Recording. Is it on now? Is the recording on now? Yeah. Okay. All right. So hi everybody. Welcome to the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG meeting today is June 30th. On the agenda, I have welcome Fatih. So we'll chat with you in a little bit. We'll get a GSoc update from Jean-Marc. Scale 19x update from me and DevOps world from all of us. Anything else we need to add to the agenda? All right. Okay. So Fatih is the new GM for CDF. Welcome again. We're happy to have you. Thanks for joining us. If you wouldn't mind, I guess we can go around the table and introduce ourselves. And then Fatih, you can tell us a little bit about you. What is your vision for CDF and how could we play together going forward. So I'll start with myself. So I'm Alyssa. I've been a long time contributor with the Jenkins project. And right now, my main focus is on driving events and activities for Jenkins. Jean-Marc. Hello, hello. So I'm Jean-Marc Mason. This is the way it's pronounced correctly. I'm located in Brussels, Belgium, where we speak many languages. And I'm what's called the old generation. So full disclosure, I'm two years away from retirement. And although I worked for more than nearly 30 years for the same company and was gearing up for happy retirement, I realized that I was not too old for adventure and trying to change things. And so, five years ago, I decided to change from security, but boring to adventure and joined CloudBees for and because I've been working with Jenkins all those years and love to help people and share the nice things I learned. So I had various functions and joined the community team a year ago. That's it, Alyssa. Thanks, Jacques. Bruno? Hi, Bruno Dachlan from France, in the very northern part of France, just next to Jean-Marc, next to a city called Lille. Sorry, almost neighbors. And I'm pretty new to Jenkins, in fact, but I've been working around CICD for quite a long time now with GitLab. And now my main focus is about the community, of course, developers, users and so on. And my hobbies when it comes to Jenkins is about continuous integration and deployment for mobile devices. So for mobile development and if I ever get time to for embedded platforms. So we'll see. Thank you. Thanks, Bruno. Marc. Hi, I'm Marc Waite. I'm the Jenkins, I'm the community team manager at CloudBees. I'm a member of the Jenkins board. I'm the Jenkins documentation officer. And I also maintain a few Jenkins plugins. And Fatih, it's great to have you with us. Thanks very much for joining us today. Thanks, Marc. And thanks for passing the invite. I think that's like, we met during CDCon and I was like, can I join one of your calls and you sent the invite directly. Thanks a lot. So when it comes to me, as you know, I just, I recently joined CDF my first day at Chappals June 1. I joined from Ericsson, which you probably know, Tarko Vandor, and I've been mostly involved in continuous integration, continuous delivery type of activities from end user site. And well, if you look at Jenkins contributor stuff, you can't find me there because I probably haven't made any contributions to Jenkins because like my focus was around more how to say, cultural social aspects of continuous integration, continuous delivery rather than focusing on tools a lot because when tools and technologies, we start talking about them. That takes the conversation to different place. So that's how I start contributing to open source originally in under Linux Foundation networking communities, which is like Ericsson, Tarko Vandor networking. So that is how I start around 2013-14. And I was kind of surprised to see how much work that we must do in telecom and probably similar in other industries as well. Well, across different communities, I start in one of the project called Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization and we use Jenkins and I think the community still uses Jenkins and then I start contributing to some other networking communities and then OpenStack and I joined OpenStack community while they are moving from Jenkins to Zool. So I was kind of a witness to that transformation. And around, I think, 2017-18, we start talking about how we can make sure that we have broader collaboration within CI-CD ecosystem which results in a project called cross community continuous integration. Because if you look at different communities, they all use different technologies and sometimes again it is difficult to bring people to higher level to see why we are doing CI and CD at first place. And that resulted in me joining Continuous There Foundation because it was established almost around 2019. And since 2019, I've been contributing to Continuous There Foundation, mainly through Special Interest Groups. The first group was the Special Interest Group Interoperability because like if you look at organizations or communities, they use more than one technology and it's not specific to CI-CD orchestrators and so on, like artifact repositories, they all interact with each other and that kind of became a problem for companies like Ericsson because like if you don't have an alignment or I don't want to call it standardization but kind of standardization, then it makes it very difficult for organizations to establish and to end pipelines which starts from developer workstation and hits the production systems. And that group, Special Interest Group Interoperability was very successful, not because I was taking part on it but because there were lots of people with same concerns. And then that group resulted in three other Special Interest Groups, Special Interest Group events, Special Interest Group best practices, Special Interest Group software supply chain and after two years I said it's time for me to step down and someone else can bring fresh ideas and new perspectives. So I started working on software supply chain area because of my past history with security topics and that's what we formed around February now I am co-chairing that group as well with CDF. And more specifically Jenkins, I had a master's thesis project, I was mentoring two students during my Ericsson base around 2014 and I think I had meetings with Kosuke and a few others from Jenkins community about our idea around achieving highly available Jenkins, active-active Jenkins setup. Again, that didn't become a contribution but that is available on Google, if you search for it you will see the work we have done there but it's like almost 10 years old, it's not probably relevant anymore, but that is kind of who I am, sorry for long introduction. I am here to learn and see how we can collaborate better. Fatih, can I ask a dumb question? I know I could research it but maybe best to hear it from the horse's mouth directly. What are the kind of companies or projects or entities that are part of CDF? Well, again this, now if you ask me the question before I joined CDF my answer would have been the same so just to note that now it has become my job so I don't think that I am, my response is like that. One of the coolest things that made me join the Foundation as contributor three years ago is the diversity of companies, like on industries I should say, like if you look at the member list that's what I looked when it was announced first and all the time I followed that as well. Like you have web scale companies there, you have like Google is there, you have Oracle Clouds and then you have like Netflix is there, you have Talco, Huawei is there, you have Finance, Fidelity and Capital One, they are there. They have like vendors from CICD space, they are there. It's like, it's because that is kind of confirming my thinking when I was joining CDFS contributor. This continuous delegation, continuous delivery develops or whatever you are calling that requires broader collaboration, not specific to a single industry, not specific to a certain type of product structure like it could be embedded, it could be cloud native, it could be Talco, software, it could be mobile banking up on your phone. So that is my answer. I hope I am answering your question correctly. So like, again, the other thing is like I am a true believer of cross-community collaboration. So that's why we named one of the projects we formed like a few years ago, cross-community continuous integration. That is happening within continuous delivery foundation, but another important aspect of continuous delivery foundation is cross-pollination across industries. I think Talco, Talco is still highly specialized, you know, vertically integrated and when you go to a vendor, you are stuck with that vendor because it's not opened up yet, but it doesn't mean it won't open up. So, but if you compare it with web scalers or other companies who are really on the, you know, ahead of other industries, CDFS gives a lot of opportunities for different industries to come and join, learn from others. At the same time, kind of question other organizations approach because what work for that company or that industry may not work well in another industry and that could open up additional opportunities because then that could make what is available even better by bringing new requirements or addressing new challenges. So cross-collaboration across companies, industries and communities is how I see continuous delivery foundation. Okay. Thank you very much. So Fatih, I will take up exception to one of your comments. You said you are not a Jenkins contributor. And I take strong exception because you were a key leader in the event specification that was used in the Google Summer of Code project in 2021. You said correctly, the events work that you did was the seed for that Google Summer of Code. Okay, admittedly, we don't have your name on any poll requests in Jenkins, but then again, many people have no name, no name nowhere on any poll request and yet they are still very much a valued contributor. So your events work, for instance, and now that Fidelity is interested in doing more with the CD event specification and bringing back the cloud events plug-in to interesting ways, I think you'll again be more involved, maybe then you might have expected. Well, so from my voice, thanks for your contributions to Jenkins, even if you didn't realize you were contributing to Jenkins. Thanks for highlighting that that made me really happy if I contributed a little bit. Thank you. So Fatih, what is your vision for CDF? Again, I always put community first because like we can, you know, think about great things and cool ideas and strategize forever, but if we don't have community support, then we can't realize all those good ideas. And I think Jenkins is a community that could be looked as an example because it has a great community and like just random number, 70% of the entire world is still running on Jenkins. So that shows how important is the community because those people, the community made Jenkins ready and moving it forward. So one of the key things we are focusing right now is to make sure how we best serve the communities, not just CDF community itself, it seeks, but also the projects that are under CDF umbrella are served in a best possible way. Because if we make developers happy, they will be enjoying what they are doing, they will be taking part in all these, you know, different new innovations, if we put that way, that will open up a new opportunity. So community is one of the key things and this will become more visible with the work we started, we started, you know, writing guidelines for example, or making community center. So everyone thrives around community, everyone feels welcome, everyone knows how they can join the community and so on. And secondly, the other aspect is I think