Thanks for joining me today. I'm here to talk with you about the idea of fluid mentoring, a kind of counterbalance to formal mentoring programs that arise informally between people, which is to say a peer-to-peer relationship in ways where individuals and teams are mentoring each other more horizontally, rather than any kind of top-down structure. Who I am is a principal community architect in Red Hat Soap and Source Program Office. I led the 2.0 edition of the open-source way. I did some of the writing and editing, as well as just getting it produced out. We came out early last year, about a year ago, right, when we did the announcement. In general, I work on do community management and community architecture across things. And currently, I'm the community architect for the Operate First project at operate-first.cloud, which is totally unrelated to what we're talking about today. Let's go ahead and head on. So the self-introduction, that part's all done. After that, I'll quickly establish our definition of mentorship and also this word salad that I'm throwing out there, this peer-to-peer and formal cross-mentoring. I'll demonstrate how that salad is actually an entire meal and talk about how peer-to-peer mentoring works and why it's effective. And then during all of this, with the clock willing, I'll share a few examples of peer-to-peer mentoring for my own experiences and I'll finish with some suggestions of things you can do. And I intend to leave time for questions, so I'll keep moving. So mentorship is an act, experience and opportunity to share what you can, when you can, and how you can. So I couldn't have said it better than this. Whether or not you feel this is accurate to you, this is the definition for the purposes of this talk. And where some of that actually comes from is a couple of locations that particular quote is right on the front. I think it even says it right there of the mentorship.guide, which is a meta-mentoring project that's working on on mentorship in multiple areas, not just in software projects, for example. And some of this other material here is drawn from the Creating Culture of Mentorship chapter that's in the open-source way. And that chapter along with other chapters in the book was a collaboration, but this one was a collaboration between myself and Geddes Cardenas. I met Geddes when we were both presenting about mentoring at an event and attended each other's talks. And Geddes is the maintainer for the mentorship guide. And I believe the source for the quote or actually on the previous slide. And so if you want to get into the meta-mentoring, I'm sure Geddes would welcome your interest in participation. And we have discussed, we've discussed seeing how the mentorship guide and the upstream cross-stream treatment in the open-source way can work. So there's some relationships there where the mentorship guide can really have a lot of meta-bigger concept stuff and then we can drill it down and say, here's how it applies to open-source software. So that's sort of where I've been at. So what is this peer-to-peer and formal cross-mentoring? So it's a recognition of what already exists. There's a power in naming things that exists that just makes it more real for people. And so the major difference here is that there's an intent. It's not, there's an awareness on the part of at least the people involved that they are, that they're doing this. And it's different from being able to say, for example, hold the door open for somebody or just be kind and show somebody a simple thing like how something works. The self-awareness, it really is a key part of it, even if it's only one part of the, well, actually what's interesting is a mentor and a mentee may not even be aware that they're doing this, but outside observers can be seeing it and also the effect and the benefit of peer-to-peer mentoring can be happening. But it's still a little bit more, I think it's more powerful and more useful and more effective when it's made aware of by both people. So for example, when I find myself in either of these positions, I call it out. I say, thank you for the mentoring or thanks for asking for my help on that. And I'm just glad to mention you there and just make sure that people are aware of that informal is happening. And so just as an example of that, from my own experience, early on, when working in the Fedora Project, I mean, there are a lot of people who helped me feel comfortable working in open source communities 20 years ago. And Greg DeKohnersburg in particular was someone who was there kind of leading around the project and doing several things. And so it actually ended up being when he came to me on a back channel and said, hey, it looks like you've been doing a lot of things in the Fedora Docks Project. Maybe you should step forward to be a leader there. The relationship that he'd built with me is this sort of informal mentoring had allowed it to shift to something much more formal where I was going to step forward and take on this mantle of responsibility for the first time. So how does it work? I think it naturally rises when people want to do a thing and one person has even a single piece of knowledge of how to proceed that they can share with the other. And if you think about it, that means within two minutes of walking into a room you can turn from a mentee to a mentor depending on what information you learned in that two minutes. And although there may be an appearance of a one-way flow, the flow is actually both ways. A formal mentoring relationship from like a teacher and a pupil relationship has a built-in expectations of a kind of deference to authority, a deference to the mentor. So peer-to-peer makes it easier to allow this two-way flow to happen. It most often has a back and forth pattern, I think, sometimes within a single session even, sometimes played out over a longer period of time. And it can be focused around skills in one common domain, but it's likely that it'll shift and suddenly and covertly, the mentoring will occur in more social and interpersonal spheres. For example, part of my new project, I've been doing a lot of mentoring around get-offs both learning myself best practices and how to do it and then immediately turning around and teaching everyone else and getting other people up to their first pull request as part of the project. And what I'm finding is that I'm learning a perspective and a way of looking at problems and solutions that I couldn't have otherwise because of these interactions with each of the people as I'm doing this, I'm getting, not just better at doing the teaching and the get-offs and so forth, but we're also building documentation together simply in the process of going back and forth. So a lot of the outcomes from it. Remember to breathe. So there's a natural recognition of peer-to-peer mentoring is strengthened when people use other elements of social capital or capability. So submitting something for someone for a digital badge of appreciation or bringing them a pot beverage of choice of disease, these little subtle things that people are also seeing and cluster that get back and forth between people. So both the mentoring and the appreciation are seen by other members of the community which strengthens the informal and the formal mentorship experiences. So one of the, just as an example of that for my own experience that I was thinking about was, that what was this, 10, 11 years ago, I just finished working on the one dot O version of the open source way and I hadn't done any active community management in a little while and I had the opportunity to work on the first open sourcing of the overt project with Robin Bergeron and she also stepped forward to tell work on that and she co-led the kickoff and the first starting of that community with me. And because we had an existing more of a informal, formal kind of mentoring relationship and gone over, wow, that supported me a lot. So as I was, it provided a lot of confidence for me as I had to step into this role of being a face leader in this kind of space and trying to apply these principles and part of it was that I knew that I could only mess up so much before Robin would notice and would help course correct me and which happened a few times in those first months and help keep things forward. So for me, the best experiences aren't intentionally two-way like that. These can be very poignant when there's a noticeable discrepancy. For example, an experience or age or time of involvement or something like that. But frankly, I learned new things all the time from people with a far, far fewer years of experience either in a project or in a space or even on the planet than me. And by making it clear, I think that we're both mentoring each other. We get to see our own self-worth from the eyes of another and we gain that encouragement to be a mentor for others when we can. So let's go and do a little bit of why it's effective to recognize in this informal mentoring. When part of the culture of a community basically, the people will know that it's not only acceptable but desire to slow down and create a common understanding as a method progresses when it, if you only rely upon a formal mentoring program, for example, then people will, that the point here being that if there's an informal mentoring that gives permission, people always say, you