Look at all these pretty shells here Seen a bunch of these washing up right now You don't see this very often these kind of shells, but it's pretty cool. What I'm noticing is That they're full shells and they're empty so I'm gonna say to everyone that's joining that's Able to see me still on Facebook. My name is Greg Prescott from in5d.com and Zentasia.com Osprey flew right in front of us. What's up, buddy? So today Gosh, I don't even know what day it is. I Think it's Tuesday If nothing else, but it's kind of chilly out here today, you know, all things considered. This is Florida and Probably for us is in the 60s Which is probably is right now. It's probably 65 out or so people are bundled up on the beach right there. It's chilly out here though There's a that's not good, but yeah today is something unusual. I'm seeing all these different kinds of Shells washing up and they're they're empty But they're all kind of a you know these kind of mollusk clam like shells Are washing up on the beach There's another one right here Which is unusual. We don't usually see this many full shells like this washing up on the beach the pretty I grabbed the one for My shell collection Just something unusual for siesta key Have a boat down here that washed ashore Gosh almost two weeks ago. I think And I'm surprised that it hasn't tipped over maybe about six months ago five six six months ago There was a boat that Was up there a little further north on the beach that was sitting out like that just kind of stranded and It ended up capsizing it when the high tide came in it tipped it over but This one is pretty much Going nowhere and it's been there like I said just close to two weeks that it's been there Quick shout out good morning to those who are able to see me as you guys know I've been Blocked throttled shadow band On Facebook, so you know I'm grateful for whoever's able to see this so Leona Jennifer Ann Marie another name I can't pronounce That Tracy Rhonda now I say good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you may be You are looking live at siesta key beach and today with this big old Osprey right in front of me What's up, buddy? What's you doing bud? Walking right up to us the water looks really good today. We have some waves going on here Water color looks much better There's a slight smell of red tide in the air, but not too bad I was reading a local meteorologist on his report And he was saying that there's you know the red tide is pretty much down by Sanibel Island right now And there's an 18 mile swath of it there But outside of that for the three counties from there up. I guess Collier Lee Sarasota and Manatee County, I guess four four counties said everything's looking pretty good right now Hopefully the cooler temperatures and the cooler water temperatures are going to help eliminate this Red tide It's probably one of the reasons why I got blocked because I was telling the truth about red tide And once again, I'll reiterate because it is the truth This is highly uncommon red tide usually lasts maybe seven to ten days here in Florida What's up, buddy? Looks like you got any food But every time they dump from Okeechobee Lake Okeechobee into Either the St. Lucie River which dumps out into the Atlantic side or The Caloosahatchee River which dumps out here in the Gulf every time they do that. They let water out from the Lake Okeechobee. There's red tide killings. So Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out one plus one equals two One thing I've been noticing if you're just tuning in are all of these shells. They're really pretty That have washed up on the beach They're empty So if you're in the area, they make great souvenirs But there's it's not just that one kind of shell we're seeing this shell once again a full shell which is Odd you don't really see the full shells like this washed up on the beach So Just making note of that here's another one all sorts of different kinds of mollusk type shells washed up on the beach Fortunately, there aren't any Large dead fish to make note of I did see one They're really cool They run their legs go really fast. It sounds like they should be making the sound You smile Yes, it was a big osprey is quite friendly Usually they don't let you get this close to them You just find it's something to eat there or She's a buddy What you doing? No, I don't have anything for you So we got this boat up here as I mentioned it's been up there for a couple weeks stranded Why it's there, but it's there and it's been there for close to two weeks Here's some more of those shells that are just full full shells nothing in them Stroom across the beach This guy's going swimming. Oh my god, it's cold out to begin with the water's cold. He's going in Yeah, that's an old carver boat at one point. It was probably pretty nice So, yeah, I've got my thermal shirt on because it's cold here It is cold. It's probably 65 ish But when you're from from Florida or at least if you live here, this is cold So it is official, you know, I've been corresponding with Facebook and they've been Whatever Show Todd Medina and Michelle Walling and Todd is setting up a website where It's gonna be kind of like You can have your own own space there. It's for spiritual people websites individuals whatever But you can have your own space there You can do your videos there. Oh That's pretty I'll leave it for somebody else but um, yeah, and uh, I think it's gonna be something huge So I'll keep you guys posted on this as more envelopes on it But it's really exciting and it's something that Will not be censored and we'll be able to get our voices heard through this idea I'm gonna be learning a little bit more about it myself and as I learn about it. I'll be passing it along to you guys So that's really exciting news As far as I'm concerned Facebook is gonna be Become the next my space. It's gonna be a dinosaur You know the way they're treating people and you know, especially those of us that are putting out positive messages that they're suppressing and banning So there is hope there's something positive that is happening There's more deedal eels So I haven't been doing any updates because they have been throttling and shadow banning me so badly But you know what I actually see 27 people here, which is Below what I would normally get before I was throttled and shadow ban, but it's not as bad as what I've seen the last couple live Recordings that I did which we only had like three or four people. So That's good Leon is asking what about me we Well my computer My main computer died and I'm using an old computer right now. I Can't get on to me me we and Until I get a new computer that I can even access me we with I don't know me we decent platform, but there's a lot of shady kind of people there this one group Love has one Shady as fuck Others Another full shelf but they would raid basically my chat that I had on on Me we and just sit there and I got so many people that would tell me that you know They were using this you know black magic or whatever on them while they were in there at the chat So I ended up banning them at booting them all and so but if you want to learn more about that just go type in LH LHW And reddit in Google and you'll find out a little bit more about their cult but yeah, that's the kind of Dark energy that ends up going there. So we're looking at starting up something that's much more positive and We'll still give us the ability to do videos and share information with each other without censorship Which is huge So I'm looking forward to that and if there's anything I can do to help Todd You know myself being a webmaster and knowing a little bit about this stuff. I'm all in And I'll be passing that along to you guys as soon as I get more information. You guys will know too Yes, thank you Dijon Dijin Dijin Dijon Dijin, I'm not sure how to pronounce that but yeah LHW reddit reddit with two D's I believe our EDDIT in Google So yeah, check that out. Ah Thanks, Marie. I miss actually being on here too where you're saying I missed you. I missed you guys, too It's been a lot going on In the past few weeks that I haven't been on I'm trying to keep everyone updated, but yeah, the main thing was The conversation back and forth with Facebook support that basically told me nothing They couldn't answer any of my questions about why I was throttled and shadow banned why my n5d Facebook page has You know 430,000 likes and yet I can only reach, you know, several hundred people at a time It's obvious what's going on and it's all gonna collapse And I've been saying this since I've been talking about Pluto and Capricorn and for those that aren't aware of what Pluto and Capricorn is Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 Pluto is known as the destroyer and it will tear down everything. That's not in humanity's best interests The last time Pluto was in Capricorn was During both the French and American revolutions and if you look what at what's going on in France Guess what? Revolution to no surprise So this coming And of course, you know with this whole Q non thing that we have here in the United States But it's a peaceful one and they're both peaceful this time it's different So the the energy and the vibration of truth love and light are just So powerful right now that there's nothing we can't we can't do that won't be successful everything Even if we have to take step backwards Or a few steps backwards Which I've talked about Since I've been talking about Pluto and Capricorn it's very well possible that we might have to take a step backwards before we take this humongous quantum leap forward As Q mentioned in one of the latest Q drops he was talking about the Federal Reserve and how they're going to Pumping up the interest rates in 2019 to make Trump look bad and so on and so forth but But But what they aren't talking about is how Trump's in the process auditing the Fed, I believe and that there will be some sort of reset