organizations like end users, they are doing lots of work behind the scenes because sometimes they look at what is available in communities, they get some open source project, open technology, they try it. They don't find what they are looking for and they go and try enterprise solutions and they may not be good for them either, so they end up building platforms internally. How we can make sure that we bring our end users like to stage in different ways and let them speak about what they are doing and why they are doing those things. Like one example could be like end user case studies, so they describe what they are doing, which could be useful for communities because then communities look at what those end users had to develop themselves for thousands of people, large organizations and they can perhaps take that commit could take that and perhaps bring that to life as part of open source technologies or suppliers or other organizations could look at what end users are doing and they can provide solutions for those things. So end users, making them talk, sharing their challenges and helping other organizations that are on their way to embrace continuously and develops is another thing. So technology that is critical, we have lots of things happening across all these communities and this is not just specific to continuous data foundation, lots of innovation, lots of developments happening in CNCF, lots of things start happening in open SSF, how we can make sure that we can plug into those conversations, how we can make sure that continuous data foundation is seen as the place to collaborate on continuous delivery and develops. You know, developing best practices or developing new technologies, so positioning CDF by, you know, getting support from our communities getting support from our end users. And finally, the other aspect is governing board, we have meaning you must have their support as they are investing in this community. So we must make sure that we have full transparency and full communication across all these different, you know, entities, projects, communities and user organizations and the governing board member so things could be discussed transparently openly. So we can bring different things to different forms and find best way to push the domain forward. So, in summary, I think, personally, constantly their foundation is the place to be if people want to work in continuous delivery, if people want to annoy it in continuous delivery, if people want to learn new things. And that is what I hope to achieve. And I met with lots of people during CDCon, one of them, Mark and Alisa, I met with you there as well. I think the excitement I've seen there, even though it was a smaller event compared to how it was in earlier years, people are really excited. That's what I felt. I am normally a pessimistic person. Like I, I tried to take things with a pinch of salt, you know, but that event increased my hopes that we can achieve this. And that's why I was in Jenkins project meeting there also take on CD events to make sure that I can be like seen as part of those communities. Because I am part of I want to stay part of as a community. I want to contribute any way I can. So we can make the, we can create a shared vision across different communities, and we can push domain for them realize our vision together. So, long story short, going back to what I said, I think we as a community should have a vision. And that's what we should work together. I know if I answered. Yeah. Questions for Fatih at this point. So, do you so I like what I'm hearing thank you so much. I, and I completely agree with you that, you know, community is super important, and users important. I'm telling them tell a story so one of the things that I did in the past year was create this. We call it Jenkins is the way and where we collected stories successful stories of how people use Jenkins. And we have like over 100 of those stories. Yes, keep up with that vision, if you will, and I think it'll, it'll, it'll be great and it'll be helpful to other people that's that's want to join the CDF and being a user. Now, as far as how do you see us working together to better support each other. I guess the question now is the how if you, if you have that yeah if you don't have that yeah it's fine. So, we have some ideas actually like how one of the things I heard when I talk to different people. They say, they don't know what's happening within different projects or committees, they want to make sure that we highlight the latest developments, the committees are doing or the issues they may be hearing are the cool things they are bringing to life. And Lori, Lori so I don't know if any of you had chance to met with her. She just became. Yeah, we were in the meeting. Exactly. She has really great ideas. Like when I met with her in Austin during CD that was kind of another turning point for me to become more optimistic because like, she knows, and she worked in community setting for a long time and she has ways to bring these different committees together and make sure that we are picking committees brains, because many people have lots of ideas in their minds or in their brains or they have concerns. It's important that we talk to not just committees, but whoever wants to talk to us, get them talk, put them, you know, on the website and tell us your day as a Jenkins contributor for example. That is one way to make sure that Jenkins or other communities we have within CDF become more visible. The other thing is like constant share of information. And I think Tim, I think he's Jenkins release officer. I said like, how can we provide updates about Jenkins more often. What is your release schedule is that we make quarterly LTS releases and I was like, can we get regular updates from Jenkins comment that matches your release schedule so you can talk about new things maybe you address the critical security or you have really new cool plugin like CD events will happen hopefully talk about those things which could attract interest to CDF to Jenkins to CD events and help grow the community. Again, to summarize, we have to keep talking, we have to keep communicating. Like, as I said, like, I want to join as many community meetings as many Jenkins community meetings as possible. And, please, like, it was great seeing all of you doing the meeting on Monday, but there are many more discussions happening within CDF commit under different six or as part of our site community. I think you should also try to take part in those conversations because some conversations that is happening there would have a lot of new opportunities for Jenkins commit like one of the conversations was like intent based pipelines. And what that means, people are cooking stuff there. So if you can be present within CDF community, and you can bring that back to Jenkins commit so bridge the gap. I think that is the first thing again, establish this value working communication across different communities. And that will help us find other ways to collaborate as well. So the practical question related to your, your last to your last point is, you encourage us to chime in or to listen to the various other meetings to improve and make the flow of information more efficient. How can we be informed of these what is the entry point because after one year CDF was for me a big black box and where do I enter in it where where does it start how can I start pulling the yarn out. Yeah, that is a great point. And one of the things we plan to work on is to make such information more visible like how one can join the community, which, you know, topics are currently being discussed within the community and which groups are looking at those topics. And I confess, I didn't know we had a community web page on CDF website. I was told recently that we have a community page but that's not visible. We have to make that visible. So, and the CDF website should be helping people to highlight such things. Okay, we are working on software supply chain area. How can we find that it is not easy to find it like yeah thanks Alissa like if you go to community there. If you could or join the community button, sorry, button that join the community. So that is like this page lists slack community calendar, especially in their schools but I didn't see the page because I became blind looking at the web page too much. So here you have a place where you can find different groups we have different projects we have, but this must be input. This is the place where you can find that but the main communication happens on Slack and GitHub. If you join CDF Slack, and if you start watching certain repositories like C repos or project repos, then you will see the conversations happening that for example this events CD events specification is currently being developed within CD events organization on GitHub. And if you start watching various repos that you will get notifications but again, things will hopefully be improved. Yeah, you can look at this page as the place to see where things are listed. Okay, very good hint. Okay, thank you and buy should have found it. I couldn't find it so I failed to find it. I think I like how we have it on the on our Jenkins.io for how to how you can contribute. Overview. Overview. The fact that it did not immediately appear for you is a hint that there's still much to improve much. Yeah, we need to do our homework there too. Lots. Yeah, this the whole successful web navigation is is a whole interesting problem. We just need to rework this probably because I mean I'm on this page a whole lot because you know when I need to add events to GitHub and such on this page a lot, but I would not look for it under overview. Because it says participate and contribute.  No, showing different personas and then click here kind of and that was on landing page. Start here kind of thing very obvious. So if you click there then you end up on whatever resource you are looking at. But yeah, CDF websites will hopefully be improved coming. Great. I, I hijacked your meeting. No, not at all. Yeah, it's it's for me it's important. Yeah. Any other questions for Fatih? Well, related. One of the things that that CDF provides is logistics for a couple of things and they have been rumors. And then precise and then precise, you know the migration of about to to bevy. Yeah. And this has been raised and I hope will continue to work on that with Ali and it's it's what's it's her first name is. Michelle, is it Michelle? Lori? No, Lori, yeah. Well, I think it's part of the outreach with the support of logistics so I don't know who would be the main partner there but for us it will be a very important project. Yeah. When baby topic first came up, I think it was January or February, I asked similar questions like how is this going to happen and then we tried baby and we found some issues we provide feedback for those things and they address some of those issues. And now we also start talking to CNCF committee because they I think they either completed their migration or they are nearing the completion. So, Michelle, as she summarized on Monday, we need to come up with a good transition plan so all the committees know what is happening when and so on. And as she also said like zoom will stay if things don't work according to the plan we will come up with and we will always some backup but yes baby is one of the top priorities we are working on. I mean to work with baby supplier, the company names also baby I believe to make sure that whatever the platform price is what the communities need. We don't just blindly embrace it, we have to get things working for community and that requires us to have some