know what, let's slow down, try to get this thing done and figure out what's going on first so that the mission of writing a piece of software or a document is not always the most important thing happening. You know, in fact, often the most important thing happening is the interaction between the people and progressing knowledge in that peer-to-peer mentoring. So then the other was is that there's a permission basically that comes up, a social more of sorts, I guess, that says that everyone has an express permission that we'll ask for in the moment and we'll ask for it off the cuff of mentoring or receive it from anyone else. And that recognition also leads to a shared appreciation which leads to an openly expressed mutual appreciation between the peer, the mentors, people working together and the people around them. And this is a really powerful feedback loop and which is also useful for bringing energy and interest towards formal mentoring programs. People who are not so sure about doing the formal program will discover how beneficial the informal isn't being more likely to to shift to a formal program. And then I see that it empowers people at all levels just to mentor each other and mentor others of all experiences. So no matter who you are and what your experience level is, there's something you can share with others and there is something you can learn from others with a far more experienced or inexperienced than you. So just I think this is one that's really been a point at one in my life in the last couple of years is that I've received a hugely generous amount of mentoring, personal peer-to-peer mentoring on diversity and equity and inclusion for my good friends and colleagues, Jen Madriaga and Nisha Fredericks, both of whom are also DEI professionals. And in fact, Nisha is now the vice president of DEI at the National MS Society. And I believe one of the key reasons they were both willing to spend this energy helping me is because they saw that not only was I doing my work myself, I wasn't just asking for things to be given to me, but I had already proven for our curriculum re-mentoring what I've learned back to others. So in my case, that means that I'm focusing my peer-to-peer mentoring around diversity, equity and inclusion with other cis white men because that's the group where I can mentor and learn from and make a difference most directly. So what might you actually, what might you do? You know, this is the called action slide, the where the steps you wanna go from. I think the one thing is to openly recognize for yourself and for others what you're doing and when it's happening, when you're experiencing peer-to-peer mentoring, just by vocalizing or writing about the experience, it doesn't have to be overbearing, but when it's either using the word mentoring or making it clear to people by the description of things, both those have the effect of building the story, the narrative around it. And the other is you can, well, this is interesting. I'm actually having a pausing moment here because what it is that I was, so the example that came to my mind that this for my own experience was around the idea of inculcating a mindset, which is, I think I'm actually here trying to inculcate a mindset with all of you and my colleague Rupali Tawakar, I got that, was the one who first had this open me to this idea. It wasn't that I'd never heard the words before, but it was that it was time and the space and the way that she had to share this information. And it was just really key for me to provide this kind of humanizing part of the change management experience, that how important it was to focus on this changing, working on the mindset and in a kind way with people. You know, it's not gonna brainwash people, right? We're trying to help bring people to a bigger understanding. So it's kind of hard to explain to here that this kind of nature of a peer to peer mentoring, for me, it's like a way of kind of a boring, something I'd never noticed before, suddenly comes forward as a central idea. And I don't know, that just survived. And that didn't happen because of that relationship with somebody, because of their excitement and interest in it, and because of the way that they've got to tell it. In this case, it was Rupali who opened my mind to this thing that it was already there and helped me kind of frame things in a way that I could see how to move a whole part of a problem forward. And so I think it's part of this is, you know, it's important to reward yourself and others in small ways as you go, using the power of the brain chemicals like the dopamine and oxytocin, just whatever you can to just, that this is part of the noting and the vocalizing is, and the appreciation, the recognition really helps there. And if you like, you can go ahead and join a formal mentoring program and kind of be visible there as well, talk about your experiences. That's another way that when you write about your experience in a formal mentoring program, that is a kind of informal mentoring to other people who are interested in it. And if you like writing and reading or educating about these topics of mentoring, you can participate in one or both of the open source way and the mentorship guide. And we did it. I made it to questions with enough time for questions. So let me stop right there and see, yeah, what questions anybody has. I haven't looked in chat, so you can see that I'm crying too. Cool, so let's see. 10-fold predictive. Yeah, I think that's one of the things I've been, I really noticed is how often people recognize that they're, how much mentoring, receiving a mentoring that they've got once they've made themselves open and aware to this. I mean, it's a lot more obvious in one's mind when someone has been asking you for help and you've given it out, you know, well, that's, you can be aware of that. But that kind of receiving and how it, how it makes a really big difference is there. Oh, thank you, Q and A tap. Thank you, Maureen. Okay, let's go over. Yay. See, that was what you were there for to catch me from locking. So as a mentor, how do you determine when to make a mentorship more formal? That's a good question. It sort of depends, I think, for my experience is, if I'm, if, what's a good way to put this? I think that one thing that can naturally, friendship is the thing that naturally rises between people at different, and it can happen at different levels, right? And the, so one thing that I think that's important that can happen is if you've got, I don't know, this kind of can kind of tell when they're, well, I feel to me like I can kind of tell when I'm working with somebody or talking and they're the level of attention and focus of what they need is something that's a little bit more significant than informal, right? That they really do need to have something that's regularly scheduled, that's regularly filtered, has a regular, you know, deliverables or agenda or something so that there's a thing to come back to that we keep working on over the course of time. And I think that, and the reason why I bring, I'm bringing up the friendship angle too, because it's something that can, it can really easily be missed the opportunity to just kind of separate out a formal mentoring if that's necessary. And it also can kind of make it difficult if you're trying to, if you're trying to give somebody the, if you're trying to be kind to somebody or be a friend to somebody, but then also you need to maybe tell them something in a more direct way as a mentor that might be a way that you wouldn't say it as a friend, right? So that's another kind of situation where by breaking a separation out and saying that, you know, you've got a space where you can have these kinds of conversations, it means that it makes it much more straightforward. Because I think of these like, yeah, I think that's probably the main thing is like when you're, it's either the demands of the, and I don't mean that in a negative way, then, you know, just the amount of energy or that it's gonna take is, it's getting to be more than just, you can handle in a one-off sessions and it seems like you just really have more structure around it or where you sort of need to create some compartmentalization. Those are a couple of things that come in my mind anyway. It'd be interesting to see if anybody else has got thoughts on that. Ah, chat, okay. Wrong poll, there we go. Let's see, so what kind of challenges come up with peer-to-peer mentorship? Yeah, exactly. I think one of the things I think definitely is the friendship angle one where we have to be aware of the ways in which we want to be, we get worried about making our friend upset with us and not wanting to tell them something in a way that we might tell them in a mentoring situation. So I think that that is, that's probably the most common one. And for me as well, I sort of find that if I get, if I get pulled too much and I need to do, and it's time for me to start to do some kind of work towards shifting the relationship, it's also possible that I will just sort of disappear a little bit because of the, just how much capacity I might have at that moment. Do I have the capacity to shift this from informal to formal or to go, or to say, hey, I need to do a little less of this or it's gonna be a couple of months to get back to me. Sometimes that's hardest for me to do at the time when I need to be able to say that the most. So that's definitely a challenge. Cause I don't like leaving people disappointed and I definitely think when people are coming from mentoring, it's often, there's an open and real need in their life at that time for what that is. And it's not that I'm the only person who could feel it or something, but there's a sense of responsibility I have. If I can't do it, I sort of wanna hand that person to somebody else or do something else like that. So I'm just trying to learn to be kind to myself as one is another part of it. And I think this is actually one thing it's beneficial but having recognition of informal mentoring is, I'm just like, you know, I just don't have the capacity this month, but I know, you know, Marie might have, you know, might have some capacity. Oh, and then I looked at it and then she mentions, yes, it's emotional labor for sure. That's exactly the point. So, and I would check on the back channel with another person long before I went and said, hey, maybe this person has some capacity for you.  