Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So for today's video, I'm going to be reviewing the brand new Natasha Denona Minis that just came out. So we have the mini retro palette and then we have the new mini bloom glow blush. So if you want to hear my thoughts and see my demo on these two products, then just keep watching. All right. So really quickly, let's talk about the shipping that happened with me. I'm very confused. So I ordered just the eyeshadow palette the night that it came out. So I ordered at like four in the morning. I woke up randomly and I was like, oh, I need to order that completely forgot about the blush. Just ordered the palette and settled on the fact that I was just going to order the palette. But then literally like two days later, I felt remorse. And so I picked this up two days later, but very confused because this came like the next day or two days later, whatever the free two day shipping is. I didn't get this till Sunday. This took five days to get to me. So I'm very confused at what happened there. So that is why this video is a little bit later than I had anticipated. But nonetheless, of course, I'm going to review it. I'm always excited when Natasha Denona comes out with new powder products. Just so you know, both of these products are currently available at Sephora.com and I believe Beautylish. Let me double check on that. Normally I do my research before filming, but I was just so excited to talk about this that I forgot. Yes. Okay. So both are available. I do want to talk about the blush first because I'm not wearing it. I wanted to do like a live demo for you as far as the blush goes because it's super easy. And then we'll finish off with most of the video being about the palette. So really quickly, we're going to talk about the mini bloom highlighting blush. This is $19 and it is only one shade. So, you know, for a mini product, $20 is still pretty steep, but you know, it's not bad. You are getting four grams of product in here and there's a lot of yard work going on outside. So if you hear that, I apologize. So this blush is supposed to give your skin a radiant glow and a sheer translucent finish. It does not specify online whether or not it is limited edition, but fun fact, this is formulated with hyaluronic acid, huh? One thing to note through swatch, it is very, very smooth. It is a bright peachy kind of coral shade with a gold sheen running to it. Very pretty. This is a new shade from Natasha Denona. It does not exist. For size comparison, this is it compared to the Bloom Quad. So it's much smaller, very adorable. If you're curious, this is not at all similar to any of the shades in the Bloom palette, just completely different. Very excited. I don't really have too many cheek products from Natasha Denona. I have some palettes, but as far as individuals, this is my first individual cheek product. So to apply this, I'm using a refer number four brush. This is an angled brush and we're just going to get going. So I'm going to, it looks very, very bright on my brush. I'm going to come a little closer so you can get a better view. So I've tapped off my brush. Let's see. Okay. So it's a very, very bright blush. I think that if you have a medium to deep skin tone, this is going to work good for you. And I think the sheen is going to look beautiful on a deeper skin tone. Pigmented. So that's good for my gals on the deeper skin tone scale. If you're pale, tap, tap, tap. Honestly, if you're very fair, you might want to run far, which is a very, very light hand. Really, really pretty. Did take a little bit of work to spread it out, but nothing bad. And it is just a really kind of radiant glow up. So a little bit worried because sometimes her cheek products are too glowy. And when I first put it down, there was definitely a strong glow on my skin that was emphasizing some texture. But as I worked it out, that sheen kind of blew down a little bit. So it just tapped it in twice again, and we're going to build on this side. Ooh, a very beautiful, just really bright blush color. If you don't like a bright blush, you're not going to like this. I kind of look like a clown. I should have gone with a lighter hand. I just really like the finish of that. It is glowy, but it's not too glowy to where it's emphasizing texture on your cheek. I like a bright blush. Well, we got to tone this down a little bit. Blush is getting a thumbs up for me, but definitely a use with caution. Medium to deep skin tones. I actually think you guys are really going to love this product. It's very pigmented. It's very bright. It's not too glowy, so it doesn't emphasize the texture on your cheeks. I think if you really pack it on is when you'll notice it will start to be a little bit unflattering as far as emphasizing texture, but if you really blend it out and take the time to work it out, it does diffuse that sheen so that it is more flattering on the face. So I do really like this. I think it's really pretty. I don't necessarily think it is a need for anybody, but if you're looking for a nice portable bright cheek color, I like this. This is nice. All right, so now it's time to move on to what I know all of you are here for. We're going to talk about the mini retro palette, the newest mini baby to her line. I was so excited for this because look at it. It's very unique just based on all of her other mini quints. This one is definitely the most unique. I think it is a beautiful spring release color story rise. Very, very stunning. As I always say with her minis, if you actually do the calculations, the value of this is not very good because you don't get a lot of product, but I do believe it is a great way to try out her formula for only $25, which is much more affordable compared to actually buying her palettes. So it's a great way to get a taste of her formula.  