Hello, everyone. Can you hear me? Can everyone hear me? So, so the next session is about Geoscience Australia. Geoscience Australia was looking to push the boundaries and create a meaningful digital change within the organization with this pilot project, which aimed to create a new standardized digital platform for their web properties. The presenter for this session is Stuart Ronan. He's the CTO at Southside Digital. He's involved in the Geoscience Australia project from a solution architecture perspective and has been working with the Geoscience team since its early beginnings. He's an advocate for open source, Jamstack, and the static web. Over to you Stu, all the best. Great. Thanks, Sushi. Cool. So, I can assume everyone can see the slides and I'll hear a whisper in my ear, if not. So, yep. Perfect intro. Thanks, Sushi. We are talking about an ambitious digital experience platform, specifically Geoscience Australia, the journey that they went on to create this entirely decoupled static web hosting platform. So, let's get into it. Hi, I'm Stuart Rollins, CTO at Southside Digital. We're supposed to be joined by our co-presenter, Kristin, today. Unfortunately, she heard her back earlier this week, so I've taken her off her plate. She may be working in the background if you're there. Hi, Kristin. Hope you're feeling better soon. A lot of the work that I'm presenting is Kristin's, the slides of Kristin's. Really, I'm just a glorified cheerleader at this point to promote all of the great work that Kristin and the team did here. Okay. So, what we're talking about today. First of all, who was involved in this? It was a very collaborative project. Multiple organizations came together to get this one out the door. Why re-platform? So, what were the driving issues, challenges that the organization was facing? How was put together, the tools and processes, how Trooper was built, and how it all came together? The wins and challenges, what the future of the platform might look like, which ties into some of the conversation that you may have seen in the keynote via Lee, and then back into questions and halfway track after that. Okay. So, the organizations that made the magic happen, there were a few beginning with today design in their excellent user-centric research and design that built the design system that fed into this project. GS Science Australia, who's the organization entity that actually embarked on this journey, social digital service provided, delivering on the project, and GovCNS. So, we'll touch on who each of these organizations are in a bit more detail. So, GS Science Australia TA, as they're known, is Australia's preeminent public sector GS Science organization. The nation's trusted advisor on the geology and geography of Australia. They apply science and technology to describe and understand the earth with the benefit of Australia. So, they're doing some incredibly cool stuff with incredibly rich scientific data sets, have amazing technical products that sit on top of those data sets and allow it to be surfaced and better understood by data scientists and citizens. As I mentioned today, design, they were integral to the project, working with GS Science Australia to better understand their needs to create this cohesive design system that met their current day requirements, but was also flexible and would cover the requirements of all of the programs and bodies of work within the organization into the future. I can't say enough good things about the incredible work that today design do and are doing. And us also digital. So, we're an open-source company made of digital engineers from across the globe with a primary focus in government and primarily to create or assist governments become more open connected and consolidated. And Digital Earth Australia. So, they are the first pilot site launched on a new platform and a program within GS Science Australia and they've got some awesome satellite imagery and incredibly rich scientific data that is surfaced through the new site on the platform. So, why did we do this? Let's go through the rationale and the goals for this new platform. So, GA needed an efficient, cost-effective, secure and resilient digital experience platform that allows users to discover, identify and consume Australian Earth data. So, it was all about trying to create a cohesive set of standardized platforms, tools, content creation and presentation layers to assist in making very rich scientific data more discoverable and easy to understand. Some of the challenges that they are facing are probably familiar to many and many large organizations obviously face similar challenges when it comes to fragmentation. In fragmentation across technologies, largely driven by the fact that you have many programs, many groups, many people who use different technologies, different CMSs, JavaScript frameworks all the way through to processes and everything else that comes with that. So, they use squizz, various versions of Drupal, various different JavaScript frameworks, mapping solutions and so on. And these solutions are posted both internally and externally. So, maintenance ongoing is just a mishmash of various applications in various different places.  To reduce or remove duplication at both a technical and content level, to promote content sharing, so creation of content in central places and reuse that across various web properties and even beyond the web. A great editorial user experience to meet and exceed compliance requirements. Easy setup was a big one. So, specifically to measure the time to create new sites or on board new web properties measured in minutes rather than hours or days to unify the tech solutions involved in the platform to create consistent user experience, not only from a public interface, but from a backend content authoring perspective and to have accessibility built in from the offset. And depending that on the platform level, there are some goals and there are some overlap here. So, behind that, we need to make a platform that's secure, robust, resilient, scalable to the organization's growing needs. And what we're talking about is, you know, creating these standard models and the standard consistent way of working, but we don't want it to be rigid. We need to have interoperability, configurability and modular design that allows the platform to continue to grow and evolve with needs of the organization. It needs to be easy to maintain, so central maintenance that can benefit everyone. And again, all of this is built with accessibility in mind. So, a visual representation of what that means. It's all very obvious, before, fragmented, after, consolidated. We've got all of these individual sites, all of these bespoke user experiences, concept models, CMS technologies, JavaScript frameworks, and moving these into consolidated platform. Okay, so how did we do this? Well, yes, hint, it's more than triple. There's a lot that went into this. So, design