So yeah, last year the summit focused on challenges. Now we've sat through a long day with a packed program focusing on opportunities and some challenges well kind of crept in there. But with this closing session let's try to synthesize see what we can get out of this. Maybe formulate a policy recommendation or two. And then before we send you off to Faustum of course and some cocktails. But let me introduce the people who will help me do this. So it's Hilary Carter from the Linux Foundation, Sachiko Muto from OFE and the Research Institutes of Sweden, Fredyks Vansum of Red Pill Limpro, Andreas Gauge of Open Exchange, and here's the tricky one, Maximilian or Max of IBM. So we'll get going straight away. Sachiko, in your view what is an open source opportunity? All right, well first let me just say that I think it was genius that you at least scheduled cocktails for after this session. So you know we're in between you and the cocktails but at least there are cocktails so people are still here some of you at least. Okay that's a that's a nice little question Astor. I think you know we and also your introduction to the session because we had a little prep call or prep meeting before this and I think we all started sort of striking out our notes, our speaking notes because we realized that there would be no chance of providing any sort of fresh content at this point. But you know, I had planned to mention the study which has been mentioned a few times already so that should have been struck out but talking about an opportunity that's a really broad question but I think it's about you know seeing that there's value in something but then also that there's an untapped potential and I just sitting here today I was thinking about okay let's let's look at this automotive panel that's going to be really exciting as a sort of way to illustrate you know the the opportunity for open source and and I really realized that you know it is both something that can illustrate a value that's already happening but also indeed the the opportunity that's still there because there are some challenges to still be to sort of be overcome still. I think but about that and really illustrating how sort of competitors can come together in a sector and really collaborate and focus on sort of innovate quickly and and and and focus the resources on sort of the top innovative layer. I think that's really the opportunity and we saw one sector but there are there are so many other sectors we can be talking about and and Hilary mentioned you know when we had that little conversation beforehand sort of you know the the entertainment industry the movie industry for example the the fashion industry you know and I think it opens some some eyes here as well because it kind of goes beyond what we are normally focusing on so and then really the opportunity it's for the public sector. I think this is something that we've been talking about for years. It's about sort of it's it's time for the public sector to also benefit from from from this way of innovating that's sort of already winning I guess in in you know in the industry and so maybe we'll talk a little bit more about that later on in the panel. Yeah and Hilary good perfect segue they they're mentioning Hilary. Last year you led the publication of the report the world of open source Europe spotlight 2022. With this analysis in mind and what you've heard to hear today what stands out for you as Europe's biggest open source opportunity you can of course pay more than one. Indeed and there are many and thank you Astor and thank you Sachiko and everyone here especially open form Europe for supporting our research and being a partner and allowing us to have a data driven approach to how we view open source and the opportunity and what I love about the research process is it identifies gaps and so we have a chance to fill them and that's why I'm so excited about where we can go from here. Excuse me and one of the areas that our research identified was that Europe was not fully realizing the value of open source in particular certain sectors certain countries lagging behind others and most of the small and medium size enterprises were not taking advantage of the open source opportunity. Apart from the industry level collaboration and new industries that as they are becoming more software defined they're capitalizing on the opportunity but what I'm most excited about is the possibility for the public sector as Sachiko mentioned to deliver citizen services at lower cost and be a model user of this technological gift which is how we tend to see it and when we can realize that vision and you know COVID was a terrific example of here is a pressing need around credentials and health or whether it's customs and border control or there's any other kind of citizen service the opportunity to develop cost effective trusted digital solutions that create efficiencies and add so much value and allow Europe to get on with the business of innovating instead of waiting in long digital lineups or waiting for things that should be efficient but are not that is the tremendous opportunity whether it's a regulatory opportunity or a public sector opportunity. I think that's where Europe has the most to gain. Businesses were mentioned and so we're turning over to Frederick and Andreas and annoyingly enough I'll give you a joint question so you kind of will have to decide who answers first. So moving away from the innovation model itself and opportunities that comes from that what would you say is the state of the European open source industry what opportunities do we see in terms of innovation, new jobs, economic growth, growing your companies. Is it a good time to be an open source company? Wow that's a large question Astur. First of all I would like to sort of summarize what's been said already today. There are lots of opportunities with open source software and open code. Many of them have already been mentioned but I would like to emphasize again that talking about the digital sovereignty for instance I would like to say I would like to think that open source is the solution to that. I mean with open source open code you can choose how to deploy the software. You can make sure that your GDP are compliant and all the stuff that comes with that. But furthermore open source also creates an option to invest in software building software creation in Europe and I also think it makes it possible to create a lively and productive software community in Europe that will enable both sort of innovation today but also future innovation because if investments in digitization, if they stay that money stays in Europe, that creates a foundation for further investment and further innovation. And to your question Astur, it is a good time to be an open source company in Europe today. There's a lot of requests for competence and knowledge and as a open source system integrator company we are making sure that if there is demand there will also be supply for experienced and talented developers working with open source software. Yeah I can only agree it is much easier to attract talent if you have an open source background so if you are on a positive side of karma for sure. But we also shouldn't forget that there is large companies dominating big parts of this industry and the only way I see how Europe can kind of get back on track and be competitive with that is open source. Like collaborating, openness, speed, innovation that comes all from open source and the only things that break monopolies are governments, technical disruption and open source. So Max, now I'm trying to go through the full panel with annoyingly big and difficult questions but so Fredrik and Andreas talked about the business opportunities. Now let's pivot back to the technology. What is the role of open source today would you say in the development of like tomorrow's technologies? You're involved in these things? Yes. So obviously a very broad question as you said. I'll start by maybe quoting a famous European who said that if you could only see further than most people and it's because he was standing on the shoulders of giants, he just happens to be on an island of Europe but anyway, we all know Isaac Newton's famous quote. I think it sort of summarizes for me what open source brings which is that it brings a foundation that you can build on top. And it's a foundation you don't want to recreate. So as an example of this, I'll give you three different examples, one in the past that I experienced, one in the present that I'm experiencing and one I believe that's going to come or it's coming in the future. So in the past, a lot of you probably old enough to remember when USB or universal serial bus came about. So all those devices that you plug into your laptops, there was a time when these were new. And in order for you to use most of those devices that would come like cameras, mice, etc., you had to have a driver and you had to wait for the operating system that you're using to have the right driver, etc. And it would take time. You could buy a device and then you couldn't use it, like especially hard drives, for instance. And what I remember at the time, we were coming up at IBM with new devices. And I needed to have those working on machines. And very quickly, we were able to build those because we built our solution on Linux. And why did that work is because we had access to the code. And Linux had an initial driver for USB. And you could come in and bring your own device and could the driver for USB. So this is an example of how open source allows you to create innovation very quickly. You don't have to wait for the next release of the operating system, which would usually take like two years before USB was available for it. So that's one example in the past. In the present, an example of this is cloud. If you're going to build anything related to cloud right now, it'd be foolish, almost crazy, to think that you could build your own stack. You just go and use what exists right now, which is a Linux Kubernetes stack. And it's a huge amount of code that works. And not only works, it works at scale. So if you're going to build something for the cloud, build on top of that. And then the last thing I'll mention is that now I'm one of my mission is open quantum. If you want to play in that field, you want to start adding, you know, experiment with quantum computers, you're going to build it with an open stack, not only for the cloud, but also, for instance, with Kiskit, which is an open source toolkit build using Python. And then chasm, which is an open source definition of how to actually talk to those quantum computers. So I think the basic thing is, if you think you're smart enough, and you can build your own code and build