trials or pilots for different projects perhaps different groups so they go and try things before the entire community on boards to baby. So transition would be smarter for the remaining parts of the community. Will this be discussed who is driving and who owns. Currently, yeah, you can reach out to me if you have baby questions, because two of our team members are currently out of office and that is one of the conversations we will have when they are back next week or week after next to make sure we have an individual who the communities could reach out to, but currently you can reach out to me and when we identify who should be the main contact person for baby then we can help you find that person as well. It could be. Sorry, I didn't want to. I'm done like yeah. Okay, because seen the size of the community and the connection we have and web being on on the on the cautious side, you know the side where we just in case we foresee a parachute in the submarine because it might be useful. We're not exaggerating there but we want to start early. Yeah, that we that we learn the tool that we know how it behaves that we create a transition plan that we start early enough, our communication plan. That we so so there is there is a project plan to set up for us in in currently beside me getting excited on my side and writing down ideas and say we should do this and this and that we would do somewhere. It's disconnected because we don't don't know we're learning and so what I hear from you is, let's be patient for a couple of weeks. And yeah, but yeah, at least you know we're very interested. When this topic came up, one of the things were like, Oh, maybe we should ask projects to try this out. It was February, March, during techno or side committee meeting CDF TOC meeting. I said like, instead of we asked the projects to try and kind of suffer because things don't work. Why don't we try ourselves as techno or side committee. And I think CDF TOC was one of the first groups who started using baby. And that's, again, we need to put this type of information on a clear timeline. Okay, we tried CDF TOC it work for them for majority of things. Let's give a try with Jenkins advocacy this meeting, for example, just making it up to move it to baby to see how it works, or if it works. And then you also gain experience yourself by trying it out. Before you ask Jenkins committee to start transitioning and we can put this on a timeline. When is Jenkins committee trying this August, and then we line up others based on the outcomes from your trials for perhaps. Okay, so first, you know, we're, we're waiting or we're ready to be part of that. And we wait for clarifications. Yeah, I am meeting with baby next week and one of our team as we'll be back from her time of week after next so we should have some rough idea about how we are going to work with this during July. And sorry to bombard you with questions. If we continue to go to the outreach meetings, which is at least one of the meetings where I can hold to will be informed of the progress and where we're standing. Is that the appropriate channel? I can, I can talk with Lori and Michelle to see if they consider baby as part of their, you know, outreach efforts because they have tons of other things to deal with as well. And I will get back to you with more information where this type of information is shared. Maybe this becomes a standing item for taking our side committee because this is high in the list. We have to make sure to save all the tools at their hands working so they can continue moving forward. But I will find out as well which forum is the place to discuss baby as well. Sorry Alyssa to have put the time I've been thinking about that. Yeah I think we're Jean-Marc and I we run the Jenkins online meetup and that's one of our largest meetup groups. And so we are a little bit worried because we don't know what baby looks like what we probably should do our own research but at this point we don't know and we haven't experienced it. So any kind of training would be helpful for us to put us at ease. If you will. Yeah. I will get back to it. It's good that Alyssa and Jean-Marc I will be reaching out to you then what baby information which you can share with others as well in the community. Great. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Okay. So, moving on to the next items of our agendas. Do you stock update John Mark. Well, because it was a very interesting discussion up to now so I'll make my part here short, or at least we'll try. So the projects are now two weeks into coding. They're making progress. I had a one to one chat with every contributor. And so the atmosphere is good. And the next milestone will be that will organize an online meetup. What has been decided for the 21st of July, where the G sock projects will present to the community in more details what their project is about where they standing, what has been achieved up to date. And if possible, present a small demo or something concrete, something concrete, I don't know if it's an English word about what what they did. I tried and explored the possibility as was done the years before to invite the dev, the G sock contributors to DevOps world for our contributors and get sponsoring for that. So, I wrote a summary of that research to you, Alyssa, the summary of that in a nutshell is that for various reason, ranging from covert quarantine rules coming back to the country to school assignment and constraints. So not all countries are aligned with July, August being the holidays school holidays. So, in India, for instance, school starts beginning of August, for instance, they will not be able to answer positively to our invitations. On top of that, the, the amount of sponsoring that would be required for that is quite high. So, this is something that we would need to discuss is it worthwhile or not. It's worthwhile. Yes. But in the current conditions, the world situation, the coming crisis, economical crisis and so on. I am a little reluctant to continue pushing the effort because there will only be two that could answer the invitation and it's a lot of money. Although I promote the idea. I find it's incredible assets to make these young people grow and take their place within the community. It's a great experience on the other side. Funding and possible sponsoring outside of the Jenkins project is scarce and I don't want to waste or spend money that that would put us in problems. Yeah. So, it was my point understood that it sounds good. I was. Yes, gorgeous. The flight ticket from India is $1500 US dollars plus lodging plus the rest. It starts to add up. Right. So, question is, do we decide here to move on with me promoting and addressing the Jenkins government sport for the funding, or do we decide here to put that sponsoring idea in the fridge for this year and see how things evolve. So I still need to, I'm waiting to hear back from Michelle about last year's stipend or stipend. GSOC stipend that there was $3,000 that we received and it fell into the CDF bucket. So I'm still waiting for Michelle to confirm whether that $3,000 is still there. Okay. And for precision, Alyssa, five of the six projects last year were Jenkins projects, not all six of them. So logically they might say 2,500 of the 6,000 should go to the Jenkins project the other 500 to the other project that hosted a Google summer of code project last year. That makes sense. Okay, so I wait for your feedback there Alyssa and then we put it back on the table and we see. Now, honestly, I'm defending them and will be their advocate, but I'm also family father I know we need to be cautious with money. Yeah. All right, well we'll chat about this next time. Yep. So this is all for me. Thank you. Scale 19 X it this is Southern California Linux expo that is taking place end of July. Fatih this is an open source conference I know the Jenkins project has a booth there and because we are an open source project. We get a boot space for free so it's a 10 by 10 boot space. I know that CNCF is there every year if I'm not mistaken. We so we plan to be there this year we will have Mark has a speaking slot there as well. Kosuke is going to be joining us at the booth because he has a speaking slot and so he's going to hang out for the weekend with his family and just hang out at the booth with us. I think in previous year when we were there in person, you know, I worked with Jackie if she had like, CDF content that she wanted us to help pass out I'd be more than happy to have that available at our booth. So keep that in mind, but we'd love to have you join us if possible. I think they expect about 3000 attendees. Given that now we are, you know, still in the COVID area, we don't know what to expect yet. And then our next biggest conference that we that the Jenkins project will be attending is DevOps world and that is in Orlando, Florida, and of September. We, I know that the events team has extended an offer to CDF. And I think fatigue at the moment to where you're you don't have plans for to in a tent to attend. But I highly suggest that you just you know calm check it out. It's it's a really, it's a big event for us. That is we where we usually have the biggest Jenkins gathering. We have a contributor summit before the conference days we usually have workshops Jenkins workshops. And just a lot of Jenkins talks, we also have a very big booth that cloud bees has graciously sponsored us and it's this year it's a 10 by 20 booth space, and they're helping us to pay for that for the design and all that stuff. So we use that booth space as to educate people to do lightning talks to to help answer questions so it's kind of like our ask the expert area. So, so even if CDF doesn't plan to be there I highly recommend that perhaps you can join or somebody on the team from CDF join because I know that the team is new. It's getting a view of, you know, what it's like, but I know that when Tracy and Jackie was leading CDF. It was quite a good experience for CDF. Yeah, with my team to see if anyone can make. Yeah, we love to have somebody there. Yeah, we love to see so the events team has given us a discount code that we can share with the community right now we're still in the early bird. Yeah, so I'm, yeah, I'm just throwing this out there but I'm not really promoting it yet so I won't promote that until after July six. On July, on July six, the rate goes up to over $1,000 and so the discount that they're giving us is the price will be 950. And that is all that I have anything else. I have one open question for Fatih unrelated to Jenkins advocacy but related to Jenkins infrastructure. So we may need your help to enter into an agreement with one of our providers. They've been a long term open source sponsor, but they have some additional conditions that they're putting on most of the people are on the organizations that they sponsor. And one of those is a commercial agreement I assume I work with you Fatih to start that conversation because commercial agreements typically would not come from the Jenkins project but from its parent organization. Please, any material if you could share before we start working on it, I can read and educate myself and ask around to see. Yeah, I'll give you I'll give you an email summary long, long and boring email summary of all the history that I know and what the parts and pieces are so that you understand the context. Just wanted to be sure that you're the right contact for that so I'll start with you and then if you need to deflect me to someone else you certainly can. Great. Thank you. Great. Thank you everybody. Have a good evening. Have a good day. Thank you very much for everybody. Bye.