system, started with the design system by today design. So, they worked on creating a really rich and modular design system at a granular component, you know, atomic level, with a bigger picture vision in mind, that all of these components could be brought together to create cohesive web experiences. So, there's a very rich tapestry of 40-odd different design components that, when merged together, create a great web experience. So, always had to keep that flying on the prize and end goal with all of these components working well together. Behind the scenes, the tech stack can be broken up into three buckets. So, on the back end, we're talking about Drupal and content stores. So, Drupal running on GovCMS, both the distribution and the GovCMS hosting platform, and using JSON API to expose content. So, this is a decoupled platform. In the middleware, we've got GitHub actions, which is our CI layer, which is responsible for the build and deploy process. So, we use Nuxt.js to compile a static artifact, the entire static websites, and we push that to the front end, the static edge. The static edge is written by QuantCDN, which is Content Delivery Network for static websites. We have a integration with our goalie of the search, and again, you're interfacing as an end user with that compiled and Dujs components. Okay, so we'll dig into some of these other technologies in a bit more detail, starting with our friends, GovCMS. GovCMS has been around for seven years now, 347 sites, which is probably a lie. They seem to be growing a pretty rapid rate. And GovCMS were great in all of the other conversations and conversations around what we were hoping to do with this project, because at the end of the day, we wanted to show that you can build decoupled platforms on GovCMS without the need to go too far above what the core distribution and the core offering provides. So, thanks to GovCMS for coming to the party. And on the Drupal architecture side of things, we'll start at the bottom right, 160 modules, most of which is the Drupal distribution. So, as I mentioned, we didn't need to add a whole lot to the distribution to build this solution, largely driven by the fact that the API first initiative allowed Drupal from D8 to start moving towards these decoupled architectures. So, yeah, it really is a lot of core and minimal contrary. On the paragraph side of things in the content schema, 21 paragraph types, as I mentioned before, something in the order of 40 odd design components. So, those map broadly to these paragraph types. What we did, though, is make the paragraph types more configurable. So, instead of having very verbose, you know, massive list of paragraphs, we've got a slimmer set and they can be configured so they can be tailored to actually render and map to the different front end components. The vocabularies, 13, largely these are split between back end administrative content tagging, as well as enabling content to become searchable through facets and filters, as well as some system vocabs, which we'll touch on. Rolls out of the box, govcms, menus, per site menus, media types, text formats and peers, not used heavily, largely because of the decoupled nature. We're using very structured data and using JSON API to expose it. We don't want, you know, rich, WYSIWYG HTML content, we want it to be as structured as possible. And one content type to rule them all. So, we'll talk about that content type a little bit. What we have is a multi-site Drupal installation where sites are managed through a site's vocabulary. So, you create sites in the vocab, you configure them with all of the things that a site needs to exist, such as what its menu is, you know, what the header and footer configurations are, what the analytics plugin identifiers are, and that's all just a taxonomy term. To create a new site, create a new term, configure it, and away you go. On the content side of things, it's equally simple. There's a single content type with the page type subcomponent which allows grouping of content. Because of the nature of the design system, you can basically embed those design components in any order, which allows for a very simple and intuitive way of just attaching paragraphs and putting them on a page so we don't have a lot of complex content schemers in the CMS.  So, as I mentioned before, that simple site setup is key. The fact that you can just create a new site by adding and configuring a taxonomy term means that you really can just start creating new sites and new content very, very rapidly. There's an inheritance model with the site text fallback, which effectively means that sites that aren't configured with their own content can inherit from their parent. Component reusability is a cool feature which allows you to have a library of components. So, for instance, if you create one of these paragraph components, you can actually embed that and reuse that throughout the site. There is a content cloning feature. Reference content, in this case, refers to the fact that content can have a different contextual view as a reference piece of content. So, if you embed it in a card, it can have more contextualized representation of that content. The customizable search stuff will touch on a little bit later, but it's a content-managed search solution. As I mentioned, we use our goal here on the front end to render the search, but you can actually create an embedded search component directly as content in the CMS. What that means is you can basically say, I want to inject a search widget here. I want to filter it by these page types. I want to display these facets based on these taxonomies and it's zero development effort required. It's all just additional content. There is rich content taking for search, which enables a lot of that functionality. And, as I mentioned earlier, content sharing between sites. So, when you create content, you can take it to a primary site and share it with others. On the left, you can see an example of these page type templates. So, while I said that you know you can create a single piece of content and put any component in any order, what GA are doing and what the other web properties are doing are to create standard page type templates, which can be reused as the base. So, for instance, they've got a product template here. They use this as the basis for all of their products. So, it just comes with placeholder values need replacing to keep things less consistent. Along a similar line, there are master component templates. So, I mentioned before that we have this component reusability function. The same applies to those paragraphs. At paragraph level, you have a library of these templates that you can use as a kind of a bootstrap starting point. And then we get into some of the front-end view components. So, going back to that design system, they're all converted to view components with their own sets of configurability and properties that end up representing the final