it fast enough to release it in time, then I've added or use what exists that works and is stable. So that's the future is open source. I just don't see any other way, if you want to do it in the time that we think. I mean, so but then I'm thinking we're here, it's an open forum Europe event, we have a panel, we're more or less concluded that open source is pretty good. But so I'm trying to think, not the great surprise that's the quote for this event, right? Open source. It's pretty good. But so let's try to identify and get to like some policy changes needed. Like what can we do? And as I see it, I'm trying to like summarize, well, kind of off the top of my head, but I've also taken some notes from today. Firstly, it will be important for us to safeguard the innovation model and make sure that open source maintain, you know, stays frictionless, right? Secondly, there's policy aimed at allowing the European open source software industry to grow. We will need that capacity to have that capacity in the industry to meet and realize these opportunities. And then thirdly, I think there is a need of policies or even regulation that lowers the barriers for open alternatives to compete. I think these are kind of three main groupings of policy approaches if we're talking about, especially let's say the European Union and what could be done. But so to make this a bit more concrete, and the questions are not going to get easier. Andreas, if you were to advise a government, and I mean a national government, how they should approach creating a national strategy for open source. And this is for a nation, not a city, not a company, not an industry, the country. How should they go about it? What should the goals be? Oh, that's an easy question. So I would say, first of all, you know, I think one of the main goals for any government should be that data sovereignty is actually happening. And so the opposite of sovereignty is dependency. So first thing I would say is make sure that all the important parts of your infrastructure are not depending on one single whatever company or something, right? It should be interchangeable. There should be minimum two options for anything so that you can kind of move on, decide and dependent if something goes wrong, if one of the things doesn't work anymore, there should be another thing that can replace it. And then secondly, especially for smaller companies and open source companies tend to be smaller than the big ones, right? There are some exceptions. Make a stable playing field. Decide for standards. Don't create standards. Decide for existing ones, right? Only if you can't do other, create one, but there's plenty there. So decide for standards, cement them that people can rely on them, building stuff based on them and also force anyone in the market to support them. And thirdly, don't only listen to companies or organizations. There is two groups you should also talk to. And the first and the most important one is developers, right? Developers can easily tell you if a standard or anything you want to do regarding to your infrastructure makes sense or not. Much more direct and much more easy than any kind of like people that have an agenda and typically companies tend to have a very strong agenda. So not a good source for information. And also users, you know, once you have built something and you're proud of it, be only proud of it, if the users that have to use it are happy with it. It's also very certainly done, especially before release. So yeah, I think these little three rules would be super helpful. I know it's very pragmatic, but I'm a pragmatic guy. Yeah, Fredrik. Yeah, if I may add to that, I think trying to raise it up a level, as you said, we have concluded open source is pretty good. So I would say if I was a country or a national agency or even the EU, I would implement a policy that says that you should always evaluate open source projects or software before you make a purchasing decision. And if there is a viable open source project out there, always choose that. And thirdly, all publicly financed or funded development should always be open source and you should be able to reuse it for other organizations that are also public. And I think it's on the fifth on my list now, create a space where all the publicly funded development can be shared with others. There are five bullets that I would like to send with an include in a national or EU policy. And then lastly, make it easy to buy services related to open source software. So create like a framework agreement that are either influenced by open source or where you include vendors that can help you with open source based solutions and services that makes it easy for public sector organizations primarily to use and to buy services related to open source. I think those things will make it easier for public sector organizations within the EU to buy and use open source software and related services. Hilary, looks like you want to say something. I would only add, this is a phenomenal list, Frederick, I would add if I were advising government and although I am from Canada, I have Irish citizenship, so I would approach government of Ireland first and foremost is requiring open source development skills training earlier in the education system so that Europe has a workforce that is skilled for the digital economy for the open source software infrastructure. Because as my colleague would say and I heard Gail Blundell from Eclipse Foundation saying we have to raise our skills and our communities and our talent pools. We cannot hire our way out of the digital transformation imperative. We must raise the skill level among our citizens. So I would add that educational component as being baseline and start earlier. And I feel, didn't the Deputy Prime Minister say that 2023 is the year of skills? Let's add it. But Sachiko, I see you want to say something, but I'll formulate it as a question and then you can take it as you want. I'll say whatever I was planning to say anyway. But this is also ideas as an organization with an agenda. So if I hope you will listen to some of the information that we have to say as well, Sachiko, you know OFE really well. We have worked for 20 years to level the playing field for open source alternatives. But here we are still. How would you say, what is the state of play for the alternatives? Is the playing field level? So this is when I, OK, so well, 20 years you said I've been there for 15 of those years. And to some extent, it's clear that things have, a lot of things have changed, right? And so and OFE has also come a long way and asked our congratulations on the event. I think it's been really great. Paola of course also, but and the rest of the team. But I think that, you know, that's a reflection also of how far, you know, open source has come and we have kind of grown alongside of that. But I think one thing that hasn't changed, you know, open source is eating the world, open source is one, all of that. But it struck me that one conversation where we haven't moved very much is actually on procurement. And you didn't say, you know, you didn't use the words procurement, but that's what you're what you're talking about. And I think this has been, it's, I really think that we need to make some progress there. But at the same time, I don't want to say that we haven't made progress because indeed we heard from the deputy prime minister and after that in the public sector panel, actually some important practical, you know, projects that are moving forward. And I think it's important there that that we sort of, you know, what they said also in that panel, like let's let's build on each other's experience. Let's sort of share between governments experiences and things like that. And I think I'm hoping, you know, you had an ambitious list there. I do hope that the Interoperable Europe Act, which introduces some, it's not just words because that was one thing that was also deployed, I think, by some some speakers in previous panels that, you know, we've had some very positive ministerial declarations, you know, like there's the talent declaration, there's the Berlin declaration, you know, all these declarations and where it's easier to just to celebrate like, oh, now it's going to be like open by default or something like that. All the ministers have signed, you know, it's it's the Interoperable Europe Act does propose some specific sort of first structures, but also things like an agenda, you know, an Interoperable Europe agenda, where we're going to hopefully see at the European level, you know, a listing of priorities of this sort of the type of interoperable in e-government solutions that are needed. And even it proposes the possibility of developing some of these technologies at the European level. And I really foresee, like if this could work like that, you know, opportunities also for for European SMEs to work at sort of the regional or local or national level to sort of help governments further develop and and and customize those shared solutions and then also being able to sort of bring that back to to to Europe. Yeah, so I mean, I'm not sure that answer the question, but it was more less what I wanted to say. So and here, Max, I'm going to put you on the spot. Yeah. Simply following Andreas's recommendation, we should talk more to the developers. What do you think? What is your take then? Any reactions on the things that are coming from very much the developers point of view? What would you be looking for? Yeah, so I guess as a developer, the thing I would tell people is that well, two things. So first is building software is hard. What I mean by this is you can all build very trivial piece of software, right?  But that doesn't matter, right? Building large piece of software is very hard and building it so that it scales is even harder. What do I mean by this? If you just go by the fact that the code has to be written, sort of like a language, you're writing a novel and you have to type it, right? So you think, OK, let's say we're going to build, you know, a cloud software and you think, OK, how much code is that? Something like Kubernetes is in the millions of lines of code. And it scales. And that's why. So if you were to build it with a team, imagine how long it would just take to type. And that's not even a team that knows what they're doing, just to type it. You can see how long it would take. Now, that's just to create it. Once you have the software created, it has to scale. So you now have to think about how do you scale it? And that's just the beginning of it because you also have to maintain it. So as developers, there's a series of things you have to do. And maintenance is dealing with security like what a previous panel was talking about. And those things come up all the time. So as a developer, that's what we need, right? Is the whole lifecycle is dealing with the creation, the getting it to work so it's correct testing it, then scaling it. Then it's in the public and you have to essentially now maintain it. All of that takes time. When you're in a community, when you have a community around the software, such as an open source, it makes it a lot easier to deal with all these steps. And I think that's the key is that as developers, building that community, being part of a community helps and open source makes it much better than if you have it in private organization. I've worked in both and I can tell you it's a lot more fun, less stress and a lot easier to have a community.  