Hello and welcome to the session.  Let us now begin with the solution and here we are given that the sum of first P terms is equal to A. The formula of sum of first P terms is P upon 2 into 2A1 where A1 is the first term of the AP series plus P minus 1 into D where D is the common difference. So here A1 is equal to the first term and D is the common difference. So let this be equation number one. Now we are also given that sum of first Q terms is equal to B, so that is Q upon 2 into 2A1 plus Q minus 1 into D is equal to B and lastly sum of first R terms is equal to C, so this implies R upon 2 into 2A1 plus R minus 1 into D is equal to C. So let this be equation number two and this be equation number three. Now one can further be written as 2A1 plus P minus 1 into D upon 2 is equal to A upon P. So let this be equation number four. Two can be written as 2A1 plus Q minus 1 into D upon 2 is equal to B upon Q. Let this be equation number five and three can be written as 2A1 plus R minus 1 into D upon 2 is equal to C upon R. So let this be equation number six.  So let this be equation number seven.  This is equation number eight. Equation six can be written as C upon R into P minus Q is equal to P minus Q into A1 plus R minus 1 upon 2 into D.


Hey everyone, hope you're having a good start to your week and welcome back for more Exos Heroes content. In today's video we're going to talk about FC Garf, our hero profile, strengths and weaknesses, skills, playability, recommended garden stones, synergy with other heroes, overall rating and my final thoughts. But before that, if you want to see more Exos Heroes content, please hit the subscribe button down below. Let's try to take a look at Garf's profile, so she is a she in her FC form, so she hails from the nation of St. West, her element is light, her position is on defense and attack type is physical. And guess what, her race is she is a dwarf. This look for Garf is a bit subtle and it's a bit interesting because she poses like she doesn't really care about the world. So let's move on to her stats, her strengths and weaknesses. So as for Garf's strengths, so Garf has above average HP. She has above average defense and she also has above average block. She has an average hit, average dodge and average speed. These are good stats for a defender because this keeps her very flexible in most lineups. The only weakness that Garf has is her low attack, which in principle she doesn't really need that much because she's valued more as a protector and as a buffer of her team. So next is we move on to her skills. So let us take a look at Garf's passive. So Garf has protect 3 for her passive. She has breath of mana as well, so front row allies permanently gain 1 mana. She has command, so grants allies with lower maximum health than self with command mark and increase defense slash health by 20%, which is very big. That is why I will link this later in her recommended garden stones. And also for her FC form, she gains barrier of will. So triggers 70% more of her own maximum health. I wish this would stop, it's taken once, can't be removed, so reduces all receive damage including current damage from 50%. So anyway, barrier of will is the one that protects her. So for her, she is actually giving share health to the lowest HP member of your team. So while barrier of will protects her, decreases damage to her, she protects one member of your team as well. So and the good thing about Garf's passive is that she bumps up your defense and your HP. As long as you have less HP than her. So overall Garf's passive is very powerful, hard to pierce, especially if you have units that have gain health. Later I'll discuss more on the synergy with other heroes. Moving on to her S1. So her S1 has less damage for her FC versus her original form. It's only 187% damage but it has a damage over time with curse, dealing with 49% damage every turn for 6 turns, which is still very powerful. And her S2, so her S2 is unchanged from her original form. So deals 420% damage to all back row enemies. So to sum it up, if you have FC Garf and you compare her with the regular Garf. So there are very little differences in her kit. So for one, S1 is a bit bigger and FC has barrier of will. I think viral will give her a bit more tankiness, that is why for me I think if you have a chance to get her during the banner that is up right now, I think you should get her. And by the way guys, I would remind you to subscribe, please subscribe and push that button down below. As for Garf's playability, Garf is very good as your hero in your main PVP team. She or he is also good in your tag teams in PVP. So even if you have the regular Garf and FC Garf, they're both very good. So I would leave them out of your roster. She gives such a big bonus in terms of health and defense. For your PVE, she has been good as I played her in almost all the chapters. She is also good in your squadron battle because most of the time what you're using for your squadron battle is your PVP team. But she is actually very good as well in the holy dragon grounds because of barrier of will. Again, same with your PVP teams, she gives you 20% defense and 20% health to all of your members and share health with your squishiest team member for the holy dragon. That's why she is very good. If you have the opportunity to take her in your team, please do. She will carry you very far with holy dragon grounds. So as for Garf's recommended guardian stones, the only two stones that I would recommend are the first one is your nature set which is your green because for equipped set effects she will get plus 8 dodge or plus 20 and when you awaken her with your dodge or your green or your nature set effect, she will get plus 500 health or plus 2000 health plus dodge or plus 3 and plus 12. So the only stat that I think you should enhance with Garf because she has already a high block rate is her dodge and her HP, particularly her HP which comes to our next set which is fire. So for her equip set effects she will be given a total damage reduction of plus 5% plus 10 and plus 20 but the best part when you awaken her with the fire set is that she will be given either plus 750 plus 2250 or plus 5000 HP which complements her passive. That is why again play to her strengths because once she gets more health the more she could shield her teammates and the more she can absorb damage as well. As far as Garf is concerned in terms of synergy with other heroes. So number one Garf goes well with glass cannon heroes with heroes with less health because you can really pick from your team a hero that she will be guarding so she acts as your bodyguard. So the best combo right now which is very timely for this video is if you put Dorka in your team she guards Dorka because I think Dorka has the lowest health of your team members so you should check first if Dorka indeed has the lowest health because the synergy works well because Dorka heals her other teammates. So she heals Garf as well so it's a good combo that you should take note and probably use if you have both of them. So in any case Garf is very good in any hero that needs protection she is your ultimate bodyguard she is a big shield for me with a big lance so I think she works well with these characters on the screen obviously she has a good synergy with Rudley but again she works well with squishy characters so try to get her with the banner that's up right now. So again for Garf let's discuss her overall rating. So the rating system is the highest 5 the lowest is 1 so we'll start off with her stats. Stat wise Garf is a 4 because she doesn't have that much of a weakness she only has that one stat that she is low in attack. The rest of her skills are it's either she's on above average or average stat which is really good that is why I put her on a 4 because she's very solid. She is a great overall character with her stats and her skills complement it as well. The next is your playability so I would rate Garf as a 4 in terms of playability because she can be used almost in any part of the game any content of the game whether it be your chapters whether it be your squadron battle whether it be your challenges but she is very good in your dragon stage which is your holy dragon ground because she protects all of her teammates there and they are 10 there. So again her playability score is a 4. Next is her synergy with other heroes so Garf is you can't go wrong with Garf. She can be put in any team she can be she can be you know she doesn't have any requirements to be used that's it she is very versatile defender she is playable with anyone but she excels most with squishy characters that you have to pretend example there is Dork again so the other one could be probably be Rera or anyway but her her job solely is to guard your squishy character that is why for synergy you can't go wrong with her with a 5. So would you need her FC if you really have her well if you have her original form I don't think if you don't have the means to summon for her FC then you don't have to but if you can and if you have the means to summon for her fate core I think you should because Bayer of Ville is a big plus in terms of what she can give to your team her survivability and the survivability of your team so my last would be final thoughts for FC Garf so she goes well again with any team and again I would quote she's the perfect bodyguard for your squishiest character so the key to her is to increase her HP and give her constant heal and again try to work out that combo with Dork so guys well let me let me know what you think with this gameplay for Garf let me know if you like it or you dislike it please write it in the comments below and that concludes this video for today let me know what you think you all stay safe and I'll see you in the next video Warden out