design. And these all live in a storybook. So, we use storybook as the living design system documentation. And so, all of those design components are all captured in here. They're all maintained in the same code base. So, when you update or add any of the functionality, create new components or update the properties or configuration associated, then the storybook is just rebuilt and it's very easy for developers to come in and see exactly how to interface with those at a granular level. So, we'll look at what the process actually looks like through back-end to front-end. As mentioned, Drupal content editing is quite standard. You just create nodes, attach routes, use paragraphs, put them in menus. So, the content-authoring experience is very, very traditional, standard Drupal. Site configuration, taxonomy list, configurable through that taxonomy term. The middleware is responsible for pulling the content by a JSON API. It maps that content and does some data transformation to convert that to those ViewJS design components and that it compiles a fully static site and deploys it to QuantCDM. And on the front-end, all users just interface with that static content, the static artifact through the Quant content delivery network. And the way it works is when content is edited in the back-end, it just compiles the changed artifacts and then pushes those. So, they're always up-to-date for end-users and neighbors at the site. A little bit more about Nuxt. So, Nuxt is an aesthetic site generator. It can be configured in varying ways, one of which is a complete static target which will create HTML, JavaScript, CSS, which you can just push to static hosting solutions. It can also be used as a reverse proxy server-side rendering. It's a very configurable tool. We've heard a little bit about TruxJS before. So, TruxJS is an awesome project. If you're interested in decoupled in general, it may help to bootstrap you on a similar journey. It was assessed and we didn't use it for this project simply because we had some requirements that we needed to tackle ourselves. So, that's Nuxt. Next, we're talking about why go static. So, a lot of this is probably pretty obvious. But by moving to a completely static public serve, it gives you a lot of options with your CMS in the back-end. So, you can imagine by having Drupal not serving any content, we don't really have an attack service on our CMS. We can move it behind basic auth. We can take Drupal off and put it behind private networks. Or we can even just turn it off when it's not in use. Just take those servers away and not allow public access. It's that it's faster. So, if you're hitting Drupal and your rendering content, you're talking about twig and databases and all of the various layers and subsystems that are required to generate and deliver that page. In this model, the static artifact is only rebuilt when content changes. So, you're getting the fastest possible results. Static also costs less. So, off the back of that, if you aren't using your CMS as much, if you're scaling back your web presence, then you can see cost savings. And it obviously is leaner and wider. That reduces the energy requirements and reduces environmental impact. So, a little bit more about point. So, point is a content delivery network, global in nature with 60-odd regions engineered for static and jam stack paradigm. Has full support for static stack generators like NUCs like we're seeing today. But it also has a integrated Drupal module. So, if you're interested in taking a Drupal site and making it static, you can enable that module. It will create static version or push it directly to quant. And any content change in Drupal will automatically just create static version and push it into Drupal. So, it will track content change. That is it. We've got that integrated search solution with partnership with Algolia. Scheduled releases is cool. It's basically a two-to-second content release globally. So, we push the content ahead of time and then you can schedule it for 11.59, 59. And everyone around the world will see that content at the exact moment in time that changes. So, nobody else is doing anything similar. Alongside that, there are traditional CDN controls. So, if you want to use it, it's a traditional CDN you can. There's also edge content editing. So, in the case where Drupal isn't available, for instance, in a DRR failure scenario, you can still edit content through WYSIWYG or co-editors. All of the content and media items are tracked with infinite revisions, which is interesting when talking about Government and Archives Act. You can basically go back and see point-in-time snapshots of what any page or content looked like at any point in the past. And with that comes the ability to roll back to historic versions if you need to. All right. So, we'll look at the search solution a little bit more. So, search is baked into every site, which means that when you create a new site, it will just work. You get site search. And the reason this is possible is because we are using standard and consistent content schemers which just means that you can get a really rich and nice search solution out of the box without any development effort. Similarly, when we talked about search widgets and components as managed as content and examples like this, you know, you basically say, I want to embed a search widget. I'm going to restrict it to these content types or page types. I'm going to enable these facets and the way you go. You've got search. Cool. So, we'll talk about some of the wins and the challenges that we faced along the way. The first win was the DEA site launched, which was awesome. So, as far as pilot site go, it's a pretty awesome end result. So, encourage you to go and check that out at the end of this talk. Some of those post-launch results, we've talked about the build process and build times. You can see that it's hovering around three minutes 30 for that DEA site. We've got plenty of additional ideas and proofing concepts to bring this down to a more consistent one-minute kind of build time. And the way we can do that is through iterative build. So, we're just building the small iteration. And Quant already has full support for comparing MD5s of the built-out effects and what's actually being served in the static edge. So, it only pushes content that has actually changed. Yeah, SSR report and the security support looking pretty good as is the Lighthouse. And because this is all coming from one standard platform, this is all centrally managed by the platform administrators. And it means that adding a new site will immediately give you good results without having to spend additional time redeveloping or, yeah, rebuilding anything that's built in from the offset. Some of the challenges. So, yeah, it was ambitious. This particular setup, no one has done. No one's built something that's decoupled using WCMS and all the various tooling that we used. So, there was definitely