That's right, Dragon Ball Z vs Naruto, the Mugen Draft Battle Tournament between me and Rime is finally nearing its end. I mean, I hope it's not, but basically I'm down to my last two characters, Rock Lee and Itachi, the only two characters that were able to get wins for me, and now I've talked Rime into doing a tag battle. Up first, right away, and do I have a pick or ban? No, right, because I don't really have anything left to pick or ban. I just want to know why you said you haven't gotten a win when you literally beat the shit out of me in the last one. You know, that's just me. That's what I'm saying, bro, is that the wins have been very, very infrequent, bro. So my final two competitors, Rock Lee and Itachi. Uh, you know what? Let's just, let's just finish it. Goku and Broly. Now, would you like Goku and UI or base?  Hey, give me UI. Give me UI. We're going all in. Damn. Damn. I'm sick that Broly said, I guess I'll go UI, Goku and Broly. If Itachi and Rock Lee win this, I mean, damn, bro. I just should have used them from the very beginning. Let's go ahead and throw it into the big nightlife night fight city. We got to go at this stage. I'd like to point out, you know how upset I would be if I show up to an anime fight and my opponents are Broly and Goku? I'm pissed, bro. If I'm Itachi, I'm putting a clone in immediately. Look at the way he ran out the stage. What is Rock Lee doing in the situation? Bro, what is Rock Lee doing? He's throwing hands. He's believing in himself, and right now he's getting bullied in the corner.  This is the guy that beat Cell? Yes, bro. And you're the guy that beat, never mind. Why is he rocking me like this? Rock Lee, fight back. It's in your name, bro. It's in your name. You're funny. You got jokes.  You know what? You don't have health. What is this health difference, man? Counter. Got him. He cannot fight. You can't fight. You are.  Bro, you better tag out, bro. Nah, Rock Lee, I actually would listen to him, though. Tag out. Bro, tag out. You got it these days. Hey, hey, down it, down it, down it. This CPU fight is over. Bro, yeah, yeah. As I see you, you wanted to say your usual. Bro, I'm getting juggled by UI Goku. You know what? He's got a 2v1. You should have done a 2v1. Just one. Nah, I actually believe in Itachi. Itachi sweeps. Itachi gets the reverse 2v1. Shuriken. I'm not even at Jutsu. I'm just throwing a lot of Shuriken. It's not even Shuriken. Shadow clones. It's just Shuriken. There we go. That's a combo. That's a combo that we know and love. Charge it up. Bro, charge it up for Perfect Okie. Damn. Look at the damage. That was an insane combo. That was a combo. Nah, I need to know how often Bro was in the lab. I need to know how much he was trying to do that. You already know. He was like posting every update and progress of that. Yeah, bro. On Twitter, he was like, almost got it. Tweet one of three. Almost halfway there. Tweet one of two. Susanoo. Oh no. Yes. Oh no. Why is he dying in there? Bro, he switched his entire outfit. Oh, Susanoo Loops? Susanoo Loops? Susanoo Loops? Yeah, get bullied, kid. Get bullied, kid. Yeah, get bullied, kid. I'll be tired. This is how you win. Nah, get bullied. Get bullied. Nah, don't even try that. Get bullied. Nah, you're in my Susanoo now. Get bullied.  Get bullied. Oh, and now it's Broly's turn. Itachi's 1v2.  This is the most I think Team Narth has had for all day. Look at it. It's the perfect defense. Please finish it. I passed away from an illness. No.  Yeah. Literally just passed away because I got too sick. How is that fair? You should have taken your cough drops before fighting, bro. Nah, that's one. That's one of two, bro. Base or UI? Bro, I am so upset. Can we get a daytime stage, bro? Just give me a nice and bright. All right, I'm doing the Narth so stage again. I need it. Perfect. This is the exact same spot I told you to go bury Rock Lee in, and I'm going to follow through with a promise. I'm still sick. We just watched Itachi die like that. I was going to say, what's the weakness in that tech? Because good lord... I was thinking that too, and then I looked up at his health. I was like, oh God, it's draining, and then it drained to nothing, and he literally fell over dead. Hey, there we go. It's a great start. I knew it was a bad look when I saw him in his hospital clothes fit, bro. That was the close he wore after. Like he got hit by Kirin. Ooh, look at the combo. Yo, this character snapped. Bro, honestly, your duo is snapped, but this isn't the end of my journey. Gate open just so Itachi could jump him, I guess. Hey, Itachi, I know it's a risky technique, but can we get that Susanoo again, bro? I think it was really good. Do you really want to come down to just Rock Lee or Sepulphonies? It wouldn't be Rock Lee versus anybody at the end of that Susanoo Jutsu, bro. Itachi really said you got it, bro. He said you got it, bro.  I'm not doing it no more.  That does so much damage. Was that DP? Bro, I think so. I felt that punch. I'm mad. Broly's got combos and combos and combos, man.  That was a tag. Oh, but you might go because he's almost dead. Oh, no, that's Broly. Never mind. I can't even track out bars. Wait, this kind of even fight. Last time Rock Lee left a 1v2. Bro, the difference between Atachi and everybody else on Team Naruto has been outstanding. The difference in how short this fight is about to be, Dotto? Nah, it's not going to happen, bro. It's literally not going to happen. You better get Susanoo out. You better get the Susanoo out. Bro, please get the Susanoo out. He's not joking. We need it. He's not joking. We need... Don't hit him. Don't fall for that. Why did you stand there like that? Bro, he was trying to counter me. Oh my God. Don't hit him. Don't fall for it. Atachi, Team Naruto needs a miracle right now to make this happen. There we go. There we go. Phoenix Flower. The only thing I'm worried about is if that Susanoo comes out, it's just GG. Yeah, block this. Oh my God, look at the light, bro. Dude! That was like... That was like that Deodd image with the blue light, bro. Bro is just getting washed away. Susanoo! Hit the... Oh! Who's that? Who's that? My Genjutsu! You're telling me you didn't even feel it? No. Did he burn himself dead?  Why did he cast the Unending Flame on himself? Look at the posing. Over his dead body. Why did he cast the Unending Flame on himself? That's two out of three. One more and that's game, bro. One more and that's game. First, we're going to go ahead and kill Rockleaf. Nah, we're not doing that, bro.  I thought that this video was going to be so long. It was going to be like a first to two, like special.  It's Goku and Broly. What do you expect? I expect you to die. That's for real. Krillin can solo the Naruto universe. No, bro. That's not true. It is true. What do you mean it's not true? Nah, Naruto would go crazy, bro. I guess Krillin would go crazy, bro. I mean, Krillin's a beast, though. Get up, Hitachi. Do your thing, Hitachi. You have the skills to win. Until I see one of your characters dead, I'm not going to jump to any conclusions yet. I need you to go ahead and jump to conclusions, bro, because it's over. Look at the combo. Loops. Oh, that was a good tag. Eyes, genjutsu, genjutsu, genjutsu, genjutsu, genjutsu. Got him. Loops. Reminds me of that one attack against Frieza, where he just stabbing to that point. I don't know who that was against, but it was against Frieza, I think. But it was a bad luck, man. It was an hour, man. It was an hour of stabbing, and to be honest, for Frieza, it was 24 hours. You know how tight I'll be if I'm going to ask you like that, and that's my curse? Oh, Rock Lee had a crazy read there. Oh, wow. Okay, my team's actually playing the game. Your team is playing the game right now. My team's actually playing. They warmed up. They actually know what teamwork is? Wait a minute, Naruto? Wait a minute, Team Naruto stands a chance? Broly's out of the game? Okay, all I need is UI. Just go... UI's a fraud, bro. You should have went back to base so you could go blue, but UI's a fraud. Watch this. Beep. You're not Rock Lee not dodging a single beep. Nah, you don't need to dodge if he just hits you first, though. Ain't that the truth? Get up, man. What do I need to dodge if you're just always getting hit? Wake up, tech. Goku, wake up, tech. Hold on, one. Ah, damn. That works, too. Damn! I'm glad that that was his answer. Hitachi took that bullet, too. Oh, two bars. Two bars of Super. How's he gonna spend them? One on a fireball. Will we see one bar get spent on anything else before he dies? Perhaps a Susanoo. Those are crazy in this. Perhaps we can get a Susanoo. All right, I agree. Let Rock Lee build the bar so Hitachi can spend it. That's how we need to play the game, baby. No, Rock Lee, you're spending the bar first. Oh, go off then. Yeah, that's all yours. That's all yours, dawg. Now, watch this 1HB comeback. Nah. Nah, you're cooked. You're cooked. You're alive. Yeah, you're alive, but for how long?  