They are usually smarter people that are not working in your organization. Except for our organization. That's just the way it is. And I've seen it repeated over and over again and they come from all over the world. So, you know, when you have open source, you can hopefully tap into that. But then it feels like I'm trying to, like, everyone seems to have come back in one way or another to this kind of skills, competence, like having a skilled workforce question. And I'm going to see if I can force that into the last question here and then it will be open up for reactions. But so Andreas and Frederick, I'll start with you again because I do talk quite often to open source entrepreneurs, business owners, et cetera. And my earlier question was quite leading about, like, how is it to be because, be an open source entrepreneur today? Because when I talk to them, they're very busy. There is quite some demand and, you know, meeting the demand is a challenge, but it's there. And for the kind of opportunities and the promises that we have listed here today, we would need quite a lot to meet those. So can the industry meet this promise, this demand? Are you ready? Yeah, I've checked GPT, so they will do all the development for me. I heard, I guess, I don't know. No, it's difficult, certainly. But I think if you are a smaller company and you have a positive karma open source agenda, it's much more easy to find people and for large companies with maybe a negative karma agenda. So this is not our major problem. Our major problem is still that it's quite tricky to make money with open source. I know we are all growing and it's work somehow, but it's trickier, much trickier than just being the only one who can supply it and putting a price tag on it. If you innovate, there's people that download it and just use it. Do you mean that it's a lot easier to kind of have a monopoly position than being exposed to a lot of competition? A monopoly position is the easiest there is, right?  You have an innovative product and you are the only one who is supplying it. It's much easier to make money with it than you have an open source project or you make it open source and then there's a whole ecosystem that uses it for free and there's other companies that use it, that make even money with it. It's just more difficult. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's more difficult. So that is something all open source companies think about day in, day out. I can promise you that. Yeah, it sounds like open source companies are exposed to a lot of competition. But usually you're pretty good. Fredrik. Yeah, from my perspective, I'm representing an open source solutions provider or systems integrator. And as from my perspective, open source has always attracted top talent. So we have really skilled people working for us. And of course, they can share their skills with ambitious and eager people to learn. So I think that's one way of approaching the issue, making sure that we have a program to sort of skill up people and to further expand the workforce that way. Another way we do that we do here in Europe is that we cooperate with our peers. There are other companies, my company's based in out of Scandinavia. We have other companies based out of Germany, France and so forth. And we do have a collaboration with them. So we collaborate and we learn from each other. And if we need to scale a project in Scandinavia, I know who to turn to. And I hoping that my peers in France and Germany also know that they can turn to me for assistance if they need to scale up for projects. Is there any kind of public policy, legal framework or something that could improve and help and increase that collaboration? This is really of putting you on the spot. Yeah, no matter. But I think I have an answer to that. I think I also mentioned that. I mean, it would make our life easier if there was like a framework agreement in place or that made it easier for public sector organizations to start with when they want to purchase services related to open source software. Definitely. So if there is a framework agreement in place that is either influenced by the willingness to use open source software or even implies that you need to use open source software that would make it easy for public sector organizations to purchase the services they require. Well, it's good. I'm thinking like, you know, reading the the archives of OFE over the last 20 years. In some ways, everything is different. And in some ways, everything is still the same. So it's good. I have a French. Yeah, yeah. And I have things to do for the next coming years. It seems like we haven't solved everything. But just I'm thinking now I'm just improvising here. But just some last words from each one of you and make them positive and energetic so we have something inspiring to talk about during the cocktail. Hillary first. That's easy. Thank you. My favorite idea is this notion of leadership and who will lead us to where we need to go? Who is a special person from an industry from a non-governmental organization who will rally the leaders and the change makers? Because I think my theory of digital transformation is one of leadership. But it comes down to people who are willing to take a career bet and have the courage of their convictions. And that's what I think is going to be the magical formula that helps build out the open source opportunity in Europe. Is that your no preparation? Asking me to be upbeat, you know.  She said she's optimistic person. I think it like I said, I think there are some very positive messages today. I think we should go back and listen to the to the opening sort of key note as well, because I think there are a lot of a lot of good things in there. I didn't have a chance to get back to you on the skills thing. I think it is important and I think it's important to some of the things that came out of here is that, you know, the developers, the top talent, they want they prefer to work on open source. And I think that's important for Europe if we want to to attract and keep the top talent. I think it was Mirko that said, you know, open source reduces redundant effort.   And, you know, I think often in Europe, we talk also about not wanting to be like we wanted to we want to be at the cutting edge. And really, that's what, you know, open source provides the opportunity for. And often we see 27 replications. So Frederick. Yes, this panelist about the opportunities with open source and there are many opportunities, of course. But I think my favorite one is to use open source to fuel a lively and productive software creation community in Europe. Let's make sure that tech innovation happens here both now but also in the future. And I think that's the sort of main opportunity for us living in Europe with open source. Thank you for taking mine away. Humans are successful because they collaborate, right? That is one of the main reasons why they are so successful. And open source is a very successful form of collaboration, right? Like worldwide, diverse, no borders. Do you think there's a better anything that is actually better than open source when it comes to collaboration? I don't think so. So we are spearheading the future of humanity, let's say like that. How do I follow this? Well, maybe I'll give I'll add to it by giving you some very specific examples. So the last work that I did now I'm engaging into open quantum. But the last work that I did was in K-native, which is a layer on top of Kubernetes to make it serverless. So that started at Google and I believe Google in Seattle, most the American engineers. Then various groups started being involved, especially Red Hat in Germany. Then more folks from the U.S. But there's also quite a bit of collaboration right before the pandemic from China. We had lots of engineers in China adding to it. And then now you have folks from Japan doing big contribution to it. And then also more of the rest of Europe. So in other words, exactly what you said is that it's a human endeavor and I'm seeing more and more contribution coming also from different parts of the world that you haven't seen in the past, like for instance from Africa. And that's the beauty of open source is that it opens it up from the rest of the world and you get people that are contributing from places that you would never expect because they want to use it. And we have a Slack channel and there are people responding and you have GitHub issues that you can open and people can discuss. So really the only thing you need to kind of know is to be able to speak English a little bit. And that's it. Yeah, I guess we all know that top talent is out there and often and not in the groups that you think it's going to be in there just all over the place. But then I guess also just now, of course, I'm hijacking the end here because I'm the session leader, but I want to thank all of you for joining. But before I get off stage, because I know that I'm keeping you from going to the cocktail, I really want to thank the OFE team for putting everything and all of this together.  Thank you very much and thank you for joining. And now I think Paula has some final words and then I'll meet you out there for a drink. Bye, everyone. Thank you, Astor. Thank you, everyone. I was really thinking what to say at the end. I took so many notes, but to be honest, just this quote, we are spearheading the future of humanity. I think this is a good start for the cocktails. But having said that, thank you very much for coming. Thank you to all the speakers for sharing your insights with us. I think we have a lot of food for thought. I hope that you're coming to FOSDEM. Take a look, especially at the legal and policy track. We will be there just hanging out, so let's see each other. But I want to say thank you to OFE team, to the tech team here on site. Yeah, you hosted us very well. And I hope to see you next year, probably in a larger group. Let's see how we do it and for how long. See you there and enjoy the cocktail.