And that just, and sometimes I think, I think this stuff is really important when you've got people, there are sometimes there are people who just in full of questions and that's the way that they approach the universe, whether it's the way that the brain works or the way their experience with their life works. And I don't, I just don't like to, you know, to shut that down. It's more like, can we tame this just enough so that it can fit within the capacity of this community to answer your questions and to make those things happen. So this is a way of making the, you know, making the community more accessible to people is to do that. So that's, this is a way in which informal mentoring is the way that we kind of share that workload from not just new people, but then also from people who either for short periods of time or longer periods of time just need that much more attention from individuals. Be successful. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, it's a lot of times for me, what I think it like, if someone's getting really anxious with questions and so we're saying, Hey, I'm going to make sure I'm going to answer your questions, but let's take a step back. Is there something going on that with you that you're feeling anxious or feeling something, you know, just so it's all, sometimes it's just about taming down the context. So then I'm remembering, like myself remembering to slow down and breathe, you know, bringing that kind of action. Let me see what's over the Q and A. Okay. How do we keep more peer to peer mentorship in Fedora? Well, I mean, I think Fedora by its nature just, you know, tends to, I mean, any day go up in source community has that possibility for a lot of peer to peer mentoring. I guess part of the reason why I wanted to bring this here was just that idea that maybe if you're, as part of building this or growing or recognizing really the culture of mentorship in Fedora, all those things is to identify and call these things, call this out, you know, maybe we could have some more badges that are just around it for momentary or just anything that just really helps kind of makes it clear that it's part of things without it being onerous. That's part of it is it should be kind of lightweight, but so maybe that too is a sort of like, what are the three steps? Or, you know, like three steps of how to start. It's like, it's almost like we need a, like a handshake protocol, right? Like what's the, you know, what's the, what's the transmission control of going back and forth with another human in a peer to peer mentorship so that I know it's okay for me to ask for something, I get it and then we, we're done and we shut it down and I move on and it's not just this thing that's kept open. So, you know, a little bit of how to and talking about it might be part of it. So, yeah, I'd be happy to, whatever I can do to help bring those things together, that's would be great. So, yeah, so, and then Dave asked a question about the open source way, which I do some expanding on this in the open source way. The, so the 2.0 version came out last year and there were plans immediately to start adding new content for the 2.1 version. And so, my personal, well, you know, it's the process of getting to the 2.0 that was very much a, we pulled people together and we sort of drove it through to produce it, right? There was not a lot of, there was some energy built to around, around creating as a community with folks, but as is, as is sometimes the case, the experts all got together and sort of didn't take care of making sure that our community was able to keep going. And I, and I took this mantle of all, go do all these things to make it happen. And then I got involved in another project and I've got a personal life that is like this. So, I had to, I recently, I recently I wrote a blog post and a post out on the open source way mailing list. You're just asking for help for a couple of key things. The one is if anybody's interested in helping drive the 2.1 release, which is sort of like an editorial leadership function, getting everybody together, figuring out what we're gonna do and the timeframes and all that kind of thing. I would actually write content for that instead of having to run it. And the other is working on the governance, which is pretty key for the community. So, so without, anyway, that's my pitch, which is for you know, anybody who wants to come up on the project now's a great time. And, and I, and in terms of this content, coming into it actually get it. We were like, this was just sort of, we wanted to do so much. And we wanted to do at least four or five times as much, I think, from the original outline that we looked at in terms of getting things in and ended up just, you know, we kind of pared it down to what we knew we could do within the timeframe. I'd have to go back and see what that outline was to see how much of it is still relevant. But I think there's a lot of room to expand the, go from the broader understanding of how we want to do mentoring in the world, like the mentorship guide covers and bringing more and more of that down and as the open source version of this. The way I think I talk about content like that where we go from one projects to another, it's not, I don't think it was an upstream but more as a cross stream in that the content might, it's going to, would be developed and originate in the mentorship guide, for example. And then we would take that and we kind of not rebrand it but just rework the parts that make sense to rework it in the right way so that it fits in the open source side which just might mean adding examples or things that just make it make more sense. So it's not, that's so difficult. So yeah, actually I would love to answer Marie's question about my favorite aspect of mentorship. The, I think for me it's really just that it's that it's the mutual appreciation that happens and the opportunities to, like it feels good to help somebody and to be recognized for that for sure. But that's all that I'm getting. I mean, I get kind of embarrassed. I just sort of like, if everyone's just always like, oh, thank you for that help. I'm like, there's something for me when I can find in every situation it's not hard to, a way to show the other person that they've been helping me. It just sort of balances things out in my heart, I guess. And so those are my favorite experiences is when it's so absolutely clear that we're both getting things from it. And I think sometimes to me this is one of the great things about mentoring when there's a situation where there's a big disparity of knowledge, for example, that like so my great conversations with talking to people at an event where they're coming, maybe they don't have an understanding of open source like that's very basic and then I'm happy to really give them a big understanding but then they can, I'm just thinking like a case where I was standing I was at the Southern California Linux Expo and I got to have this conversation with a couple of community organizers, people who organized in their neighborhoods in Los Angeles. And one was a young woman, a mother of three kids who was in her late twenties, I think, and the other was an older gent in his seventies I think and he'd been a neighborhood organizer for a very long time. And so, and they were here at my open source way mentoring conversation, and so just that ability to go and see these different experiences and that back and forth between them and then how I was able to kind of add something to that and yet still stand back and gain all of this knowledge about something that was a new topic for something I was new at as well, I was really powerful. So, yeah. Cool, good, I think we are good at the end of our questions and I'm gonna go, I have one more slide that I can pop that says, oh yeah, of course, I'm so sorry, I do need to quickly take a moment to attribute all the images today. I'm including my favorite CC image which is the CC attribution image that is a creatively commons licensed image.  I've, the link to the slides is there but it's on the open source way as well which is also available in our GitHub repo, all the other things and parts and pieces there. You can reach me on the interwebs as Quaid and I think that's about it.