Susanoo, lose the shorts. Let's go. Okay, I thought I'd just be humming at that point. Yeah, honestly, that was... Wait, Sasuke, I love you, brother. Rock Lee Mimaw's like, oh, yeah. What a fight. Why is this ending animation? Because he cast it all away, bro. Anyway, that's one to me now. Two to you. That's one to me now. Two to you. Are you going to finish this off? You are base. That's too base. That's too base. Wow, he's mixing it up. Look, I have the luxury because it's two to one right now. I'm one away from winning. It's two to one for what could be the series finale, you know? And if Goku sweeps your team in base form, there's nothing you can say to me. That better not happen, bro. I think he's... The reason I'm a little afraid of base, low key, is because of Super Saiyan Blue. If he goes blue, I'm in trouble. Or you could throw the spirit bomb, honestly. There's a lot of things Goku could do, but I'm not going to let that happen to me personally. Tons of time left for my team. We need to squeak out another win, send it into the finale. Why was he squatting? Atachi, do something, baby. Let me see. Atachi, honestly, bro. Honestly, Atachi, we could always do the Tsutsuna right away. Like, we do always have that option. You don't have to. There you go. Yeah, but we have that option, bro. Go base form, you got combos. He a little technical. Broly. Broly loops. Wow. There you go. Good. They made his Mugen thing, man. He's just like a fighter. He's crazy. He's crazy. Oh, look at the tagging. All right. I'm still sick. I'm going to need a match faster. Atachi, get back in here. Oh, he's healing so much. Damn, what are you mad at? Oh, Kunai, yes. Oh, why are we switching out this many times against Goku? Oh. It's not faster healing when they switch out. That's kind of crazy. Oh my God. I didn't even notice that. They do it on the bench healing. At first, I'm like, wait, is that just Atachi? No, bro. The tagging is actually the tech. I just hope the characters use it more. Oh, yeah, baby. Get the genjutsu in here. I'm not even sure what he's saying, but it's probably something sick. Like, I control this world or something. Broly. Bro, you better tell Goku to get out of here. You better tell Goku to leave.  Oh, nah. He ain't got nothing, bro. Transform. Atachi. Atachi, don't even at yourself. Atachi, get out of the way. The spirit bomb. And I think Atachi was about to burn himself again. Please tag out. Tag out. Goku, tag out. He didn't do it. And now it's all up to Broly, all in his lonesome. It's okay. It's okay. Because if I can get... Oh, God. If I can get him to beat Atachi... Nah. Nah, this can't be happening. Atachi, tag out. Literally, you can heal forever. Please don't tag out. Please don't tag out. Atachi, if you tag out, we literally win. Yes. No, bring him back. Yes. Bring him back. No, don't bring him back. Don't bring him back. Broly. Broly. Broly, come on. Don't bring him back. Oh, God. Broly is so professional. He waits for every wake up frame perfect. Hit him in the lonesome. Dude. Finally seeing Rock Lee do something. Broly can still bring us back. I'm upset that that seems to be true. Actually... Atachi's not healing. Is it because of the last character? Maybe because of the last character? Oh, what is this? I don't know, but that did a lot of damage. That did damage and a half. Please. Squeeze him. Put the squeeze on him. Oh, God. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. I think maybe when he gets certain amount of health. Oh, he's dead. Ooh. Yeah. It's 2-2. I'm going to go ahead and need that UI. I'm going to need that UI. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What could be the final game of the series? And you can see the entirety of the viewership behind us, too. Yeah, bro.  I don't know. Imagine. We're recording at the one burst. We're recording at the one burst. We have no idea, bro. I hope people are still enjoying watching the movie matches. I'm going to do this again, bro. Goku, after a strong start for your team, wake up. Oh, that was sick. That was unfortunate for me. Beautiful. Ooh. Bro, ain't nothing beautiful about what's happening in my team right now. Stop. Loops. Broly sprite going absolutely crazy. There you go. Damn. Why does he have the craziest comments in the game? Broccoli, we're going to have a serious talk about how you keep leaving Atachi to do all everything. He's going to be dead. You won't be able to talk to him. Bro, look. That was sick. That mix was actually potent. Ooh. Is that it? Is that it? Is that it? No. Get off me. Tag out, Rock Lee. Tag out. Kill him. Kill him. Kill him. Kill him. Kill him. And you got hit by air. Yes. That's it. That's it. That's it. Perfect. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. One more. Atachi with the series on the line. Atachi. Atachi. Oh, come on, bro. You have to win this, bro. Bro, imagine that happens. We want to touch it. He's made of a character. He just exists. No, it has to be there, bro. The speed. Oh, god. It didn't matter. Beautiful.   Get three bars. We need the Susan. Get a U.I. Gogo counter. Nice. Oh, god. Bro, we need the Susan to win. This is great. This is fantastic. I don't know where am I supposed to get three bars from? It doesn't matter, bro.  I'm gonna fight. Nah, I'm not going out like this. Not for the series on the line.  You can't win this. What a block. If he wins this, I will literally... Yeah? What are you gonna promise me? I will eat a sock. Nah, come on. No. Fight back. You know what? U.I. Gogo is gonna finish the job. He's charging up. He's charging up. He's gonna get to level three. It doesn't matter. The Susan. It doesn't matter. We're not out of it yet, baby. The perfect defense. He's going to die. As long as time doesn't run out on my lifespan. Atachi still has a chance to win this. So he does not. So tell me, do you feel... He died of natural causes. He got laid out here. He died of natural causes. You didn't even get to finish your set. He died of natural causes. Well, that's gonna be the series. Atachi really was my goat. I feel like if I got Minato, the series could have played out differently. Or Badara. Actually, no. I had to choose Atachi during that choice. So I don't regret anything. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed this Mugen series. We are away at a trip. So this was a good way to get some videos out while I'm gone. I don't know when I'm back. I'll probably back by the time you're seeing this, honestly. So by the time we're back, we can all be like, damn, they hated the series. Hopefully you enjoyed it, though. Leave a like, subscribe, rewatch the series again. Check out the Yu-Gi-Oh series we did. Watch the other videos I'm doing. And congrats on winning the series, Rhyme. Thanks, bro. Thanks, bro. And the video.