some teething pain along the way. It's by the right team with right skills and fairly tight time limit budget. It's a pilot project after all. In the back end, there was some component complexity. As I mentioned, we did try to create paragraphs that were configurable, which just added a little bit of extra complexity to those components. And naming things, funnily enough, was one of the harder things, largely because of the various people, the various teams, and all of the systems that were, yeah, design system, front end, all had to have similar names to limit the confusion. In the middle, in the middle where we built that from scratch, as I mentioned, we didn't use thrust. We had to handle a whole bunch of edge cases with, you know, what happens if you enter weird character encoding in CMS? What does the build pipeline look at? So, definitely a lot of hardening that went into that process. And build times, as I mentioned, that's always a challenge when you start to talk about static site generation, especially when you talk about thousands and tens of thousands of pages. In the front end, there were quite a few parties involved. We had Geoscience Australia, but then the programs within Geoscience and making sure that all of the components and the actual final representation would meet their needs. Yeah, a few different parties to communicate with them. There were many components and the storybook was the last one of the way, so standard projects challenges of your face. In terms of wins, though, it was a pretty great outcome. These are the same goals that we had in those earlier slides. The ones with asterisks are the ones that we are working on improving in future dev cycles. The same goes for the project ones. So, on the whole, we met all of the original goals. And a nice quote from Alan, a digital experience manager. Geoscience Australia now has an innovative and sustainable solution for our future platform needs. So, that was a really nice quote from Alan. Okay, so the future of the platform, what can do to make it even more awesome. Step one, obviously launch more sites. So, EFTF, the future and com safety are already underway. They will be launching soon with hopefully more to follow. The platform itself, we are hoping to extend beyond the current web and extend it to these other applications, these other data rich mapping and scientific applications that can benefit from standardization consistency and content and data sharing through an API-first lens. And then beyond GA, at the end of the day, this is a very generic solution. What we built isn't really tailored entirely to GA. What I would like to see, and off the back of some of the conversations that have come out of the keynote, starter kits and sharing what we are doing here. Because at the end of the day, the more people who are going on this journey and sharing in the same sets of tooling, like DrugsJS, the better off we'll all be. So, if there's any interest in what GA are doing, I'm certain that they'll be willing to share what they've got and more people that contribute and share what we're doing, the better, ultimately. Looking forward to D10. So, Olivero, when we talk about what we're actually using Cripple for, it's purely the content altering experience. So, anything that we do in the content admin side is obviously going to improve this platform considerably. So, same goes for CKEditor and the extensions on the API-first initiative. As Lee mentioned, what's happening with exposing menu items and some of the other improvements by adjacent API will be able to piggyback those improvements for sure. And KTPA, obviously, is faster than seven, helps the snappier admin interface. Also interested to see where we go with decoupled components and frontends to directly consume some of that content. Cool. So, we're into questions. So, first question is open source, there's the anywhere we can see the code. So, yeah, as I said, I would love to see a starter kit or something that we can base from this that we can have a broader community input. After this, we'll have a chat with the fine folks at Geoscience Australia and see what we can do to progress that. But at the moment, the answer is no. We'd love to see it then. Webforms, yeah, that's a good one. So, Quant CDN has built-in support for webforms. What it can do is effectively just capture any of the post submission data and stores it in a separate secure enclave. So, it's kind of built-in. There isn't actually webforms on that DEA site, it wasn't in their requirements, but the platform can handle when the time comes. Maintenance and support plans for the middleware. Yeah, so, obviously, this being a bespoke and custom solution, at the moment, there is an ongoing support contract that's in place to manage and maintain and keep regular patching cycles and all of the rest ongoing. One of the benefits, though, is by having this decoupled solution is Drupal's actually doesn't have any public access. So, when it comes to patching cycle and managing highly critical patches, the exposure risk isn't there on the CMS side. The middleware is all contained within the CI pipeline as well. So, yeah, there's not really a lot of exposure risk, but there's an ongoing maintenance burden associated with that. The new system presents geoscience data. No, but that is definitely when we talked about the future of the platform and raising some of the scientific data that is absolutely on the roadmap and on the agenda to try and create more standard and consistent ways to bring that scientific data to the websites. So, yeah, definitely on the roadmap. Had a staging work when a new term site is created live and look behind server restrictions. Yes, so, at the moment, they've got different environments. So, content at the moment, they can create in a separate environment, which is hooked up to a different static serve, which has basic auth in front of it. So, it's not ideal. Again, on the roadmap is preview environments. So, when they're creating draft content, it will be pushing that draft content through to a preview environment. What that's, is some of those initiatives in Drupal Core largely revision capabilities through JSON API. So, we look forward to tackling that one when the time comes. The project fit into original time frame and budget. Yes, mostly. So, it did go over a little bit, but, you know, a week or so. It wasn't too drastic. Having said that, we did have to cut some of the original features down to try and meet the budget. It was, it was quite an ambitious project. I'm supposed to press the tick that one. Cool. I think that might fit for questions. All right. Well, thanks everyone for joining. If you have any follow-up questions or anything else you'd like to discuss, then feel free to reach out. I'll just put that to the contact slide. So, I'm on the Drupal Slack or Twitter or various other means. So, if you want to reach out, then feel free, feel free at any point.