That goes on so imagine this, you know, if there was a financial reset Especially if it was a reset to A gold standard Then they would have to Essentially readjust everything the prices of everything so Let's say hypothetically a gallon of milk costs $6 right well if there was a financial reset then a gallon of milk would be one dollar and Using the same Theory With the same numbers If there was a house selling for six hundred thousand it would go for a hundred thousand So we're looking at that kind of possibility where you know if you guys have any Silver which now would be the time to buy it because it's they've suppressed the prices of silver and gold for For so long now would be the time to buy it and you probably be set Fortunately You know years ago, that's what I did when I had a little extra money I bought some silver and junk silver which are like coins here in the United States coins that are 1964 or or older which have a 90% melt value Which means 90% of the coin is silver So you can even you know nowadays you'll still find quarters if you're here in the United States Go through your quarters and see if you have any 1964 1963 you will find them still But those are 90% silver so You know if the shit does hit the fan if there is a Delay if we do have to take a step backwards. That's where that Junk silver comes in handy. So say hypothetically I have a silver dime and it's worth three dollars I can barter that for you know loaf of bread or some eggs or something like that You know you got something to barter with you can't do a diddly with a You know a $1,600 gold coin or You know an ounce of silver That's not gonna do you too too much good, but that's why it's important to have those like what they call junk silver but I Said it, you know, we have to take a step backwards before we take a huge leap forward I have a feeling it's gonna be a very smooth transition There's nothing to fear within this process but everything that's going on around us is all built on lies and negativity corruption and It all has to collapse. I Mean look at here in the United States great example we have cars that Same I'll just use the Ford Escort as an example, and I'm just throwing these numbers out here as an example I don't know the specific numbers, but let's say the Ford Escort here in the United States gets 30 miles a gallon In Europe the same car gets like 50 or 60 miles per gallon But it's the EPA that limits the amount of miles per gallon that we get here in the United States Thus screwing us and forcing us to use more gas and support the petrodollar When none of this is even necessary we could have You know Stanley Meyer talked about this he proved it was true In the late 1980s he showed us a car that could go from coast to coast on 21 or 22 gallons of water didn't matter if it was seawater Tap water lake water urine it didn't matter compressed snow. Yeah, you put that in the car. You're good to go So yeah oil We don't need the oil the petrodollar. It's BS. It's backed by nothing It's the odd currency and it has to collapse Even if you think about well, you still need tires for your car Or you still need oil for you know the lubrication of the motor and stuff. No, you don't Not not that kind of oil or that kind of tire as a matter of fact. I just heard about this 3d tire that they said they just started coming out with a 3d printer tire that Needs nothing lasts forever So there you go for tires. You don't need the oil to make rubber for tires And as for the oil once again, let's turn to our buddy hemp That Henry Ford made a car out of hemp. Hemp has been proven to be much more durable Then steel a lot of people are using hemp Crete in houses Which is I forgot how many times more durable than concrete So you have hemp that you can make the oil from To lubricate the engines and I'm sure it would last even longer than the traditional crap oil that we have That we need to run our cars with So yeah, thanks probably we'll have to Collapse and we're watching it happen all around us now getting back to Pluto and Capricorn Pluto entered Capricorn in 20 in 2008 it stays there until 2023 so right now we're already over the midpoint the apex and We're cruising in to 2023 with a lot of momentum and the vibration of truth is really what is ultimately tearing down Everything that's not in humanity's best interests So we'll continue to see this as it goes on as we head towards 2023 We're gonna and as I predicted played back when we're gonna see the collapse of money government and religion We're seeing that in all three areas money the they're already talking about it, you know Auditing the Fed the US is the global currency and that's gonna be shot the shit Government we're watching that collapse as the swamp is being drained and religion all these Pedophiles are being exposed and all the corruption that's going on in the Roman Catholic Church Hypothetically The Roman Catholic Church has enough net worth to feed clothes and shelter everybody on this planet So you got to ask yourself why is there starvation? Why is there hunger? Why isn't the Roman Catholic Church? living by the word of their texts Corruption that's why That's the vibration of truth love and light my friends And as we watch it all collapse Know that there is a plan in place, you know, a lot of us are hearing these high-pitched frequencies that are bringing in downloads and As we're finding out each As I post on if I be each day, I post the latest Frequency that I'm hearing so many other people are hearing them and it's in the exact same key matter of fact when I Was doing that interview with Todd Medina Todd was talking and all of a sudden I had to get up and grab my guitar because I had this loud high-pitched frequency coming into my right ear and I got back and I figured out the frequency and what the cool what the key was and I told him and his viewers about that and all of a sudden everyone else said yeah I hear it too. I hear it too in the right ear same key same tone We're all hearing it Well, most of us many of us are hearing it. Some people will feel it You know something's happening something's changing right now As usual, we're all on the cusp of something magnanimous Okay, so We shout out to The name I can't pronounce. I'll skip to the next one. Julianne and toy Rush me Tracy Kamara Linda I must say good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening So yeah, there's some exciting plans in the making right now for a website that will You won't want to come back to Facebook anymore after this We're I don't know about you, but I am so tired of the censorship That's going on here, and I'm grateful that I'm able to at least have a live Recording right now with 38 people, but I can tell you that in the past When I've done live recordings that I would have Had a minimum like 80 and usually over a hundred people So that's just a quick update of what's going on Here in Sarasota siesta key, Florida. You're just tuning in. Yeah, I've got a flannel shirt Thermal shirt. It's chilly out here. It's maybe 65 degrees winds blowing out of the north northeast which is cool wind and We have all these shells that we're finding on the beach today full shells as if the Whatever was in them is no longer in them and it's very unusual I'm just walking. Here's here's one right here Here's a baby one baby That's kind of cute. I think I'll keep that one but yeah So it's like an anomaly that I haven't seen ever here on siesta key this kind of shell Showing that we have different kinds of shells. It's not just the same It's not just the same shell It's many different shells that are whole and full, but yet there's no inhabitants inside Water looks really good It's probably cold But I have been seeing terns diving in for minnows, which is a positive sign So the water is clearing up here Water is still chilly for Florida Although if it's cold here, it's much colder everywhere else. So bundle up So I'm gonna leave it off at that I'll keep you guys posted on this website that's getting built that's gonna be for everyone individuals people I have spiritual websites it's From my understanding it isn't just a spiritual genre website, so I would imagine that even truthers that expose The negativity in order to bring people to the light because a lot of us started out as truthers Eventually we start questioning not just our physical reality, but our spiritual reality and And why am I here? What is my purpose? You know that kind of thing? So I hope that they do have truthers on there too because they're playing a huge role in This great awakening that's going on right now So I'm gonna leave it off at that if you haven't already, please like and share this video and Also subscribe to n5d whether it's the weekly or The daily newsletter because that way you'll stay up-to-date with everything you won't miss a thing I think today I posted like five articles four or five articles on n5d. So check that out make sure you subscribe and I'll leave it off that so till the next time. I'm not sure when that will be but Hopefully sooner than it was for the last video. This is Greg from n5d.com and Zantasia.com Sending you all infinite love and light base


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I mean on the West Coast and Mendo and Humboldt, it was a huge thing, you know, because it was, it was like growing modern skunkweed. It got big. It was fluffy. It took quite a while. It wasn't the easiest outdoor plan. It did great in depths, right? Yeah. And it was, it was kind of funny inside, depending. It was temperature dependent. And a lot of times people, you know, it should go probably like 10 or 11, 12 weeks, maybe even 13 depending on the phenol. And most people will take it, would take it back in the day as soon as they could get away with getting the nose on it. Yeah. So there was a lot of sour that was, that was harvested between 60 and 65 days that probably should have gone 70 or 75. Yeah. In all honesty.