Thank you very much for that introduction. I am going to write that down for my next version because I didn't know half of those things myself. Thank you very much. First of all, happy women's day. And just on a lighter note, I wish my daughter, who is 9 years old in the morning, happy women's day. And it was mind blowing for her to give me the reply to say, why is there a day for women? I was just so blown away to think that women are excelling and so many fields today that the next generation doesn't even think that there has to be parity between the two genders. So again, happy international women's day to one and all of you and more power to you. So good morning and thanks a lot for Entrepreneur Magazine and Web3 to have me here. It's a delightful honor. And it's always a pleasure to be back in Bengaluru, the tech capital of India. And thank you, Sanjeev, for setting the stage for me. Big shoes to fill. So I represent Vedanta Semiconductors and Display Limited. As many of you may be aware, Vedanta is one of the world's leading minerals and resources companies, which is across India, South Africa, Namibia, Liberia, UAE, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Vedanta has significant operations in oil and gas, zinc, silver, copper, iron ore, steel, nickel, aluminium power and glass substrates, what I'll overlook at a critical component for most of the electronics projects. So I truly believe that India is next in line to become something bigger than the original Silicon Valley. And I want to talk about this word Silicon Valley because this is what has happened, right? The US has taken 40 years to develop 40 K plus startups in ESDM software like Taiwan, the Sinchu and other places has taken 25 years and they have built about 400 plus companies. India in 5 years had built 27,000 startups and like Sanjeev had pointed out, 120,000 in total. This is just ESDM startups I'm talking about, but 120,000 in total. And that is the acceleration that we see in India. It is massive steep curve and we are looking at it in a way that it's going to take over the global economy to make India the fifth country to have a Silicon Valley. So let me talk a little bit about what the Silicon Valley is and its inception. So as India embraces to become the largest ecosystem for electronic manufacturing globally, let's look at what helped the Silicon Valley in the West. The transformation of the valley began in earnest in the 1960s with the establishment of the first semiconductor company which led to a lot more technology companies coming up and later transforming the region into an epicenter of technological innovation that it is known today for. So the valley put US on the map and the technology innovation got the prosperity there, the economic prosperity and shot their GDP all the way to 128,000 dollars. The Silicon Valley's journey to becoming a global innovation hub has not been straightforward. It has involved substantial investments, a high startup churn rate of 90 of 100 and a continuous commitment to consumer satisfaction and innovation. From semiconductors to personal computers and from computer software to internet-based businesses, innovation and technological evolution have ensured the sustenance and the growth of the Silicon Valley. If we look at jobs as a metric, 1959 there were only 18,000 high technology jobs in that area. Today that has ballooned to 1.8 million. So inspired during a visit to this Silicon Valley, Taiwan's then Minister of Science and Technology Xu Shien Xu proposed building the Sinchu Science Park which was established in the 1980s. So over three decades, the Sinchu Science Park which all of you know has become the hub for 400 plus companies and these are all including hardware and software, including giants like TSMC, UMC, Apple, AMAC, Philips, Tokyo Electron and Inolux, among others and multiplying their GDP by 1.4x making it 34,000 dollars now. So it is safe to assume that creating an electronic manufacturing hub in India, our own Silicon Valley, will have similar or rather accelerated outcomes. So another example when we look at is Paju in Korea, the LG city as they call it. So the LG's display cluster, just one company, it hosts 80 companies and 50,000 individuals working there. So LG display stands out by exporting 90% of its products outside of Paju becoming a hub for substantial contribution by a single company to the region's economic viability. So where are we now and what is required for India? KPMG estimates that development and adoption of cutting edge technologies like 6G, 5G, satellite communications, semiconductors, etc. have the potential to collectively and approximately $240 billion addition into the India's economy in the next five years. That is massive my friends. Given the projection by the ICEA, the Indian electronic manufacturing sector will reach $115 billion in 2024. It is imperative not to remain passive for the forecasted growth of $300 billion in 25 and 26 because all of this is going to be imported. Our import bill is going to be this much and we need to start the manufacturing and indigenous products in India. So there is a pressing need to establish India's own robust ecosystem, enhancing local domestic value, addition to accelerate and capitalize on the projected growth that we are envisaging. For the success of India's own Silicon Valley, I always say there are three pillars that are essential to keep it in place. Technology, ecosystem and talent. So let's talk about the first pillar which is technology. We need to build specific R&D labs that will sustain a healthy growth of intellectual property and facilitate the mastering the art of operational efficiency and process know-how in production grade technologies. As we are in Taiwan and other companies like that, R&D is the heart and soul of all of the sustenance. 25% of your revenue is spent back into R&D, one of the highest numbers in any manufacturing companies, any type of manufacturing sector companies. TSMC was not TSMC on day one. Samsung, which is an R&D behemoth, was not a Samsung or day one either. We need to start somewhere. In technology, we need patents, know-how and research methodology. We have 20% of the world's population right now consuming electronics in India. Therefore, technology companies are keen on localizing and bringing tried and tested technologies and consumers to build affordable electronics for the masses. We don't need technology for high-end $1000 smartphones. Our economy needs a smartphone which is under $100. We need an LCD 8K TV, which is three times cheaper than a high-end OLED TV. All of this is possible where technology companies and partners start looking at India as a viable option to locate their factories. The government of India has in fact identified this opportunity and laid out the subsidy of 50% of cap expense for large high-tech manufacturing industries like semiconductor and display. And why is that? Because we import 100% of these goods. We are currently $10 billion in display panel imports, becoming $60 billion in 2025. That's six times expected to triple by that even by 2030. Semiconductors, we import $25 to $30 billion. And that is going to become $110 billion, 4X by 2030. That is massive and with government support to build these to local manufacturing, we will get the value add of 10% to 30% with semiconductor manufacturing and in display 20% to 60% immediate import substitution as soon as we build this manufacturing in these sectors. And this includes everything from smartphones, TV, automotive, notebook, etc. in the hands of the public. And that's technology, my friends. The second pillar I'd like to talk about is ecosystem. In the introduction of these large manufacturing facilities, we will have about $80 billion worth of ecosystem players co-locating or locating in India companies that will assist these nucleus companies, right? These nucleus fabs. These companies will not come to India with the vision and mindset to cater just one factory. The government of Indian companies are envisioning multiple fabs to reach economies of scale for this ecosystem. For example, Indian consumption alone can accommodate 10 to 12 display fabs and 8 to 10 semiconductor foundry fabs. We are going to need specialty chemicals, gases, special ICs and design companies providing software services to these manufacturing companies which will cascade further to attract 100 plus Indian MSMAs to build startups around this ecosystem. You'll find every young person out there taking a display panel or chip and saying that I'll put the plastic molding and make my own Oppo. I'll make my own Vivo. And this is what China went through last 10 years. We are going to multiply that tenfold when we start now. The foundation of this ecosystem requires, in its heart, utilities with several states are providing like clean water, redundant power network at battery limits, waste treatment centers, etc. and a robust logistics infrastructure. India's already has a 200 plus manufacturing units for mobile phones, sub-assemblies and components established and scattered across the country in the past few years. They employ approximately 7 lakh people already. A compelling testament to the success of government in establishing local manufacturing that can serve as a model for the global ecosystem players. We will need companies from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, USA and many other countries to start locating in our ecosystem. And that means not only building an ecosystem for the industries but building a social infrastructure within the ecosystem premises will be imperative. Schools, hospitals, access to a major city within one hour of travel three to five star hotels, recreational spaces like malls, golf courses, community clubs. That's what it means to build an ecosystem. It builds a community. I remember meeting a leader from a technology company in Shinchu and he said my kids go along with the kids of another very prominent stalwart in the same industry and they go to the same school together. So that is very conducive to an intellectual and healthy community to increase substantial output of innovation and entrepreneurship. That's about the ecosystem. Number three about the talent that we need. Academia is a very key contributor to talent. If we look at Shinchu Science Park, right adjacent to two of Taiwan's science and engineering powerhouses. National Yang Ming Chia Tung University and National Singhua University similar to the UC Berkeley and Stanford in California. Roughly 15 lakh engineering students graduate every year in India. India needs to upskill these young engineers and this has already begun. Last year, lab research as well announced that the government of India's scaling ecosystem. It is going to train 60,000 highly qualified Indian engineers and nanotechnologies over a 10 year period. So in conclusion for addressing existing challenges and capitalizing on our strength, India has the potential to make Silicon Valley a reality. Becoming a global leader is not just in design but also in shaping the future of technology through its unique brand of innovation and manufacturing progress. We are at 2500 GDP today. With these industries, there is nothing stopping us from doubling or tripling that to 6000 to 7000 giving purchasing powers in the hands of every consumer out there. Truly when we make this ecosystem of fab and electronic manufacturing we will make India go from a developing nation to a developed nation in a switch. Thank you all for listening.