Somebody like me, I have quite a large collection. I'm not running through any shadow hitting pan on any shadow. So this is perfect for me. $25. And this is a mini palette featuring five dreamy colors for romantic retro looks. Perfect for a soft pastel look and everyday wear. This is currently out of stock at Sephora. That sold out. Okay. So in here, you are getting two mats and three shimmers. Two of her shimmers, I would say are more of a wet glittery formula and then one is an actual true shimmer. So here's the true shimmer. Here are your two mats and here are the two kind of really glitter foiled metallic shades. Something to note, which is very, very important, especially if you own a lot of Natasha Denona palettes, is three of these shades are repeats. So you only are getting two new shades. Just so you know, Galaxia, this is from the Star Palette Industrial, which is probably the most beautiful shade in the palette. This is from the Green Brown 28-Pan Palette. Vintage Taupe right here is from the Tropic Palette. So if you're a collector like me that is slightly disappointing because I do already own most of the shades in this palette, but most people aren't like me. You guys don't collect everything. So I don't think it's that big of a deal, but for us collectors, a little bit disappointing for sure. Two shades in this palette that are new are 60s and Pixie. I don't really care for Pixie. I'll be honest. But anyways, that's just because compared to all the others, it's not as exciting. As far as how all of these colors swatched a beautiful swatching palette, everything felt very smooth, very creamy, very consistent. This palette does have all of the formulas that we love and are comfortable with and enjoy. Not one of her crazy ones that she's trying out for the first time and fails. All of these are one of her good formulas that we love and trust. If you aren't aware, sometimes these little guys can be hit or miss from Natasha or different formulas can be hit or miss from her. She likes to experiment a lot with new formulas, which isn't always her best choice. And these minis as well in the past have seemed to have been just not in line with her regular formula. I'm giving you the thumbs up. These are her regular formula. Last few things to note before I get into the demo is that quality wise, this is a great palette. These two shades are really beautiful with her shimmers. I definitely recommend you use a finger for the demo. I did use brushes and they applied beautifully. But especially with these two shades right here, you will notice they are a little bit more soft in the pan, a little bit kind of squishy, like a putty formula. This shade especially, Galaxia, should be used with the finger unless you're using it on a very small surface area. And industrial right here is absolutely like my favorite shade in this palette. It is so shiny, so sparkly. 60s I enjoy. I think it's a unique shade and it blended out beautifully. I think it pulls a little bit more murky kind of gray on my eyelid more than I would like, but it's not bad. The shadow works good. It's just not the exact color I would want. Vintage Dope is a really great transition shade, very beautiful. And then Pixie is a really nice quality shimmer. It's just compared to these two. It seems lackluster. It's not, but it's just not as pretty as these two. So that's why, you know, she kind of gets pushed to the back. But overall, really good. As far as skin tone though, I don't think this is very deep skin tone friendly. This shades can pull a little bit more unflattering on deeper skin tones. There are shades you can make work, but I'll be honest, there are probably shades you can't make work as well. So the blush, whereas, you know, she made such a great universal blush. These pastel tones can be a little bit tricky, but quality wise, color story wise, I'm feeling this palette. So I'm going to get into the demo of how I got this look. I'm just prepping my eyelid really quickly with some Mac painterly paint pot. So we're first starting off with Vintage Dope. I'm using a blinged brush E13 and that is going to go on the inner half of my crease. For this look, I wanted to make sure I got every single color in this quint on here. Apply this on the inner half of the lower lash line as well. And this color is really pretty. It applied very beautifully and it's like the perfect transition for so many other looks, not just a look for this palette. Next, we're going to go into 60s. I'm just using a ABH brush right now. And this color could go very wrong. I think it looks a little bit deep, a little bit more murky on the lid than I would personally prefer. Like I was hoping it would be just a tad brighter and it just looks a little bit more gray rather than the green I was kind of hoping for, but application wise, as you can see, it's blending out very easily, which I do appreciate because again, this color could have gone very, very bad, been very patchy, hard to blend. It's actually working out very well, but it still is a really nice shade. And I'm taking just this Elf blending brush. I guess it's $2 now. Like this is like one or two bucks. You can't beat it. And I'm applying that to my outer half of my lower lash line. This was a very, very easy color to work with, which I do very much appreciate a lot. We're going to take industrial, which is an amazing shade. I'm putting this right in the outer third of my lid right on top of that green. And it is so stunning. And I'm using a brush and it's applying and sticking to the lid with full pigmentation. It has some beautiful silver shimmers in there. And I love the shade and it goes very well over sixties. Just for some inspo, I would use these two colors and maybe this one for a look or these two colors and that one for a look. So you can have either that really cool green eye or you can have a really cool pink eye. I just wanted to incorporate all of them for this look, but you can do a lot with this honestly. And then I'm going to be taking Pixie, which is my least favorite of the shimmers because it's a normal shimmer, which is fine. It's a pretty color, but I like the glitters that the other two colors have. It shows up a little bit less pink on the eyelid than it looks like in the pan. It looks like it'd be a little bit more pink, but it still is a gorgeous shade. It applied beautifully with the brush. And then finally, we're going to go in with Galaxia and I'm using a MAC 219, which is just a pencil brush. And I'm filling in the inner part of my eyelid. And as you can see, this is a beautiful glittery shade. It has a putty texture to it. So it's probably going to apply better with a finger if you are planning to put it all over the eyelid. But just because I have such a small surface area, it applies fine with the brush and beautifully. And I'm taking the shimmers and bridging them up here to keep a really pretty, glimmery look. I love this shade. So as you can see, all of the shades applied super beautifully, super easy, super even. So this is the look. And of course, you guys have seen the final look. If you are curious about anything that I'm wearing, it will be listed down below in the description box. But overall, she came out with a very good release. I think both of these products are really great. Just use a light hand with the blush. And this palette right here is just really beautiful. So I really enjoy this. So overall, Natasha, you did a good job with this one. I am impressed. So if you were interested in picking up these products, I do highly recommend. It felt really nice to do a review today. There hasn't been as many new releases. I haven't been buying as much makeup, so I haven't been reviewing products. And I love reviewing products. So it was fun to get this one out for you guys. So thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I hope you guys take the time to do so. And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye. Have a good one.


