Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico, it's theCUBE covering Blockchain Unbound. Brought to you by Blockchain Industries. Hello everyone, welcome back to our exclusive coverage, theCUBE in Puerto Rico, for the big story about Blockchain Unbound. That's the event, it's a global conference from investors, Bitcoin billionaires and millionaires, as well as entrepreneurs coming to Puerto Rico to discuss the future of Blockchain, future of cryptocurrency, the future of decentralized applications. Partnering with the island of Puerto Rico, we're here, our next guest is Damarius Riviera with Puerto Rico Advantage. And the big story is a lot of people are moving here for either tax advantages or entrepreneurial reasons, and Damaris and her team at the Puerto Rico Advantage helped set that up. Damaris, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Thanks for coming on. Thanks. One of the big rush here is like a gold rush for folks coming in, moving to Puerto Rico. But it's hard, you guys provide a service to do that for folks. How fast, how does it work? How does the service work? Advantage came together as me, I'm a logo from Puerto Rico and my partners are American from Wisconsin. They're both Act 20 and Act 22 themselves. So when they got here to the island, they took like seven months to find out the whole opportunity analysis and if the tax incentives work for them. So when they met me, I worked previously in the government before, so I know how all this works. And I said, let's come with one business that will be a one stop for each client. So when they come to us, they get the grants plus their relocation services for their business and themselves. Certainly the incentives right now are really wonderful for businesses and folks who are building companies and creating wealth, the tax advantages are here. There's been a surge of people coming here. What's it like, how many people are coming through and is it a lot of volume, you guys busy? Give us some insight into how it's working. Yes, a lot of people are coming too. They're moving real estate pretty much in San Juan area. It's gone. So the other place like Dorado and Rincón are packed. When I go to the supermarket, everywhere I go, it's full of American and people from outside. And when you ask them where you're from and they will tell you from Puerto Rico, they're already calling themselves Puerto Rican. So it's very exciting and a great opportunity for us. One of the things I've been impressed with is the acceptance and the blending of the island folks and people coming in. Take me through an example. Let's just say hypothetically, I wanted to move to Puerto Rico, what do I do? I call you guys up and say, hey, get me a flat, get me a house, I need security, I need a car, do I need a driver's license, do I need insurance? I mean, what has to happen? Take me through. And how do I, and what happens for me? Is it turnkey? Is it easy? What do you guys do? What do I have to do? Take me through a use case. Okay, first one, the client calls. If it's interesting in act training business, they will tell a little bit about their business and then we can save their business qualified. Then we will take them to the CPA and work everything about the grant. It usually takes two weeks, depending on all the info the client give us and the quickly, and I will manage everything in the government agencies. For the residential part, we schedule them meetings when they have kids to the great private schools here. We help them with the real estate driver's license. They do need driver's license. I take them to get their boarder's ID, everything. We have like a draft, a checklist with everything they need to qualify for a resident, a Puerto Rican resident, and we take them and make the process very easy for them. So they write a big check to you guys for the service, but you guide them through the entire process. Yes, we do. So for individuals, you can do it for individuals and businesses and individuals, right? Take me through the scenarios. For individuals, it will be the basic act 22. So that one is very simple and we just tell them what they need to do to comply with the 183 days. They need to reside here in Puerto Rico to get the benefits for the grand tax incentives. So take me through the business aspect. Oh, the business aspect is also very easy. As long as your company gives an export service, it qualifies. So we even do the, if they need to hire staff, manage their business, everything. We help them with everything. Have you guys seen a lot of business coming from the people that were going to go to the Cayman Islands or somewhere else? Are they coming here? Yes, everybody likes because they feel Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but then we don't pay federal taxes. So they have that great benefit. So they're moving a lot of the companies here. So since the hurricane, obviously there's been a lot of effort in the US and focus and attention on helping Puerto Rico and there's been stories good and bad. As the new blockchain and the Bitcoin cryptocurrency newly minted millionaires and billionaires come in, how has the culture reacted to that? They seem to be open arms. Has it been well received? What's some of the feedback that's been happening here in Puerto Rico with the new in migration of folks? Yes, it's very well received. And it's amazing because this group of the blockchain, it just came after Hurricane Maria. So people were amazed like, wow, they're still considering moving here and help the island even after this big natural disaster. So it gives hope to a lot of people here and is helping the island to do a lot of more progress. And what's great is the islands, first of all, beautiful, but with the infrastructure opportunity to reboot it and reset new infrastructure, all the tech geeks, this is blockchain, like tech nerds. They'd love the high-speed internet. They want to have the good infrastructure and the schools have now connected blockchain. I talked to an entrepreneur here two days ago where he's linking all the schools, educational institutions, the colleges with blockchain to create a community. So there's kind of a nerd nation merging here in Puerto Rico, isn't there? Yes, yes, it's amazing that we've been considering for all that. Okay, well, thank you for coming on and explaining the Puerto Rico advantage. Also, her partners are Jennifer Brockman and Angela Rookman. You guys are doing a great service. Thank you for what you do. I think a lot of people that I've talked to really appreciate it. For folks who want to come to Puerto Rico and help out and contribute, but also get some real advantages for the businesses and as an individual, the tax breaks and the benefits are significant here and it's part of the U.S., so great stuff. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you a lot. More live coverage here in Puerto Rico. I'm John Furrier with the host of theCUBE. We'll be back after this short break.


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This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community Matters here. It's new on Thursday folks. Ted Ralston here at our Think Tech show where the drone leads temporarily transposed to the sub-arctic region of Anchorage, Alaska from our usual location, which is somewhere in Hawaii, N.A. Anyway, with me here in Alaska are, first of all, George Purdy from Lanai. I'm on a Lanai, George. Thanks for coming on board. And we have a newcomer to our show, Lawrence Moritz from Unifly, the U.S. regional manager, general manager of Unifly. And we're all here in the sunny subtropical areas of Alaska on the business of UAS. Why are we here in Alaska on UAS? Actually, you can see some in the background here, I hope, everyone. But what's most amazing is the confidence that takes place every year in Alaska in this time period, put on by the University of Alaska Fairbanks under the title Aquasi, which is the center for UAS integration up here in Alaska. And Hawaii and Alaska are together on a lot of projects and one of them is this one. And we're fortunate in having Lawrence here with us because a program called the Unmanned Pilot Program is coming around and you're in on that program and so are we. So let's hear a little bit, Lawrence, about your company, what you guys do. How you got here? Yeah, sure. So Unifly started somewhere in 2012. The founders were former air traffic controllers, both from the military background. Really? So real controllers, not academic guys? Real controllers. Absolutely, the guys in the tower. That's great. Absolutely. And they were dealing with that every day with manned aviation, of course. And at that time, 2012, they realized that there were more and more UAS coming into the sky. And the traditional solutions to manage traffic control at that time would not be able to integrate so many UAS because already today there are way more UAS in the sky, as you know, than manned aircrafts, right? And the curve is going to be exponential for the next years with the commercial UAS that we'll be playing. So very quickly they realized that the legacy air traffic management solution would not be able to do that. Having the human in the loop, the air traffic controller himself, it's kind of an issue that would need to be solved. And that's how they came with the concept of UTM, which is UAS traffic management. So how to automate the process and somehow remove the air traffic controller from the equation to make sure that you can manage so many UAS in the sky. Doesn't mean that the job for air traffic controllers will be removed on the longer term, but definitely there is a need to automate certain processes when it comes to UAS. What's interesting is unpacking your message is a couple of key things. 2012, you started. Most companies in the UAS business aren't much older than that. That's what UAS business is all about. Recent startups, innovative startups. In your particular case, you brought forward air traffic controllers who deal with air traffic management in the standard man's system, and they know that very well, and all the issues and protocols and procedures. And that's where they started from. So they started from that operational knowledge base and brought it forward to the unmanned area, rather than having folks who deal with the unmanned system try to find a way to integrate and mention with the man's system. That's a really unique marker, and I did not know that. I appreciate you bringing it up. And we have George. George, everybody knows George from the show many times. We've had to bring George all the way to Alaska to actually get him on the show, as if we're in the studio here. Because normally you're coming on by Skype from the sunny island of Lanai. That's great. And thanks for coming on, George. But Lanai represents a great opportunity to integrate this particular technology you're speaking of into an operating air structure system. Because we have the structure, but it's not heavily taxed. So it's a good combination. Plus we have a very interested and knowledgeable island ready to go forward in this domain as educated by George over the last couple of years. So George, tell us how the notion of integrating air traffic management on Lanai could execute? For one thing, this next coming year, we're actually preparing our annual, three-year annual airport disaster plan where we go out and actually do a scenario of a plane crash. And we have to manage also the air traffic and multiple agencies that will be flying a drone as part of the scenario. And one thing that you mentioned is on Lanai, we have no air traffic tower. So we actually have