Randy, it's Michael Don and Peter. How are you doing? I'm good, Michael. How are you doing? Everything good? I hope you're well and same to you, Don and Peter. It's good to be with you guys. I hope you're safe and healthy. Same to you, Randy. I've been saying this on the air a lot. You have long been a deal maker. Even before you were president of the Yankees, you know how to get deals done. So I turn to you and I say, Randy, is there a deal to be done here? Do you believe there's going to be a deal? I sure do. And I hope so. And I'll tell you why. I think we have to turn away from the contentious issues which have been driving this negotiation. You know, I talk to the commissioner almost every single day. I can tell you he is determined to play this year. He's dedicated to trying to get a season as soon as possible. And he's really, really working hard. I've talked to all of the teams, whether they be owners or team presidents, every team I've talked to, all 30, they want to play. The players want to play. And I believe, as I've said over and over again, you know, the players are the hardest soul of this game. That they're there. But people come to watch and we must respect them. We must honor them and move forward. The contentious issues in this negotiation have been about money, how much will these players get paid and how many games will we play? So we have an agreement in the famous, I believe, was March 26th agreement that laid out all of those terms and it's not worth it at this point in time. You know, arguing back and forth what it meant because what it does mean and everybody is in agreement is that the commissioner has the ability to set a schedule as long as he pays the players 100 percent pro rata. That means the amount of how many games they get 100 percent of their salary. So everybody agrees with that. And, you know, the players have said that they want to play. Tell us when and where. But under under the March agreement, you can't just do it that way. In the agreement, there is an obligation by both sides before you can set a schedule to negotiate things like health and safety protocols. What happens is if if there is a pause, meaning, you know, the virus spikes again, which players cannot doubt, which couldn't which can't and what happens to all of them, these are really, really important issues.  He's a very, very good labor negotiator. You know, I know Tony Clark, he played for us. Michael, he's a good man.  And I just for the life of me now, you know, I asked the commissioner this today. I said, are you ready to get in the room and negotiate? Why haven't they done that, Randy? Well, that, that, you know, get in the room and negotiate. You know, deputy commissioner Dan Halem, I mean, there's nobody with a better disposition than the world than him. You know, Tony's a good guy. I don't know Bruce Meyer, but these are issues that are in the agreement that if baseball didn't negotiate with the players, they'd be subject to liability, just like if the players didn't negotiate them with the owners, they'd be subject to liability. So at the end of the day, I'm urging everybody here, everybody, put your masks on, social distance, go out to Phoenix. I'm sure Tony Clark has a nice backyard or come here anywhere. I'll make Yankee Stadium available, get in the room, negotiate these protocols and get going. I, for the life of me, you know, I was, as you remember, Michael, and, you know, I was the chief negotiator after the strike. I mean, Don Fear and I live together for days and months and weeks. And that's the way it has to be. And that's what has to happen. This agreement is tough. These are very tough times we're living in, but, you know, we've done this before, the union and the clubs, and we've got to do it again. So if I was you guys or anybody in the media or all the fans, I would be asking one question to everybody now. Why aren't you in the room bargaining? I know the commission is ready to do it. Randy, as somebody that's negotiated contracts and understands the landscape, how frustrating is it that there could be an agreement in March between both sides? And yet both sides can look at that agreement so differently. Well, I think that it's the agreement, the way, you know, I've read it is very simple. The agreement calls for a negotiation to on player salaries. When three conditions aren't met, there's no fans in the buildings. Their travel restrictions and these health and safety protocols have not been agreed to. So there's a negotiation. It doesn't mean there has to be an agreement, but there has to be a negotiation. So I understand that you've negotiated, they haven't been able to reach an agreement, and there's a remedy in the agreement. That remedy says that if you can't reach an agreement, the commissioner has the ability to set the schedule, meaning how many games, as long as he can, it pays the players 100% pro rata. So we'll pass that. Now, let's get to the important issues. And for the life of me, you know, we have a lot of smart people here who get health and safety issues. Players should, you know, really be all over health and safety issues. I mean, Scott Boris has a lot, a lot of players involved in this thing, and, you know, with all the respect, he's been really, really outspoken. It's had some good ideas on health and safety. He's done a lot of research. He should talk to the players union, give him his, give him the input to get talking about money and get in the room and let's decide this because these are the issues now that are holding us back. The money issue and the game issue, we'll pass that. We're talking to the president of the New York Yankees and that's Randy Levine. Randy, you obviously understand branding. I know you're very protective of the Yankee brand. It's important to the way people look at your product. Does it disappoint you that all of this dirty laundry has been aired, Randy? And people are looking at baseball and going, this is not the time for this. I mean, the country's in a tough go of it right now. Why is baseball and the players association, why is this all being aired out in public? Why isn't it behind closed doors? Well, it should be behind closed doors. Unfortunately, it is what it is. We're all to blame, including me, everybody who's in the game needs to own this and take responsibility that we all could have done a better job and we all can do a better job. So what I'm urging now is let's do the better job. Let's, let's get in the room and now, you know, I don't think there's a lot of space between us if we're negotiating the rest of these, these issues, let's, let's get in the room, men of good faith, women of good faith, get in, get in the room and, and, and finish these things up in the, in the March agreement and, and let's play and start to build back our relationship moving forward, both for the public trust of the fans and, you know, players and clubs need to get along. Absolutely. We don't need this, this, you know, all between us. Now you mentioned that, you know, all the players want to play, all the owners want to play, but are you sure that all the owners want to play that there aren't some that look at this and say, I might actually lose less money if we just don't play? Is there, is that a concern?  I've talked to owners. I've talked to presidents. I haven't talked to 30 owners or 30 presidents. It's been a combination. I have not heard one club tell me, and that's all I can go by or tell Hal Steinbrenner that they don't want to play. And I've asked the commissioner and he tells me all 30 clubs want to play. I think you need to take over the whole thing, Randy. You've done this before. Just take it over. Just get it done. You grab Tony Clark and do it. They have really people here who are really confident. I mean, Rob Manford and Dan Halem are superb negotiators, men of good faith. Tony Clark is a man of good faith. As I said, I've done a lot of, a lot of business with the Players Association through the years. I don't know the negotiator Bruce Meyer. Never met him. But at the end of the day, all right, now's the time. You know, forget it. We'll get the number of games. The commissioner will do that. The players will get the pro-rata amount of money. Let's get in room, bang out, all these other issues. And that's it. I mean, with all the respect, you know, the Players Association should not be talking about grievances or litigation. They should be talking, getting in a room and negotiating a deal. As I said, I'm not saying that to choose anybody of fault. I just, as I said, why isn't everybody in a room right now? But the commissioner has told me he's ready to do it. So just we got to get Tony to say yes. Come up with a venue, a lot of beautiful places to do this. Let's do it. The frustrating thing for me, Randy, and listen, you know far more than I do is that there's been a missed opportunity here. You guys could have been back on July 4th, have the landscape to yourself for three weeks. And you're right, both sides are competent. Otherwise, they wouldn't have the jobs they have. But you shouldn't have to be begging for them to go into a room. This should be a fate of complete here. There's a lot going on here. And did you guys have that thought when you thought you would be first? Did you guys, for example, at the Yankees, think this was an opportunity for growth of the game? Yes, 100%. I mean, these are unprecedented times. They're really unprecedented times. We're dealing with the pandemic. We're dealing with what's going on now, the recognition of social justice and people in this country taking a look at finally, in a very strong way, combating racism and prejudice and striving all of us to be better. These are very, very, very different times. And we all, now, it doesn't matter now what happened in the past, guys, we can't change it. We can't change what happened yesterday, what happened a week ago, what happened two weeks ago. All we can do is move forward and basically say, let's get this deal done now. I think it will help the country. The country misses baseball. Baseball has had a great soothing effect on America and society. Jackie Robinson, you and I were there together, Michael, when after 9-11, when President Bush threw out the first pitch, I mean, it's time and time again. I mean, we can just be upset about what happened yesterday or last week or two weeks. As I said, we all own it. We all need to be better about it. But there's no excuse for me for just not getting in a room now and solving it. There are plenty, plenty, you know, airplanes are flying. There are plenty of places to meet. And as I said, the commissioner's told me he's ready to go. So now we got to get, you know, Tony Clark and the Players Association and all the people talking to them, the executive board of the Players Association, they're really good, smart people, get in the room. I just, for the life of me, I've been negotiating forever. I know there's a pandemic. I know that, you know, people were inside and couldn't go anywhere. But now with masks and social distancing and big rooms or out areas, there's enough places to meet for them to just go face-to-face and get this done. Because when you're face-to-face, it's a different thing than when you're on the telephone or when you're, you know, conducting yourself by technology.  You get their reaction. And they're usually a lot more candid when you're, you know, in the same space. Hey, Randy, thanks for covering out some time for us and giving us some clarity on this. We really appreciate it. All right, guys. Stay safe. All the best. All right, you too. You too, Randy.