The twelve months ago Russian tanks in the early hours of the morning rolled across the Russian border to start the illegal invasion of Ukraine, they did so with an ambition of effectively occupying and capturing the major cities within three weeks and then sending people who disagreed with them through filtration camps and effectively turning Ukraine into a client state of Russia. And I think what we've seen in the last twelve months is tremendous bravery by Ukrainian men and women standing to fight for their own country. Tremendous brutality and war crimes inflicted on them by a Russian state still determined to try and effectively destroy Ukraine. But an international community that's solid and at the heart of that solid effort has been Britain, her allies such as the United States, other European countries like France and Germany, Scandinavian countries and the Eastern Europeans such as Poland. It was about two, three in the morning and I had to go to a location to get a classified briefing and I remember leaving really, really early in pretty fast speed and my police escorts to take me to get to red in to what was happening and you know it was a war at the time. You know people were, we didn't know what was going to happen, no one really knew how long Ukraine had to fight, everyone had underestimated them, obviously they were frightened in some account and we saw the scale of the Russian forces so it was really important there and then to see what we could do. It was important to give them some lethal weapons to allow them to defend themselves and we put in very early on the end laws, the light anti-tank weapons that are made in Belfast and we had put them in already which allowed us to then build on that to bring together an international group of donors and I held the first donors conference about the day after the invasion. We had about 25 countries, mainly European, NATO countries and we started that momentum of bringing real support to the people of Ukraine, both lethal and non-lethal aid. You know we know, we are one of the few countries, we know what it's like to be outnumbered and alone against an overwhelming aggressor. That was us in 1939, remember we stood on our own, we were outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, we were a country where internally there was always these debates about did we seek appeasement, did we seek an accommodation and if you remember Winston Churchill very much took the view way before anyone else that we should be arming, re-arming our country but also standing and fighting and a vote for British spirit and I think you see that in Ukraine, you know they are outnumbered, they have, that 65% of Russian armed forces now is 97% of our whole armed forces is committed to trying to achieve victory in Ukraine. 97% of the world's biggest country and it's not having a success but that shows what they're up against and I think Britain and Ukraine have that common sense of shared experience. Britain is going to be there to the end with Ukraine, we're going to follow it through, we're going to keep standing by them, we will do all the things we can to help them succeed in making sure that Putin fails in Ukraine.


Gorillaz infiltrate territory of Russian military unit in Crimea. The Gorillaz sneaked into the territory of the 18th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of Sevastopol and Feodosia. They were assisted by Russian mobilized soldiers according to the Ateş Gorilla movement. Our agents successfully conducted reconnaissance operations on the territory of the 18th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of Sevastopol, Feodosia. The statement says, According to the Gorillaz, while the guards were busy with important things on their phones, they quickly reconnoited and recorded everything. Of course, not without the help of the mobilized in this military unit who suggested when and where it was better to take photos and videos. Ateş says, Ateş, which means fire in Crimean Tatar, was created in September last year primarily to carry out acts of sabotage from within the ranks of the Russian army. It claims more than 4,000 Russian soldiers have already enrolled in an online course on how to survive the war by wrecking their own equipment. Mustafa Zemilev, widely seen as the godfather of the Crimean Tatar rights movement, pointed to operations by the Ateş Gorilla group comprising Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and Russians in Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian regions.


Okay, everybody. Hi, my name is Marie Burke. I'm from University College Dublin, and I'm delighted to be here today. I have been working with looking at data with Lee for a good few numbers of years now, so I have to say it's a wonderful opportunity for us all to come together, and I'm very, very excited by this whole project and what we're doing here today. So what do I do? I'm Associate Director in the Library. I have the Executive Lead for Client User Services, Library IT and Staffing, and possibly the reason I am here is that I am the number cruncher for user statistics. And we measure lots of things. Okay. We measure visits, loans, queries, information sessions. What did you take out? What did you download? What did you borrow? I'm obsessed with attendance figures. I can tell you right now at the moment how many are in the library. This is Reading Week in UCD. We're excessively busy, and in terms of our 7 o'clock opening, we're 10% busier than we were in a similar day last year. So we've got loads and loads and loads of this data, and what do we do with it? Well, I mean, historically, the football statistics have been extremely helpful for us in allocating staff resources, in making cases for extra staff for closing, whatever the case may be, but more and more, we could see it of being extreme use to our academic colleagues in building up a picture of what students are doing, what programs they're doing, what their library usage is like. And in the more recent times, we have collaborated with our colleagues in UCD registry, and we're now inputting all our intervention data into something called Unishare, and that helps us track a student profile and what they're doing and what interventions they have. And using something like Unishare, we can say, well, there were seven students asking about a particular issue. This week, therefore, there's a problem with that item. There's a problem with that query. There's a problem with the way the students are accessing that information. Does the lecturer need to know what happens and we have things to do with that, which is very helpful. And Jeremy will probably say something about Unishare. Challenges, okay, the systems are not always joined up, okay? And several people have mentioned the library system. Our library has three systems, okay? So to say that the systems are not joined up is that is one of our biggest challenges. For us, the data is not always as granular as we would like it. We would like more data and we would like to be able to drill down more and more. And then the other big challenge is the time to do the analysis. Like, as I said, we measure lots and lots of data, but then the time to sit back and actually do that analysis and do something meaningful with it can be a challenge. And this is where I think collaboration is the name of the game. So what next steps would you like to take? We're really interested in what others are doing and that's why something like today is really, really interesting. And we're hugely interested in more cooperation internally within the institution and externally. And I just want to say there's three words that I've heard today that really I find very, very interesting. The first word is governance, which is hugely important for so many reasons. The second one is cohesion and cohesive because the data must be cohesive. And the last one is holistic and it's that word holistic. And if we can manage to do that, we will, I think, develop analytics to support an holistic student experience. So that's me. Thank you very much indeed.


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Service overlay networks is a very interesting concept and a very relevant one for the next-generation networks because it provides the abstraction and the decoupling for applications provisioning by using multiple services. When we say that it's a service overlay network, it means it's an overlay of a logical network on top of a physical NGN that uses logical services from different entities spread over the entire NGN. So let's start with the understanding of what SONs are and then we are going to look at a generalized model that deals with the explanation of SONs. Now the NGN once deployed is a completely utilizable and available infrastructure to deploy different services for various applications since some kind of flexibility and abstraction is required for NGNs so that different kinds of services which are diverse in their design, in their availability, in their customer base and choices has to be provided. So a more logically designed services offering has to be ensured. For that, SON actually emerged as a logically interconnected network. Physical interconnection is always done through wires or through physical medium. Wireless is also one option. So once we say logical, it means for a given physical infrastructure, different combinations can be established to link different nodes depending upon different requirements. So SONs offer different services in the form of functionality which are used by the applications which users are subscribing to. So SON is essentially an ITUT mandated proposal that has been there for quite some time. In fact, we'll study it shortly that SONs actually have always been there as signaling signaling signaling networks which have been there for telecommunication networks. But lately these have been termed as service overlays. So once a SON is deployed as an overlay onto a physical NGN then emerges the requirement to use these services. These services can be used to establish application provisioning by using these services, modifying the behavior of these services, subscribing to unregistering or even extending the services. SON since is an overlay, it means NGN has to interact with it. NGN interacts with SON either via ANI interface or SNI interface. So ANI basically is the application to network interface. We'll quickly look at the figure in the next slide or through the service to network interface. Here, once we are talking about the service to network interface, it means we are actually considering the service overlay network coming from a third party. It means that we have a service provider which is offering its service to the NGN. So it opens an interface known as SNI but for a complete service overlay network, the application to network interface is going to be required. Now whatever we are discussing, we are looking at service overlay as software implementation. So it essentially turns out to be an application layer phenomenon. So looking at the TCP IP stack, we can assume that the service overlay network is an application layer phenomenon. Let us look at a very generalized simple view of service overlay networks over NGN. Here you can see we have the entire NGN represented through the main cloud at the core with routers connected. And we have different users coming from residential networks, enterprises, customer premises, networks, etc. So all these are connecting from the exercise to the NGN. Now this NGN interacts with the service overlay network through the ANI-SNI interface. The service overlay network, if you notice very interestingly, is offering its services to the application layer. It means the user applications are using the services which are being offered through the service overlay network. So this is a quick rundown of what service overlay networks are. We are going to look at it in more detail.