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My name is Anton Zotin. I'm from Germany, but was born in Russia in Siberia. I'm working in a here company. It's a part of a Nokia company. And today we will try to figure out, based on our real experience, how Kanban works. And I want to make a comment that this workshop will be extremely hand-on experience. So, please be prepared to be very active. I think that's a good time after lunch, not to fall into the food coma. And what also I want you to do, please come a little bit closer. You need to occupy eight tables, because we will have eight workstations. I don't know. I don't know. Please self-organize. So, I need eight tables, full of people. That's first. Second, I want to give you advice. Please clean your tables as much as possible, because everything that's now on your tables will be your waste, and it will limit your speed. How much you will be able to get? So, eight tables. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Wonderful. Okay. Please clean your tables. If you do not clean your tables, you will have some problems. Does any table need multi-members? Because maybe you will want to rearrange your resources. Yes, maybe you need more, or maybe you want to fire someone from your table. Okay. Good. So, what we are going to do today? Today, we will run a special business. We are eight companies that are producing animals from Lego. Inside your boxes, there are your resources that we will use. I think you know that resources are quite pricey, so use them wisely. On the other hand, you know that you are eight companies and eight competitors, and you need to work really fast. So, what you are going to do? That's very simple. First, you need to define at every table one customer. This customer will accept work. So, just for one minute, please very quickly define. If you found a customer, raise the hand. Got. Got. Got. Got. One customer. Got. Got. You have a customer? Yeah. Awesome. Only one customer per table. Don't try. I know that you would like to be a customer, all of you. But sorry, only one customer. Okay. So, how you will work? That's very simple. The first step now is a top secret step. We will find out what is it about a little bit after some time. So, these are instructions for every team. These animals we are going to build. Please spend some time to investigate what is this animal. So, what we are going to do? We are going first to build an animal as fast as possible and as much as possible. Second, build animal doesn't mean that it's ready. It should be colored. And you will have a special color stations. One for each team. These stations are very, very pricey. Because of that, you have only one. So, all money. And yes, of course, don't cheat with Lego because I already see that some team started to serve them. Because if any Lego left the box, that's a bought resource. Okay? So, if Lego inside of the box, that's a market of these resources. If any piece left the box, sorry, you spent your money. Okay, good. How we are going to color done animals? That's also very simple. Colorful station has several rules. First, it can color at the same time no more than three animals. So, you put three or less animals, done animals onto this coloring station. And check by the timer for at least 30 seconds. So, if animal stood on the station less than 30 seconds, sorry, it's broken. It could be stand more. Also, coloring station, when it started to work, it's closed. So, you define when it starts to work. After that, you are not able to put any more animals. You wait until the coloring process will finish. Okay? What next? Next, after your animal is built and colored, you need to put an individual serial number. Well, we are a strong business. We need to put serial numbers to competitor with China developers, because we want to make a strong trademark. How to put a serial number? You have this tape, you put this tape on the animal and put eight digits, individual serial number. It will help to prevent any China duplicates. Also, to be sure that any animal was built inside of your team, you need to put this serial number into a special serial number journal. You could use any piece of paper, please, during any team. Okay, so after animal is built, after it's colored, after it's got an individual serial number and this individual serial number was put into the serial number journal, you are able to give this animal to your customer. How customer is going to check if it's okay or not? So, rules for customers. First, check color pattern. That's important. So, if you see that some pieces of animals on the photo are different, they should be different. But also, it could be any other colors. So, if you see that on the photo, only black and white colors, you could use, for example, green and yellow. Okay? Also, customers, check the shape. So, pieces, bricks, could be different. For example, it could be not something like a big part, but a number of small parts. But the final shape should be the same as on the photo. Okay? Any questions? Good. Good. So, how we are going to run this? We'll run this in iterations. To identify that iteration started, you will hear this signal. Okay? That's the start. Also, if you hear it again, that's the finish. When you got a finish of iteration, please raise your hands and do nothing with what's happening on the table. Because we are here not well, not to game really in a rush and not to cheat, we're here to learn. If we will cheat and rush, we will learn nothing. Okay? So, yes. No, customer, well, that's the customer. Customer can't be involved in the process of development. Okay, any other questions? Five minutes, yes. Okay, so, let's start do it the first time. Yes, sir? Yes. You are able, believe me. Raise your hands. Okay, several comments before we will do something. First, I made an observation. Customers, these observations for you also. First, I've seen that different teams started to build different ships with a different size. That's wrong. The shape, the shape as in picture should be the same. So, you can't build a ship like this, like this size. Only the size that is described on the picture. That's first. Second, I've observed that some teams started to use bricks of any colors. So, like, their ships look like hipsters or hippies. So, for example, five colors in one ship or ten colors in one ship. Only two colors, as I described also on the picture. Third, I've seen that some teams started to color a lot of animals on the coloring station. I don't know how, because this station can't color more than three animals at once. Okay? After these comments, customers honestly make a final acceptance on the table right now for ten seconds. Okay, okay. So, what I want you to do now, every team will get such paper. And this paper, you should put number of rounds. So, this is the first round. Number of animals that were accepted. Number of animals that were not accepted. And number of bricks that are on the table right now. So, that were put out from the box and that were not used. So, if you have, for example, a ship that is built but not colored, that's also number of bricks because that's not a delivered value. That's something in progress. So, calculate all bricks that are in progress. Just from the box, just a part of the ship. Oh, just ship that is coloring right now. To come back here for next site. No, no, no. Right now we're just calculating. Okay, what we should do with this? For next site. This is accepted? Yes. Let me check. It looks like it's not accepted. No? Yeah, because you see, it's not so tall. But our customer is happy. Hang on. It's not this, it's not so tall as that. It should be like this. So, this is the right. Okay? Okay. Yes, of course. So, the ones that weren't colored, do they carry over? So, if they are colored? They didn't go through coloring. So, just calculate, this is bricks. They are in progress. Any questions? Yes, everything is okay. I've just accepted two. Because one single number was only six. Okay. Good. They can rework, right? What? They can rework on this in the next site. I will explain it later. I have a question. Yes? This brick is a log. So, can I consider it two bricks or one brick? It's one brick. Yes, yes. Any questions? Any questions? These are not accepted. This will be considered as an individual brick. Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Yeah? So, putting the serial number also part of five minutes? Yes, of course. Of course, that's a part of the process. Any questions? Yes, that's a waste. That's still in progress. So, calculate the number of bricks. Okay. Any questions? So, the current number of rounds, number of accepted animals, and number of bricks that are on table. Don't put bricks inside of the box. Leave them on the table. Are you ready for the next round? Please raise your hands that you are ready. Please raise your hands to show me that you are ready. Okay, good. So, what I want you to do now. You made some notes about how much animals you were able to build, how much bricks are in progress right now. So, please quickly disassemble all animals and return all bricks to the box to make our experiments crystal clear, not to mess it with the previous situation. Raise your hands if you are ready. Awesome. So, second round is going to start. Yes, you need to put it on the tape, and tape on the animal, and also enter the sums. What? Raise your hands. Okay, a very important comment. Now please do not disassemble any animal and do not put all bricks into the box. Leave them on the table. Okay? So, what I want you to do now. As usual, calculate your results. Number of animals that were accepted, number of animals that were rejected, and number of bricks that are still in the progress. Okay? Let's go. Yes, this is in progress. So, calculate number of bricks. So, these are in progress? Yes. Yes, so number of bricks. Sorry? Okay. Okay. So, raise your hands if you are done. Awesome. Awesome. So, I want you to do now. A little bit, don't think about what's happening on the table, because we are here not just to build funny animals from LEGO bricks. We are here also to talk a little bit