So we'll be moving to Q&A now, I guess. Now it is totally open for questions. I'm going to do the logistics, because that is obviously my job. So if you would like to ask questions, we have a stand mic there, a stand mic there, like in the middle of the aisles. We also have one floating mic, in case folks cannot get down here to these. If you are the mic holder, shout. There, Moets is our mic holder, in case. You'll probably need to go up to the higher things, in case anyone there wants to go. And it looks like we already have some people lining up, but I actually have some prizes for the first three question askers. These are custom, an amazing designer friend of mine designed these little magnetic pop sockets that have the WordPress logo. So if you have an iPhone, it goes right on the back and then allows you to... Without all the sticky stuff on your phone. There's only a few of these in the world right now, and I have three of them right here. So do you have an iPhone for a question? No. Oh. OK, I'm going to give it to you anyway, and then you get to re-gift it to someone who does. It'll be like your magic token. So should I ask my question? Yeah, please introduce yourself. Let's see how you are. Hello. Thank you, thank you. My name is Milana Tup, again from Syria. And I have a question about sponsoring contributors. There is a platform, Open Collective, and they do all the logistics. And WordPress community has their own project there. So there are two important things for this platform. First, it has done all the logistics to support anyone anywhere in the world. So that is not a problem anymore. The other very important thing here is that anyone, individuals, and organizations can support, can give their finance there. So right now, we have a few individuals who are doing that. Thank you so much. And we have Automatic actually gave $2,000. Thank you so much for that. So my question is, this is all beautiful individuals who are more fortunate supporting others. But when you really think of it, it's us paying ourselves. So my question is, can you, as Matt Giuseppa, Mattias, or you as Automatic, encourage other companies to do the same as Automatic did and make this more sustainable? And what can we as a community do to make these donations from other organizations consistent so we can continue doing this? Thank you. Thank you for your question. I feel like I've looked at the Open Collective thing, but I'm not current on it, so I'll definitely check it out after this. Thank you for letting everyone know about it. I'm glad that we're already supporting it, though. I will say that I just want to add on, because there was more of an introduction than a question. Yes, as we talk about Fire for the Future, which for those who aren't familiar, it's this concept that for companies to maintain the commons of WordPress, we have this kind of social norm, social moray, that companies, if you're getting something from WordPress, try to take 5% of that and put it back into the core or the community or the .org or the WordCamp or the whatever it is. And it's deliberately a little amorphous, because how people might define it could be different. And definitely taking currency, hard dollars, and putting it back into a system like Open Collective is an amazing way for anyone to get back. But I also want to recognize, if people are taking out of 40-hour a week, two hours a week to volunteer or companies that have 100 people and have five of them working full-time on core, all of these different methods of contributing, it's really the flywheel that makes WordPress work. And I think the reason that we've been able to say, because so many open source projects, including many who started around the same time of us, had a trajectory of some growth and then they kind of whithered on the bind. I think what happened was there was too many people taking from the commons and putting back in. And so the community spirit of WordPress is I think one of the reasons has been able to not just be successful, but actually accelerate over the years. So yeah, thank you for telling us about this.  Well, that's happening, I'm gonna add to the answer. Also, some of you who were here last year or watched the presentation last year also know that we created the Sustainability Channel right in the middle of the presentation. And that particular group has become a team and one of the things that I asked them to do at Contributor Day this year was to help us figure out how to do that part of the question, how to answer that part of the question, help companies know how to find people who need to be sponsored, help people who want to be sponsored get paired with companies, because right now, basically, you go to me or Matt and we help you find the other side of it and that is not sustainable either. And so that in case you didn't hear the wrap up for that, the Sustainability Team is working on sustainability as far as like the software goes from an electricity standpoint, sustainability for our gatherings, making sure that we're using our materials to the best of our ability. And then I asked them to add in that part also to make sure that we as a community remain sustainable for as long as we possibly can. Yeah. Here we go over here. Hello. My name is Birgit Alson from Germany and I have a question to our WordPress community leadership, you. How do you think we can evolve as a community in creating more diversity, equality and inclusivity in our environment in the whole WordPress community? We have the WP Diversity Working Group to encourage people to speak and make more. But I think more broader and to also make kind of a deputy program to ensure that diversity and equality and inclusivity is met not only on word camps, but also meet up groups, but also in the contributing groups. So how do you think can we do better in a community and what do you think is a leadership is possible to create some kind of committee or deputy program to ensure DEI initiatives within the WordPress community? Me? Excellent. Firstly, thank you so much for your question and also hello. So yes, so for folks who have been kind of listening to what we're doing in the WordPress project this year and certainly who've been watching what Matt or I have been saying in events that we go to, we have been asking not only WordPress in our places, but also other projects and other events where we are part of it to help us make sure that like where WordPress is putting its time and attention, it also has good representation. There were a couple of different events that I went to earlier this year where I asked them to please join us in that, but I do also understand that WordPress too, as good as we have become at this has plenty of distance to go, because when you have things that are imbalanced, you always have to work to maintain the balance even once you've gotten to it, like the work is ongoing. And so there are many initiatives. I personally don't know the names of all them, but I know that I have currently a proposal on my desk for exactly this type of team. And I've been working with them kind of to review what they're proposing, review what would make that sustainable as far as a team goes, but also we have a couple of other initiatives based on the feedback that you all gave us about representation on the stage, representation in our contributor spaces, and also just generally making sure that we have some connection to the groups that we know that we're missing and the groups that we need to hear from that we don't know are missing yet. And so I appreciate this question and the fact that you all always work to help keep us accountable to that. And like you said, just because we have this answer, this thing, that project, doesn't mean that we think we're done with it. So I hope that is an answer. I'll also add that this is something, it's kind of an exciting question because it's not just even if we create this committee or something, this is actually something that every single person here in this room can contribute to. And one of the things that makes me most proud is when I hear folks come up to me and say, I came to a work camp and I felt so welcome. You know, and there's so many, especially in these modern times when there's so much division, so much acrimony to have a community of people around a shared idea, ideal of democratizing, publishing, and open source come together and be welcoming. And so something every single person here can do is, you know, whenever you see someone who might seem like they're on the edges or might need some help or something like that, like how can I make this person feel welcome? And just if you're always, if every one of us is always asking ourselves that, we will continue to be the type of community that has all types of people. And if I can give a fast example that I saw specifically for this event, there were people who are coming here or who are not here at all and watching via live stream, who shared suggestions about how to do that while you are an attendee.  We have to look after our introverts. But then also we have people who tweet, like don't forget the Pac-Man rule when you go to word camps, like leave a space for someone to join. Like people, even when they're not here, are looking out for the ways that we can make those small impacts. So absolutely, I agree.  Or can someone take it to her? Sure, nice. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, people, my name is Matteo, M-A-T-T-E-O for the subscribers. Hi, subscriber, I'm Matt, nice to meet you. Hope you're doing well. Hi, Giuseppe, I'm Mattia. So be, no, no, no, E, it's M-A-T-T-E-O, please. No, we're good. Sorry. Okay, so I wanted to ask two questions so much fast. I hope to be as speedy as I can. First, Matt, are you Matt, Giuseppe and Matteo? Are you going into the other party today? Second question is... Definitely, I'll see you all there. Second question is... I actually love all the updates that Gutenberg is doing. A real problem to me now is that... I actually have all the tools to create a great design, but since I'm not a designer, I really don't know what to build. So are you preparing something, like AI or something like that? Or also suggestion, also approaches, because that's a pattern, a good start, but I hope that we as a community create something more for this approach. For instance, congratulations for the videos. It was like an Apple event or something like that. They're down here, the people who did that. It was beautiful. Thank you for the question. I think it's a really great... You mentioned patterns are in that area, but I think there's so much that we can do to... Right now, the pattern gallery is really growing in size, but really to use patterns as a way to teach the sign and to make sure that if you're composing something and you write a few blogs that we can suggest you, like, oh, there's a pattern that is presenting these blogs in a certain way that combines this in a good way. I think there's a lot that we can do there. We haven't really... We started exploring transformations you can do when you select multiple blogs. I think AI has really... There's a good place there to experiment with because you can imagine from what you're writing we can connect to this relatively large library of designs and sort of combine them in an interesting way. Also transformations of them, like if you want to cycle between different patterns. I think that's, to me, one of the ultimate goals of patterns is to bring these tools to people. You say maybe you don't have a design background, but if WordPress can offer you the best design from the community, from all the designers all over the world. I think that's the other part. It's also not one specific design, but a really diverse set of