The JSA TV and JSA broadcasts the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Jean-Marc Lima and joining me today is Ed Anset, Chairman of i3 Solutions Group to talk through Europe's data center market and its take on sustainability. Ed, thank you so much for talking to me. The European market has been going through so much transformation on every single level, consolidation, M&A, investment, sustainability, ESG, diversity, I mean you name it, everything has changed a lot in the last year and especially on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic even more. But how would you yourself describe the current European data center market? Well, from a point of view of growth and expansion, the market is still very buoyant in EMEA. I think things may be sort of flacking out a little bit in the US but European market is still very buoyant. We'll see a lot of activities in the main countries in the tier one countries but starting to see a lot more activity in the tier two and also pushing across into Eastern Europe. So the market is very busy. It's as busy as it ever has been possibly the busiest so far. I guess another way of answering that question is what what what practice are really dominating and I guess there's the answer that is come back to sustainability but the growth of high-scale data centers is dominant and the emergence and rapid scale up of edge data centers. So those things and then there's the whole topic of sustainability which is ubiquitous, supervasive everywhere. And I'll pick up on that one very soon but just picking up on the tier two markets, which ones have caught your attention over the last month? Well, I mean it's everything outside of the flap and Dublin markets really. It's pretty much every major city and second city in every country that wasn't originally part of the tier one market. So there are very few exceptions and these are large-scale developments. These aren't a few tens of megawatts. They could be more than that, 50 plus megawatts in each of these big cities. What's happening in tier two and some tier three markets is quite extraordinary. I know we've seen it like in Romania, a high-scale campus with 200 megawatts. We've seen another one with nearly 500 megawatts in Portugal. I mean, they just seem to be popping everywhere now. But picking up on sustainability, that's more or less what you majored on if I can say that. What's your take on sustainability in Europe? What's being done here on the continent that you think it's good and what's being done that's not so good? I think Europe is beating a path in terms of sustainability. I think it has for quite some time, originally with the European code of conduct and now with a couple of new initiatives. These are voluntary initiatives that are going on in India. But the market is complex from a sustainability point of view because we've got a variety of fuel mixes which have a big impact in terms of your approach to sustainability. When I say fuel mix, I'm talking about the generation fuel mix. Maybe in some countries, they are important and they've got a very low carbon emission factor, particularly countries that are big on hydro. And there are other countries which still use quite a lot of coal and therefore they've got greater challenges. So I think the approach that's being taken is largely led by government to be fair. But the approach that data center operators know as taking everyone's cognition of the need to be sustainable but they're going about it in different ways with varying degrees of success. But do you think what more needs to be done to achieve all those goals that we keep hearing in the headlines of being 100% green by 2030? The first question is do you think that 2030 is an achievable target to be green? Let's just get something straight. There is no such thing as a zero carbon data center and there never will be. Because the minute you extract any mineral from the ground, you're always carbon positive from that second onwards. So it's really about question of minimizing carbon. When people talk about zero carbon, what they really mean is they've got a carbon footprint. They will do what they can to reduce that to the extent that they can and we can talk about how they can do that. But that's reduction. That's not negation. That's not reduction to zero. That's reduction from some large positive number to a lesser positive number. So what typically organizations are doing is they're employing carbon offsetting. So they're saying we're going to plant a bunch of trees or that we do and then we subtract that from our carbon footprint and that's what makes us carbon negative. There's nothing wrong carbon offsetting. It's a good idea. There is some controversy around it but it's definitely a good idea in general terms. But it shouldn't be seen as a get-out-of-jail card. I don't want to be too negative about it but the way I look at it, it's like paying your big brother to do your homework for you. You've got to also, apart from offset, you have to offset to get to zero. But it's what you do in between then in terms of with your own carbon footprint to reduce it as well, which is the bit that you can control and it's usually the most difficult bit. Absolutely. And how do you see all initiatives that have come into market this year? For example, like the carbon neutral data center pack being one of them. Do you see that with good eyes? Are we going the right? Of course. I mean these are great initiatives. I mean they really are. But I fear that what we need is and we don't really have is a consensus where an agreement where everybody kind of pulls together their status and the buyer, if you like, the data center tenant or end user can see from a comparative point of view which data center operator is doing what and be able to make an informed decision from a carbon perspective. That doesn't exist and I think that would be useful to them. There'll be a complete game changer in the market. And then i3 Solutions Group, what are you guys doing around sustainability because there's a major focus? I mean everyone's talking about sustainability and I guess where we are, a little while ago now, I was talking with one of our board members and he said, you know, nobody in the consulting engineering group, the data center specialist consulting engineering group are looking at publishing information around what sustainable technologies are out there, to those in the energy sector that can be applied to data centers. There's a myriad of sustainable technologies, some of which are applicable to data centers, some aren't. And so we'd be trying to make sense of that. We put together a research team between ourselves in EMEA, ourselves in APAC and our partners in US, EYP. And we formed this research team and the purpose of that research team is to go away and research a whole pile of different subjects, different technologies, analyze them in the context of the data center market and then make some suggestions in terms of which technologies are applicable to data centers, what their impact would be, you know, short-term, medium-term and all of those kind of factors, which are the purpose of that is really to inform from an objective point of view, because, you know, we don't sell anything, we were consulted, so we just give them unbiased advice. So that we call that the greenhouse gas abatement initiative. We launched that memory, I think it was January, this year maybe, it's not early, I'm not sure, about a year ago anyway. And so far, you know, we've published quite a few articles, a number of white papers and we've still got more to publish. Okay, so we can expect a lot more research and consultancy and fact-checked Yeah, in terms of the white papers, I mean, white paper four now, we've got another nine in the pipeline that we're planning, but I think there'll be many more than that. I don't think this initiative is going to stop when we finish those nine. I think we'll have some other things that we'll continue researching and publishing our findings. You're never going to be busy in 2022 with so many white papers. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, but also actually, you know, it's also good for the engineers. Okay, the engineers, it kind of takes them out of their comfort zone a little bit, gets them researching subjects that they're not familiar with. And then they're trying to apply that to the data center industry. We talk about it internally. We sort of kick the tires and try to figure out how we deal with a particular technology in the data center market.  Okay, and then if people want to find out more about i3 solutions and then read about the white papers once they start coming out, where could they go to? Well, so normally what would happen would there be some form of press release each time the paper comes out. But I mean, the central repository for the white papers is the website. So that's just, you know, with white web i3.solutions. That's where you'll find white papers and you'll also find quite a few of the press articles as well. Okay, and then Ed, let's imagine we are at the end of 2022. It's been 12 months, another 12 months of such a buoyant market. What word would you like to use by the end of 2022 to describe the market in 12 months? More informed. Okay, let's see it more informed. I'd like you talk about greenwash, you know, there's a sentence we used before we started the interview, wasn't it? Yeah. And I mean, I think that perhaps means different things to different people, but principally, fundamentally, what we're talking about here is people saying things that they don't do and also sort of papering over the cracks when it comes to doing something from a carbon abatement initiative. I'd like to see the industry more informed about what is greenwash, what isn't greenwash, what's good for the industry, you know, what your choices are. As you remember, at the end of the day, most of the data centers are commercial enterprises. They have to make money at the same time they try to have to try and do something about their carbon footprint. So more informed is what I'd like to see. I don't want to push, I don't want to go crazy and say, you know, we're going to be halfway there because we're not, we've got a long, long way to go. It's a process, it's a long road ahead. But Ed, thank you so much for talking to me. And thank you our viewers for tuning into JSA TV and JSA podcast. And don't forget to check out our social channels for more content. Until next time, happy networking.