about Kanban. Okay? And figure out, does it help or not? I don't know, maybe it's not. So, a very basic explanation of Kanban method. That's a very simple, really. So, if you got a book by David Anderson, the essence of Kanban method is just five steps. And that's all. All other parts of this book, that's just philosophy, some ideas, some examples, some experiments. The core idea of Kanban is simple. First, visualize your workflow. So, how it goes, really. So, everyone will be able to see how it works. Second, limit work in progress. So, define step that you visualize on the previous first version. And limit work in progress. So, in your case, for example, it will be limiting number of bricks, or number of papers for serial numbers, or number of coloring. So, you already have some physically limited work in progress, like number of animals on coloring station. That's second. Third is measure and manage flow. So, you already measure your flow and understand its productivity. Manage flow, that's just to stick into this described workflow and do it as a drone. So, go from step to step, without any dilating these steps. The fourth one is to make process policies explicit. So, everyone will understand how these steps are doing. For example, these are one of these processes rules. There are less or three animals at the coloring station, and more or equal to 30 seconds. So, you also will have these rules for other steps. And fifth, it's use models to recognize improvements opportunities. So, if I explain in other words, just search how you are able to optimize the whole this workflow. Using different approaches, like agile retrospectives, or maybe theory of constraints, or maybe some other techniques. Okay? How it looks, really, on the paper. This is a typical cannon board. So, first, this is a visualized workflow. You see steps. That's first. Second, limiting work in progress. You see that red numbers. So, it's not possible to put more than seven work items into this step. Third one, process policies. You see here I draw some bricks. For example, here are possible only bricks with this shape and with this shape. That's process policies. What else we have? Yes. Measuring. We're already measuring it and searching for opportunities. I hope in a few iterations we will do this. So, what I want you to do now, you have these tapes, sticky tapes. Please use it to draw your cannon board. And you have some very interesting tip. Observe your table and see what bricks that are not done you see on your table. That somehow will explain you how your table will look like. Because we are not going to improve our process right now. We are just going to visualize it to find out how it works and then to improve. So, observe which bricks do you see. Just remember what was happening during the last iteration. Also think about limiting work in progress, making some policies implicit. So, you got five minutes to visualize it. So, just put these lines to visualize borders. In your case you have round tables. Maybe you will have round shaped cannon board. That's not a problem. So, five minutes. You could use not a paper, you could use the entire table. And then you will use it. The phase is how you work, how you build these animals. What is the cost of the waste projects? Ah, we are not thinking about it. So, we know that it's price limit. We are trying to work out from a person's perspective whether or not we want to optimize for waste projects. I understand. It's too complicated. Yes, yes, of course, of course. Three minutes left. Ah, awesome, awesome. Raise your hands. Okay, okay. So, what we are going to do now? First, disassemble all animals and move all undone bricks to the box. Disassemble all animals and return all bricks to the box. So, we created the workstation. Yes, yes. Do you have a common board? No, that's your common board. Yes, just put width limits, work and progress limits. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Do you need to keep account at each point? Yeah, yeah, of course. Put work and progress limits. If you're ready, raise your hand. If you're ready, raise your hand. Two tables are not ready. Ready, ready, ready. Okay. So, what I want you to do now? Absolutely the same. We are going... Guys, guys, guys, guys. Raise your hands. Keep calm. Oh, good, good. So, what I want you to do? The same.  But now, please, follow the process you visualize. That's important. Use steps that now described in your board. And please, also, be very accurate with work and progress limits. So, if you put, for example, at one step, number seven, do not put into this step things more than seven. Okay? Okay. Yes? Sorry? So, again, please, you haven't put work and progress limits. So, please, please be careful with them. And do not violate these rules. Okay? Okay. So, raise your hands. Raise your hand. Keep calm. Okay. So, one, two, three. Go. One minute left.  I've made an observation that some teams at the finish of the round started to return bricks to the box. You understand, yeah? So, that's definitely something like cheating. If you got some resources, you bought them. That's all. And if at the end, they are on the table, that's your waste. Because of that, we are trying to simulate this. Okay? So, quickly, calculate everything without returning to box. Just calculate number of done animals, number of not accepted, and number of bricks into the progress. When you will be ready, raise your hands. Are you ready? Approaches. Tell us which one is good from your perspective. So, one is person A. It's the only normative. Uh-huh. It's the person B who assembled the hand. Well. Uh-huh. The other one is the person one. It's the only two pieces. Uh-huh. Okay. Quick tip. Also, I've met an observation that many teams decided to stick one person to one face of the development. And I observed that some people really struggling putting a lot of parts together. And some just, okay, when it will be ready. So, you see, you visualized not people. You visualized just your process. So, feel free to collaborate together. So, now you will have three minutes. Also, observe your tables to define what's happening in terms of done and not done work. And maybe correct your boards, correct your rules, and your work in progress limits. Just something like a retrospective about your process. Three minutes. Go. To make it better. No, no, no. Now you're working at changing your process. You're not assembling new animals. We are not working. We are discussing our process to optimize it. No, this time is not given to start. Yes, yes. This time is given to improve your process. Yes. What do you want? Not to work. Okay. Raise your hands. Raise your hands. Okay. Good. So, again, a short reminder. I observe that a lot of teams started to build animals. But we were going not to build. So, you see, you see, what is odd agile about? For some time we need to stop. You know? You know? For some time in agile we need to stop to think about if we are moving to the right direction.  You see? Yes. Just on the real experience. So, you see what's happening. Then you are changing it constantly. So, what we are going to do? We are going to run it again. But after this, remember, we will run a retrospective with three minutes. And you will not build animals. We will discuss your process. Because rule number five, we need some time to recognize how to improve our process. Okay? So, please disassemble all animals and return all bricks into the boxes. If you are ready, raise your hands. Okay. This table is ready. This table is ready. This table is ready. This table is ready. This table. Ready. Ready. Ready. Ready. So, one, two, three. Go. Raise. Awesome. Awesome. Again. Again. Do not return any brick and any animal. Just calculate your results. Let's go. Okay. Who is ready? Raise your hands. Ready. Okay. Awesome. Now, we are going to do resource replanting. How it's going to be. Every half of a table will change the table. So, we will mix our teams. Okay? So, half of a table, stand up and move to another table. Okay? Let's go. Let's share our experience, our technology secrets.  Raise your hand if your table is ready. Faster. Faster. I believe you are able to self-organize. Thank you. So, what I want you to do now. Please, you will have five minutes not to work. Okay? Not to work. At this time, to share your experience with all your new team members. To observe the Kanban board. Maybe to update it. Maybe to draw a new one. You will have five minutes. Okay? So, let's go. Raise your hands. Raise your hands. Okay? Raise your hands. Raise your hands. Raise your hands. Raise your hands. Raise your hands. Hands. Raise your hands. Okay? Raise your hands. If you have some animals or bricks on the table. Disassemble them and put into the boxes. Then raise your hands again to show me that you are ready. So, this table is ready. This table. This table is ready. This table is ready. Neither ready state. Again, return all blocks into the table. Okay. Let's start. Awesome. Just a quick reminder. Do not disassemble animals. Please disassemble animals, do not return any bricks into boxes. Just calculate results. Okay? Let's go. Ready? Ready? Okay, so three minutes retrospective to improve your process. Go. Please also disassemble all animals and return all blocks into the box. Awesome. Calculate your results. Okay, when you got results, please hang them right there. So we already have one result there. Let's create some kind of a winner's wall with all results. Yes, yes. Also, I will appreciate if you put all blocks again to the packet. Okay, okay, so we are running out of the time. Three last things I want you to do. First, this game called business cards exchanging. So you go here from five to one. That's a feedback drawer. Please put a sticker. If you think that's five, that's an awesome workshop.  If you have some comments, put them also into the stickers, I will be able to improve this workshop. And the last one. Please discuss with each other and these days and other days what was happening here, what you could bring to your workplace and just your ideas. And feel free to catch me and ask any questions. And thank you very much.