You're tuned in to the COVID-19 Community Report here on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm Audemars-Labe Renaud and today is Tuesday, October 13th, 2020, and we're sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. My guests today are Heather Saluter of Yolo Crisis Nursery and Evie Wright of Suroptimus International of Davis and we'll get to those interviews in just a few minutes. Yolo County spent its first week in the state's less restrictive red tier under which a slew of businesses were able to reopen with modifications. The state developed a tiered structure to simplify the framework and lay out clear disease transmission goals for counties to work towards. Progression through each tier brings increasingly less restriction, but public health experts expect that we are still a long way from a return to what we're now calling normal times. The big news in COVID protocol this week was that the state updated its gathering guidance and this is for private gatherings only. Please take note. There are seven main points to the new guidance. The first is that attendance is limited to three households and they should be consistent over time. In other words, it's okay to gather consistently with other households, but they should be the same households all the time. So unfortunately, this is not encouragement to be scheduling get-togethers with every household in your address book. Two, the gathering should take place outdoors. Period. There are no guidelines yet for gathering indoors. Three, don't attend any gatherings if you're sick, high risk, or have concerns that you may have been exposed to the virus. Four, continue social distancing, working to maintain six feet in between yourself and others, and practice good hand hygiene. Five, wear a face covering. Six, gather for two hours or less. And seven, singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged and the state guidelines actually say that if you must sing, chant, or shout that you do so softly. So this advice marks the first move towards approving gatherings of any kind. So even with all the caveats, it's pretty significant. Also a reminder that testing sites continue to be available throughout the county this month with sites in Davis, Knights Landing, West Sacramento, and Woodland. These locations test for the coronavirus, not its antibodies, and the tests are free, though if you do have insurance, they'll find a way to bill it. Proof of county residency is required, and a driver's license or a bill with your name and address on it will suffice. Each site may have specific requirements for booking appointments, and you can find out more about all of that by visiting yolocounty.org and clicking on the COVID-19 testing page. And my near weekly reminder at this point, yolocounty.org, spotlights on the front page, all the COVID public health orders, all the information about testing and new rules and everything you need to know. Okay, and I want to take a moment to steer voters towards our voter education resources here at Davis Media Access and K-Dirt. Working with our studio manager, Diane Dodoshka, I interviewed 24 candidates for local offices spanning school board to Congress, plus the pro-con campaigns for local ballot measure B. Each candidate or campaign joined us for a five-minute interview, and we did our best to provide the same experience for all while using a somewhat challenging remote platform. All the statements are up at davismedia.org slash election. And I'll wrap by saying that DMA plays an important role in our local election information ecosystem, and this work is made possible by your community support. You can learn more about that at davismedia.org. Now we're going to take a moment for music, and I'll be back with the first interview shortly. All right, I am bopping in my seat here to the Rosenberg Trio with Gypsy Swing, and I want to thank my pal Don Shore for helping out with the music selections and a lot of other stuff every week. Thank you, sir. All right, the Yolo Crisis Nursery offers voluntary and free nurturing childcare for ages birth through five years, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Equally important are the crisis nurseries wraparound services that help parents resolve the problems that brought them to their door in the first place. And here to tell us more about that as well as how COVID-19 has impacted them is their Executive Director Heather Sluder. Thank you so much for joining us, Heather. Hi, thank you for having us. You bet. So I love how your website puts it right out there. Parenting is difficult. That's one of the first things you see on the website. And speaking as a mom of three myself, it's challenging under the best of circumstances. But you are there, the crisis nurseries, there to help folks who are perhaps at their lowest point for a variety of reasons. So let's start with how do you define crisis and how might someone land at your doorstep? So we do not turn anybody away. Anybody can call us with anything that's going on in their life circumstances. Crisis could be from just post-partum depression or needing mental break or having any type of doctor's appointments that don't have to someone safe to watch the child, to extreme domestic violence, to homelessness, drug addiction, drug abuse. So the measure of crisis, it could be anything. And again, anyone can call us for even care packages if they need food security that we also provide, clothing, diapers, wipes, formula, and any type of food. But our main goal here is they're wrapping services around these families and finding resources and referrals for them. So just because the family doesn't, they don't have to utilize the crisis day and overnight program. They can call us and we can give them referrals as well. Yeah, and your website has a lot of information about what some of those wraparound services are. So let's say that I am a mom with a young child. I'm a single parent. I'm at my wit's end. I don't know what to do, and someone tells me to call you. What am I going to find when I call you? So when you call the crisis line, we have staff on 24-7, so someone will be answering the phone day or night, and someone will immediately do an intake. So if they're in a crisis situation, we could bring them in immediately, or they could come in right then and there. Sometimes we go out and pick up the families. We