So I thought I'd just quickly go over these boards with you and why I'm going to do the swap around to this build and The reason is is you know, it's going to be we're going to have more fun with a GPS module on there. That's for sure It does add extra weight and that's going to be undesirable But I am going to get some more five mil arms because I can't actually get the old frame apart because I don't have Very good tool to do in the job and I mean the knowledge bad as some but they're not as good as others Okay, so I'm a bit stuck at the moment for that, but let's just go over these boards there So the board at the moment the one I'm using is on the left hand side to the upper left and the bottom left is the board That's on this quite at the moment And where it fails is one it doesn't have a barometer on it Even though that may look like a barometer. There's no little holes. I presume it's a timing crystal I don't know But it doesn't have a barometer and it and it doesn't have the SPI for SD a and SCL because we need a data connection and Look if you look over this side look you can see on this side He does there's a says GPS and mag here and you can see here. There's the data and it's the clock Which go over to these which is on the underside of this board now this board also even though It's not shown here just where the connections are for the SD a and SCL That there's a barometer there There is a barometer just like there's the casing here for the flash of the SD card if you want to do some recording of your Black box recording The unlocking add the data Recording so this is why I'm going to shift them out as you can see if you look at these boards They're very similar anyway I mean if you look at some of the components the way they're laid out it's pretty similar there are differences Of course, there are two different boards, but when you look at the connections Across the top here and the connections across the top here. They're the same You got a little extra connection on this board here because there's a s7 Which would tell me that that's a Seal connectors, but anyway, so um, but down the bottom here same connections, so Connection of this board isn't going to be too difficult But everything's going to pretty much go in the same place apart from we're going to have these extra connections here for the for the magnetometer and the Satellite receiver I say satellite receiver because it's got like two or three different types of satellites you can receive in there And so it's not just the the GPS which is the American global positioning satellites Yeah, so they're both got still got OSD's the both still got the same arm SD SDM 32 F405 chips on them And I think even the accelerometers are exactly the same on both boards as well So that's what we're going to switch over now I don't use these because I don't have a power supply or a power distribution board that has one of these connections on that is and Also on this as you can see and I'm pretty sure on this one as well Yeah, we got one here on this one as well on the new board That actually takes up a UART on this one. You can see it's indicated there for RX 5 and TX 5 which is received on you are 5 and the transmitter and you are 5 and that will be the same over here on this board Whether it's you are 5 or not. I'm not remember doesn't matter though We've got plenty to do what we want to do because fortunately enough like I said, there's a built-in on-screen display Onto both these boards where that's where I normally use up a another you are but on this I'm not going to so right enough to do let's take a look at the build itself and Have a look how we're going to do this Okay, so here we are at the build itself now what I've done is I'm I've already unscrewed and bolted The top plate so we're going to take that off. I've disconnected the Receiver connection there, and I've also just popped off the antenna there What I might just do to make this a little bit simpler That's fine as it goes back underneath for just as easy and it does So that's one of the reasons why I like building into this sort of things if I just take that out of the way You might see it a bit better It just makes life so much simpler I can just pop those on and off as required And we're good. Good. We're good. I'll put that out the way So what are we going to do now we got a disconnect the VTX So that's gonna be obviously coming off the we've got a video connection and a Smart audio connection to come off that I use this See if we've got that to come off there off the flight controller We're all I'm going to do now is just undo these four nuts And we can pop that off. I hope I didn't do those too tight I'll have to get a little tool in or something just to give me a little bit better grip on there Let's have a look Could have probably done with a little bit of prepping so if I do have to do a jump cut I'll do a jump cut. Let's see what we can use What did I do with that? Some might just cut that out there, but you might just leave it Let's just give those a little tiny Just a little tiny I like to see what where my fingers are going on this Now if you do get into building your own Make sure that you get a few halfway decent tools. They don't have to be Top-much tools. Remember this isn't like, you know, we're not dealing with a tractor here Or a big lorry truck As my american cousins would say and uh, I don't know what they say in uh, australia cousins there in new zealand and canada Yeah, yeah, in the uk we say things like lorry We have lorries. I think I prefer the word trucks to be honest with you Right, yes, we got one that's just playing up a little tiny bit. That's about right, isn't it? Always gonna have one. Always gonna be one But yes, if I probably should have a little maybe it'd be good to have a little tiny spanner But I know I do have a couple of little tiny ones, but I've never actually seen if one Will fit these But the good thing about doing this sort of thing is you always got to remember as well Give yourself a bit of time have a bit of patience with yourself as well because It's one of the things that really helps on this Is if you've got to be a patient and if the one underneath isn't just turning round on you So How I'm not I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna look for the container I've been using just to pop the top screw thing Always good to have a little container, of course you can Chuck your bolts and your nuts and Always good to have a safe place for your nuts Always good We're gonna get them off. I think I'm part of the part of the issue I've got here is the one underneath the Natural damper might be turning a little tiny bit what I'm trying to Turn these on my fingers. Yeah, it is coming. I'm done. Just uh, it's nice nice firm connections. No nice firm Yeah Eating through my fingers But again, this is another reason why you want to give yourself plenty of time Don't don't be in a rush with these things Because the more you're rushed you're more likely to overlook something And you know, you may find yourself having to just take it apart again, which can take time as you can see And depending on how long this goes on for probably end up jump cutting it But I think it's I think it's good to see that things don't always go smoothly as you might hope and expect. I mean This apart from just being hovered in here Hasn't been anywhere. So there's no dust on it. There's no nothing. It's all lovely I gave all the used parts a bit of a A bit of a clean down anyway. I've lost them There we go. Just get that Okay, so now I can just lift that from the top there and I gotta remember these cables will still be connected So I'm just gonna pop that off Put that in there Now I've got to remember now That I want to take all these off. So I'm gonna Literally disconnect this These are not rubber. These ones at the top because this is just where the This is just where the BTX was sitting and it's all right. It's not as sensitive as the the flight controller for vibration It's always good to stick the flight control on some rubber standoffs some Insulating standoffs. Okay. So that's pretty much ready to go. So we've got that out of the way Um, the power is connected to the The board underneath the power distribution board And the one where we're gonna sort of try to remember what's what is here And we're gonna have a slightly little rethink as well for the board because if I remember rightly that um I have got I think I've got my connection over here for the on three RXT x3 And I think I'm already pre-using these here. So just have to take a little look at that makes absolutely no difference whatsoever So I'm gonna get a soldering iron on now Um, and I will come back when it's heated up.  Shouldn't I but hey all this is done without any scripts or anything like that You get it live if something goes wrong. You get to see what happens Um, and if it's successful, hey, that's a bonus too. So just give me a few moments for that to heat up Just a little bit of it. Try not to go in with such a big heavy-handed tip This is what I use for like the ec's and bigger connections But you don't want anything you probably want a little tiny flat end one if you've got one or a carnival But it doesn't want to be very big at all But you want the temperature up high enough That um, you don't have to leave the soldering iron on the board too long So you don't want that heat to dissipate through the board and be affecting any of the components on there So you want it to be high enough as you can drop it on them within a couple of seconds Take off the part that you want there and do the wire Okay, so back in the tick Okay, so just while that's warming up. I just thought I'd say to you um A couple of bits and pieces about your solder That you want you don't want to use a big heavy solder I think this is 0.3 something like that and that's uh, that's good, but you want to keep it below 0.5 definitely because 0.5 is too big and When it comes to like cleaning off the tip once it's hot, you know because you left some solder on there because you're Tin it at the end of your usage just to keep that that tip nice and clean Keeps the air off it as well. Otherwise you start getting issues with the solder won't actually um It doesn't connect it sort beads up on the tip Uh, so you always want to make sure you tin the ends of that and keep it clean now I tend to use this sort like brass wool stuff This is mixed it's got a bit of iron in there as well because you know You buy brass wool from ebay and sometimes it comes through as iron Sometimes it comes through like this nice and nice and brassy That's what I tend to use for cleaning my tip because One I find that if you use a wet sponge with some people like it They like the sound of it. It's your own preference, I suppose but the wet sponge rolls won't sort of change the temperature more So you're always faffing for temperature Uh, yeah, we should be uh should be heat up by now so I got my But it's not a very expensive soldering iron so even though it says 366 it may not actually be 366 So I'm going to go straight and I'm going to put a little bit soldering pull this This lamp down. I hope it doesn't affect The camera too much. Let's just give it a little tiny little tiny tin on here Now if it goes a bit weird on the sound, sorry about that. It's just a it's the way I've got to I've got to position the lamp So I'm just going to take off the camera Like I said, you just want it on there for couple of few seconds Take off the camera and now we're going to um We're going to take off the just because I'm on this side I'm going to take off this uh S2 connection for the ESC and also the ground for it You don't always need to use the ground But if you want to make sure that you've got a direct path You know back Specific like these are then you stick the ground on I'm going to get a bit of a grip of that first Take that off cool slightly Take that off. I'm going to take off the uh the vtx connection We're going to actually get to it. There we go Little tiny thing there And spin this around We're going to have the uh the buzzer as well. We're going to well We're going to take everything off this just because everything's needed The only thing I'm going to leave on just for now is this because I need to uh I need to put these on individually so I'll put the boards next to each other and cross these over Just because it's going to help me keep an eye on what is ground and what is 5 volt because they're those two there But as you can see they're both black And what is the transmit receiver on this side because again, you can see the both blacks It's going to be half me to identify um If they're not there If uh if I just take them off and just leave them the same is on the um The same is on the uh um Satellite receiver. We've got six cables on that five of them are black And um one is red That's really helpful You know you think that they might think you know the people who produce them might think you know just to be helpful.  It's just easy if I get to it like this Sorry if my hands are in the way and you can't really see a great deal But there's not a lot I can do my my setup for my camera is useless, but hey, just give me time and I'll I'll get all these things dealt with I don't expect this is going to be my first build or rebuild You know video There's going to be plenty more to come on show over different frames and bits and pieces as we progress So the ground and the um s1 connection for the uh the first Because we go one two three four for the ec's Okay So just for the second let's just take this off here I've got the um connection underneath here as well for vcc even though you can't see it Underneath there is a connection. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to see if I can just pull that around Because I have to still remember there's a connection here as well. I can get that through the top This is the five volt Going to the board and I don't know if you can hear what's going on in the background But I may have to Close the windows But I've got to do that a little bit longer because if I did want to put an sd card in there I've got to be able to pull that cable part away But just for now, I'm just going to untwist those slightly Clean anything off that tip And I'm just going to put a little bit of pressure So I can just pull these through the board Even though to be honest with you, it's me doing this so I probably wouldn't have pushed them through the board anyway So do what I'm going to do. I'm going to yeah, it looks like I did push them through the board And that was really silly of me Uh, this might just take a little little extra minutes of time But you could if I could just get a hold of one of those at a time There we go. I think that's One unit off Doesn't matter if I just knuckle up the wire a little time of it because to be honest with you There we go. That's true Um, we're going to clip it down anyway make it a little tiny bit shorter So I'm pretty sure it can make it a little tiny bit shorter Just take my own life a little bit easier here right at this minute in time I'm just going to I'm just going to nip that and I'll clean it up before it goes on to something else Just to save time to stop the hassle Now as you can see down here We've also done the same thing But this time if I just unwrap that Just once or twice It's going to make it a lot easier for me. I didn't push them through the board on the bottom What I did was I just used tweezers and held them in place and undid them So it's going to be dead easy to undo that again a little tiny bit of a I've seen that just a little tiny Just a little tiny bit. There we go And the board has left the quad now we can just shift that out the way for a minute That's what we want to do now You want to bring these in I'm going to shift this over it's not going to be a problem But this I also want to trim down a little tiny bit So I'm I'm going to cheat because I'm going to undo it a little bit And I'm going to do each cable one by one I don't intend on just undoing it all and then sitting there trying to fathom out again What connection is what what cables walks look you can see they're twisted together Now the reason why I twist the cables together Is because especially on the the power rails. It's when you're five volt here There's going to be current flow and when there's current flow through a cable There's a magnetic field generated Magnetic fields can be you know they can They can be receivers of Noise and they can also transmit noise So the way I look at it is if you just twist things up as much as you can A little bit different on there because it's such a big moment why there's probably a bit too A bit too big but um if you just twist things up where you can then uh Then yeah You eliminate That's what happens to see you eliminate that magnetic field It's all one cancels out the other as it were when you twist them together You must have heard the um Before when it comes to things like networking and such the twisted pair twisted cables How they use this is what happens when I'm actually keep the The flux you see it's got resin the Yeah It's good. Sorry the the solder has flux already in it Which is