Hello everyone, I'm Vicky Zhu from Industrial Technology Research Institute, E-Tree. It is a high technology research center in Taiwan. In this talk, I'm going to present our software-defined storage system for all fresh array management. It has been published to GitHub this July. We know that SSE is built for high-performance data assets. Recently, SSE has become the main storage device in Enterprise. In addition to high performance, SSE has other benefits in the factor of power usage, size and noise. In Enterprise, if they want to have very high performance, they usually will buy this kind of all fresh array servers. These servers will have a lot of SSD drives. However, these kind of servers do not have data protection, so if a SSD device fails, the data stored in it will be lost. For Enterprise to overcome this kind of problem, the naive solution is to use the standard software Ray-5 in Linux. But according to our benchmark results, the performance is not quite good. So, to solve this issue, we built a storage system called SOFA, a standard for standard software orchestrated fresh array. And it is a software-defined storage system to provide both the high data protection and high performance. It is a kernel module in Linux to provide the block-level storage system. And we provide a storage device for users to do the data re-write. All the data assets through this storage device will be served by the SOFA by using the underlying SSDs. And we also developed our proprietary Ray-5 and Ray-6 technology. And the technology will have two advantages. The first one is very high performance. We can achieve 1,000,000 IOPS for 4K byte rendering re-write. It is almost 10 times faster than standard SOFA Ray-5. And another advantage is to have SSD better lifetime. We can achieve 1.8 times better lifetime as compared to standard SOFA Ray-5. This slide will show our performance advantage in rendering assets. In this figure, I used the 10 Dicks for illustration. In standard Ray-5, in each Ray-5 stripe, there will be 9 data blocks and 1 parity block. In standard Ray-5, the data location has already been assigned and fixed. So if user performs rendering re-write, it is with high probability that the data re-write will be issued to different stripe. So for each one user rendering re-write, we will need to read and to write to the SSD. It is because we need to read the data block, read the parity block, write to the data block and write to the parity block. So for 9 user rendering re-writes, we will need 18 re-writes and 18 re-writes in SSD in total. On the other hand, in SOFA, we will always write the data to the new stripe. On the other hand, the incoming data re-writes will be grouped into new data stripes to the SSD. So for 9 user rendering re-writes, we will only need 10 re-writes to the SSD. So as can be seen from these values, SOFA will have lower performance overhead. That is why we can achieve higher performance. This slide shows our performance experimental results. In this testing, we use 20 SATA SSD. We group the SSD into 2 ray 5 groups. As can be seen from this figure, for the 4K block rendering re-writes, SOFA can achieve 1 million eye-ups. SOFA has another advantage, it is to provide better SSD life span. We also use this example to show for illustration. And we know that the SSD have a limited number of write cycles before the sale fails. So the number of write to the SSD is very critical. So we compare the number of write issue by the sender's ray 5 and by the SOFA. Because in sender's ray 5, 9 user render writes will need total 18 write to the SSD. So the write amplification is 2. In SOFA, every 9 user render writes will only need 10 write to the SSD. So the write amplification is 1.1. So as compared by compare these values, SOFA can have 1.8 times lifetime per noning as compared to the sender's ray 5. SOFA also can achieve high performance access through the network. Because for some customer, their user progress will running outside SOFA. And we provide iSCSI surface so the user program can also access the data through the network. In this testing, we perform 4 FIO each round in 1 PC. The aggregation performance result is 1 million eye-ups for 4K byte render rewrite. There are 2 technologies to achieve it. Firstly, we optimize the open source iSCSI software to have better throughput. Secondly, we optimize the CPU allocation. In the off-rush array, the system contains 3 main layers including the network layer, iSCSI layer and SOFA layer. By using NINIS-D4 core-CP core assignment, we only can have 600K eye-ups. In our algorithm, we will optimize the number of threads in each layer and the core assignment for each thread in each layer. So by our optimization, we can finally get 1 million eye-ups. The SOFA has been open-sourced and published to the GitHub this July. The open-source version contains 2 main features, RAID 5 and the Admin Web UI for system health monitoring. The commercial version is also rated. The rich features include 1 million eye-ups over the iSCSI, RAID 6, Valence Natural Service, Scale-Up on the fly, and write-limit control on SSD, and the HA capability. Okay, and thank you for your time. And if you are interested in our product, SOFA, please contact us. Thank you.


Well, in today's world, broadband and the use of ICT is actually foundation in many transformation of economic sector. So ICT and broadband is not just for broadband sake. It's actually a tool to transform many sectors, be it healthcare, education, whatever. So I think it is very important to ensure that we develop broadband and ICT to help transform the various economic sector across all economy. I think in any broadband deployment, I think it's very important to consider the 3 A's. Basically, it has to be available in the first place, then it has to be affordable, and lastly, it has to be accessible. And it is in the last point about accessibility that we also have to ensure that there is inclusiveness across the population, across different sector. And therefore, I think in any country's broadband plan, it has to take into consideration these 3 very important A's of any broadband plan. I think it is quite inevitable that at any point in time, various stages of developments might affect different countries. And therefore, I think for us to work together, we need to not only share policies, but also share very importantly operational aspects, implementation aspects so that countries can learn from each other and then hopefully develop a plan that is in sync with the region. And this is exactly what the ASEAN region has done. We have recently launched our ICT master plan towards the year 2020. And as part of this, it is really to get ASEAN together to develop a regional broadband. I think this is a very important platform because it brings together a forum, a place for regulators, officials, and more importantly also industry players to get together to share experience and to exchange views about ICT issues. And also I think coupled with the conference element, the exhibition component I think is also very important to showcase what's available and what's coming up in terms of trends for the ICT and telecom sector.