have a mobile client navigator who will meet families wherever they're at in the community. So it's depending on whatever the situation is and whatever the crisis, and if it's a severe emergency. If it's a safety concern for the child and the mother, we go out immediately and help that family. If the crisis can get through the night or the child is safe or that situation, we will bring them in immediately. So we can serve up to the child up to 30 days and a six-month period. So the child is free of charge day or night here at the crisis nursery up to can stay here for 30 days and a six-month period. OK, and while a child is there, I'm assuming that things such as food and diapers and hands-on care, all of that is provided. Everything is provided. So they just have to bring the child. We provide 24 hours of food, shelter, safety. And then the case manager that's working with the family, she is wrapping those services around that family. So whatever they're needing, if they're needing, say if they need to get a restraining order, if they're needing to get their homeless or they need to get into any type of resources and referrals to get them in a safe place, even if we're having to get them home hotel vouchers just to save for the night. My case managers are working around the clock to help that family. And then we also, after we serve the family, we follow up with them after three, six, nine, and 12. So we're following this family for a year to make sure that they have the support and anything that they're needing. Wow. OK, so you have touched on, I'm going to assume by what you said, you have relationships with local law enforcement, you have relationship with CPS, and so on. Who are some of your staunchest community partners and other organizations? So we partner with Empower Yellow, the domestic violence shelter. So if anybody is trying to flee domestic violence, we have partnerships with them. And also Empower Yellow, we have a mobile client navigator program called the Family Violence Prevention Project. And we are out there three days a week in there on Walnut Street, helping us supporting any families that are going to the Walnut Street address for Empower Yellow. We partner with Yellow County Children's Alliance. They're a huge partnership with through CalFest and any nurturing parenting programs that we can refer our families to parenting. They're a huge partner in the organization with the Crisis Nursery. But all of our local Communicare health centers, we also have a Road to Resilience in First Five, California. We are huge partners with and provide other programs at the Crisis Nursery. Not only does the Crisis Nursery serve children and families here at the nursery, but we have other programs that we go into the homes and help families. We have a family life skills program that is a 12-week program that we're helping families stabilize in their environment that we partner with Communicare and we do parenting in-home. Instead of asking a parent to find childcare and go find a childcare center and go to parenting, we do hands-on. And right now, due to COVID, we're doing it virtually. And then we have an ABC program that's called Attachment Biobehavioral Catch-Up Program. And this program is to help parents nurture that bond back and that attachment back with their child or if there's any behavioral issues or any concerns. We also, due to COVID, we turn that to virtually. But that is to help the parents and the mother and the father to attach back to the child. And again, I explained the Mobile Client Navigator Program that we partner with. And that program also is we're out in the community reaching the families where they're at and then bringing them back to the nursery to wrap those services around them. We also help foster families in Yellow County as well. That's the Foster Parent Prevention and Retention Program. So any foster family in Yellow County that gets a child in the middle of the night, they can turn to the crisis nursery and ask for rest of the care services. Well, we help them find a long-term plan of childcare or stabilization for that child.  All right. Well, Heather, I was so excited to talk to you because I know that you do so much and what you've just described there is a lot, but I know it's not all of it. So just shout out to all of you and thank you for being local heroes first. And then you touched a little bit on how COVID has impacted your organization. You mentioned a couple of programs that have gone virtual. I realize this is kind of a tiered question because COVID impacts not only our everyday services as nonprofits, but it impacts things like fundraisers. And I believe you had to cancel your big annual fundraiser or pivot it strongly. Can you tell us about that? Yes, our barn dance in October, we had to change it to a more of a online donation because we couldn't have our essential park. We usually have like a barn dance event that fundraises for the crisis nursery. And this year, Travis Credit Union matched us by our wonderful donors in our community who supported the nursery. They matched us with $20,000. So thank you to Travis Credit Union. But yes, our fundraisers for the crisis nursery have been impacted due to, we can't have big events in having multiple people there. Sure, how is the crisis nursery otherwise funded? I see you solicit donations, but what are your other funding mechanisms? So First Five California and First Five YOLO, they help us fund us through programs, safe stays, our overnight program, our mobile client navigator programs are helping us fund some of our programs. We also have organizations and foundations. We write grants. We also have some county funding for the crisis nursery. Other than that, a lot of it is doing donations of fundraisers in our community. All right, and I saw something on your website, which by the way is yolocrisisnursery.org. Make sure we get that out there.  