Good evening, Your Excellency. Good evening in Tokyo. Dear partners, dear friends, good morning, good afternoon. Good evening. It's such a great honor for us to have the Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Suga Yoshihide, join us for this special address. Prime Minister, during this week's Davos agenda we have been taking the pulse from global leaders about the state of the world. And it is so fitting on this final day of the Davos agenda that we have the opportunity to hear from you, to discuss with you Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, an important global leader from – we should never forget – the third-largest economy in the world. Mr.  And we – the World Economic Forum – has built very strong relationships with Japan, with Japan's business leaders. But I would like to personally thank you as well as the government of Japan for your great friendship and support, particularly also for our center for the forced-sidus revolution which we have established in Tokyo. Over the last twelve months the world has been completely reshaped by the pandemic. Global cooperation is needed more than ever to ensure a promising future. As the leading global community for constructive transformations, the World Economic Forum is committed to bring leaders together to address the most pressing issues in the world. Mr. Prime Minister, as the world is confronting the COVID-19 crisis and hopefully coming out of the crisis thanks of vaccines, you have been working diligently to protect Japanese citizens from the health and economic crisis which is – which this pandemic has brought about. While also I should stress building a long-term vision for net zero for your country. You are also reaching out to global leaders to build a more positive, a more inclusive, a more sustainable post-COVID world. Mr. Prime Minister, I believe this is the perfect time for us to hear from you regarding Japan's strategic priorities and your view of how the global recovery should take shape. We now all welcome his Excellency, Suga Yoshihide, Prime Minister of Japan. Thank you very much indeed. I am Suga Yoshihide, Prime Minister of Japan, Executive Chairman Schwab and participating ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed a great pleasure that I'm given this precious opportunity of exchanging views with you. World over, the fight against COVID-19 goes on. This crisis is not only impacting the life and health of people but it is giving a serious impact to economy and business activities of the countries from where people are participating today. Even in post-COVID world, I am resolved that I am going to explore into the future by finding an answer to difficult challenges and many walls inhibiting us in order to leave the world by growing the Japanese economy. Today, I would like to convey to you through three points through which I would like to show my vision looking toward the post-COVID world that Japan tries to become. First one is that we will do our utmost for the closure of this pandemic. In Japan, from the beginning of this year, we announced the state of emergency and as for the government, we are doing whatever it takes to prevent the expanding infection. By benefiting the cooperation from the citizens at large, I am standing in the front line of the battle. I am liaising with the municipal stakeholders and I am determined to write over this difficulty. No one's health is left behind. This is the motto of universal health coverage. In order to accomplish that, including the developing nations, we must ensure the equitable access to vaccines and the like. It's very important. As one of the co-sponsors of ACT Accelerator, Japan has been advancing this multilateral framework and we will continue to do so. In terms of funding, in order to strengthen the vaccine supply to the assistance to the developing nations of COVAX facility, we have pledged the contribution of more than $113 million and we plan to enhance this amount going forward. We must take lessons from this experience. We must prepare ourselves for the future crisis. With that viewpoint in mind, we attach great importance to the fact that WHO is going to steadfastly implement scientific survey and verification in a transparent manner. To this important point, Japan will render proactive cooperation. The second point that I wish to convey, it is about my resolve that Japan is to take initiative in building a new prime mover or the new engine for the growth that would give hope for the future of the Japanese and the global economy. The key to this is the word green and digital, first about green. My administration declared last year that we go carbon neutral by 2050. Toward that goal, at the end of last year, we compiled our green growth strategy for which for each of the 14 priority sectors like ocean wind farms and hydrogen, we have set a high objective. By turning such objectives into reality by 2050, we would have the economic impact to the tune of 190 trillion yen and expect job creation for the 15 million people. Environmental measures are no longer economic constraint. Rather, they substantially transform the socioeconomic, generating robust growth. That is what Japan, ahead of other countries, would like to show to the world. The government will make an initial daring step forward, first step. We will totally mobilize all possible policy measures such as newly created two trillion yen fund and tax measures as well as a regulatory reform standardization and international collaboration all mobilized, thereby urging bold investment and innovation of private companies and generate transformation of industrial structures and robust growth. We will be supporting innovative technology developments such as low cost storage batteries and next generation photovoltaic power generation with all conceivable measures like two trillion yen fund. In order to accomplish carbon neutral goal, we must have decarbonization in the power sector. We will be moving forward decisive enhancement of renewable energy such as hydrogen and ocean wind farm. Regarding the electrified vehicles, by 2035, we will achieve 100% of electrified vehicles amongst the new passenger vehicle sales. And Japan will present an ambitious objective for 2030 before COP26. We will enhance the level of international collaboration through joint research, international standard setting, and infrastructure cooperation, etc. By so doing, we are resolved to advance world's decarbonization. And next comes the theme of digital, the pandemic exposed a multitude of challenges in the process of digitalization. Japan will accelerate and regain the delay in full steam in the process of digitalization. The digital nation is the state that we want to accomplish. The digital agency will be established as the command center directly reporting to me, the Prime Minister, and it will commence its activities and work this autumn. We will integrate and standardize local municipalities systems in five years looking toward the nationwide transition to cloud. We will support private businesses from tax system when they make investments for digitalization, ranging from the development of in-house software, production, distribution to marketing of those products. As we witness overheating international competition with 5Gs and 6Gs, we will endeavor to promote R&D with the private sector acting in unison with the government and work in international rulemaking of communication standards so that we can aim at becoming the front runner. Green and digital, very important policy measures. The technological prowess of Japan is supporting my goal. We will work with all our efforts so that Japan, a nation of science and technology, can lead the world with our innovation even in post-COVID era. We will work on nurturing young researchers, creating university funds to the tune of 10 trillion yen, reforming universities, among others, making the total amount of R&D investment to aim at 120 trillion yen so as to encourage and create proactively science and technology-induced innovation. In April, when cherry trees bloom in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, Global Technology Governance Summit will be held here in Tokyo. I hope that many leaders of the world including of course all of you participating tonight to take part in this summit and this can become a forum for finding answers to the challenges that the mankind in the digital era jointly faces. Thirdly, what I would like to convey to you is our unwavering commitment to free trade. Amidst the protectionistic moves due to COVID-19, Japan will exercise leadership in the efforts toward expanding free and fair economic areas and strengthening rules-based multilateral free trading system. Japan hitherto played the role of advocating free trade through measures such as signing in ARSEP and bringing Japan-UK EPA into force. Regarding TPP, as the presidency of this year, we shall lead the discussion not only limiting to market access issues but also looking toward a steady implementation and steady expansion of high-level TPP in terms of rules. Furthermore, while we continue to proactively work on WTO reform, we will show our leadership in realizing what we call free flow of data with trust through the e-commerce negotiation at WTO where we co-chair the debate. Through these efforts, in order to achieve regional and global prosperity, it is vital to enhance connectivity while realizing rules-based free and open order with maritime safety ensured. As one of the Indo-Pacific nations, Japan will collaborate with like-minded countries and promote strategically our efforts for making free and open Indo-Pacific concept a reality. For whichever infectious disease, there sure is going to come to an end. First and foremost, I will endeavor to bring this crisis to come to an end, and I want to build together with you who are participating today the future beyond that is full of hopes. This summer, Japan is going to host Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games. We are determined to deliver the games that would bring hopes and courage to the whole world as a testimony of the mankind prevailing over COVID-19 and as a symbol of the unity of the world. I appeal to you for your continued support and cooperation. Thank you very much for your kind attention. Thank you very much, Prime Minister, for your enlightening and encouraging vision for a green, digital, open and interconnected Japan. I appreciate it, particularly you're mentioning the Global Technology Governance Summit. It's so important for humankind to shape policies which allow us to use technology for good. Prime Minister, let me take this opportunity to follow up and ask you some questions. You mentioned at the beginning the Olympic Games. I'm looking very much forward to participate in the Olympic Games. But let me ask you, after success in fighting the virus over the past months, this month, you have declared a COVID state of emergency in the Tokyo larger area. What lessons have you learned from fighting this COVID virus? And what would you like to share with the world based on your lessons? Yes, it is true that we have learned many lessons in our battle against COVID-19. First of all, the importance of thorough implementation of basic countermeasures, including facial masks, washing hands and avoiding the three Cs, closed spaces, crowded places and closed contact settings. These are really basic countermeasures. But when each and every citizen implements these very basic measures, it could become the most powerful countermeasure. And secondly, the importance of cluster measures, counter cluster measures, 80% of those who have become positive do not infect others, but the remaining 20% of positive cases infect high number of people. So if we can control these 20%, we can prevent the spread of infection. We are dispatching experts to facilities where clusters of infection had emerged, and we are analyzing the causes to implement strong countermeasures. Three, we must control the risk of infection at places where food and beverage services are provided. According to experts, whilst there are various scenes in people's daily lives, the highest risk for infection