us, firemen or airport maintenance, trying to maintain control of the air traffic. So I see benefits right now just listening. Again, what you said that I see an implementation of how we can help me manage this whole scenario and make it less stressful. So we can actually use the coming exercise, incorporate your software in that exercise, and that would bring in automatically CTAP, the common tower advisory, if we could see which is the means by which air traffic is managed by the pilots and such at the airport. We could also use that to connect in HCF, the Hollywood Control Facility, which is the big air traffic management structure. They could all be part of this. And so we learn as we incorporate and we do it as an exercise, which is a safe way to do it. Plus, we are all part of the, one of the winning programs in IPP under Alaska, which is the FAA's integrating pilot program for integrating operations in the airspace so we can learn from what's going on here in Alaska, I suppose that. Furthermore, wow, there's a lot of things here. Furthermore, we're also part of the unmanned pilot program, which if we prevail and succeed in that competition, we'll actually have a Lanai exercise to execute with more than just of the airport. We'll have six locations on the island that are all dealing with UAS operations. So what's most interesting is that we came to Alaska to find out how this all comes together in Hawaii on the island of Lanai, which is the center of all our attention these days. So, Lauren, how did you guys, I mean, your access, obviously in the games you weren't born in the U.S., you're born in something that's probably called Europe. And that brings the whole continental picture into the game. So you represent not just air traffic management, but also a European version. So we can actually capitalize on what's going on in Europe and blend this whole thing together in a small microcosm, a macrocosm and go forward. And that's a very good point you raised, that indeed the company has been founded in Belgium. We're now operating globally. We have some projects in Asia as well, so outside Europe, in the U.S., obviously, in Africa as well. We've been working with UNICEF recently to manage the drone corridor. They have a humanitarian drone corridor over there. Very nice use case of blood samples that will be transported from the local dispensaries to the main hospital. But to come back to your point indeed, we believe that on the longer term, even though every country is taking a lot of decisions with regards to rulemaking or how to integrate UAS into the national airspace, in the end you would need to harmonize the regulation. And that's something we have been heavily advocating for, being part of the different international organizations, both at European level, North America as well, and there are some global organizations, like IKO for instance, where the civil aviation authorities worldwide are gathering from time to time to look at those topics as well. That's just really interesting and useful because having the Unifly involved ensures that we have this recognition of what is happening globally and is in compliance with the emerging standards. In fact, I brought that up the other day at the conference and said we got all these individual initiatives going. At some point in time, we have to kind of herd the cats and get them all paying attention to the way standards are being developed. The standards are coming out of... In fact, I wonder where the standards are going to come from. Either ASTM or RTCA will be where the standards come from here, I would think. That's a very good point. There are many organizations looking at the definition of standouts at the moment. Absolutely. One of them was ANSI. Basically, it usually was focusing on the U.S. But in this specific case, ANSI is not... Let's say it's not looking at defining our standards themselves, but what they plan to come up with is a roadmap identifying all the initiatives that took place and where we should be and the gaps in between. I think we should be looking at the formative recommendations and be looking at the monetization. So managing the overall standards process, not necessarily the standards themselves, ANSI isn't going to tell ASTM what to do. It's a broader overview. I've noticed that Jim McCabe has been publishing a lot lately as it's starting to happen. So through your efforts once again, we in Hawaii and Alaska here can be connected in and make sure that we stay in sight... with the way the regs are coming forward, which are going to come out of the standards. So this is the most interesting time to be involved in any aspect of drones because we have all this evolution of technology, materials, performance, mission, and now air traffic management. So George, I've got a question for you. Yes. We have in our disaster management and emergency operations systems. We have a well-structured system called the instant command system, and we have NIMS behind that, guiding what ICS does. So as we get into use of UAS in disaster operations, we'll have to find fit with the way the ICS is structured and the way instant commanders think and operate. So I think this is a great opportunity to take the structured aspect of UAS or drone flight management and associate it right up front with the structure that will work best with ICS. That's what I plan to do with this disaster drill coming up with Unifly. For the night, it really fits because we have very minimal manning and any type of software or technology we've always took in the first step in using it. And I have a pretty good idea of how your system works. I'm very excited to actually get it implemented and start playing around with it and working out how and when I'll apply it. Michael, what you just said there, how I'm going to apply it. We're talking about the social acceptance of new technology and new training protocols and new operational needs that our instant command people are going to have to align with in order to capitalize on this. So we could use this, I think it's another test case for how the instant command system if it's complicated to use then I can see we're going to get kicked back. But if I can figure out a way and working with you to simplify it to make it real easy in a stressful environment and helping manage your space and maintaining safety where we don't cause more accidents and we can actually finish our rescue operation then it's a win-win. And I see really two major benefits with that kind of exercise and you covered both actually. The first one is really reaching out to new airspace users with limited aviation background with a tool that gives them very quickly, easy to read information how to grasp where you can or can't fly how is the airspace actually regulated. Those are the kind of functionalities that UTM brings as well because what you just mentioned coordinating different entities that are in a stressful situation but even though we need to share the same airspace at the same time and it could be a combination of manned aircraft like helicopters and UAS since UAS is increasingly used in that kind of situation. So that's really what UTM is focusing on as well how to decomplete manned and unmanned aircrafts in the same airspace at the same time. But you know we just hit upon in the conversation you just went through we just hit upon one of the figures of merit that we can look at and that is the reduction in stress. That's certainly the lack of increase in stress. In fact that correlates beautifully with some work we're doing with a company which I so greatly call Sierra Nevada Corporation out there in the ether space that's dealing with special forces operations and this sort of thing. They have the same issue. And the more we add technology to what they do or add another drop-down menu you've got to check off or another software load you have to do that increases the stress in the decision makers and the people who are feeding decision makers information. So if we could collectively take on the obligation to reduce that stress and increase mission functionality at the same time that's the absolute win. So the more I see what the three of us are sitting here doing all the time so that's what we use this show for. We try to create real solutions for problems and make them go forward. So George I'm going to be summarizing a lot throughout this short time here because as these ideas are coming up we have to catch them. But what we're doing is meeting on you to enter the disaster planning drill for next year with this new initiative right up front. That's what I plan to do and since we're talking about stress when I was able to fly that drone at our disaster drill two years ago it did eliminate a lot of stress. It made our event run more quickly, smoothly and more efficient. So by adding Unifly as a management system I actually free up one person to actually do human work instead of helping me manage their space. Let me interpret that for Lawrence's benefit because he wasn't at that drill but basically the drill was a simulated airplane crash right off the airport and all the other reactors the first response people have to find it first of all and they have to get to it. So you got access issues you got location issues you got fence lines you have to think about there's the usual things that impede access. But then the central command is off the island of Mali across the channel and the need is for the people in the central command station to observe the circumstances and allocate resources to be provided in. But instead of a guy on the radio saying I got trucks over here I got a good load over here I need to change it all here the people in the command center can see it directly they can see where the equipment is being allocated being located they can see the line of sight folks had they got the picture so that took the man out of the loop who would otherwise have to be the sportscaster interpreting what's going on. I could actually go and do my job and that saved us at least 12 to 15 minutes of just work. And that's a very good point indeed for many first responders playing UAH it's a tool but it's not the core business and the way you put those tools available to those guys should help them to really focus on the core business. And that is such a mature attitude towards something like this it isn't technology but the sake of technology it's I had a situation as a general manager of an airplane program transitioning from what you might call mechanical or manual airplanes to computer-driven airplanes and had some young computer engineers who were thinking of what they can do with all the information they can now display in their cockpit I had a dinner one night with the chief pilot who was architecting their cockpit with these young engineers and got a conversation going between them and it was perfect the pilot was saying what he needs and the engineers were not understanding it and they got that wider and finally one of the young engineers said hey Jim what exactly is it that you want to display in a cockpit I can display anything in that cockpit you want in any form you want Jim said I want to know two things are the houses getting bigger or as I'm approaching something or the houses getting smaller he just wanted he didn't want all that individual data he wanted his job stress reduced by knowing am I heading in the right direction so if we can incorporate that through George's team on the island and then spread that to Maui spread it to the big island spread it to Oahu and then go we'll do something really good here for a lot of people but I can see this software