Can you speak to that? Yes, once COVID hit, a lot of childcare centers closed down and we have been helping essential workers as soon as the county opened up, we started helping out the families that had nowhere to turn for their children and care. We had a lot of families that were going back to work that had no one to turn to or they would have lost their job. We also helped out, during this time, we've also had a spike in postpartum depression, being others, being isolated in the home and not having anybody to turn to or help and then the fear of going into medical centers because of getting exposed to COVID. So we've also, that was a huge spike during this time. I can only imagine as we started out talking about, parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances. It can be challenging and yeah, you add a pandemic and all those fears and scarcity and all of that. And I imagine it's greatly magnified. Okay, Heather, if someone needs help, how can they get in touch? And I think there's a couple of different ways. Let's make sure we get the crisis line out there and then for other needs as well. So they can reach us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. That is our crisis line, that is 24 hours a day. They can also get us on our website at yellowcrisisnettery.org. There's also tabs on the website that you can email directly to an individual here and a case manager or myself or Oscar Lopez who's the operations manager here. It will go directly to us and we will respond immediately. Okay, and similarly, if someone would like to learn more about how they can support you or how they might get involved, how should they reach out to you? So they can reach out us through the website as well. We have all of those links that will go to the right person but they can also call the main line and ask for Oscar Lopez or Heather Sluder myself and see how they can help out. So volunteers are gonna, we love our volunteers but due to COVID we are having extra people in here holding the babies but we will once we're allowed to have more people at capacity at the nursery, we will definitely return to that. We're hoping after the first of the year but time will tell. And then they can always help, we have the friends of the crisis nursery and they're a group that volunteer and help with our fundraisers and really outreach and awareness in our community. They could help and reach out to us as well. Becky heard our development director. She would be happy to talk to anybody regarding helping out on the friend. Great, well Heather, thank you so much for joining me today and thanks for the work that you and the team at Yolo Crisis Nursery do. You're just an incredible asset to Yolo County. So thank you very much. Thank you Jim for having me. You bet, take good care. You take, bye. All right, every now and then I interview someone and the word hero just kind of flashes in front of my eyes and I think the kind of work that they're doing is really heroic. Yolo Crisis Nursery again, YoloCrisisNursery.org. We're gonna take a brief break for music and I'll be back with my second guest. My next guest is Evie Wright, President of Suroptimist International of Davis. Suroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. I was an active member of this club for many years and I still hold it very, very dear. Welcome Evie and thanks for joining me. Hi, Autumn, it's good to hear from you. You too. So this is kind of like the punchline to a joke. You became president of a club during a pandemic. A club that usually meets weekly and has a lot going on. We're gonna hear a little bit more about that but let's start with the Suroptimist International of Davis mission generally and how the club works to carry out that locally. Sure, so like you said, we work our local community to empower women and girls through education and we are a part of a larger organization, Suroptimist International that's in 100 countries throughout the world and we are a part of the United Nations as well. SI Davis was formed in 1954 so we've been working for over 65 years to empower women and girls through high school scholarships. We give grants to local women who are female heads of household and we also give community grants to nonprofit organizations as well as mentoring high school girls at Martin Luther King High. So that's the main things that we do but we actually have our fingers in a lot of other pots as well. Yeah, SI Davis really puts the service and service club, I'm telling you. So in normal times, your club runs the beer booth, the beer and wine booth at Davis Farmers Market Picnic in the park on Wednesday nights, spring through fall and that's not happening this year. I happen to know that that is the club's single biggest fundraiser to support much of this good work so what does that mean in terms of impact to the club and its mission this year? So generally throughout beer booth season we will make anywhere from 25 to $30,000 and 100% of those proceeds go to empowering women and girls in our community through the programs I talked about before. So what we've really had to do is we really had to pivot into thinking about how we can boost other fundraisers in order to make up for that. So one way is we have done a big day of giving for the last two years and this last year we actually tripled our income from that so that was really, really exciting and then we have our soup auction, the soup and silent auction that we've had for many, many years. It's the Thursday before Thanksgiving and generally we would meet at odd fellows, 20 or 30 soups and people get together and it's a great community event, eating soup, bidding on silent auctions but we cannot have a, you can't have people coming around and eating soup together. Pivoting that into partnering with food work and we will be doing a drive through food service with food work and then we'll have a live program just highlighting some of the things that we do et cetera, et cetera. That will be November 19th and then we will also have a virtual online silent auction as well. And I co-chaired that the auction part of the soup auction for about five years there and we took it from a relatively small event to this kind of big thing that had legs and a lot of people came to every year so I'm really happy to hear that it's gone virtually and you're keeping the tradition going despite obstacles. Let's talk about a suroptimist live your dream, education and training awards for women because I know there's a deadline coming up. Who's eligible, how can folks apply? Okay, so live your dream is it's monetary grants to female heads of household. So anyone who is the primary breadwinner of their household and that they have dependents and they are women who are pursuing a bachelor's degree or some kind of training certification. Grants are anywhere from 500 up to 3000 could be more you never know. And you can use them for any purpose, rent, food, tuition, childcare, anything that's going to help you pursue your dreams and goals. So applications for those are due November 15th and you can join me to go ahead and say where you can find the information and everything. So if you wanted to apply for that, you go to the bit.ly that's B-I-T dot L-Y forward slash L-Y-D-A dash apply and you would enter in our club names Suroptimist International of Davis and then it'll take you through how to apply and if you needed assistance or had any questions you could also email the club at sidavisatsuroptimist.net and we can assist you with that. Great, this is a really important award because oftentimes women will find that there are scholarships if you're going to a two-year college or a four-year college but if you're going to a trade or vocational school, you may be out of luck in that realm and as you said that these monies can be used to support anything that furthers the woman's goals and objectives. So it's really cool. Absolutely, it really, it changes lives, pretty amazing. All right, we are almost out of time.  