design perspectives across the world. I think patterns are really the communication layer there, but I think we need to do more to combine them in interesting ways, surface them at the right time, guide you when you're creating a page. These are the sections, these are the elements that you put in this way or that way. Do you know how many block themes we have so far? How many block buttons? Block themes. Anyone down there? Over 300? What do you think the future of themes is going to be? Easy question. I think part of what the video captures or tries to capture is that there's a shape-shifting between each theme into the next, and the idea there is to communicate that it's all part of the same experience and UI. The whole point was to get people to not have to learn how to do things in so many different ways. It's not so much like having one theme, it's just like you can combine them with whether the patterns, the style variations, and it's all compatible with each other. You can replace the header of your theme with a header that you like from another theme. I used to hear from users that they would like the typography of one theme, but then the colors of another theme, and they were having to choose between them. Like your sheep photo. The sheep photo that people loved in 2010 or something, one of those with Donica in Ireland. But it was... Yeah, I think it's actually going to be a real challenge for us that we need to figure out, because now that themes allow so much customization is how to show that when you're choosing a theme, you can actually have almost infinite variations of typography, color, and sometimes even layouts from them. And maybe what we call a theme needs to sort of have like a baseline. Maybe it's sort of more about the layouts and then the colors into typography is always interchangeable. Yeah, and with tools like this style, you should be able to see like, oh, I really like the style that this theme has for the quotes, and I want to use that. And what I want to grab like different, combine them in different ways. I think all of that is started to open up. We didn't show it there, but we have like some really cool flows for previewing themes and previewing styles. And the patterns that themes packages, I think it's getting really interesting. Now we don't need just to have some static screenshots in the theme folder like we originally had. It can really be fully interactive previews, which has always been one of the coolest things that you can, for any WordPress theme, you can click preview and see your whole sites. Totally reimagined. Thank you so much for that question. And I've got your... And again, if you don't have an iPhone, you now have like a magic token, you can give this to someone who you appreciate or has done something for WordPress or whatever. Hello. First of all, I would like to say a massive thank you for each and every one of you who participated in this conference and who organized it and who made it so amazing. That's such an honor for us to be a part of it again. I'm a member of a web design studio from Ukraine, and you can only imagine how important it is to us to feel welcomed and supported on each and every step of the way. So thank you. Thank you so much. I'm curious, who is here... You're here from Ukraine? Yes. Who else is here from Ukraine? So, guys! Wow, wow! That's incredible. Thank you so much. So my question is, like the Gutenberg has been a hot topic for such a long time, and we've seen, like, a massive change that it created, and now every bit of information is about AI. So our company has been developing an AI software that will help, basically, and affirm a company who deals with customer support and make it automatic. So it's called Sappilot for everyone. And my question is, how soon do you see this Gutenberg and AI integration, and what should we expect in this term? Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. In my entire career in technology, which is about 20 years now, I've never seen things moving as quickly as they are right now. It's really incredible, and it feels like entire years of progress are happening in weeks or months in the AI field. And so I think that some really cool stuff is shipping. Actually, just a few days ago, Jetpack AI launched with a number of blocks and everything. We're still figuring out pricing models and usage models and everything for this new technology. But the other exciting thing is that, like, the demos are amazing. Like, check out the Jetpack AI stuff. And it's not just the demo. You can actually run it today and create content and very soon it'll be able to create blocks or maybe entire themes. You can already ask ChatGBT to write WordPress plugins and they execute it. It's weird. It's read all of WordPress's code. It's read all the 55,000 plugins and themes. So it already knows us, you know? And that's why I think, I've said it many, many times, but I believe that the two mega trends of the next 20 years are going to be open source and AI. They're highly complementary. When you think about it, AI is going to want to, as AI is building things, it's going to do it on open source frameworks and technologies for obvious reasons, the same reason we all build open source. I guess the final thing I'll say is what's exciting is, like, the really cool stuff we're seeing is the worst stuff we're going to see. It's going to get so good, so fast. So I think we're still on, like, the MS-DOS command line versions of this. But, like, literally later this year, I think it's going to get much better. And I think, you know, as we start to look to, like, this time next year when we're back, have we announced where work camp is going to be next year? Nope, nope. I won't spill it then. What did they say? No, WordPress is automatic. It's a ship that leaks from the top. I can't wait to see what's going to be around. And it's going to put so much power that it's a very democratizing technology. It's just like one of the most beautiful things about technology is, like, you know, Tim Cook's iPhone is not better than the iPhone that you or I have. And how amazing is that? So, like, we all have access, at some level, to these technologies. And, you know, for free now, on barge, chat, GBT, other things, we can all get access to essentially the most advanced new intelligences in the world. And it does almost feel like we're creating a new intelligence or I won't call it a form of life, but definitely a form of new intelligence. So if, you know, I think I said this, but, you know, in 2016, I came on stage, I was, like, learned JavaScript deeply. That's right. And that's actually gone pretty well. So thank you. Good job. Basically, most new code in WordPress now is JavaScript. And what we've done with Gutenberg and everything has been pretty incredible. And obviously JavaScript has become kind of the standard of most modern development. I would encourage everyone here in this room to be playing with these tools. Play with chat, GBT. Other AI tools. The open source stuff is catching up really quickly. And I would encourage you all to be spending at least a few hours a week following up. And honestly, just playing with it. It's an amazing personalized tutor. You can use it to ask questions. You can use it for rewriting your posts. The possibilities are endless. And as you get better and better, just like in the early days, some people were better at Googling than others. And I would encourage what they call prompt engineering or talking to the AI and asking it what to do in an intelligent way. You can get amazing results. So if you try it out and it doesn't do what you want, keep trying. Keep playing with it. And look up some of these things. I feel like this capability is going to be as important as literacy or typing or something like that. The ability to leverage these AIs. You can learn AI tools deeply. We also... Yeah. There is also a current, and I think currently active discussion happening about AI in WordPress, particularly someone on our social and or things team will share that link. But there's an active discussion at the moment. So you can join that as well. Thank you. Hi, I'm Adam. I've been doing some work on WordPress Playground. I just wanted to share something I'm excited about that I'm just starting to realize during this conference. Because WordPress Playground is WordPress running in JavaScript, it brings WordPress to all the devices where we could run JavaScript apps, which means you can build a native mobile application using WordPress Playground, ship it in App Store, a tablet app, a desktop app. My colleague Ella sitting over there, she's working on a notes application that allows you to write notes in Gutenberg and then synchronize them over all your devices. So we may see the entire WordPress ecosystem storming over all the devices that we're using every day. Storming? WordPress will be everywhere. Yay! So imagine building a mobile app that's just a WordPress plugin, and then you just ship it on all the devices. And maybe even creating it in Gutenberg by clicking things, and if you want to change how it looks, it's a different theme. So just something I wanted to share. Thank you. Hello, my name is Patricia. I'm from Geneva in Switzerland. I'm a community contributor by organizing local meetups in WordCams. My question is the usual suspect in Europe, at WordCams Europe. Is it GDPR or multilingual? Yeah. The second one. Well, basically, a lot of people are eager to know an approximate ETA for the end of phase four or when we will be able to use multilingual in the Gutenberg editor or the Gutenberg project. Wow. Protect the future. I think we said something on stage before. Do you recall? We said phase three was starting next year. Phase three was starting now. Yeah. After 6.3, we'll start with phase three properly. I think there's enough overlap there that we can start getting a clearer sense of when phase four can happen. I think it's also good. For example, we're thinking about, I don't know, in five years, we're like AI for translation, where it's going to be, and how can we make sure that we're building towards... For that leapfrog. Yeah, we're not getting ahead of ourselves in there. But it's like, I think maybe next year we can start with some... And I think you have a community exploration plugin that's kind of taking a look at that.  