emerges in places where food and beverage services are provided. So these facilities must be targeted to provide for countermeasures. In some parts of Japan, we have issued state of emergency declaration and robust countermeasures are in place. To all business owners, we did not request the suspension of business to all businesses. Rather, we targeted restaurants and bars and requested shortening their business hours with the season being winter. The number of new cases is still high in Japan, so we want to place the infection and COVID pandemic under control as quickly as possible to enable the people to regain a safe lifestyle. We are injecting outmost efforts for that purpose. Thank you. We see you are making all the efforts to have safe and healthy games. We see an emergence of new waves around the world. We see certain challenges related to vaccine access and distribution. How confident are you, if I may ask you directly, how confident are you to conduct those games and how can you ensure the world about the true safety and health of those games? I have to say, Prime Minister, we are in a similar situation because we are planning, as you know, our special annual meeting in Singapore just before the games. I have to say we are very confident that we can conduct our special meeting. But how confident are you? All our efforts for overcoming COVID-19, it sounds so natural. Regarding the Tokyo Games, Olympic and Paralympic Games, this is going to be the testimony of humankind prevailing over COVID-19. So we are resolved to deliver the games in safe and secure manner. Last year, I met with President Fak of IOC and we agreed about the delivery of Tokyo Games for sure. And we will continue to collaborate and cooperate very closely in order to realize safe and secure games. The infection countermeasures are of paramount importance. So we are in the process of studying the concrete substance and contents of what we can do about it. Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee and IOC. So there is a close collaboration between these three parties and preparation is going on suddenly looking toward the games. Thank you. Prime Minister, I'm sure that the millions of people who like sports, who practice sports are delighted to hear you and to hear your optimism and confidence, I should add. Let me ask you, Prime Minister, last question. You mentioned also in your speech, Japan has promoted multilateral diplomacy and has worked hard to maintain particularly a positive relationship across Asia and beyond. Given the COVID-19 crisis and general geopolitical instability, especially with U.S.-China tensions, what is your plan? How can you, Prime Minister, enhance international collaboration? Thank you very much. Japan attaches importance to multilateralism. We, together with the international community, will live up to the challenge of the global issues in order to realize a united world. The Japan-U.S. alliance is an axis of Japan's diplomacy and security policy. We will further strengthen our alliance with the United States under the Biden administration as well. We will also strengthen our partnership with countries with whom we share fundamental values including ASEAN, Australia, India, and European countries. We will take every possible opportunity available, such as the Japan-U.S.-Australia-India talks, to promote strategically the realization of a free and open Indo-Pacific. At the same time, we will endeavor to establish a stable relationship with our neighboring countries, including China and Russia. With the COVID-19 pandemic, solidarity of the global community has become ever more important. So we will lead efforts in such areas as global health, realization of a green community, and digital transformation to create a post-corona order. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Welcome to The Journey. Today we're going to talk about how to grow your email list with Instagram. So when coming up with your marketing strategy for your business, it's key to think about combining your social media with your email marketing so they work together. Yeah, and you want to make sure that you're basically top of mind and top of those inboxes. So let's start off with the why. Why would you want to combine your email marketing and your social media marketing? Well, for one, everybody's doing it. 59% of brands are currently integrating the two. And think about how you're attracting customers. I know with social media, right? That's where you go to attract customers. And then your email, you use it to stay relevant with your audience, continue to send them content. And now with social media, it's a great place. We all love it, but social media doesn't last forever. Email does. If you have those email subscribers in your little list, you can constantly send them emails and updates and tips and value if Vine or Instagram or anything else ends up going away like some of them have in the past. So where do you begin? First off, make sure you do kind of like a little inventory on your social media. Ensure that you've claimed and optimized all of your pages across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Make sure you have some high quality photos there. And don't forget the background, the cover photos as well. And that's really important before you go into any of these next steps. And also make sure there aren't any duplicates out there. I've had that happen when I was speaking to business owners and I'd be on their Facebook page and kind of point out a few things and they were like, this doesn't look familiar. And it was because they had a duplicate swimming around online. So step one, clean it up. I think the next step is to ask your followers to subscribe to your email list. And this is simple as having a thing saying, Hey, if you want to stay updated with what I'm doing, subscribe here. But to go a step further, I highly, highly, highly recommend setting up some sort of lead generator. Now that lead generator can be like a free ebook, free video course, free piece of content, whatever it is that kind of entices them to want to sign up for your newsletter. Because at the end of the day, if they're not like avid fans, you want to give them something in return for their email. Yeah. So first off, claim and optimize, be consistent with your brand and reputation. And then tap into what are people looking for when they sign up for an email, often an incentive or a deal. Fun stat, 70% of subscribers. This is good to know when they are opening an email, they are in search of a discount or a deal. So spread the word about that to get people to do it. I know just even 10% off of a meal. I'm hooked. So talk about on your Instagram stories, maybe post on Twitter or Facebook to help cross promote people over to that deal. Yeah, but you will want to limit how many times you promote your newsletter because you'll just come across a spammy and always trying to sell your newsletter, right? You want to add value first and then sprinkle it in as a, hey, as an extra incentive. If you want even more value, even more content, check out this newsletter. Try to keep it that 80, 20 rule, 80% value, 20% selling. Now let's do the reverse. Let's say people originally found you with email. Now it's a good time to cross promote them over to your social media. So I know one thing that we do for our customers, if we're handling their email marketing, have their social media logos linked to the actual pages on each email newsletter that goes out. So in one click after they read that email, they can hop over to your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. It's a great way to cross promote and build your audience on social media. Yeah, just make sure you give them a reason why they should follow you. Because if you just say, Hey, follow me on Instagram, if you haven't really added that value yet, chances are you're not going to convert much. But if you say, Hey, follow me on Instagram, I have great videos to help you with whatever your target audience wants to know about. It's a great reason for them to click over, follow you, get all your content. And make sure you're posting frequently as well. Think about it.  Why would I follow you? Right? You're not putting out any content. There's nothing of value there. And it's really critical that you're interacting with both your email subscribers and your social media followers. So we've talked a little bit about like, Hey, claim and optimize your pages, put out content, cross promote, but it doesn't stop there. You want to actually engage with someone who comments on your Instagram post, or maybe someone retweeted one of your tweets on Twitter, engage with that, let them know that you notice and appreciate the help they're doing to spread word of mouth and positive testimonials about your business. Or maybe they left a comment on Facebook, engage, engage, engage, turn on those notifications. And if it's not you directly doing this, maybe you have a team, make sure you have a marketing strategy in place that you're both on board with that's clear and expectations are clear. So that next customer doesn't go unanswered or their positive testimonial goes unnoticed. Yeah, it's crazy to think, but one of the best ways to grow your email list is to focus on your current people, right? They become your advocates and the people that tell others about you. So don't go out and just try to acquire new customers, focus on fostering the relationship, build a community with your community and make them basically your brand ambassadors because you give them so much content, they love you and they want to tell all their friends about it. All right, that's our app. You just learned how to grow your email list with Instagram. Be sure to like this video and comment below with your favorite stuff. Yeah. And Hey, subscribe to our channel and ring that bell for these episodes first. This is the journey. We'll see you next time.


Hello, I'm Gianmarco Ferrari, responsible for marketing for NFC product for the Americas. One of the biggest challenges of IoT devices introduction, especially in the smart home, is easing the process of connectivity for IoT devices, especially with increasing number of endless devices, devices that don't have a user interface. So today we are focusing on our dynamic tech technology to see how we can help in simplifying the commissioning, the connecting and the controlling of IoT devices. So first, we start from commissioning. So commissioning there is no standard, there is no protocol or framework today for commissioning IoT devices. NFC, through our dynamic tag, can simplify the commissioning process by an explicit interaction, which means you basically approach your device to the antenna, to the tag. And also, let's say, the NFC technology is independent from the underlying wireless technology that we are going to connect. So many IoT devices, they work through ZigBee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC is independent from this underlying technology. So we tap and we connect, we register a device into the network. Then the other step is simplifying connectivity. So many IoT devices that they work through different wireless, say, network in technology. The most common, they are Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. NFC technology can also simplify the connection of devices. Devices in IoT, they talk to each other and then they talk to the cloud. Through tap and connect, simplify Bluetooth pairing, we can just touch the device and simply connect to that. And then we can stream or we can retrieve data from the device itself. Then NFC can also simplify the control of devices. So we can have two interactions with devices that don't have a user interface. We can have an input device, so we can basically control, transfer the setting of the device just right into the device through NFC, the new setting. And the microcontroller, we read out the new setting. Or we can read out data. For example, in this case, we have a smart tag. It's basically a sensor node where the only connectivity device is a true NFC dynamic tag. There is no always-on technology like a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.


Hi everyone, my name is Gina and I'm so excited to be here with you today to talk about braving conversations at work. We're going to be covering some essential mindful communication tools that allows product managers to build trust to pair relationships and to resolve interpersonal relationship issues that come up as part of our job. So much of what we do depends on our ability to influence to communicate and to understand. So hopefully you can come away with some of the tools and a framework in doing that on the conversations that really matter. So let's go ahead and jump in. I've worked as a product manager for over a decade. And what I see really sets apart your average PM to one that is a stellar extraordinary PM is often in the way that they communicate with people. Angela has this really great quote that I think summarizes the spirit behind mindful communication and what I've observed some of these great communicators, what they're able to do. And she said, they may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. What exactly is this feeling that we're talking about. Well, many people want to feel like they are understood and that they're seen. So when we practice mindful communication, we are cultivating that in the communication between people. So there are four steps to braving the conversation through mindful communication. The first is to understand your intentions for this conversation. Do you notice that you are pushing the other person away, or that maybe you want to punish them so that they feel bad for what they did, or are you there to create the sense of collaboration and empathy. As we understand and can connect to the intentions behind why we want to talk to someone, then we can better shift the conversation. The second piece is to observe what has actually happened in the situation that requires a tough conversation. Sometimes what we do in the words we say is we embed a lot of meaning that we've associated from what happened, and we add our own flavors of judgments into it. But that is different than the observable facts. So when we can differentiate and separate out these things are observations from our judgments, then we're better able to abstain from imbuing our language with the judgments that we're making. The third is to pay attention to what is happening within you at the time that the situation is happening, and how you feel towards it. The reason why we want to pay attention inwardly is because that tells us what we would like instead. So we use our emotions and our feelings to figure out what is really important to us in the situation, and then that is used in the last step to make the request. So where do we go from here, what would you like instead in order for you to really thrive at work. We'll go into each one of these in more detail. So the first one, noticing your intentions. This is where we're coming from on the inside. It is the how we speak or listen, and our intentions really shift our state of mind and our mindset when we go and talk to someone. So being aware and connecting to our intentions help to set the tone. The skill we want to cultivate here is to learn to shift when we become aware, then we can shift our intentions to one that is more helpful in getting things done. So I invite you to to participate in this little tiny activity. And you can just do this in your head, but I want you to take the sentence, what a good job you did and make it mean two different things. So to silently in your head, can you make this sentence make two different things. Were you able to do it. Yeah, I think most of us are able to make what are the job we did mean two different things. One might be a good thing and one might be not so good. So what exactly did you do differently when you went about saying these two, saying the same sentence differently. So you might have changed your tone. You might have changed your attitude. Maybe it's even your facial expression and you added in some gestures. So all of these things are the strategies of what we employed in order to shift that meaning. How did you exactly do it. Well you did it probably by shifting your intentions. So you intend for one sentence to mean good and then you shift to allow the intention to make it mean different things. And this is the skill it's as simple as that it is, it is noticing where my intentions are, and where perhaps the conversation is going the, the temperature I guess of the conversation, and then to shift your intention, so that you are focusing on, I want to connect to understand I want to bring closeness into this conversation and I want to see that they are only human right we're only human in everything that we do. So let's see the humanity in this other person I'm talking to you. And as soon as I connect with that, and I shift my intentions, then everything else flows, following those intentions. So the next step in scale is to share and notice your observations of what has happened. And an observation is a concrete specific and neutral thing. And it is distinct from the stories and the judgments that that we make about what has happened without the intention to blame or to criticize. It is unintentional throughout the history of our language, this intent have gotten have gotten embedded into the undercurrent of the language and the words that we say. So when we practice observing and only picking out the concrete specific and neutral things to this particular situation, it helps us to separate from our judgments and the meanings that we've signed and any blame that we might want to point. So it gives us the sense of neutrality. What we want to cultivate when we're observing is to practice this neutral, you know, observing things from a neutral place and seeing it for its neutrality rather than to the color that we add. To demonstrate this, I'm going to give you a hypothetical scenario. So let's say that a coworker is late getting you the data analytics report you've been asking for in order for you to finish your PRD. And then you had to work all night on it yourself to finish it up. What might be some internal thoughts. And I'm not saying that judgments or the fact that we make meaning out of things is bad. We do that because we are human. The thing that I want to point out though is that sometimes when we're not aware of it, it can take over from the neutrality of the situation. There might be some internal thoughts here. Perhaps you are thinking, my God, what a slacker. I'm the only one who cares around here. Right. Another one might be, I knew I should have done this myself in the first place like why am I placing my trust in these people. And they never get their work done on time. It's just terrible. Right. So these could be some of our internal thoughts that Papa automatically when something happens that causes us to not feel so good. But what we can do is start to break out and see through our judgments are evaluations of what's happened and the meaning that we're assigned. So maybe it looks like something, you know, like the slacker, or I'm the only one who cares around here. That's a story I'm making up right. That's a judgment. So just to be aware that this is happening so that we don't lose sight of the, of the situation, and instead we start to pay attention only to the color that we've added to it. So practicing neutral observation gives us a little bit of that space. The third step in practicing mindful communication is to pay attention inwardly. We want to express our feelings and our needs, because that way it allows us to regulate our emotions. And it gives us a chance to connect to what matters the most to us and why it is that we want this other person to do something different. I hear people say, well, showing emotions at work can be seen as unprofessional, or that, you know, if I let people know that I have needs, they're going to think that I'm weak. Well, I hope to convince you otherwise, because so much of what we say are emotions are part of that. And when we're not aware of it, it gets embedded, nonetheless, right, and it comes out in these forms of judgments of criticism of blame because we don't feel good. So by, by consciously becoming aware and choosing to express our emotions and our feelings, when it's situational appropriate, actually is very helpful in making the ask that much more supportive and collaborative, and, you know, just pushing, pushing that on you. And then having needs, this, the, the needs that we have, these are what makes us vulnerable. And I know this word has been the buzzword for a long time in lots of circles, you know, oh, we need to be vulnerable. Well, connecting to your needs is actually getting in touch with that vulnerable part of you. And when we talk about building these relationships that's filled with rapport and goodwill, what makes people want to do that?  So it's a bit of a anomaly that when we share some things that's vulnerable to us, it actually opens the space for other people to want to build rapport with us, and we know that they can trust us because it is when we acknowledge, hey, yes, I do have these needs and I would love your help on this, that we open up the conversation so that it is deeper and more meaningful. What's feelings got to do with our communication? Because all we hear are words, right? But research have shown that it is our feelings that drive what it is that we do, our behaviors, which includes our words. And research has also shown that our feelings are derived from our needs. So when a need is met, what we feel are all of these positive things, and our actions, words reflect those feelings. And when our needs are not met, then we experience negative emotions, we don't feel so good about us or the person or the situation or work, right? And our words and actions reflect that as well.  The need is just a strategy in getting us our needs to be to be met. What I'm actually talking about are the human, the common human themes that we all need to thrive. So the need behind, I need you to take out the garbage might actually be the need for support or for partnership. We're aware and using our feelings to inform us of our needs, that is, that's what we can do that will help us better out of these needs. And just know that our feelings are reflected in the words that we say. So this is an interesting yo-yo between how our feelings can inform our needs, and then how also our feelings are reflected in what we say. So the skill we want to practice in hearing feelings and needs is to, yes, of course we want to pay attention to the words that's being said, but what you really want to do is to mindfully listen to what's underneath it. So we want to figure out what are that person, what is it that they're feeling, what might be some of their unmet needs that is causing them to have this reaction, what is so important to them. And once you have that, you want to check back and reflect that back to them so that you can check with them. Did I understand this correctly? I might say something like, wow, I see that you're really frustrated in the situation. And lastly, you just want this natural progression to allow room for exchange. So some back and forth between the two of us. And it gives the other person the opportunity to connect with what's true for them so that they can check in with themselves, either they resonate with that or they don't. So in this particular case, I might say, no, actually, I'm not frustrated by what happened. I'm just really tired. Okay, so this is a beautiful way for us to get underneath the words I said, and to truly figure out how we can make the conversation be about the actual problem, which is a unmet need, rather than all of these words as being said. So here, you can think of a time that you got into an argument with someone and you end up arguing about literally everything. And this is what happens when we don't focus on feelings and needs is we end up arguing about the judgments, the evaluations that we're giving the meaning that we have assigned, rather than focusing on, hey, what might be what's an opportunity for a need to be met. So in practice, can you hear what is being voiced here. Excuse my script and but this is just to get you familiar with listening to feelings and needs.  Oh, by the way, what happened to the data analysis that you're supposed to get to me yesterday. Can you hear the feelings, what might they be. Maybe it's anger, maybe it's even resentment to this person feels like they've been wronged in some way. And what are some of the needs, perhaps it is a need for competence from my colleague or communication or reliability. So all of this is getting embedded into the literal words that we're saying but the meaning are these. And why does it matter. Again, we want to we know that when we feel a particular way that gets reflected in the, in the words that we say, even if we're unaware of it. So we want to bring awareness into that. And we want to pay attention to our needs because that is what matters to us. It is what matters to the other person. So when we can authentically identify it, then we can actually address the problem. Right. As a PM we're always talking about, let's solve the right problem. So this is how we go about doing that. So let's talk about the type of communication in mindful communication. So there's two parties right, when we're talking about communicating with one another so we'll have a speaker, and then we'll have a listener as the speaker what we want to be aware of is to choose to express our own feelings as a reflection of our own needs over choosing to embed blame judgment and criticism. And we want to be just very aware that this is how we choose to communicate and to express ourselves. And then from the perspective of the listener. We want to choose to listen to other people's feelings as a reflection of their needs over choosing to hear blame judgment and criticism. And this is probably much more apparent in personal life, although it is everywhere in the workplace as well.  