Are you doing Zoom meetings and all that? We are, so we are committed to meeting during Zoom right now just we want to keep the health and safety of our members and our families as a priority. So we are meeting via Zoom, the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 11.45 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. And also on the third Tuesday of the month we're having an evening business meeting from 5.30 to about seven and then there are other activities that we're doing as well like we'll have the hours and things but if you wanted more information you could always email the club or you can go visit our website at sidavis.org. Great, all right, thanks so much for joining me today. I really appreciate hearing what the club is up to and knowing that you're still out there having great impact in the community. Thanks for joining. Okay, thank you so much, Autumn. Take care, bye-bye. Okay, y'all, I'm just gonna say it's Roptimus International of Davis Rocks and the whole Roptimus organization. Very important to me in my formative years of building a career and getting to know people in the community and finding out some of the ways that I like to give back. So sidavis.org. I am gonna thank you dear listeners for tuning in. This has been the COVID-19 Community Report live from the KDRT LP Studio. I'm Autumn LaBeirano and I'll see you next week.


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Good afternoon. My name is Brian Prophet. I am a community architect with the Red Hat open source program office and I'd like to thank you today for joining my talk about community data or not community metrics. So we'll start the talk with a little bit of a story about how data can be very good, but not necessarily useful. Okay, so there are a lot of things in nature which can be very beautiful, but also rather harmful. And data is a part of that story. So let me tell you about the blue dragon. The blue dragon is a three centimeter long sea slug, also known as a sea angel, and it eats Portuguese Manivur jellyfish. So it's very beautiful, lovely to look, but because it eats poisonous jellyfish it can basically kill you with the little things at the end of its appendages. So this is one example of something in nature that is very beautiful to look at, but don't touch it or you might die. Let's not forget the mantis shrimp. This is a 15 to 30 centimeter crustacean. It can see more colors than any other animal and as you can see it has a lot of colors to see. It can also shoot its front legs out to the velocity of a gunshot from a rifle. And that's basically how it kills anything that comes near it and it's hungry. So and that will strike any prey with 1500 newtons of force. I'm sorry, I don't know the metric conversion for newtons, but that's basically a sledgehammer of force dropped on a tiny little fish near it. So again, these are things that are very beautiful, but they're also they can tell, they can deceive you. They can tell you the wrong story and that's how they basically survive. So let's talk a little bit about data and how data can be beautiful, but also deceptive. So here's a nice picture of data. This shows all of the data hacks and breaches in the year 2017. And as you can see, this is telling a story about how many users from Twitter were exposed from a data breach and Yahoo and MySpace and Equifax and Facebook and all these different breaches and hacks. And this picture can tell you many stories. So one thing it will tell you, if you are looking at this as a security expert, is that there is a lot of work to be done to secure data sets of customers. And some companies and organizations are clearly better at this than others. If you're looking at it from the point of view from a consumer like any of us here in this room, you might say, I'm never going to put my information on the internet again, because it's going to be lost somewhere. So this can be a useful picture or it can be a frightening picture. It really depends on how you want to take it. This is true of almost any form of data that we will get. Now this is a little bit more germane to what we're talking about. Here is a picture of community data from Batergia. Batergia is a tool. It's a company from Spain. And they use the open source software known as Grimoire Labs. And Grimoire Labs is designed to look at sources of data around community and open source development. So it will be looking at GitHub and GitLab and any Git repository. And it will be seeing like how many commits have been made at a certain time, how many pull requests have been closed at a certain time, and how many people are involved in this. And this is this one slice of data from a project that we have at Red Hat called OpenShift. Okay. This sort of data can be very useful. And also it can tell us a story about how the community can be perceived, whether or not it's running efficiently or not efficiently. And the problem is this picture can tell you many stories, but unless you know what you're looking for, this picture is not very useful. And this is actually something that happened to us in the open source program office when we started using data sets like this. The key to any kind of data use around community or any data set is that questions are critical. When we were talking about using this data set that we saw a minute ago, we had a lot of data coming in from our open source projects, projects like OpenShift and Overt and RDO and Fedora. And these are all different projects that are very important to Red Hat's business because everything we do is in the open source community. And then we take that code and then we make it a little bit smoother, easier, more efficient, and then we sell support from that. So we have to have our communities be strong and efficient and vibrant. And we needed data to show that. But the problem was that last slide we had, I'll back it up, we have a lot of data here but we did not know what to do with it. It was not telling an efficient story. And this is why this is the point of my talk today. We have to come up with better, we have to know the questions that we want to ask about our communities before we even come to the data part of it. And that seems backwards but it is very important that we make that a