Hello. Hello, hello. How's it going, Pilot? I'm doing well, and you? Good. I'm excited to talk about the potentials of Discord we've got in Section 2 and where we take reclaim a little bit into our edTech Discord, but then also what you could do with whatever server you possibly want to set up on your end, if you want to do that sort of thing. Yeah, I'm really excited for that. But I do want to ask you, Pilot, what kind of servers are you in and how long have you been on Discord itself? I've been on Discord. I mean, technically speaking, since like 2016 because my friend is like, no, you have to get on this platform. It's going to be really good. It's like, okay, I don't know anyone on here but you. So then I didn't really do anything with it for a long time. Then I think the big thing that I use Discord for right now is been a couple of years. When we went all remote in spring of 2020, I was the president for a club at my college that hosted weekly in-person TV, movie, sci-fi, and fantasy nights. So we would all get together on Friday night and we would have picked six shows and we would watch one episode from each show. It was just really nice to have a movie night with a pretty decent number of people that Friday night, fun with your friends, you go get some chicken tenders from the Student Center, whatever. And one of the big priorities was making sure that we could keep some semblance of that going because it was remarkably easy to make remote. You can do movie nights remotely over Zoom and over Discord very easily. So setting up a Discord server for everybody to join and keep contact and run event announcements through there. And then as time has gone on, I graduated, my friends have graduated, so we turned that server over to be, this is for the people who are currently at Carlton. And then we have a separate server that does essentially the same thing, but it's for alumni. Yeah. And so we host movie nights through Discord there. We do game nights sometimes, general look at I found this funny cat picture, things like that. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, I'm kind of in that same boat where movie nights started over the pandemic, where we just made the server and started sharing screens and hit play at the same time sort of deal. I don't remember the last time I was in, or like when I was in Discord the first time, like when I signed up, but I really got into Discord when Among Us became really big as a game back in like the summer of 2020 or 2021. 2020, I think, yeah.  And it's actually the main point of communication that my fiance and I have together. We don't, like we have separate, he has an Android, I have an iPhone, so we're on separate platforms completely. So we found Discord is like the easiest, most consistent one for us to communicate back and forth with. So if I need like him to pick something up at the store when he's at the office, he'll be like, hey, like I'm on Discord, I'm not like messaging him or texting him. So it's kind of funny how much it's like evolved in the last couple of years to be like main point of conversation or main point of communication. And not only that, but like with the reclaimed Discord server has been really cool. I'm also in a statewide Discord server for Virginia. Doesn't have everybody in it, but it's a good community of people around my age. So that's been really fun to kind of get to know people like in my area or even across the state too. So it's been pretty fun. It's really cool. Maybe I should join one of those. Yeah, it's amazing to see like how many servers you can, can be in like some of the streamers that I follow too, like they each have their own Discord server and like the communication. There's also like some arts and crafts ones I'm in too. It's crazy, but there is tons and tons of options with this. So we're kind of going to talk through the different types of servers you can create or kind of start thinking through on your ends. Like what is something that you can maybe use to incorporate in your Discord server? We're going to go through some essential bots on like what you need, what you want to set up when you're initially creating your server to help with role management and user management to keep your server safe online. And then again, we'll talk through some of the different events and like how you can kind of set those up and even some platforms you can use Discord Boisan as well. And then into some server organization with like how you want to organize your channels and stuff and we'll kind of take a peek at the Discord server for Reclame hosting the tech one as we can kind of go through all of those. So, and Shannon Lauren have probably touched on this a little bit thinking about specifically the thought that's gone into some of the servers that Reclame has had over the years, but we want to go into that and then also expand that to be like you're talking about, there's lots of other things as you and I have shown that Discord can do a lot of stuff. It's very flexible, so. Yeah, absolutely. That's a good point. We can kind of go into how Reclame uses that and then like some of the bots to like then move into the other ones that you can use on that side. So I've got my screen shared here with just the Reclame hosting ed tech server. You can see we've got the announcements channel where Taylor's announcing all of the live streams especially with the message on the Reclame cloud and some general announcements like we're hiring at Reclame and Reclame open which is coming in June which is all super fun. And then just some more general like the guidelines and any help channels you might have. This is under information. So when you're creating your channel you can set these different categories and then organize the channels into the categories themselves to help the flow of your server start. You kind of can dictate like how you want users to be introduced into the server and all of that sort of fun stuff. So you can see the guidelines here which every server should set up when they're creating the new one because that really helps kind of set the tone and the mood for the server itself. Also gives you a reason to kind of just maintain I don't know how to say it just make sure that everybody is behaving correctly within the server on that side. It gives a frame of reference. It means you're not guessing which is nice. Exactly, so Lauren did a wonderful job with this guidelines section. So we've got all of those sort of helpful things and then we've got our introductions where we can introduce any new or the any new member has an option to introduce themselves to say hello or give a little bio about themselves. So you'll see us periodically in here just saying hello, welcome and all of that stuff. So we can see like an entry point for the user who's accepted the terms of service and all of that stuff. They'll get a little message here saying hello, welcome and then we can kind of continue the conversation. Yeah, we wanted to have like a general discussion section for some topics that may be ongoing conversations because we do have specific event channels for like our community chats and even for this Discord community conversations. So those can tend to be specific topics. So we wanted to have that general idea so that if anybody had like a conversation they wanted to have that didn't fall into any of our events we could keep the conversation going and keep the Discord server and community going outside of just our events. So we've got like our free form which is kind of like the water cooler channel. Literally anybody can talk about what they want within a tech world and their community itself. Building the ship is kind of interesting. We kind of thought that this would be cool to have suggestions on the server and it's kind of turned into like how people are incorporating their tools that they've seen with that tech into their curriculum too. So the conversation here with like Ed Beck and the MailChimp. Yeah. And yeah, so that's been pretty cool. And like even ghost conversations and threads there. Yeah, just talking about like projects that are underway and what we're thinking, what other people are thinking as they make the choices that might have to change later but you know. Yeah, absolutely. We also utilize RSS feeds and different thoughts to pull in blog posts. Taylor has a way like you can subscribe to the RSS feed and then your blog posts can be pulled into the Discord server. I think there's a specific feed that you submit your blogs RSS feed to and then that feed pulls from everybody and then pushes it here. Yeah, I believe so, yeah. With a specific Discord bot, we pull in our tweets from Twitter and even I wonder if we can even get away from Macedon to set up any pull in here right now that Macedon's more popular. Macedon definitely has one for Slack at least. I'd be surprised if there isn't, at least in development something for Discord. That would be really cool though one day. So I'm gonna put that in the chat and see if we can find something for Macedon if we want to. We also pull in our community forums. Yeah, so if anybody has, or is posting questions on our forums itself, we put the posts come into the Discord for everybody to see. So then that way you can we can kind of, yeah, exactly. Conversations are happening. Yeah, so then we've got our specific events on that side. So we've got our community chats. We most recently just had domains 201 happen. So we had this channel. This channel was very lively. That was last week or the week before, which is crazy to think about.  