Welcome to the ITU studio engineer. We're very pleased to be joining the studio today by Stella Reboar, who is chair of the ADM at this year's Council 2019. Stella, welcome to the studio. Thank you so much. Now, for those uninitiated, tell us exactly what is the ADM? Wow. That is the admin and management committee of the ITU. And what happens in those sessions? Oh, that is where all the issues that relate to the admin of the ITU is discussed and it's approved before it's taken to plenary. The ITU cancels plenary. Great. And this is your first time chairing this? Yes, my very first time of chairing this committee or any committee in ITU. Great. Okay. What have been the most interesting moments for you in chairing this committee? There's been a lot of issues to deal with. I'm having to grapple with a lot of things this year on the agenda and it seems that there isn't enough time to cover all those things. I needed to push for us to go through the agenda. Now, sitting up on the podium is obviously very different and having to control the conversations in the room is obviously very different from sitting in the room itself and asking for the microphone and asking for the floor, isn't it? For me, sitting on the podium comes natural to me. I had a background in, like, I was an amateur dramatist so I love the stage, sorry to say, but it comes natural to me and I just enjoy it. That doesn't mean that I don't take my work seriously, I do, but I love being on stage. So what part of your previous or life or your current life do you think has helped you most in being chair? I think being a mother, women, we have to deal with a lot of things at the same time. It's like the experience I had here, you are trying to understand this, then something else is coming up and oppositions.  So in times of conflict, in times of difficult conversations, what's your tip? What's the best way of approaching it? Keep it cool, listen, keep it cool, just keep listening, keep it cool and look at the issues, two people are coming from different directions but what is it that they have in common? So you try to stress the commonalities, try to see things from the other person's perspective so it's like taking yourself out of the situation and watching it as if you were a third party, it helps a lot. So this is your first year chairing this committee and you're going to have it also a second year as well. Is there anything else, is there anything that you're going to change or anything that you think that you might be facing? I don't know whether I would have the powers to change things but I think what I think is needed is some adoption, we need to adopt some principles of effective communication because when you are in the ADM at times you see endless arguments on things we don't actually disagree on if it was properly communicated. Then some time improvement on time management and the information put out should be such that makes things clear. So when we're on the same page before we come it will stop us from having endless arguments that are based not on the facts that are before us but will now know how to just move forward and not debate things that, debate on information that we already have. So listening, being better informed and keeping cool would probably be your... Yes, just keep cool, try to be unbiased. You need to keep neutral and it's something that it's difficult to do but you can do it. It's just saying okay I hear from this side, I hear from this side but in my position I cannot. Then you have to remind yourself, yes I have my own personal preferences, my own biases but I have to deal with it.  Absolutely and we're all of course aiming at the same goals which is a strong ITU, a strong working environment etc. I wanted to ask you in terms of looking a little bit ahead into the future how do you foresee the next year? I think the next year will be less turbulent because from my experience in ITU the budget year is usually very turbulent but some of the issues probably we've not dealt with this year will be moved to next year but it's like we already started the discussion so we'll be more conversant with it and we would have had time to share our views and we think our positions. So I suspect I can't predict accurately but I suspect next year will be less turbulent because we've really had quite a chaotic ADM this year but I think on most of the issues we pulled through. Well like I said at the beginning it may have been chaotic but you've done a wonderful job and I'm sure you will continue to do so. Thank you very much for joining us in the studio and hopefully we'll catch up with you again in the very near future. Thank you so much.


Welcome to Jmovi. Jmovi is an application for analyzing data and helping you make sense of the information around you. It's also a compelling alternative to expensive proprietary programs like SPSS and SAS and Stata. Instead, Jmovi is based on the open source programming language R, which is designed for working with data. And what that means is that Jmovi is free, it's open, and it's extraordinarily friendly. In fact, once you start using Jmovi, you'll simply be embarrassed that you didn't start using it sooner. Now, I want to mention one thing about this course. This is a tools course, I'm teaching you how to use software. It works best if you already know a little about data, because I'm not going to be discussing the principles at great length. On the other hand, it's easier to learn data when you have a good tool like Jmovi. So really, either way works fine. Just get started and see what you can do. Go to jmovi.org and download the program. And then go to data lab.cc slash tools slash jmovi to download all the course files so you can follow along with what we're doing and start working in your own data too. And with that, let's go.


Hello, and welcome to our video to get to know the EVAL-SP820XS, an evaluation board based on ST-SPIN820, one of the smallest and most precise stepper motor drivers available in the market. The EVAL-SP820XS board is compatible with the ramps shield. Ramps, combined with Arduino Due or MEGA, is an open source solution for fused filament fabrication 3D printing platforms, making it a fast and affordable way to develop innovative 3D printer applications. The EVAL-SP820XS is a perfect choice for users who want to experience high-resolution printing. The complete set will drive the 3D printer with limited requirements. One Arduino board that includes the microcontroller, one ramps board that has connectors to host a total of 5 daughter boards and 1-5 EVAL-SP820XS daughter boards. The EVAL-SP820XS board operates from 7 volts to 45 volts and delivers up to 1.5 amps RMS per phase. The board is extremely compact. The dimensions are 15 by 20 millimeters. The ST-SPEN820 device features a full set of protections including non-dissipative overcurrent, undervoltage lockout, thermal shutdown, and short circuit protections. The EVAL-SP820XS board works at a high microstepping resolution and the resolution can be easily set through jumpers on the ramps board. That values are available from full step to 1-256th of a step. It is simply controlled through step and direction ports. It embeds a PWM current control algorithm with selectable decay mode which can be either fast and slow or slow only. It has an adjustable reference current level through an embedded potentiometer. The EVAL-SP820XS daughter boards connect to the ramps with 16 pin connectors. A maximum of five boards can be hosted on the ramps. Each one is independent and can be easily plugged in for motor driving. The EVAL-SP820XS represents a cost effective and very fast drop in replacement solution. The motor driver, together with the microcontroller and the firmware, are at the heart of any fused filament fabrication 3D printer. Moreover, the surface finishing of the 3D printed objects has an unprecedented smooth aspect thanks to ST-SPIN 820-256 microstepping capability. With ST-SPIN 820's step clock input frequency at 4 MHz and its embedded high-performance PWM current control, it is possible to push the 3D printer to break through acceleration of 15,000 mm per second squared and speed at 500 mm per second. For more information, visit www.st.com-st-spin.