I think that's right. That's great. Sorry everyone who's watching this. You brought up my question from last year. I was planning to say I can talk more about that thing with you after consuming at least one ticket tonight. I hope it will digest well that ticket of it. But yes, I get the feeling now that when you're talking about maltylingual, you're talking about some machine translation and you want it to be good. But when I hear that, I tremble with it because to me, machine translation, yes, it is getting better by the week. But my view is and a lot of people are with me on this that it always needs to be checked by a human before you publish it. And therefore I don't see a reason to delay the maltylingual part of WordPress core too much because it's more about making a decision and then just to clarify where it's not delaying. So WordPress is fundamentally trying to be a content management system for everything. And so the complexity of maltylingual becomes that now every single object in WordPress categories, tags, blocks, everything which right now is kind of like a one to one relationship or the data types has to become a mini to mini relationship. And that's part of why we have to do collaboration and workflow before we get to maltylingual because we need to have workflows for how when something has changed in one language it flows to another language. So we're very much now whether you're choosing machines or humans to do the translation that's up to the site owner I 100% agree with you that I think that for many, many, many publishers across Europe for many, many reasons it will be human driven. Maybe they'll use a machine to accelerate the human, but like you still want a person kind of saying like this is the content that we're publishing on the website, you're not just going to take what's automatically generated. So it's but it adds a multifactorial level of complexity to all of our data models and doing that right is part of, it's going to be the most complex thing we've ever done in the past. And so that's why we're really I would actually extend Matias' timeline before we move on. I think we need like 18 to 24 months of phase 3 before we can really start breaking apart the data models and WordPress and we need to figure out how to do so in a backwards compatible way which is going to be because we we go backwards compatible basically to like WordPress 0.72 so it's like 2003 so we need to figure that out. Before we move on to your answer of that, Patricia, I want to help you reclaim your time and make sure your question got answered. I messed that up, I'm sorry. Did your question get answered with that? Yes, thank you very much. Oh cool, thank you. Yeah, I just want to say also that's why like it was important to like conclude phase 2 where we're like essentially making all the aspects of your website accessible to people so they can edit it. Once we model all of that then we'll have a better idea of like how can we make all these objects also like translatable in multilingual ways and we're still like at Contributor Day we were like sort of tossing some ideas on how to connect custom fields with blogs and so then like once we add that dimension we also need to think about okay what's going to be the multilingual story of custom fields when they are connected with blogs so it's important to get like the base layer in a good place start developing some of these collaborative editing ideas because I think many things will start falling into place much better and also I think we really rely on all the community explorations that are already going around like how to approach how to do multilingual I think that really gives us a sense of like which paths are working best what things are resonating with people and so on that's important to see. And the architecture is going to be so tricky like I literally stay up at night thinking about this sometimes because like do we do it in a single site model and then make the data structures much more complex or do we basically do a multi-site model where each language is like a separate wordpress in the multi-site and then have some way to synchronize them and have workflow between them and permission between them so that they sort of appear as one site to the user or as a multilingual site but in the back end where we're doing essentially a multi-site which I think might be a good approach but I don't want to say that is the right approach but I think we really need to spend many many hours actually kind of building some of these different approaches and just trying them out looking at all the plugins out there because performance is going to be so important and so wordpress is getting faster and faster with every release we want to make sure as we add this complexity that we don't slow it down Also like the translation UI there's really cool explorations happening on the Glotpress side on how to translate the software itself like more the interface not the content but there's a lot that we don't have that experience that that's something I think we can get going much earlier to get like information on what works for translators what's the best user experience and so on if someone can share that live translation link I don't know it off the top of my head or I would say that would be excellent I don't know why I'm looking up there there's someone down here folks I keep gesturing to our committers and team reps that are down here to help me question over there we're going to go upstairs hi I'm up here Michelle for chat New York and the question has to do with mentorship no panacea for inclusion uh oh it's cutting out I heard you say there's no panacea for mentorship and inclusion sorry there's no panacea for mentorship inclusion and getting the next generation of people into wordpress but mentorship can be one way to help people into the community I think we do a really good job of our release squats with shadowing and mentorship there with my side projects that I have I'm always being asked to add mentorship to those things but my projects are small by comparison to all of wordpress so do we have any ideas or plans for official mentorship programs in the wordpress community I do I'm Diane the hero thank you anyone want to take this before I take it just in case go for it so yes I'm so excited so for the most part when I talk to people who are currently contributing to wordpress or tried to contribute to wordpress and kind of took a break one of the things that makes the biggest difference is whether or not they found someone to mentor them they don't always call it a mentor they sometimes call it a buddy or they're like oh so and so it's just like hey that looks like you are worried about asking dumb questions ask them to me I'm happy to help like those are always every time I talk to contributors the thing that makes the biggest difference for people who want to stay for a long time and so we do we have a trial program right now happening so in our five for the future program we have a trial a pilot program I think that's launching today did launch yesterday July 12th where we have asked those companies that are part of the five for the future program as part of what they're giving back be mentorship of especially underrepresented voices but anybody who's trying to get started as an individual contributor in the wordpress project I think it's very exciting but I also think it's going to take a lot of time and attention and resources to get it right and so for anyone who also feels like gosh I really succeeded because of this one person or these three people that really helped me to figure out where I was going versus where I wanted to go go check it out someone's going to share it also on social media so that we can see the pilot and keep an eye on how we can help get that done but absolutely 100% I will do that until we can't figure out how to do anything better about it I agree Hi my name is Jonathan I'm a member of the training team and I work with a few other contributors in the training team creating content specifically for our extended community so plugin developers, theme developers anybody writes in code and one of the questions I get a lot from folks is does wordpress have an engineering best practices document handbook whatever the case may be and I know that we don't so I will look at some of the things human made turn up all those enterprise level sort of agencies that have those best practices my question is do you think as an open source project we should have a best practices document if you don't why and if you do what should we start doing to make it happen thank you my impressions that I think that it's it's very important to have like these the ones you mentioned around like the ecosystem having like a bit more opinionated things and see like more than the core project having like two strong opinions on some things but it's a balance I think like well we don't have like a super formalized things I think it's important to have like I don't know similar to like Apple's human interface guidelines things that we can do for well these are the things that we have learned and we want to encourage other to do like when you're developing a blog when you're developing a plugin or a theme we do some of those things through but I think there's always a risk to become like too prescriptive and stifling some of the innovation and exploration and diversity that can happen in the ecosystem so I think that's the balance that we need to achieve I wouldn't be like super categorical in one way or the other I think it's good to be thinking about it and bringing it up and also learning from like if there's something that again human made or other agencies are coming up that really works and it's really like we can bring it back in but I think it's important to not be too to stifle with I know we're running out of time but we have a lot more questions should we try to go through them quickly or how are we doing do we need to end right up 5 or I saw a shaking head and a nodding head okay we go a few extra minutes so let's try to go through the the remaining ones quickly so we'll do the people who are still at the mic and then those will be the last questions okay so okay hello I'm Toby a global mentor for the polyglots first I have a quick question to the room who here does not have English as their native language wow wow so the point I want to make with this is that for WordPress mission to stay true about democratize publishing we really need to make sure that WordPress becomes available in a lot of different languages and we are doing that already and we are trying step by step but it's hard to add more languages but what I see now is that there are so many different teams struggling with how to get their content translated and these translations maintained I'm talking about training I'm talking about documentation subtitling developer so many different things and we need to create some new or additional way of handling these translations in an efficient and smart way and my quick question probably to Giuseppe is do we have the full support from the project we may need financial support we may need some organizational support in actually making this happen I mean I always hesitate to say that you have my full financial support which is what you asked but in general you always have our polyglots always have my full support to make sure that what you need that I can provide that the press can provide that the community can provide that you should have it I know that sometimes it feels like you all come to me with questions and I'm like I'll come back to you and then a week later I'm like hey you might have forgotten but I said I'd come back and here I am there's just a lot of things that are part of it so I will not pledge anything that I will not be able to actually get my hands on but obviously you all have my full support so we're going to jump to another question though I'm just saying we are going to need other people's support as well because with only one person's support it won't work thank you it's really great being here and asking questions again I'm Courtney Robertson I'm at GoDaddy I am also a part of the training team and last year at the same conference I asked about getting multilingual working inside of Learn WordPress happy to report a year later we've got many languages it's not elegant it's all in the same site and it's not ideal but there was a great meeting during contributor day work with Toby and a few others for improving that so ask your questions because you will see progress my question today revolves around I was part of a talk in the WP Connect session on funding open source M5 for the future and it's very very deeply personal to me in my journey through WordPress I am now and I am one of the founding members of the WPCC and I'm happy to have those conversations to explain further what's going on with that I've had people ask even last year Europe was my first time to take a last year's Europe was my first time to take a plane to get to a work camp and there I met Sean from American Eagle and he was sharing with me that it's hard to bring from their organization