The OBS was a flex course a couple of weeks ago. We're recording this on a Monday and my Monday vibes are happening. It's Monday morning too. It's not just Monday. So we've got all of those. We do keep these open for folks. So if the conversation continues, they can happen in the events like the Gravity Forms one. We had set up still going, which is super cool. We also had the Domains Pen Pals section. That was really helpful because the conversation split off into these different categories surrounding like Domain of One Zone or WordPress Multisite. So we set up its own category there. And then the different voice channels we've got as well for any voice categories. And then a lot of times the end user won't see this but we've got our meta section, which is great for admins. Yeah, behind the scenes. So we have this all set up for specific reclaim only sections. So we've got just like little reminders of what we need to do for the 201 session. Like Amanda was testing out time stamps and stuff like that. So we can kind of use that as a test space for us that doesn't actually notify the user that we sent a message, which is really cool. Yeah. And then we can even see like Lauren was working on the link for the Reclim Open Announcements and all of that stuff. And then we get, I'll do quick peek in the Action Log as a bot we'll kind of talk about in the E6. Yeah, so we use this to kind of give a feed of like who joins the server and it accepted the rules and all of that good stuff. So we've got those. And then if we were hosting any events that required more than one voice channel, we've got those set up that we can shift around into the specific events accordingly. It's always good to have more than one voice channel if you need to and Discord defaults to creating one text channel and one default channel when you create a new server. So you'll always have one. You can always create more if you need to on that side. Anything in here you wanted to look up, Violet? I think this just about covers things. I'm trying to think if there's anything in particular. I mean, this really covers sort of what we were thinking in regards to the Reclaim at Tech Discord and how what we thought would be needed, what we thought would be useful, what has sort of become useful as time has gone on. But, just, the main thing is we did pattern it. I say we. I played enthusiastic moral support to the people who built this on, Reclaim's been using Discord for events for several years now. And again, this is something that Jim and Lauren will talk about, have talked about. Time is a little fuzzy because we're recording this, but that this is patterned on work that Reclaim has done before. And I don't think to the best of my knowledge that this is built using a specific template, but there are templates that you can use if you have an idea of something and you want to sort of build off of that. If you need jumping off point or basically you said, yeah, they start you off with one text channel, one voice channel, maybe two. They start you off with, but if you don't want to start off with just one or two, that's what the templates are for. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so I kind of wanted to go through and show what templates look like on Discord with an s.com. That's a really cool resource to use if you're starting out working through getting a server set up for whatever you want to do on that side. So I went ahead and created my own server. It's MFiero95 server here, and it's got the one general text channel and then the one general voice channel. I am also going to, you can go through these particular suggestions that Discord gives you about like sending your first message, inviting friends to a server and that sort of thing, but I want the server to be a little bit more robust before I invite people. So I am going to stop sharing my screen for just one second and I'm going to share Chrome so we can look at a Discord templates on Discord. Let me get that added back to our screen. And discord.com has a ton of sort of templates that you can use to create any kind of Discord server you want. You can do a gaming one specific to say like Fortnite or Sons of the Forest or whatever game you want to create, Dungeons and Dragons, literally anything. You can set up a server for that. It's helpful for like wish chat or anything like that. You can even go into coding. Like if you are like looking at Node.js or Python coding, you can find a server or create one yourself for those. Literally any topic you can think of, there's a Discord server for it, which is really cool to see on that side. So I just found this kind of cute Easter template because Easter is coming up this weekend. So it was kind of cool to see. So I wanted to create a template or see if I could create a server for this using a template here. So what I'm going to do is set this up on an existing server and then I'm gonna invite the bot.  It's just gonna ask you to go from there. Let me see. Okay, cool. So Discord uses a bot that lets you import content. So I have to give permission to my server to let the bot go through and import all of the channels. So if I go to continue, I'm just gonna authorize all roles and then confirm I'm a human, let that go through. And then it authorized everything. So now I'm going to share my Discord window and then we can see a new message. That template is here. The template bot has arrived. So I'm going to, thanks, Pilate, adding that back into that. I've got that set up going to, no, I actually don't know. We're troubleshooting on the fly. I thought this would just import everything, but we are going to live demo. Yeah, we're gonna use, we're gonna do use, use templates. And then I'm going to grab the code for the server or the template name. Let me get that all going. Yeah, sorry about this. We're good. We're good. Let's see if this works. Oh, and then yeah, you can import channels. See if that works. Okay, let's continue, continue. Uh-oh, there we go. Just taking a second to populate. Yeah, you can just see all of these populate which is super cool. And you know what the greatest thing in the world is live demo on a recording and everything just goes dark. Yeah. I gave me a scare for a second. I was like, oh my goodness. What have we done? Yeah. I mean, there's nothing in the server anyway. So it wasn't anything important. That's true. But it's still kind of scary. But this is actually really cool to see like everything kind of pulled through. Yeah. And I like how they used emojis to organize the account, the channels and all of that sort of stuff. So yeah. I find emojis in channel names to be just very charming. Yeah. It's super cool. Okay, I think we're good. That's all finished. And you can see some people have different channel types for even their voice channels. So if someone wanted to keep a voice on you can just kind of go away from keyboard and stay in the voice channel if you wanted to and all of that. So this gives you a good base to work through setting up any rules, getting announcements, stars or boosting the server. So the paid version of Discord is really interesting and that's definitely for another conversation and all the cool features that you can work through on this. So the template side is really, like I'm actually blown away by how cool the section was and how easy it was to grab the ID from there. Yeah. And how you can definitely just say, you know what, I don't need the, I guess that's quote of the day, QOTD. I'm not sure what that is. Question of the day. Question of the day. Yeah, so we can kind of move into the bots at this point too. Like there's a specific bot. I particularly use it in that Virginia server I was talking about. But the community puts in a whole bunch of questions. They can submit questions to kind of go through. It's kind of like the DS106 daily create kind of bank where people have submitted ideas for that. And so every day we get a message about like 9 a.m. our time to say, hey, here's the question. Like today was like, if you had a candle that smelled like anything in the world, what would you want? What kind of candle would you want to smell? And so it's been kind of interesting to see that conversation kind of take part. Like I was like, I would really like a campfire smelling candle or smores would be really cool. Like now that's now we're moving into summer. So the question of the day is really cool. But all of these channels are kind of geared towards a bot called Carl. Carl Bot, that is a really good tool to have set up on your server itself or user management. Even onboarding for user roles and all of that good stuff. And it's really self-serving too, where you can set up specific rules for folks to agree to when they sign on and agree to like any rules or terms of service you have set up. They can then