If you look back throughout the spiritual history and literature of people like Yogananda there's a lot of literature and everything and Gary is very clear in pointing out what the Course talked about the teachers of teachers and their form can still appear we already went over that that when you're out of here, you're out of here but the images, the symbols of Jesus and Mary and depending on Guru's Yogananda you know, had many many experiences and so forth I think the good thing about this whole thing is that the Course isn't for everyone and it disappears to the universe isn't for everyone it's just one path among many many and that's what's so beautiful about this but there are those who may see visions, apparitions you know, all kinds of symbols like that that are part of what we call psychic phenomena even people, for example, that have had near-death experiences that talk about seeing relatives we've talked about and we're moving to a tunnel seeing this light and many different experiences you know, sometimes they live kind of like in an underground like they have the experience but they feel like they can never tell anyone else or they'll be judged as wacko and crazy so another benefit of something like this disappears to the universe what it does is there are a number of people on this planet that are having these kind of visions and as Gary has said, there's nothing special about them in the sense that there are people that have healing abilities and there are many different kind of psychic abilities and just in talking among you I can tell that I always hear many different experiences people have and we want to be open and accepting in a sense that nobody should have to feel like they have to be underground or be in the closet about these things and actually when you have symbols of people that come out and actually say, you know, this and share it openly what that does is we've been through this even with things like homosexuality and everything that's where the whole phrase coming out of the closet comes in it's just symbolic that people feel our permission to talk about these things there's no part in the course where it says you will never see visions you may not use words like ascended masters but if you really read it with openness you start to realize that there's a range of psychic phenomena that are actually very much a common part of spirituality and have been for centuries and we can't just lock them out of the dialogue and say that it just didn't happen I think that's to accuse anybody or anybody about their own spirituality that just seems to me something that you have to take it back and look at yourself about what part of myself has insecurity if there's something somebody else is going through on their spiritual journey that I have an issue with and the spirit would say bring it back and just take a look in your own mind you know, don't point the finger one finger out, three fingers back one for the father, one for the son, one for the only guest so that's where we're going it's like Cindy and I were in Mexico in January we were just there again, we did a cruise to Mexico but we were there in January we went to the middle part of Mexico Mexico City, went to the Germans New Mexico City I didn't know that the sun charming New Mexico City is actually bigger it has more mass than the great charming of Giza in Egypt, it's actually bigger and it was just a wonderful experience we went to a place called San Miguel Agenda a beautiful place we went to Guadalajara I thought, oh isn't that nice we went to Guadalajara and I thought the Mexican village has 10 million people we don't have a city in America that has 10 million people and it was just amazing and the thing about it, I wanted to mention because Dave was mentioning these experiences that people have well, near Mexico City there's a chapel, well not a chapel I thought I'll leave it by Lupe now, there's this thing that happened 500 years ago in Mexico City this guy was walking in the winter up on a hill and he saw the Virgin Mary the Virgin Mary appeared to him he was stunned and she said, go tell the priest that I want him to build a church for me here so the guy went and told the priest and the priest wouldn't believe him and the priest said, I want proof give me proof so he went back and he said to the Virgin Mary who is still there and his guy won't believe him if he wants proof so Mary said to him, well go to the top of the hill there this is winter, flowers aren't growing now there's going to be a bunch of flowers up there I want you to pick all the flowers and carry them to the priest that will be your proof so the guy goes up to the top of the hill sure enough all these beautiful flowers blooming, roses right there in the middle of the winter it can't happen and he picks all these flowers and he puts them up to his chest like this he's got one of his long peasant shirts on and he carries the flowers to the ministry of the priest and he says here's your proof there are lots of flowers in front of the priest and what he didn't know was that on his shirt there was this perfect image of the Virgin Mary this perfect image of what they call our Lady of Bodilabies it's like our Lady of Fatima wherever she appears they call her our Lady of So-and-so and this is a beautiful image of the Virgin Mary now the material in that shirt should have decayed and disintegrated after 12 years as most of the shirts do they are made of that they just disintegrate they've gone they fall apart this image has been on display at the church that the priest built for our Lady of Bodilabies it's been there for 500 years and it has never decayed never disintegrated never faded so it's exactly the same as it did 500 years ago it's not a painting they've tested it it looks like a beautiful painting but it's not a painting they've tested it there's no paint there and the reason I bring that up is to show that there are really incredible things that are possible even on the level of form but that's not the way the miracle is occurring the miracle is occurring at the level of the mind so if you read about the Dead Sea Party that may do what it looks like but that's not what the miracle is really happening the miracle is actually happening at the level of the mind and then the Dead Sea Parts the miracle happens at the level of the mind then you have an image of the Virgin Mary that lasts for 500 years and Cindy and I have seen it we were there and somebody tried to blow it up they put a bomb in front of it and tried to blow it up and there was this cross there and the cross completely stopped the bomb and this image was never heard it was never damaged there are all kinds of incredible stories involving this place the people there are just so faithful you'll never get a more Catholic place in the world than Mexico it's like completely Catholic and we saw these kids they walked all across the country then when they get near this church when they get to the cement park they start crawling and crawling themselves to worship Mary and I really think what made that particular event possible was just the faith and the ideas that the people have in their minds and the mysticism and belief in saints and things like that that they have so now I go here and I get this from the nearest it's something like really good in Mexico and I get all these people there into a course of miracles and they're all Catholics and they all get these little saints on their sleeves and things sewed into their shirts and pants and they're like wicked Catholics and yet at the same time they believe in our new person and of course that could happen why wouldn't saints appear? so it's really interesting to see a so open up spell when we go there but what makes all these events all these miracles that you read about the Bible and stuff like that they really do happen and the reason that they happen is because of the power of the mind it's really the mind where the miracle is occurring and then they show up out there on the screen it seemed to be the miracle but the miracle isn't really out on the screen the real miracle is where the projector is which is the mind


I've become very wary of anybody who comes with a plan to save the world. So much harm has been done in the name of good, in the name of saving the world. Because there's a kind of a fundamentalism there. If you're on a crusade, then anything that helps your cause and helps you have the power to administer your solution is good. So in the name of the greater good, people become power hungry and they replicate all of the structures that they're trying to change. We see this in NGOs, for example, in philanthropy. And so another thing you were saying, like talking, speaking about Einstein's maxim, that we can't solve our problems from the same level of consciousness that created them. We're often very blind to what our assumptions are. We think that it's just reality, but it's actually a belief system. But if we assume that it's just reality, we end up replicating it through our actions. So for example, one of the deep assumptions of the myth of modernity, the story of separation is that the way to create change in the world is to exert force to make something change. How do we make a change happen? How do I force somebody to change? How do I pressure corporations to change? Or how do I convince somebody that they're wrong? How do I win a debate? Like there's this oppositional mindset that comes from really Newtonian physics. Nothing changes unless you exert a force on it. Otherwise, the pendulum just keeps swinging forever. But if there's some air resistance, okay, then it will slow down, so there's a force against it. That way of, that oppositional way of relating to the world and to each other is based on a metaphysical assumption. And it's not actually true. Quantum mechanics has shown us that it's not true. When we understand, and to deep program from that actually takes time, that's the space between stories that you referenced earlier, to deep program from that way of thinking, you have to traverse a territory of bewilderment, of everything I thought I knew was wrong, who I thought I was, I am not really. And I don't know what's on the other side of it. Yet on some level, you know that there's something on the other side of it. Some part of you understands that this descent into darkness has a purpose. And in those moments, we need allies actually to remind us of what we know. When we go through that process, then we're able to act from a different place, from a different consciousness and a key tenet of that state is the understanding that we are not the only intelligence in the world, that things happen and not just randomly that are expressions of a larger intelligence and that our power to enact change doesn't depend on how accurately and powerfully we can exert a force and how big an audience we have on our podcast, and how big an audience our writing reaches and all that. There are other very mysterious principles of change at work and that this inconceivable orchestrating intelligence will deploy each of us in the right place at the right moment with the right gifts and with the right instructions to do what needs to be done. And the instructions come through our emotions, not through our calculations.