helping a lot of the rural areas where minimal manning is a key issue that's where we can focus and once we show the benefits in that the larger stations can actually now look at it and maybe make their scenario more efficient so perhaps George along the way as this develops on for your exercise we could informally let the other counties know what's going on let them see what's going on let them contribute to the thought process that brings ideas in that are part of that overall stress reduction that's my plan we got two figures of merit overall stress reduction and faster response something like that is the two things that matter here so Lauren, again going back to the formation of the company how you guys got the idea to do this how you got people together who were thinking along the same line how did you manage to pull that together so indeed it started in 2012 but it took us for founders a few years to really come up with a first architecture and product itself it has been tested in Europe in a very large competition organized I think it was 2014 in Europe hope it's the right year where there were 81 participants and Unifly ended up second right behind a very big company so it was very interesting as a result of the concept was that an academic exercise at that time and were you guys out of graduate school or something like that no it was really organized for industry so it was really a very large competition at European level we thought okay finishing second of that competition it's a signal that we have something here absolutely and also it gave visibility so the year after the company was really founded and incorporated and it all started from there having some funding from Belgian organizations and support from the technology point of view put a team together and here we are three years after with some nice successes first in Europe actually we are providing the technology to the equivalent of the FAA in four countries in Europe Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Austria and the national authorities in those countries are really deploying the system at national scale to support all the stakeholders not only the pilots but also when you look at some of those countries they are involving the local law enforcement authorities they are involving airports and they are looking at exchanging data between UTM so UAS traffic management and ATM standard solutions for man aviation so it's really interesting how things evolve and it will be interesting taking that thought one step further if developments that are developed here in support of UAS can occur and are really positive is there a reason they can't work themselves to work their way backwards into general air traffic management are there not benefits that you can see in manned aviation management that would stem from what's developed here and that's a very good point as I mentioned before one of the main let's say characteristics of UTM automating a process that comes from manned aviation so once the concept is proven for UAS obviously at the long term there will be a lot of features and functionalities offered by UTM that could be applicable for manned aviation within ATM systems as well and we've been looking at that for sure one last question along the line of where you came from and how this is all going there must be some secret thoughts on preparatory thinking some core kernel of congratulating software that is the discriminator between what you do and what others are doing what can you say about that well not easy to reveal the secret source of course I don't want you to keep the secret to what your mother wants but there are a couple of aspects one important one is the one we started with safety and air traffic control background is at the core of what we are doing Unifly is not just a bunch of software developers in a garage that happen to produce an aviation software now it comes from the aviation background safety and those well established processes that exist within manned aviation are the ones we started from to build the application and to solve the specific issue it happens that we provide software but we're not a pure software company it's really an aviation company that's one key element and the other one is indeed behind the displays and the user interface there are a lot of functionalities that are based on research projects we're involved in a lot of them and that's covering many different topics ranging from how do you fuse data a lot of ways to identify and monitor and track UAS or manned aviation in real time so how do you fuse tracking data and how do you display that also related to cybersecurity for instance obviously having a software system at the core of your solution can be can offer a lot of threats from the cybersecurity point of view so there are a lot of elements we are looking at to make sure that the end-to-end solution is bullet proof from the cybersecurity point of view so the bullet proofness and therefore the reliability and the safety that goes with that some of the software developments that you're implying here and discussing are fairly abstract and probably hard for people to visualize so the comparison of this system versus some other would really be in the mind of the beholder and that's going to be defined by the screening basically and the ease of interaction with the human factors developments that you guys have gotten into as well in terms of screen integration integration between the existing air traffic management systems and this one so it will just plug and play in some way. That's a very good point indeed you may have different software functionalities running in the background but the way you interact with the system is very different from stakeholder to stakeholder the way we've been looking at GiniFly is having a kind of central platform with different interface and the interface serves the needs of a different stakeholder so the interface for the UAS pilot commercial or regression user will definitely not be the same as the interface you would present to the air traffic controller if he wants to see UAS flying nearby the airport that will be very different screens and indeed those are aspects we've explored quite a lot and here comes the solution of different interfaces making sure that it's tailor made for your own needs and the information that you want to see and I think it comes back to an element you mentioned before that it's not the objective to overload the user with that many information that you would be able to send but really to put available the information that are required to that and then the other thing that comes to mind is go back to onii which is where we start and everything and we aren't coming to the end of our time here George, this is the first thing we've really seen that can get us outside the rotorcraft itself or the UAV itself and get us into the educational theme and the mathematical development and software and stuff so this is a perfect connection into the school system on the island I would think because we're not talking just about the flying component of the drone we're talking about how to manage it and so getting the kids interested in this and this then leads to the math as you and I were speaking yesterday there is some high level of abstraction we have to get to here there's some mathematical basis for what we're talking about here which we haven't quite applied yet but everybody should think of onii diagrams as a way to think about collision avoidance because we're talking about collision avoidance as an example but once again inspiration in the school system for taking a look at something they can look at on a laptop and the simulation behind it they can run exercises themselves so George we got to bring this into the school system so I will because a lot of the school children are actually our participants so they will see firsthand how the system works pretending to save their lives so that's how we're going to gain more respect that way so our efficiency speed and safety number one and all measured by lower stress and higher productivity on the heart of the operator so we have come to the end of our time here for our think tech show where we bring up subjects like this to the public and Lauren first time on this show hope you increase the flyer thanks for inviting me of course from Unifly out of a global company basically changing the way that UASs are operated and finally getting into the operations side of this George, first time actually on the show in the studio the studio had to be moved to the other circle second time second time okay folks, we'll see you in two weeks


So we're here with Inopia from Korea, so who are you? My name is John Hong Kim from Korea, Inopia Technology. So what do you sell these, Marks? Yes, we have a smartphone starter package with a magic cast. The magic cast is an IoT gateway stick. The first gateway stick to be compatible with the old signal. Where do you connect the stick? To the HDMI port. So it goes to the TV? Right, right. TV or any monitor with this kind of HDMI port. What's a CPU you use? Oh, we're called Telechips from Korea. Alright, so it's Telechips ARM processor. And it's showing, what is this? This is Android or? Linux or Android based. So what do you show on the TV? So we provide this application on this platform. So a slide show and the DNA based phone to TV. And also we also support YouTube video clip and mirroring from the phone to TV screen. Then we have a smartphone application. So the idea is you just leave it on all the time like this? Right, right. Always on? Right, right. So it's a smart home monitor? Right, right. And it's connected to what, smart bulb? Smart Wi-Fi, smart probe and Wi-Fi smart probe. Over the Wi-Fi. So it's over your home gateway? Home network? Yes. And then Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi inside, LED bulb. What else are you showing here? It's all seen alliance compatible. This is another gateway with a GUA border on both. So we are the GUA sensor. If someone detects the door sensor, then it communicates with the all-join Wi-Fi LED bulb. So we call this the old GUA to all-join bridge solution. So you have multiparticle IoT? All-join, bridge system. So what is all-join? All-join is our communication protocol between the other device. Is it a platform for the IoT? Are you selling many already? Yeah, we get pay order from the Indiegogo. How much is this for Indiegogo? Indiegogo 149 US dollar. And you get these three? Is shipping already? Yeah, we were shipping in November. So people can go on order now? Right. All right. Indiegogo, Inopia. Yes. The magic cast. You're also showing a projector here? This is another wireless beam projector based on Android. Did you make this? Yeah, we make. You make a wireless beam projector? Right, right. What is the resolution? Is it DLP? The resolution is WVGA. DLP? Yes, DLP. How long is the battery? Two hours. This is cool. Do you sell this? Yeah, we sell from October, this October. How much? 279 US dollar. WVGA? 50 lumens. 50 lumens? Yes. And this is called IC? IC mini. Is it also considered as part of IoT also? Oh yeah, we support our joint framework. So if the refrigerator is open, then you can send notification on the projector screen. It's very cool. So it's a Wi-Fi, so you can connect this to your mobile cell phone with the tethering. So you can streaming over the cloud. Your company is doing this kind of stuff for a long time? Yeah, we're 15 years to do the embedded solution. And most of your market is where? Korea? Global. Global market, yes. Alright, so... In Nokia, the technologies make IoT solutions with projector.