go in and read through different roles and react to those with an emoji to assign them on there. And so you could even do this like for your user pronouns, your gaming. So like if you were, I'm gonna use the Fortnite category for the example, but like if you were someone playing to play through a round of trios. So with two other people, so a three-person group, you can use an emoji to assign yourself to the trios role. And then whenever you're ready to play, you can just like message the trios channel or something like that. Like you can have different setups where you can give people different permissions to different channels. So like if someone wanted to play duos with one other person instead of trios, they wouldn't see the trios channel. They would assign themselves the duos role and then on that side, like it can kind of help with the segments on that side for the different channels. So Carlebot is like very, very popular within the Discord community of getting all of that set up. So it's not uncommon to see that across multiple servers from here. It also does a lot of automations. So like if someone does violate your term to service or is being kind of rude or not the vibe that you wanted within the community itself, you can warn them and then ultimately use them to ban from the server if needed on that side. So you can see kind of in the screenshot of like a warning within Carlebot too. And then they also have the permissions where you can kind of get granular with it. And like you can kind of, you can create as many roles as you want or specific permissions as well. Yeah, my, I've definitely seen Carlebot in some of the servers that I've been in and that I've been in. And I wasn't, I was just participating. So I actually don't know how much work Carlebot was doing behind the scenes, but it's always crazy to me how much some of these bots are just really capable of. My experience is more with YagPDB, which is like YAML. It's yet another general purpose Discord bot, which is very silly, but YagPDB can do some of the auto role things that Carlebot can do. And it also has some fun, like, I think Carlebot has like a little magic eight ball figure feature or something like that. That they're just, they do so many different things and it's crazy and very fun. Yeah, absolutely. I love that he's a little turtle. He's a little turtle throughout it too, yeah. And then there's also the little community building with the stars that are like highlight star emojis. Like you can react to a message, like if everybody likes it or as a like or something like that. And then Carl will promote it if, yes, as a starboard, which is kind of cool on that side. Yeah, so Carlebot is definitely a good option. You can use stuff for reminders too. So like a reminder that if there's like a 15 minute for like something happening coming up. Yeah, exactly. So you can like designate those. That's super cool. We use MEE6 throughout Discord for ours. That is the message you saw in like the action log section that shows when the user joins the server and all of that stuff. So that's really helpful for administrator roles because that does also let you send like a welcome message to the user when they join or set up a command for whatever they need on that side. So you can really customize a ton with this, which is super cool. I also think MEE6 also lets us use the roles in particular so we can set like if this is a specific domain of one's own, side of things there. So we've got that. Also, here's a little glimpse at the Yag PDB bot website. I'll go through some of the features. Again, they can self assign the roles like Carl bot could. Yag PDB is not showing on your screen.  Oh, let me, yeah, thank you on sharing different tabs. So the self assignable roles, auto mods, commands and all of that good stuff. And then even catfacts too, which is, I think that's pretty cool. The catfacts one is real fun and it's also a really good way to derail the conversation very fast. So funny. Yeah, like even I use emojis in particular to like kind of do that too. So you can have like different custom ones, which is super fun to do. On that side of Discord. So we can do, I can give us a little view of what that looks like in our Discord because we didn't actually go through that, but that would be really interesting to show. So we've got a couple of custom emojis. Let me click into mine. I've got my Discord channels servers organized into like work and then fun stuff. So that's really, really cool if you wanted to like move your server in so I can move this into Reclaim or leave this out if I wanted to on that one. But you can also create your own emojis back to that sort of conversation. So you can see like what's used on our server. So I've got a plus one. Like if you wanted to vote up someone's posts or comments, we use the live one a ton for when we premiere our different flex courses and recordings and all of that. We've got a Reclaim Cloud, the ShakeFist baby. That's a running meme within Reclaim. And then of course our Reclaim logo. It's always super fun. And if I scroll through, you can see some more. We've got a Terminal, Be Kind, Reclaim, Sticker. C-Panel. Yeah, C-Panel, HTML. Our OG Reclaim logo. The Triangle one's PeerTube. And PeerTube too. Yeah, we've got a ton. And even our StreamYard, which is what we're recording in. StreamYard is our logo. And we've got a ton of different ones for different servers that we're in. So, and if you're using Nitro, you can use the custom emojis from different people in any server across Discord, which is kind of cool. Not many people know that there. So, we've got all of those. I know people who have Nitro, who have a server that is literally just them, it's only theirs, so that they can load up on custom emojis and use them wherever they want, without having to get them uploaded to the communities that they're in, which is very funny to me. Yeah, that's really funny. Yeah, and Discord even sends out packs of free emojis sometimes like around their anniversary or whenever they do their like spring events or fall events. They had one over Christmas this year that was like a little penguin in an ice cube and it was cute. So, I was using that for a little while there. So, you can even take your community a little bit further by making those little emojis there. On that side. So, once you have your server set up, what do we do? We can hold events and stuff like that or did you have more bots to talk through pilot actually? Oh, one second. Pilot, you're on mute. I'm muted. I'm thoroughly muted. I'm not allowed to do myself for 30 seconds. That's great. No, the only thing I was gonna say was just that there's so many bots. We've just gotten into a couple of like the really powerful overarching ones but there's a lot that can do a lot of really specific things and we can put, we've had banners, we can put some links in the chat as well. There's a whole world out there basically. Yeah, absolutely. And let us know if you guys have any that you, any Discord servers that you've been using and like what kind of fun stuff that they've done that's kind of stood out to you there because it's always really cool to see and talk through what everybody does on that side. Yeah. Yeah, so once you have your server set up, you just let the conversation go at that point and invite your friends and other people in the community that you're working with with like a knitting server or something like that and just kind of see where it goes but then you can also hold your own events like pilot, you were talking about the movies with your college friends. That is super fun to do. Discord also introduced what they call activities and you can play games with your friends on Discord servers, which is super, super fun. Totally kind of my style. Yeah, so you could do one of the most popular ones that I think everybody has played who does like their own virtual thing, virtual game night is called Gartik phone. Gartik phone. Yeah, that's so fun. You draw out what the phrase is and have everybody kind of guess. It's kind of like visual telephone, which is super cool. It's just really, really, and it gets really silly, really fast. It's very fun. Yeah, absolutely. I also like equated to illustrations too. If you wanted to do that, that's really fun for in-person game nights. You can also do card games with folks too. A lot of people host like poker nights. Oh yeah, and all of that. And then there's like a watch party aspect where one person is hosting the movie and then everybody else can watch at the same time. So you're no longer like timing, clicking play between each other on the other end of the desktop between the screens and all of that, which is super fun. Yeah. There. So we've got those. You can even play them on mobile too, which is really interesting. Like most of these we've talked about, you can do like on desktop, but like Discord itself is really mobile. So most of the time I'm talking to my fiance or the other groups that I'm in on my phone, like I'm not really even using the desktop app. Plus I'm sitting in front of my computer. I don't usually do events on mobile just because I think, I don't know. The screen is so much smaller. It feels harder to participate, but just the ability to Discord on mobile is just really nice. It's a good interface and it's really convenient. Absolutely. I am also just totally blown away by the fact that like even if I'm not personally using functionality, the fact that you can is wild. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's really, really cool for sure. So we've done that with our previous Reclaim Events where we've done like a speaker sort of scenario where we've had like panels and even just general voice chats within our Discord server for those voice chats and streaming sort of scenarios where people can share their slides and stuff like that, which is really fun. And to even get into the more nitty gritty, you can use the roles that you've created within your server to allow people to RSVP. Yes. And then using like the Carl bot or the yet another Discord bot that the pilot was talking about to alert those specific roles to those who RSVP are using roles without using an everyone ping to the whole server. That was really big for just making that was the ability to say like, hey, if you want to get notified when we're doing a movie night or a game night, different things, react to this, Yag PDB will give you a role. And then when it's movie night, we will ping people who want to be told that it's movie night. That's it. If you just want to be here for the memes, if you just want to be here for game night, then you're not going to get hit with the add everybody ping because you specifically told us what you wanted to do. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Everyone paying is really helpful for like server wide announcements, but it can get really like, I've seen it go downhill where like people start using the everyone tag like every message and it's not fun. So the everyone ping is like, is use or I would recommend it fairly. I think there might be a way to lock it down so that only people with a particular role permissions can use the add everyone ping, which I've not ever had to do. And I sincerely hope I never have to, but I can imagine in, because some discords get just really, really big. Yeah. I can imagine just doing it as a precautionary measure, honestly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, some of the gaming ones that I'm in are like thousands of members, which is crazy. Crazy, crazy. Cool. So we've got those movie nights games to play and then discords also been branching out into using different platforms for their voice chat.  You don't have to sign into discord from your phone and like join in on the voice chat. I have never personally worked on that yet or use that yet just because it's so new. But from what I've heard, it's like really, really fun to be able to like continue using discord across platforms. That sounds really nice. I also have not done that. I don't have a console, so I wouldn't be able to hook that up. But I know that I have friends who are, I think that the ability to be streaming, probably they can stream, right? If discord's doing that offer on that platform as well. Yeah, I think you can, but I'm not sure where it is yet on that. It could be still in beta on that side, but definitely the voice channel or voice chat stuff. But I think yeah, just the ability to hook in while you're on your console is gonna be really big. People are gonna like that. For sure. Awesome, so we've got those two. Yeah, just checking server organization. We kind of went through all of that with the reclaim one. We've got the import side. Yeah. Discord actually has some specific features that I keep going, well, I don't use this. And it's because my use case is like, here's a group of like 30 people from college. You don't need all the bells and whistles, but discord actually has some stuff that reclaim makes good use of for the events organization and hosting. That in our at Tech Discord, we have sort of, I guess event announcements, there's a little channel that's just for the events and each one has its own sort of little window with the description and the time and you can RSVP. And so you can put up a little banner. And so it's very nice. It's very stylish, it's very slick and it's probably a lot more informative than the way that we tend to run things. But yes, exactly. So yeah, so in fact, we've time stamped ourselves. You can see when we're recording. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so when this premieres, session one of building community with Discord, with Discord has already premiered on that side. But you can even just see kind of like the description of the event you can click in and it'll show like more and more detailed information. And then you can say that you're interested to get notifications on the event itself. Even share the link to the event if you want to. And then see who's interested and all of that fun stuff there. You can even add it to your own calendar if you wanted to. You can export to calendars or like download to like Google, Apple calendar or whatever you wanna do. Okay, super cool. And then even see where the location is. So since most of ours are virtual events, we just link to the link of the website itself and even just the watch link. So that's super cool. Yeah, I believe you can also make it so that particular events are for people with particular roles. So in that way of, I mean, I suppose you could say, all movie nights are visible to everybody, but will only ping you if you have the movie night role. But you could also say, yeah, you won't even see the event announcements if you don't grab it because you didn't want it, so. Yeah, exactly. On that side, so that's pretty cool. Within the guidelines, we even use pronoun picker. That's a good one too. That kind of shows like this auto assign role where you can pick whichever you would like there. Oh, cool. Well, anything else you wanted to touch on, Tyler? I was reaching the end of my stream. Yeah, I think that just about covers the whole of it. I guess the big thing to emphasize is that we've sort of touched on the, and you've said this multiple times, so it's not anything new, but just we've touched on like here are the MISIX and Carl Bot and Yag PDB, here are some sort of very heavy lifting technical stuff. Here are the templates that they, there are lots of different types. There are lots of different types of bots and templates. So just the biggest thing to keep in mind is that you can use Discord for really anything. So there's, and I think we've done a pretty good job. You're talking about just that sort of fun social state of Virginia, the question of the day type thing. We've done a pretty good job showcasing several different angles. There's more. There's even more angles. If there's a hobby that you're interested in, there's definitely a Discord for it. It's, there's just a shocking amount of flexibility going on, particularly with all of the bots and the templates because people keep extending the platform to make it easier to do and bring in that functionality that they need. So. Yeah, absolutely. So whether you're like the hobbies, even like a class level, like if you were just wanting to set up a Discord server for your class, like for the specific semester you're teaching or even just to kind of keep track of like, like if you're a faculty advisor for students, like you can even set up a Discord for your students too. And Discord makes it really easy to get started. So if you're unsure of where to go, literally just create the server and then the Discord bots will help you get started creating channels, doing a lot of the behind the scenes administrator work for that is really helpful to assign the roles to everybody and then like that organization. And then once you have the organization, you can use those fun stuff like the question of the day. Cat facts. Yeah, cat facts, the stars to kind of just create the community that you wanna build from there. Yeah, Starboard is really fun. Starboard is like, I think the documentation talks about it like, like your mom pinning your artwork on the fridge. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, people just react to a particular message with a star and then Carl bot goes, all right, let's put it on the Starboard. We're gonna just sort of show it off in this particular channel. It's really, it's just really fun. Yeah, so we've found Discord has been really helpful within our community too, within a tech spear. So it provides like a good space for everybody to continue communicating and like even just bounce ideas off each other. So hopefully this session gives you some good ideas on how to start creating your own community on Discord. And as we continue on throughout the month too, I think that this is really cool that we're able to even like turn a flex course into talking about how we manage our flex course like through Discord and all of that sort of stuff. Metaflex course. Yeah, the Metaflex course, so awesome. Well, thank you, Pilot. I'm glad we got to talk about all of this and keep the conversation going and we'll add resources and let us know if you have any questions about specific things but we will catch you all in the next session. We end Discord, bye-bye.