I'm Major Zach Goodman in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and I'm in third civil affairs group also known as Third Cag out of Great Lakes, Illinois. Basically what we're here to do we're out here conducting engagements which is probably another word for interviews and then assessments going to a physical location and trying to understand what its capacity is and how it's used. We give that information up to the commanding officer and they can use that to have a much better understanding of what we call the civil environment. How military operations can affect what happens to civilians in the civilian infrastructure and then vice versa. How civilian infrastructure and civilian things can affect military operation. Mission accomplishment is number one but at what cost and a lot of times you know the civilians of people who are are impacted the most get overlooked so that's our job to make sure that that doesn't happen. Us working with the Armed Forces of the Philippines is the key to making all of this possible. The big picture is to work with them we are allies we are partners and that their relationship will carry on to the next Balakutan and the next teams that that work with the AFP and vice versa. We were able to work together in peacetime you know if the time comes when we need to pick up arms together for whatever reason we will again have that foundation.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Hotel Nico. It's International Women's Day, March 8th. A lot of stuff happening all over the world. We came here today because the Center's got a great program put together about 400 people, a number of panels on a number of topics. We're excited that they invited us to cover it. And we've got some really exciting guests. And our next guest is Sabine Ali. She's the founder and CEO of Angel Hacks. Sabine, welcome. Thank you so much. And she's joined by Ellen McGirt, the senior editor of Fortune. Welcome. Thank you. So I think we all know what Fortune is. We do. We don't probably all know what Angel Hacks is. So Sabine, what is Angel Hacks? Give us kind of the overview. Yeah, I'll give you the second elevator pitch. We are an international hackathon organizing company. We travel the world and organize hackathons all over the world. And we basically create a bridge between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world to bring entrepreneurs here and give them the same opportunities that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have. So do you do independent hackathons or do you like contract it? Because every conference we go to, we do like 100 conferences a year. We always have some hackathon component. Do you help other people put on it? Hackathons or you just do your own kind of independent? We do both, actually. So we organize a 50 city global hackathon series, which is our own. And then we also work with corporate partners such as Accenture and HPE and others to organize hackathons for their brand. And is it thematic, is there a special thing about the hackathons that you guys do and why you think that that's an interesting way to either develop talent, deliver a message, deliver solutions, what's special about hackathons? Yeah, well, what I can tell you is what's special about hackathons is that it's a community space where people feel comfortable exploring themselves and exploring their talents, working with new individuals and really giving them an opportunity to learn new things and try new things. What's very different about AngelHack is we're actually the world's largest and most diverse developer ecosystem. So we actually have a wide range of diverse backgrounds and genders that come to our events and we personally think that that's really where innovation happens when we bring a variety of different backgrounds and minds together to get together and solve problems using technology.  It is extraordinary. Thank you. This is the sign of the times, the innovation of the world, that things are starting to happen and markets are opening up and Sabine is one of the people who's absolutely making it happen and that's what Fortune does best. We brag on the people that we write about. That's great. Why do you think Ellen, why are things changing now? It definitely feels like they are. It does. But the cynic would say, yeah, we've heard all this before and pick your favorite time up. I know. It's not really different, this tool will pass. Why is it different now? We're talking about this and I actually wish I knew and I'm a cynic too, depending on where I am in my deadline cycle, so sometimes I'm super optimistic and sometimes I think it's just crazy, but I think it's the confluence of many, many things. We've had a lot of stories about injustice and lack of access from every possible sphere and race and age and country and religion, all of it and we have the very same tools, social media tools that are spreading things that are false, are spreading things that are true and people are legitimately finding each other and people are legitimately finding a tribe for lack of a better term and it's kind of exciting. So when you hear about things like Angel Hack, which I always are looking for these in my daily column, it can resonate with people who are not part of the ecosystem and they can absorb the lessons of inclusion and optimism and bring it to the rest of their lives and plus everything's crazy right now in the world. I think it's really important to also point out that in America, our political climate and certain personalities that are in power right now, there's certain topics and subject matters that are becoming everyday topics. People are becoming a lot more comfortable talking about sexual harassment and talking about women in the workplace and it's not like a lot of the stories that women are telling are things that just happened yesterday. This is stuff that's happened in the past that's now unlocked in their memories or they're feeling a lot more comfortable talking about it because we're actually creating an environment where people can talk about it and we're actually creating a language that people can use to express their experiences and their emotions about it. You're absolutely right. So many places we could go. But it was interesting, we're in kind of this rough middle ground where we haven't made this transition to where we're hoping to go. And it was an interesting comment on one of the other panels, you probably weren't in it, you're in your panel about, the Me Too is actually scared some men away from being mentors and somebody said there's less and we cover the Grace Hopper celebration and some of the numbers of women coming out of engineering programs, computer science specifically, are actually not going in the direction that you would think. And so we're still kind of in these choppy waters but I'm just wondering when you set up your hackathon, have you ever set up just not diverse teams to show that the output with the diverse team of opinions, points of view, backgrounds, race, sex, pick your favorite variable, actually deliver better results? Well, you know, there's a ton of scientific research that actually shows that diverse groups and a diverse set of backgrounds delivers better results. So group think it's been proven to be very detrimental. At our events, we don't form the teams. We let the community self-organize and we've seen time and time again that we can actually never predict who the winning team is going to be and what the makeup of that team is going to look like. Yes, you have to try this on time. You got to put them all in a little pile. I don't even know, it doesn't even matter which single group you choose. You just know, as you said, the evidence is pretty clear. They're not going to perform as well as different types of programs.  