priority. So we're going to talk a little bit about what makes communities healthy. How do they work and what are the factors that make communities strong? In the past, you might say, well, my community has a million downloads of our software every month. That's great. That means a lot of people like your software and they like to use it. Does that make you a healthy community, though? Maybe not. While people are downloading your software, maybe you're having a huge fight inside of your community about the best way to develop and the best tools to use to release your software. Or where are you going to have your next conference? You don't know these things. An outsider would not know any of this. They just know your software is going smoothly. But eventually, if your community is unhealthy, the software that you create will not be as good. There will be problems. People will start developing inefficiently and then you will see your overall community help decline and then less people will start using your software. So this has a ripple effect as you move through your open source projects. So I'm going to talk about the four things that we at Red Hat and also we're working with a project in the Linux Foundation known as Project Chaos. Chaos is community health analytics for open source software. And Chaos has four different areas and Red Hat is very invested in these areas that talk about aspects of community health. The first one being evolution. Evolution is we look at the products or projects entire life cycle. So when a project is growing and new, there are certain things about it that will be say it is healthy or not healthy. When a product is mature, you're looking at other metrics that determine whether or not it's healthy. So if you have for instance as an example a new project and there's only one company like say Red Hat that is using or like building that project, that's okay. It's brand new. It's a baby project. It has to be nurtured and grown and eventually more people will come and work on it if the project is healthy. If the project has only one company or organization working on it when it's been around for a long time and is mature, that is a problem because now no one else is coming in to help you and collaborate with your project. Your company is the only one using it. Eventually that's going to hurt you because you will lose creativity. You will lose innovation and probably you will lose users because no one will want to use their software even if it's really good because they won't want to participate and see it develop and grow and then somebody else will come along with something that is better and people will go to that. So it is important to have as many organizations and companies involved in a project as you can. So this is what we're talking about when we talk about a growing project and a mature project and even a declining project. Just because a project is not being used as much, it can still be retired gracefully. The Apache Software Foundation is a good example of this. The Apache Software Foundation retires their projects into what's known as an attic. An attic is where you store things in your home and you're not going to see them for a while. In the Apache Software Foundation, that's a key thing because no one is working on the code but it's still there. If somebody else wants to come later and maybe use it again, they can. The software is preserved to be used later. Another area within community health that is very important is diversity. When we talk about diversity, we're talking about lots of different things. We're talking about gender.  We're talking about race. Are there too many of one race and not of another? And then corporations. As I said before, are there too many people from one company involved in this project and not enough of others? So diversity is a lot of different things but it is an important mark of health for a community. Value. Value is something that is important for community health especially when we're talking about corporations. What is the business value of an open source project? How do we determine that? How much money do I save if a lot of my software testing and QE is being done in the community? And I don't have to pay for people in my company to do a lot of QE for the commercial version of that project. That is one example of value. So that is something that cannot be ignored. Excuse me. And then finally we have risk. Risk is important to note because risk is something that we look at every day. So there's lots of different kinds of risk. Some people will say that licensing is risk. If I license my software a certain way, people have a fear. They're uncertain about whether or not someone will take their code and run off with it. That's usually not a problem but it can be and people do assign risk to that. Another example of risk is something, there's an English jargon for this known as the bus factor where if your project has one person who is very, very important to the project and that person maybe is hit by a bus which is bad, what will that do to your project? A nonviolent version of this by the way is the we call it the lottery factor. If someone wins the lottery and they win millions of dollars or millions of euros or one and they say buy because they're going to an island in the Pacific somewhere, what will happen to your project when that person wins the lottery? There are many, many very important open source software projects that have a bus factor of one that's bad because a lot of projects will use their software and if that person retires or wins the lottery or for whatever reason leaves that project, that project will languish and die and other projects that use that code are going to be hurt as well. Risk can be very, very important and also really tricky to assign. So these are the four areas that we look at. These are where our questions are going to have to come from as we talk about community health and community strength and the answers have to tell stories. We have to tell stories with our data as we go through these communities. All the metrics that I talked about are there are four separate groups but they also can be combined. I already did it in my first example when I was talking about corporate diversity in the evolution model of growth, maturity and decline. I combined the metrics around diversity to come up with a new question and a new story about where my project health is when I'm growing and when it's mature. These are things we have to think about and what the chaos project is doing and Red Hat, we are adopting this within our own open source program office, is that we're going to find metrics on a very low level that can be combined and form new questions. How