What's going on everybody Ryan Williams here of fan duel here on another edition of the hurry up where we're talking the best landing spots for Debo Samuel. That's right Debo Samuel asking out of San Francisco. So we have to talk about where he can end up and we got three landing spots for you. Appreciate you guys rocking along. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel. Let's get after these spots. We're going to start it off with Green Bay here. Now Green Bay and San Fran they have bad blood.  I don't know if they would want to do a trade with this team, but Green Bay needs the help they got Devante Adams and his 169 targets from last year gone. Marcus Valdez Gantling gone Aaron Rodgers re signed but you're rolling out the likes of Alan Lazard and bringing in a guy like Sammy Watkins Randall Cobb not going to get it done. Go after a guy like Debo Samuel. They'll probably have to package some of their early picks, but we know the Green Bay Packers. They don't do much with their picks to begin with. So it probably would be doing a favor for them to be trading these picks to get the likes of a stud like Debo Samuel. And not to mention they wouldn't have to worry about him carving them up in the playoffs as he's done the past couple of years. So I could see him definitely landing with the Green Bay Packers for sure. Let's talk about the second team New York Jets. Let's bring them on in and they have some pieces on their staff who are familiar with Debo Samuel very well. Robert Salah was the defensive coordinator there in San Francisco. Mike LaFleur passing game coordinator and now he's the offensive coordinator for the Jets. So bringing in a guy like Debo Samuel would be an immense uptick to this offense when you know Zach Wilson teaming him up with Corey Davis, Elijah Mitchell. Joe Douglas, the GM has been trying to get a stud wide receiver for some time. They were in the Tyrico sweepstakes that didn't go their way. So now you have the chance to get a guy like Debo Samuel. They got four picks within the first two rounds. I think they package some of those up and definitely try and make a huge play for Debo Samuel to add to this team. Lastly, let's talk about the Dallas Cowboys here and the Dallas Cowboys are an interesting team because they never have the cap space it seems like. And they shouldn't be in the mix for star players, but they somehow always find a way. They probably have to jeopardize their first two days of the draft. But when you're looking at them losing a Mari Cooper losing a guy like Cedric William, who was coming on strong last season, and then Michael Gallup who is set to be the wide receiver too. But he's coming off of an ACL injury. We don't know how he would fare. They definitely could use an offensive weapon to try and capitalize on this time that they have with Dak Prescott. So I could definitely see them making a splash play for Debo. Hey, you can utilize some of the backfield. You can give more rest to Ezekiel Elliott, have him and Tony Pollard back there to spell. Give him targets. I think he would be an immense weapon for this team to go after. So keep an eye on the Dallas Cowboys as well as it relates to Debo Samuel. That's going to do it guys. For the fan duo, hurry up. I appreciate you guys rocking along with us all year. We will catch you guys next week as we get into the draft coverage of the live show. It's going to be fun. So catch us there. Ryan Williams. You can follow me on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W. Catch you guys next time. Peace.


Do you want to learn how to trade stocks and cryptocurrency? Join our community of traders, go to richpicsdaily.com and find the next 10Bagger. Hey guys, how you doing? This is Rich from Rich TV Live and I got some breaking news from Halo Collective reporting record first quarter results. Halo Collective Inc. Symbol H-A-L-O on the NeoExchange looks like this on the NeoExchange right there. Currently up slightly today with some big volume on the news and this is their website haloco.com. Halo Collective is a leading vertically integrated global cannabis company and they're growing folks. Look at this. So the symbol on the OTCQX is H-C-A-N-F and in Frankfurt, Germany, A-Nine, K-N. Now remember Rich TV Live is strictly for information education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything that we discuss here in Rich TV Live. Let's talk about the news here from Halo Collective. Today announced its financial and operational results for three months ending March 31st, 2021. The company reported record revenues of 9.9 million for Q1 2021, a 123% increase compared to the previous year. This includes the sale of over 5.2 million grams of cannabis products principally to dispensaries in Oregon and California, a 253% year over year increase. Organic revenue growth was 62% the highest organic growth record in the company's history. The company also reported a gross profit of $2 million, an increase from 172.2000 for the three months ended March 31st, 2020, Q1 2020. The adjusted gross profit was 2.2 compared to 117.4K in Q1 2020. So huge year over year growth when it comes to the balance sheet. The reported gross margin in Q1 2021 was 19.7% in comparison with minus 3.9% in Q1 2020. Complete results of reporting the company's consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31st, 2021. Let's see what they had to say. In response to the company's record results, CEO and co-founder, Kiran Sidhu commented, now in 2021, we will begin to reap the rewards that we initiated with change in our product range in 2020. We exceeded our own sales forecast by almost $1 million and we believe a further increase in sales as possible. With the possible startup of Bar X Farms, the first major sales by Bothello, the startup business and flower shop which recently sold out in its initial launch of 1200 units in a few hours, that's impressive. The expected sales by CanMart and the three planned dispensaries in the Hollywood area, we remain on target to achieve our overall revenue target of $75 million for this penny stock. Philip Vanderberg, CFO and co-founder continued, the Q1 results demonstrate we are on target to 2021 guidance previously communicated. When we released our financial statements for the year ended December 31st, 2020, we provided guidance of annual revenues of $75 million for the fiscal year ended 2021 and positive EBITDA by the 4th quarter of 2021. Our first quarter showed that the core business is growing fast and margins are improving across all operations. With the exception of Oregon, cultivation and potentially California dispensary assets, the company will be slowing down our acquisitions, there we go, which should significantly reduce our corporate costs in turn leading the company to profitability and also less dilution because they did a lot of acquisitions with stock. Halo Collective will host a conference call and audio webcast with Kieran Sidhu, CO and co-founder Philip Vanderberg, CFO and Katie Field president at 4pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time on May 18th, 2021. Here is the information for the webcast, feel free to listen in, I'll do my best to try to live stream it as well. So Q1 2021 financial results revenue revenues in Q1 2021 were $9.9 million compared to 4.4 million in Q1 2020, a 123% increase total sales were $5,230,000 $5,230,019 grams, Q1 2020, $1,481,756 grams, a 253% increase, that's impressive. The average mix price was $1.90, Q1 2020, $3 per gram, a 36.7% decline explained by a higher proportion of lower price flour, pre-rolls, trim and fresh frozen in comparison with Q1 2020, organic revenue growth was 62.4%. The company subsidiaries A&M Inc, Mendo Distribution and Transportation LLC, and Halo Winbury Holdings LLC all reported strong performance in the period under review. A&M reported revenues of 4.4 million, 11.5% increase over Q1 2020. MDT reported revenues of 1.9 million, a 346% increase over Q1 2020. Coastal Harvest reported revenues of 3.4 million, an 88.6% increase over Q1 2020. Halo Winbury reported revenues of 3.4 million, Halo Winbury results were not included in 3 months ended March 31, 2020. A&M, in Q1 2021 A&M, the owner of the company's facility in Oregon, sold 1,320,420 grams of shatter, cartridge oil, live resin, tinctures and gummies, flour and pre-rolls, Q1 2020, 1,438,451 grams, an 8.2% decrease. Sales of oil and extracts were 516,412 grams, Q1 2020, 535,725 grams, a 3.6% decrease. The wholesale price of oils, extracts and edibles increased by 15.6% to $6.47. Q1 2020, it was $5.60 per gram. Flower sales in Q1 2021 were 705,970 grams. In Q1 2020, it was 833,037 grams, a 15.3% decrease. The wholesale price for flour increased by 15.7% to $1.24 per gram. In Q1 2020, it was $1.7 per gram. Pre-roll sales were 98,038 grams. Q1 2020, it was 69,689 grams, a 40.7% increase. The wholesale price of pre-rolls increased by 94.6% to $2.06 in Q1 2020, a $1.06 per gram. The average mixed price across all products was $3.35 per gram equivalent in Q1 2020, $2.76 per gram, a 21.4% increase. MDT in Q1 2021, MDT, the owner of the facility in Yucaya sold 193,374 grams of distillate, live resin gummies and pre-rolls. In Q1 2020, it was $37,263. The average price decreased by 4.6% to 990. In Q1 2020, it was at $10.38. Halo Winbury. In Q1 2021, Halo Winbury, a fully owned subsidiary of the company, received conditional approval to execute the asset purchase agreement to acquire the assets of Herban Industries or LLC and therefore consolidated and recorded the results of Winbury under Halo Winbury. Consequently, Halo Winbury sold 2,529,599 grams of oil and extracts, shatter, live resin, edibles, flour, pre-rolls, and trim at an average mixed price of $1.35. Prices ranged from $15.78 per gram for oil, $1,155 for live resin, $0.15 for extracts, balm, and lotions, $0.86 for edibles, $1.70 for flour, $0.970 for pre-rolls, to $0.14 per gram for trim. Gross Profit. The company reported a gross profit of $2 million in Q1 gross loss, Q1 2020. They had a gross loss of $172,000, so huge increase there. Adjusted for the loss