I know, I just sort of thought about like the sad little homogenous group who was sort of like set up to fail. And that maybe there's a kinder way to make the case. I don't like getting gummy bears or something. So with all you've done at Angel Hack, where are you going next? What do you see as you look down there? And I still can't believe it was 2018 or almost a quarter of the way through this calendar year. What are some of your priorities if we come together a year from now? What will you have to work on? Yeah, hopefully a year from now we would have expanded into more than 92 cities, into more remote regions than we have now. And also we're doubling down on our accelerator. We want to make sure that our winning teams have an opportunity to really come to Silicon Valley or get access to funding that's available in Silicon Valley so that they can have funding and they can be successful for many years to come. And do you see within some of the groups that don't have access obviously to the money and the locations of Silicon Valley that people realize kind of what a powerful world changer technology can be and that you can actually write some code and deliver it to the entire world that people actually use your code to do something different? Yeah, absolutely. That's what we're advocating for. That's really honestly what a lot of our topics discuss that technology doesn't discriminate. It's really when people take a look at it and in fact GitHub did some research that they put a code that was written by men versus code that was written by women and then they had people rate it and immediately people were rating the code that was written by men higher and then they didn't put what gender wrote it and then the code that was written by women was higher. So I think the research is starting and people are starting to realize to put technology first and gender maybe doesn't even belong in the judging criteria here. And do you think part of that's maybe just because we need more people?  On the other hand, check the job listing. We need a lot more people. We do, we do and you're right. We're losing what 25% of jobs with new technology coming in but we are also going to bring all kinds of people online who do not have access to even modern services. We're going to need some very basic things and they're going to need access to markets and then they're going to become more responsible consumers and they in turn will then propose ideas that will make everybody's lives better because one of the things that we talked about is that innovation tends to happen in a bubble and people are solving problems that they themselves are happening with. So whole world will be improved by new levels of thinking and that would also create more jobs. And they're new jobs, right? There wasn't such a thing as a software developer 20 years ago and if you're a buggy whip guy it's probably not a great time to be a business today. So while there are many jobs that are going to get wiped out, there's new jobs, you know, social media manager, I mean that didn't exist what, five years ago at most companies, now it's a huge part of a lot of corporations. So it's this constant evolution in ying and yang. Constant evolution. What are you looking forward to in 2018 is you've got kind of a broad view of the landscape. I do and I write a daily column about race and culture so that's just how we got a chance to meet. Diversity and inclusion has been sort of the thing I've been studying for the last two years and as difficult as the world is and as crazy as it is, I really do see an opening that's happening when people are becoming more open to the idea of thinking different ways and embracing people who are different from themselves and not feeling threatened. We're still in choppy waters though, you're absolutely right. Well, and the other thing too, right? I always say, you know, if you're a hundred miles from a coast in the United States I won't speak for other countries because I don't know it as well. You know, there's a point of view and if you're more than a hundred miles from the coast maybe with Chicago as an island or Denver there's a little bit of a difference. Are you seeing kind of it getting beyond, beyond those kind of short borders? Because obviously, as you said, a lot of social stuff going on right now there's a lot of diametrically opposed views and I blame actually technology for a lot of it because thanks to the recommendation engines we tend to get served up things that we've read in the past. So unlike where you had kind of one newspaper in town everybody had to read it so it had to be kind of down the middle now the silly algorithms will keep delivering stuff that supports my point of view and other people will get delivered with their point of view and I think the surprise after the election illustrated more than anything that people didn't know anything about the other side. The shock, so are we getting past that? Do you see kind of what you take on that? I'll start and then you jump in. I think that when we invest in communities that are under invested in wherever they are I live in St. Louis, you will see innovations and maybe you won't always see the innovations that you're hoping for that will knit society together. But investment will flow and new product ideas will flow and most importantly to your point and understanding of how the world actually works will flow. I'll go the reason why to study software and code engineers maybe you don't want to be that maybe you want to be an opera singer but it will make you a better more informed citizen. It will make you better to understand what's real and what's not real. I mean I'm a big fan of liberal arts education in technology because it helps you understand how people actually behave and what markets actually need. So I think that as people have the tools and use the tools, investments will follow, lifestyle will follow. So I guess I'm just outing myself as an optimist here. Good, that's good. Sabine, what do you think? And I have to be optimistic as well. Again, being at the forefront of emerging technology I know that there's people looking to solve that very problem and they're coming from a diverse group of engineers and I really feel like that we're gonna come up with a lot of tech solutions that are gonna make a lot more diversity inclusion easier to facilitate and easier to implement in corporations as well. Well keep up your good work. I mean at the end of the day it's about democratization. It's giving more people more access to the tools and you're gonna get better solutions, more solutions, more diverse solutions. So great job and thanks for taking a few minutes. Thank you so much. All right, I'm Jeff Rick. We're at the Ascension International Women's Day celebration. Thanks for watching.