many here are familiar when I talk about Lego bricks? Lego bricks are the little tiny toys that you put together in different ways and I can make a building or I can make a spaceship or something like that but they're the same bricks. That's what we're trying to do with project chaos. Make small atomic measurable metrics that you can combine to build the stories that you need to tell about your community and ask the right questions about the data that you're delivering. A very easy example of this is I'm looking at mailing lists in my community and every month my mailing list traffic is about let's say a thousand messages a month maybe you know and it's the same number a little bit higher a little bit lower it's about a thousand every month and then one month I have 1500 messages and the next month I have 2000 so my traffic is going up as we say in you know in data up into the right that's good right maybe well it could be good it could mean that more people are participating in your community it could also mean that there's somebody you know causing problems on your mailing list and there are fights going on in your community on your mailing list you have to know what's the why behind every data change in your community and when things start changing rapidly you have to determine why is it a good reason or is it a bad reason so our metrics try to set scientific quantitative reasoning and not just feelings and intuition around analyzing a community and once you do that then you can tell the stories about your community that are strong and accurate and that is a conclusion of my talk but I will be happy to take questions if there are any from the group yes okay so the question was I'll repeat it so it will be caught on the recording is the gentleman wants like what is a wrong metric and what how can we change that metric to be more effective and correct we better have a real a concrete example a real actor example case okay so I will I will give you the answer I was just repeating the question for the recording so a good example is one that I've already mentioned before so downloads and and and how that is historically that has been used as a metric to determine community strength a better a way to turn that around would be instead of looking how many people are consuming and using your software you might want to turn that around and say how how fast is your software being produced maybe when your software your project was first starting you were putting out a release every six months and that was regular but now your project is releasing every eight months or nine months and and it's getting longer and longer and you need to look at that and determine is there a problem in your community is the software so complicated that you can't do it in six months that would be that would be a good reason but maybe there's a problem with your you know your testing process or your your your release manager is not doing their job effectively so you need to look at you know not who's consuming your software but how is it being produced that would be an example of of turning that number around and seeing if using that to determine if your community is healthy yes sir right for the metrics right the community metrics there are some fields which you directly have such as like you said the number of downloads or the traffic on the mailing list but do we take into consideration some derived metrics things like relation between the increase in download and the number of increase in the pull requests or get a activity could we have some sort of a relation from that and we can identify that yes the increase in downloads is actually a good sign because there has been a lot of activity on the product yes so no so yes because if if you can so you we we need to start applying the scientific method so you have a hypothesis that you just said okay is the increase in downloads and and pull request is their direct relation so you need to what I would do in that situation is um tested okay you you if you do the scientific method and an experiment and this is what we all have to do when we're talking about these data stories we need to make sure that they are testable and repeatable if my download numbers you know if my pull request numbers change in a certain way did that affect our downloads that would probably mean that the quality of my software is getting better right there are fewer problems there people are more responsive to the changes more pull requests people are happier with the software downloads go are yeah yeah downloads go up right that's a story you're looking at right so but you need to test that and make sure that that's consistent right you know because if you if my pull requests if I have 201 month downloads go up 300 the next month down you know downloads go up even more but then I have like 100 pull requests on month three and downloads went up still maybe there's no relation right right so you have to test everything and that's and that's something I probably should have mentioned in the talk so that was a good question thank you one thing that I wanted to share with you too um what another side point to all of this is a lot of people say well my community is different from their community okay um and this is why testing is very important of your data one thing to note when we're talking about community health it doesn't matter what size your community is okay so Shanghai is a very large city okay and there are and compared to like a village in um Mexico it's they're they're very different okay their sizes are extremely different and their needs are but guess what both communities have similar needs there needs to be a way to get food to people who live there they're all going to have streets in Shanghai it's a multi-lane highway or multi-lane road okay and the village in Mexico it's a dirt path okay but it's still the same thing it's a it's a tool that people use to get from one place to another you know in the village in Mexico they need water maybe they're getting it from a well okay um or multiple wells in Shanghai it's from you know plumbing and pipes and a huge water facilitation facility okay that's it's the same thing okay you just are using different tools to do the same um the same processes okay both communities are healthy the village in Mexico is doing great Shanghai doing great okay even though they're you know wildly different in terms of what they are delivering to are using to deliver to their communities so this is why testing is important because you have to you know every community is going to be a little bit different so you need to test and make sure your theory is correct good question that is great thank you so much you've been wonderful