on the biological assets, gross profits were $2.2 million, Q1 2020. It was $117,000. The reported gross margin was 19.7% in Q1 2020 minus 3.9%. Adjusted for gains and losses on the value of biological assets, the gross margin was 22.1% in Q1 2020, 24%. The months of March was specifically strong for an aggregate gross margin across operating units of 27.9%, broken down by subsidiaries. A&M was 23.6%. MDT was 29.7%. Coastal harvest was 31.8%, and Halo Winbury was 33.6%. So you can break down all the fundamentals and the operating losses and gross margins and revenue, impairments, and it breaks down the operating expenses and EBITDA. I'm not going to go through all of this in this press release, but feel free to go through it. Let's take a look at the cash on hand. As of March 31, 2021, the company had unrestricted cash available in the amount of $10.3 million, and we're getting capital in the amount of $22.5 million. So the company is very well reserved with cash. Cash used in operations in Q1 2021 was $9.4 million. Cash used for investing was income of $1 million, and cash raised from finance activities was $15.9 million. Total cash inflow was $7.6 million. So what I see there is that the company actually had $7.6 million of additional cash coming to the company. On February 2, 2021, the company closed an overnight marketed public offering of units of the company for aggregate gross proceeds of $7.2 million. Company closed an overnight marketed public offering of units of the company for aggregate gross proceeds of $9.1 million on February 19, 2021. Now they're going to go through all the corporate M&A activity. They've done a lot of mergers and acquisitions. I'm not going to go through all of it, but you can see that there's a lot of acquisitions here, and a lot of it is used with stock. So for example, on March 2, 2021, the company issued $23,690,385 halo common shares as a pre-closing non-refundable deposit in relation to the closing of the acquisition of SDF-11 LLC, a dispensary license applicant on Franklin Avenue LA. Additionally, halo issued $118,650,349 halo shares to close on the acquisition of the associated management company, Black and Crimson LLC. So you can see a lot of these acquisitions are being made in stock, and that's one of the reasons why the price hasn't been going up. On March 2, 2021, the company issued another $23,690,385 halo shares as a pre-closing on non-refundable deposit in relation to the closing of acquisition ZXC11 LLC, a dispensary license applicant in Santa Monica, LA. Additionally, halo issued $118,650,349 halo shares to close on the acquisition of the associated management company POI11 LLC. So I think that moving forward, you're not going to see as much of these acquisitions, which hopefully will stop the dilution in the securities because you can see that halo has a lot of shares out. And that's one of the biggest reasons why this price hasn't gone up, despite the fact that the business is really growing. Now they break down in the press release, everything they're doing in all of the different markets. I'm not going to go through all of it, feel free to go through this. There's a lot of information here. And I'm sure they'll talk about it in the conference call tomorrow once they do the conference call. But just to reiterate, Halo Collective Inc. is a leading vertically integrated cannabis company that cultivates, extracts, manufactures, and distributes quality cannabis, flour, oils, and concentrates, and has sold approximately 9 million grams of oils and concentrates since inception. Halo continues to evolve his business and scale efficiently, partnering with trustworthy leaders in the industry who value the company's operational expertise in bringing top tier products to market. Current growth includes expansion in key US markets, the United Kingdom and Africa with planned expansion into the Canadian retail market. Halo is led by Strong Diverse, an innovative management team with deep industry knowledge and blue chip experience. Companies currently operating in the United States and California and Oregon, company sells cannabis products principally to dispensaries under its brands, Hush, Moab, and Exhale and under partnership or license with OG DNA genetics. Turpogues and Flour Shop, a cannabis lifestyle and conceptual wellness brand in which G-Eazy is a partner and key member of Flour Shop. As partner of continued expansion and vertical integration into US, Halo boasts several grow operations throughout Oregon and California. In Oregon, the company is a combined seven acres of outdoor cultivation, including East Evans Creek, a six acre grow site in Jackson County, and Winbury Farms, a one acre grow site located 30 miles outside Eugene in Lane County. In California, the company is building out Ukiah Ventures, a planned 30,000 square foot indoor grow, processing and manufacturing facility, including up to an additional five acres of industrial land to expand. Recently, Halo partnered with Green Matter Holding to purchase Barx Farm in Lake County, developing up to 80 acres of cultivation, which would comprise the largest grow in California. Internationally, the company's subsidiary, Bothello, is currently cultivating cannabis in Lesotho, which holds one of the most extensive marijuana cultivation licenses in Africa, with a future capacity of up to 495 acres. To further Halo's global presence, the company has recently acquired CBPM Importation and Distribution Licensing in the United Kingdom via Cannabis Supplier's CANMART. Halo expects the cultivation and manufacturing operations of Bothello, combined with the importation and distribution capabilities of CANMART to drive a well-positioned business to serve the U.K. market. The company also has acquired a range of software development assets, including technology platforms CANPOS, CANALIFT, and more recently, CANAFIELS. Halo also owns the discrete sublingual dosing technology ACUDAB. The company intends to spin off these assets, along with its intellectual property and patent applications, into its subsidiary, HaloTech, Inc., and complete a distribution to shareholders on a record date to be determined by Halo. Very interesting. Very, very interesting. So they could do a potential spinout one day, which is very interesting. What do you guys think of this news? Halo Collective, Inc. reports record first quarter results. This is them on the NIO exchange. Pretty massive revenue. And for a penny stock, the only issue I see here is the shares. There are many shares in the billions, just under two billion shares, and that creates a lot of dilution and is holding the price lower. This is the website, haloco.com. You can follow them on all social media on Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram, and Facebook. Scroll down, and you can learn more about Halo. Global positioning and reach. Halo Collective is built for long-term success. Cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and retail. They literally have their hands involved in everything. This is their global reach. So you can see Alberta, Canada, Oregon, in the United States, California, Nevada, England in the United Kingdom, Malta in Europe, and Lesotho, Africa. So well positioned for global expansion. Vertically integrated, our cultivation. Halo Collective is vertically integrated across the globe, which streamlined cultivation sites and learn more about Bar X, East Evans Creek, Buffalo Bioscience, and Yacaya Ventures. All this information on their website, like I said, on haloco.com, this is the Halo Collective brand portfolio. We have a diversified product line ranging from flour to concentrates and edibles. These products also vary in grade, ranging from higher to lower, to appease all consumer wants at various price points. And they are also entering into the psychedelic revolution. So they're getting into psychedelics as well. And I'm a big fan of psychedelics and how it's going to change the future of medicine. Halo is also getting into psychedelics. So not only are they vertically integrated in the cannabis space, but they're also getting into psychedelics. So this company is getting their hands involved in everything. Keep up to date with their news and they will be doing a conference call on May 18th. 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So, in the last lecture, we started talking about random sampling. We discussed about what we mean by branding sampling from a particular population. We said that for us, population is nothing but some underlying probability density function and when we samples from this population in an IID fashion, we call that as random sampling, ok. And then we started talking about sample mean, sample mean and sample variance. So, these were the definitions of sample mean, sample variance and sample deviation. Then we looked into some of their properties like expected value of sample mean is nothing but the mean of the underlying population and the variance of the sample mean can be calculated to be sigma square by n. And we also said that expected value of standard sample variance is nothing but the variance of the underlying population. And we actually showed this, I just give the computation and I asked you to verify this, I hope you verified. See, notice that like if I say some computation to verify, please verify, this may come in your quiz or any place and at that time you should not repent, ok. And then we said that when the expected value of sample mean is equals to the mean of the underlying population, then the sample mean which is basically one of the statistics we consider, we call that statistics as unbiased. And similarly the another statistics we have is statistic we have is sample variance and we said that sample variance is also unbiased, ok. Now, let us move on. When you do sampling and all, we have to do all the analysis with only some finite number of samples, right. Maybe when you do samples, when you collect samples from people, maybe you will collect maybe 100 people, 200 people, 300, 400, maybe 1000 or maybe at max few lakhs. And based on those samples only you have to do analysis or try to understand what is the underlying mean and variance of the population. And always collecting samples is a expensive task. You should not assume that, ok, like I will just go and get as many samples I want, no, right. Like if you have noticed like when all these drugs are being tested, right, difference vaccines are tested, they were trying to give it to different people and see what is the effect of the drug. And based on that they were trying to come up with how efficient their drug is. So, giving it to someone and then seeing that how drug affects him that is like collecting one sample, right. Naturally asking more people to come for this drug testing is a very expensive thing. Like if by mistake something happens to anybody, that is a lot of liability is there. So, getting more samples is not always easy and you should not be assuming that, ok, samples are too like I will get as many samples. And another thing, if you want to do a go and do market survey, like if you are interested, if you are launched a new product and want to see how many people will be interested, you have to set up a whole process of getting the sample, you have to put somebody to go and talk to people. Like maybe you have to employ somebody, you have to pay him for that and he has to go and talk to people. So, his travel needs to be arranged, all these things, right, these are all, they cost money and I mean all these people who do poll prediction, right. Like you see that they put a mammoth system for this, they put lot of people, they will send to different regions, they will talk to people, that is again involves lot of money. And now things are simplified, most of these samplings, maybe people put it on just opinion polls, like just to make a some web page and keep on sharing it and maybe like a through Google form or something, ask people to give their inputs. That is like asking somebody is like you are basically getting one sample from that person. But that itself is also going to take maybe cost you something and it is not that everybody, you can approach anybody, like if you start sending everybody, everybody will just flag it as spam and they may not get any response, ok. So, lot of issues are there and that is why we should always be ready to see what kind of information we have from a given number of samples. Now, the question is how to go about analyzing this. So, to simplify things what we will do is, we will assume underlying population is Gaussian. This is our first simplification and try to understand how the analysis goes about, ok. And then we will consider what happens if it is non-Gaussian. If suddenly when the things are non-Gaussian, things becomes complicated, ok. Somehow Gaussian distribution is something which is very amenable for analysis, mathematical analysis that is why most of the time we consider. From the theoretical point of view, we assume Gaussian distribution, ok. That is why this is one of the popular distribution because it is easy to analyze. Now, when we have samples, we are going to do some statistics on them. It could be mainly sample mean or sample variance and now try to understand some of the properties of this when the underlying population is Gaussian distribution, ok. Now, if your samples x 1, x 2 are all random samples and the underlying population is Gaussian with mean mu and variance sigma square. The sample mean itself is going to be Gaussian distributed with mean mu and variance sigma square by n, ok. Let us now, is this obvious? So, what we are saying? Let us say we have this x 1, x 2 up to x n and each of this xi is mu sigma square and now we are saying x bar is 1 by n summation xi. How do you check that this x bar is Gaussian distributed? What is the method you have? One possibility is moment generating function, ok. See that what is the moment generating function of x bar, ok. How you are going to find out? It is going to be 1 upon e to the power t x, you do it for some x and you know that this is nothing but e to the power t summation xi by n. Now, I can write it as product of 1 to n expectation of e to the power t by n xi. Can I do this? Why this product is correct? Because they are independent. Now, what is its value? You know what is the moment generating function of a Gaussian distribution, right. Compute at what point? t by n here. What is that value? Can somebody tell me? Exponential plus, is this correct? I do not know, I am just taking you and now let us simplify this. Now, with this it is going to be exponential, I am adding now all of them. So, mu t it becomes mu t plus half sigma square t square by n, ok. Now, what is this corresponds to? What is distribution corresponds to? Now, if you compare it with the template of the normal distribution, this is going to have a mean of mu and variance of sigma square by n, right and that is why this is going to be Gaussian with parameter mu and variance sigma square by n. Now, x square we had. Now, what is our s square? s square is 1 by n summation. Now, what we are saying is this x bar and s square they are independent. So, on a first look does it make sense? Because they all this x bar, now we are talking about this x bar and this s square both s bar x bar and s square they all depend on the same set of samples x i. See x i is let us take one particular x i that x i is there and that x i is also there in then some. So, both of them do you expect it to be independent or at least what your intuition says like. It is hard to believe that right this x bar and s square which both of them depends on the same set of samples they are independent, ok. But for us we will go with the definition of independence. What is the definition of independence? If you compute the distribution of x bar and compute the distribution of x square and if you look into the joint distribution they should split into the marginals and it actually happens for this whenever it is Gaussian and that is why we are going to call I mean that is why it is a result that they are independent. And in fact, you can show this and this requires some good amount of calculations that is why I am skipping that and it is there in the book which I am going to share and I will refer you which chapter and which section you have to look into for this calculations, ok. What we are again going to do is you are going to find now you have already have x bar distribution you already have. Now, you need to figure out s square distribution, but finding the distribution of s square is going to be hard. Instead what you are going to do is you will look into their joint moment generating function and you will show that their joint moment generating function actually splits through that you are going to show they are independent, ok. And this is one of the important properties that we are going to use later and thanks to the special structure of Gaussian distribution this property holds otherwise if you replace this by any other distribution this need not hold another property. Now, this sample stand sample variance if you multiply by n minus 1 and divided by sigma square this has a chi square distribution with n square degrees of freedom, n minus 1 degrees of freedom, ok. So, notice that x bar has Gaussian distribution and when you s square when you divide and multiply accordingly it will have chi square distribution with n minus degrees of freedom. And by our definition we know that chi square distribution is related to the gamma distribution. So, chi square distribution with n minus degrees of freedom is nothing, but gamma distribution with parameters n minus 1 by 2 and half, ok. So, now at this point you may be wondering x bar, x bar consists like when I defined x bar it has n random variables in it and each one of them is like a Gaussian random variable in this case and s square also consists of this n random variables then why it is not n degrees of freedom like I can think of these are like n components, right and which all of them are like independent they can vary in an arbitrary fashion why is that they are not n degrees of freedom why it is that n minus 1, yeah. So, even though we have n components, but there is an x bar here, right and that x bar is affecting my s square their average is affecting and because of that you can just work out that like even with that if you take n minus 1 components the n components get fixed because of this x bar part here. So, because of that 1 degrees of freedom get reduced and you will end up with n minus 1 degrees of freedom, ok. Now, let us continue to analyze this random sampling of this Gaussian distribution itself and when we try to analyze this say I will tell you at this point what is our ultimate goal? We want to get the parameter from samples let us say we already know it is a Gaussian already we have put the structure that is mu and sigma square, but I may not know mu and sigma square mu and sigma square unknown and what I have is I have access to the data I have samples x 1, x 2 up to x n and I need to mu and sigma square from data that is x 1, x 2 this random sample. From this random sample at best I can find the sample mean and sample variance, but this x bar is it same as mu that I want mu, but this x bar is not same as mu, right. So, that mu there will be some difference this need not be 0 and similarly this s square minus sigma square this need not be same. Now, what I want to understand how much is this actual difference is? If I have to compute this only n sample I know that this is not going to be 0 it is going to be some positive value, but how much is that and how can I quantify that? Similarly this also I know this is not going to be 0, but how much is that error and I need to quantify that. So, for that now we will start thinking about how to do that and for that we will use all the Gaussian properties, because in general we cannot compute it for any distribution easily, but we focus on Gaussian distribution and try to get it, ok. So, in that process we are going to now in doing that we will end up studying something called student t distribution.