make more space for new growth, which takes me to the next point, which is pruning. The beginning of the spring is the best time to prune our plants. This is because we're preparing them for a season to grow. So we can shape our plant the way that we want them to be, get rid of damaged leaves or damaged stems on the plant, and my best part, we can actually find some cuttings to propagate our plants. If you watch my channel, you know that I love propagating in water, this is because we get to see the root grows underneath the water. So when I prune my plants in the beginning of the spring, I try to find good stems that will be good to propagate in the water. Propagation is one of my favorite things when it comes to plant care. So if you want to learn more about it, check out the playlist that I have for you. This is a very fun playlist with lots of propagation methods. And yeah, let me know what you think. The next thing that we want to do is to check the soil a little bit deeper. Remember, spring is generally the season for growth for many plants. So they will need more space to grow, not only the leaves, but also the roots. And the beginning of spring is the perfect time to see if the roots need more space to grow. So what I do is I check carefully my plants, so I take them out of the pot and I just try to see if the roots are growing around the potting mix. If this is the case, it is a very good sign that your plant needs a little bit more space to grow. Remember, if you repot your plant, use a pot that is maximum one to two sizes bigger. This is so the new space is not so different from the previous space. And this helps us prevent over watering, because if you put your plant in a very big pot, we will tend to water more than what the plant needs. And this will lead to over watering. So remember, the new pot has to be maximum one to two sizes bigger. If you have a big monstera like this one, you will know that it's very hard to repot her. This one is 32 years old, so we cannot repot her to a bigger pot. But we have learned that we can freshen up the soil, especially the top layer of the soil. So what I do to freshen up the soil is first I check for mold. For example, this monstera right here has some mold on the top of the soil. And this is because we were treating her against thrips. So we had to use these sticks right here, and these ones go inside the soil so the roots can actually absorb the substance. They work really well against thrips, but they produce mold on the soil. So what I'm gonna do is remove all that mold on the top of the potting mix. Also, I will remove any dead leaves on the soil because, again, this is where mold can grow or pests can hide. And then I just freshen up the first layer of potting mix with new soil. For this, I'm gonna use my homemade houseplant potting mix. I use this one with all of my tropical plants and they seem to be very happy. Which takes us to the next point, which is that this is the perfect time to get your new soil and supplies. Especially now with corona, we don't wanna go to the shop many times and spring is the season for growth. So depending on how you see the roots in your plants, you may have to do a lot of repotting. What I usually do is I make a list of the things that I need so I don't have to go to the shop more than once. If you wanna stay at home, you can also get your things online. For example, personally, I like to make my houseplant potting mix at home. This is because I like to know what I'm using for the potting mix and I prefer to use coconut water in my potting mix instead of peat moss because I know that coconut water is a little bit more sustainable than peat moss. So what I usually do is I go online and I get my ingredients, which are coconut water, perlite or pumice and warm cast. And then I just make my mix at home. This is a very relaxing activity and I can tell you during these times that we're more at home, making my own potting mix has helped me to come down and just feel more connected to nature. So I would really recommend that too. The next point is to relocate our plants when needed. If you live in a city like Berlin where I live, you know that in the winter, you're not gonna get so much sunlight. So what I had to do is to learn about grow lights and place my highlight loving plants closer to the grow light or closer to the windows. I also moved some of my lower light level plants closer to the window because they still needed light. And since in the winter, we're not getting so much sunlight, this space was okay for them. But now that spring is coming, we're gonna get way more sunlight. And because of that, I have to move my plants accordingly. So the low light plants have to go a little bit farther away from the window. And I'm gonna put away my grow light and place my highlight loving plants in this living room right here because we have a south facing window here. So I know that they will get a lot of light. Remember, this is a transition period. So make sure to always observe your plants and see if they're getting too much sunlight or they need a little bit more. The last point is that we're gonna start fertilizing our plants. Again, for most of the tropical plants that we have at home, the growing period is between spring and summer. It is always good to educate ourselves and see what are the specific requirements for our plant. But generally growing season is between spring and summer. So in order for our plants to grow healthy and happy, we need to provide some fertilizer. If you have been following me for a long time, you know that as a plant beginner, I like to use organic fertilizer instead of synthetic fertilizer. This is because organic fertilizer is way less concentrated than synthetic fertilizer. And this helps me prevent not to over fertilize my plant. Last year, I was experimenting with two types of fertilizers. One was for tropical plants and the other one was focused on succulents. But of course, I would love to know your experience with fertilizer and which ones you use. So make sure to comment below so we can all learn together. And as always, I will see you in the next one. Okay, ciao and happy spring.