What helps with these connections? It helps you connect If it didn't have the flux it'd be very hard for it to flow properly So, okay, we've got that off. I'm going to put that on Um now this like I say we're going to do this uh wire by wire. So what are we doing now? So I'm just going to take these off here But what we would do is um, I'll do a little a little jump cut. I think on this because I said again take a few moments But you saw the way I did this when I went up what I used it for Was just so it makes it easier setting up the gyroscope Um That word sounds really weird to me If it's the wrong word, I'll stick the right way I don't know if I've had too much coffee today or not enough coffee today Not sure Yeah, so these little things don't have to take that long I mean it's Nice to have things pre-set up, but that's not how we all work. We don't always work like that and Let me get it through there I'm just gonna put my soldering iron on to 200 degrees so it can just sit there and stay warm But not too not too warm And it's just I heat my tip too much I'll put a little tiny bit of soldering just to keep that Flux going Nice and there Ready to be used. So let's have a look. Yeah, like I say, I probably want to cut these down a little bit And I also want to if I just compared them side by side look So here I've taken my Vivo now normally With this bit here is where you put the five volt in And I'm pretty sure because it looks nice and shiny. That's what I've used on the other one So I'm going to use this again for the five volt in Yes, it was yeah, because this it would be in the way of that Um, and I may even use smaller cable because that was quite a big bit of cable wasn't it was quite chunky after a little bit I don't know what I've done with it now But it seems to be quite chunky and we don't really need it to be that chunky and I've got some I've got some smaller cable somewhere There's a little bag of smaller cable that'll do. Yes, I'll do. Don't even know this comes from what it's for but We use a little bit of black A little bit of red It's thinner in the other stuff Which means It's a bit lighter And it's not going to for this very short distance. It doesn't need you know, don't have to worry even if the board even if You know, we're pulling like an amp. Let's say through the flight controller Uh, you know with a little tiny bit of this it's not going to Not a problem at all Not a problem at all nicely enough a couple of ends already pre-tinned ready for us to use and I'll twist a bit of that together To ensure that you know You've got that twisted pair going thing going on cancels out any magnetic field between itself. So does an induce or produce interference and Yeah, so Let's take a look. So we're going to put our five volt then onto here. Like I said, because that's the way it works off the You know, I left that on the power distribution board didn't I? And then which means we're going to get to take our five volt from somewhere else for this now Don't want to use these because on here. It's the same. So that's three volt and four point five volt So I think I think I think I think we're using the five volt such there and on the we're using I think we're using um No, how are we going to do this and because we need five volts without five volts coming in Goes on to there and then we've got our vtx power We'll be just taking the vtx anyway. We've got ground for that. That doesn't matter We've got five volt here and we've got ground but we're using that for the camera Um Our vtx itself that we're going to be using is coming straight from the power distribution board Which is better because then we're not pulling it through this board Um So really then we want to be thinking of where we can get another five volt supply from I always suppose there's one there. Look Yep, there's one there so we can just use a five volt from here So what I'm going to do then is I'm going to move from the receiver I think um Because our receiver goes underneath here and it just about fits into that doesn't it which is perfect So if anything I may shift the receiver wires over here to tx one, so I'm not really using that But over here, of course And then keep the five volts there for that. So that does the receiver that part there And then all we're going to do then is make sure we got power for our GPS seller receiver and that I'm going to use the power here then because we do have This here ground and this five volt here And so I'm going to pop these off put them there and we can put the power from the distribution board to here The camera will take its power from over here the same as what it was on here five volts And that's it and the vtx will be connected there. We don't need any of that for that. So that's it That's that's that's how we're going to do the wiring That seems simple enough So let's crack on with that then Yup as we have Because we'll stick this onto our x3 on here as well Because you gotta remember i'm using a crossfire protocol. So I don't need the s plus pity It would have been nice actually to have something that I could use the s bus with I wouldn't have actually used that with crossfire, but never mind for now. We just use as it is um Up a little bit Yeah, so um I was because if I did then I could use the I could use the um Rx2 and the s bus for a receiver then I still have another you are free It's always nice to have a free you are so it's spare Just in case I could add bluetooth Hmm But anyway, so that's what we're going to do. That's the plan That's how we're going to move forward with that and of course we're going to leave the The connections down here for the magnetometer and Yeah, so I think the first one we're going to do there is disconnect that from there The five volt and just pop it over here Even though like I said because this is now there's going to be an excess bit of wire So we would be nice to just cut just an inch off these Uh not so much this one here. I don't think Well, maybe I reckon we could probably squeeze that down to there and still have it connected To the back of the um And it's just this excess bit of wire you see I know it's not a lot, but it but in a way it is a lot It is a lot. So I think that's what I'm going to do.  You know, there's not me. I'm not going to bore the knife out here with that I'll come back when I've done that. Okay, so we'll do a little jump cut Okay guys, so There we go. We've got the uh gps Sorted on the back there that will move out the way if I want to put a data card in nicely We've moved the power to just above the the signal for the esc and we've And everything else is just exactly the same. So Now I'm going to put the 5 volts on on here For the board So that'll be powering up the board and then all I've got to do then is connect up my smart audio the vtx Yeah, sorry the camera What the whole camera feed needs to go on there because it's a positive minus and the Camera itself and then the video transmitter And that's it. I mean that's near enough ready to be sat on oh and of course the vcc because we want to be able to see what the voltage is In the on-screen display so we can keep an eye on that Always a good idea Okay, we've managed to save a little bit of wire Um, even though it's not really a savings It's going to get thrown as a possibility. I might use this bit here to connect the board um The board to the it's only for the vcc I'm going to use this Put a piece off here and use this for the um the 5 volts. I still need to be able to move that out the way Because it will be a bit of a problem When I see as it goes there because I'm going to do it from underneath here And then I'm going to connect to do the board so I don't really see the the cables coming out the side I've got a cable coming out the side here, but there's not a lot I can really do about that um I prefer the cables to be all done inside Uh But so yeah, so when I connect that of course, I'll have to leave it long enough So you can sit down the edge here or down the edge here just so you can be pulled out of the way Um, but not too long of course because I don't want to um Well, I want to be keep it as light as possible and we can save her I know there's not going to be a lot saved there, but That is still a saving nonetheless Sorry about that Really irritating with the LED, isn't it? I'll have to do something about that maybe fix up some sort of a lighting system. I don't know Get a different camera that doesn't see it Okay, so right I'm going to get that connected There's not a great deal to tell and then we're going to um Yeah, just power up the board and and see where we're at