it's hard to bring contributors in to do something for particular length of time because without it being organized like they're used to internally working as a team in sprints that gets a little bit lost and this idea came up again yesterday and could we do it in a way that is open and inclusive that maybe organizations could be a little more they would have more transparency of exactly where across are now 22 teams we have 22 of them now so across the 22 teams could we see that plug and review is needing some more staff could we have a public way of seeing where the needs are across the teams and maybe some initiatives that we certainly wouldn't want to be exclusive but could bring some clarity organization that for this period of time maybe between the holidays some companies have slumps at that time maybe between their holidays they could dive in and do a thing during that time and then move on for a little bit and then come back again so ways of creating opportunities in unique ways of contributing that would not be exclusive by any means and again I think elevating that transparency of what the teams need would perhaps open up more of that staff labor and funding directly to help contributors I have a quick answer here which is an idea I've been thinking about and we'll try to keep this short so I think in organizations when I say this work well is you change what you measure and one thing I'd love to get more on WordPress.org is some sort of like dashboards essentially like we have the download counter we have some stats or plugins and other things but like what if you could kind of look across the 22 teams and each of those 22 teams hatch a metrics attached and like a health metric and you know this was how many work camps last year this year whatever each team can define its own metrics but then there was kind of like a red yellow green for how things were going. I think that would be really powerful and then you know that'd be fun for motivating I think for everyone working on it and also if you're coming in and you're like okay what needs help look at the red stuff so just want to plant that seed of an idea in everyone's mind thank you hello I'm Kamrul Islam I came from Bangladesh and I have I have two questions first one is will you add volunteer badges on WordPress or profile and my second question is can I take a selfie with you guys right now go ahead and take the selfie why answer your first question oh you're going to come up oh maybe don't come up on stage you can do it from here and I will definitely be at the party and by the way I love meeting people in pictures so alright so while you're doing that it's a quick one yes we could definitely add volunteer badges to the profile pages and I think actually WordPress profiles are going to get way cooler over the next year I was just actually talking to Yoast about some ideas around that earlier so definitely something I want to work on thank you hi everyone I'm from Libya and I have a couple really quick questions first one is recently I started with three of my friends we started web designing startup and now that we're here in World Camp Europe I couldn't pass on the opportunity to ask the great Matt for his advice for us second question is now with the release of Gutenberg and now without bearing into mind that WordPress is a privately traded company do you have any plans to take the company public yeah that's it so to clarify WordPress is an open source thing automatic is probably what you might have been referring to is a privately traded company and advice for web design startup sure so for automatic I'll just say that it's great having flexibility so we're lucky to have great long term investors I do wish that more of the WordPress community could own a chunk of automatic and just like you can own many other companies in the WordPress space there's something nice about that so that's the one thing that would make me want to be more public but other than that I would say that the flexibility that's allowed for us to make very very long term bets if the private company is really nice thank you so much I would say I would repeat what I said earlier to leverage AI tools and also remember that what you're charging for is not how long it takes it to do it or what it costs the value you're generating for your clients so charge based on that value thank you so much Matt I appreciate the opportunity and finally raise your prices I think we have one last question one last question bring it home my name is Piotrek and I just came from the sustainability workshop and there is a very specific question that we came up with is it possible to make one simple change in terms of where all the files for the WordPress repository are stored so that would definitely be one step further to make it more sustainable to choose the proper storage that would generate less CO2 so if that's think it's possible to change where the WordPress is file so like I'm not sure if I understand we were thinking about many ways of how we can decrease the CO2 so this is like minimizing the file size of the WordPress itself as a file and then all of the plugins all of the other files everything that is running our ecosystem the good news is that Moore's law and other things is on our side WordPress is getting faster, more efficient if you added up all the WordPress in the world it's probably less than one container boat or something of CO2 emissions so I would say I'm a technological optimist in this regard there's obviously so much work we need to do around carbon capture and other things but I think we are on the cusp of abundant clean energy and that many of these issues we've been dealing with over the past 100 years hopefully we can start to reverse so that's my optimism, that's actually a good place to end a very optimistic note Matt, Josepha, thank you all stay around for closing remarks thank you


We didn't want to be preachy with this campaign. We really wanted to do something that people felt like. That seems fun. I'm willing to get on board and I'm willing to do it. Mr. T, we'll turn the cold.  I turned the cold. You know, technically you're Mr. T. Technically, Steve. Hi, I'm Amy Poglio. I'm the brand vice president for North America Laundry at Fracturing Gamble. Erin Stoller and director at Biscuit Filmworks. My name is Danny Lovaton, and I'm chief creative officer at Satchin Satchin New York. I'm Paul Bickler. I'm chief creative officer of Wolven, part of Satchin Satchin. What was the initial problem that Tade was looking to solve with this campaign? We knew that we wanted to set a new mission for ourselves for every load of laundry in this country to do a load of good. And we knew that that meant that every load should have a reduced impact on the environment and that we could increase the impact of clean clothes. And it turns out 90% of the energy is in heating the water. So we wanted to see could we persuade Americans to do three out of four loads of laundry in cold water? When we first got the brief, we recognized this was about changing people's behaviors. We thought, you know, how are we going to make this fun? How are we going to make this something that people really want to participate in? If you need to give a message of this kind to people where you're asking them to change a behavior and like something that is so on autopilot, we really need to stick out with as much entertainment The concept of using cold callers and people with cold names was so sticky and memorable. Ice tea, stone cold, calling on everyone to turn to cold washing with time.  And then stone cold was a lot funnier and warmer than I thought he would be. They both brought in a lot of their own personality but also willingness to be spontaneous and set. A real plus of this program is that everyone that's participated has been a real joy to work with and really embrace the program. They really got some great talent on those. And I think all those spots are extremely, you know, different because of those people and they were able to take a lot of boxes. We were thinking, oh, who could we bring that brings a different audience into the idea? And I think like Manila Ice had to be there just because of that pun like we were saying. Ice Ice baby. Then Annie Murphy and so on. They started checking certain boxes that we were like, oh, this is broadening and broadening the reach. As more and more names come into the mix, more and more opportunities for who we could call to get the message out. It just kept building and building. Hello. Hello, Mark Messier. It's Messier. Mark Messier. Mess C A. From the time the board landed to, you know, the time we shot it was probably, you know, three to four weeks. We always wanted to launch this program around Earth Day. And so the original plan was for, you know, right around April, 2020. But like everyone, we got surprised by the COVID-19 pandemic. We took our focus to where it was needed during the pandemic in order to do it. I think we were all just, we're really hoping that this was gonna come back. I think it just gave us time to really take a step back and look at the whole program. That last round of head is that last extra push actually made the work better. Part of the beauty of this has been that everyone has received a cold call at home and reacts to it in their own way. Mr. T, of course he would say, put your jibber jabber away. Somebody sent cold calls him out of the blue to talk about washing cold water. Yeah, what y'all want? Will you turn to cold washing with Ty? Put your jibber jabber. Mr. T is a national treasure. I never worked with him before. I don't think I've ever come across a human being who is more positive. Oh, wait, I totally randomly, I just saw this. This was the Mr. T thing that he gave everybody. You sign it on the back and you go, we got one and it has all of the catchphrases and it's signed and it says like, put your jibber jabber, so yeah. Do you have a favorite of the campaign? I like the one with Annie Murphy a lot where she says I will take that change for the environment. I will take the money for the environment. I will take that money for the environment. Annie Murphy has such a great comedic timing. We had this idea of like they call and she like bounces back the call and she's like, no, unsubscribe. And she was like, oh, I can make that work. Her timing and her presence and her ideas, like she was an absolute treat that she was. Oh, the environment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, with the trees and the shrubs. How much money? Vanilla ice was pretty amazing too. Ice ice baby always gets me like when they call him and he's like, Vanilla ice, ice ice baby. Like the fact that he went for that and he was like getting to make that.  And she's like, no one's gonna know this. And then like, but someone will. He brought a lot of comedy and stuff to it. Vanilla ice made a prison rap on set. He was like, oh, what if I try this? That was super fun. Hey, if hard to problem, yo, I'll solve it. Check out the washing machine as it revolves. Can you talk about where the jingle came from? From the beginning, Paul was like, this needs a jingle. We were working with a group called Pickle Music. We were looking for a way to brand this program, like make it almost feel like the opening of a television show. When they showed us this one, we were like, okay, we're gonna play with this one because it was really fun. Is it a campaign that you would like to continue on? Yes, we, you know, Tide has announced our ambition 2030 commitments. And so those are for the next 10 years and beyond. So you're gonna keep Stone Cold a nice T8 and work for a few years yet? I can't speak to future advertising, but I can tell you we love working with them.  This is a cold car.