County officials recently released a plan to reopen that included strong guidance for business and residents. The county's plan to deal with coronavirus and taking care of the surge lessons case is seen municipalities and law enforcement will work What stronger orders in place if necessary? The plan called a safe restart recommendation Includes three freight phases the county will remain will remain in each phase for at least 14 days The county releases advisory plan to limit the corona virus urging businesses to limit capacity at at-risk people and at-risk people should stay at home We are now in phase one phase one says that if a business opens they should follow the Wisconsin Economic Development corporation's best practices and Any recommendation specific to their particular type of business? Capacity in bars restaurants and non-essential businesses should be limited to 25 percent of capacity and for outdoor events People should stay at least six feet away from each other Community member actions during this session are for community members to avoid going to places where safety measures are not in practice To wash your hands with soap and water use hand sanitizer, especially after touching frequently used items or surfaces To avoid touching your face To sneaver cough into a tissue or inside of your elbow To disinfect frequently used items and surfaces as much as possible To strongly consider using a cloth face coverings while in public particularly when using mass transit And if you're sick stay at home Do not go to work or school or any other place and to follow the advice of a medical practitioner and to follow public health quarantine isolation orders when ill or when you were close to Contact of someone who does have corona virus business actions during this Phase should be that businesses that choose to open may do so using the general best practice guidelines from Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation in any sector specific recommendations that apply to the work being done if your sector is not included in the CDC Has additional resources for sectors or organizations to reference Limit capacity with non-essential businesses bars and restaurants to 25 percent Events held outdoors should allow for people to maintain six feet of physical distance from others To support online education Remote work options is able to encourage curbside pickup to reduce in-store traffic and long lines And if community members choose to gather socially Private indoor social gatherings should be limited to 10 people or less again with physical distancing To encourage masking for both staff and consumers Sheboygan has met three of the five criteria necessary to go on to the next phase the criteria that have been met is a downward trajectory of positive cases Sheboygan County hospitals have the ability to treat all patients requiring hospitalization and every resident who tests positive for COVID-19 is interviewed within 24 hours of the test results the Items that still need to be met as adequate PPE available to health care personnel They call for an eight-day supply for all health care facilities and that's currently not available and Testing availability for residents with COVID-like symptoms The public health department is working to bring public testing opportunity in conjunction with a National Guard Later in the next week or two and hopefully we'll be able to meet those last two and go on to phase two Emergency management is also working to bring in extra PPE for health care partners So they have that eight-day supply on hand Let's review some of the numbers last week. We had 68 positive cases this week we went up three new positive cases We had 17 active cases in the in this county last week this week We only have five so 12 of those have recovered now. We have a total of Last week we had 48 who had recovered from the coronavirus this week that total is up to 63 That's a increase of 15 people Last week we had no house when we want hospitalization this week. We have zero and There are three deaths The Mead public library is currently offering pickup of library materials The library will be open limited hours to the public starting on May 26th from on Monday through Friday from 10 to 6 and Saturday 10 till 2 the third floor meeting rooms and the third floor rather and meeting rooms will still be closed The senior activity center will still remain closed and missing the court will be conducting virtual hearings for the next few months Our city parks will remain open all city playgrounds will remain closed till at least May 26th All city park buildings and shelters and restrooms will remain closed until May 26th and all other city Buildings will be remaining closed until the 26th


Hello everybody, Andrew Majeski here with Dental Studering, so it's coming around, oh my goodness, excuse me, it's coming around that time to take the board exam, so it is November and a lot of you guys take the board exam in December, so next month. And for those of you who have taken the exam before and have not passed, even those who are taking the exam for the first time, the biggest question I always get around this time of year is, should I take the board exam next month or should I wait till after the holidays? Because life happens, holidays happen, you might not be able to get as much studying done as you want to over the holidays because you're not thinking study, study, study, and sadly for the board exam you have to study or you will not pass. But I can't answer that for you guys because I don't want to tell you to wait to take the exam and then you take the exam in a couple months and you don't pass and then you're thinking, I wish I took it, you know, a couple months ago, maybe then I would have passed. So I don't like to give that answer to anybody because ultimately it's up to you. But what I always say is, do you feel confident? If you're even thinking, maybe I should take it in a couple months, that probably means that you know you won't be able to study as much as you should. There's nothing wrong with waiting to take the exam. The only thing is, is you might kind of have to reteach yourself a lot of the material and that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But also if you're in a rush to pass because maybe you have a job lined up or you just want to get the show going then it makes more sense to take it sooner. But it really does depend. If you know that you won't be able to study, don't take it sooner because you never want to chance it. You never want to say, well I know I won't be able to study but I'm just gonna try it and I'll see what happens. You never want to chance it. So I tell people, if you can study every day and you will feel confident then take it. But if you're even asking yourself if you should take it or not, you probably shouldn't. You should wait until the next enrollment to take it because what a lot of students do too is they will sign up for the exam and then a week before go, I'm not ready, I'm not gonna take it. Well it's too late to cancel. So if you do cancel, you have to pay again to retake the test a couple months later.  You don't have to pay twice. So does that make sense? So a lot of students think that if they just cancel it like a week or two before they'll be fine, we'll get their money back. We'll know because they had to hold that spot for you. So you have to pay again so it can get expensive. So make your decision now and decide when you want to take it. If you're not sure, it's probably because you should take it not next month but a couple months from now if not more. So I hope that helped. Let me know what you guys are thinking, what you are deciding and I'll see you in the next one.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that Nancy goes for a spa treatment. The cost of spa treatment is $75 plus 6.75 percent tax. She also gives 8 percent tip. Is $85 sufficient to cover the total cost? Now before starting the solution of this question we should know some results. First is we can find the tip by using the formula that is tip is equal to 5 percent into amount. Also we can find the sales tax by using the formula sales tax is equal to tax percent into amount. Now these results will work out as a key idea for solving out the given question. Now let us start with the solution of the given question. Now in this question first of all we will find the total cost in spa treatment by Nancy. Now given tax percent is equal to 6.75 percent cost of spa treatment is equal to $75 so $75 will be the amount. Now here we will calculate the tax by using this formula which is given in the key idea. Now tax is equal to tax percent that is 6.75 percent into amount which is $75. Further this is equal to 6.75 upon 100 into 75. Now changing decimals to fraction this is equal to 6.75 upon 100 into 100 and this whole into 75. Now 25 into 3 is 75 and 25 into 4 is 100 also 25 into 27 is 675 and 25 into 4 is 100. So this is equal to 27 into 3 upon 4 into 4 which is equal to 81 upon 16 and this is equal to 5.0625. Therefore same tax is equal to $5.06. Now according to the question she also gives 8 percent tick so given tick percent is equal to 8 percent. Now we will use the first result which is given in the key idea to find the tick. Now we know that amount is $75 so tick will be equal to 8 percent of $75 which is equal to 8 upon 100 into 75 and this is equal to now 25 into 3 is 75 and 25 into 4 is 100. 4 into 2 is 8 so this is equal to 6 so we have tick is equal to $6. Now total cost for spot treatment is equal to the cost price plus same tax plus tick so this is equal to $75 plus $5.06 plus $6 and this is equal to $86.06 so the total cost for spot treatment is $86.06 also it is asked that is $85 sufficient to cover the total cost. Now the total cost for spot treatment is $86.06 which is greater than $85 therefore $85 is not sufficient to cover. The total cost since the total cost for the spot treatment is $86.06. So this is the solution of the given question and that's all for this session hope you all have enjoyed this session.


Good morning everyone, so let's go to the biostatistic session, so let's see how to make a bar graph first way, in the previous session we had seen how to make a pie chart, today we have seen about bar graphs. So I told you that by chart the criteria should be percentage, the variable should be percentage in percentage manner, but if it is not a percentage wise, it is just to value like main and standard duration of the same age group of the same gender, we can go for a bar graph. So let's start with the bar graph, so the basic three steps of the step one is just to select this, just like our pie diagram, go to insert, adjust our second step, select which one we want, we can go for this 3D or 3D, cylinder cone pyramid, so I will select cylinder one, this is our step three, done. So bar chart is ready, so bar chart always will be there is a gap with the categories, histogram it will be continuous without any gap, so now let's modify this graph, so we can put the legend by count, so this is right click, right click and format legend, so we will keep it button open, now we have to click on this bar, again right click, add data level, the values will come up, again add data levels, so now let's add a title, so go to the layout, now a chart title, it will be a whole chart, so this is weight of the participants, now you can add color, go to home, this is an area color, this is phone color, suppose you want to color this area, you can put this, and if you want to color this phone differently, then click this, so color this, now in bar graph and pie chart there is a different, pie chart there is no x and y axis, but whereas in bar graphs there will be x and y axis, so we need to add x and y axis, so again we go to layout, so we have axis titles here, so we have to select the primary horizontal axis and title below the axis, so where you can put age groups, so you can age group, again go to the axis titles and go to correct, so let's take the rotated title, it will come like this 90 degree rotation, and you have to click on that, and you have to write percentage of participants, so in all the x and y axis I will be, so this is all we do in bar graph, now we have many options we can employ, this is where we want to design, we can add this, so it will come like this, or this way, this way, we can put the values here, we can just keep that in the title, we can follow this one, we can keep on exploring it, this, basically this input is just like pie chart, then yes we additionally add x and y axis here, we go back to the last one, we add title, so let's see another example, so yesterday we are seeing the gender, the gender thing, the weight mean and standard equation, what happens is sometimes it comes like this, mean and standard equation, actually it is supposed to be here male and female in the x axis instead of mean and standard equation, so what we will do is, we go to switch column, row column, I want it, so I have to go to the switch column, take that, so it will come like this, male and female, so we just continue our routine, for math legend right click, the bottom, add data level, right click, male and data level, enter the layout, put chart at the gender, again go to design layout, access title, design the axis, something on the line axis, again in the line axis, the dotted one, it goes forward on the option, this is a grid line, and get vertical grid line, this is grid line, it is under vertical, I know grid line so it comes like this, so this is a grid line, and so if you put this show data table, the values will be shown here, show data table, legend case, again it will come like this, legend case, legend again, theorems, gender, vision, height, all these options are here, design, layout, chart, all the axis, same axis, okay so, it's all about how to make a large chart, all the bar crafts, all these options are here.


So, now I'm going to talk about sweet water. Sweet water is the sap that we get from the tree. This one here, that's before it's boiled, it's very clear. And now, we also use that to drink during this season. We use it to cleanse ourselves, it's a cleanser. It also makes you want to go to the toilet quite a bit. You have to be careful with it, we call it sweet water. And we call this nanotic wobble in the language. Wobble means liquid in the language, nanotic means maple, so it's maple liquid. Some people also call it Cisabakwadwobble, which is sugar making water. Now as we boil, the consistency starts to change and the color starts to change. You get this about halfway through the boil, it's starting to form in a way that it's going to eventually reach the consistency of syrup and that's the beginnings of it. That's what you see. It even smells different at this stage. It smells beautiful, it has a sweet smell to it. It's not as sweet as syrup, but it's very good for you also. It still has the ability to heal you and cleanse you like this one. We also, in the later stages, after we make syrup, Nishinaabe continue to boil it to a consistency of very thick syrup and then they start making sugar with it.  Now this is one of the ways that sugar is stored through a comb. You can hang that and mice won't bother it like so and then you can scrape it off as you need it and that's just a sort of a finished product. Another finished product is where you take it to powder and it looks like modern day brown sugar. This is actually what we call Cisabakwit, which is the sugar. We also call white sugar Cisabakwit by the way, but this is truly the Cisabakwit. Today we'll just point out to you that Cisabakwit would be syrup. This just means it's half way to sugar. Of course the name of the tree, Maple that I explained to you before, Nenotik, now there's several explanations of the word Nenotik. There is, there's people that say that it derives its meaning from Nini, which is a man. Ottig is tree. So if you were to literally translate it, it would mean man tree. The other one, and it's debatable, is that Nen really means good, Nenotik, that means good tree, that's the one I prefer myself. And anytime that you have Nenotik in a word, then that tells me that it is a special tree that's probably gifted directly to Nishnabe from the Creator. We do have some spigots, which are made traditionally, and we have some makuk. Makuk means pot that we keep from the tree in the way we think that it was gathered in the early day. We have to look after the fire as an example. We have to put wood in here to burn, which is all relative to the teachings of the sun. That's where the fire comes from and came to Nishnabe in early times. We learn how to work fire. Fire will boil this down, it's all these things are related. Fire is called Shkodeh in the language, which is again related to Deh, which is a derivative word, meaning the heart. Shkodeh is like related to the heart because of its beat, like there is a rhythm of fire. And that's one of the reasons why we call it that. I'd like Canadians to remember Jezebaquot to begin to use some of these words to describe this syrup. I think we owe it to the years and thousands of years of doing this to retain some of these words.


Ok, hi! Hi! Nice to see you all here. I'm going to try to start on time because I'm always late. And I think it's quite ironic that I have the last session of this Drupalcon because I'm always last minute. I'm going to give a little bit of insight to my life and how I tend to manage my work. And if you have any questions, we can go over that afterwards. I'm going to talk a little bit about myself and the challenge of being me and the battle tricks and then we'll go over the key takeaways of this talk. So I am born and raised in Iceland. And currently I live in Barcelona. I have a master degree in international management and a business degree as a BSc in marketing and management as well. My background comes from media in Iceland, in retail where I lived in London for six years and had shops there and then in marketing as well. And I'm currently working as a marketing director of Onex Internet. And yeah, I think it's pretty much cover says. This is me and my three kids. We are all dwarfs basically. So here we are all tiptoeing, like trying to see who is the shortest. And currently that's me. That's the situation we have now. And yeah, yeah. So the challenge, sorry, the challenge. Is it funny or is it frustrating? I have often asked myself this and I was often very hurt.  Or you are like, oh my God, here she goes again. And I'm like, yep, that's me. Then at some point I realized it's not actually funny. It's just hard sometimes to be who I am because of the condition. And I actually realized four years ago when I divorced my partner and I became a single mom of three kids and managing my life and everything. And no one was there to grab me. Then it became really challenging when there was no one to let me in, when I locked myself out. There was no one to drive to the airport when I forgot the passport. There was no one there to come and help me when I lost the car somewhere and these daily battles. Is it destruction or is it ADHD? That's the thing. I'm sure you all have experienced being like looking for your keys or you can't find your wallet or something like this and it's frustrating. But then when it comes to these situations, for example, me when I was 20 I reversed out of a garage and I had both the doors open in the car. And I actually reversed out with the doors open. I was at work and luckily my boss was my dad. We were working in a football stadium and he was just dead at me like, what are you doing? Why didn't you close the door on the car? I thought, well, he told me to reverse, I just reversed. I wasn't checking the doors. And that's a true story. I also took my dog for a walk the other day. I walked out of my house in Barcelona, was down the street. I realised I forgot the dog. I only had the dog lead and I was walking like this, really happy with myself and then I realised I didn't have the dog. And the feeling is similar to when you fall and you stand up and you're like, I'm fine and I almost saw this. I was grabbing up the lead. It wasn't even like a lead that goes, pulls when the dog moves. It was just a long lead that I should have maybe noticed. And the expression on my dog's face when I came back in with the lead says it all. She was just sitting there like, so I took her out. But with this I just wanted to tell you a little bit like the difference of being like distracted or having an ATSD. And it's the zombie syndrome that I once heard in a talk and I really related to this because most of the time I feel like a zombie.  And it's actually a phase that we all go through but the circle is usually around two hours for no more people. You have to stand up, you get a tea or something, but often with people with ATSD it's two minutes. So you can imagine where the mind always drifting into a mode of daydreaming and being relaxed. It's quite hard, the two-minute cycle is not much you can do at work when you're always daydreaming. Living alone is sometimes tricky because we need the system to wake up and with ATSD we are often loud. I listen to really loud music and I don't think it's loud but then people come in and like, what's happening here? I'm like, yeah, I'm just listening to music. It's really loud. So living alone can be bad because you really need something to distract you and wake you up. But it can also be a really massive choice for people with ATSD because they need freedom. They need to be alone and distract so tiring to be like this. So this is Molly, the dog that I left and she's actually my closest workmate because she's always with me and she actually helps me a lot because she drags me out every day. So how do we turn our system on during the work? Loud music, like I said.  We're not like in meetings I can probably often be seen like this and it's not because I'm not listening, it's because I'm scribbling to keep my attention going. We move, lots of people argue and even a lot of people go to doctors and say, you have to help me because I keep thinking like I really want to kill someone or have this like thought of them doing really bad thing just to keep the system going.  So people with ATSD are at more risk to develop post traumatic stress disorder because we totally ignore our symptoms. We just keep going and we want to have fun and we never want the party to end and we have a really, really strong and fast mind and pauses can be uncomfortable and that's why like people with ATSD sometimes come across a bit odd, let's say. I just want to have fun and it's so ironic I have actually a tattoo it says it's not forbidden to have fun and then I have the one next party tattoo next to it. So it's a little bit true cliche. The battle tricks. So the first thing first is to take care of your mental and physical health and I say you can't do anything if this part of your life is not in order. I would always tell you to sleep to focus on your sleep because sleep to a private person is not going to do anything in their life or work life or anywhere. A lot of people with ATSD have a really late sleeping circle so they tend to fall asleep between four and five in the morning and they don't really function at work. So I say sleep and then we can do the rest. I encourage people to enjoy the nature to be out to be with the people in your life to move to eat healthy and try to meditate. These are all like very very simple suggestions that every one of you have possibly heard many many times and it's said again and again because they work. And do what makes you happy again and again and then we can start focusing on what to do at work. I was actually telling my friend today that I could never listen to audiobooks or anything before I started meditating because everything irritated me. The reading was too slow couldn't remember any names of the books and I just basically didn't get this how people could just listen to audiobooks. I started meditating and all of a sudden I was really able to focus and listen. So I just want one example. I'm also not going to come here with any like amazing advices on how you will improve everything in your life regarding your work but I want to share what I do. So before I leave on my birthday I always try to plan ahead the day I see next coming up because if I start chaotic it will be chaotic. That's for sure. I do this very very simple square on my desk and I always have to have everything written it cannot be in my calendar because I don't function like that. I write down very important things important things can wait and to do but not too important. And with this I have a visual and then I feel better. I'm calmer. I check the prior task for the day I check my meeting schedule to see when it's best for me to focus on tasks to take longer time and I always tend to finish issues where I know it takes me less than 20 minutes and especially if I know that people are waiting for me it happens a lot. I have an amazing marketing team with me at ONEX and they wait often patiently sometimes not so busy. So this is what I prioritize to not keep anyone waiting and no one out of work so that will obviously always be my focus. I make lists this is a list for one day I did and I take them off and I know we're in a technical conference and you guys will probably all have this in Google Tasks in your issues and I do that as well but having it like this it really helps me because I feel like I want to take off I feel awarded I feel like I have achieved something and I can see that I'm actually doing the things I need to do and then next morning or like the evening I will have a different list, updated and I go through many many books of the ONEX note pads I cannot recommend anything more than put your phone on silent because people that respond to everything I hear tick I hear the neighbors washing machine go off I hear I've worked at home for 16 years by the way I hear everything was going on the building the elevators going and I'm like just everything distracts me so the phone being like we know constantly going on I've had it on do not disturb the whole conference I have not missed out on anything so put the phone on disturb or have it turning somewhere else mute slack during focus hours I often say to my team we are not saving lives this can wait and if we cannot focus on anything anything that we're doing nothing is going to happen stand up when you can feel when you can feel you're not productive and I'm obviously really lucky to have an understanding bosses, a team that understands how I am and when I feel that I'm like zoning out, listening to the elevator and everything that I've told you I just stand up and take a break I go out with my dog I block 20 minutes every lunch I go out fresh air sometimes I have a coffee and then I come back so this is my desk how I want to have it this is how I want to start my day there's a list there on the table with what I need to do and then this is my desk one morning after I was looking for a bill in the evening before and I left it like this and you can imagine sitting down to this having to start the day having slack pinging you daily meeting starting and this is what you're dealing with it just can't be good no matter how much coffee I'm going to have this is not going to be good communicate effectively so this is a really tricky balance when you work remotely be available but not always I really want to be available for everyone that needs me at all times but then I'm not going to do anything else so that's why I have slack muted and not visible on my screen when I know I need to write a blog post or something else have one to one meetings with my team I think they're really really valuable because you get totally different stories you get a different perspective of the people's life what they're dealing with how they are like doing with work and task and I think they're super important have dailies in bigger projects not with everyone just people involved and have weeklys a monthly and status meetings with your team so that everyone are wrong in the same direction I always say communicating is key to a good life and I love to communicate and I think like when people are stressed we all have shitty times if we know we can all do better together if I don't know that you're going through a rough time and you can't perform at work there's no way for me to help so I think we are pretty good at this in the marketing team of 1x we speak we are helping each other on all levels so I think this is really really important so the key takeaways I have no idea what time it is I'm on time ADHD is a superpower I always say this you have to have a person with ADHD in your life otherwise so boring with all powers come responsibility so I think we all have to be responsible for how we are feeling and performing and how we are doing things and we need to constantly go over this we need to constantly estimate or look at how did this they go how did this meeting go how did this conference go did we do okay and then I think how are my kids doing like okay I maybe need to get some dinners you know this balance is a practice and one bad day will not determine the whole week or month or one bad event will not determine the next event so I just encourage people to obviously experiment with what was for you this is just something that was for me it's very very basic there's no new science here and my biggest maybe what do you call it like advice would be to avoid staying on autopilot to always check like how it's going how you're feeling at work are you doing enough are you doing too much do you need help communicate and it's all good we got this I think that's just my takeaways for this if you have any questions or anything I'm off for that but otherwise just want to thank you for coming


Welcome back everyone. I'm here with Rob Strecce. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. Day two, Open Source Summit. Live coverage, three days, wall to wall. Kind of getting down towards the end of day two. A lot of great content, action packed. It's not pulling the big numbers like KubeCon, but it's the right numbers. It's the elite. It's the premier show that sets the agenda for Open Source software by the Linux Foundation. General Bacon's here, community leadership core. Great to see you. Great to see you. Great to see you. Yeah.  You've written a great book. You're well known in the community circles. Open Source has won. Okay. It's no longer the shoulders of giants. It's all giants. It's now the industry standards. It's all shoulders. It's all shoulders. It's all shoulders. It's now the, it's the software industry. So, and so much more is happening. So we see another inflection point coming and community is the lifeblood. There's a recent post that was written this past week around Google's leaked memo. Yep. Around open AI. And they talked about community as a moat. Yep. So you start to see words like moat, which implies competitive advantage. Okay, it complies proprietary. The old moat was proprietary software. That's dead. Yeah. Now we have community being called a moat. Not a bad thing, but it's going to impact open source as these projects become so large and these communities are developing. You have a series of ecosystems developing. What's your view on this? What's your reaction to all this? I think it's great. I mean, you know, when you think about whether it's a project or whether it's a company, the most important asset that you have is your audience.  But fundamentally, if you can, if you can make your audiences life better, then you win. And communities are a tremendously effective way of doing that. And I think we're just, we're starting to see this really direct correlation between success and the role of a community in that success. And I think AI is going to make everything change in a multitude of different ways, in the way we build communities, in the way we generate content for communities. It's all going to be impacted by it. It's interesting. I want to get your thoughts on AI because if you look at open source, we've been there from the beginning. Gabriel said, what's your, how are you going to be open source? Well, I used to steal software in college and deal it. So that's technically before it was free. Right. Okay, we made it free. So like, now we're there. It's so successful, but it was built to be distributed. It was built to be not corporate, very light at the top. The Linux foundation, I think is the poster child of structure. It's very thin at the top and all the value goes down into the projects, the community. So not a lot of top down, but there's a top, a lot of bottom up. So now you get a world where that could be that foundation, a tornado like AI comes around, does it topple, does it change it? It's a question. We think it's not. But the point is, it's going to be a change to the structure, the people equation, how projects are managed. What has to happen to, as the velocity of this new rocket ship? Yeah. There's a structure change. What's your view if you had to riff on, like, what's the adaptation look like? Well, I think it's in the beginning, we're going to start seeing, we're seeing it right now. We're going to start seeing AI being used as a tool to support the success of building communities. So I'll give you an example. One of the issues that I see with a significant number of companies who are building communities or projects that are building communities is they just do not offer enough value for their members. So how many times have people been into a Discord channel or into a forum?  And you're like, well, why would anyone come back to that? It's a utilitarian function. I go ask my question, I get my question, I get out, right? So the analogy there is it's like Netflix. If you opened up Netflix, it's the same three TV shows over and over again. You'd never open it up again. The reason why you opened up Netflix is because it adds value. The problem is that generating value, which is often generating content and events and things like that is time consuming and it's expensive. AI is really helping this significantly, right? Especially everybody talks about ChatGBT as a means to like generate content. To me, the real value of ChatGBT is summarizing content. Like for example, taking a transcript of a video and then running it through ChatGBT to generate material that you can then post them to your community that you can use as a means of adding value to your targeted audience. So I think we'll start out with this content approach, but then we're going to get to a point where I think AI is going to be saying, okay, I'm sucking in all of this information. All of this data about patterns in how the community's operating and we're able to identify trends. Like to me, I want to see velocity going up, velocity going down so I can react to it and AI is going to help with that. In the keynote today, Rob was covering the keynote and there was a slide up there by the Lutheran, whatever it was called, AI company. They use the word synthetic media. Right. Which I, you know, okay, that speaks to some of the auto-generated media. A lot of content is going to be, heavy lifting content is going to, vanilla content is going to come out. Could be good. Content is a lot like, is data. Okay, code is data. So communities thrive on information. So if misinformation becomes a dynamic, you're going to have to have some sort of countermeasure around the group dynamic. Yeah. As you know, you're an expert in this. I'm just trying to frame it. How does the content market develop? I mentioned forums. Because you got sub-stack, which is subscription. You got sites that are, news sites are going away. Stack overflow shut down, which actually BTX us. They don't want to get up their jewels. So you have a content market that's changing. Yeah. People just take matters on their own hands. How do you see that evolving? How do you advise your clients? How do you see like content? Is content glues people together?  I don't think it matters. Like, if I, just me as a human being, if I've got a problem in my head, and I want to solve that problem, I don't really care whether you tell me how to solve that problem, or whether AI tells me how to solve that problem, as long as I can solve that problem. And I think we're going to see this, like, T1000 fusion of, like, humans and machines kind of coming together. The key thing I think is going to be voice and tone and doing that. What makes communities really tick is it's information, but it's that sense of connectivity. It's that sense that you build relationships. The Linux Foundation, I mean, this event is a great example of this. I'm walking around here and I'm bumping into so many people I've known for many years and I meet new people. And it's those relationships that make this valuable. Sure, the exhibition area is cool and the talks are cool, but what really makes these events tick are the people. It's the people equation. So content, I think, it's a function. What I like about AI is I don't want someone spending four hours creating an article. I want them spending 45 seconds creating an article. I want them spending four hours reaching out to people, engaging with them, building relationships, connecting people together to see how they can support each other. And that network aspect is huge. The network effect is ultimately the key value you're talking about. The thing I've learned in my 22 years of doing this is you've got to be intentional about it if you, the amount of people who just say, there's our Discord channel, there's our forum, and they say, go check out our community and they just leave it at that. It's not good enough. Yeah, I think that's- That's our Discord. Well, I set it up, so it has no intention. I just wanted to set it up. But I also think it goes back to when people are active, you want to be responsive as well. And I think it's really hard with just, especially with the people trying to build a community to be as intentional in that community. Maybe they have their engineers who are involved in things of that nature, but a lot of times they're busy doing other things as well. Yeah, they've got other stuff to do. So do you see that as an advantage to the AI being involved in this as well? I think so. I mean, I think AI is going to make all of these things more efficient. But I think also the mental model, when I started out consulting with companies, I didn't think I was making this mistake, but I was totally making this mistake of trading in big chunks of really clear and I think valuable strategy, but it was fundamentally anchored on you've got to discipline yourself to do these things.  And what I've learned about human beings is what's more important is that we do lots of little things that have a outsized impact. So to me, instead of sitting down building out a big strategy on the rest of it, what I'd rather people do is just do one new thing a week and try that thing and experiment. And I think when you get into that cycle, I mean, every founder I meet does this, right? You start a company, you've kind of an idea for a project, you build it, you start iterating, you get feedback, and it's this cycle. And I think that to me is what really gets the results with communities. It's not sitting down saying, we're going to have this big strategy.  We're going to try these different community events. We're going to have around a feedback from our community. We're going to try these types of gamification and really over-indexing on making people feel validated and feel like they're participating. That's the most important thing. We actually had a conversation with Angel Diaz who was in here earlier, we have a platform engineering kind of same concept. He said, the people who design it up front tend to fail. He says, that's what you don't do. Do it and then find out what can be reused and rebuilt on. That becomes the core platform. Don't try to overthink it. You're kind of saying the same thing. Get out there, find out what's authentic, what connects, what makes people feel part of the community. Totally, yeah, fall in love with your blind spots, you know? Like fall in love with your blind spots, get out there and say, like, one of the things- What do you mean by that? Explain. So what I mean by that is like, like when you launch something, you don't know what you don't know, right? So your blind spots are out there. And I think a lot of people, they are insecure, they're self-conscious of, you know, they come to a place like this and like, if I'm going to start this, put this new product or project out there, I don't want to look like unprofessional. I don't want to look like a failure. And I think what everybody learns as they get older is, just get out there, get it out there. No one's really sitting there and judging you and then have your audience fill you in on the blind spots. Like one of the things I like to do with communities, I recommend everybody does this, is there's this power imbalance where you've got like a devrel person or a community manager and the expectation is, oh, they're the people who are running the community. The community members are there to consume whatever they put out. And what I always say to them is, no, you say to your community, look, there's a hundred of us here, for example, right? We can make this the greatest place to be if we do this together. And I'm going to facilitate this, but I need you to help.  And that's when you get better. And I think that is so important. I think one thing I'd like to get your thoughts on is this idea that Facebook kind of patented, which nobody likes, uses the product. And I think the value contribution model of giving to the group, collective more value than you take and having some sort of social contract contextually based on what the community is. Is that like a formula that you see? A hundred percent, like to me, it's all about value in everything in life. Like if you can't add value, then you don't impact anyone because I think we live in a world where there's just so many distractions. So to me, what I always recommend to people is, think about who your audience is, write their pain points down because there's this kind of like slightly cheesy analogy of like, if I'm a dentist and you want to get your teeth quiet and you've got toothache, you're going to demand me as a dentist much more urgently. So if you zone in on those pain points and if every interaction you have for the first 10 interactions is helping them to solve one of their pain points, you can't not fall in love with that person. John, I have a question for you on the big way that's coming. A lot, you mentioned the technical founders get kind of caught up and they don't go to their blind spots or people don't. One of the things about AI and Open Source is this code's getting better and the mechanisms that people think about the mechanism that it takes to do something. This is how I do PR, this is how I do community, this is how I do marketing. We're kind of based on old school techniques. So what new things do you see that are going to be abstracted away by value? I mean, public relations examples, we do a lot of PR firms. They just want to get the message out. But they don't have to do those steps anymore. We chat GPT, it's gone away. Marketing might have to change. So a lot of people get caught up in the mechanism versus what do I want to do? What are you seeing out there that's new ways to do something else like community or organic marketing where the community is? I mean, the paid stuff seems to be kind of like going through the side, seeing advertising dry up on the big publications. But community is all about the new way. What new ways are being replaced? What new things are replacing old things? What would you say to that? So I think one thing that's happening is just the dynamic is changing.  The relationship that you have with brands, with celebrities, with people is different. You expect to be able to engage. That's the first thing. So I think we're already getting, we already have a dynamic where people expect this kind of engagement. So that's the first thing. I think the second thing is it's building a personal relationship at scale is what it's all about. Like, I think if you think about, you know, back in the days when email marketing was all the rage, it's all broadcast. You're sending messages out to somebody else. Whereas I think what we're figuring out right now, and we faced this when I was at Canonical with Ubuntu, like we had a community of, you know, 50 million users and hundreds of thousands of active contributors was how do you build a personal relationship where everybody feels like we have a connection? The tricky thing is you've got to build like the most profoundly sophisticated workflow to do that in the current model. Whereas what I'm excited about with AI is if I've got a bot that can, that I just let loose almost like a, like the Google search engine bot. And it can identify, hey, there's this person who lives on the other side of the world. You've never interacted with them, but they've been doing all these really interesting things. And I dropped them an email as a community leader and say, I just want to say, I really appreciate what you're doing there. That's the personal interaction. Without that bot, I would never have seen that. And to me that level of visibility is going to be profound. Right now it's all like AI insights. That's an insight. Yeah, exactly. And it's the pattern matching because to me it's all about driving data, you know? Yeah, totally. I think that just building off of that, I think it kind of struck me when we were at CloudNativeCon, KubeCon a couple of weeks ago and then being here and seeing, I guess you could say, the dichotomy about the people who are really, really involved, they're here. And the people who were kind of, you know, tourists, the, you know, 59%, 58%, that were there for the first timers, you know, they're trying to figure things out.  Oh my God. It's how do we bring these people along? Yeah. The one thing that, and we've been very good about it on theCUBE for the last two events has been asking them, okay, what does that mean? What does that project mean? Because I think there's a lot of people who still don't understand. We talk about code pollution with AI pushing code into open source and the potential for that. Is there community pollution also potentially happening where you have so many different projects and so many different foundations, all going after the same people and the same watering holes. Right. And how do you get through the signal through the noise kind of concept? I'm not too worried about that because I think that the, you know, to your point, we've been, by nature of just the nature of how we are, like we've been kind of old school and how we've been operating this, right? It's been very much like maximizing visibility of your participants. KubeCon's a great example, you know, one of the things that drives me nuts about this world and especially living in the Bay Area is there is an assumption that this is what the whole world is like. And I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley don't realize that this is not what the rest of the world is like. Like if you're working in an enterprise window shop, you ain't going to KubeCon, right? You ain't going to the open source summit. You're having a very different lifestyle. So one of the things I'm a big fan of doing is like, I think there's so many people out there who are excited by this world but they don't know how to get into it and they feel really insecure about making that first move because they're like, look at all these super smart people. I don't know if I can hack it in this. And that's where, again, I think the scale of AI and I don't think AI should ever communicate with human beings and pretend to be human. I think it's disingenuous. I think it's deceptive. But I think AI being my teammate, my team member who gives me visibility to enable my human interaction with people at scale will enable those 57 or 58,000 people where KubeCon was their first time, where they're in Europe and they see, a lot of this is largely an American proposition, like, oh, maybe I can have an impact there. But the likelihood of them having an impact is not going to be through a tutorial that they'd read on a website for how to get your first pull request in. It's going to be someone in the community coming up to them and saying, you know what? I think that would be really cool if you had to go at that. Yeah, and you're smart. You can do it. And I believe that you can do this. I think that assistance aspect is huge. I think people are also intimidated by the imposter syndrome that they don't necessarily have, but Silicon Valley is like, whoa, what do I do? I might stumble. Will they laugh? I mean, it's a human response. Yeah, totally. It's a human thing. And I think what I can do is can level people up faster. I think when you're leveled up and you feel that you can hang, that's a good dynamic. So I think AI will be a nutrient for communities. And that leads me to my next question, which is how do you measure community beyond GitHub stars? Okay, because I think people are going to start to migrate around based on the shiny new toy and then settle into their core domicile, if you will, community, but also want to cross migrate around. Some people that will be bunkered. I'm the captain. I'm staying here. I'm not leaving the ship. But people want to migrate. And the old forms felt locked in. How do you create some traversal, but yet call home? And how do you measure success and health and community? It's a big topic. It's something I've actually been thinking about a lot recently. The topic of ROI and community is something that comes up pretty regularly. There'll never be a single number because community, as we all know, there's certain things you can put into a spreadsheet. Like I can, to a reasonable degree, track the impact of community on churn, cost of customer acquisition, on lowering support, ticket costs, things like that. But the kindness, the empathy, the mentoring, the support, the things that people really love and their bones about community you'll never be able to measure. So to me, what's interesting about this is the ultimate success of community. I go back to what Seth Godin says, who's a famous marketing guy. He says, if you're in service of other people's success, good things happen to you. So when you maximize the number of individual touchpoints or you support somebody else's success, there is an aggregation in good things happening to you, whether it's going to be people recommending your brand or engaging with you or contributing or whatever else. The tricky thing is that's too fluffy, right? So I tend to look at it in two ways. One is, what is the data that we can generate that supports success in some meaningful way? So one thing that people always ask me about is sales. Like I want to keep my salespeople out of my community because they're going to mess everything up, right? Which is not not true. But to me, what I always say is, don't have your salespeople doing outbound sales to your community members. That's going to end in disaster. Design a system where your community members become inbound to your sales. So what you do is you have your sales team over index on value. Your community members are already receptive to value because they love what you're doing. So they get into a value conversation. It can be as simple as running a webinar where you solve one of those problems and then you have a little pitch at the end. Community members are usually fine with that as long as they opt into it. So to me, it's like, but then what is the data that I can generate in my community that supports that motion? Like if I can go to my product team and I can say these 10 people are super active in this particular part of the product. I want you to get on a call with them for 30 minutes a piece. You'll get so much product feedback out of that that it will be super valuable. So that's a data-driven piece. And then the classic metrics around active users and things like that, we can fill in again. And it's also some contextual value. Each community might have different... Context. Some might value certain things over others. Some might be more transactional. You know what I'm saying? That's a hard thing to prototype and generalize. Well, and it's tricky because I kind of went down this pathway of like, I sat down, I've actually been doing a lot of work in this recently where I've been just talking to people about the concept of our way in community. And one of the things that Erika actually, my wife said is, I think one of the things you got to be careful here is, there's an executive education component around this of making it clear that there is no number in a spreadsheet you can track. So setting the expectation with executives and leaders that a certain amount of this is just going to be, we're going to be kind of fumbling around in the dark a little bit. You're not going to see the full picture. But I think you can feel it, which is an awkward thing to say in a business context, but you can feel when a community, Hashicorp knows that the community's been huge. They don't need to put it into a spreadsheet. I mean, it's energy. It's energy. It is energy. It's energy. It's turning into this kind of thing. I mean, that's where KPI's have to be really well thought out. You can say, hey, if you have online activity, that could be a proxy for testing energy, but it's hard to nail a KPI for something that's elusive like that. I actually was at a startup that was doing open source before coming here and doing this hosting bit. Oh, cool. So I was the product guy to your point. I actually required my product managers to go and provide value at, to talk to use cases, not to product at meetups. And I said, what I want you to hear from the community is, what's missing? What's hard? What's difficult about what we're doing? And bring that back in because to your point, I go, that's the value of community, is that you have, even if people haven't paid us, they're using our free product. What are the actual things that have made their life hard? And we'll either put that into the Apache 2 part where it's maybe part of our control plane. And I think that too many people get wrapped around the axle that everything in the community has to be community versus you're going to learn both sides of what is in there. I could not agree more with you for two reasons. One is, there's this perception that community is just your disco or your forum or whatever else. The community is every interaction that builds trust with your audience. That's the community. But the second thing as well is that value does not exist in the world. If you're a company and you build a product, you put it out there, you're building an open source project, you don't create the value your audience does. Because for example, when I work with my members in my community leadership core accelerator where I'm working with consulting clients, when I tell somebody what I'd recommend they do and how they build their community, that's not value. It's only value when they put that into action. It's words. So to me it's how you get them to really extract the value and implement it as the key. John, well you have been adding a lot of value here on theCUBE. We really appreciate it. Thank you. And for that, we'll give you one minute to put a plug in for what you're working on. Tell us what you do on these days. You're talking about ROI, you're doing a lot of thinking around that. Is there, so you got your consultancy. What are some things you're working on? How do people engage with you? Give, take a minute to talk about what's going on with you. So I recently, I've been consulting for a number of years but at the beginning of this year I launched an accelerator, a community development accelerator called the Community Leadership Core. Because one of the things I discovered when I was playing around with this a little bit last year was I spent a lot of time working with clients but there's real value in a peer group. So I started this accelerator where the whole point of it is where companies join and it's all about optimizing the efficacy and the speed in which companies can generate, can build their community. So companies sign up for a year, every quarter I generate roadmaps for them with really clear training and real accountability where I'm checking in with them and we're all kind of working together as a group. They have as much access to me as they like through almost like a fractional chief community advisor. And then we have group peer settings. What's really, group peer calls and what's really interesting is watching people in similar companies and also in different companies sharing and learning and growing together. So I kicked it off a little. It's like your school now. You're scaling your capabilities. Watching if you have a two-way mirror, look at that, write that down. Always good research. Yeah, well you know, in the absence of me becoming a male model this is what I'm going to have to do. You have a good look. I think you do well there too. John, great to have you on. Say hi to Erica for us. Erica, hello, we miss you on theCUBE. We'll certainly come check in over at your VC. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing the expert masterclass on what's going on in open source and your thoughts and views of the changing landscape. Thanks for coming on. Thank you, appreciate it. Okay, Mr. Cube, we're doing our part with the community, giving, sharing all this open content for free here in a beautiful Vancouver. 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