But can we choose to put aside those earmuffs to hear blame judgment criticism, and really hear Oh my gosh this person has an unmet need, and what might not be can I be curious to figure that out. So this is the type of communication that we want to practice getting good at. Lastly, with all of those previous steps, you know connecting to our intention, seeing the observation that is separate from our colorful judgments, and then to be able to pay attention inwardly. All of that tells us what is it that we will like instead. So to make the request and to have that brave conversation, prepare ahead of time, this is so essential, because what it does is it clarifies what's most important, and it reduces anxiety for having these conversations, because those conversations, they are hard to have their heart for the speaker, they're hard for the receiver. So at least on your side, what you can do by preparing ahead ahead of time is to reduce some of that anxiety, and just to know that there is this system this this framework in place that has been tested for in many many situations from political negotiations into corporate negotiations, and it works because it allows us to see the humanity with one other to have grace and compassion with people, and that is the foundation of any good working relationship. I love this quote by one of my favorite researchers, Dr. Bernie Brown, and this is what she had to say about braving conversations. She says, we all know what it's like to stay silent and comfortable, instead of voicing what we believe. Isn't this so true, we can rather stay silent and comfortable. We all know that to have these conversations, it's going to take some courage, and it's going to be a little bit of discomfort that's involved, but this framework allows you to step up and need to that discomfort head on, in a way that is softens these these conversations, and really highlight what we can do to support one another. Here we go about expressing our requests. There's a couple of elements to that. The first is to be clear. And I always say, being clear is being kind. We have a lot of misconceptions on this. And some of them might be, you know, if I'm just vague enough, then I'm actually being nice because if I point out what they're doing wrong, then I'm not a very nice person. But remember, mindful communication, in the way that we do it, we are very mindful of are we coming across as criticizing people and pulling that out from the words that we say. So being clear in stating what it is that we will like is actually get setting the other person up for success, because now they know. Now they know what it is that I need, and then they know exactly what they can do to support us in getting our need met. And what I hear is that people will say, Oh my gosh, people should just know, like I shouldn't have to tell them what they need to do. If they cared, they would just know. No one can read minds. And that what might seem obvious to you is relative to you. And it's not, it might not be so obvious to me, because we were raised in different environments we had different upbringing different cultures, different modeling. So what might seem very obvious to one person wouldn't be necessarily obvious to another, the other element to keep in mind that requests are not demands. I, I hear a lot of people say to me, you know, I don't want to sound bossy. But when we are. So if we're just making the request without really paying attention to how the situation impacted us and what's really important to us, because when we don't share those things, people don't see our vulnerability, and they don't see our authenticity in being a human. And so when you make a request with those things in mind, you won't sound bossy. In fact, you will just sound really honest, really open and very genuine. And that is, no, I can just prove my point with data so I don't need to go to them with a request. Yes, that might be definitely true, you know data can definitely support your argument. But if other people have an underlying need, or if you have an underlying need that is still not being met. This is going to cause the relationship between you to have to have a tinge of resentment or maybe even begrudging this.  The thing to keep in mind is that when we're making the request because it is a request, the other person has an option to say no, so expect some back and forth. The other argument is, don't let what is unsaid become the expectation and the evaluation. I see this happen all over the place at work, and it is a huge opportunity that is lost, because the other person doesn't know. There's no way that can that they can meet the expectation that you have set in your head. But because it's unsaid, the other person doesn't know. So we really want to go back to setting people up for success by expressing our request in a clear and very specific way. Sometimes I also hear people say, well, it's really not my place to tell them. But what happens is our expectations still get embedded in there if it is not said. So I think I've seen this time and time again where when this happens, it contributes to the sense of people being really confused and eventually they experience really low morale and on a team that is always looking to ship to improve. The next thing we want. Let's take a look at the hypothetical scenario and how we can make it into a request that is clear and specific. So this is what I came up with. You might see something like, I feel overwhelmed and unprepared when I don't have the analysis, because I worry I may not have done it as expertly or as efficiently as you. But if you break this down, you can hear the emotion that is being expressed here, and that is overwhelmed, I feel overwhelmed, I feel unprepared, but it feels situationally appropriate. And what might be some of the needs might be the need for competence or balance so I'm not working when you can do something more efficiently than I can. I might say, you know, I totally get that life happens. But let's figure out together how we can make a handoff that works for both of us next week. Right now, I like to spend 30 minutes before lunch to review what I came up with, what I work for you. Now, do you hear any judgment in this. Right. It's, it's, it's neutral, even though we're making a very specific request. And if I were to hear this, if someone were to say this to me, I'm like, oh my gosh, I have a lot of respect for that person. And yes, let's figure this out. I really want to do this. So what we get is a quality of relationship that is very, very different. So the, some of the needs might be the need for consideration, communication and trust, but because I connected with them, I can now express it in a very healthy, open, authentic way. So what we get is a relationship outcome that is built off of amicability, we have respect, we have trust all in one place. And what I want to leave you with is that braving conversations with mindful communication creates the space for empowered and meaningful conversations. It's not hard, but it's not easy either, but hopefully with this four step framework, you have this tool set that you can always come back to. And the next step, which is to notice your intentions. Now, this is where I'm coming from. And remember, I added in that one sentence is like, hey, life happens. And that is to, to show that I'm connecting with my intention to understand to empathize and to be curious. The skill set is to shift if you notice, oh, I'm starting to get a little bit heated, or they're getting heated. Let's connect back to our intentions and shifted just just, you know, by, by focusing on one outcome versus another. The second is to share the observations. And, you know, if it's if it's actually appropriate definitely bring in the context with your observations. But the main piece here is to tease out and separate the stories that you're telling versus the neutral observable facts. And so the skill we want to practice here is that of neutral observation so that we don't add additional color that could embed our judgments and our criticism into what it is that we want to say. The third is to pay inwards attention. And this is the key to mindful communication. And it is because when we recognize our emotions, we can then use that to inform us of what we would what's really important to us, what we would like instead. And so there is this skill that we can listen we can reflect we can loop back that helps one another to do this so that we get to the meaning the meaty part the real problem of what's going on on the surface level communications. And the last part of this is to make the request.  Now you can formulate that in a request. So the other person can have a chance in supporting you. And how we go about doing this is by being very clear and very specific. I have a challenge for all of you. I invite you to come up with one situation and one conversation that you know you need to have and apply this framework to it. Now pick a conversation that is low stake or pick it with a person that you feel safe and comfortable with because this takes practice and see if you can apply each one of these four steps on on having that conversation that you need to have. I'm Gina. I thank you. You can connect with me I am on Instagram I am on LinkedIn and my website is Gina night calm. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me. Best of luck, and thank you.


Do I have mic and I speak with the check check check good. Okay. I can't I can't hear myself at all or not We have engineering things that need to go the other direction Josh is allegedly the conduit for that. That's right Hi there everybody My name is Remy to Cosmaker, and I'm the fedora community action and impact lead So mostly what I do in council land is the stuff that is not engineering Generally speaking so ambassadors budget budget budget ambassadors Education as well. I'm also the fedora council's education objective leads So figuring out how to do more stuff on universities and campuses around the world not just in the US and I serve on the Red Hat OSAS team So I helped to liaise between Red Hat upstream fedora community. So when things are Broken or not happy or whatever these guys are all doing the good work and The productive things and I'm here to help take community input and provide it back up to Red Hat land. So Come talk to me So welcome everybody. My name is young kujik and I'm program manager for Fedora. So I'm responsible for scheduling I also have the role of change Wrangler and I'm also running elections. So I guess that's like this three main areas. I'm responsible for So if you have any anything Please send me an email because if you ask me here, I will probably forgot it once I leave this room. So You can ask whatever we want But if you want something just send me an email and I will probably or hopefully I will not forgot it I'm Dennis Goma. I'm one of the release engineers and Don't send me email because I get too much. So if you want to get a hold of me ping me on ISE. It's much much better and I You know my job is try and make sure that we get the bits out the door and can do it better and faster and more My name is Adam Miller I work on the floor engineering team. I also recently joined Fesco I'm also kind of I do what Dennis Needs done doesn't feel like doing To the best of my ability I try to float around also I do Docker Atomic things in Fedora space. Well, I work on them. I don't do them I will not even remotely attempt take down that much credit. I also participate in the foot or cloud sig I'm Langdon White Originally, I was on the council with no responsibility and then I which I enjoyed But then I foolishly got led into taking over Fedora modularization So my role is tricking people into doing that, right? The things to say first of all first of all Adam snuck in here He's the community monkey. I think is for a Q&A. Am I in this now? I just yeah, we're like we're pulling like you're You can stay sitting if you want or you can come up on the stage. Okay. I'm oh man, okay Oh Gee, thanks. Okay, I'll go and stand in the corner. I'm Adam Williamson. I'm the Fedora QA community monkey officially I'm like the QA guy. I guess People call me the QA guy. Thanks. Yeah, you're welcome Also, we have on the Fedora council, but not here. We have listed up here. I'm Christoph Wicker Who is been appointed by Famsco to sort of represent that ambassadors and community side of things Then Roby duck who's one of our elected representatives as well And he is also from the websites team is the leader of the websites team and he's generally awesome and then Maria Who we a lot of us know as Tatica is Going to be our new diversity advisor and that's just starting up as well. Okay, so that's that's the introductions Now it's the questions time Hey, Brendan. Do you have a question? Where's the mic runner you're Yeah, sorry, I almost appointed you but look we got one Does it work it does work. Okay first. Thank you for like living and breathing Fedora It's what I use every day and it makes me happy. So two questions So RCM question about secondary architectures First I've heard two slightly different stories about the secondary arch In moving to the new Koji will build failures initially Block the success of an overall build or is the notion still that the secondary arches if they fail the build succeeds So if we get to a world where we are Building all of the RPMs. So in the RPM case building You know, it has to succeed across all the architectures and if it fails on one It will fail the RPM build in the case of composing the distribution and putting together Fedora If for some reason the you know, the cloud images fail or you know building of anaconda fails because building the install Environment and you know, we don't get install media if that fails on a secondary architecture that will not fail the compose Because it is a non-blocking deliverable and it will not block stuff going out But in the RPM build sense it will we're looking at putting in ways to make sure We're looking at putting in ways so that if You know if it fails particularly leaf node stuff if you just add an exclude if you add an exclude arch The second the secondary arch teams will get an automatic notification that someone's committed something that has Excluded an arch and you can do that and move on the core stuff generally just works And it's we don't perceive that there's much risk of holding up anything in the distribution because of that So so hang on hang on slow down slow down hang on wait arm. Yes Arm is definitely the slowest, but we got some new build hardware, right? And so they should speed up I'll repeat the comment while it's running the comment was that it'll be won't be really slower much slower to build everything If we block and all the art So we have new ar at 64 build hardware. There's 30 nodes The testing I've done on it act when running an arm v7 VM on it it takes say for example a good two hours off the current Arm v7 kernel build and in some cases Possibly even faster than the current x86 64 hardware in the case of Say the power So power 64 big end in little end in the hardware is actually significantly faster than x86 64 hardware that we currently have So in the vast majority of cases moving forward The hardware will be at least as fast as the x86 64 stuff So you shouldn't see any speed regressions and as soon as I get networked to the hardware And we can start to put it in to production The builds will go up significantly faster. So the arm v7 hardware we have at the moment is about 1.3 gigahertz 4 gig of Ram The VMs that we're running are like eight cores 12 gig of RAM or something like that with SSDs and various other bits and pieces. So They are fast and a lot faster than the current generation of arm v7 hardware The age we're just gonna be awkward and do this a lot Okay, switch in switching from I get also hardware to security So we have Fedora packages get the certificates generated every half a year Currently they are generated on the server. What is the plan to? Basically switch the Being generated at the client side where actually the private key should be not at the server I don't think there is any such plan at the time to do this But if you want to help contribute to doing that, that sounds all right The question Dennis was right now when we read we regenerator certs every six months He asked when we're going to start generating the certificates on the client. So the private keys there So we do we the CIA certificate that is used to create the user certificates When I created it, I'm like, oh 10 years will give us plenty of time So it actually expires in two years. We have to do something either renew the CA or something else What I'd really really like to do but need to have the cycles to do it is input dog tag in Infrastructure and then have the user would create the key on the private key on their machine and we could then use certmonga to automatically renew the certificate and We could set this other certificates to expire like every two weeks or four weeks They'll get automatically renewed in the background and that way if somebody steps away There's it reduces the risk that you know, someone could use that get a hold of their key and you know use their machine to you know build things and So you know from it from a general Perspective I think would be better overall, but you know, we need to have time and resources and what not to do that And we have two years Or wait, what is the plan to make that susceptible for other people to help do it? I heard somebody was mentioned Kerberos in the audience are you was that you volunteering to do it because wouldn't that be awesome? Okay Okay Okay, well, perhaps we need to talk because I've never heard of all right, so that is Yep, and I think we've had historically some communication problems about how to get those kind of things into stuff That's happening and in the last year or so if you went to tennis's talk, which I skipped We've got a much better. I know right. We've got a much better process for Making sure that those things don't get dropped on the floor when they come in so Yeah, I mean there has been some talk and moving fads to be based on free IPA and to enable Kerberos as well as SSL certificate authentication for Koji and different pieces of infrastructure but it takes people You know doing the work and you know, we're getting better at enabling people to do stuff But we're still not perfect We have the fastest basically been rewritten recently so I mean that's that was a discussion that went on for a while I don't want to rehash the whole thing here But I think eventually it's one of those things that you know Maybe we want to move away from from NIH in it and and doing something different and I don't know what that thing might be Hopefully, you know something like IPA would work, you know, maybe there are other things out there I I don't know the answer to it because I'm not the technical dude who would suss that out But I'm certainly interested in finding things that would reduce Cases where the Fedora engineering team ends up being like their own upstream Because that just means more work for a small number of people and as awesome as they are there They don't have an infinite amount of time. So Now agreed to make that up the question or the comment is We want to avoid writing custom software and they want us to avoid writing custom software And it would be awesome if we all work together and we'll be done in two years Problem-solve let's go home Next someone down here then someone up there By the way, I don't hear that snuck in late. He's Paul Frills. He's the Fedora engineering manager He's also my boss, which is another reason why I'm standing up here So in case you didn't know former FPL yeah, Paul Just He came in late and didn't want to be awkward and sit down. So he was like, yeah Paul's also on the Fedora workstation working group Yeah, hi guys, so I actually wanted to ask a question to make this poor guy run up the stairs I Have two questions. So there's nine of you on stage. Are you the nine power users that might Matt referred to this morning? Yeah, Dennis is one of them and Adam is one of them Okay, so now do you know who they are Matt? Yes, I'm not going to name all the names though I was just curious My my question actually is is and I know you guys like to dump drive Right into the technical details and have these technical conversations But I would really love to know how somebody who has no coding skills whatsoever can get involved in fedora and it would be really great if you could Talk more about that So That's a great question and there are a couple different places where people can get involved So there's a new team within fedora that we started this year called community operations Which is sort of a generalist group of people that are ninjas that are supposed to go between the different sub projects And within that team there's an onboarding process so that you can get acquainted with each part of fedora So we have an onboarding series of badges which are part of fedora badges So that there's easy on ramps to sort of get introduced the project and do tasks like Write blog posts interview team members help with the release schedule tasks that sort of don't fall into one particular place Like helping yarn with elections and helping to craft the release announcements and a lot of non technical But very vital community infrastructure once folks can start on ramping there and with also fedora join and What can I do for fedora org? Which are great sort of sorting hats to help people figure out where they want to get in Then they can get introduced to different parts of the project and figure out who the upstream mentors are within fedora And then get plugged into those teams So we're working on that a lot and with the diversity and inclusion advisor tattica I think we're going to do a much better job of engaging with other international communities as well in other underrepresented communities You know, there's a lot of it's not just about culture. It's about atypical contributors So having non technical ways to contribute to the project is huge and outreach He is a a program that helps us with that as well where we can get interns who are not necessarily technical to work on this Kind of stuff. So this is a conversation. I'm very excited about I would love to talk more about it and there are lots of other places too to help and I saw other people who Wanted to answer so i'm going to pass the mic Awesome So I just want to say qa. We obviously have a lot of stuff for non technical people to do We have Entries in what can I do for fedora and we have a wiki joining page Which is not the best thing ever we would love help with cleaning it up But it is there and it gives you a list of various things you can do that are not technical And helps you do them. Who's next? Our dumbest guy on the stage gets the mic. That's awesome. Um, so yeah So my my entry into fedora was non technical and you could argue I'm a little more technical now Like I actually wrote some code in the last few years, but it's terrible. So I think that counts in my favor as being non technical I trained for that after I came to red hat like it was it was like I was almost forced to so anyway, but um There's you know Documentation group is out there. That's how I got started writing docs I have very very strong strong love for docs. I know steven's grinning up and steven gillson's a content strategist at red hat and he is awesome and um, and one of the things that I feel very passionately about is making sure that people can contribute in places like that Without having to learn a whole bunch of tools and and right now the docs group is kind of re-energizing and sort of thinking about how that works. I do not want to speak for the docs leadership Which includes p travis. I don't think he's here. He's an awesome dude And I think he also feels that the tools and things they're using are have become way out of step with what the rest of the World prefers to use and there are so much better things available nowadays So for example having somebody who does has no affiliation with fedora Able to actually drop in edit a document live and have that change actually come to the docs team As what you know a pull what we call you know a pull request in the Coding world right and somebody in the back end is going to see that and look at it and take it in or not right And when you know when people get a little taste of being able to do that and they get a thank you back Or you know if they sign into fedora later they get a badge All those things can be used to sort of keep the project sticky, but it's all about Making possibilities for for people to do things in the long tail because as matthew showed You know we we we actually have you know 10 like like I said, I think 10 percent of the 10 percent or was it 10 percent of The population was doing a third of the work. I can't get I keep I keep forgetting what it was 10 10 percent are doing two-thirds of the work. That's that's not terrible But it's not great But the good thing about it is is that it means there's a very long tail of 90 percent that are doing the other Third of the work and that is a lot of work So if we can make more ways for that tail to get bigger Like more of the mass to be in the tail like the brontosaurus to have a bigger tail That will be awesome. Although. I know we don't like brontosaurus, but they make a really good visual for that They're okay again. The brontosaurus burgers So the only thing I would also add great Right now this minute The best way you could help to contribute in a non-technical way to is to actually work with remi Working on the how do you contribute in non-technical ways? Oh and design. Yes designs a big part Moe can't do all of the design is basically Well, hello Hello, I I'd like to add something from my from me. In fact, I unfortunately we have issues Not only with non-technical people but also with technical people who want to join fedora For example who want to work on the infrastructure Like I'd like to remind you what's going on for just to went here when a guy Who knows a little about cavernous wants to participate and all all he got in return is just You come come and do something. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like this in the open source world I met you. I already told you about a year ago and probably previous year It's almost impasse it almost impossible to contribute to fedora infrastructure Because in order to contribute One could Try to implement a part of infrastructure to want to contribute and this is impossible because we don't have a configuration We don't have as schematics. How everything built That's why we don't see a lot of people Starting contributing on fedora infrastructure. What's compared to for example other areas Yeah, that's that's cool, but I didn't finish yet what we need is the The things Is a plan how to contribute actually you have to download this and this is a let's say koji We have to know that and that's that's a body body our body and if you want to improve it This is our repository and this is how you can you download how can you start it in this configuration our virtual environments We don't have it yet So before we start to Well All right, so Last tuesday, I guess it was at config management camp, which was in gent in belgium We gave a talk on open infrastructure in fedora So it may not be as widely known, but we have a wide open infrastructure the fedora infrastructure apprentices program All you have to do basically is sign up for a mailing list Introduce yourself respond to an email once a month and join the weekly meetings We recently migrated in the last two years all of our ansible playbooks are absolutely public So every part of our infrastructure is public and open and if you join them Wait, if you join the meetings We talk about all of the things on the agenda and the fedora infrastructure team is actually one of the most open parts I mean, so that's like if you want to get involved in fedora and for specifically There's a slide deck. It talks about we just presented on this in gent And I agree like we can absolutely do better with this stuff always and we need to do a good job Now So It's not it's not just promise to do better we've got So we've got developers at fedora project org, which is not infrastructure specific, but it is stuff for fedora developers We're working on hubs, which is Not specific to your question, but it will show you exactly what's going on in the fedora project kind of in a live state Right, so I agree. We have these problems where people That want to contribute to fedora or fedora infrastructure specifically don't even know where to start, right? That's kind of the problem So we're This is like the one time I get my boss to be like So I think that over the years we have realized that this is hard to do and we're working on it And there are small things that will eventually bring them together and now i'm gonna let paul talk just because he pays me I do not So one thing the the one thing that we like to say is we actually there are a whole list of tasks that are called issues And the fedora infrastructure, right? We've got a track that's full of them And those are things that people can work on so if you are showing up not knowing what you can work on That would be a way to target what you are working on and then you can work with one of the people in the infrastructure team To say specifically here's the thing. I feel like I can do what do I need to do in order to be able to fix that thing But I will also tell you there is a barrier to get over and it's called trust, right? When you show up We're not just going to let you you know traipse around our infrastructure Yeah You're what you're saying is you would like an environment that you could replicate parts of our infrastructure and do that kind of thing Right. Yep. So so yeah, yeah, that's what so your rem is getting to the exact thing. I was going to say so our We have an answer That's Right, we they they they don't even hand me Like like supposedly i'm these guys boss and they don't let me on these systems either It's really easy to join the fedora infrastructure apprentices and get basic access to things. It is I did it Yeah, yeah, we we but but I will say Okay, let me get to the last word So the last thing is that We do give read only access to all of the infrastructure when you join the apprentices group So even if you don't have right access, we are absolutely trusting you when you join the infrastructure team to see exactly how everything works There's we're trying our best to lower the barrier to entry for trust and this is something we need to talk Now task identification is something we can do better with absolutely. We have easy fixed bugs But that is everywhere. So we can talk more about this. We got to go on another question I have to say one more thing. Oh, then we really are going And and the last thing was that um, I definitely hear what you're saying about being able to replicate Infrastructure and I think that is a worthy goal So I am going to take that under advisement and see if that's something that we might be able to pursue somehow Because I like the idea of being able to like Shoot down like a at least a microcosm of what we do so that you can actually practice at home or try something And see how it works. I think that's a great idea Hi You've been to like 12 years ago made linux really simple. So codex drivers. You can simply install them there I know why it's hard in fedora, but will we finally catch up there like Sooner or later and when how Matthias, would you like to take this question? You would like me to take Paul would you like to take this question? At the moment we're working In getting the final steps put in place so that we can have a fedora built and Cisco shipped open h264 codec And there's lots of hardware now that is implementing In the hardware like media engines to decode all the codecs And as long as all of that everything that's patented is in the hardware There's no reason we can't have the glue in fedora that can you know street You know demux video and audio and send the video to you know the hardware to do the rendering and I think it It's gonna be a less of a problem over time, but but patents are continuing to be a problem This is a government issue that we cannot fix. We are bound by the law So if the longest the law is hostile to us, so it sucks That's that has nothing to do with codecs though, right It doesn't I mean it simply works because they don't rev their kernel Yes, but quickly because this is a big and it was Really hard And it was way more disastrous than you think it was So just take my advice We're really not in as bad a position as you think we might be Where the where the projects originate and where they're bound to by law like we we are we have to comply with different sets of patents and things in export law compared to Something that's founded in south africa I know I know but like I feel like it's it's a circular question Like there's certain problems. We can't solve because we're legally bound Yes, he asked about the invidia driver so To answer your question. Will we ever include the invidia driver? No, but but But um I believe there is work that is either planned or already done Where if a user were to go out and get the invidia driver For example and install it on their system and somehow magically make it work We will try not to break their system for them Okay So the problem with the invidia driver aside from it being proprietary and closed source and everybody knows this Is that you install it you finally get it working You run dnf update and you get a new kernel and you reboot and now you don't see anything on your screen Or you know Other bad things happen. Um So I believe there was some work planned I'm looking at matthews because he knows of this as well. I'm not sure it's done, but there is work planned Yeah, so so that if you do that Um, and it gets working and you update your kernel It'll try really hard to not set the default kernel to the new one And then you'll have to like manually go in and say, oh, there's a new kernel I need to select that and figure it out now It's not going to fix it if it is broken, but at least it'll save you the trouble of like Having to reboot seven times trying to figure out why your new kernel doesn't work when really it's your invidia driver So we're not going to include it, but we're going to make it slightly more user friendly so because I mean There are people who need faster drivers and that's cool I'm not going to weigh in on the the morality of the issue But we can't do things to make it better for users who are stuck in that situation We have another Well, I didn't check but can't you just include the dkms it will so why don't lip gel But alternative system is I mean just copy that what debion did the alternative system is still in fedora But it doesn't work well I would let you do that, but you got to be quick because we're like going down a rabbit hole here All right Yeah, this is a question that comes up every time we had this panel, but we we had a slightly new answer Yeah, I mean it took 10 years, but we're kind of starting to listen All right next question five minutes make it quick There's one back there. All right, so matt has the Popularity of fedora over time graphing with a giant spike at the end of it Um Have we mapped that to anything because like if you look at distro watch or anything And there's no massive spike in fedora in recent I'm saying can you prove in any way that the stats you have are Relevant like Yeah, you just had it. It was like I believe that linux mint is the top of that graph because people are searching for other kinds of mint and you know Like for their drinks and whatever and there they go on that page. Um, so We have some correlating evidence. I actually don't even have that slide in this deck anymore Yeah, so there's some other other things that show With the correlating evidence that shows the popularity is going up for these releases There's a new feature a network manager which hits a File on our web server to help determine whether you're trapped behind a captive portal like at this university or not So that it can tell you that you need to log in to their terrible page and all the terrible things that that entails Uh, and so that feature was added in fedora 21 And the hits on that are going up at the same rate that the that the adaptation on the update server of 21 and on are going up Pretty pretty closely. So there's correlation there So I am confident that the line is definitely going up. I still have no idea what the axis means But I'm confident and they're in their relative amount It's a happy graph and also start dot fedora project dot org, which is the page that people get by default as their initial install Sorry, so there's a start dot fedora project dot org page that mazilla fire fox features When you first install fedora A lot of people we believe leave that on their leave that as a default I mean just because they just never get around to changing it and it's not that big a deal anymore And uh, you know, I know laying to raise his hand. I do too. I don't think I've ever touched it But um, but that number also is going up And so that would also be a good indicator that there are more people picking up So so that's like is that there's there's several correlating factors here Like we didn't look at this and go great. We got the numbers we want. Don't look any further Well, I did but But then you didn't so that was important. All right. Do we have two minutes for one more? And you got a better question better question That was a good question I sometimes browse the fedora users list archives and Um, I know matt answers a lot and so does some of the members on this stage So any comment on the tone and how The user happiness or unhappiness Um, you observe, uh, I would observe that email mailing lists are for old people as I said before And yeah, and in fact, I think that for a while we had a problem and I'm I'm an old people in this context So I got to put that out there We've had had a problem on the mailing list where the tone was really negative for a while And that drove away all of the people who didn't want to deal with that So the default tone on the mailing list is set at a grumpy-ness level that is higher than I would like it to be Um, I hope that as we move to hyper kitty Then we will have a sort of a new uh, the influx of people and I intend to be very Um aggressive aggressive. I'm not an aggressive person aggressive Enthusiastic about encouraging people who take a negative tone on the mailing list to not do so Um, so that new people feel more welcome on the lists there including enforcing our code of conduct well as well as The other It would help if more people went to hyper kitty and use the hyper kitty features to vote things out I was going to say to other communication mechanisms as well. It's such a lot of time. Is anybody stopping us or just keep So there are there's still work to be done here. So we are getting there though All right, thank you Red switch Dude do we hear me