I think the second meeting was, we had all spent to working groups on mHealth, mCommerce, mLearning, and basically the purpose of today's meeting was to look at all those reports and really think through what the way forward would be in terms of how do we get governments and countries to begin to understand the power of mobile and how to use mobile for development. It's terribly important because we have over 100 million mobile subscribers in Nigeria. I think that it's a great opportunity for us to use this mobile technology for development, both economic and social development, and so coming to these kind of meetings where you're seeing people that are experts, hearing country experiences, it's really important for Nigeria to begin to leverage technologies for development, and I think mobile technology, one that is fairly ubiquitous in Nigeria today, is really an important first step for us to take in that regard. The most striking outcome was the fact that for us to do this, we needed to have interministerial or multi ministerial, so it's not only about ICT ministers, it's about health ministers, finance ministers, agricultural ministers, educational ministers, all of us need to work together, and that was a big outcome for us. How do we get all these ministers to work together to deliver on the power and the potential of mobile technology? I think I'll be the greatest evangelist for it. I think it's a tremendous way of development because soon, in the near future, everybody is going to have a mobile phone, and so we've got to use that as a means of development for sure.


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For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Roger Waters, tell us a little bit about what you feel is happening to the people of Palestine and why we should care about it. Well, what's happening to the people of Palestine is the same thing that's been happening to them since 1948.  So the Israelis are trying to make them disappear so that they can have Eretz, Israel, and it'll be certainly the whole of what was called Palestine during the British mandate and probably Jordan as well if they get their way. So that's what's happening to them. Today is the International Day in Solidarity with the people of Palestine. It's a complicated period. The Israeli government has designated six prominent Palestinian human rights groups, including the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees as terrorist organizations. How does one even react on a day like this on the International Day of Solidarity to something like this where groups of sincere people are being named terrorists by the Israeli government? Well, certainly not with surprise because it's exactly what we expect from them. There are attacks on anybody who tries to redress the balance in terms of human rights or the freedom of the indigenous people or anything else is met with this kind of nonsense. What was I saying? My reaction was I started posting tweets that went, hey, Israel, leave the Sikhs alone quoting my own song from 1978 or 79 or whenever. So the response to it has to be loud. It has to be vigorous and it has to be united and it is. People are flabbergasted and disgusted in equal measure by these pronouncements. Obviously, none of these organizations have anything to do with terror or terrorizing people in order to achieve a political end. There is a lot of terrorism, but it almost always comes from the Israeli side of the argument. It is certainly an act of terrorism to drop a 2,000 ton bomb on somebody's apartment building or family home. It's interesting that this is the 29th of November. In 2012, I spoke at the UN on that day and I'm really glad that I did. It's probably the last time I ever put on a suit and tie because I wanted their excellencies to take me seriously and I spent a long time working on the speech that I made that day, but that's what nine years ago now. So nine years have passed and a lot has changed. It is much harder today for the Israelis to get away with this nonsense of calling great, wonderful human rights organizations working for the benefit of human beings, whether they're Palestinian or Israeli or English or American or anywhere, it's much harder for them to smear such organizations and such people than it was in 2012. So we are making progress. So good for you everybody who's fighting back against this. You are winning this conversation because you are right and they are wrong and that is extremely important in my view. Well, that's true but I also want you to help me a little bit because this year the focus is on Palestinian women and girls and one of the things we find is that the Israelis have made education for boys and girls in the occupied territories in Gaza very compromised, bombing Gaza routinely, denying assistance of material into Gaza in the occupied territory, seizing land, bulldozing houses and so on. Do you have a message for the young girls of Palestine and how we should extend our solidarity to them? Well, it's interesting that you should single them out. Obviously the particular organization that you're talking about has now completely understand the idea of feminism in any society around the world because by and large societies in the last few hundred years have moved towards patriarchy and it's very often that women and girls get a very raw deal, not just in terms of mutilation of their bodies and lack of education and so on and so forth. So I'm completely behind them but bulldozing schools is wrong obviously and to deny our children, whether they're boys or girls, but particularly girls because they get denied an education more readily than boys do, dare I say in the Middle East in general, there's a certain reticence about the idea that girls should be educated, which is obviously completely wrong in human and goes against any progressive notions that any of us human beings might have about the way society may develop in the future. Funny enough, it was not always thus. Many ancient civilizations were actually matriarchal and probably had for the benefit of that. So there wasn't quite so much testosterone involved in the making of decisions and so on and so forth. Does that make any sense? I mean, we're talking about civilizations which used to have at least the opportunity given for boys, girls, young adults to grow, to develop themselves and so on. Very hard to grow under occupation. Very hard to grow when the sound of a bulldozer is coming towards your school. Very hard to do these basic things. Today's the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. You have yourself stood in solidarity with the Palestinians, acted in solidarity with the Palestinians for years, put up with all kinds of attacks and so on. When you say we are winning, give us a few words of encouragement from your long role in fighting against apartheid. Give us some words of encouragement about that feeling that we are winning. Well, you just used the one word of encouragement that we can all gather around, sad as it is, apartheid. Okay, so in 2012, which is only nine years ago, you could not use the word apartheid in a conversation about Israel and Palestine or about Israel and Israeli policy. Well, now you cannot have a conversation that is meaningful in any way without using the word apartheid and they use it all the time to deny it just as much as we on the side of human rights do. As I've always said, my platform is tiny. It's the 1948 Paris Declaration of Human Rights and those 30 articles, that is what I believe in. That is what all of those organizations that the Israelis are trying to accuse of being terrorist organizations, that's what they believe in, all of them. That is their platform. I stand on the same platform they do. The Israeli government and most of the Israeli people, maybe 90 percent, don't believe in that platform.  In fact, the whole question about human rights didn't exist at all because that is not the world emotionally, philosophically that they live in, politically that they live in. Well, we do and it's a world that we, the peoples of the nations of this tiny planet, want to see develop in the future. Otherwise we may lose this planet, lose this place that we live on unless these philosophical notions are generally accepted by our leaders as well as us. I saw you berating them all at CO26 or whatever it was in Glasgow the other week and good on you, telling them what monsters they are, that Boris Johnson and the other kind of world leaders who had to listen to what you say, you were in a public forum and what you said made complete sense. It is harder and harder and harder for them to deny it. I'll stop rambling because I am rambling, but the only thing I can say is that things are changing very rapidly. It may not feel like the tick tock is going very slowly, but it's not. The way people's minds are becoming more adept at accepting simple truths like the ones that you and I are exchanging one to another in this conversation today, the more chance we have of changing things in the Middle East and all over the rest of the world. But we have to make a lot of noise and we have to stand together. I've seen odd sectarian things happening in this movement that really worry me. Oh, you can support me, but you mustn't support these people who are also working for Palestine because they're communists. Somebody who we both know very well said that to me last week. I'm not naming any names, but I will be speaking to this person later and saying, hey, how dare you accuse our brothers in this fight or some of them of being communists and in consequence, we shouldn't sign their petitions or we shouldn't. You sound like Joe McCarthy. What's wrong with communism anyway? Oh, well, Joe Stalin. No, no, no. The basic idea of communism is politically sound and it's soundly a humane idea. Well, we all know what it is. Well, they don't. Well, maybe we don't all know what it is because we all haven't read Marx and we don't all understand it. We just think, oh, they're authoritarian and this and that. We have to act together. We cannot be looking at our brothers and sisters and turning our noses up because they might be a different religion or a different sect or a different political belief than us. We have to stand together on this platform, human rights. That's all I was saying. We have to stand together. That's absolutely true. Thanks a lot.


Just this week our very good friend Phil of the ancient alternative view lost his mother. Of course it is hard for us in life to accept this but we can take comfort in the realization that we are part of something much bigger. Our capsule that harbors our life here on earth is only meant for this planet but our soul and our being continue in spectacular ways that we can't understand in life. Phil's mom went in for an operation on Tuesday night and unfortunately God had decided that it was her time. Phil heartbreakingly sent her a message before the operation and we are going to read a part of this out for you guys just now as we spare a moment for this wonderful woman today. I'm sending all the power I have in my body to your body to help you fight bomb. You fight and fight and fight and dream happy dreams till you come back round and I'll be waiting for you thinking of you until you do. If the gods want a fight then taking you away will wake the sleeping giant in my soul and they will get one when I arrive. Be safe stay strong and the gods will be with you I promise.


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Hello, and welcome to the Super Judge Q&A. I'm Paul. And I'm Surama. Yes. Now, we get questions on YouTube, on Twitter, all sorts of places. And this time we're going to answer just the one question. And you've chosen it. Which one did you go for? I chose a question that I thought was interesting because it has so many layers. And it is, what's the best way of injecting new content on scroll because layout is expensive? You see what I did with the layers? Yeah. Dude, get a scroll. Sorry. Yeah, no, the person's right. Injecting content is expensive on scroll. Two reasons, right? You're scrolling. So you've got an animation. And so you want to keep everything nice and fluid, 60 frames a second. And then you basically trigger layouts and styles and paint in one go by attaching content to the DOM. So I totally get where they're going for or what they're going for. The first thing I thought was to use something like containment. But that's only going to be Chrome 52. And it's not available everywhere. But you'd be able to be like, the thing that's having content injected, you'd be like, contain content or contain strict. And then at least the layout and paint and so on, all those calculations are at least locked into that element. But I know that you've been doing some work recently with some Chrome engineers on an infinite scroller. So why don't you explain what's going on there? So layout is expensive. But it's also something that you can't really get around. Like when you attach something new, it will has to be layouted into your document. Otherwise, the browser won't know where to put it. So another approach to basically keeping the cost down is to just keep the number of elements that are in the DOM low. Right. So yeah, because we've seen this before with recycling views basically on native. This is a fairly standard thing, like just kind of recycling them. OK, so that was one thing that we did that basically we keep only the elements that are actually on screen and a little bit on the top and the bottom when you scroll up and down. But basically, the further out you go, there's not going to be any elements anymore. We just use the space with an empty element instead of having all the actual content up there. So you still got the recycling, which is going to trigger layout and paint and all those things. But by the sounds of it, by keeping the DOM count low, exactly, you basically. It is fast enough. Fast enough. As in fast enough on mobile or just fast enough on desktop? Both, actually. That was one of the targets. It's actually fast enough even on mid-range to low-range devices that they can keep up with the work. So we'll have the smooth scrolling at 60 frames per second. OK, so the other question I had is, I know it does some tombstoneing. So explain, at least for me, again, what the tombstoneing thing actually does. So tombstoneing is this technique where because you don't have your data yet. In this example, you're actually emitting a network source where we get the data in that we want to show. But sometimes people scroll that fast that you have to be on screen, but you don't have the data yet. So instead of putting nothing or janking or blocking, we put a tombstone, which says there's going to be content here, which is something that Facebook actually does prominently when you open the app, where you just show here's going to be a post and show empty lines with no text, just gray boxes. And once that arrives, it actually turns into the actual item that's supposed to be displayed. And we do the same thing. So when the user actually scrolls too fast for us to keep up with, we instead of attaching nothing and not being able to scroll, we attach tombstones. So that allows us to keep the scroll going, and then we take care of staying in the same position once the data arrives because the element could grow because it is an unexpectedly large amount of text or there's an image in there, all these kind of things. And it makes the user experience very smooth. So one of the other things that occurred to me about this was it sounds like that prioritizes the scroll above everything else, which is absolutely crucial thing to do. It's like, that's the interaction that the user's got. Yes, they want to see the content, but they don't want you to get in the way of the scroll because that feels awful to people. Do you use anything like request.idl callback to make sure that the main thread is available for work before actually spending time trying to populate the data set? Or is that not something that gets done yet? We emulate a fetch. And once data comes back, we check. I don't think we use request.idl callback in the demo, but we check if the element is still on screen, if it even needs to get attached, because if it's off-screen already and the user has been scrolling so fast, there's no need in treating the layout and then removing it again, because it's already way off-screen. So that is the kind of booking. Request.idl callback would be great, though, if we know that we are on-screen, but maybe the browser is still busy with decoding a fetch request or something. So it would be worth decoding that first and way down to the browser is actually available to attach the data to the don't, or replacing the tombstone. All right, cool. So basically, I think in summary, it's like, avoid it if you can. If you can't avoid it, keep the cost down, and then basically be really, really tactical about the work that you do, either by checking that the thing is still in the window and still needs to be dealt with, or maybe even considering some other request.idl callback. Only to do work that you really need to do. That is one of the things I learned with this. And also, really important, I think, is always test on a real device. Like, we have emulation mode, which is good to see if layout works, and you can even throttle down the network. And I think in future versions of Chrome, you can even throttle down the CPU to emulate a slower device. But nothing is going to tell you how weird it really feels. Once you're on a RAM constrained and CPU constrained device and realize, even though it works fine on desktop, on mobile, you're way below 60 FPS, which we had a couple of times with this thing. And it's just a completely new experience if you're actually on a device. OK, well, I guess that's it. Like we said, basically, avoid the work when you can. Performance is the art of avoiding work. And if you can't avoid it, keep it to a minimum. So with that, I guess we'll catch you next time.


One run game, bases loaded in the ninth inning, two outs, fastball up top from Bednar, 98. This kid's trying to woo-ga the pitcher, trying to get in his head, trying to cause mayhem. Nope, curve ball. Yes, he went, the catcher loves it. Fist pump, claps, let's go, keep it up. I'm gonna woo-ga ya. Oh, damn, that was his reaction. Now we got an O2 pitch, then go high fastballs again. A little above the zone. High fastball, a little above the zone, maybe inside. Then they go for the curve ball, fouls it off, but the catcher loves it. Yup, that's it, let's go back to it. Fan trying to woo-ga him again, trying to get some bad mojo. Oh, good mojo for the pirates. Fouled off, strike three, look at his reaction here. Oh, gonna throw the hat, and look at these pitches. High fastball, low curve all day, every day. Beautiful tunneling, beautiful pitching. I liked that sequence, I felt bad for the fan.


Now what I want to do is perform a bevel on some of the edges of this shape, and what that will do is make it look a little bit more visually interesting and appealing. So in order to do that I'm going to introduce you to this little button here which opens the modeling toolkit, which is something that Autodesk have added to Maya 2016 to put a lot of the polygon modeling tools together in one place, which works quite well actually. So if we click on that, the first thing we're going to want to do is change it from object selection mode, which allows you to select the whole object. I'm going to change it to edge selection mode, which is going to allow us to select just the edges. There it is. You can see now if we mouse over the pillar, the edges go red when we can select them. So I'm going to click on this one, and then I'm going to hold shift and click on the second one, and that will select two of them. I'm going to go back to my selection tool, which is Q on the keyboard. So I've now got those two selected, and then I can scroll down in the modeling toolkit, and you'll see there are lots of different tools and operations that you can do, but in this case I just want to do a bevel, so I'm going to click on bevel, and you'll notice that it opens up a little properties box, so you can change what the bevel looks like. So I'm just going to zoom in a little bit so I can see what the bevel is, and I'm just going to up the fraction by clicking and dragging on the word fraction. I'm going to up it slightly. I think I'm going to go for 0.7, I think looks pretty good, like that. Yeah, it's pretty nice. And then once I'm happy with that, the next thing I'm going to do is I just want to select these edges at the bottom. So there are three edges here that I want to select. That one, I'm going to hold shift and select that one. I'm going to hold shift and select that one. I'm just going to put it back into wireframe view, pressing 4, just to make sure I've actually got them, because it's intersecting the floor a little bit, which is making it difficult to see. And with those three I just selected, I'm just going to move to my move tool, the change time move tool, and I'm going to move on this axis here, and you can see that's adding a bit of a slope to the shape, and again I'm just doing that to make it look a little bit more interesting really. And I'm going to press 5 to move back into shaded view, and then in my modelling toolkit, I'm going to scroll back up and put the pillar back into object selection mode. And then I can move this up against the back wall. I'm just going to intersect the back wall slightly. And then I'm going to move towards the back wall, not completely up against the back wall, I want a little gap. That's okay. And I'm just final step, is I'm just going to make it a little bit taller, just so it does intersect the floor and the ceiling, just so that you can't see where it joins really. So from inside the room, it should now look like that, which just adds a little bit more detail to the way the room looks.


A warm welcome to the 22nd session of the 4th module in signals and systems. We have been looking at the rational Z-transform and we go further with that objective here. In fact, we now establish what a rational Z-transform means from a system perspective and then we also put down certain general rules for inversion of a rational Z-transform. So, of course, when you talk about the systems context in the Z-transform, we have a context very similar to the Laplace transform. Let us write down clearly. So, you have this discrete system, discrete linear shift invariant system. It has an impulse response h of n and we hope that this has a Z-transform. Z-transform should be an expression and a region of convergence. Now, if the input to this discrete system x of n also has a Z-transform and so does the output y of n, then we know that y of z is x of z times h of z by the convolution property and therefore, h of z which is called the system function here like the case of the Laplace transform tells you what is the ratio. The system function, this ratio of the output z-transform to the input z-transform importantly is independent the ratio of the input z-transform for LSI systems. That is very important. Now, you see what is the role of again the factors in the denominator and the factors in the numerator. We want to again give them names and in fact, we will choose to give them the same names. So, for rational Z-transform denominator equal to 0 gives what are called the poles. So, you know the term poles and similarly for the numerator equal to 0, we get the 0s. So, you know the word poles and 0s has the same connotation. See the pole comes because you can think of the magnitude of that Z-transform as sitting like a tent on the z plane and where there is a pole that tent is held up, it goes towards infinity. Where there is a 0, it is nailed down to the ground and a tent stands by virtue of the poles that hold it up and the nails that hold it down. So, poles and 0s are very important in a Z-transform, but there is actually one thing much simpler here and that is that it is not so difficult to deal with the numerator being greater in degree than the denominator and so on. So, let us put down first a process for inversion of a Laplace transform of a Z-transform in general. The general process, now here you know when you have a rational Z-transform, you can either think of it as rational in Z or rational in Z inverse, both of them are equivalent. So, for example, you could think of 1 by 1 minus half Z inverse also as by multiplying both numerator and denominator by Z, Z by Z minus half. So, it is rational in Z and also rational in Z inverse, they are equivalent. Now, what we can do is to take one of them with which we are more comfortable. So, let us take the rational in Z inverse interpretation. That means, we will always write down the particular Z-transform as a rational function in Z inverse. So, for example, even if you had something like this, you had something like say Z squared minus Z divided by 1 minus half Z inverse whatever it is, you would force it to become a rational function of Z inverse. So, that can be done very easily. You can take Z squared common from here in the numerator and write 1 minus Z inverse divided by 1 minus half Z inverse. So, this can be written as Z squared times rational function in Z inverse. Now, you know this as you can see you will need to pull out a power of Z. So, it could be a positive or negative power of Z. Now, all that this does, this power of Z is to cause a shift. So, for example, Z squared essentially means shift backwards by two samples. So, we can operate this last after inverting the rest of the Z-transform. We can operate that power of Z. So, let us assume without any loss of generality that we indeed have a rational function of Z inverse. Now, the first step is to check the numerator degree and denominator degree. So, if the numerator degree is greater than or equal to the denominator degree in Z inverse of course, we first carry out a long division. So, for example, let us take the factor that we had you know in the previous example that we were considering here we had this factor. So, let us consider this factor 1 minus Z inverse by 1 minus half Z inverse and let us do the long division there. We would need to multiply by 2.  So, essentially after long division you would get a quotient and remainder. It gives you a quotient which would essentially be a finite series in Z inverse and it would leave you with a remainder which we keep in the numerator. Now, unlike the Laplace transform where we had to do some work to understand what happens when you have polynomials in S, here dealing with a finite series in Z inverse is no problem.  You can combine that finite series with this factor this power of Z. So, in general, so suppose for example, you have a finite series that looks like this say a 0 plus a 1 Z inverse plus and so on and then you had an initial factor of Z to the power D. So, I am saying essentially that this initial power of Z is this and the finite series is this, then you can combine them. So, you can write a 0 Z to the power D plus a 1 Z to the power D minus 1 plus and so on and inverting this is very easy. We simply get a 0 delta n plus t and so on. So, you get a train of impulses, discreet impulses, a finite length sequence and if we invoke the linearity of the Z transform, then one can easily see that you can treat that finite series separately, dispense with it, get that finite length sequence and now deal with the remainder divided by the denominator separately. Now, as far as the remainder divided by the denominator is concerned, we have already seen how to deal with it. We can deal with it by using partial fraction expansion and then that factor of Z to the power of D that hanging power of Z can be taken care of finally, by making a shift. So, we are now well equipped to deal with inverting a rational Z transform. So, if I have a rational system in the Z domain, I know how to find the impulse response. If I have a sequence with a rational Z transform, I know how to find the sequence. The only thing is of course, I have to be able to factorize the denominator into its separate distinct poles and each pole would give us one kind of term. What kind of term? Let us also make that clear. You see every time you differentiate with respect to Z, you are effectively creating a multiplication by n. Of course, give or take some shift and so on. So, what it means is that if I have a factor of say 1 minus alpha Z inverse, let us write that down. If we have a pole at Z equal to alpha, repeated m fold that means, I have a factor. There are things in the numerator and there is a factor of 1 minus alpha Z inverse to the power m in the denominator. Then what is the contribution of this pole in terms of the inverse Z transform? Essentially, this contributes a poly x term like before and this poly x term is a function of n. It would look something like a polynomial in n of degree capital M minus 1 multiplied by alpha raised to the power of n. So, here the only change is you have an alpha raised to the power of n and you would need to associate it either with u of n or u of minus n or whatever you know appropriately shifted. So, you would need to. So, you know you could say u of n or u of minus n or appropriately shifted unit steps. Now, the choice between u of n and u of minus n comes from whether the sequence is right sided or left sided. And the reasoning is exactly and there are so many parallels between the Laplace transform and the Z transform. The same reasoning you know if it is to the exterior of a circle, you have one situation, if it is to the interior of a circle, you have another situation. And therefore, in the next session we are going to see further about what happens to the properties of a rational system. When we look at it from this point of view, we exploit this left sided or right sided sequence point of view. We shall see more in the next session. Thank you.


Three minutes ago.  Come on. Yeah. Come on Michael. All right, welcome everyone You're not close enough Leave it. No one's gonna touch it. All right, everyone's got a better one than yours. I Don't mind three years old because it still works in Australia the internet is so bad that it doesn't matter how fast your laptop is It's not the limiting factor You're born in Australia everyone if you're born Australia you get a jumpbox on US East one Birthday present all in it is through that Everyone has a VPN because we have terrible TV as well. So we have to borrow other people's TV Sorry Michael and I Have organized this room now some of you thought this is an open conference with tracks and you can move between the tracks That is incorrect. That is your seat for the next two days And Obviously there are other talks and you but on the on the calendar it is the gray ones the gray ones represent the core projects Do you want to talk about why we picked the talks we did? Do you remember why we picked them? Well, they had to be Core project updates, right? So a lot of the submissions did not fall into that area So unfortunately we had to kind of weed those out, right? Yeah, but generally these people. Sorry We looked at profile heads and if they're ugly that was it. Yeah, that's part of it for sure. That's why it's why Michael couldn't You know, so it was Obviously updates that that we see in the field the things that are of interest to our customers Awesome technologies. Yeah No, I mean and it's it's as Chip and if you've ever seen chip I have you or any of the foundation talk about the status of the whole cloud family. There are 40 projects 40 pms Obviously lots of repos like 200 to 500 repos amongst all of that and we have two days to get through core projects So it is sad, you know, like there is no Bosch track What happens? We've never had a Bosch track We had a Bosch day Bosch day was an independent reject comp for sorts Organized by Colin Humphries about he organized at the same time as you're selling a company to Pivotal So they never wanted to do it ever again. I guess I don't know So, you know certain things could do with their own track entirely But so we're trying really hard to to pick a talk You know the core things like credit up like UAA things that perhaps you might never have a sat down and looked at And so it's yeah, I think it's there. It's a really interesting track for the next two days Obviously the whole conference is interesting. Yeah credit up Kubernetes. Obviously, that's huge this year, right? Yeah, a window server containers. Yeah, we have a lot of interest to that for that Yeah, you know some of us are probably not windows to our self a lot for the last 10 years and and that's unfortunate because half the population of developers are still you know using windows and They deserve nice things too. So huge effort has gone into from Pivotal and others to make Cloud Foundry and make Bosch work with windows And it's really nice to be able to say yes, we can bring our experience to you So that yeah super important at least to get a feel for what we've what's been going. Yeah about 2016 now We get true containers true containers. That's good. Yeah All right. Yeah, do you want to introduce out first to good-looking people? I don't know why I started for anyone that just walked in I was wondering why I'm talking about aesthetics of the human body It was just the weird way I got people are staying on the outside There is this natural affinity to say you know what the middle is dangerous if I still on the outside No one will talk to me So I talked to those people Lots safer You and I are gonna be talking very soon about how that's a better seat for you. All right, that's gonna be a great seat Because the speakers you've had to introduce them. What's going on? What's wrong? Nothing's wrong. He looks like he's bearing bad news I Like you to like you to bear good news You can introduce them. I'm just filling in time. You don't need introduction. That's bullshit need a great introduction to talk about create up and and everything going on with Using is like clave Andrew and the rest of the ecosystem Please put your hands together


Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stocks. What should I'm reviewing the market? So we have a really interesting market right now because we have the spy looking one way and we have the QQQs looking another way. Then we have the diamonds looking a completely different way. Okay, so the diamonds are the ETF for the Dow which has less stocks in it than the QQQs and the spy. But I mean, it's just really strange right now what we're dealing with. The spy was down a lot today. It was because of the banks. This was down a little bit. This is the QQs. And this was down, I wouldn't say a lot but certainly more than the QQs. That's a good bowing here. Yeah, I don't know why the diamonds were down like that. So getting back to what I was saying it's really, really interesting here when you look at this market. This is something we did today. We showed the market today as a day trade. It's still going. I'm gonna fall off here into the close but I will say this. You know, a lot of people, a lot of people think that this move up in the market is over.  I don't think that it is. So that's my two cents. You have to respect what's happening here in this market. It's been making a lot of brand new all-time highs. I think we're most likely going to not have any tremendous, tremendous moves or change in moves until later in the summer or fall of this year. And remember, earnings season starts the second week of July. So we've got about three more weeks till earnings season begins. And then you're gonna have stocks that move the market because of earnings. You know, things that affect the market, Apple, Amazon, all the things we love. So I mean, to say that we're gonna fall off a plant in here, for no reason it all would be shocked. I mean, we had bad numbers yesterday but you know, we didn't really react to it. Today we're down from some statements about higher interest rates. But when you look at the whole thing in totality, you can say well there's many reasons for us to be falling off a cliff, but we haven't done it. So why are you gonna think we're gonna do it now? You know? And again, I'm not saying we don't have a sell-off. We could have a sell-off at some point. And I'm giving a two-year window, maybe even a three-year window. I mean, you know, but the reality is that this isn't some massive, massive sell-off here today in my opinion. But we did do this as a day trade short. It's probably gonna sell off here into the close. We'll see. 415 is in sight. Broke 416. Low of the day I think was 16, yeah, 61. So I think we're gonna sell off here into the close on a Friday, on a summer week. Have a great day everyone. If you're interested in the Golden Gap course, if you're interested in learning how I picked this market today, how I knew the market would fall today, at least on the live day to get a trade, then you can learn it in my Golden Gap course. I'm teaching the class next weekend, June 26th and 27th. If you're interested, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com to sign up. Have a great day.