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But before we get to our topic today, we would like to say a special thanks to our sponsors, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, and many, many, many others, including the partnerships of Einstein Hospital of the Bronx, the Kennedy Center of the Bronx, and Montefiore Medical Center of the Bronx, and many other partners and sponsors. We would like to welcome Daniel Poro, mental health advocate of the Bronx to discuss many things, including housing and people with special needs. Welcome, Danny, to Ableton on Air. How are you? Larry, thank you so much for having me on. Happy New Year to you, your family, and all your guests. This has been an incredible ride to make it to 2022. And again, thank you for having me on. These are challenging times. Okay, so explain a little bit on what you do in the mental health community as an advocate, and then we'll go from there. As a mental health advocate, I bring awareness to the elected officials, the community leaders, the need of doing more to their constituents. I have been a mental health advocate pretty much all my life, having getting treatment when I was a teenager in special ed classes from the early 70s. Back then I was heavily medicated while I was in school, but I used to run the Bronx Mental Health Council, which has no longer been active for the past 10 years. In the state of New York, every county is supposed to have a mental health council that to be active. And over the years, they just couldn't keep it going. So there lies a problem in communicating with community leaders, elected officials, directors of mental health programs, the state office of mental health, and at the city level, it's called New York City Mental Health, the High Unit Mental Health. So all those people used to come together at the committee level county-wise. I have seen over the years, in these past two years with COVID, how so many people are now suffering more than ever before. This is on the mental health community side. I know for a fact that my advocacy still is very difficult because it's hard to help them when these mental health programs are not functioning during this time of the year with COVID. A lot of the staff are working from their homes, they're answering phones, a lot of them are just burnt out because they can't keep up anymore and they fall in sick through a variety of contacts of people. In my community, I also sit on the board of Bronx Community Board 9. I am the chair of the social service committee, which I'm proud of, but it's the hardest thing to do during this time of the year because of services. Sorry for interrupting. Why is it so hard? Because as we know during COVID, when COVID first began, a lot of things were closed and people with special needs were stopped. So if services are closed, in your instance in the Bronx, why is it hard to be on such a committee? It's trying to get the speakers from the prospective city, government, agencies, nonprofit organizations to come and do a Zoom meeting. It's difficult enough due to scheduling and due to audio. It's a problem that's not just rendered to the Bronx. I would say it's rendered across the city. But my problem is that the community is not engaged in these meetings because this information, which is public information, is not visible anywhere in the community for them to chime in. There's also the fact that people may not have access to the internet or not internet savvy. Okay. I'm going to let my wife, Arlene, did you want to ask? Go ahead, you can start asking questions. Danny, what's the toughest challenge you ever faced as an advocate? Yeah, what is the toughest challenge you faced now that we're getting into the meet because we're going to talk about housing, but what's the toughest thing you faced as an advocate? The toughest challenges that I have faced as an advocate is communicating directly to the elected official the need to be more aware and more spoken out on mental health issues. Roughly four years ago, a dear friend of mine got shot and killed by a police officer because she was having a mental health episode at home when her neighbors call 911. And it's happened with her before. So the police department technically came, but they weren't properly trained to deal with a person who was having an episode.  And they went into her apartment and they shot her. That should have been handled more carefully with more training. That did not bring any awareness to the local elected officials to this day they haven't done a mental health meeting of the community. Those are challenges. Then New York should take Vermont's example. What Vermont does, Vermont has, especially Montpelier, Vermont, there's a thing with the police department here, Montpelier Police is called Team 2. So Washington County Mental Health and Montpelier, so a social worker who is trained goes with a police officer to handle such a thing. A crisis. A crisis interventionalist is called. So yes, certain states are doing it and certain states are not doing it because they're not trained enough to do it. That is the issue there. It's a constant training that EMS needs to be, they go through this every single day EMS with people who are homeless in the streets. The other thing is the other people that come in is the police department who handle these calls on a daily basis. So if you're handling these calls through 911 system, you have several emergency entities that need to step up to the plate and understand that what they have been doing hasn't been enough.   There has to be a way of talking to someone who's having an episode. Now getting to the issue of housing, which is an issue such as not being able to get adequate housing or having housing and then the housing developments have so many open tickets such as the New York City Housing Authority explain your situation. It doesn't have to be completely in detail. You can leave out whatever you want to leave out because of privacy. But anything you want to talk about housing, the floor is yours and what we can do as a people to help or fix the problem. Go ahead. So housing is a serious problem in our country. Here in New York City, we have what they call a lottery housing, which is technically just a list to get approved for homes or buildings once they go up. You get on the list, but it's really a joke. You really don't, we don't need a lottery housing list. And then after that, you have to apply for these new buildings that when they make their presentation to the community boards, they say it's affordable, it's affordable to people making middle-class salaries. $55,000 is what they ask when you fill out the application. I don't qualify. I am in the poverty level. And when they say it's affordable, it's not affordable to me. It's actually, it's actually not affordable to a lot of people that live or government, you know, and that's government, government such as food stamps in New York City.  They get those services. I actually live or social security benefit. My income is a poverty income that's funded by the federal government. They keep me in a poverty state of condition, knowing that with the income that they give me monthly and annually, I don't qualify for the affordable housing. And there's no other program in the middle that will help me get into that apartment. I don't qualify for a housing voucher. For people who don't know, I apologize. What is a housing voucher? Housing voucher is another government program that will help. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Is that Section 8? It's Section 8. It's a housing voucher. But there's clause in there. Like I said, I'm in a poverty condition. I mean, I make $35,000 a year with my social security benefits. Now they say I make too much money from social security. I'm not entitled to a voucher. I'm not entitled to food stamps. And that's the only program that we receive in our home is WIC. And WIC is basically a program that is nutrition for my son, who is four years old. So WIC is another program. What is that? That's for like baby food and... Well, it's a set of nutritional food based on his age. Based on his age. When he was a toddler, we were able to get formula. We were able to get cereal. We were able to get certain food that WIC covers. As he got older, you know, it changed. We're able to get, you know, a dozen of eggs once a month. A couple of containers of milk, juice, 36 ounces of cereal. Wheat. And, you know, there's a lot of wheat to go around.  It's good, but that's what the government is forcing us. Cheese. We need to have more fruits and vegetables. We need to eat healthier. It helps because financially it helps my pocket. But housing is a serious problem in New York City. There's a shortage of housing. There are more people now in family shelters, in city shelters, in shelters for men and women, domestic violence shelters. You have people in the streets more than ever before, not just in New York, but across the country. This is happening while our elected officials are getting these complaints from their constituents on a monthly basis. And they have not done anything, anything to address this problem. This is a mammoth issue that's ongoing for a long time. All right, so to piggyback on that, go ahead. Did you want to ask a question, Arlene? Yes. I'm a community person. Go ahead. Go ahead. Housing. Check your time. The housing. That's when you're pressing to get into a house, to any housing. Yeah. How difficult do they really make it for people with disabilities to get housing? Well, for people with disabilities, when you file for an apartment. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Try not to make so much noise. Okay. Go ahead. When you file for an apartment, you know, it may say in the application, if the person is disabled, then that would mean that they would have to either, obviously make accommodations or have apartments that are considered here in New York, 504.  So people can get around those accommodations. Doors need to swing perhaps both ways. So there's not enough of those. Apartments to go around. So, you know, if you're in a wheelchair, you know, things of that nature, the stove might be a smaller stove or you might have to have some kind of hot plate. So, you know, if you're in a wheelchair, you might have to go around in New York City. For the, for the volume of people now that live here with disability. Do you know, do you know the numbers? Because it all comes down to numbers and money. Do you know the amounts of people that live in New York with a disability? Physical, physical, physical, physical, physical, physical, physical. I mean, my elected officials on that question and, you know, I haven't gotten any numbers from anyone. So it's difficult to say in New York City. We have an office of the mayor, which is MLP D the mayor's office for people with disability.  We have a new mayor now, Eric Adams. We don't know who the next commission is going to be for that office. The housing authority should have those numbers. Housing court for each of the boroughs would be a good place to start because they're the ones that actually see this in housing court, you know, people with disabilities are constantly struggling with services for their office.  The same pot of money, just too many cheats spoiling, too many chefs spoiling the soup. Why is it that there has been, in your opinion, why has there been so many complaints around, in other words, if someone needs to repair in the New York City Housing Authority, sink, painting, investations, all kinds of issues, why is it that it takes so many people so long to fix or what they call that an open ticket, to fix something so simple? First of all, it's a good question. I used to work for the New York City Housing Authority. It should not take that long. If you have the manpower, if you have the crew, the maintenance crew, it should not take that long. Now, the problem is that... Because it becomes a problem with people with disabilities when you're dealing with lead, when you're dealing with dust, when you're dealing with infestations, because you can't breathe in roach and rat droppings, you know, especially when you have little... Yeah, no hot water. Thank you. Okay, okay. I know, sorry.  Shouldn't be a problem. Well, you know, people live under these conditions every day in New York City for long periods of time. Okay, okay. Let him speak. Go ahead. One of the main problems that continues to go on is no heat, no hot water, brooding through roaches, lead, asbestos. Sometimes, you know, during the wintertime, the boilers are not working. This is not a tenant problem. This is a management problem. And management, you know, needs to actually be put on check by the building department. Other entities need to step in if the housing authority is not capable of keeping up with the maintenance of the building. It's not just throwing out the garbage, running the compact, cleaning the elevators, but it's covering the holes, addressing the hot water, the heat, exterminating, getting the right people to come in to address the mold and the asbestos. This is done in a choreographed way where you do the entire building by section by section by section. Buildings get old like you and me. Our arteries get clogged up with what we put in, and every once in a while, you know, they need to be flushed out. And this is the problem. Maintenance, maintaining the buildings in working conditions, fixing the roof, doing the bricks on the outside, and building the walls. And this is the problem. The problem with the building is, is an anomaly somehow that the city is so big. They just let it go. When you have a building's apartment that come in because people call 311, and the problem is bigger than the call that comes in. He inspector, he's just there to do his task. When people live are making them sick. Our medical doctors this is the issue with people with disabilities because they can't afford to be sicker. Yeah, but our own medical doctors from our community know that these buildings are in such bad shape. They have everybody getting sick. Asmatic. They have breathing problems. They have conditions because of a cold because of the draft in the apartment because the windows are not winterized. Our medical community also keeps silent. So we have everything that's supposed to be going for us against us. There's nobody standing up collectively in addressing the problem in New York and in the country as a whole. We need housing to get the people that are in the streets out of the street and we need housing for the disabled. We need housing for people with mental illness. We need housing for them. Does it have to be separated between mental health housing and disabled housing? Should there be a separation?  Because in that environment there might be a social worker, there might be a case worker, there might be maybe a small clinic in the building where you can come in if you're having an episode. These are the people that are trained to understand what the capabilities are to provide service to the people that live in their building with history of mental illness, substance abuse, depression is a reality, financial issues is a depression and then keeping us in a poverty state of mind is also something that spirals people into lashing out into society. So if these communities of housing are designed appropriately it definitely will make a big difference for people who are in wheelchairs for people who are elderly that can't get around in their certain buildings for them. Clearly you would want a nurse, you would want some kind of social worker, you would want someone there in the building to check up on them to make sure that they take their medication, that they're okay, that they're mobile, that they were able to get out the house, keep their medical appointments. Did you want to ask any more questions? Yes. Okay, can you repeat the question? Hold on, can you repeat the question slowly? Okay, will they improve the security in New York City housing? Because like security cameras and things like that. It's not just New York City housing, it's the board that needs better security because in terms of New York City housing the locks don't work, there's drug dealers that come in and this can be a problem environmentally for people with disabilities too. This is a big problem.  That's a good question and we see it. This is your opinion, your opinion. No, this is not an opinion. This is a good question. We see almost every day that security is a problem because it's not there and we see it because the cameras that have been installed over the past couple of years have indicated that having cameras is a good thing but also having a camera in the lobby of the building and the elevator and on the hallways without the presence of a security guard is a problem and the level of crime that comes out of the neighborhood is now the issue that we're talking about there needs to be security security guard someone that will be at the front desk when you walk like a doorman. If you can have doormans in Manhattan for the rich we can have not a doorman but someone like a doorman, a security guard in the building. I kind of forgot. What exactly is a doorman? Is it a person that stands and opens the door? A doorman is basically someone that does that and does a little bit more he'll help people with the packages that live in the building he'll help people perhaps that are doing deliveries and also a doorman is a person who is in the lobby you know like pretty much like a security guard if somebody comes into that building that doesn't need to be there I'm pretty sure he's going to call the police department and that's exactly what we now need in New York City and across the board because for example co-op city a lot of the buildings in co-op city they have from like 8 o'clock in the morning to 3 o'clock in the afternoon and from 3 o'clock to 11 o'clock or something like that they have somebody standing there checking people in and out of the building and if you don't need to be there they'll you know that's because that's owned by River Bay so I guess if a building is privatized they have better services is that your opinion as well? it's again this is not an opinion the more you provide security wise the better for the people that live there the better for the building you know less theft less less property damage those people in co-op city that have that service I'm pretty sure they will want that service around the clock I have public safety officers here in Parkchester and there's not enough of them to go around if I see something that's going on from my window and I call they shouldn't take half an hour to get to the call are they really that busy and yet again this is a small area now let me give you another quick example we have cameras in the lobby of my building and they've been there for a long time and I'm glad that they're there the number one problem that we all have here everybody that lives here is that we can't see on the television or on the laptop who's ringing our doorbell because they say that secure that camera is is for the purpose of public safety officers and monitoring them I need to know who's ringing my bells so we're not working together we're actually working against collaborating these are simple steps so we have 12 minutes left so to to to prioritize and of course you don't have to mention a lot of stuff you're having housing issues your building is trying to get you out what's one thing if you're if the Bronx can hear you what's one thing that being an advocate you want to see changed or put a stop to so let me say this I've been in this apartment for 30 years and this is a co-op apartment so we are under new management the new management wants more than double the rent now again I live off government assistance I make a certain income and they're trying to evict us because we can't pay what they're asking for so they're taking us to housing court for an eviction in the city of New York in the burger of the Bronx housing court and the government here does not have a program that will help me transition from my current apartment to an affordable apartment they don't have that what they're telling me is that due to COVID right now we will handle this once we go back to housing court that there's a good possibility that I will have to go into a family shelter with my wife and my son who's four years old family shelters are terrible they don't provide the necessary securities that we talked about just moments ago when you're in a family shelter it's difficult to process the information because of the staff perhaps not being there and the paperwork it's all paperwork there is no housing available for us we have thousands and thousands of families in shelters and in the streets of New York we need affordable housing for the people who are being pushed down all due to rent increase and yet our government who funds us has nothing in the middle to pick up the pieces on our behalf government is actually pushing us out into the streets these are the saddest moments that I have seen every month Larry I see moving vehicles watching people my neighbors move out all because they cannot pay the rent can you give us an inkling to what how high the rent is in your establishment in your area and why people can't afford it so people live on fixed incomes the incomes don't go up as high as the cost of living the incomes don't go up as much market value market value is an investment for banks and companies and our government knows this and yet our government doesn't intervene on behalf of the people that have no means of keeping up with the cost of living so I saw on the news yesterday that the U-Haul companies have made a report that there are hundreds of thousands of people across America that are moving out of big cities like New York there are numbers out there we're being forced out these are the saddest trails of tears that I mentioned because it's like what they did to the American Indians they're pushing us out of our own community you have people with different salaries people that are working people who are actually working while COVID are moving out because they can't keep up with the cost of living now these are the middle class there's no talk about people in poverty people that are funded by the federal government wants us in a poverty state condition because they will be able to give us money like they've given money to everybody else all these corporate companies are getting funded just to stay afloat Arlene did you want to ask one last question before we end yes can people with a mixed alignment yes some people with disabilities which is a good thing have different means of earning their income some people with disabilities work some are fortunate enough that they're able to stay afloat and to keep up with the cost of living but you have others that can't keep up you have medical conditions you have other things that get in their way that prevent them from keeping up with the cost of living staying in their neighborhoods traveling left and right having a hard time standing in the pantry for three hours just trying to get a couple of bags of food that's another issue anything else you want to say before we end the one thing that's really really important this ought to be an eye-opening experience to all of us who live in this great country that our healthcare system is not where it needs to be to provide service to us in general I shouldn't have to wait five months to see a medical doctor that's one thing now helping people with mental illness is a problem addiction, suicide our youth are the number one problem that I see that they are not interacting like they should as children because they are isolated they have to be at home they can't go out they can't be comfortable in schools they are the next problem of America in the future and there's no way I don't see how the country is addressing the problem of our kids today well I'd like to thank Dan Luporo mental health advocate of the Bronx for joining us on this edition of Abledon on Air thank you Danny for providing insight for those who need assistance in the mental health 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