We're looking at the expansion of supermarket chains, both South African supermarket chains as well as other supermarket chains from the region in certain Southern African countries and what implications this has for local suppliers supplying products such as processed foods for example or household consumable products into these supermarket chains. We're also looking at the competition dynamics between supermarket chains, particularly the foreign supermarkets versus local supermarkets and the implications this has on supplies. Supermarkets are a growing market in terms of access to for consumer products so the growth of supermarkets allows local suppliers in the different countries to supply supermarkets and this in turn assists a country in its industrialization objectives. In the last five to ten years or so they have been supermarket chains from the region that have expanded within their countries and one example of that is choppies, the supermarket chain choppies which is a Botswana based supermarket which is rapidly expanding into the region and not just Southern African region also into the East African markets. So that provides a very interesting entry episode for us to evaluate to try and understand what the strategies of non-South African supermarkets are in the region and how they adapt to the different conditions in the different countries. So it's no longer is just within urban areas but supermarkets are segmenting their target market and they are increasingly targeting lower LSM markets which is now moving into the more rural areas therefore the implications on consumers in terms of what's available in supermarket shelves as well as the pricing becomes of great significance and this is where the competition angle comes in as well. So this is the second leg of the study and it's very significant in the sense that in countries like Zambia and Zimbabwe and Botswana for that fact given the location of these countries or the distance from South Africa of these countries a lot of the products on the shelves are South African imported products and this has largely got to do with the capabilities of the local supplies and that in those particular countries often you find that they lack capabilities to produce the quality or produce the volumes at cost competitive prices to be put on supermarket shelves and the supermarkets then just import from South Africa. So understanding what the challenges are for local suppliers is going to be a big part of the study and identifying opportunities for local suppliers to supply not just within their country but across countries in the region is also a major area of focus. There's been very little research in the Southern African region around competition dynamics in supermarket value chains. If the incumbent supermarkets particularly the ones that come from South Africa which are really the dominant players in the rest of the Southern African region if they engage in conduct that or anti competitive conduct that in a sense where they abuse their market power this has direct consequences on consumer welfare. So the strategies that incumbent supermarkets can engage in have a direct impact on new entrants in the region as well so that's that's an area of focus in the study.


Putin prepares to bring Russia's Su-57s and numerous bomber jets to the war on Ukraine. Military intelligence leaked online last week indicated Ukrainian air defenses will be depleted by the end of May, which may embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring reserved fighter jets to the front lines. Ukrainians are rapidly using up stores of munitions faster than allies can replenish them. At the current rate of use, the leaked documents say Ukrainian air defenses will be completely reduced by May 23, the New York Times reported. The veracity of the documents is still being investigated, though some versions circulating online have been edited. Business insider outlet previously reported, without increased military aid, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly told allies should come in the form of F-16 jets, Russia may be emboldened to bring out bomber jets it has been saving from facing Ukrainian defenses that have so far destroyed 280 Russian planes. Fighting against a weakened Ukrainian air force, increased Russian firepower could change the course of the war. Russia has so far held back its most advanced jets, including its much touted Su-57 stealth fighter. From the front lines of the war over fears that they would be shot down, Business Insider previously reported.