My name is Hunter Paulie. I'm a Belgian who has been living in Japan since 94. An entrepreneur who turned into a very creative thinker, focusing on how to be able to respond to the basic needs of everyone on earth, of course starting with water, which is life. You know, if we are to secure that we lift people out of poverty, that we ensure that everyone has an abundance of water and not a scarcity of water. It's very obvious we have to change the way we're doing things today and not just change, we have to radically change and the technologies but particularly the business model. You know, we have always in an economy a supply and a demand side and on the demand side we have to realize that there are complete new ways that will eradicate even the use of fresh water. And if we look at how rice is being farmed today in China, solely using saltwater, sea water, how we have in Australia tomato farms that produce drinking water as a byproduct instead of using drinking water. I think we come very clear face to face with a completely new set of realities but on the production side as well we have to rethink the way we're doing it. In Ecuador we have social housing in bamboo whereby the production of 40 houses a day requires 2000 hectares of bamboo to be planted and the planting of bamboo generates drinking water because that is what the native bamboos do in the mountains. So housing producing your own drinking water by having a different choice of materials seems like a very strange thing to do but that is exactly what we require and how can we for example provide whole regions where people are suffering from gastrointestinal diseases due to the lack of quality water? How can we turn that around in regions that are producing drinking water, drinking water for free for the local population? You know, the most important to realize is that water is life and water is a means to be able to at the same time have community, have local industry, have agriculture. If you have no water you have no slaughterhouse, you have no cheese manufacturing, you have no yogurt, you have no ice cream and so what we need to do is scream for a new way of approaching this because unless we come face to face with a hard reality that today we have a dramatic shortage of drinking water and the costs are rising, we must change the way we look at reality and the only way to do it is to look at reality through the eyes of a child, a child who doesn't recognize the problem, a child that comes to this world and only sees opportunities and that's what I tried to present in the blue economy, a fresh way of looking at the economy where you're not green or just green because you want to save the planet, you want to be blue because when you create unlimited opportunities so we can deploy the best resource we have in the world, which is the creative human mind.


Thanks for checking out this video. So this is the announcement for the next watch party that I'm doing I think this will be the fourth watch party If you are curious we are doing this through the senior extension, which is an extension to Google Chrome All you need to do this to participate in this is a shutter account because that's what we use for our movies So you need a shutter account. You need Google Chrome and you need it's the senior extension with an account for Scenar now if you get all that stuff, you can join us for this the next one will be January 2nd at 7 p.m Eastern Standard Time that is a Saturday and we're going to be watching a giallo film because I've been watching a lot of Giallo recently and I want to introduce some of the stuff I quite like that I've been finding two other viewers so we are going to do Lamberto Bobba's a blade in the dark I have some interesting things to say about this film I will have a review out on it the day that we're going to have the watch party But I will also talk about things during the movie and kind of break things down So that's kind of how these watch parties go now everyone who's attended has said they've had a great time It's been a lot of fun, especially because we can get you on camera We can hear you talking and we can interact and you can throw your two cents in during the film Which I think is an awesome way to do this stuff. So please join us Once again Saturday January 2nd at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time once again, you need a shutter account You need Google Chrome and the extension Scenar for Google Chrome as well as an account for that now one thing I want to I want to tell people is if you want to automatically know whenever I'm doing another Watch party without having to see a video on YouTube When you're in Scenar and you have your profile and account all set up Look up my name. Just Carl and cook or you can go to the extension Scenar.com slash Carlton Malibu which is C-A-R-L-T-O-N M-A-L-I-B-U that's the extension for my profile You go there and you follow me and then that way whenever I create in there a scheduled event Which would be one of these watch parties you will get notifications So you will be able to keep track of when it's coming up So yeah, that's how it's gonna work and I'm doing these public initially. I started with doing them privately. These will be done publicly so When you sign in just Put something in the chat if you want to be involved in being on camera and being you know actually audibly heard during it Just put something in chat saying hey, I'm here and I'd like to Use my camera use my audio and then I can give you permissions within the watch party to do exactly that So anyway, I'll say it one more time Saturday, January 2nd 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time a blade in the dark by Lamberto Bava It's gonna be a good time. Hopefully we'll see you there Also real quick hit that subscribe button that way you'll know whenever I'm putting out more of these announcement videos for when we're gonna Do the watch parties, but like I said follow my profile on Scenar That's probably the best way to go about things, but thanks so much for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal