Alpha Troop 6-1 CAV conducted field training this week called Geronimo 40 to prepare for the upcoming Ganey Cup starting May 1st, 2023, at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Geronimo 40 was a two-part exercise that consisted of a train-up of basic scout skills such as moving formations, call for fire. And it prepared us for the Ganey Cup because the metal task that we prepared, they go hand-in-hand with the Ganey Cup as well. These exercises are crucial for putting learning to work. From the Geronimo 40, we definitely got some extra reps in and we got a chance to actually practice what we are supposed to do in our profession. And those reps are exactly what the team needs, as this job can be very demanding. It's both physically and mentally challenging. In order to be proficient in both, you have to practice. But it's not just practice that produces the ideal scout in 6-1 CAV, but also a mentality for growth and hard work. To succeed in this job, you really just need the will to keep going, keep pushing. This job is very rewarding, but it also takes a lot of attention to detail and accuracy. Coming off of just winning the 1st Armored Division Best Squad competition, I feel our team is a very good shot at the Ganey Cup and at the 3-4 competition. After all their hard work, these soldiers are ready to show the Army what they can do and bring home the gold. Reese Newton, Fort Bliss, Texas.


Vinith is joining us from all the way from Australia. That's awesome. Thank you very much for taking the time to join us on. Oh, yeah, sorry. You're actually joining us from India, I guess, not Australia. Confusing you with a different speaker. OK. So awesome. Take it away. So just give me a second of this sharing. OK, no noise. So in the previous session, there was a couple of mix-ups. Sorry for the background noise and sound. The recorded version of the talk will be uploaded to YouTube for everyone to review. Thank you. Yeah, are you ready, Vinith? Yep, so I hope everyone is able to see my screen. Yes, I can see your screen. So hello, everyone. My name is Vinith. So today we'll be talking about a roadmap to becoming a CNCF mentee. So firstly, I'm glad that I could give this community talk on CNCF mentorship programs in a Kubernetes community in Africa. So it's definitely a great place and a great content to be shared. So firstly, about me. So I'm currently a software engineer at Timescale. So we are a company behind the Time Series database. So anything around Time Series and relational databases and monitoring data, feel free to reach out to me. And I have interned with CNCF for a couple of mentorship programs, like I did Cortex, I did LFX mentorship with Cortex and Open Policy Agent. I also have done a Google Summer of Code with the Postgres operator, which is the Zalando's Postgres operator. And I'm also a co-founder and organizer at CNCF Hyderabad community. So I run local meetups in Hyderabad, India. And during my free time, I'm with books or with my cycle. And reach me out on Twitter if you have any questions or if you want to talk on anything. So find me at this vnithweb.com. So you can see all my work, my blog, post everything on this website. So let's get started. So today our agenda is what is to be a CNCF mentee and what are the different mentorship programs, how to become one and how to do it right after becoming one. And things one should do post mentorship program to continue the growth you have or the learnings you have done during the mentorship programs. So firstly, what is CNCF? So if you want to do a mentorship program with a foundation, you need to know what exactly is CNCF. And trust me, you ask anyone in the CNCF community, everyone has their own definition of CNCF because it's that huge and it's that broad. So this is one of the definition which fits accurately on what CNCF is by Vlamidir from Twitter. So it says that CNCF is a collection of technology and participates that automate the deployment and management of highly decoupled and resilient application workloads across elastic infrastructures. So using a uniform abstract of computing resources. So this is something I would say in simple terms as this is a modern infrastructure for cloud. So a couple of years back, the cloud era has just started but cloud native computing foundation has brought all the cloud native projects to all the industry. So it just brought what needs to be the specifications be what needs to be done for to achieve and embrace the cloud native infrastructure. So that's what exactly cloud native does. So you will get all the projects which are standards for migrating and to build your projects in cloud native environments. So what is it to be a CNCF mentee? So CNCF is firstly a very welcoming and vibrant community. So you can see the gif. So even my starting with CNCF community was so, like I was literally a child when I was trying to understand this tech and everything. So I didn't know anything about CNCF and anything. It's likely two years back. And I was totally impressed by the passionate people working on this community and everything you touch, everything you see it. Like you can clearly understand that this is going to be the next big thing in the cloud native ecosystem because all the projects a cloud native community invests on or many companies which invest on this projects are definitely cutting its technologies. And they are the future of how an application needs to be deployed and how it needs to be managed like the day to operations and everything. So it's very passionate to be in the CNCF ecosystem and majority of users deploy these projects at very large high scale. So it's not just using cloud native projects, but so I usually say many people like you might be working on a project. So using it is definitely a big win if users are using your project, it's definitely a big win, but running them at a very high scale is something very few projects and very few people can do that. So CNCF projects are mostly running in very high scale and mentors with immense knowledge with high quality code and operational knowledge at scale. So one important and unique thing I've seen in the CNCF community is that all the developers and the community is not only writing a high quality code, but they do also have an operational knowledge when they are running these projects at the high scale. So it's not only you're learning how to write code, but you're learning how to run them at scale and what matters when things are running at scale. So coming to the CNCF mentorship programs. So I have been following the KCD Africa today and I've seen this programs have been illustrated multiple times like contributing to Kubernetes. There was another talk and there was a slide on what are the mentorship programs to getting started with contributing to CNCF. So we will discuss deeply on what each and every mentorship program is and how one can contribute to them. So firstly, Google Summer of Code. So the Google Summer of Code is an internship program for students. It does, everyone all across the world can apply to it, like only dedicated for students and currently the CNCF has participated in the GSOC this year and it's already started. The program has already been started. And so I have tried for a couple of like, I tried during my first fresh year of my bachelor's of engineering and then I didn't get it. So I got it at the third time, the GSOC applied for different organizations. So yes, the Google Summer of Code is definitely an amazing mentorship program if you are a student and if you want to get started with coding and to start your journey of coding. So that's definitely a great place. And Google Season of Docs. So this is similar to GSOC, but this is basically on docs. So if you want to write technical content, you want to write the docs, anything that revolves around docs, it can be getting started guides, it can be a design doc, it can be user service, anything, whatever the project demands, you can write it. And one important thing about Google Season of Docs is that you do not need to be a student to do the docs mentorship program. So even you can be on working individual and you can figure that out. So if you have time during the weekends, it definitely works out. I know many folks who have done Google Season of Docs being a full-time employees. And there's a very interesting thing I always suggest and keep advocating about, the LFX Mentorship Program, which is formerly known as Community Bridge. So this is totally the Linux Foundation Run Mentorship Program, but this is a very active mentorship program in the CNCF community, because if you see Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs or Outreachy, these are dedicatedly in other programs and where CNCF just participates based on the cycles announced by these programs. So Google Summer of Code happens once in a year and Google Season of Docs happens once in a year and Outreachy happens twice in a year. So it's like that. So one cycle is from May to August and the other cycle is from December to March, the Outreachy. And the LFX Mentorship Program happens most likely every quarter in the year. So the probability of one getting into LFX Mentorship Program is very high because it totally depends on your work and what you add value. So the Google Summer of Docs, Season of Docs Outreachy have external factors involved in it because they have limited slots, they have multiple projects. So there is so much of equations in the other mentorship programs, but in an LFX Mentorship Program, which totally the CNCF has total control over it and it happens every quarter. So even you can just apply like in a year you can apply four times, whereas with other projects you cannot do that. And for LFX Mentorship Program, you need not be a student. So even if you are a working individual, you can definitely apply the LFX Mentorship Program. And for Outreachy also, you need, you should not be a full-time working employee. So Outreachy has that important note. So these are the four mentorship programs which are very active in CNCF. So how to become one? So let's say like it can be any of these four mentorship programs, so we will just talk on how to become one when you are doing one. So this is me when I was trying to apply the Mentorship Program, CNCF Landscape, you have like more than, like you have many projects, graduated projects, incubating projects, sandbox projects, and you do not know where you need to start with. So there is the captain of all projects within the Kubernetes community, which is Kubernetes. So everyone is excited and everyone wants to be part of Kubernetes. And trust me, Kubernetes project is very huge. So you can start with contributing to release team, docs, projects, like anything. So there is so much of opportunities on the CNCF land, so you need to figure out where you want to start from. So let's discuss on how to become one. So getting started. So be active in CNCF Mentoring Slack. So when I say active, don't keep sending the messages. It's just that keep an eye and just keep reading what are the updates coming in the CNCF Mentoring Slack and add a watch to CNCF Slack Mentoring Repository. So any new projects, any new cycle of mentorship programs being announced will create a PR to CNCF Mentorship Repository. So if you have a watch, you'll get notified whatever the new things have been getting added to the repository. So that's the best way to put yourself updated with the mentorship programs. And the second thing is pick the project you love. So it's like, I think many folks just apply to a project because just it's an mentorship program. But I personally suggest is that try to apply for a project which you love. So there might be like tens of projects, but target a project which you love and start applying to that. Because it's not just you doing a mentorship, but it's more about you doing a mentorship and trying to stay with the project for a long time. So that's how you should see this mentorship program as. And having a prior knowledge on the project or a tech stack is a real added value. So if you're picking one project, like if try to make sure your previous experience or your skill set, like let's say go or anything matches with the project, that would be an add-on because you can concentrate more on the project, not on the skills which you need to learn. So that would definitely be a very big add-on. And play with the project. So when you like the project and you want to work with it, so play with, don't just reaching out to the maintenance is definitely good, but don't keep asking like how, where, why, how and all these questions, just play with the project. Start contributing to the good first issues. So how I would suggest is that first clone the project, open it, open it and just check the structure, how everything is happening and read the contributing.md, styling guides, everything. So you'll get the general sense of what the project is and what are the priorities and how does the project actually work. So that would definitely put you way, way ahead than other mentees who are applying for that project. So how do you pick a project? Because there are so many projects I usually say that. So choose one project from mentorship programs and start working on it. So it's like, do not just put your hands on 10s and 15s of projects and just draft an application and just see that one might come in 10 or 15 applications. Trust me, it doesn't work that way because like many, many other mentees will just apply for one project and with the complete details and with the complete knowledge on it. So they would definitely tend to stand way ahead of you. So do not target on multiple projects. I would instead suggest choose one project which you are interested in and propose a feature. Like if your lover project and it is not in the mentorship program, propose a feature what you would like to see in this project. So try to use it for a couple of weeks and try to understand what are the gaps and attend the community calls, read their meeting notes. So you'll understand what is the project lacking and what is the future roadmap of the project. So you can propose a feature which is priority and which is in the roadmap of the project and you can propose to the maintenance that I would like to work on it. Do you mind recommending or proposing this feature to the LFX mentorship program or GSOP. So that's how the feature gets proposed and added to the LFX mentorship programs and then maintain that knows you and you are the person who proposed it. So make sure you are there with the feature and with the project throughout its life cycle. So now the project has been proposed. So you need to write a design doc, make sure that all the stakeholders and when I say stakeholders, the core contributors and maintainers are agreeing with how you want to develop the feature and how you want to take it forward. So just pursue it in a way that everyone agrees and everyone knows that you have a solid plan for the future. So that's how you should pick the project and move forward. And now becoming one. So you propose the project or you like the project which interests you, then how you should become one. So now introduce yourself in the Slack. So every project has a Slack channel. So if you go to this, there's a CNCF Slack, there's a Kubernetes Slack and in CNCF Slack, you can see all these channels for the projects. Like let's say for Thanos, you have a Slack channel, for Cortex, you have a Slack channel. So get into the Slack channel, introduce yourself, just try to read the conversation and the common problems users are facing and what is the conversation exactly about in the Slack? And now write a design doc with implementation details and different approaches. So propose two to three different approaches so that you will understand how exactly the maintainers want the feature to be implemented. What are they trade off? So are they planning to have it this way or the other way? So if you propose multiple approaches, you will tend to build more communication and the bonding with the maintainers. That's how you can understand deep down what is the fundamental features of the project and why we should take one approach over the other. And now share the design with the community. So not only with your maintainers or just with one person, just share with the design doc in the complete community. Like if it has a Google groups put it there, if it has Slack just put it there, show up in the community call, talk about the feature you want to work on and just make sure that everyone in the project are aware and are okay with what you're proposing and keep contributing to the project like good first issues, docs, anything. So wherever you find an opportunity, keep contributing to the project while you want to get into the mentorship program. So doing it right after becoming one. So trust me like getting it would be much, much easier if you do it right away, but doing it right after becoming one is one of the toughest things I would say because now you have been handed over the opportunity and you need to make sure that you build it in a way that every user of the project will use your feed and scale in every possible way the feature works out. So that's the toughest part after becoming one. So primarily target the working model of the future. So do not rush on writing docs or unit tests or anything. I would personally suggest that primarily target what exactly. So first like the bare bones feature. So you have something in a working model. Now try to build things around it like the unit tests or you want to give extensibility, you want to write the docs, anything. And now discuss the implementation details in the Slack channel. So you have a, you have designed, you have the doc and you have implemented it. Now discuss the implementation details because everyone has their own way of implementing it. So discuss it and write all possible kind of tests because you may not be working with the project or you may not be active in terms of writing code. So if you see open source projects after you, tens of people come into the project, they write code around your code. So they may not be aware of what are the, what is the internal functionality of your feature. So the more tests you write, the better the feature maintenance would be because even if you are not with the project, your test would help them to maintain the feature you have built. So make sure to write all possible kind of tests which would keep your feature always stable and follow the styling guide. So all the open source projects, the large open source projects have the styling guides, how one should write the project, how one should even write a commit message and how you should write the test, everything. So there is a dedicated styling guide for most of the projects follow that and aim for efficient and robust code. So it's not just that you just write the code, you complete and you just merge it. It's not like that. You need to write efficient and robust code so that it just works in all times. And iterate quickly over the review comment. So usually what happens with this mentorship programs is that the maintainers are also working for some organizations and they do have a full-time job and they just have a couple of hours to mentor you. So make sure that whenever you ask a review on your PR by the maintainer, make sure that you iterate over them very quickly and make sure that when the maintainer spends the time on your PRs, you're almost like you're adding the true value. It should not be like you didn't resolve the previous review comments or anything. So keep iterating over your review comments very fast so that the PR vault and gets nearer to merge and write docs and blog posts on your work. So the better the docs are, the better user can use your feature and write the blogs on how one can use your feature, how you got into the mentorship program, how did you work with the maintainers, anything. So blogs can be anything. So blog always inspires and helps other students or other folks like you to get into the mentorship program. So I would highly recommend in writing docs and blogs of your work, which would help and which would pay forward as you progress. So the other thing, what if it didn't happen? So everyone says that in the roadmap, okay, you just catch a point A and reach B and C and there's the destination. So it's always not like that. Even if you are following the roadmap, you may not get into the place where you need to go. So how you need to deal with it if you didn't get one. So it's totally fine. Many get into mentorship program after multiple attempts. So including me, like I have applied GSOC for twice and I got in the third time and I've applied for LFX mentorship programs also couple of times. So that's how it works. So you need to apply multiple times.  If you are fortunate enough and your work speaks out, it definitely happens. But for some reason you did not get one also. It's just a matter of couple of months as every quarter you have mentorship programs. So apply it in the other quarter. So you got the experience, you will stand way ahead of other mentees who are applying for the other cycle. So it's totally fine. You have done the great work already understanding the project, contributing to the good first issues and by writing the design doc. And you have a good bonding with the maintainers as well. So keep contributing to the project. So a mentorship program only doesn't decide your work. The way you communicate, the way you answer the good first issues or the users with getting started with the projects also matters. So mentorship program is good, but sticking to the projects without mentorship program is also good because always being part of the project is really good because as a project grows, you grow along with the projects and you build a true colleagues with the project maintainers. So keep applying for the next cycles of mentorship. Try starting early with your contributions and implementation details. If you're planning to apply for the other cycles. So post mentorship program. So there are many do like apply, get into the mentorship program, complete that feature. But what you need to do post mentorship program to make sure that you get the whole package, whole deal of mentorship programs from the CNCF. So keep contributing to the project.  So when I say contributing, it's not just the code. You need to talk to the users. Like let's say you advocate the project. You see what is a new feature, what's the major release? You just follow the project and you answer the questions in the Slack or talk to the people about the project and what's happening there. So contributing comes in all terms. So if you have totally switched your domain of working, it's totally fine, but just try to follow the meeting notes, join the community calls, add your value and feature discussions, how the project future should be like issue triaging, being a shepherd to the release. So you can contribute in all possible ways. So try to answer the questions in the Slack, attend the community calls and reviewing the peers is also a great way to be part of the community and also bug triaging. So post mentorship, you have a whole lot of things to do to stay with the project. And I always recommend Menti Swood who completes the mentorship programs to always stick to the projects in one or the other way. And last note, that keep working on what you love and cloud native communities, definitely a great place to be in. And you will definitely feel this statement once you start your journey with cloud native. So all the best. And I can't wait to see you in the cloud native land. So thank you. I have an ability for you. Awesome. Thank you very much for a great session. And I believe our users also, have you shared your Twitter handle so they can follow you especially those that might also want to reach out on the opportunities you've shared and if they have any more questions. So you want me to share it in the chat? Yeah, you can drop it in the chat, your Twitter handle. Oh yeah. Awesome. Thank you very much everyone's first thing with us thus far. We'll be going on a 30 minutes break now and we'll be resuming back at the top of the hour. We have lots of awesome sessions that are remaining and you wouldn't want to miss. I think one very good one is by a developer and director of DevOps recruitment from a company in the UK who is going to share with us what employers are looking for when they want to recruit DevOps pros. Also we'll be having an EMA session with Priyanka Sharma, she is the general manager of CNCF much later in the day towards the end of the day. You won't want to miss out on it. And we have a lot of freebies that we'll be sharing with you, especially those of you that are students at the end of the day. So stay with us to the end of the show and you will get to learn more aside from enjoying all the awesome sessions we have. Yeah, Vinit has dropped his Twitter handle and for that information on chats. So you can always reach out to him if you have questions about mentorship or you have some concerns that you want to share with him. Thank you very much and thank you Vinit. We'll be back soon. It's my pleasure talking at KCD Africa so looking forward to give more talks. Yeah, sure. Thanks for having me. Yeah, you too. Bye bye.


Folks, just want to give you a quick intro to the newsletter number one Ecosystems are really starting to form Most of the ecosystems we're seeing right now in the SSID central identity space are really application specific Meaning they work in the context of a particular ecosystem. We'll talk a little bit what one's kind of bridging ecosystems It still is kind of aimed at a single purpose. The reason for this is interoperability We'll get into that in another discussion in the future One of the key pieces though that is driving some of the adoption of ecosystems is a new concept Well, it's not that new we've been talking about it for a few years It's really getting a lot of attention right now and that being trust registries Speaking of which we're putting on a webinar kind of explaining that what is a trust registry? Why might you need one? What's the bare minimum for a trust registry and what does it do to help you build up those ecosystems? Speaking of ecosystems the good health pass blueprint the sort of the third item here good health pass blueprint has dropped It goes through quite a bit of detail on how we can improve both the privacy The security as well as the user experience of these what's being called vaccine passports I don't particularly like the term myself. It's more about getting that red X meaning you're not allowed to travel or a green checkmark that says you're good to go Following various different rules that are in place and making sure that you you're maintaining privacy all along the way So the good health pass blueprint dropped. We were a big part of that Our team led actually on the trust registry side as you can tell it was kind of a theme to this particular newsletter issue That is I think in one of the main main chapters there that work actually continues on right now the trust over IP Foundation if you want to dive in and start helping there is a task force that drum and reading myself are leading That we're doing a fair bit of work on that hoping to wind that up in the next few weeks by say mid september That should be more released to a broader audience at least on the corporate fronts companies growing we're we are working with more and more groups who are Looking kind of for that team to help the kickstart things This ssi decentralized identity space really has kind of two approaches to you to dive in one is spend months or years Learning the kind of the basics which I'll I'll dive into the basics in just a second on this There's a lot there the other it's like you got to learn it yourself or you can bring someone in who can spin you up faster We're getting more and more requests for that on that front. The newsletter you'll be introduced to Olivier Dubot He's a gentleman who's just joined my team And he's out to help us understand what exactly it is that folks are needing So you may hear from him. You may hear from me. If you don't just please feel free to reach out asking questions Um, last item. I usually do a book review. I'm going to do two book recommendations two of them Um, here we go smacking the mic first one self-solving identity by manning Uh, link is in the in the newsletter drum and read alex pruchat led the editing on this is about 50 or so Kind of leaders in the D central's identity SSI space Um, I worked with drum and and created the digital wallets and agents Chapter and inside there are trust registries. They're mentioned as well Um, so that's on the sort of the D central's identity space another book to really consider is the infinite game by simon cynic Um, he's the guy behind Start with why? Uh, the infinite game I have found Since reading it multiple times Has come up time and time again. It really makes me think about what we're doing in this industry in that We're not trying to cut up the pie and take more of the pie. We're trying to grow the pie and we're trying to grow The opportunity Um make change Um, there is no individual battle. We're trying to win. It is we are we're not just trying We are making a difference in how things are done That leaves behind benefits for everybody Give that book a read. I think it's a very good strategy and and overall big picture thinking book That's it for now. Talk to you soon


Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. This podcast was created to provide you the information and tools Doc Snipes gives our clients so that you too can start living happier. Our website, docsknipes.com, has even more resources, videos and handouts, and even interactive sessions with Doc Snipes to help you apply what you learn. Go to docsknipes.com to learn more. We're going to continue talking about symptoms, and if you remember from the last two presentations, symptoms are just that. They're particular issues you might be experiencing, but those issues can mean a variety of different things. For example, low energy may mean you're not getting enough sleep, may mean you're dehydrated, may mean you've got depression, may mean you're getting ready to get sick. So you can't just say, because I've got low energy, I know I have this. We want to look at what's going on with you in totality. So in this section, we're going to identify the causes, function and interventions for sleep disturbances. And you know sleep is one of my favorite topics. When people are depressed or anxious, they generally do one of two extremes. They either sleep too much or have insomnia. So what might cause that? Well, there are a lot of different things that can disrupt your sleep. Unfortunately, that's one of the easiest things to disrupt. Sleeping too much can indicate poor quality sleep.  If you're sleeping that much, your body's probably not getting quality sleep, which is what it really needs to rebalance and recover from whatever it's struggling with. Unfortunately, when we are under stress, our body perceives that as kind of a threat. It keeps our cortisol levels higher. We often drink a lot more caffeine when we're under stress, but all of those things contribute to disrupting our sleep quality. So stress can in and of itself inhibit sleep, which when you're sleep deprived, and you want to sleep, you're not feeling like you're rested. It tends to cause more stress. So it's a negative cycle there. So that's one thing you want to check is what can you do to minimize or eliminate stress at least right before bed? You know, like the two hours before bed, what can you do to help yourself relax so you can get good quality sleep and be recharged for the next day? Poor sleep habits also contribute to sleeping too much or having poor insomnia or having poor sleep. Because when you don't get quality sleep, then you're sleepy a lot. So you may take naps and that throws off your circadian rhythms. So you're not going to sleep well. If you don't go to sleep at the same time, then your body's not as primed to make melatonin so you can get ready to sleep. So there's a lot of things that we're going to talk about with developing good sleep habits that you can do in order to improve the quality of your sleep. We all know that pain may disrupt our sleep. So you want to look not only at, you know, do you have chronic pain from arthritis or did you lift too hard at the gym? I've done that. I've awakened after I've had a really hard lift at the gym the day before the day before. So it's like two days since I lifted and I wake up in the middle of the night and my quads are just killing me or something. So it's important if you're working out, for example, to stretch to address anything that might be causing pain, including a bad mattress or a bad pillow. Hormone and neurochemical imbalances can also cause poor sleep. If you're under stress, if you don't have enough serotonin, you're probably not going to get as effective or as good quality of sleep. So it's important to look at those things. Also the thyroid imbalances, you know, there's a lot of stuff your doc can actually test for to see if he or she needs to help you try to figure out how to balance some hormones. Your sex hormones also play a role in how well you might be sleeping.  And not to mention the night sweats, which may impact your sleep. Allergies or sleep apnea can also cause poor quality sleep. I'm horrible about allowing my dogs, not only in the bedroom, but in the bed. And I'm allergic to them.  So do as I say, not as I do, try to eliminate as many allergens as possible from your environment. Use a pillow cover that blocks dust mites, change out your pillow frequently in order to get rid of any dander dust mites that may have accumulated. Do what you can in order to keep just dust in general, maybe have a HEPA air purifier running in your room. Anything that you might be allergic to, especially, you know, allergic to as far as smelling it, you want to try to eliminate from your bedroom. It doesn't mean you have to necessarily eliminate from your whole house. You'll probably find significant improvements if you get it out of your bedroom. Carpet is famous for holding dander and allergens. So if you can get carpet out of your room and get solid surfaces, you're probably going to notice an improvement. Not everybody can or is willing to do that.  And poor nutrition can also cause poor quality sleep. If you don't have the building blocks to make serotonin, you're not going to be able to make melatonin and good quality sleep. If you're hungry, if you're craving, if you, you know, there's a lot of things that can keep you nutritionally or hunger, hungrily from getting good quality sleep. So if you're not sleeping well, if you're waking up and you feel unrested, you want to look back and ask yourself why. Another thing that can disrupt your quality of sleep is caffeine. It stays in your system for a long time. The half life, the amount for the first half of the caffeine that you drank to get out of your system is five to six hours.  Because only half of it will be out of your system by 6pm if you quit drinking it at noon. So if you still want coffee in the afternoon, consider switching to decaf. Those are decisions to make with your healthcare team. Insomnia can indicate an inability to relax if your mind is going a million miles a minute. I know before I have a test, before I have an interview, before I travel, those are the three biggies that I pretty much know I ain't going to sleep well that night because I've got a thousand and one things going through my head. So if you can't relax, you want to look at what is causing that inability to relax. Do you have stressors going on in your life? Do you have things that you keep thinking, oh, I need to remember to do that tomorrow? Well, if you have those got to remember, keep a notepad next to your bed so you can write them down. That way you know you'll remember and you don't have to worry about not remembering. Pain, again, can make it difficult to sleep. So if you have pain, talk with your doctor about pain management interventions, including hot baths and hydrotherapy, stretching, yoga, tai chi, acupuncture. There are a lot of non-pharmacological interventions that can help with pain. They also have TENS units, which is electronic nerve stimulation.  You can get those over the counter now. So they're a lot more readily available than they were when I was younger.  And I would really encourage you to look at what options you have. An insufficient serotonin or melatonin can also make it difficult to get to sleep because you don't have that sleep hormone kicking in. Another thing, which, you know, whether it causes poor sleep or causes insomnia, if you're using your mobile devices until, you know, the wee hours of the morning or late into the evening, the blue light that's admitted from computers, televisions and mobile devices tells the pineal gland in your brain that it's daytime. It needs to be awake. So it would be helpful to have a blue light blocker on your mobile devices and on your computer after, say, 7.30 or 8 p.m. On your television, what I have done and what seems to help some people is I turned down the blue tint on my television so it looks like it's kind of got a red haze over it. But it helps because I do watch TV right before I go to bed. So you want to make sure that your brain is getting the signals that, hey, it's time to start winding down. So the physical causes can include poor nutrition, pain and bad sleep habits. So your brain is just not engaging with the concept that it's time to sleep. Cognitive reasons can be that you're worried about a lot of things. Some people have difficulty getting to sleep because of safety reasons. They may have PTSD from trauma in their childhood. You know, little kids may not sleep well sometimes because they're worried about monsters under their bed. Whatever you can do to make your environment feel as safe and welcoming as possible will help improve your sleep. When you're not getting enough sleep, you can't recharge as efficiently. So you tend to be more tired. Your body's going, I really need that good sleep. I don't need a lot of sleep. I just need the good stuff. If you take naps during the day, it's generally recommended that you don't sleep for more than 45 minutes because during a nap, you don't want to get into the deep sleep. If you do, then your body's like, wait, was this nighttime daytime? Was this supposed to be sleep time? So in order to avoid confusing your body, you want to stay in that light sleep if you're taking a nap during the day. A lot of times a 10 to 15 minute power nap will make you feel a lot more rested. When you're getting too much sleep, your body doesn't secrete melatonin at the right times, leading to poor quality sleep and feeling exhausted all the time.  Your body's not sure when it's supposed to be awake and when it's supposed to be making melatonin. So it's just kind of in this limbo stage. You really want it to know that at this time, whatever that is for you, for me it's about 8.30. For most adults, it's probably closer to 10. At this time, it's time for my body to start winding down. When you can't sleep, it typically indicates that your threat response system is activated, so it doesn't want to be vulnerable. Whether you're anxious over an upcoming event, you know, there's anxiety. That's that threat response system saying something's getting ready to happen and I don't know if it's going to be good. So you want to look at what's causing the anxiety or the quote stress or the quote agitation, whatever you want to call it, that's keeping you from being able to relax and go to sleep. So how do you cope? What do you usually do to help yourself? That's the first place to start, instead of reinventing the wheel. What do you do to help yourself get to sleep when you can't sleep? For me, I get up, I read for a little while and I go back to bed. Some sleep people will tell you that if you lay in bed for more than 15 or 20 minutes and you can't get to sleep or can't get back to sleep, it's better to get up and do something and then go back to bed. If you stay in bed and continue to fight with it, you're going to increase your agitation and keep yourself from sleeping because you're going to start getting frustrated that you can't go get to sleep and doing that sleep math where you're like, if I fall asleep in five minutes, then I can get another three and a half hours of sleep, which just keeps you revved up. So what do you do to help yourself get to sleep when you can't? Likewise, what do you do when you've been sleeping too much and you need to help yourself wake up? Sometimes after you've been sick, you know, you've had the flu, you've been in bed for a week and it's, oh my gosh, it's hard getting started again. So how do you help yourself wake up? The same thing is kind of true when the time changes. I know you don't think an hour is a big deal, but it's kind of hard to get jump started for those first couple of weeks after the time changes for a lot of people. So what can you do to help yourself wake up? Exposure to bright lights is definitely helpful.   Interestingly, when you go to sleep, your body cools down. So a cool shower, not a cold one, a cool shower can help you relax and get ready for bed. A warm shower warming your body up is gives it the cue that it's time to get on with the day. So a warm shower or a hot shower in the morning might actually help get you awake and energized. Create a good sleep routine that involves the same two or three activities every night, just like you did with your kids when they were young. For my kids, you know, we would bring them home from preschool and they would have some playtime while I was making dinner. We'd eat dinner. They would take a bath because they were usually filthy from dinner.  That routine, once they got used to that, that routine kind of triggered it is time to go to sleep. And if you do the same two or three things every night before bed, you'll notice that your body starts to cue in. For me, after dinner, you know, I tend the animals, we live on a farm, go downstairs and start, you know, watching TV, which I don't usually do and watch TV in the evenings when I'm trying to wind down and kind of turn my brain to jelly. And I start playing either Scrabble or Checkers. And that my body has associated with, oh, it's almost time to go to bed, we're playing mind numbing games on the tablet. So now, even during the day, if I start playing that for too long, any of those games for too long, I start getting a little sleepy and I'm like, okay, that's not a good thing. So your body really does start to recognize cues of it's time to get sleepy. Think about when the days start getting shorter. Most of us associate darkness, and your brain does too, with it's time to go to sleep. Well, here in Tennessee, as soon as the time changes, it's getting dark at like 445. And so my brain's going, all right, it's time to go to bed. And I look at the clock and I'm like, no, I still got four more hours. How am I going to stay awake for four more hours? So it really does make a difference. So create a sleep routine, same two or three things, roughly every night, about the same time will help your body cue in to when it's supposed to start secreting melatonin and helping you get to sleep. Identify and address anything waking you up at night, such as the dogs.  Sometimes they'll get up and they'll, you know, want something to drink or need to get out. Or last night, Dookie was scratching his ear at 1 30 in the morning. And I was just like, dude, stop. But that woke me up. So it's important for for me to be aware of the things and for all of us to be aware of the things that wake us up, whether we're going to change them or not. That's that's a personal choice. When you have infants at home, you know, you know, especially if they're still sleeping in the room with you, when my son was sleeping in his bassinet, every time he would like squeak in the least little bit, I would be wide awake. So any sound woke me up. Coughing and allergies can keep you up, even if it's not waking you up. You know, allergies can cause you to have a worsening of sleep apnea. It can cause you to cough, even if like I said, even if it doesn't wake you up, it can make snoring a lot worse. All of these can disrupt the quality of sleep. So take steps to try to minimize that. If you have a snoring spouse, you know, if your spouse snores enough where it feels like it's taken the paint off the walls, that's probably going to be interfering with the quality of your sleep. So you need to figure out how you're going to deal with it. Some couples decide that they're going to sleep in different rooms. Other couples, you know, the snoring person starts, does a sleep study and looks into maybe a seat pat machine or looks into what's causing the snoring. That's going to be a personal call. But do recognize if you've got constant noise in your room, it's probably going to keep you up.  And I'm kind of waiting for him to breathe again, and it wakes me up because I'm like, okay, breathe, breathe. And then he starts breathing. And then I'm like, Oh, now you're being loud.  If you yourself have sleep apnea, we know that that causes problems with quality sleep. So it's really important to talk with your medical professional about getting that addressed. If you snore a lot, then there's a good chance you may have some apnea. If you're overweight, there's a greater chance that you've got sleep apnea. But that doesn't mean those are the only people who have sleep apnea. So if you can't figure out why you don't feel rested and you've, you've done the sleep routines, you've, you try to be good about not drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes too close to bed. Oh, and don't drink alcohol. You want to make sure your blood alcohol is 0.00 because alcohol will worsen sleep apnea because it slows your respiration. So that's another thing you can do to improve your sleeping. Other simple interventions, get a physical to rule out any medical issues, especially thyroid and other hormone imbalances, which can make you feel really sluggish. Chronic pain, which might be keeping you from sleeping as well. Y'all probably have heard on other podcasts, I have a bad shoulder and I'll go out and especially during planting season when I'm doing a lot of weeding and planting and hoeing, my shoulder will bother me a lot and it'll wake me up multiple times in the night. So I know where that's coming from, but it's important to know if it's temporary or if it's permanent and what you can do to address it there. I sleep with a lot more pillows and precariously, I guess you could say during planting season in order to keep my pain minimized. And also, like I said, rule out apnea. Reducer eliminate caffeine at least 10 hours before bed. Yeah, I know. I said the half life is five to six hours. Well, yeah, that's true. That's when the first half of it gets out. The first half goes out really fast. The last half kind of trickles out a little bit more slowly. But at least you've gotten the first half out if and a little bit more, if you quit drinking caffeine 10 hours before bed. So if you plan on going to bed at 10 p.m., have your last coffee at or Coke at noon. And then if you can, switch to decaf. That's obviously, again, a medical nutritionist sort of decision that you want to make with your health care team, especially if you're addicted to coffee or caffeine. You might want to talk to them about ways to wean down instead of going cold turkey and dealing with the headaches. Keep a notepad by your bed to write down things you need to remember instead of tossing and turning them around in your head all night. Because that, for me, at least it actually starts interjecting into my dreams, the things I need to remember. And it keeps me from sleeping as soundly and as well. Ideally have, and they're ugly, those little head lamps that have the red or have a little lamp next to your bed that has a red bulb in it. So again, you're not exposing yourself to the blue lights, but it's enough light where you can see to write on your notepad whatever it is you need to remember. Use progressive muscular relaxation to help your body relax. And I could do an entire hour on that. If you Google progressive muscular relaxation and look for YouTube videos, there are a lot of guided meditations. Basically, you work from top to bottom or bottom to top depending. And you practice tensing and relaxing muscles so you can notice the difference between a tense and a relaxed set of muscles. Sometimes you can cue it with a word. So every time you relax, you say to yourself something like relax or breathe. Then that cue starts to elicit the relaxation response. But progressive muscular relaxation can be really helpful, especially if you carry a lot of stress and tension in your neck, upper back, lower back. It can help you kind of get rid of some of that stress so you're not as, you know, knotted up like a ball when it's time to sleep. And develop a stress management and relaxation plan. Easier said than done. I know. Identify your main sources of stress. And you can't eliminate all of them or even identify all of them. But identify the main ones, you know, maybe the top 10 or 15 and figure out how to deal with those. But also add in a relaxation plan. For example, if one of your stressors is work, which for a lot of us it is, we may love our work, but it also causes a little bit of stress sometimes in your plan, set it up so you're leaving work at work. And when your home is when you start relaxing, that's when your body knows we're not going to deal with the stressful stuff anymore. So you want to have relaxation time in there where you're letting your body kind of rest and recharge, if you will, you can't be going full bore all the time. Think about sprinters, you know, they can only run that fast for so long, and then they need to rest and recharge. They need a time to recover. So give yourself that time and ideally at the end of the day before bed so you can start winding down once you get off of work. Sleep is when the body rests and rebalances. Mood and addiction issues are often caused by an imbalance in hormones and neurochemicals. So if you're keeping your body from resting and rebalancing, then you're probably getting setting yourself up to trigger an imbalance in hormones and neurochemicals.  So you may, if you're tired, if you're not getting enough sleep, your libido may go way down. And that's to be expected because your body's not able to recharge and help you have the energy for those things. Quality sleep is essential to address and prevent mood issues and addictions.  Quality sleep will also prevent eating disturbances because your circadian rhythms will be in alignment and your hunger and fullness hormones will be kind of in sync. Quality sleep also addresses sleep disturbances. Imagine that if you're sleeping too much or, you know, not or you have insomnia, if you can start getting some quality sleep and kind of getting your brain on board with the routine, you'll notice oftentimes that the sleep disturbances start to improve. And high cortisol or a threat response system activation can also cause sleep problems and quality sleep can help help you lower your cortisol. You have to have low cortisol or lowish cortisol to go to sleep anyway. So by making good sleep habits a priority, you're naturally helping your body reduce your cortisol, increase your relaxation hormones, which will help you feel happier. If you like this podcast, you can subscribe on your favorite podcast app, or you can join our community and access additional resources at


Welcome back to my channel. It's your girl Coco styles and on this channel We talk about beauty fashion and lifestyle and styling guys So I am doing a voiceover because I have no idea what happened to my audio And I am on a time crunch and I don't want to miss out on loading a video But in today's video, I'm gonna talk to you guys about what led you to be in the style rut You are in today And I'm just gonna jump right into it I'm gonna try to do this video in two different parts So what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about why you're in it and how to fix it So it's not gonna match up what I'm saying on the screen, but bear with me guys This sucks, but I have to do it. So the first thing I want to say is why are you in the style rut today? most of the time people Start to think of other things that are more important than their wardrobe, right? and life Happens to all of us, but sometimes we have to Learn how to put ourselves first because your image is important and it affects so many other areas of your life So the first thing I want to say is why you're in this style rut It's because you're trying to keep up with what you see on social media Social media is a place to pull inspiration from not to really copy and mirror So what happens is you end up seeing these people Unboxing all these things we all do it and you Want your wardrobe to look like that or if it doesn't you feel a little bit sad or depressed about it. So a good Fix for that would be pull inspiration from Instagram Facebook Pinterest and Try to create your own style your own budget all that good stuff Don't try to do what other people are doing Don't try to purchase what everybody else is buying if it's if it's not true It's just not gonna work. You're never gonna be happy with it. So that's the first thing and that's my first quick fix for that one the second thing is You think you have to have all designer stuff guys and you don't okay? So you always want to choose the best quality for your money and what I mean by that is if you only get a Shirt that's $50. That's the best that you can do you get the best quality for that $50 Okay, and you guys not always talk about J crew J crew has really nice things and I think the quality is really amazing So that's a quick fix for number two. The third thing is you've gained a little weight Because we've all gained a little weight in turn cove it and now you just kind of lounging around in Leggings and sweatpants and stuff and you don't have the urge to even look stylish anymore So I always tell people this you shop for your current body unless you are absolutely in the process Actively working and losing the weight. Okay, just for your current body Still look good And when you lose the weight just tailor it to fit to your body and the best part about it guys Is that it'll actually look even better because it's tailored to your actual body now? so the fourth thing I want to say is You don't think anything looks good on you anymore and the reason why is that you're not using the three pillars of style so the three pillars of style is Not style the three pillars of style is Fit fabric and style so you're fit because you know, that's how the clothes are gonna fall on your body The fabric is it helps you to know how long this item is gonna last you and the style is what you actually love So when you're shopping shift your mindset start using those three pillars when you're shopping Does it fit me really good? Do I love the fabric and is this my style? That way you're not buying things that do not go with your current wardrobe or with your style and the last thing is Everything else comes first for my mom's for my wife's for my Whoever my my career women you guys have to learn how to take some time for yourself and look and feel good I don't care if it's you going to a spa you need time for yourself something that makes you feel good if it's closed That's what you do So you just know that it is okay to put yourself first it's nothing wrong with it Okay And I definitely think that it's much needed especially for my mom's and my career women who are just always on the go all the time So those are just my few ways of why you're why you are in a style rut? Today and how to get out of them So I'm sorry guys again that I had to do a voiceover on this one But it is short notice and I did not want to miss loading my video to tomorrow So if you like videos like this, please comment below and if you stay to the end of this video Please comment Coco. We see you and guys don't forget to hit that like comment and subscribe button and Follow me on Instagram at Cocoa Styles and why and my website at Cocoa Styles and why see and My blog actually my blog is NYC and my website for my styling services is Cocoa Styles and why guys and again Don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button guys and I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye


Hello everyone so before we get started on our next talk we have a couple of announcements so today is the last day of DEF CON and the closing ceremony is at 3.30 p.m. on the top of the mountain followed by an after-party on the Shiva lounge and also the entire venue will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for co-working for anyone who has a DEF CON wristband but please join me in welcoming our next speaker who is going to be talking about growing the global Ethereum community through localization we're going to be joined by Luca who is on the translation team for Ethereum org and also works on the ecosystem development team at the Ethereum Foundation please welcome me and joining Luca. Hello my name is Luca and as Madison already mentioned I work on Ethereum org mostly focusing on the translation program thanks for coming to this talk it's happy to see there's interest in this topic which is something I feel quite strongly about being in South America for this DEF CON which is amazing by the way big shout out to the DEF CON team yeah being in South America for this DEF CON the topic of providing content in different languages to make Ethereum more accessible and inclusive is even more relevant this space is highly technical and a lot of the focus and effort is on technical breakthroughs and progress which makes a lot of sense and is key for the technology to mature and reach its potential however with Ethereum as a technology growing and improving a lot of the focus is and will continue to shift towards other things like education community building inclusivity this talk will touch on all three of those as they're often closely related Ethereum is a global technology that is inclusive and accessible at its core however a lot of the content including educational content application front-ends websites or anything else people use to interact with or learn about Ethereum is usually not very inclusive and accessible as it is often only available in English we will look at some more detailed stats later but the main one we should all be aware of is the fact that over 6 billion people in the world do not speak English at all by only providing content in English and not translating or localizing it for the global community we are often limiting how inclusive Ethereum is for all of those non-english speakers my aim is to drive home the importance of this issue and look at some potential solutions that we can use to grow the global Ethereum community by just providing content in the language that they can understand you can see some stats for languages by the number of native and non-native speakers here just two numbers that I'd quickly highlight are over 7,000 languages in the world and 10 languages with more than 200 million speakers so one number that I've already mentioned but definitely warrants a repeat is the 6 billion non-english speakers there's a couple of stats like this that I will repeat throughout the talk because they are significant and important to think about so English is the most widely spoken language in the world as a first and second language it is also the it is also the most learned language in the world as a second language and yet still only about 17% of the world's population speaks English at all if we really want to gain worldwide adoption and on board the next billion people to Ethereum we need to remove this language barrier and make our websites documentation and apps available to everyone 61% of websites are available in English but English only reaches about 26% of global internet users I know we don't like to compare this space with traditional companies or existing tech giants due to different ideologies goals and approaches but the fact is that they've all done a great job at gaining worldwide adoption and increasing their total addressable market including by breaking down language barriers this list could really go on forever but I just like to highlight a couple of examples the most popular websites in the world by traffic are Google YouTube Facebook and Twitter they are also available in 150 80 46 and 111 languages respectively and they all get billions of views these companies aren't translating all of their content just for the sake of it they are all aiming to address and be accessible to the global population and realize that by providing their content only in English they would be limiting their target audience by about 80% another example that more people here might relate to is Wikipedia which doesn't make money from visits and is essentially a public good while not exactly accurate based on the definition you could also think of Wikipedia as being open source it is available in well over 300 languages simply because its purpose is to be inclusive and accessible and its target audience is the entire world an English only Wikipedia would definitely not be the seventh most visited website in the world yesterday about 48% of all page views on Wikipedia were in English however the English version of Wikipedia also has about three times more articles available than most of the other popular languages so even this 48% number isn't telling the whole story in fact Wikipedia gets about seven times more page views in English than in Japanese but the number of articles available in English is also five times higher than in Japanese accessibility and inclusivity also aren't the only aspects we should think about when talking about translations another one is efficiency understanding basic English is often not enough to be able to read and understand a lot of the content around Ethereum which can often be quite complex if you've ever tried to read up on any of the latest developments about Ethereum you'll find that they're often very complex topics studies in bilingual countries have consistently shown that people who learn in their native language tend to learn more perform better on tests enjoy the experience more and are less likely to drop out or lose interest in the topic in fact a study from CSA research has shown that 65% of non native English speakers prefer content in their native language even if they are highly proficient in English this doesn't even take into account the complexity of many Ethereum related topics and content and the new terminology that is often exclusive in this space and the we've basically made up or are keep making up so maybe you're not bothered by inclusivity but just want to drive traffic to a project gain users increase TVL or the number of transactions that your app gets and just want to increase your revenue in that case you should still definitely be thinking about translations again a lot of chat stats to choose from I've just identified a couple that I think are pretty telling from a company perspective Fortune 500 businesses that invested in translation were one and a half times more likely to observe an increase in revenue and the second one Fortune 500 companies were reported to be over two times more likely to improve profits when they invested in translation if this is true for Fortune 500 companies which already have massive existing customer basis and product market fit we can assume that it's even more relevant to a new and upcoming technology and products in this space and from a user perspective 75% of consumers are more likely to buy products from websites in their native language around 40% of internet users said they will never buy from websites that are not in their native language and another stat that I've already mentioned but is telling enough is 65% of non-native English speakers prefer content in their native language even though they are highly proficient in English so almost half of internet users would never buy from websites that are not available in their native language how about using dApps or depositing their money into DeFi protocol that isn't available in their language probably not right I hope all of these help get the point across which is really as simple as we should be translating more content make it more accessible reach more people educate the world about Ethereum and onboard people from all over the world to this space and if anyone has found themselves thinking that they should be consider start considering translations for their content or level up their translation efforts we'll move on to some concrete ways of how we can solve this to be honest addressing this is pretty simple we need to be aware of why translations are important and basically just start doing it my main goal is just to highlight the importance of translating content and providing content in different languages making this space more accessible onboarding more people to Ethereum it is up to individual projects users people organizations websites and content creators to decide if they want to start translating their content and expand their translation efforts going about it is fairly simple there's many different approaches to take for example you could just order translations for your content from a translation agency or you could create a translation bounty translation program or something else to get the community involved the quality of machine translation is increasing as well so post machine editing is becoming significantly significantly more used in the translation space where text machine is translated where text is translated by machine translation and is then reviewed and edited by a professional linguist probably not the most applicable to the content in this space because as we've already mentioned there's a lot of new terminology and a lot of things that are still very much in the works and keep getting updated and changed all combinations of the above approaches are possible and many more and then there's also the review process quality analysis process all of these have their advantages and disadvantages which we don't have time to get into but you can find more information about all of them online if you're interested we've also come up with a translation program playbook which is mostly aimed at Ethereum related projects and cover some of the basics of translating content you can find it right here if anyone is interested hopefully it helps answer a question or two we created this as a resource based on our experience with translating content on ethereum.org and a couple of other websites and if you do check it out and have any input or feedback or can think of a way to collaborate with us even if it's just looking for help translating your content please reach out to us I will share a bunch of contact details in a minute I would also like to mention some of the results that we've seen on ethereum.org by focusing on internationalization. Ethereum.org is an educational resource that covers many different topics has a lot of resources for beginners to teach them about ethereum and blockchains to help them get on board it to help them identify the right tools to use when they're new to this space so making it accessible is very important to us there's also resources for more intermediate and advanced users community members developers basically anyone else the approach we're taking is very much in line with the open ethos of ethereum and focus on open source the website is fully open source and anyone can contribute to the content features code design and community aspects of it as well as the translation process since the translation program launched in 2019 our community of contributors translating the website has grown to over 4,000 the program represents a simple and low barrier way of getting involved and contributing to ethereum without needing a lot of technical knowledge and skills basically the main requirement is just being bilingual these contributors are also the main reason why the website is currently available in 50 languages for quality assurance purposes we're also working with a translation agency to make sure that all of the translations get reviewed before being added to the website so our approach is really a combination of the community base and professional localization processes while participation in the translation program is voluntary we do try to acknowledge our contributors as much as possible to the point where some of them have transitioned from joining contributing to a theorem org and are now working full-time in the space or have launched their own initiatives or communities the ethereum org translation program is also very much a community building effort and this aspect is an important part of why the community-based approach to translating website content works for us getting involved and contributing to the website is a great way to join the ethereum community make an impact at some value contribute to ethereum in some way without needing a lot of technical skills and is also an amazing educational experience we've heard from many of our contributors that the knowledge they've gained about ethereum by simply helping to translate the website is immense as it allows them to really read through all of the documentation that is available on ethereum org while also contributing at the same time translating content has impacted the website in different ways as well not just building an amazing community of people who share our passion and goals analytics on the website clearly show that the more translated content we have the more non-english page views we get the number of non-english page views still depends a lot on the general traffic to the site but the ratio is going up constantly in fact this month has been the 12th straight month where the ratio of non-english versus English page views has gone up and hit a record high with non-english page views currently representing around 26% of all visits to the website over a quarter of all the traffic to the website is in languages other than English this chart shows the total page views on ethereum org in the last couple of years you can see the total page views on the website the non-english page views and the ratio between them as you can see regardless of what the general trend is and how many people actually visit the website page views and other languages continue to trend upwards and and now represent an ever-growing of all visits in short the more translated content we have on the site the more people read content in their native language the demand is clearly there for multilingual content and all of us are very well positioned to ensure that ethereum continues to be as inclusive and accessible as possible on ethereum.org we always appreciate feedback input new community members new contributors to the website if you have any feedback for us or see a way to collaborate in any way feel free to send us an email to translations at ethereum.org if it's anything related to translations or to website at ethereum.org about anything else really you can also stop by our booth on the third floor if you want should be pointing up not down yeah our booth on the third floor if you want to say hi to the team get more information about contributing to ethereum.org give us some feedback collaborate on translations or anything else really and if you want to talk about translations feel free to reach out to me or catch me here at defcon I'm always happy to chat this should be it for the most part I'm going to be showing a cup like all of the languages that the website is available in right now if you want to serve the website in your language just want to leave you all with a few closing thoughts everyone should be very proud of what ethereum as a technology all the projects building on top of it and the ethereum community have achieved so far and we can all be even more excited about what the future has in store there is obviously still a lot of research development and building in front of us but I think we can all agree that we have a lot of reasons to be optimistic if there's just one thing that I would like people to take away from this talk it is the fact that everyone can make an impact and play an important role in the present and future of ethereum there are countless ways to get involved and provide value to the ecosystem and sticking to this topic this is especially true for making sure that the ethereum that ethereum content websites interfaces and communities become increasingly inclusive and accessible to everyone repeating another number that I've already mentioned only about 17% of the world's population speaks English at all this doesn't even mean that they are proficient in English but that they can understand the most basic words and sentences in English if you're bilingual translate content create content in another languages make videos podcasts Twitter spaces whatever in your language spread the word and build your local community if you're a project protocol that website make sure that your content is available in other languages this is how we reach most of the world's population educate them about ethereum blockchains wallet daps defy all of it this is how we onboard the world to ethereum thank you amazing we have time for a couple of questions anyone have a question for Luca hi I wanted to ask besides going faster what do you think are the advantages of a community based approach to translations so we have thought about this a bunch really one thing is that we've seen is a lot of the people have this assumption that you need to be highly technical and have a special skill set to make an impact to contribute to ethereum we feel like the translation program is a good enough proof that that is not the case anyone can get involved anyone can contribute anyone can make an impact and like I've said we've had a lot of people who started contributing to the website learned enough that and were exposed to the community enough that this led them to get full-time jobs in the space or create something of their own it's the translation program in our mind is a great starting point to join contribute add value and then level up doing whatever people want hi look at everyone thank you so much I actually worked in a translation industry before migrating to web 3 so this topic it's definitely very close to my heart I actually have two questions first you presented the translation play book but what are like the efforts from the interior foundation on creating a glossary with shared terms in the web space I mean you mentioned of course that like every day we come up with a new technology with a new term with a new concept but I think that having those foundations would be important to also escalate and to also like people create independent initiatives on translating the content the second one that I wanted to mention translating text let's say static contact content is already a challenge enough but what are the also alternative options what are like the efforts to also translate videos infographics any kind of dynamic content thank you thank you those are two awesome questions that we've really thought about as well so the first one is we have a glossary that we have been building up through basically since we started translating a theorem.org it's not open to everyone but if you visit the translation program playbook or the translation program page on a theorem.org there are sections in there that basically say do you want to use any of our resources reach out to us and we will share them the reason they're not open is because we're using a translation tool that really doesn't make it easy to share the glossary and also another point on this is there are a lot of independent efforts to create glossaries of terms for specific languages countries regions which I think is what how it should work. We make a lot of efforts to translate the website into as many languages as possible but not everything is a problem that the Ethereum foundation should be solving for if you've listened to any of the talks from any of the people at the EF there is this philosophy of subtraction which is pushing power outside and empowering everyone else to do whatever they want to grow Ethereum and that can mean a lot of things but at that is also creating glossaries is a good example of that we are not best equipped to create a glossary for every specific language whereas there are organizations and initiatives in different countries of native language speakers who are far better equipped to do that than us and your second question was translating videos infographics yes that's also something so at some point we started a trial project to translate some videos it didn't go great it didn't go as good as we'd hoped but that's not to say we won't pick it up and try to level it up at some point again as far as infographics goes there's been some people on our team advocating for creating infographics for the website that are made in a way that they're easy to translate also something that is very much in progress but it is something we are thinking about and want to solve for